| Show WHAT TIIE THE olom DOES i of gold in hitherto inaccessibly combinations I 1 y berday to the struble ol 01 cr a pr s thet that would got all the th old EM out of oc alak rous ores or pact ally 9 alit t low gride ores that have been lot d through the use of cyanide of t fiat I ilum lurn mr walt D edmonds Id mond 0 it couii 11 for the hr ai mu arthur p pat at tiny nt said to mg hin 1 I 1 r I 1 I 1 th a philon Im sollon for or cold coh hat has a I 1 perhaps the most moat general allm gulant yo to human in nulty and for li eneim r antle nt le noo nole io e wanted l giua kab dill il 0 bioli valcus vs lull m h processes gave 0 af it but all 11 tho the while wo we here r e 0 cor ri af u that la garnr of 0 tile the r is i ti anital narn being d we ann n tl ti hw 1 itt I n nt tk IL t books bool w toll nil or f ah wil lt it it could ca cranfi do ff if pores pola ut ul i i ind and xai d with wh rr pr pur gold bold in I 1 tubo zorator annl an il to th anit it i ri il scion vo ci is pre LI UnI 1 4 kron keon t li f i 1 r d aviah this ir r had in rr ir i r tra I 1 th h in 1 V g t tl 11 lt c it I 1 feell coll fi 40 I 1 i 11 lh nil ad n h w ft 4 aff I 1 1 1 utterly they had failed what vast sums eT expended what numberless patents C tile w what aliat liat complex machinery what intricate processes paea lied had been devised and tried chlorination tic all it in aln a I 1 ot the problem was to extract more fold 0 id nil fill tho the gold bold from rom ore but what dill did t that I 1 tat mean it did mean not simply the dismo liing of 0 gold cold th tho problem eye wa to find something some come tool it you like lik ome lort icess some game agency ly by which theme elusive little part particles leles cu c could u id be scooped out of ft their cells cello their anse unsown to n caves and hiding places lo in the rock some nonie instrumentality by which 1 they could be separated from their na metals tais and chemicals that hedged m them on about in the ore parti clog clea of 0 lead palti particles cles of 0 copper particles a lee of 0 iron now here Is 19 a piece of 0 ore on inch thick continued mr air edmonds Bd monds taking up a piece ot at rock while every oar ear was intent upon liia his delightful discourse it la 14 porous full ull or of cavit cavities les little caverns shafts pits all filled more or less with particles of 0 diX erent metals and chemicals with here solid and thero FL a minute particle clo of coveted cold how will you set get that out will you pick out the kold gold by the hand and anil and eye next by some borne delicate tool next by the aid of 04 that tool and microscope still ilat 1 would only be what all mining originally wax waa picking up ot of course it could not pay to collect the th to particles in that way to 00 those mine bealler lier particles were by ona gre areat at but ancient invention gathered Kal hered up wholesale hole salo many of 0 then but not all by mercury amalgamation and to pret get at the crannon cran ormi tilles the little hidden covello caves toi to lay bare the pa particle r nicles to tile lasp gnap of the mercury t the he ores have been s stamped tarri ped and crushed and powdered and ana roasted and yet after all ali the power of 0 amalgamation lied had its hi limitation and nearly one half the cold was often left behind in the crevices at 0 tile hie rock and behind its ramparts or 0 chemicals its ila compounds compound it 11 eluded thi the mercury mci cury though the lh mercury would have caught it all could the kold gold have been fed free deo to lt it just as cyanide of 0 potassium equally well as the ancient scientists taught tauf fht solves or rats eats up gold it if fed to it in a pure cur tato state stid d properly fed where mercury ended and could go s no further came foulger izing the ore roasting it to drive out the embarrassing embarrass lne compounds vat plant ants much money many inventions genius and energy were expended on oil that tor for years and yet tho the elusive particles protected by their rocky fortiner tlona continued to resist to the tune of 0 35 or 40 per cent millions upon millions oc at gold eold in eight piled up and useless to tho the world in south aari africa ce alone ta tailings lUngs refuse tho the despair of 0 ingenuity ot of it clance cries ot of practical skill even though whetted by that matchless incentive the lust us t tor for kold gold was it not a triumph then to find out by experiment bye by tests ly made that one certain cei tain solvent of 0 irold gold among the many already known could enter into that ore could thread its way into its innermost recesses into recesses where mercury could not enter where it hed had ner been known anything could enter could insert its filamentary tongue and lick up arid and carry out and back to the hand of 0 the minor miner through the game bayne de demous tous arid and to all it else inaccessible passage through to which idich it had entered the rock the coveted particles of told gold could thread its wy way through the encompassing encompass lne compounds of 0 other metals and chemicals shoulder them aside alde and deftly extract from among them and in preference to them the hidden gold scoop it up and carry it out and bade back again to its master indeed with this invention was tho the extraction of 0 told gold to r rom 0 m the th rock rack to which it is adopted adapted rev 0 1 ution ayed lit in concluding hi lili remarks mr edmonda edmands called attention lon to the millions that had been taken from their ca catacomb to in south africa new zealand and america while just now arm nare ments are making to apply the cy arilde to the ores orea ot at russia rodent 86 upon which mr sparks w lie ho also accompanies the commission mada expert menta two years ago |
