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Gold/Mining/Energy : A New Age In Gold Refining -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (461)	1/17/1998 9:12:00 PM
From: Michael J. Wendell	Respond to of 672

Bill, You are so right. I often add gold to my assays. One of the tests of a good assay method is one that when you add gold, you can at least get the gold you put in back. If you don't get it back or you partially get it back, you have work to do on the procedure. When you add gold to some samples, and you have the process right, you should get the gold you put in back plus some additional if any was native to the sample in the first place. But when adding gold to a sample, you must always deduct that amount of gold that you put in from the assay. Otherwise you will be doing a Bre-x assay. The US mint, the Australian mint, the French Mint, The London Mint and numerous precious metals refiners add gold to attempt to make the sample fit the rules of inquartia (latin for forthing). The assay according to the Romans and since is 1 part gold and 3 parts silver makes the best ratio for refining by cupellation and parting. Studies in France and the US mint found the best ratios were from 1.5 to 2.5 silver to 1 part gold. This fits into the theories of microclusters also. If you collect clusters of gold and silver in such ratios that when the metals cool, the size of the atomic elements will force the clusters to touch upon cooling, the clusters merge and become normal. Isn't it interesting how theory from the ancients has to wait 2000 years for an explanation as to why. And people wonder why I read that old process information of yesteryear. The old timers had recipes. We have science. Tomorrow some one looking back will ask, why did those people do it this way. The answer according to Don M. is because it works. mike