"Jim Chandler" wrote in message
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Harold:
Do a little research on gold mining and the processes used there. I think
you will find that cyanide is, or was, used in the extraction process.

Jim

Jim,

I'm well versed in the use of cyanide for extraction, and have used the
process in an agitation tank to recover values from a high grade gold
complex. The operation required the use of bromine, which allowed the
cyanide to dissolve the values. From this process I recovered a mix of
silver and gold.

While you are correct, extraction has nothing to do with refining. They
are two distinctly different processes, which was the point I was, and still
am, addressing. Kinch needs to learn to shut his mouth.

Harold