Another brand new week for the brightness to
shine. J Set the goals for the week as having the lab
room equipped for preliminary work, with material segregated and all chemistry
books accessible. I also wish to have a
few rock piles assembled for preliminary measurement – especially if we already
have a good assay for the same material.
Thinking in depth about gravity
separations. Particle size is relatively
easy to manipulate, but the density of the aggregate is not necessarily the
density of the bulk materials. If we can
find a chemical form of each individual target metal that is unique to the
reagents involved, then we should be able to target specific metals from the
sequential arrangement of process.
A stirrer and slurry maker will need to be
fixed up for larger volumes. There are
holes of working on several scales, such that the things on small scale have
absolute ability for analysis, while things on the huge bulk scale have facile
course separation. Having the ball mill
available to create tons of powder is a high priority; we are not anywhere
ready for the materials, other than to define and structure order.
Chaos is an ingredient in the processing that
needs to be allowed to flow its ground.
If we continually move materials from high ground to low ground, then
the heavier stuff should find a way of being left behind the lighter
stuff. Teasing weight and density away
from each other will provide access to the wheat from the chaff.
There should also be deep look at physical
biological abstraction. Different
plants, fungi and critters should bio-accumulate different materials in
different organs – watching the uptake and flow distribution should tell us how
nature sorts. In time, bulk material is
produced by concentration from smaller, impure sources. It may be worth getting a couple of good
blenders and mixing ore with liver, kidney and other ground organ meat – to
watch how things process. Worms will
also be a good soil-making machine.
Namaste’
Doc
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