Gold Ore

[southfork]

A little sample that was found with a metal detector. Crushed by hand then panned to wash away some of the dirt and clay? The photo is macro so real small particles, but the quartz shows and what looks like iron and free gold. I think we need a small smelter to retrieve the values trying to speed up the recovery what's your thoughts ?

 

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[southfork]

I ran the blue bowl a little slower about 1 inch from the top. Great recovery from the concentrates micro flour gold still needs a cleanup but loaded with gold.

 

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[alloy_II]

A little sample that was found with a metal detector. Crushed by hand then panned to wash away some of the dirt and clay? The photo is macro so real small particles, but the quartz shows and what looks like iron and free gold. I think we need a small smelter to retrieve the values trying to speed up the recovery what's your thoughts ?

Be interesting to know what are your numbers are in the Noxx's visual display for this type of gold ore.

 

[southfork]

Be interesting to know what are your numbers are in the Noxx's visual display for this type of gold ore.

I'll ask my son tonight. 1 or 2 on the smalls 4 to 6 on larger pieces running a small coil.

 

[southfork]

I had to go to town, so I bought a new piece of rubber mat and glued it to an old sluice box section. I had a can full of black sand to test run seems to catch the gold good save me a lot of panning. At the end of the box where I forgot to glue it turns up like a ski jump it was full of pyrites and a couple fly specks of gold.

 

[arizau]

I ran the blue bowl a little slower about 1 inch from the top. Great recovery from the concentrates micro flour gold still needs a cleanup but loaded with gold.

I'm enjoying you guys good fortune right along with you.
Are you screen classifying and processing similar sized cons separately by batch in the blue bowl? If so what mesh classifers are you using?

 

[southfork]

I'm enjoying you guys good fortune right along with you.
Are you screen classifying and processing similar sized cons separately by batch in the blue bowl? If so what mesh classifers are you using?

We classify everything I have a stack of screens anything that will pass a 50 gets re=crushed if it will pass the 100 its into the blue bowl or fluid bed. All screened material soaks in a tub with jet dri or dish soap The screen sizes are hand written with a marker so I'm not positive on sizes . The new mat on the fluid bed works great should speed thing up I hope I hate panning but its needed to help classify.

 

[alloy_II]

I'll ask my son tonight. 1 or 2 on the smalls 4 to 6 on larger pieces running a small coil.

BUMP

 

[alloy_II]

IMO. your losing gold. A mine would crush the ore run it through a rod mill pass the pulp through a centrifuge to recover visible gold then leach the remainder with cyanide.

A centrifuge will handle water containing 60% solids.

 

[southfork]

IMO. your losing gold. A mine would crush the ore run it through a rod mill pass the pulp through a centrifuge to recover visible gold then leach the remainder with cyanide.

A centrifuge will handle water containing 60% solids.

This is not a mine just hobby prospectors I'm not having any problems recovering visible gold. And having excellent recovery of flour I don't have enough ore to waste my time with leaching. Other than the small rich samples I run for fun. I have recovered ounces of gold from waste pile rocks and random pieces of float.

 

[alloy_II]

This is not a mine just hobby prospectors I'm not having any problems recovering visible gold. And having excellent recovery of flour I don't have enough ore to waste my time with leaching. Other than the small rich samples I run for fun. I have recovered ounces of gold from waste pile rocks and random pieces of float.

The quartz I'm dealing with is also float.

 

[Assembler]

We classify everything I have a stack of screens anything that will pass a 50 gets re=crushed if it will pass the 100 its into the blue bowl or fluid bed. All screened material soaks in a tub with jet dri or dish soap The screen sizes are hand written with a marker so I'm not positive on sizes . The new mat on the fluid bed works great should speed thing up I hope I hate panning but its needed to help classify.

You may want to try a 160 - 200 minus mesh screen for the flour values as a separate batch.

 

[southfork]

You may want to try a 160 - 200 minus mesh screen for the flour values as a separate batch.

I do when running the stack I'm recovering micro gold that's almost invisible to the naked eye until it lines up in the test pan.

 

[southfork]

alloy_II All samples run are in recirculating totes with the blue bowl or fluid bed concentrator. Nothing is being lost I'm saving all concentrates for future processing.​

 

[Assembler]

I do when running the stack I'm recovering micro gold that's almost invisible to the naked eye until it lines up in the test pan.

Very good just checking with you.
You may want to try Costco plastic desk mat that has fine channels in it on one side that should work very well for flour values.

 

[alloy_II]

Very good just checking with you.
You may want to try Costco plastic desk mat that has fine channels in it on one side that should work very well for flour values.

southfork prefers mercury for flour gold.

 

[Assembler]

southfork prefers mercury for flour gold.

You can easily add a mercury copper slick plate after the fine channel mat and run much longer before cleanups.

 

[southfork]

I smelted some dirty gold needs to be run again to clean it up but a nice 20-gram button. And a little ore sample from yesterday found with the nox we gave it a light crush with the mortar and pestle. The gold is wrapped around the quartz and a lot of oxidized material.

 

[alloy_II]

I smelted some dirty gold needs to be run again to clean it up but a nice 20-gram button. And a little ore sample from yesterday found with the nox we gave it a light crush with the mortar and pestle. The gold is wrapped around the quartz and a lot of oxidized material.

Going by the color of your button looks like it runs around 14K gold.

 

[southfork]

Going by the color of your button looks like it runs around 14K gold.

Oh, I bet its better than that but it's just being smelted out of some dirty old ore. But nice visible Gold.

 

[southfork]

Gold ore samples I had soaking in muriatic acid it removed most of the oxidized rock.