Hard rock sampling mill Without the hard work

[gold tramp]

When we were kids we would walk down to an old building where they had a couple ball mills laying around in a junk pile. We would take the balls out & do anything from rolling them down the streets to throwing them off of cliffs just to watch them fly down the hills. We rolled one big one down main street in Auburn once back in the 60's and took off before we got caught. Man we were little hellians back in the day

My little brothers and I rolled a bowling ball down bradshaw rd Sacramento like 40 years ago Sherrif caught us hiding in the train ditch.

 

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[Eu_citzen]

That's a nice one herb, I may have look into it myself.
It's not often I have to crush things, but still good to have as an option.

 

[Dustedyou]

use a http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Duty-Ro...9606&sr=8-13&keywords=Rock+Tumbler+heavy+duty now at Thunderbird Jewelery supply for $45.99 (clearance)
and 2 2" Steel Ball Hitch with the ends cut off the balls (i use them too) in each drum, with some 1" ball bearings
1" Roller Ball Bearing (about 10) works fine , but has to run all nite! either way not bad for 75$

 

[shamantreasure]

The balls where used to crush coal for locamotive steam engines.

 

[Empireone]

My little brothers and I rolled a bowling ball down bradshaw rd Sacramento like 40 years ago Sherrif caught us hiding in the train ditch.

In our younger years we found an old rubber bowling ball and discovered if the older brother, he had a license, would drive the family station wagon at about 100 mph, we could drop the ball out of the window. It would go about a quarter of a mile through the desert taking out trees and things. On day it came back on the road and took out our neighbors rock and concrete mailbox. We stopped after that Physics lesson.

 

[Dustedyou]

In our younger years we found an old rubber bowling ball and discovered if the older brother, he had a license, would drive the family station wagon at about 100 mph, we could drop the ball out of the window. It would go about a quarter of a mile through the desert taking out trees and things. On day it came back on the road and took out our neighbors rock and concrete mailbox. We stopped after that Physics lesson.

Lmao now I want a bowling ball! Its safer to do as an adult right?

 

[Sticks]

Can you use HG in that mill?

 

[gold tramp]

Can you use HG in that mill?

to violent would flour your merc mix it with your cons it would take six months to get it all back.
How much HG would you be using ?
GT..

 

[Sticks]

to violent would flour your merc mix it with your cons it would take six months to get it all back.
How much HG would you be using ?
GT..

Just trying to figure out what to do with all my black sand. I classify it to -100 and table 5 different grades. but thought that I could skip all that by grinding all together then table what probably at -200 then throw tails in a mixer with HG for a few hours. I love the wave table but am positive tails still have values, as well as black sand some of it is encapsulating AU. When we break open bedrock crevices we recover balls of HG that old timers left. Some is pretty buttery with lots of copper but most is pretty hard. We take those and put on a hot plate with 1/3 Nitric 2/3 dist.H2O
and after all Hg is gone we have chunks of brown colored gold and there is a bunch that is so fine it stays suspended when shook in bottle, Didn't mean to get off track with that., But I have several buckets of black sand, so many that I am going to start dumping them in 50 gal drums, I need the empty buckets lol. Thanks