Heading out to my favourite landfill in another municipality, usually good pickings at this site it's a rich neighbourhood full of summer inhabitants.
If anything of interest is found will post pictures of my treasures.
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Heading out to my favourite landfill in another municipality, usually good pickings at this site it's a rich neighbourhood full of summer inhabitants.
If anything of interest is found will post pictures of my treasures.
Today on our trip we'll end up in McCreary landfill site which is
a stone throw from Alonsa where a tornado destroyed homes and cabins yesterday.
The only landfill site we're not allowed to pick from on this map are Neepawa and Minnidosa, all the other small towns are fair game. Those small towns on the shores of lake Winnipeg are not worth bothering with.
Pat has packed a huge lunch box with a few coolers, we'll leave home around 9:00 am and be back around 6:00 pm.
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wish u all the best but PLS post pics.
Three sites visited and we missed Erickson by 10 minutes gates closed, two elctric motors one is a half horse and the larger one if one horse these will be saved for personal projects and not opened up for the copper.
The motors both came off of some sort of refrigeration system, both are 220 volts single phase.
Heathkit capacitor tester, Heathkit signal generator and a tube tester, the black box is a 12 volt power supply for a radio base station and the box of circuit boards to do some testing with the solder looking for traces of gold. The trying to recover the tin electrically via electrolysis
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Not a very productive day as fa as prizes went but good to get out for the day, we enjoyed ourselves and will probably make this run one more time before the snow arrives.
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Some fun facts, recovered from one small mother board 7.9 grams of solder and there's probably enough left of the board to make up a full 10 grams. One metric ton has 1,000,000,000 grams so it would take one hundred thousand boards to get a ton of solder.
If there is 250K worth of gold in that solder each board in solder alone is worth $2.50 just from the solder. I think that I need to find another hobby.
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At today's gold price $1213.30 per troy ounce it would take approx 485 mother boards to recover one troy ounce of gold from the 9.7 pounds solder, once the solder has been processed you would be left with pure tin metal with a value of $10.00 per pound.Quote:
Originally Posted by Proton
From the crust that formed on the tin solder button you can tell it's not pure tin.
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That nice base station power supply went up in smoke.
I'm going to gather up a few more pounds of this stuff then fire up the induction furnace to see if it melts. Until then I'm not going to speculate what it might be.
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Another puzzle these globules formed after skimming the float from some crushed black sand I received from a friends placer claim in northern BC. try as I might I can not get the little globs to rejoin or sink to the bottom.
Its just water with a bit of soap added to break surface tension. The globs are stuck to the side of the jar in this picture.
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Rinse and strain, once your back to product in clean water add a few drops of jet dry, which is a surfacant and will break the tension without having to deal with emulsification.
After than you should be able to pan off the super fines and suck them up manually along the line you create while panning.
Next time, when dealing with black sand, try screening it dry first. Run each mesh minus on it's own starting with the coarse and working down, when they are uniform you can get the gold off WAAAAAAY easier. Hope that helps.
This came from a 10 lb sample that I first crushed in a pipe with a base welded onto it then using a heavy steel shaft, did not crush as fine as I had wanted but this was the first float to come off. I'm going to ball mill the sample again, I want a very fine powder.Quote:
Originally Posted by armygreywolf
I do not want to pan, this is leading to a flotation cell to recover values.
With a bit of vigorous shaking the globules did break up, just thought it was an interesting photo and had to share.
Will not get into details on the process's used but will post any images of interest.
The heavies in the first image were hand panned from same material shown in the second image shown bone dry, third image same chunk of compacted clay only this time its wet with water and the last image has dead centre what looks to be a small metal flake,
The ball mill is currently loaded with about 100 pounds of this material, the heavy material is what I'm after for my induction melt. I'm curious if I can produce a metal button.
Time to stop fooling around and send a small sample out for a legitimate assay.
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Now wouldn't that be a hoot I'm out looking for gold and find a lithium deposit.
Lithium recovery from hard rock and clay deposits normally involve a series of physical processing steps (e.g., milling and flotation) combined with other hydrometallurgical steps (e.g., such as leaching from where solution is also subjected to impurity removal stages) to remove unwanted elements before being precipitated as lithium carbonate. SRC has worked with companies in Canada, Australia and USA to recover lithium from spodumene, lepidolite, petalite, smectite, illite, pegmatite and other lithium bearing hard rock ores and clay deposits.
It's definitely sedimentary clay.
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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.
Sent a sample out for an ICP assay and should know within a week or so what is in that clay.Quote:
Originally Posted by armygreywolf
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.
My ball mill hard at work liberating the embedded heavies, once the clay has been cleaned I'm going to check with one of the local potters to see if its suitable for their needs.
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The province I live in is know to have both lithium and tantalum deposits IMO either one would be a great find.Quote:
Originally Posted by armygreywolf
Below some images of the heavies recovered from the mill grind.
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Found another free RV trailer at one of my favourite landfill sites, I'll be picking it up this upcoming weekend.
The guy that installed the new glass in my Dakota project gave me an older Sea Horse 7.5 hp outboard, this will fit nicely on the free aluminium boat a neighbour gave me a few months back.
I hope that I can get the old Sea Horse to run half as good as this one in the tube vid.
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My assay report came in this morning, best money I ever spent. There's enough rare earth elements to economically mine.
The rust stain is not iron.
I've calculated the most valuable elements from the assay from their parts per million that sample below has a value or approximately $4,000.00 USD per metric ton.
And yes it has been confirmed that lithium is one of the elements but in itself does not make up for the total value there are minerals in the sample with more value than Li.
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The sample I had sent in for assay was taken from the surface a weathered sample with minerals leached out over time, a poor representation of the ore body. The deeper one goes the richer the ore.
A list of the minerals of interest from that chunk of hard clay.
Gallium
Hafnium
Dysprosium
Scandium
Niobium
Neodymium
Lithium
Lanthanum
Hahnium
Samarium
After all these years of membership I finally find out that the forum has allotted us personal space to upload images.
That what I use.Quote:
Originally Posted by Proton
Titanium 3500 ppm, 1 ppm is 1 gram there's approximately 454 grams to a pound so there is almost full 8 pounds of titanium in each ton of clay.
I might have to get a miners permit then go and stake this ground.
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Never realized you were actually a member.......Without paying membership dues you have been a "guest" all this timeQuote:
Originally Posted by Proton
By paying dues I can become part of a secret society - no thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
Any comments or opinions that I may have are open source and have no desire to see or hear what others have to say behind closed doors. So called privileged forums.
To me it's not really even about the private forum (little goes on there).......For all you have taken from this forum as well as all the dirty little posts you have made over the years a few bucks seems like the least you could doQuote:
Originally Posted by Proton
[QUOTE=mikeinreco;291347]To me it's not really even about the private forum (little goes on there).......For all you have taken from this forum as well as all the dirty little posts you have made over the years a few bucks seems like the least you could do[/QUOTE]
Never thought I would see the day that a host would demand payment from a guest.
Your inference that I have taken from this forum leads me to think your also inferring that I have given nothing in return and because I have not subscribed into the paid membership program, you consider me a leach.
You my friend should be paying me as a consultant.
I find it pretty nervy on your part asking an old man retired from the scrap industry who gives freely of his time explaining to those in need how to perform certain tasks.
Honestly I think you have a hidden agenda which has reared it's ugly head before and I'm sure won't be long until it happens again
As a visiting out of town guest one of the privileges my host has permitted me is to add you to my ignore list - good bye.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
Your a vindictive individual, for what reason have you given me a negative towards my reputation.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeinreco
mikeinreco don't you think that a -43 is a pretty big hit.
Your advertised on this forum as an entrepreneur, if this is how you choose to treat a guest I could only surmise how you would treat a customer.
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Originally Posted by Proton
I see that it's at -43 but I thought you could only give 1 point (good or bad) at a time.
Perhaps the difference between guest and paid membership.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimicrk
I've always checked the blinking notice, this was the first hit on reputation all others were thanks given from various members.
Maybe one of the paid members could leave a hit on my reputation then we'll know who many points are given in the negative. I'll keep the members identification private.
Thanks for the reputation input, did not show up as a negative.Quote:
Originally Posted by Proton
Heading to the landfill on Saturday to pick up that old RV, we were there on Monday when I found this old transistor radio in the electronics pile.
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Nice radio.
Has Am/Fm and short wave bands, currently just hums. Probably needs a few capacitors changed.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimicrk
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Trailer is plated Saskatchewan 2012, brand new 14 inch tires, damaged hitch. Terry's only request was that I pick it up at 2:00 pm when the site closes to the public.
The first four miles through the reservation was all washboard, fearing the trailer could detach itself from the trailer ball had to go dead slow the rest of the 30 mile trip was uneventful.
To avoid trouble used back roads via the Tom Tom, came back onto paved road about one mile from home.
Since arriving home I now have it about one third demoed, they left the heavy power cord inside and there's a mile of copper tubing to supply the propane over head lights, water tank, hot and cold water to the sink, furnace, stove and the fridge and a power inverter 120 volts input with 12 volts 40 amps out.
My Garmin was missing from my Ford Ranger when it was recovered from being stolen, the Tom Tom was borrowed from a neighbour. I do not like this GPS, its functions are not user friendly at all.
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Reduced to a pile of rubble, the wood scraps will go to our local landfill on Thursday. Our custodian does not allow anything at all to leave his domain and sometimes flags me down on the way out to inspect my truck.
After the Thursday load then the floor comes off then we start building a utility trailer but that project will be put off until next spring. The Dodge Dakota has presidence.
The metal goes to the farm.
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