Ask The Experts—Do I still have rights to this mining claim?

March 2011 by Chris Ralph

Ask The Experts—How do you amend a placer claim?

May 2011
Q: How do you amend a placer claim?

The Portable XRF Gun

November 2012
While there is no metal detector that will see only gold, there is a device that can reliably distinguish gold from lead, copper, iron or other metals. It is an X-Ray fluorescence tester, sometimes called an XRF gun.

Ask The Experts—Amalgamation

January 2011
Q: Exactly how does amalgamation work? Does it “melt” the gold (or copper, or silver, etc.) and form an alloy? If one leaves a piece of gold in mercury, will the entire sample become an amalgam (combination) of gold and mercury? Or does it only affect the surface...

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February 2016
Any good books on mineralized faults and contacts?

Ask The Experts - This low-grade ore is not worth processing

February 2019

Ask The Experts - What do you think is the source of gold in this area of Ireland?

August 2018

Ask the Experts - Old workings & tailings: What are my options?

February 2012
Q: ...It’s a 2,000-acre property that was mined 100 years ago, still has the old workings, tailings, etc. I am looking to recover gold from the old waste/tailings... plus possibly strip mine some of it. What are my options?

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