where to buy mercury??

geologist said:
Here's how it's done in a typical illegal, unpermitted artisanal mining operation.
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You ignore all of the efforts by the professional miners to educate you and to desist from this dangerous and illegal activity.
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seems safe and totally legit to me! By the way, on a totally unrelated side note, anyone have a couple kids and hookers they're willing to donate to my fledgling startup business venture? cou:;)
 
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if you dig down onto the gravel bars on fraser river you will hit layers of false bed rock and can find mercury . I know of a guy that had several 5 gallon pails of the stuff from the fraser .

Alibaba might be your best bet , I was looking for some a couple years ago and it appears it is a controlled product . no idea on what you would need for paper work to import it .

if your going to be working with it , keep some sulphur nearby for spills . always be gloved up ( I prefer heavy black nitrile gloves ) . Always keep it under water . and always have a working fume hood . and always wear a respirator .

one misstep and it will kill you .
 
curseyou said:
Have you tried collecting from first nations fish? (Too soon?)

Seriously, if you want to remove barrel leading a far far safer way is copper scrubbing pads wrapper aroung a jag on a cleaning rod. Works wonders.

Mercury is no joke.
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I tryed this yesterday,and it worked good,after I used that I put a patch around a bronze brush,and put JB bore paste on it,and scrubbed it good.after final clean the patchs came out totally clean.
 
burnt_servo said:
if you dig down onto the gravel bars on fraser river you will hit layers of false bed rock and can find mercury . I know of a guy that had several 5 gallon pails of the stuff from the fraser .

Alibaba might be your best bet , I was looking for some a couple years ago and it appears it is a controlled product . no idea on what you would need for paper work to import it .

if your going to be working with it , keep some sulphur nearby for spills . always be gloved up ( I prefer heavy black nitrile gloves ) . Always keep it under water . and always have a working fume hood . and always wear a respirator .

one misstep and it will kill you .
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I have heard that as well. Some say it was left over from gold rush days: the Chinese miners in particular used to fill their sluice box riffles with mercury so the story went, to catch all the dust and fines. They may have done, but there are cinnabar outcroppings that leach mercury into the watershed as well.
 
This is crazy... risking death just to clean lead from a barrel?

What the heck do you shoot to have so much lead accumulated that a standard brush won't do, OP?

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I was told by the guy who used to work at the local gunstore their is a lead removal cloth . he said you just push a piece down the bore and it will remove lead. don't use it on the blueing . just inside your barrel. a buddy of mine used to use Mercury to clean lead out of his black powder rifle in his basement. not good. it would be safer to use the jag and the bronze scrubber. just my opinion.
 
cement head said:
I was told by the guy who used to work at the local gunstore their is a lead removal cloth . he said you just push a piece down the bore and it will remove lead. don't use it on the blueing . just inside your barrel. a buddy of mine used to use Mercury to clean lead out of his black powder rifle in his basement. not good. it would be safer to use the jag and the bronze scrubber. just my opinion.
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I believe those cloths are made by Birchwood-Casey. They're extremely abrasive and will wear a barrel out if used too often. As said many times before a tight fitting brush wrapped with chore-boy strands or bronze "steel" wool. Chore-Boys work better though. It's amazing how much lead they cut out in a single pass.
 
444 marlin said:
I use it to remove leading from my barrels,you fill the barrel or near full,and swish it back and forth then dump it in a bowl.you skim the lead off the mercury and reuse it.
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If you want it to clean a barrel, why is this posted under Bullet Making?
 
tootall said:
If you want it to clean a barrel, why is this posted under Bullet Making?[/QUOT

Have to stick up for the dude on this one...seems logical that if you have a question that "Boolit" shooters might have the answer too, you would ask where the most likelihood of most boolit shooters to visit...too much unneeded "moderation" happenin' the last while here.
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I bought a bunch of large tilt switches for near free ( house thermostat one, round with a dial). I have about a pound of it. I use it for the fine gold in my gold pan and a retort. You can buy it in larger amounts but shipping get high.
 
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