In article ,
Malcolm Ogilvie wrote:

In article , Nick Maclaren
writes
In article ,
Malcolm Ogilvie wrote:

Horsetail absorbs gold dissolved in water better than most plants, as much
as 4 ounces per ton of fresh stalk".

If gold dissolves in water, how come one can pan for it in streams?

I don't know its solubility, but there is about 55 pounds dissolved in
a cubic mile of seawater. Water is close to a universal solvent :-)

I'm interested in a method of extraction from a cubic mile of seawater
as I have this (or at least the edge of same) just outside my front
door. Any references?

Rumous has it that there have been a few patents, but the inventors
failed to get financial backing to develop their ideas.

You could try cross-breeding kelp and horsetail :-)

More seriously, one of the most serious of the many crimes that should
be laid at the door of Monsanto is blocking development of the only
likely method of removing heavy metal contamination from large areas
of soil. Quite a few people were interested in breeding plants that
absorb such things, not to sell the metal, but to clean up the soil.
But Monsanto's evil plans got all genetic modification and extreme
plant breeding tarred with the same brush.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote
big snip
.. In areas where there is gold, significant quantities can be
recovered by cutting horsetails and burning them, and refining the ash.
I can't remember where I read that - or heard it, but I've never been
able to test the intelligence in the forty or more years I've had it in
the back of my mind. Either there is a plethora of horsetail and a lack
of gold in the area, or a fair amount of dispersed gold, but no sign of
horsetails.

See http://www.puralibre.com/html/eng_ho...l.html#History which says:

Horsetail absorbs gold dissolved in water better than most plants, as much
as 4 ounces per ton of fresh stalk".


- Tom Bennett

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I'm interested in a method of extraction from a cubic mile of seawater
as I have this (or at least the edge of same) just outside my front
door. Any references?

The cost of the chemicals required for removing all the other salts is
more than the value of the gold recovered.

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from Malcolm Ogilvie contains these words:

I'm interested in a method of extraction from a cubic mile of seawater
as I have this (or at least the edge of same) just outside my front
door. Any references?

The cost of the chemicals required for removing all the other salts is
more than the value of the gold recovered.

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from Malcolm Ogilvie contains these words:

I'm interested in a method of extraction from a cubic mile of seawater
as I have this (or at least the edge of same) just outside my front
door. Any references?

The cost of the chemicals required for removing all the other salts is
more than the value of the gold recovered.

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from Malcolm Ogilvie contains these words:

I'm interested in a method of extraction from a cubic mile of seawater
as I have this (or at least the edge of same) just outside my front
door. Any references?

The cost of the chemicals required for removing all the other salts is
more than the value of the gold recovered.

--
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More seriously, one of the most serious of the many crimes that should
be laid at the door of Monsanto is blocking development of the only
likely method of removing heavy metal contamination from large areas
of soil. Quite a few people were interested in breeding plants that
absorb such things, not to sell the metal, but to clean up the soil.
But Monsanto's evil plans got all genetic modification and extreme
plant breeding tarred with the same brush.

Meanwhile the research goes on quietly under a different umbrella just
outside Norwich, where a broccoli with a much enhanced proportion of
anti-cancer constituent has been bred.

And in my back garden where a child-friendly Brussels sprout is under
development. What do people think? Raspberry flavour, or banana?

--
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The message
from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

More seriously, one of the most serious of the many crimes that should
be laid at the door of Monsanto is blocking development of the only
likely method of removing heavy metal contamination from large areas
of soil. Quite a few people were interested in breeding plants that
absorb such things, not to sell the metal, but to clean up the soil.
But Monsanto's evil plans got all genetic modification and extreme
plant breeding tarred with the same brush.

Meanwhile the research goes on quietly under a different umbrella just
outside Norwich, where a broccoli with a much enhanced proportion of
anti-cancer constituent has been bred.

And in my back garden where a child-friendly Brussels sprout is under
development. What do people think? Raspberry flavour, or banana?

--
Rusty
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The message
from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

More seriously, one of the most serious of the many crimes that should
be laid at the door of Monsanto is blocking development of the only
likely method of removing heavy metal contamination from large areas
of soil. Quite a few people were interested in breeding plants that
absorb such things, not to sell the metal, but to clean up the soil.
But Monsanto's evil plans got all genetic modification and extreme
plant breeding tarred with the same brush.

Meanwhile the research goes on quietly under a different umbrella just
outside Norwich, where a broccoli with a much enhanced proportion of
anti-cancer constituent has been bred.

And in my back garden where a child-friendly Brussels sprout is under
development. What do people think? Raspberry flavour, or banana?

--
Rusty
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The message
from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

More seriously, one of the most serious of the many crimes that should
be laid at the door of Monsanto is blocking development of the only
likely method of removing heavy metal contamination from large areas
of soil. Quite a few people were interested in breeding plants that
absorb such things, not to sell the metal, but to clean up the soil.
But Monsanto's evil plans got all genetic modification and extreme
plant breeding tarred with the same brush.

Meanwhile the research goes on quietly under a different umbrella just
outside Norwich, where a broccoli with a much enhanced proportion of
anti-cancer constituent has been bred.

And in my back garden where a child-friendly Brussels sprout is under
development. What do people think? Raspberry flavour, or banana?

--
Rusty
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:48:40 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

And in my back garden where a child-friendly Brussels sprout is under
development. What do people think? Raspberry flavour, or banana?

Hmph! My mother used to make us baked custard and tell us it was hot ice-cream. It
worked every time for her.
Knowing a few unsavoury things about the present crop of ankle-biters, they'd never
fall for anything that simple and it'd have to be bubblegum or cola flavoured in the
first place (except gobstoppers are now chilli flavoured! I kid you not!)

Liz

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:48:40 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

And in my back garden where a child-friendly Brussels sprout is under
development. What do people think? Raspberry flavour, or banana?

Hmph! My mother used to make us baked custard and tell us it was hot ice-cream. It
worked every time for her.
Knowing a few unsavoury things about the present crop of ankle-biters, they'd never
fall for anything that simple and it'd have to be bubblegum or cola flavoured in the
first place (except gobstoppers are now chilli flavoured! I kid you not!)

Liz

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:48:40 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

And in my back garden where a child-friendly Brussels sprout is under
development. What do people think? Raspberry flavour, or banana?

Hmph! My mother used to make us baked custard and tell us it was hot ice-cream. It
worked every time for her.
Knowing a few unsavoury things about the present crop of ankle-biters, they'd never
fall for anything that simple and it'd have to be bubblegum or cola flavoured in the
first place (except gobstoppers are now chilli flavoured! I kid you not!)

Liz

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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:48:40 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

And in my back garden where a child-friendly Brussels sprout is under
development. What do people think? Raspberry flavour, or banana?

Hmph! My mother used to make us baked custard and tell us it was hot
ice-cream. It
worked every time for her.
Knowing a few unsavoury things about the present crop of ankle-biters,
they'd never
fall for anything that simple and it'd have to be bubblegum or cola
flavoured in the
first place (except gobstoppers are now chilli flavoured! I kid you not!)

Chilli-flavoured brussels - now there's a thought. Gobstoppers on-a-stick....

--
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:48:40 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

And in my back garden where a child-friendly Brussels sprout is under
development. What do people think? Raspberry flavour, or banana?

Hmph! My mother used to make us baked custard and tell us it was hot
ice-cream. It
worked every time for her.
Knowing a few unsavoury things about the present crop of ankle-biters,
they'd never
fall for anything that simple and it'd have to be bubblegum or cola
flavoured in the
first place (except gobstoppers are now chilli flavoured! I kid you not!)

Chilli-flavoured brussels - now there's a thought. Gobstoppers on-a-stick....

--
Rusty
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