Micron Gold Recovery

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Thank you Christian 

This concept of micron gold recovery is new to me. I did find a site through a link on another site that had some info but it was a commercial website. Are there any unbiased published materials to read?

Cptbil, you have my undevided attention on your recovery system! How many GPM are you able to process and what is the cost to build such a thing? Is it something you plan to market/manufacture or sell plans or give it away? I am surely interested whatever the answer. Seems to me to be the way to go.

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Ok, my math skills say that's $360. per hour or $2,880. per day! Even at .01 cent per gallon that comes to $72. per hour or $576. per 8 hours. I could live on that awhile 

Do you plan to do the refining yourself or some service you have to pay or share to have it done? Are there such places that will refine for a fee or share? The chemistry involved to refine is over my head.

Wondered if you have thought of setting up a hidden filtering system set up to run with a RAM pump?  Would that be practical?  You could check it ever so often and would need no external power to run it! It might be more practical though now that I think about it some, to operate the hidden unit on a siphon system. It would give you more water and the same flow regardless of stream flow conditions.

Here's how I kinda see it. You could have a siphon line from an elevated pool providing your water to the filter unit. It could be used for a hidden filtering system or your day trip times as well. Search "gravity dredge" for the concept but you would only be getting the water from the elevated pool instead of sucking up material. 100' of 2 inch hose at only a few feet of elevation would give you all the water you wanted with no gas or pump needed. You could put a valve there on your system to regulate if needed. Now how could any environmentalist argue with that type of system 

How do you extract the attracted gold and other precious metals from the carbon once it is collected?   

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So your investment seems rather small compared to the returns possible.  Is your leaching system complicated?

 

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That sounds pretty easy enough 

So when can we look forward to a detailed How-To DIY on this system and methods?  Like you said somewhere earlier you would be the first one to actually compile and report results and methods. Most info on this subject is sketchy far as I can tell. It would be nice to have a complete from stream to gold in the pan instruction manual of sorts...where to get needed materials, etc. Is this a possibility?

Sorry for all the questions cptbil...from my reading, or rather trying to read up on this subject, your explanations seem to be the best I can understand. I would sure love to get with you sometime and see al this stuff firsthand if that would be possible.

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