LUCKY AMALGAMATION MILL (Includes pulleys and brackets but excludes a 1 x 1/3 HP Electric Motor). 

This unit is designed to grind concentrates so you can test your Black Sands for hidden values, to make an excellent Quantitive, Scorification or Amalgamation Mill. If you want, you can run a sample batch from 1 ounce to 5 lbs at one time. If you have tried to pick up small flakes or flour gold in a gold pan with the aid of mercury but no luck in picking up up gold, silver and platinum just because it had a little grease that could come from a number of sources ... this can, in many cases, be remedied by just adding a little dishwashing detergent to the water.

Sometimes the Black Sands are magnetic, some are not. There are many other elements that gold, silver and platinum will cling to. Over a period of time, some elements will coat the above metals will stop the mercury from catching these values. The remedy in most cases is just the fact that you will have to scrub or scour the Black sands in the Amalgamation Mill. It will break out these hidden values and clean so that the mercury can amalgamate with them.

An example is to take fist size Quartz rock ( 2 to 3 lbs) and broken it down with a crusher (or in a mortar and pestle) to above 1/4" or finer ... then ground the quartz material to 200 to 300 mesh in about 3 to 4 minutes with no work to speak of.

The Amalgamation Mill can be put in series or in a battery and will provide a really good Pilot Plant and will process material in 5 lb batches up to 100 lb per hour for concentrates or raw ore.