That floating gold i believe is more to do with surface tention mate. Certainly makes things all that more difficult when the gold is contaminated as you say
Static Electricity & Gold
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I don't know much about static electricity but I'm sure the dragging the cat theory would help in the agitation of your pay dirt and aid in the settling trough gravityaussiefarmer said:Being serious, its a great idea, but the force of moving material would most likely overpower any static hold , i often wonder when swirling a pan if there is more than gravity holding the gold in place as once it does move it travels freely for a bit , maybe its just gliding on the water between it and the pan or is it the water tension over the top that helps hold it in place ?
Being sillywe could test the static theory by dragging a cat backwards through your paydirt
patting a cat backwards is the strongest source of static I have found , just pre warm your pussy in the sun for an hour and hey presto it crackles and sparks .
as for the agitation use the kitty right side up and if its house trained it should do it automatically just be sure to feed it rinse aid so its deposits don't clag up the paydirt.
as for the agitation use the kitty right side up and if its house trained it should do it automatically just be sure to feed it rinse aid so its deposits don't clag up the paydirt.
aussiefarmer said:
thought that was going somewhere else for a second :lol:
Has anyone tried to float gold out with hard water and maybe oil ??
I havnt tried it yet ( floatation method )
AtomRat said:
I dont know if its a method more of a thought as it only takes a sweaty finger to make it float and i havent noticed the black sand behave that way , i guess its the same as all methods and only a percentage would behave thet way.
How does mercury work ? Does it make all the gold stick together or something ? I am to lazy to google it.
i think thats due to gold being so darn flat sometimes its surface area is able to support itself quite well, there are some black sands that do that but again its contaminated water, near mines sites, town drain inlets etc.
Mercury works by grabbing the little bits and holding onto them like a long lost brother... basically absorbing them into the blob "my technical term" you need to agitate the sand and mercury for a good bond to happen, in fact if the gold is too contaminated it wont stick sometimes.
Mercury works by grabbing the little bits and holding onto them like a long lost brother... basically absorbing them into the blob "my technical term"
you need to agitate the sand and mercury for a good bond to happen, in fact if the gold is too contaminated it wont stick sometimes.
That's why you clean it with some HCl acid first if you can
Our band teacher in Placerville Ca. Invented a static electricity dry washer, he had this patent for years.
It recovered fine gold perfect.
Keene must now have the patent or just copying it.
All you do is blow dry air threw wool cloth and that stick's the gold to the wool cloth and blows everything else away.
Take a broom stick and rap it with wool, then put a piece of plastic pipe over both.
Now with a wool brush rub the plastic pipe on your stick to make static electricity put some gold on the ground and rub the stick over it, then look at you stick, it will have the gold on it.
Boss man out.
It recovered fine gold perfect.
Keene must now have the patent or just copying it.
All you do is blow dry air threw wool cloth and that stick's the gold to the wool cloth and blows everything else away.
Take a broom stick and rap it with wool, then put a piece of plastic pipe over both.
Now with a wool brush rub the plastic pipe on your stick to make static electricity put some gold on the ground and rub the stick over it, then look at you stick, it will have the gold on it.
Boss man out.
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The flotation process is used in gold recovery from ore slurry/concentrate with the use of chemicals.
Haven't heard of flotation for alluvial gold? Alluvial methods all seem to be about gravity processing/separation of one sort or another.
Interested to hear about it though if something exists.
Haven't heard of flotation for alluvial gold? Alluvial methods all seem to be about gravity processing/separation of one sort or another.
Interested to hear about it though if something exists.
Those chemicals are usually xanthates, generically referred to as 'frothers':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froth_flotation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froth_flotation
Ha! Years ago I worked as a Statistician for a year in an office building and one particular gorgeous young woman used to inadvertently zap people a lot, and it became an embarrassing situation for her... and even more embarrassing when it was discovered it was her nylon nickers in combination with the shoes she wore and the nylon carpets that was the cause... the poor thing was made a joke of for months... and in the end a directive from the boss had to enter the conversation and say STOP IT... and these days the Courts would AWARD HER a tiny sum for harassment...
I could make something if i had the funds.After watching the YouTube clip on the Keene dry washer they have developed a machine that (from what I understand) produces static electricity and attracts gold.
So what's the relationship between static electricity and gold.
How does it attract the gold.
Can it attract gold to one certain spot or area.
Could it be used to separate gold from black sands, or are they both just as conductive as each other.
How would one actually create static electricity in highbankers/trommels or other gold recovery equipment.
Im looking forward to member responses and ideas, but please, keep them less than technical jargon, start moving into molecules and atoms and exciting them with mathematical equations like 2/9^19x44-15.1990~%<35.99999996 and you have lost me.
I'm a big fan of illustrations or even go as far as a pop up picture book!
