[Rockhounds] Any Gold home refiners here?

[J Bryan Kramer]

Kreigh, I thought that I had heard that most, if not all, of the western ore
gold tailing piles had already been given the cyanide treatment back in the
1960's and 70's. There was sort of a second gold rush of people finding the
tailings and treating them when gold prices spiked back then.

Wouldn't that mean little or no gold remaining?

BK

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Kreigh Tomaszewski <Kreigh at tomaszewski.net>
wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> It is not that difficult to make a home smelter that can process a pail of
> crushed ore and give you bloom, or maybe a batch of molten metal and slag,
> depending on the metal/ore. A length of large diameter pipe (sheet metal
> will do), a large and small cardboard tube, some firebrick cement, some
> clay, a canister vacuum for tuyres, a flux, and some charcoal or coke. Plans
> are readily available if you do a little searching (online or at your
> library).
>
>


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