out of my mine
In late 2001, with no prior mining experience, I set out to bring the world’s poorest gold miners a new, unproven gold mining tool as an alternative to their mercury and cyanide recovery methods.
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Pictured: Eight grams of gold and platinum recovered after six hours of shoveling on a southern Oregon beach (I can only shovel for about two hours before collapsing). Around the world, an expert hand panner would toss most of this size range of gold out of her pan, due to turbulence. Most miners use and release twice as much mercury as they win in gold, and mercury cannot capture gold particles smaller than 70 microns.