Show and aind airy alsaye we observe frequently lu in our western exchanges ferencis rt to new wet met nl process s chiefly for gold ores of low grade or refractory char actor from things are expected 1 to come mathin the last tw two or three months we ine have read of a number of these some of the names being new aud and other familiar it la Is not to go into the details of ahk oe so called process ts cs hei acie e most inos 1 of them ale more or less absurd or im it Is generally claimed tor them that they will nill got get moro more gold from fin an ore than it Is short u to contain by the ordinary ore assay of ca course um this lo in amusing and probably harmless since navada nowadays 8 when prof lonal advice Is generally gene generally raily taken no hen sible person could be induced to put up money into such a scheme but thare are many cases canes on record in the past list where cautious business inen of fl excellent cc client judgment in most little lime been induced to binl cat money up on oi just jurt such mich pic statements apropos of these processes it to Is asig anig to nod find how arc alent Is the atit idol a 1 the Igo ignorant orant in mining districts that tho the fire may not account for nil all th gold in an ore whence this notion Is it la Is n not 0 t eara eai y to it may bo be a faint stir mr vhal of lh of the alche mists or it ma baie originated in the green gold theory of twenty years yearn ago the latter imlej was mar developed Ici eloped in ili california fornia ini olvid tile lie balm that a quarta befu of marln county in that state contained paving quantities of gold but jn a gheen condition that hat Is not set fully ripened opened into the ultimate form forin of metallic lillic gold that with which we ie are familiar it was nos affirmed however haut could ile be effected in ill elicit order by menns of a ertain s ret process thin green or I 1 i mouthful youthful 1 gold reaped detection liy by the 01 dinar as asaph because of ignorance of the HIP proper method of flexing fluxing it in oi ter to make it mar ina ture hire tind find visible indeed tile the methods commonly employed in ili assaying it max wn said drove nicy from the oies andr treatment trent ment this gl clecil ecil gold which illich might bo pie aimed mimed to ili be tenter and thet eforo ie ic delicate methods the nie nature of the inetor isas not made known except that it nas as said the presence pio pie Bence sence of even the minutest traces tracei of salt st sodium chlo chlotilde ilde would cause baure tile tho green gold to Nol atille A good deal of money was nias obtained on the strength of ahse and of course that was the onia gicca gold that eier eer it was ins another and comparatively ively old example of the practical transmutation of something or nothing into gold engineering and mining joul journal Jo |