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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: 593040" data-attributes="member: 20080"><p>Ok so say I kept all the water that washed off the finest of gold how small would it have to be before I can no longer through a non chemical method collect it? </p><p>What I'm trying to find is a point of failure of our known/used methods of non chemical gold collection. </p><p>So for the purpose of this mental exercise I take a shovel of dirt off the bank put it through the highbanker, </p><p>I notice the nugget in my tailings (score), grab the pickers all the matts that I have on my 12ft extension on my highbanker which has every Matt on the market and all possible home made matts attached to it and grab all the pickers off (yay) then take all that water and other stuff running off the end of my Hbanker and having been being collected what is the next step and the next and so on until there is no gold left in the water/cons that only G0lDigg@'s mercury or a microscope could prove otherwise. Where can we draw a line as all the gold having been recovered from my shovel of bank? Is there a micron size on which we can say that beyond this you won't be able to acquire over time a vial of gold of this (?) size or smaller unless you resort to chemical collection methods?</p><p>It's a harder question than the face of it and thought that someone else might have been down this road of thought and followed it to an end?!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nirvanadirt, post: 593040, member: 20080"] Ok so say I kept all the water that washed off the finest of gold how small would it have to be before I can no longer through a non chemical method collect it? What I'm trying to find is a point of failure of our known/used methods of non chemical gold collection. So for the purpose of this mental exercise I take a shovel of dirt off the bank put it through the highbanker, I notice the nugget in my tailings (score), grab the pickers all the matts that I have on my 12ft extension on my highbanker which has every Matt on the market and all possible home made matts attached to it and grab all the pickers off (yay) then take all that water and other stuff running off the end of my Hbanker and having been being collected what is the next step and the next and so on until there is no gold left in the water/cons that only G0lDigg@'s mercury or a microscope could prove otherwise. Where can we draw a line as all the gold having been recovered from my shovel of bank? Is there a micron size on which we can say that beyond this you won't be able to acquire over time a vial of gold of this (?) size or smaller unless you resort to chemical collection methods? It's a harder question than the face of it and thought that someone else might have been down this road of thought and followed it to an end?! [/QUOTE]
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Is there in microns a point beyond which gold is no longer recoverable
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