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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold and Silver Juniors, Mid-tiers and Producers -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kayco who wrote (62601)	12/23/2008 11:55:33 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78421

Barnat is just northeast. Probably the same volcanic package. Wouldn't be 2 kliks. Refining is not that important, but it is a logical outcome of the method of dissolution of the gold. Crushing and grinding is first stage, then solvent extraction, by cyanide, or flotation and then regrind and cyanide. Gravity recovery in jigs is an intermediate stage. CIP (activated carbon or burnt coconut husks) absorbed gold is backwashed in alcohol and sodium hydroxide and then the alcohol is evaporated off and the gold electroplated onto steel wool, and then smelted. An alternative to that is Merril Crowe where the cyanide solution is precipitated by zinc fines and the fines with precipitant gold are sucked into a cloth plate filter, then taken off, dried, and smelted. How many chemicals will dissolve gold? Bromine. Iodine, Chlorine, Nitric Acid, Cyanide, Ammonium Thiosulfate, Thiourea. not completely. Nitric acid really does dissolve gold, but it takes chlorine or HCL to "complex it" and keep it in solution. So you have to use Aqua Regia, or HCL 3 parts and nitric, one part, to really complete the dissolution. Similarly H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) and HCL together will dissolve gold. Hydrochloric acid, ferric chloride, and manganese dioxide will also together dissolve gold. You can add UV light to an HCL solution and dissolve gold. All kinds of tricks. If you should ever decide to experiment be careful. In HCL solutions with oxidizing agents, high temperatures are necessary and chlorine gas can evolve. This can defeat the process and poison people. Some of these processes needs special pressure vessels and fume hoods. All need fume hoods. 3 salts, NaCl, KNO3, and Iron Aluminum sulfate, all available in small quanitities in a drug store, will dissolve gold in a few days in water solution. They give off gas slowly, so the reaction cannot be done in a closed room. This process was done by the Quechuya Indians of the Inca leaders of Peru for centuries before the Spanish came. The Spanish had no knowledge of the process, so used mercury instead to amalgamate the gold. The Peruvian process is more complete on the pyritic ores of the placers they mined. The Inca produced 7 million ounces of gold per year for about 150 years in an area that stretched from Guyana to Tierra Del Fuego. This was the land of the Inca kings. About half the amount the gold was mined in these years and hidden somewhere in the mountains of South America as has been mined by all of mankind in the last 100 years. Quite impressive when you consider that they carried all the ore out on their backs and with pack animals. It took about 6,000,000 people (The whole population) working 3 months per year to do this. If you figure a man could carry to a sluice box, perhaps 200 lbs per hour, and the grade was about 1 gram per ton, this equates to 3 million grams per day if half the men and women were engaged in packing. That is 96,453 ounces per day. So that is about right per year.. perhaps a bit high, but fairly accurate when compared to the Quipu rope knot tallies of the Inca record keepers. What do you say we go down there and look around? I might know where to find about 12 million ounces of it, as my uncle was a mining explorer who could read the Inca script. He died just before he got the last record translated which was where they kept the gold. But I am certain he was on the trail of it. If we can decipher his handwriting and keep on his track we could crack the secret of where they hid all that gold. Merry Xmas. EC<:-}