How to Mill your Gold and Silver

by

Hank Chapman, Jr.

From the Author of How to Smelt your Gold and Silver comes this new book written in 2015, How to Mill your Gold and Silver.  122 Pages tell you everything you need to know to Grind and Prepare your ore for processing whether it be gravity, Flotation, Cyanide or other methods. 

Contents:

Chapter 1: Reference Books

Chapter 2: Overseas Mining

Chapger 3: Professional Help

• Mining Engineer
• Geologist
• Mining Chemist
• Assay Lab

Chapter 4: Sampling your Find

• Methods of Sampling
• The Hard Rock Ore Pile
• The Dump Stock
• Old Mine Dumps
• The Placer Claim
• Old Mill Tailings

Chapter 5:  What are your Values

• Salted Claims
• High Grading your Samples
• The "Gold Pan" Assay

Chapter 6:  The Lab

• Do you need a Lab?
• Drawbacks for a Fire Lab
• Drawbacks for and AA Operation
• ICP and DCP
• X-Ray Fluorescence
• Fire Assay
• The Assay Report
• Screen Fractions Analysis

Chapter 7: Learning to Identify your Ore

• Ore Types
• Contaminants
• Rare Metals
• S.E.M. Probe

Chapter 8: Gravimetric Devices

• Concentrating Tables
• Gemini Tables
• Micron Mill Wave Table
• Jigs
• Concentrating Bowls and Centrifuges

Chapter 9: Miscellaneous Devices

• Placer Plants
• Table Feeders
• Magnetic Separators
• Yellow Iron

Chapter 10: Crushing  your Ore

• Jaw and Cone Crushers
• The Gravel Plant

Chapter 11: Grinding to Mill Requirements

• Impact Mills
• Vertical Shaft Impact Mills
• Autogenous Mills
• SAG Mills
• Ball and Rod Mills
• Rolls

Chapter 12: Test Equipment

• Hobby Devices
• Metal Detectors

Chapter 13: Process Circuit Design

• Block Diagrams and Icons

Chapter 14: Accumulating the Values

• Concentration
• Hybrid or Combination Circuits

Chapter 15: Oxidation of Ores

• Roasters
• Autoclaves
• Chemical Oxidation

Chapter 16: Chemical Leaching

• The Ore
• The Agitated Tank Leach
• Percolation
• The Column Leach Test
• The Bottle Roll
• The Re-Usable Leach Pad
• The Chemicals

Chapter 17: Leach Recover Systems - Carbon

• Activated Charcoal
• Stripping Carbon
• Recycling the Carbon
• Ashing Carbon

Chapter 18: Other Leach Recovery Systems

• Resins
• Zinc Precipitation
• Direct Electro-Winning Precious Metals
• Flotation

Chapter 19: The Universal Solvent

• Water
• Flocculent
• Mechanical Filters
• Nalco Water Book

Chapter 20: Contractors

• Contract Mining Companies
• Security
• Contract Drilling
• Contract Milling

Chapter 21: Pilot Testing

• The Pilot Mill
• The Hardrock Ore Pile
• The Dump Stock and Mine Dump
• What can go wrong?
• The Placer Claim
• Old Mill Tailings

Chapter 22:  Building a Mill

• Location
• Old Mining Claims
• Private Leases
• Insurance requirements
• Seasonal Considerations
• Water
• Equipment

Chapter 23: Help

• Books
• Mining Professionals
• The Author

Index