where to buy mercury??
- Thread starter 444 marlin
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You might want to try a scientific supply company (Fisher, VWR), but there will be restrictions I'd imagine wrt shipping and possibly others, given it is such a hazardous element. If you can get it through them, they'll probably only have research grade so it will be expensive.
didnt they use mercury bullets in 'underworld'?
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- Welland, Ontario
A dangerous way to clean lead out of a barrel.
Also the best way to kill yourself slowly... LOL
Also the best way to kill yourself slowly... LOL
Years ago we couldn't keep a gauge or anything that had mercury in it on a piece of equipment or in a building when the tar sands were first being developed at FT Mac no matter what you did to protect them. The mercury was taken by gold prospectors to dissolve gold and then they boiled it off afterwards. We used to get mercury from a chemicals supply place in Calgary in a metal tube that weighed a ton for it's size.
got mine in 1 pound bottles (plastic) from a company building neon signs, yes old gold prospectors used it to bind gold, many chewed the ball like gum, lots died shortly after. they boiled the mercury off to leave a nugget in the pan, those fumes are deadly
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.
Just to reiterate how deadly this stuff can be and is.
A Dentist in Vancouver South Granville street area committed suicide by inhaling some Mercury on the kitchen stoves element.
Died rather nastily ...the Hazmat Team was summoned to attempt decontamination.
This was early 2001 iirc.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tenants-left-in-limbo-over-toxic-metal/article4146171/
There will always be those that know better.....
Play Safe everyone.
Rob
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.
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.
Here's how it's done in a typical illegal, unpermitted artisanal mining operation.
You dig your shaft ignoring all safety and environmental regulations and laws.
You send small men, women and children underground with illegally purchased explosives and zero training and ventilation and after a while they bring this back to surface.
You put the ore into homemade ball mills and grind the ore with steel balls and sometimes illegally purchased sodium cyanide or illegally purchased mercury.
Once the ore is ground to the proper size you pan the slurry down to the heavies, illegally discharging the waste and cyanide and mercury into the local creek and then clean it up by adding more mercury which "amalgamates" with the gold and silver.
You take the amalgam and put it into whatever criminally unsuitable setup that you have made to roast off the mercury. You do not control or catch the mercury vapor in a retort for re-use but instead allow its vapours to drift away so that your children can breath it and it contaminates all the local soil in the area where you probably live.
You do not wear any PPE like a respirator, safety goggles, lab coat, gloves or shoes but you can afford booze, crystal meth, hookers and dozens of kids.
After you have roasted off the mercury you are left with dore (gold and silver) in the fusion pan.
You ignore all of the efforts by the professional miners to educate you and to desist from this dangerous and illegal activity.
What's all the fuss about mercury, just mix it with tin, silver and copper and it magically becomes totally safe and non-toxic.
Don't believe me? Just ask your dental association. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_(dentistry)
The lino in dental offices has to go three inches up the wall so that if any spills you can clean it up. It's illegal to dump it down the drain, but it's totally safe in your mouth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning
