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Gold/Mining/Energy : A New Age In Gold Refining
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To: go4it who wrote (481)1/20/1998 11:27:00 PM
From: Michael J. Wendell  Read Replies (2) of 672
 
Hi Charles,
The problem as I see it with Message 3215686 is the over simplification of a very complex situation. Gold telluride is considered non-free gold. Most of the gold that is currently produced in Nevada comes from gold so small it can only be seen with very powerful microscopes. It is called free gold too. Free gold by terminology just means the gold has a zero electro valence. Microcluster gold is much smaller. Some of it (Clustered)is free and some of it is chemically combined with other elements by valence or as an alloy.I have a sample of a rock, about 20 pounds, that has almost no free gold in it. The rock is petzite (A gold/silver telluride). It was from the Black Rose Vug. The rock is so rich it looks almost like high grade galena lead ore. There is almost no free gold in it. Chip samples from the rock years ago assayed about 800 opt gold. There are no mines that rich, but there are rocks even richer and larger. The Smithsonian and maybe your local museums have such samples. mike

I would be quite concerned that a person that makes such a broad statement as to the differences in gold relative to the success found in fire assays is really competent. Maybe his FA recipes are better than the quality of that statement. Or maybe he is just assuming he can tell you anything and get by with it. mike
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