Few more ore pics

[Kelly Rees]

This piece is 5 inches long and 3 inches thick. Who has a forge and we'll process this out...

[Kelly Rees]

[Stuart]

That is some good looking ore! I bet they are pretty heavy. If you need some help mining just let me know! I'll work all day just for a nice piece like that to put in my rock collection.

[one_bad_rover]

quick easy processing...
crush up the rock as fine as you can get it, I use a steel bucket and an I-Beam isolator (to crush and keep everything together).
Put about 1/2 ounce of mercury per 5 lbs of rock. swish it all around for about 15 to 20 min. The mercury acts as a magnet to the gold. It will pull all gold and traces of gold until it looks very "fat" .
Take a large baking potato, and hollow it out so there is about 1.5 inches of potato at the bottom, like a cup. Pour the mercury amalgam into the potato. Put a receptacle for the mercury under the potato and let it sit for about a day.
The mercury will leech through the potato, leaving all of the gold sitting inside the potato. Then just secure your mercury, empty the gold into a high temp pistil or pot and melt it down in a fire or small oven outside.
Whole process takes about 2 days to process 15-20 lbs after you get good at it.

[Stuart]

Mmmm I love me a good Mercury laced potato!

[Kelly Rees]

I took the easy way out and sold it to a collector. I have more, we'll do a little crushing when I get more mercury.

[Jeff]

Did you check into the cost of having it processed Kelly? there is a place in town that processes raw gold but you may already know that. If not I can get the info for you. I may be being overly cautious here but there are some serious health risks to processing your own ore, It may be worth it to have it processed just my .02

[Kelly Rees]

It has to be chemically processed to get everything out of it. Theres only 1 place in the Western States that will do it and if the ore grade comes back good enough we'll start hauling. I think theres about 4 ton off the mountain right now.

At this point I think theres more money in selling samples.

[Jeff]

I would think that would be a cyanide process which can be done but there is a bit involved, if you are able to sell samples without all the extra effort and bs involved I would be all over that too.