GOLD FROM SEA WATER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1299, 30 November 1911, Page 8

GOLD FROM SEA WATER.

Dr. Oskar Nagd is solng to produce pAash Ealts at 3 dollars 15 . conte pi-r ton ana gold at 5 dollars, per at. from tea UJ.fcr. „ The process, Eays the' New Vork Times, will consist lu tikine not too finely, ground blast-furnace flag,- treaties , it-with iron sulphate (whether ferrous or lerric Iβ not ftated) and immersing the ;;lng In sea water. Th« votaeh is then reißlncd by the tlag aaa subsequently recovered. A stronger solution of Iron ta used for the gold. 11 Is said that a plant costing £-,8,«io i s to be erected which vrill recover- £720 worth of ■■ cold daily with operating eipcnses of £CO.

binw.. Dr. .Nagel says , the rcroreralilp gold, in sea, water It present In' about, one part per KO.OM.CM, the "Enginewinj? arid Jiiniiiß Juurnkl." of Kcw York. nib. Wts the , t6llowinß:—"To , neover MO iiiillar!- worth of eold means treating '36,000.000,000 01., or about ciibin feel of ".ea Water daily. ■ Now. it willoocur to any neht-thinkine; rereon that 11, the plant I'd eot dow-irindiff-Hnllnatelv on the seashore and 35,ff15,C00 cubic feet of waAcr dailv pumped carelessly in and out that • the Mirroundlnu ocean will become more or k-fs weakjnpd, as diffusion will bn uuablc to care for this. Therefore, it Btind? to reneon tUat the Panama Car.ai ihc-Jld b« hired, and \yat*r riumped in from the Paci-fic-and emptied into the Atlantic, eo as to tnt-ure.a.hteady inupiily, of new unprccipita'tcd water., -If further irrauiremeht could , he made to acquire the Sues Canal, a steady current could then be maintained around the earth, and- a- new circumterrcstral ocean, current,:. ,the. JCagel...stream,hroHßhtinto neing, the Atlautie and Pacific Oceans acting as regenerators'.for tho cxhaufti'd waters. We arc insistent thni the pumping be from the Pacific inlo tho Atlantic, otherwise the friction of:tho Nagel stream will retard the rotation of the earth, -which we cannot believe is it rccommendablc procedure. On the other hanfl, a slight quickening of the rotation will have no other , effect that to shorten the hours given over to revelry,.which will be counterbalanced by a, ■ diminution in weight, and, consequently, ouickened transportation facilities duo to Increased centrifugal force; Ifandeome profits can he paid on tho side from tolls; levied ui the imperial frgosies which will tike to tho Kapel stream to nid iii-lho wesl-enet trip. As to the other economic rcsultF, wo are lost- in their contemplation, gold cheapened for scientific tolrunieuts, the crime of '73 wiped oil the slate, Incroased fertility of all the earth, perhaps a. now carboniferous age, duo to the Etimulatin? of.plant growth, cheap fish for food as a :>y-]irortuct. of the 'Eca-watcr intakes, cheap fish oil.' fish (jlr?, fish stories, sea forpent.«—but this Is a Rold-from-soa-watcr discuseion, not au economic study,"