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    lithium salts are not particularly value on a less than industrial mining scale.

    Just trying to give you some advise, it has less to do with your process and more to do with the screening size of the material you run. When it comes to really recovering as much as you can, uniform particle size is more important than the particle size itself. If you screen out say 80 mesh minus you should get a much better result than trying to mill it down to a flour like base on its own. Densimetric separation works really well when particle size is as uniform as possible. Don't take that as me telling you what to do, that's me giving you some insight on what I do and we are recovering 99.97% the product we want.

    I wanted to add this, if your looking to do this mechanically and not by hand, get a small spiral classifier if you dont have one, they are good at doing product with very close densities.

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    Quote Originally Posted by armygreywolf View Post
    lithium salts are not particularly value on a less than industrial mining scale.

    Just trying to give you some advise, it has less to do with your process and more to do with the screening size of the material you run. When it comes to really recovering as much as you can, uniform particle size is more important than the particle size itself. If you screen out say 80 mesh minus you should get a much better result than trying to mill it down to a flour like base on its own. Densimetric separation works really well when particle size is as uniform as possible. Don't take that as me telling you what to do, that's me giving you some insight on what I do and we are recovering 99.97% the product we want.

    I wanted to add this, if your looking to do this mechanically and not by hand, get a small spiral classifier if you dont have one, they are good at doing product with very close densities.
    Sent a sample out for an ICP assay and should know within a week or so what is in that clay.

    As for investing in mining equipment not going to happen, if the assay should come back with positive results then I will stake the ground then sell the claim to someone or a company with more resources than I have.

    When I have received the assay report will post the results wither they're good or bad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by armygreywolf View Post
    lithium salts are not particularly value on a less than industrial mining scale.

    Just trying to give you some advise, it has less to do with your process and more to do with the screening size of the material you run. When it comes to really recovering as much as you can, uniform particle size is more important than the particle size itself. If you screen out say 80 mesh minus you should get a much better result than trying to mill it down to a flour like base on its own. Densimetric separation works really well when particle size is as uniform as possible. Don't take that as me telling you what to do, that's me giving you some insight on what I do and we are recovering 99.97% the product we want.

    I wanted to add this, if your looking to do this mechanically and not by hand, get a small spiral classifier if you dont have one, they are good at doing product with very close densities.
    The province I live in is know to have both lithium and tantalum deposits IMO either one would be a great find.

    Below some images of the heavies recovered from the mill grind.



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