A prospecting Trip On video & Gold Covered in mercury

[Doitlaynstyle]

We camped out for 2 nights last weekend. Found a little gold. For those of you that Didn't do well in the paydirt I had I am so very sorry. I will find a way to make it up to you. I brought back some pay dirt from the area that I worked in the video here and you can see the blob at the end.

 

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[Fullpan]

Ahhh, making memories with family and friends - worth more than gold. 7:30 am, eating cereal, getting melted on front side, freezing on backside. Risky
behavior (on bike - no helmet, no kneepads) - WTG! No hysteria on scraped knees. No ear buds, no Justin Bieber music. All crew members working together
in harmony - now that's a reality show. And for the newbies lurking, that's what mercury partially amalgamated with gold looks like. Question, was merc in the dirt, or did you bring it? Great vid - waiting for next installment!

 

[Doitlaynstyle]

Merc was found in the dirt, already had gold trapped and also swallowed my loose gold that you saw in the pan in the beginning.

 

[Fullpan]

Wherever your dirt pile is coming from, that could be the location of a commercial dredge operation, circa late 1800's, and where they had a burp in recovery
resulting in loss of significant amounts of gold and merc out of sluice boxes. Keep digging!

 

[goldog]

...no sweating a lil mercury coated gold. Looks pretty chunky. Careful or you'll be mad as a hatter in no time.

 

[Doitlaynstyle]

No sweating a lil merc is right. I built this today. Retort.... yay

 

[Fullpan]

After you get the retorting process down to a routine, hope you share with a video.

 

[Doitlaynstyle]

After you get the retorting process down to a routine, hope you share with a video.

Plan on doing that tonight. Watch for the video

 

[Fullpan]

I was kinda thinking the tenth or fifthteenth time you burn off, when you can film with utmost respect for the potential dangers involved! Look who's being
hysterical now - me.

 

[Doitlaynstyle]

Actually. It worked out great. There aren't any dangers if you do your homework. Didn't shoot video but out of an almost 9 gram ball of merc we pulled 3.8 grams of gold.

 

[Fullpan]

By my calculations, when you finish with that dirt pile, you should have 7 lbs of gold and 15 lbs of liquid mercury - no?, let me check my figures again

 

[Doitlaynstyle]

Man that would be nice lol