[Jewelry making - Article 00126] - Re: [Orchid] Collecting gold with mercury

[Rose Alene McArthur]

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    When the California mining and geology museum was in the Ferry
    Building in San Francico, I took my children in one day to look at
    the displays. They had some beautiful turn of the century glass
    topped and sided tables with quarter sawn oak wood legs. In the very
    back corner was a display of gold ores. The glass panel was broken
    and the ore had been crumbled. Beads of mercury were scattered around
    the bottom of the case. Someone thought they could extract the gold,
    but I doubt if they got much. 

Rose Alene


 
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