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Clear Mercury Process
The Clear Mercury Process is a creative environmental solution developed by Martin Butler with the intention of cleaning out the mercury from our contaminated water ways. This process shows a high level of success at using the laws of physics to attract mercury out of the flow based on the relationship of mercury's electron configuration with its transport mechanism.
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Clear Mercury Process as a Permanent Instillation
02/19/09 We feel the success of our most recent test indicates the Clear Mercury Process has a high level of viability as an in-place method of recovering mercury from our water ways. Mercury recovery can then be accomplished at a time when the natural water flow has the mercury in motion. This was our first test using the Clear Mercury Processor in a manner that would simulate a permanently installed system, flowing only river water through it. We left the Processor in the rivers slightly cloudy water overnight with 3" of of water flowing under the inlet and a 1" overflow on top. When we returned in the morning, the rivers flow had gone down to about 1/2 flow through the Processor, and was slightly less cloudy. Upon clean-up we recovered 3 spoons of mineralized sands containing a high level of mercury. This mercury was in the form of microscopic beads when we first inspected, then within a few minuets most of it came together with ease into a bead large enough to see without a lens. The microscopic beads we recovered in this test were more fluid (carrying less load) than the beads we have been getting from our Clear Mercury River Beach Sand Testing (CMRBST) program. This could be an indication that the total Hg loading in that part of the river is very high, or very likely some of the Hg particles recovered from the cloudy water were to small to carry a load.
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Mercury Fluvial Transport Mechanism Discovered
02/04/09 -In the process of experimenting with the physics involved in the Clear Mercury Stripper I have realized the discovery of the Transport Mechanism. The physical laws that affect how mercury moves in our streams and rivers, when the water moves the underlying sediments. We now have an experience based understanding of the physics that affect how and why mercury moves so easy and deposits in the fine sediments, as the scientific reports document. There are indications, this transport mechanism also influences other toxic heavy metals, possibly being recovered with the mercury.
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Measurable Success
2/03/09 - We have conducted another series of field tests with the Clear Mercury Process, updated with three receiving chambers, and pattern changes. The addition of a third receiving chamber gave us the ability to measure the success of chambers one and two. The results of the field tests conducted this week confirm the completeness of the process in stripping mercury from the flow of contaminated material. The Clear Mercury Process is proving to be a reliable method of testing for and recovering elemental Hg in sands, gravels and sediments.
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Biological Expressions?
01/31/09 - The scientific community has been reporting on a biological process which emits mercury vapor into the atmosphere. What would that look like? We watched a mist rise from the ground over a field growing on a known hot spot from a Gold Rush Legacy Mine site. It rose to a height of about 18" to 24" within a few minutes and lingered for quite some time. We are in the process of building a recovery device that will allow us to collect and analyze the strange vapor. If it is nothing we will let you know, if it is something we will let you know how much.
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Successful Recovery
1/23/09 -The first recoverability testing has been completed with the process accomplishing the recovery of substantial amounts of mercury as microscopic particles. Even the deposits of the lightest, smallest, sands from a local stream test site, very close to a Legacy mine, showed a high level of recoverable mercury, and an increase in the number of particles with the increase of gravel depth. In all tests the mercury recovered was very small particles, visible only with magnification, or by watching a shinny silvery wave in the sample pan.
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"We are cleaning it up!"
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