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To: Red Badger

If this can be scaled, and is available to most soil/rock types, this could be usable for re-working old tailing piles...


2 posted on 10/14/2021 6:24:38 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: marktwain

Yes.............................

Todd Hoffman is ecstatic!.....................


3 posted on 10/14/2021 6:31:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: marktwain
If this can be scaled, and is available to most soil/rock types, this could be usable for re-working old tailing piles...

My first thought!

8 posted on 10/14/2021 7:10:01 AM PDT by null and void (As usual, the GOP was either totally unprepared for the onslaught or complicit in the tyranny)
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To: marktwain

I’m guessing it would also make it easier to reclaim gold from electronics.


13 posted on 10/14/2021 7:55:20 AM PDT by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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To: marktwain

The gold involved in this process is mineralized and not in elemental form as in placer deposits. This restricts use of the process to gold telluride mineral deposits in hard rock. As placer miners, the Hoffmans would not benefit.


22 posted on 10/14/2021 8:49:55 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: marktwain

That’s if it is cost effective. The cyanide process recovers 64% and this one 84%. But will it recover 84% of previously processed ore? So theoretically you get 54% of what is left so that means 23% of the original amount of gold in the previously processed ore is still recoverable. That means that you would have to process roughly 4 times as much previously processed ore to get as much as the first processing.

I think.


31 posted on 10/14/2021 5:09:34 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (When elections fail, we will either live under tyranny or rebel and throw it off.)
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