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[johnedoe]

Not surprising.....But pretty cool though..

 

[N-Lionberger]

Thats a lot of mercury, I have watched some of this guys other videos he's pretty liberal with the stuff I wonder how long he has LOL.

 

[Bonaro]

Thats a lot of mercury, I have watched some of this guys other videos he's pretty liberal with the stuff I wonder how long he has LOL.

He will be around as long as you and I...Mercury is not nearly a toxic as the Govt. wants you to believe.

 

[gold tramp]

He will be around as long as you and I...Mercury is not nearly a toxic as the Govt. wants you to believe.

This one thinks its still nasty stuff.
Gt...

 

[Rail Dawg]

We recently found a really nice outcropping of mercury ore (cinnabar) out in the middle of nowhere in Northern Nevada.

Must have been worth a mint a hundred years ago lol.

 

[Clay Diggins]

It's still worth a mint Rail Dawg. At $1 a gram retail it's worth almost twice as much as spot silver.

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[Rail Dawg]

It's still worth a mint Rail Dawg. At $1 a gram retail it's worth almost twice as much as spot silver.

No kidding? We didn't even check as we thought mercury was a has-been element.

It was found on un-claimed BLM land and there was quite a bit of it.

Truly out in the middle of nowhere lol.

Thanks for the info.

 

[Clay Diggins]

No kidding? We didn't even check as we thought mercury was a has-been element.

It was found on un-claimed BLM land and there was quite a bit of it.

Truly out in the middle of nowhere lol.

Thanks for the info.

2,000 tons a year used in the U.S. alone. Ever hear of fluorescent lightning? How about Vinyl? PVC?

Yep Mercury.

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[H-2 CHARLIE]

So how does the gold prosess go ?
Crush rock and the gold floats and what about the cruchec rock ?

 

[winners58]

So how does the gold prosess go ?
Crush rock and the gold floats and what about the cruchec rock ?

Gold forms a solution in mercury called an amalgam, they have to come in contact with each other.
read "all about mercury" on this page; Basement Chemistry for the Prospector

 

[Bonaro]

This one thinks its still nasty stuff.
Gt...

Just dont swallow everything you are fed and you will be fine

 

[gold tramp]

Just dont swallow everything you are fed and you will be fine

Only thing bein fed round here is a 4x6 burford jaw crush makiin big rocks into gravel
An arrastra bein fed gravel makin it into sand.

A shaker table bein fed sand and makin yellow metal.

Finaly i will use some mercury catch that yellow.

You use much mercury this week?
It should be like the bumper, sticker. If you weren't there shut up.
Just funnin.

Guess cause i use it often i have a differant respect for it.
Gt.....

 

[Reed Lukens]

Only thing bein fed round here is a 4x6 burford jaw crush makiin big rocks into gravel
An arrastra bein fed gravel makin it into sand.

A shaker table bein fed sand and makin yellow metal.

Finaly i will use some mercury catch that yellow.

You use much mercury this week?
It should be like the bumper, sticker. If you weren't there shut up.
Just funnin.

Guess cause i use it often i have a differant respect for it.
Gt.....

Yup, long term exposure gets'em every time. We almost bought a cinnabar mine but the life long owners didn't have enough calcium left in their bones to keep them from breaking all the time... After seeing them and what was left of their health, we walked away from it.

 

[Goldwasher]

I knew a guy whos family owned land in Terlingua Tx.

They had old Cinnabar mines on it. He said you on hot days with the right light you could see fumes at the heads of the shafts and waste piles.

I don't know if that's true or even possible but he told me.\

True or not I wouldn't camp near cinnabar deposits... especially on hot days

 

[Clay Diggins]

Mercury vapor is colorless and odorless. I seriously doubt those "fumes" had anything to do with the mercury from the mine. Besides the vapor being invisible cooler air from a mine escaping upward into warmer air is not a concept that normal physics can support.

We were working on the first mercury vapor detector at JIC in 1980. We field tested an undisturbed natural grassland just North of Prescott. The readings were very high. The area was not known to have significant mercury deposits before that time. There is no way to tell just where mercury vapor concentrations are high short of testing air samples at the molecular level.

Mercury does not enter the bloodstream easily through the skin, stomach or mucus membranes but mercury vapor entering the lungs is easily absorbed into the bloodstream. That's where the danger from elemental mercury lies. Touching or even eating elemental mercury has little effect but the evaporation to vapor of that same mercury occurs at room temperature and pressures and can be deadly over time in a closed space.

Keep your mercury tightly sealed and covered with water (if it's not charged) and you will be fine. Methylated mercury (organic product from some algae and bacteria) is very poisonous but it really can't exist for long in the western United States because of binding by the abundant natural element Selenium. Mercury binding with other elements in almost all cases reduces toxicity to acceptable levels.

Cinnabar is the mineral of mercury sulfide. The solubility and bioavailability of cinnabar are quite low. To get elemental mercury out of cinnabar ore it has to be roasted to temperatures well above 674 degrees Fahrenheit - the boiling point of Mercury. Because of the high temps to break out the Mercury from the sulfide form Cinnabar poisoning you in the field is not going to happen but you should be aware that elemental Mercury is sometimes found as droplets in very rich ores. You can see that in the Cinnabar deposits just south of San Francisco.

I'm not going to become a Mercury miner due to the expense of safety equipment and procedures but you are going to get more exposure from a broken light bulb that a properly equipped Mercury miner would.

Keep in mind that all minerals are potentially poisonous. Ingesting the dust or fumes from heating of minerals can be deadly. A lot more people by far have died from breathing ordinary mineral dust than from exposure to Mercury. If you are going to be grinding, crushing, heating or breathing mineral dust know what the hazards are and take the proper safety precautions. Be safe when mining or processing.

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[goldog]

Cody and his mercury experiments are pretty cool. Try the flushing or standing videos.

 

[Goldwasher]

Mercury vapor is colorless and odorless. I seriously doubt those "fumes" had anything to do with the mercury from the mine. Besides the vapor being invisible cooler air from a mine escaping upward into warmer air is not a concept that normal physics can support.

We were working on the first mercury vapor detector at JIC in 1980. We field tested an undisturbed natural grassland just North of Prescott. The readings were very high. The area was not known to have significant mercury deposits before that time. There is no way to tell just where mercury vapor concentrations are high short of testing air samples at the molecular level.

Mercury does not enter the bloodstream easily through the skin, stomach or mucus membranes but mercury vapor entering the lungs is easily absorbed into the bloodstream. That's where the danger from elemental mercury lies. Touching or even eating elemental mercury has little effect but the evaporation to vapor of that same mercury occurs at room temperature and pressures and can be deadly over time in a closed space.

Keep your mercury tightly sealed and covered with water (if it's not charged) and you will be fine. Methylated mercury (organic product from some algae and bacteria) is very poisonous but it really can't exist for long in the western United States because of binding by the abundant natural element Selenium. Mercury binding with other elements in almost all cases reduces toxicity to acceptable levels.

Cinnabar is the mineral of mercury sulfide. The solubility and bioavailability of cinnabar are quite low. To get elemental mercury out of cinnabar ore it has to be roasted to temperatures well above 674 degrees Fahrenheit - the boiling point of Mercury. Because of the high temps to break out the Mercury from the sulfide form Cinnabar poisoning you in the field is not going to happen but you should be aware that elemental Mercury is sometimes found as droplets in very rich ores. You can see that in the Cinnabar deposits just south of San Francisco.

I'm not going to become a Mercury miner due to the expense of safety equipment and procedures but you are going to get more exposure from a broken light bulb that a properly equipped Mercury miner would.

Keep in mind that all minerals are potentially poisonous. Ingesting the dust or fumes from heating of minerals can be deadly. A lot more people by far have died from breathing ordinary mineral dust than from exposure to Mercury. If you are going to be grinding, crushing, heating or breathing mineral dust know what the hazards are and take the proper safety precautions. Be safe when mining or processing.

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Yea, it didn't make much sense to me either... but, the old guy told cool stories.

I'm still not setting up a tent next to a hole in Tirlingua Texas