Yeah it'll get you in a world of trouble if they find it on you especially. A giveaway would be a copper pan back in the olden days. Because yeah you can extract easily extract the gold from the placer with it. And they're worried about people dropping it in the rivers and streams.
No video cameras weren't as common back in the 1980s back then It was only very rich people had video cameras and they we're bulky and weighed a lot! But basically you would just put the Mercury in the pan and it would separate the gold from the other elements and then you would squeeze it in your handkerchief and the Mercury would squeeze out of it and what you had left was your gold because the gold I think Disney made a film of it once the process!
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u/Away-Ad-8053 Dec 15 '24
Yeah it'll get you in a world of trouble if they find it on you especially. A giveaway would be a copper pan back in the olden days. Because yeah you can extract easily extract the gold from the placer with it. And they're worried about people dropping it in the rivers and streams.