Brushy Bandit
Full Member
Congrats Ken S. Hope you get it all and it's enough to make money 1 less thing to worry about for you and yours.
Ken, if you plan to profit from your find, how will you pulverize and process your ore? Usually that is done with some large industrial equipment. Also, you have considered the volume of the bucket on your tractor, what about its weight limit? That would suck to blow your tractor up. I guess you have a lot to consider, the logistics and investment being big parts...good luck.
hey ken if you want to start in small way its very simple to do , crush you can start with morter and pestal mix pool shock ( chlorine ) , HCL (muratic acid )and water after seperation of solids filter thru 3 thick coffee filters , then precipate with ferrous sulfate if you want i will give you complete instructions on how to do this this is what was used in western US before cyanide . (caution this creates chlorine gas and must be done outside) RGB1
Didn't Swift use salt in his process? I seem to remember that being stated by someone on here in the past. I would think you could replicate Swift's process using modern equipment making it easier. Certainly won't clean it to sterling quality but get you in the 90%+ purity level.
salt in the smelting process is rabeled into the liquid metal thus produceing chlorine which unites with the silver creating pure silver chloride this is collected from the top and then smelted seperatly produceing pure silver to be coined or poured into bars gold does unite with chlorine in todays world they use chlorine gas