Gold, like most minerals, can be 'dissolved' in mercury to create what's called an amalgam. An amalgam is a physical mixture of metals, or a type of alloy. Using mercury is a pretty ...

Mercury is the only metal that is that is liquid at room temperature. It is a silvery liquid that you can move around in your ...

leaving the rest of the rock behind and forming a gold-mercury alloy called gold amalgam. Next, the crude gold amalgam needs to be separated from any unreacted mercury. This can be done by ...