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Q: What container was used to separate gold from mud in water?
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How is settling used to separate gold nuggets from gravel?

The gold is heavier than the gravel so water is slowly swished until all that is left is the gold.


How did prospectors separate mixtures?

They used water. Water was used to separate edit from the gold. In individual methods a sluce box, rocker, or pan was used. In larger operations hydraulic hoses were used to wash whole hillsides away. You can still see the damage this did to the environment. Finally, with ores the gold was removed from the Quartz by crushing.


A shallow container used for washing gold?

"pan"


What types of pollution is generated by gold mining?

Water pollution can be caused if chemicals are used to separate metals from the earth.


Does gold panning have a effect on the water being used to clean the gold?

The only time the water is affected in them other chemicals are used to feather separate the gold from impurities. At that point it really isn't panning. In panning all you are doing is using water to wash the heaver gold out of the other silt and gravel in the stream bed.


What is used to separate sugar and water?

evaporation is used to separate sugar and water.


What do you use when you want to separate salt from water without the water evaporating?

Ocean survival kits once used a chemical that would bind to the salt and sink to the bottom of a container. The less-salty water at the top of the container would be drinkable. Life rafts today may carry "reverse osmosis pumps" that force seawater through a permeable membrane to separate out the salt.


What physical properties are used to separate salt from water?

the physical properties are gold and ice cream due to the salt being covered by the gold and the ice cream being in my belly.


How was a rocker box used?

To separate gold from sand


If a full gallon container of water is used to fill a half gallon container and a quart container then how much water is left in the gallon container?

One quart


How gold mining poisonous?

The toxic heavy metal, mercury is frequently used to separate out the gold.


Why density be used to separate gold from surrounding material?

Because gold is one of the heaviest elements