BLACK SAND

Gold is never lighter or the same weight as sand, gold no matter how small will have a density very much heavier. Pure gold has a density of 19.3 grams per cubic centimeter. Placer gold density can range from 15 to 19 grams per cubic centimeter. Blac sand hematite or magnetite is around 5g!cm3. "ead has a density of 11.3 g!cm3

#t sounds li e you have gotten rich on fools gold, pyrite. Pyrite has a density of around $ to 5grams per cubic centimeter.

%y suggestion get some BB si&e pieces of lead, put them in the your gold pan, say three of them, now add your sand gravel roc s mud and your gold, pan this off, when you get to the bottom you will see your lead and gold in the blac sand, pan off the blac sand you will be left with three pieces of lead and your gold, practice this into a big tub of water 'ust incase you are not s illed in the art of panning this way you will not loose your lead, if your gold pans off before your lead it is not gold it is 'ust pyrite fools gold. (ery seldom will fine gold float, clean your pan of oils, a drop of dish soap to your water will help if this very rare problem occurs, gold is normally too heavy to float, pyrite will float out of your pan very easily. %ost all new miners get rich on fools gold before they learn what real gold is, once they learn they can easily tell the difference, and these miners pay no attention to dumping that yellow gold loo ing material out of their pan bac into the river, they only want what is left in there pan after everything else lighter than lead is dumped out of the pan.

"oo at the bottom of the diagram where it says )*on+%agnetic ,ischarge). -he non+magnetics are discharged at the bottom. .ere is a photo of another magnetic separator and the lin to the site. #t has *5/ neodymium magnets inside one of the conveyor rollers. -he blac sands are carried up and onto the conveyor.

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Re: HCL/peroxide method and blac sand

'ohn7pao , # do not understand why you would want to dissolve the sand with chemicals, when you could dissolve metals from sand, 8but even easier 'ust to pan out the gold9. #f you have blac sand it can complicate leaching, as these iron compounds do not brea down easily, and the iron can complicate matters if it is not leached out, before attempting to leach the valuable metals,and leaching volumes of base metals can use up a lot of acids, it should be ground up to fine talcum powder consistency,then roasting it to cherry red hot in air, or o:ygen, this can help to eliminate some sulfur compounds, this will not convert the iron o:ides to elemental metal, the iron could be reduced to metal with a reducer li e charcoal and lime at very high heat, then you could leach out base metals. 0ll of this 'ust sounds li e a waste of time to me, 8pan the gold9, smelting concentrates is another option but then again you could burn up more money in fuel than you may recover gold, and here again you would need to gravity separate the ma'ority of gold from the non+gold sands in order to get the gold in concentrated enough in order to ma e smelting an option. Gravity separation, is the way to go, easier and it wor s, that is why it is used as the method for recovering gold from sands, leave leaching for recovering gold loc ed up in ore 8and then only use it if it is cost effective to recover the gold with this method9. -here is an acid that can etch glass but it is so ha&ardous we normally do not give advice or promote its use, 8# have not seen a reason to use it yet in recovery or refining9. # thin you are trying to find a hard way to deal with an easy material to handle.
Blac sand is found in river mud .gold is heavier and not react with river water so it found in river mud shape of nugget you can separate this nugget with panning and also found shape of gold grain .you can separate this grain of gold with the help a;ua regia . blac sand are usually magnetite and hematite or tellurides and can also be rutile and illmenite, blac sands can contain very small amounts of 0u in their chemical comp or as a coating or inclusions and are

often associated with gold when panning. -he host roc for agate is usually basalt which contains magnetite and hematite but the source of the magnetite associated with gold is different and the magnetite from basalt will most li ely not have any association with gold

-he red mud is left over from filtering some recovered 0u from blac sand. # do not have any stannous chloride. 0nyone have an idea what the red mud is< # first roasted the blac sand, then leached with .=" to remove the iron, the sand was then introduced to 0> then heated. -his mud insoluble in hot 0> showed up on filtering the 0u.

%y guess is hematite, it is a red iron o:ide.