EXLA Resources Inc. (EXLA)

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You're picturing a guy with a pan in a stream. You're wrong; that's not all there is to prospecting.

They sell rock crushing machines on the internet. Small ones, for less than $4000. That's four thousand U.S. Dollars. Powered by a single cylinder engine.

I don't think rock forms compounds easily with gold. I believe gold ore contains discrete specs of gold and when you crush the rock, you still get gold dust in sand, just like when geological processes break down the rock and prospectors pan the river.

Mining companies may go the extra mile by removing microscopic gold particles from the sand with chemicals but from what I've seen, you can do plenty without the chemicals by sluicing the sand.

A gold speck will act as a weak point when the rock is crushed so there's a good chance most of the gold winds up outside the resulting sand particles.

There is nothing impossible about blasting out a few chunks of rock, maybe breaking them with a sledge hammer until they fit in your $4000, backyard machine, reducing them to 300 mesh sand, and sluicing the sand.