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Ask The Experts -- Will a land mine detector work for gold?
March 2020 by Chris Ralph
Ask The Experts—Extraction of micro gold from black sands
I know big mining companies use cyanide and other leach systems to recover gold from ore. Is this the only economically feasible way to recover the values?
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Q: How can I locate good places to prospect and meet like-minded individuals at the same time?
The Portable XRF Gun
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.
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Problems finding gold with a detector
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Magnetometers explained
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