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Hello members,
My name is Bryan, I am Colorado and my buddy and I are trying to start our own little weekend mining until we get sufficient enough and make enough for a living. We are only interested in gold then maybe a little bit of silver but first of all my first question is
We have tellurides that we are dealing with and we want to use aqua regia would this be economical for us to use or is there a better way of getting the gold out without using the aqua regia on the tellurides alone?
We also have a lot of different ore besides the tellurides, we have gold in sandstone with silver that also has a thick mixture of lead pyrite it even had malechite, we just are looking for answers on how to really process this material, we have tons of sulfides like pyrite, arseno pyrite, chalco pyrite so we have a wide base of materials that we deal with around here.
These are my only questions as of right now on what we need help with and I guess I am asking if aqua regia will solve this problem or do we need to crush and use like a miller table to get the free mill gold out or what? What would the experts suggest doing?
Thank you all for the help my knowledge is on the light side and just would like to know more or have a better understanding.