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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
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To: Professor Dotcomm who wrote (81255)1/30/2002 2:35:31 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 116753
 
That is like the amount of gold in seawater. Fritz Haber, who invented the ammonia process that allowed countries to make all kinds of fertilizer and munitions, making possible, world war 1 and world war 2, also thought of a way to get gold out of seawater in order to pay Germany's war debt in 1919. It almost worked except for lack of payback in gold alone. They tried electrolysis. There is a possible way now that a method might work. New developments in weak electrolyte processes may make it feasible to collect all metals, salts and make pure water at the same time. Don't laugh. All Magnesium metal and road salt is now recovered from seawater by precipitation. This is a good idea. Gold in seawater is mostly colloidal, so you cannot used dissolved figures to reckon its pay. Anyway there is every metal known to man in seawater. You add them up with the salts and the pure water and it definitely would pay if you had a process for direct precipitation that was not too involved. There is such a process.

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