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How do I Collect Micron Gold in Carbon Filters?

The collection of micron gold in carbon filters has been invented as a way to collect particles of gold too small to collect with other methods such as panning and sluicing. Whether enough can be collected with carbon filtration to make it profitable is a matter of debate and largely depends on the source of water you are filtering. If you are filtering water from old gold mine water or water from a stream flowing away from a gold mine, you have a greater chance of recovering micron gold in profitable quantities versus collecting water from the tap.

Things You'll Need

One large plastic container with a hole in the bottom or on the side near the bottom
Plastic bucket
Coconut carbon
Gold mine water
Muffle furnace
Coffee filter

Instructions

- 1
  Fill a large plastic container with coconut carbon. Coconut carbon is activated carbon that has been infused with oxygen and has a large surface area. It adsorbs gold and other precious metals from water.
- 2
  Fill a plastic bucket with water from an old abandoned flooded gold mine or other water source.
- 3
  Pour the water slowly on top of the coconut carbon and allow gravity to feed it and filter it through the coconut carbon. Allow the water to pour out through the hole in the bottom of the container.
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  Repeat many times until the coconut carbon becomes heavier and saturated with precious metals.
- 5
  Take the container with the coconut carbon to a precious metals refinery. Instruct them to burn the coconut carbon in a muffle furnace, which goes up to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Carbon ash will be left, which the refinery will filter through a coffee filter, leaving the precious metals in the filter as a fine powder. The precious metals will then be smelted into dore bars in another similar furnace. A dore bar is a mixture of gold and other precious metals in a solid form. The refiner will separate the metals in the dore and make you an offer on the precious metals found in your coconut carbon, if any.

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