Morning miners.
While up at the mill last night getting my toys had a discussion with another investor. Its a changing sides proposition, and at this point I just want to build this mill for who ever wants to put up the money.
We shall see.....
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Just a little history on why I do, what I do.
This aught to be interesting to put to paper, as it were. I am leaving a lot out, I'm no writer and this aint Gold Rush.
I was introduced to Mining by a friend, Dan Hignite. Great landscaper, not so successful placer miner. Great guy, good friend. I have my own agenda as well for doing this and mining was my choice of a possible solution to a financial issue/for a retirement project. Not working out great so far, but still moving forward slowly.
Anyway,
This process is now over 40 years in existence and still has not made it to the mining industry. Pieces of this process have but not a 10o% CaCl2 system, this is the only one.
2005, I'm a construction foreman for a developer. Dan does work for us, we talk, I tell him my story and vice versa. He tells me to join a club and learn as much about gold as I can manage. Where it is where it came from and how to get it out of the earth. So pan/sluice in hand, family in tow, off to bedrock prospectors we went. I learned a lot the next few years from a great group of people. High-banking in the snow was the best.
Dan puts together an expedition to Mexico to do a little gravity separation mining, sluice boxes and screen trommel left by previous interests. And a golden boy reverse tromel on youtube. Search - Golden boy trommel = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnOSXKu6b-4
didn’t have a great clue what I was doing but I was doing it like I was told. That man panning over on the top is Mario, former mayor of the town where we were guests. The mud/water never let the gold settle no mater what they tried. I was there for 2 weeks, brought home no gold, lost a 6hp keen dredge pump that never made it home, got stung by a killer bee looking down a mine shaft, ouch stiffff uppper lip and allll.
While in Mexico, I met Phil and got to work with him. Before I came home He told me about a project he is working on in Washington for Arsenic abatement and precious metal recovery, mobile clean up units. He asked me if he got the project would I be interested in running it. I'm game for an adventure into the unknown. What the hell, nothing to lose.
Dredging is so much fun. I want a submarine for my dredge. I can dream.
Year and a half later, Phil calls and says he got the project and its a doosie. Also there is little money to make this work and scrapping will be involved. Oohky then. Many guest ions, much discussion, some planning, I decide to go for it and make it work, again.
The Existing original mill, Built By Joe C. in the early 70's, was in ruin do to lack of snow removal one winter a few years back by the care taker.
This is where the real journey started and continues today, 2009 to present.
So this first. My first rendition of this process Not knowing how the puzzle fit together.
Mill walk through. Old 2011 still in the Re-building stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isr6iY7hXPM&list=UU8uxwcAhdjKFvKmE1JHbYoA
Non of this equipment was in this room when we got started. It was lying all about the mill left to collect leaves. Pictures?, loads. Phil and I built this pilot mill based on a picture of the process Phil got from Joe on a walk through. AAron 44, Phil 69. We learned that any metal that was not titanium could not be used in the process where the brine came in contact with it. Needless to say everything is made of or lined with titanium. Technology is the key here. Steel tanks with a chemical resistant, chemically embedded/fused into the steel is much cheaper to use now days.
SO, here we were. A plan, old equipment (20+ years), very little money, a few patents and handwritten flow charts and logs of the process in its infancy.
Harry, I can't forget harry. At this point Harry was the engineer on the project. Harry liked to look, wright stuff down and think. All good qualities needed to figure things out. After 6 month of this with little forward motion I started putting the things I could see we needed into place with out Harry’s approval. This action put harry in to a state of shock. I was going to blow the facility up or catch it on fire. Harry decided it was time for him to collect as much lab equipment as he could before Phil blocked him from the facility. Harry's last visit to the mill he walked into the lab with large boxes. The boxes never left, but harry did, very pissed.
I tried several times to burn the building down, with my creations, with no success.
2 intelligent, edjummicated men, told Phil and I, we do not have the mental capacity to get this off the ground. This may be true to a point. I have learned one thing over the years of doing things beyond my capabilities. I ask questions and hire people smarter than me to compensate for my mental deficiencies. So far its working out great. I'm smarter than I let on for the most part.
The hunt for investors, and equipment that will hold up to this process for a full scale mill is a real chore and resting in Phil to find the money and me to build it.
This is the reason for the process.
https://www.webelements.com/arsenic/
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Calcium chloride
Drug
Calcium chloride, CaCl2, is a salt of calcium and chlorine. It behaves as a typical ionic halide, and is solid at room temperature. Common applications include brine for refrigeration plants, ice and dust control on roads, and desiccation.
Formula: CaCl2
Boiling point: 3,515°F (1,935°C)
Molar mass: 110.98 g/mol
IUPAC ID: Calcium chloride
Melting point: 1,422°F (772°C)
Soluble in: Water, Acetic acid, Acetone
Drug classes: Calcium, Phosphate binder
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Student Dictionary
One entry found for calcium chloride.
Main Entry: calcium chloride
Function: noun: a salt that absorbs moisture from the air and is used to dry other substances
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When I have all the equipment in hand for the lab build or building the pilot mill, I will start posting the build.
More to come.....
Comments
good luck let us know when you get the funding and can continue
Funding is so fun to wait for. The project has started moving forward, slowly, again. When I actually start building I will get happy, until then I'm told we could start in the next month but I have been told that before. Contracts and paperwork first.
This took me 3 years to put together and it worked.
Now I get to do it again with newer equipment, qualified tradesmen and a paycheck. Welding titanium is tough! 500 gallon system, closed loop sealed system. This process is for refining raw ore and concentrates down to specific metals. The products from this process are then sent to the final refiner to complete the recovery process. sulphides to metal or something like that.
More coming soon....
"So what process are you trying to complete with this system," Arsenic Abatement. (at the moment That it actually works <authentication>)
Breaking of the chemical bond in complex ores.
1 is Between Platinum and gold locked together by Arsenic or pyrite that cyanide can not break.
"what is the byproduct" metal recovery
"and is recovery going to cover everything and cleanup??"
Recovery covers only the collection of the metal the ore owner wants recovered, everything else stays in the system until saturation has been reached and it starts falling out on its own, then that is recovered.
Everything and Clean up? Explain what you want defined.
Still missing something Spur?
I have always had problem explaining this process, not being the chemist.
No
Refining and mobile mine site cleanup is what this is for. Those tailing piles in the woods are considered hazardous waste and with this process we can stabilize the arsenic and level the piles and as a bonus collect all the mineral left in the piles.
Ok, this is an arsenic abatement process and the by product of that process is the collection of any metal from the solution generated converting arsenic from K-2 toxic to K-5 stable.
Recovery system is not set yet but it will be a resin bead collection system of one sort or another. The assay tells us what materials is in any particular ore so we can recover those particular metals.
This is also a closed loop system. The solution never leaves, only the tailings. Usually, sylica, lead and iron encapsulating the arsenic. this will be encapsulate in an ancient coral concrete mix and sold as blocks or what ever. With a concrete life of 500 years, It will be good for quiet a while. Can't remember the name of that process, is on the net as well.
When the process is completed we have a water purification system that will clean all of our solution and return the water to pure.
Simply put, there is a market for every single element in this process, nothing goes to waste, including the arsenic. If we collect it it can be sold to the steal refiners.
Did that answer it Joshua?