high grade ore

[lilorphanannie]

hi, ive been exploring a small hill that was mined for silver(in the 1760's),there are at least 14 vein structures criss-crossing the hill and i've counted 8 tunnel entrances so far ,all caved and/or flooded. the interesting thing is there is evidence of trenching on the surface in many places ,and upon investigation it seems the whole hill is a spider web of mini veinlets that have been dug up. these trenches are shallow. i was able to clean out one of these trenches and dig a littlle further to see what they were after. i got about 15 pounds of material ,which i sent off a sample to get assayed . it came back as chloaragyrite ,running 50% silver. this as i understand is a surface enrichment commonly found at the surface of oxidized silver ores especially in arid climates. im not sure as of yet but i believe there may still be a significant amount of these veinlets left to be dug up . my question ,does anyone have an opinion if these decomposed veinlets could be identified with a metal detector /and if so what would be the best model to use .does anyone know where i could sell the unrefined ore in small amounts ,say 100 lb lots thanks

[beaks]

if you want good money for your silver just crush it to a fine powder and Dissolve the galena/ore in nitric acid. add sodium chloride and collect the white precip then filter with boiling water a few times (use a coffee filter.)

then you can melt it down (if you want to really clean it shoot me a note and i will send directions)

john