Saturday, October 11th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
The Action Mining Services July 2008 newsletter has just been added to GoldWaveTable.com
(Yes, I know – it’s October already – where did the time go? Busy webmaster?… or distracted? Sorry. Better late than never.)
Highlights include
* The new M5 wave table is available. Pictures, dimensions, details.
* Comparison of the M7 and M5 Wave Table machines
* Goldfields Mining Expo. Kalgoorlie Oct 28-30. Ian Freeland will be there to answer your questions. Stand 2014.
Read it here: http://www.goldwavetable.com/NewsletterJuly2008.pdf
Or via the Newsletters link above.
Cheers,
Gary
Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 7:31 am
There are 5 main mineral recovery methods and we’ll talk a little about each of them in this article.
By the way, this is the webmaster writing. I’m good at web things (only), while Ian is the expert when it comes to gold recovery. But I just watched the free DVD about the gold wave table so I can tell you a little of what I have learned.
The DVD was made by Mike and Nancy Glenn of Action Mining Services in the USA. Their company makes these remarkable machines. More on that later…
Mineral Recovery Methods
1. Leaching. This uses chemicals, and more technical know-how is required than you need to use a gold wave table. Chemical leaching is also the most expensive mineral recovery method. Mike’s main focus is on gold recovery but the machines work for any mineral which is heavier.
2. Amalgamation. The idea here is that you first amalgamate the gold with mercury and then you separate it. But Mike explained that this is not easy. “Your mercury has to be clean and your gold has to be clean. Then they have to come into contact.” Like #1, this process is also technically intensive then it requires another operation to get the gold out of the mercury. And mercury fumes are poisonous.
3. Flotation is also technically intensive.
4. As he worked his way down the list, next came mechanical separation which is what the Micron Mill Wave Table does. It’s a wet gravity separator that separates any heavy mineral according to its SG (specific gravity). This doesn’t use chemicals. Just water and the oscillating wave table. It’s quite neat to see it at work on the DVD.
5. Finally sluices, the traditional method of gold recovery, are the easiest. The problem with using a gold sluice is that it misses the fine gold… the microscopic gold. The Wave Table machine is able to recover this micron-fine material.
The DVD presentation showed a bucket of dirt being poured into the system at one end, and out comes a concentrate containing the gold particles.
Friday, June 20th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Who said you can’t learn something from reading ads? – especially adverts in trade magazines. And here’s an example from the gold mining industry.
Follow the link and you will see Ian’s ad in the Australian Gold Gem & Treasure magazine. Naturally enough, it’s about the Micron Mill Wave Table.
“Ideal for cleaning up sluice box concentrates and separating gold from black sands”
“Never use mercury or cyanide again”
“Low water usage”
“High recovery of very fine gold”
“Also works great on all heavy minerals and gemstones, platinum, tin, wolfram, tantalite, zircon, topaz and diamonds”
Plus there is Ian’s FREE OFFER.
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Remember Ian’s article that I wrote about yesterday?
“The Gravity Gold Rush”
Well, Ian sent me the front cover of magazine. Here ya go… Australian Gold Gem & Treasure Magazine.
(Link now corrected, sorry guys)
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
“The Gravity Gold Rush” by Ian Freeland was published in the June issue of Australian Gold Gem & Treasure Magazine.
Here are some quotable quotes from the two page article:
“We have all heard of mercury and cyanide being used in the recovery of gold. Now there is a dramatic shift in the gold sector towards a new age of gravity recovery devices and techniques.
..The Micron Mill Wave Table… is revolutionizing the recovery of gold in particular, in prospecting and small gold mines right up to the largest of gold mines.
..People are using the Wave Table for both alluvial as well as hard-rock gold operations…
The beauty of the device is that minerals will be recovered in their order of specific gravity. In other words, gold will form a line across the width of the deck on the highest part of the Wave Table while iron pyrites (foolsgold) will line up below the gold.”
Click here to read the whole Gravity Gold Rush article (read page 2) and see the photos.
