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To: hubris33 who wrote (8880)	4/5/2006 3:43:02 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) of 78413

The seawater turns to acid in contact with heated felsic high level intrusions and the carbonic-sulphur acid dissolves gold. Several things dissolve gold. Bromine, Iodine, Chlorine, and to a lesser extent sulfuric, nitric, and carbonic. All of these solvents are available in sea water with some predominating near undersea volcanoes. Which one is the primary solvent at these elevated temperature and pressure is not really known. We know however that carbonates, such as the limestone of the Carlin formation in contact with sulphidized solution is an excellent precipitant. So is the resultant iron within the carbon matrix. The Carlin fluids were silica poor, much like the fluids of Kirkland Lake. Carbon can be used to trap gold from seawater at room temperatureswith a little electrical nudge. The trouble is you usually get all the salts blinding your carbon. How do deal with them and not get your gold out at the same time is the problem. Gold veins are quartzo feldspathic and quartz carbonate. Ditto silver with more emphasis on the carbon. EC<:-}

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