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jackrox999

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Hi guys. Completing my research thesis next year for uni and looking for ideas within the gold prospecting and mining areas. Already going to look into dry blower and improving their efficiency on micron particles as currently they are relatively low efficient machines. But looking for any of your weird and wonderful ideas aswell, that you would want looked into but don't have time/skills/understanding/resources to look into yourself. If its anything from a pan size and shape change like the standard round traditional to the gold claw pan, or if its industrial size and a complete redesign of a processing plant.
 
I do hope you understand how good dry blowers work. The find gold should be held by electrostatic forces and lm sure there is room for improvement, but generally it would come down to a tradeoff between feed rate and classification of material vs capture rates.
Maybe a two stage system that quickly seperates the larger material before a secondary system processes the fines? Still its territory many have gone before so hope your up to the challenge.
Certainly an Australian (and American) market if you can succeed.
 
Always keep an open mind, and think outside of the box! And dont worry about those that cant fathom new principles. Many will work in the shed, but not out in the feild...
but just one new principal that works out well, after 99 failures, is better, especially than thinking than that it cant be improved on. Ignorance will leave you with a square wheel
 
No, its 1 in 12, needs frikkin water, and lots of it......hungarian, yes, hydraulic.. waste of time.... Cyclone, maybe... if it can keep up... what was the yield?
Yep.. the trommel... thats what it was......
 
Matt80 said:
I do hope you understand how good dry blowers work. The find gold should be held by electrostatic forces and lm sure there is room for improvement, but generally it would come down to a tradeoff between feed rate and classification of material vs capture rates.
Maybe a two stage system that quickly seperates the larger material before a secondary system processes the fines? Still its territory many have gone before so hope your up to the challenge.
Certainly an Australian (and American) market if you can succeed.
Sorry but got to disagree on improvement not viable on dry blowers etc.
In 50 years, you will be laughed at for saying such.
Big mining companies already have millions of tones of tailings ready to re-claim lost gold in the future of better ways.
 
mudgee hunter said:
Sorry but got to disagree on improvement not viable on dry blowers etc.
In 50 years, you will be laughed at for saying such.
Big mining companies already have millions of tones of tailings ready to re-claim lost gold in the future of better ways.
Yeah, agreed, but not by Dry blower???
Sulphides and stuff... hmm it will be all chemical, and technology that us old fella's dont understand....
I'm used to 1 in 100.... put a 100 ton of dirt thru the plant, get an ounce in the launder.... more or less....
These fella's can/are putting millions of tons of already processed dirt through, and getting the gold that was missed...
 
Jackrox999 good luck on your foray into gold separation for your thesis. I have often thought the old Mercury separation process is one that could do with modernising. In a fully sealed circuit it should be possible to evaporate & recapture the mercury, avoiding the bad health effects of breathing it! food for thought.
 
To be clear, l wasn't saying it wasn't possible to improve how dry blowers work, indeed lm sure it is possible. What l was trying to get across is that dry blowers are not as simple as some people might think and that l hope he understands how the current ones work before he tries to reinvent something that has remained largely unchanged for a very long time now.

Of course if money is no object then it would be pretty easy to make a far better dry blower. A simple classifier falling to a vibrating conveyor belt with a magnet suspended above it removing most of iron with the final roller being an electo magnet to seperate the conductive material from the non conductive material. You would end up with a big pile of tailings, a pile of iron and a small pile of concentrate.

So yeah lm sure it's doable, l just hope he understands how they work.
 

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