The history of gold in North America
is tracked from the Indians to the early Spanish explorers to the
gold rushes of the wild west. The history of the metallurgical extraction
of gold is traced from ancient times to the time of the famous Patio
Process of the Spaniards to the last development, the cyanide process
in the nineteenth century. The author, who as numerous international
patents and who has 30 years hands on experience in gold extraction,
also proposes the process, differential charge recovery system,
for the environmentally friendly extraction of gold into the 21st
century.
For several years Mr. Barefoot worked first in the petroleum industry
successfully chemically inducing wells to produce more oil, and
then in the mining industry where he successfully developed new
methods to recover metals from ores. It was by accident, that
one day he discovered that most gold in ores takes the form of 18-micron
(less than one thousandth of an inch) octahedral (8 sided) crystals.
Of interest, the form of preference for crystallization at high
temperatures and pressures, such as is found in the bowels of the
Earth, is octahedral crystallization. The “gold experts”
of the day disputed his claim until he melted the crystals into
gold bars. The crystals can now be seen in metallurgical books.
The recognition of this size (3 times smaller than that which could
be seen by the human eye) and the shape led Barefoot to conclude
that none of this gold could be recovered by any conventional gravity
system. Barefoot then led a team which used the centrifugal
force of mini swirls (100’s of G’s) to force the gold
crystals (on which he put a positive electrical charge) close enough
to a negatively charged collector so that the gold would be entrapped
by thousands of G’s of force. The development of this
new technology into a patentable entity too over 10 years of frustrating
research with field-testing all over North and Central America.
Equally frustrating is the 8 years that have elapsed since the first
patent application.
The gold industry’s extraordinary high rate of failure |
combined with the fact numerous “experts” in the industry, who
have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, inhibited
the exploitation of the technology.
Historically, this reluctance to accept new technology
will eventually be overcome as the technology gradually becomes
accepted.
The efforts to succeed have continued to the
point where chief executives of the world’s largest mining
companies are now reviewing the technology. The day will soon come
when the recovery of most of the gold, diamonds and other metals
will be accomplished using this new technology. Of interest,
this same process has allowed the author to extract gold from ores
that apparently contained no gold by fire assay, but which in fact
may prove to be the most massive amount of gold ever discovered,
hundreds of times all of the gold ever recovered in the history
of mankind. The author uses scientific records and arguments and
explains how the assays have been proven to be incorrect. Further
more, the recorded recovery of gold in the hand from numerous of
these ore deposits, proves that the authors theory is correct and
that the dozens of companies currently trying to recover the unassailable
gold from these ores are on the right track.
The author believes that gold also plays a crucial
part in human health. In many countries people eat gold, usually
in the form of thin crumbly sheets added to sandwiches, because
of the belief that it is healthful. Gold is everywhere and
finds itself being absorbed by plants that people eat. The
author was once asked to bid on a California project to remove gold
from the ash of human excretion. It takes 100 tons of human
excretion to produce one ton of ash evaluated at one third of an
ounce of gold. In short, this messy business is not very profitable
but it does demonstrate that the human body absorbs substantial
gold, which must serve some useful purpose, the description of which
may one day lead to a Nobel Prize. |
