The New Agent for Securing Fine Gold.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 85, 27 June 1871, Page 3

The New Agent for Securing Fine Gold.

The use of the saccharate of quicksilver as an agent for the extraction of gold, on tailings, appear to be very successful. An Australian contemporary says that Mr F. Pceppel, one of the patentees of the " saccharate of quicksilver process," allowed it to be put to a very severe test on the 12th instant, as the following certificate will show, which is another proof of the value of the saccharate as a gold-saver, if properly used :—" Ballarat, April 13, 1871. —We, the undesigned shareholders in the National Gold-mining Company, Ballarat, do hereby certify that a trial was made in our claim on the 12th instant, of the saccharate of quicksilver process, on ninety pounds of alluvia] tailings, which had previously been put through the amalgamator, and which had also been washed and rewashed until no more gold could be extracted. The proprietors of the saccharate of quicksilver process then undertook to Hake a trial of it, and the result was highly iccessful they having obtained nine ains of gold, equal to 9clwt 8-9ths of a ain per ton. The trial was in our prence. On the same clay another trial was ade in our presence. On the same day lother trial was made on 501bs of sludge om our claim, the result of which was \-\ •ains of gold, equal to 2d\vt ISgr l-sth sr ton. A Scarsdale miner writes to the idong Advertiser as follows : —" As a ece of useful information to miners, let a tell you that I have tried Mr Poeppel's f Ballarat) saccharate of quicksilver, tor a fashion of my own, and have been ost agreeably surprised at the result. I id been trying some tailings (where, of urse, you will at present excuse me from ying) from which I used to get at the te of 2dwt per ton with water only. I sent to Ballarat and got albs of the saccharate, and took a bagful of the tailings (about 2001bs), mixed 21b of the saccharate thoroughly through them for an hour, then washed the stuff slowly in a tin tub, and occasionally sprinkled a little saccharate in the water, and by this means I got as much amalgam in the bottom oi the tub after about four hours' work, and the use i of about 31b of the saccharate, as gave me J Bd\vt sgr of retorted gold. There is a great deal of fine gold in the tailings that i could not be secured by any ordinary I washing process. This saccharate scorns ; to me to be a most excellent gold collector, and has the groat advantage that the ordinary miner of small means can use it, to his advantage on a small scale, nearly aa ; well as the ' large company can on a great scale. I s?!vl you my name and address I for your satisfaction, but for obvious reasons I must not at present sign myself : publicly.