Mercury use in Tasmania

G’day All
I understand MRT will be soon banning the use of Mercury.
I don’t know of anyone who still uses it?
If you do, please contact me.
0407319160

Ron Gregory

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Still using plenty in my teeth !!! :grinning:

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Yep, got a fair bit in my teeth and a few thermometers in the house. Apparently alcohol thermometers don’t even come close in accuracy.

I wouldn’t think anyone uses it any more, at least not recreationally. It was only really ever used for stampers, wasn’t it?

It was definitely used a fair bit in the past: the gold from Cradle Creek can be stained silver from a surface coating of mercury, and if you leave it exposed to the air for a few weeks it turns to gold again. Needless to say this is more safely done outside.

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There’s got to be kilos of the stuff left in middle arm below the old Beaconsfield battery. Quite a bit of gold too but I gave up panning there as most it is amalgam and not worth the risk extracting it.

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