Jacob Waltz / prospector

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

How long do you think it had been there, and what do you think was the source ?
Also, what type of bedrock ?

Good questions given how it likes to evaporate and is somewhat water soluble in various forms

 

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[wrmickel1]

Good questions given how it likes to evaporate and is somewhat water soluble in various forms

ConceptualizedNetherlandr

Not to much in this form already been refined by man or nature. Its been in a heat source greater then a 1000 f. Its what you'll find near a mine like the one Waltz described. Now the elevated mercury air levels in boulder canyon. Comes from a very different form that evaporates and is soluble, a more unstable form.

Now to find out if it was found in the bedrock in a stream bed or up higher to get a clue on how it traveled to its resting place to narrow down the search area.

Wrmickel1

 

[gollum]

Just a quick note:

I passed by a yard sale today and saw this sticking out:



.99 cents had to get it! When all else fails, Walter can tell you where the LDM is!

Mike

 

[Army of 1]

Liquid mercury I sucked out of cracks in the bedrock.

Man I hope it wasn't with a straw , Sorry ! couldn't help myself ..cheers Mick

 

[John_Arizona]

I passed by a yard sale today and saw this sticking out:

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.99 cents had to get it! When all else fails, Walter can tell you where the LDM is!

Mike

...theories about the ldm:

“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills,
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

 

[gollum]

...theories about the ldm:

“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills,
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Darkness

 

[Oroblanco]

Man I hope it wasn't with a straw , Sorry ! couldn't help myself ..cheers Mick

Why not? Dentists put mercury in our TEETH on a daily basis, even little children!

 

[elgatodelnoche]

How long do you think it had been there, and what do you think was the source ?
Also, what type of bedrock ?

I am no geologist. I am only Dan. I think it came from miners. I am unsure of the type of bedrock. Sorry.

 

[wrmickel1]

I am no geologist. I am only Dan. I think it came from miners. I am unsure of the type of bedrock. Sorry.

Dan

What makes you believe it was left by miners, And was your bedrock in a stream bed or not.

Wrmickel1

 

[audigger53]

One way the old prospectors would convert gold dust in to solid piece was to take a potato, cut it in half. Hollow out both pieces and put the Gold Mercury mix in the bottom and then force the over half on top. Put it in the fire and "cook" it.
The mercury would burn off and get trapped in the top half. they would then knock them apart and put the top half into water to cool. That would allow them to recover a lot of the Mercury for next time.
Don't remember where I read that years ago, but it makes sense to me. They would also use wet leather bags and put the mix in the bag and twist it down to make the Mercury come out through the bag leaving the gold mercury mix in the bag, harder to loose that the gold dust.

 

[John_Arizona]

Darkness

darkness if you sucked some mercury

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Ok time to put in my 2 cents. First to detect Hg make an fluoresce screen. coat a plane surface with a florescencent materiell then illuminate it with an ultraviolet source. Place the suspected Hg containing materiel between the emitter and the screen, The hg fumes will block the ultra violet source and you will see the fumes in the form of shadows, like smoke.. Very simple. Of course if you had access to a AA machine it it much simpler and quantitative measurable.

Remember it is the 'organic' Hg that is most dangerous.

Side issue, I think that it is vastly overrated. As an example, during wwII,i I was a master horizontal bombardier and Nordan Bombsight mech. On Guadalcanal, we worked in a closed Quonset hut with no windows or any kind of air conditioning, it was still considered top secret. We were supposed to commit suicide rather than to be captured -- yeah,I was about to commit suicide for something that was compromised in 1935

Anway we worked with open pools of mercury as a self leveling mirror to establish true vert on the sight.

Naturally we also killed flies and skeeters with liquid mercury squirted out of hypodermic needles and worked with open
containers of Carbon tetrachloride, now considered a positive cancer causing agent among other things.

In other words a environmentalist would have 'hysterics' today, yet none of us, that I could ever find, had any troubles. Perhaps it shows up later in life, but so far it hasn't with me and I am only 91 ---- hesh oro, or no coffee.

Our lil mercury mine in the sierras. This is our retort.

 

[djui5]

^^ very cool!!

 

[elgatodelnoche]

Dan

What makes you believe it was left by miners, And was your bedrock in a stream bed or not.

Wrmickel1

My bedrock was a dry stream bed. I have not been schooled in what native mercury looks like, so it all is miners mercury to me.

 

[wrmickel1]

My bedrock was a dry stream bed. I have not been schooled in what native mercury looks like, so it all is miners mercury to me.

Well you've found the best kind, Liquid! Now trace it back up stream
To the heat source that changed it to a liquid' that will lead you to a mine like the Dutchman described,

And may luck be with you

Wrmickel1
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