How to dry fine gold

[Geehi]

I've just put a couple of pans worth of concentrate through my new blue bowl, and I gotta say that I'm impressed with the results - a few little pieces just big enough to pick up with fine-point tweezers, and a nice little collar of really fine stuff around the base of the discharge cone.

Optimism is running high now, as I've got about 6 x 10-litre buckets of sluice spoil to pan and put through the bowl.

I will pick up the fine stuff with a snuffer, but the next question is - how to dry the fine gold so I can bottle it.

Thought of using a bit of absorbent cloth, etc, but concerned that some of the fine stuff might snuggle down and not want to come back out.

Is there a tried and proven method of drying small quantities of fine gold without losing any in the process?

 

[Dave79]

Steal the missus non stick frypan then tip it onto a folded bit of paper to put it back in a vial... just don't get caught with the frypan!!!! :lol:

 

[aussiefarmer]

Yep cook it of in a pan.

 

[Geehi]

Sounds like a plan....many thanks.

We've got a frypan in the camper-trailer.....I'll just tell her that was always its intended purpose

 

[HippyProspecting]

I just put it in my gold pan and sit it by the window until it is dry.
It takes a little longer to dry this way but I don't have to come up with a excuse for using the kitchen frypan
:goldpan: :goldnugget:

 

[MegsyB007]

Get as much water out of the snuffer bottle, take off the top and leave it sitting beside the stove to dry off the water.

Cheers,
Megsy

 

[Simmo]

We always just chuck it in the saucepan and gently cook it.
As said above, tip it into a folded piece of paper and into the jar.

 

[Geehi]

All this talk about non-stick cookware got me thinking.

Found this online - might grab a set next time I'm in the big smoke.....should work nicely sitting on top of the combustion heater.

Not sure how flexible the non-stick coating is, but I might even be able to form a small pouring spout into one of them.

Probably a more appropriate size (120mm diameter) than a frypan considering the amount of fine gold I've got at the moment

 

[Mike678]

I have a couple of small stainless steel pans , that I use as gold pans . Got them from one of those wholesalers that sell hospitality stuff , I think . They use them as pie dishes.

 

[Moneybox]

I place the wet gold from the snuffer bottle into an Ikea breakfast bowl and then stand it on top of the toaster to heat up.

[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/YesCSHFN7o4[/video]

HINT: Don't put bread in the toaster because when it pops up retrieving your your gold can be quite difficult :lol:

 

[Geehi]

Is that what they mean when referring to toast as "golden brown"

 

[Macros78]

Hi Geehi, in my experience you gotta be a bit careful with those cheap non-stick pans, they get scratched up easily and gold can get caught in deeper scratches if it's fine enough