Activated Carbon?

[nickmarch]

Has anyone tried activated carbon to extract tiny gold particles from streams or ponds?

Has anyone ever heard of it?

 

[beaks]

its a waste of time, not even worth thinking about.

 

[nickmarch]

Have you tried it?

I saw that gold mines were using it to recover previously unrecoverable gold from leach solutions.

 

[beaks]

yes and large gold mines do alot of stuff that normal miners with common sense either dont do or cant afford to do.

you can waste your time and money as you choose, its up to you

 

[Seamuss]

Put carbon under extreme heat and pressure for a very long time and you will end up with coal or diamonds.

Then again, that would be a waste of time and money for a small scale miner like one of us.

 

[beaks]

i wish i could find a handfull of diamonds.
all i ever find is topaz, garnets and a few very small rubies that arent big enough to cut.