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Electrostatic Perth Mint One Dollar Gold Nugget Round

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 Posted 12/28/2011  07:42 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Philski to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi all I just posted this info on another forum today. And, thought you guys may be interested in it if your into gold and silver etc.
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i was just wondering if anyone else has seen or noticed electrostatic gold?
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i just gave a Perth Mint 2004 Eureka gold nugget capsule a dust and the gold jumped around like pop corn for a bit then stuck like glue to the top of the capsule. I Googled the effect and Thomas Edison invented something like it to use the static to separate gold fines from black sands in the Sierra Nevadas, but his needed very dry sands/gold particles to work properly apparently.

Amazing stuff, I have seen gold float etc but never in a zillion years would have though to use static electricity to separate my heavy sands and fines, Be a great tool to have in the gold arsenal up dry creek beds in summer etc.

kindest regards
Phillip
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 Posted 12/30/2011  02:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add erkle to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
nice coin and never knew static could effect it
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Obviously, those little guys are very thin and of almost no weight. I can rmember as a high school student in a physics experiment that made use of gold leaf electrodes.

Two small and very thin hinged leaves of gold foil were either attracted or repelled, according to the positive or negative electrostatic charge placed across them.
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