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Borax instead of mercury - interesting video
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Posted : Thursday, 11 October 2012 3:48:52 PM(UTC)
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Posted : Saturday, 13 October 2012 1:31:46 PM(UTC)
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There quite a bit of info out there on this and I use Borax to smelt my retorted gold, which I use mercury to gather the fine Au from the black sands of the Molyneux river http://www.geus.dk/progr...he_borax_method_2011.pdf
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