Ragnor
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I have been doing allot of studying on chemical extraction methods and what have you and there are sure a bunch out there. But the thing I see over and over is people losing money on they're extractions of gold scrap. Very few people are working on actual ores, they are re-refining and still losing money. That ain't no good. I know cyanide is the leach of choice for the big companies , but the more I read on the recovery end the more complicated it starts sounding. I would like to avoid building a smelter if possible. I have the space for it, but still it leads to all kinds of complications with toxicity and what have you.
So I figured I'd ask on here and see what folks have to say.
Other problems Ive been running into is that most of your various plastics are vulnerable to attack by various acids and compounds depending on what kind of leach you are running.
Then quartz tubes large enough to run any kind of batching are pretty darned costly. So that makes things more complicated also.
My basic idea is to crush the ore and then concentrate it on a miller table or something along those lines. Building a jig really doesn't seam like it should be to complicated either, just a matter of tuning and understanding frequency and harmonics is kind of my thing. I also have no shortage of water to contend with.
Another problem I run into is my goals are non specific. I could be working with copper ores, stibinite/tungsten, tin/nickle/lead, maybe even uranium. Depending on the area I collect my rocks. So while I am always after gold most of that gold is mixed with other commodities due to the nature of the geology in my area. I certainly would not want to toss out PGM's with the wash.
So anyway....... That's something Ive been trying to figure out.
Ah, the last important aspect is that this is all fairly small scale. My goal is high-grading, not mass production. So I realistically only have the capability to process maybe a couple of truck loads a year unless I happen to find a spot with everything just right. An old timer did once tell me he knew a spot we could blast the hill right into the bed of the truck. But he went and died before he was able to show me.
So I figured I'd ask on here and see what folks have to say.
Other problems Ive been running into is that most of your various plastics are vulnerable to attack by various acids and compounds depending on what kind of leach you are running.
Then quartz tubes large enough to run any kind of batching are pretty darned costly. So that makes things more complicated also.
My basic idea is to crush the ore and then concentrate it on a miller table or something along those lines. Building a jig really doesn't seam like it should be to complicated either, just a matter of tuning and understanding frequency and harmonics is kind of my thing. I also have no shortage of water to contend with.
Another problem I run into is my goals are non specific. I could be working with copper ores, stibinite/tungsten, tin/nickle/lead, maybe even uranium. Depending on the area I collect my rocks. So while I am always after gold most of that gold is mixed with other commodities due to the nature of the geology in my area. I certainly would not want to toss out PGM's with the wash.
So anyway....... That's something Ive been trying to figure out.
Ah, the last important aspect is that this is all fairly small scale. My goal is high-grading, not mass production. So I realistically only have the capability to process maybe a couple of truck loads a year unless I happen to find a spot with everything just right. An old timer did once tell me he knew a spot we could blast the hill right into the bed of the truck. But he went and died before he was able to show me.
