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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Mercury Use and Recovering Gold from Amalgam information and questions
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<blockquote data-quote="Graybeard" data-source="post: 395064" data-attributes="member: 11193"><p>It sounds like zinc flakes. I've found it several times on the gold fields. Damned if I know what it was used for, but finding it 3 times in different localities got me stumped. I know it was zinc because when I tossed it on the red hot charcoal in my heater it started oxidising with that aqua coloured flame typical of zinc.</p><p>By the way, it should crumble very easily. Does not bend because it's thin and partly oxidised.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Graybeard, post: 395064, member: 11193"] It sounds like zinc flakes. I've found it several times on the gold fields. Damned if I know what it was used for, but finding it 3 times in different localities got me stumped. I know it was zinc because when I tossed it on the red hot charcoal in my heater it started oxidising with that aqua coloured flame typical of zinc. By the way, it should crumble very easily. Does not bend because it's thin and partly oxidised. [/QUOTE]
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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Mercury Use and Recovering Gold from Amalgam information and questions
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