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3 items up from the bottom - How Gold Bars are Made

https://goldbarsworldwide.com/about-gold-bars/

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Geez Dick - that's impressive!

Certainly easier to ship a Dore' Bar than loose placer and certainly no 'shrinkage' along the way to the buyer.

Joe

Big Easy - How high is high, How wide is wide, how deep is deep? The answer is strictly what you choose it to be. For some ANY Gold at all is just extra - extra over the beauty of nature, the thrill of the hunt and such. For others there is a certain $ or weight that they feel is the minimum accepta...

Big Easy - you forgot *** The Music! ***

Cajun Music is something I thoroughly, thoroughly enjoy.

Makes me wish I spoke French - just so I would know what the words mean.

The rest of the story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajuns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Louisiana

I thought it was just a typo - and 'went for it', obviously, all in fun! :lol: :roll: For almost my whole life I had trouble with spelling one word..... "maybe". For some silly reason I just, as a child, never could settle on a spelling for it. Finally, in frustration, in my middle years, I carefull...

Yes, great entertainment as a story, but now, later in life, a rather good example of good prospecting upstream technique - to find sources for Gold and pocket Gold as well. Easy ------- it's STREAM sluice , not a steam sluice :lol: And yes, he was a flaming socialist - but none of us are perfect I ...

Say there Big Easy! First I'd stockpile the pump, hoses and the sluice box / highbanker. They aren't for searching for gold (prospecting) but rather for later recovery efforts. So, traveling light, yet comfortable enough, it's time to strike off looking for better than usual concentrations of Gold. ...

No, it isn't a dissolution of the trace elemental metals - it's a chemical reaction which converts the elemental Non-Auriferous metals into chlorides. Basic chemistry stuff. Gold and Chlorine variations are a slippery creature to come up with in the wild - which is why they are usually discounted in...

Chlorine Gas - Cl 2 - is introduced to (bubbled up through) the molten refined Gold as a Post Refining further step to achieve .9999 fineness. The Chlorine combines with the remaining minute trace alloy metals in the liquid to form metallic chlorides which can then, meticulously, be separated from t...