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Or cyanide :(

Used to reprocess =E2=80=98mullock=E2=80=99 heaps left after mercury =
extraction.
	<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_cyanidation>

> On 1 Aug 2023, at 07:20, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> One other interesting property of gold is that it dissolves in liquid
> mercury.=20

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