Kass, you are right and so is Dennis. Cyanide was used to dissolve gold in the crushed ore which had been dug from the ground by miners. The acid leached the gold out. The gold was then extracted from the acid. That was one method of "hardrock" mining.
Mercury was sometimes used to amalgamate and recover "native" or solid gold from streams, rivers and dry washes where water had deposited the gold in previous times. The water had carried the gold to the place it was found by the miners. As mentioned in an earlier post, the gold was then separated from the mercury by mechanical means and the use of heat. Recovering solid, water deposited surface gold is known as placer mining. Both methods are still in use today in various parts of the world. Trem [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: Kass <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 10:34 PM Subject: Re: CS>Unidentified subject! > I believe cyanide is what miners use. > Kass > ----- Original Message ----- > From: D G <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 10:05 AM > Subject: CS>Unidentified subject! > > > > i think that it does. that's why miners use mercry to seperate gold > > from sand and crushed ore. > > > > Dennis > > > > 51/50 > > 24/7 > > > > > > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > >
