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Is there in microns a point beyond which gold is no longer recoverable
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<blockquote data-quote="Nirvanadirt" data-source="post: 593003" data-attributes="member: 20080"><p>Ok so to clear up a few things let's leave chemicals out of this equation and say gold that can be recovered using mechanical (and by mechanical I mean any process that physically gets the gold concentrated on one spot that is not a chemical process and anyone could do without setting up a 20 billion dollar plant) so basically anything that could be trapped by gravity, centrifugal force, panning etc. At what point would 90% of people give up at no let's say 95 for all those that really pursue getting gold as a hobby rather than a financial endeavour. What would be the physical cut off point where you would need to turn to chemicals to physically be able to recover the most challenging of gold particles even if we're talking 0.001 grams to the ton could this be recovered without chemicals? I don't believe that it could so what micron do we find that no matter how we fit much we persist we cannot recover that amount of gold though it is there and what that measurement would be in microns. (I'd like to cover every type of gold source i.e. ore, alluvial etcetera so the Lott)</p><p>There a lot of very smart people on this forum and I'm just trying to gauge where the cut off point is in microns where if you were hell-bent on getting every possible bit of gold from the ore you've crushed, dirt you moved and panned, highbanked, sluices or whatever your process is. If there must be a process chosen for there to be a concise answer I would say my process would be high banking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nirvanadirt, post: 593003, member: 20080"] Ok so to clear up a few things let's leave chemicals out of this equation and say gold that can be recovered using mechanical (and by mechanical I mean any process that physically gets the gold concentrated on one spot that is not a chemical process and anyone could do without setting up a 20 billion dollar plant) so basically anything that could be trapped by gravity, centrifugal force, panning etc. At what point would 90% of people give up at no let's say 95 for all those that really pursue getting gold as a hobby rather than a financial endeavour. What would be the physical cut off point where you would need to turn to chemicals to physically be able to recover the most challenging of gold particles even if we're talking 0.001 grams to the ton could this be recovered without chemicals? I don't believe that it could so what micron do we find that no matter how we fit much we persist we cannot recover that amount of gold though it is there and what that measurement would be in microns. (I'd like to cover every type of gold source i.e. ore, alluvial etcetera so the Lott) There a lot of very smart people on this forum and I'm just trying to gauge where the cut off point is in microns where if you were hell-bent on getting every possible bit of gold from the ore you've crushed, dirt you moved and panned, highbanked, sluices or whatever your process is. If there must be a process chosen for there to be a concise answer I would say my process would be high banking. [/QUOTE]
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