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To: marek_wojna who wrote (68570)	5/1/2001 9:26:37 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

Colloidal gold in nature exists in algal mats, seawater and some salt beds (Death Valley) and rivers in the southwest . It fire assays .10 ounces per ton in algal mats (swamp near the sea) in Southeast Asia but is unrecoverable by any known technique to date. If the mats are dried and burned the flues losses are too high so far. If solution methods are tried the carbon interferes. Flotation is no good either as carbon and grain size hamper the process. Some methods are still to be tried that have promise. Note that I said it can be fire assayed. This is not mystery gold that cannot be conventionally assayed. Most colloidal gold can be assayed but not economically recovered yet. Many things have been tried from ultracentrifuge to microwave and magnetic methods, all with mixed results. Gold-hydrocarbon compounds are used in rheumatoid arthritis treatments. EC<:-}