Method of Gold Extraction using Borax Small Scale Miners ...
Borax Method of Gold Extraction. Unfortunately, this method is ineffective in areas using wholeore amalgamation, since up to 90% of the mercury is lost to the tailings (the waste product consisting of fine sand) and only 10% is lost by blowtorching of amalgam. Thus, only a small fraction of the mercury spill from wholeore amalgamation can be ...