Underground leaching of metals and megaliths as waste of paste thickening of rocks

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-02 02:33

In this article, I will put forward a version that, in terms of scale, pulls the script of a science fiction film. But the most amazing thing about it is that our civilization has already reached these technologies and uses them for the extraction of polymetallic ores.

Sooner or later, many who are interested in the topic of megaliths have a question: if these are artificial remnants, then how could they have formed or been made? Indeed, on the one hand, in terms of geology, these are syenites, granites, crystallized in the depths of the Earth or near its surface. And these masses are on the surface, and even in such forms: walls, masonry from separate masses, pillars. Everything is attributed to the erosion of sedimentary rocks. In some cases, the brain realizes that nature may not be relevant here. And at other times he cannot find even an approximate answer about the method of creating this fantasy. Until recently, this was the case with me. And then there was an answer. Not concerning the official views of geology, but the answer associated with the presence of intelligent forces on our planet with technologies that we have just approached. So how can modern technology of metal mining and megaliths be interconnected in this title of the article? Let's go in order.

1. Technology of underground leaching of polymetallic ores

Underground leaching - the physicochemical process of extracting minerals (metals and their salts) - such as copper, uranium, gold or table salt - through wells drilled into the deposit using various solvents. The process starts with drilling wells, explosives or hydraulic fracturing can also be used to facilitate the penetration of the solution into the reservoir. After that, a solvent (leaching agent) is pumped into the well through a group of injection wells, where it combines with the ore. The mixture containing the dissolved ore is then pumped through pumping holes to the surface where it is extracted. Underground leaching is an alternative to open pit and underground mining. Compared to them, underground leaching does not require a large amount of excavation or direct contact of workers with rocks at their location. Effective even in poor deposits, as well as for deep-seated ores. For uranium, weak solutions of sulfuric acid or a solution of hydrocarbons can be used. For gold, solutions containing active chlorine are used.

Abandoned Soviet well that was used in underground leaching of uranium, Czech Republic.

Territory with pipes and pumps for underground leaching I will not give a large amount of detailed specialized information, it can be found in these works:

ON THE PROBLEM OF WELL UNDERGROUND GOLD LEACH

URANIUM PRODUCTION BY UNDERGROUND LEACH METHOD

Underground leaching of polyelement ores

Another name for the in situ leaching method is hydrometallurgy separation of metals from ores, concentrates and production wastes using aqueous solutions of certain substances (chemical reagents). The oldest known method of hydrometallurgy is the extraction of copper from the ores of Rio Tinto (Spain) in the 16th century. Later, hydrometallurgical methods for extracting platinum (1827), nickel (1875), aluminum from bauxite (1892), gold (1889), zinc (1914), etc. were developed and implemented. Currently, this method is used to obtain uranium, aluminum, gold, zinc, etc. Today, about 20% of the world production of Cu, 50-80% of Zn and Ni, 100% of Al and U oxides, metal Cd, Co and other metals is based on hydrometallurgy. The main hydrometallurgy operation is leaching (eg heap leaching, underground leaching). I think the principle of this technology is clear

How are metals isolated from such a solution? An example of a process for surface gold leaching: sulfuric acid is used. In the reagent department, milk of lime is prepared, cyanide, caustic soda, pyrosulfite is dissolved in the required proportion and all this is circulated through pipes to the ORP (ore preparation department) and GMO (hydrometallurgical department). The pulp is prepared at the ORP and discharged to flotation, from there to the GMO for the extraction of gold using an ion-exchange resin.

2. Caves

If we imagine that some highly developed civilizations on Earth (guest or indigenous) used something similar in their activities, then what could remain after the operation of such a facility, equipment in fractured or simply sedimentary rocks? My opinion is caves. I will give an example of those caves that are located a couple of tens of kilometers from the Koysky Belogorie of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, where, as already shown on these pages, megaliths are located on almost every mountain. Badzheyskaya cave, Krasnoyarsk Territory

Entrance, or rather descent into the cave

Pebbles in the walls with clay as a binder. No one is interested in why the rock structure of these mountains is pebble? Or does pebble form only the vaults of caves? A question for geologists. Or will there be excuses again about the bottom of the ancient sea? Perhaps, when the rocks were washed and the solution was pumped out of the mountain using the underground leaching technology, this pebble was formed? Those. the flow and pressure were so enormous that they washed this cave into the mountain and rolled the stones into pebbles.

I do not exclude other versions - this can be explained by the following processes: the hills and mountains are made entirely of pebble rocks and the water washed these caves in them. Water coming from above (showers), or from below during cataclysms (outlet of underground reservoirs). But the question: who put the pebble rocks into such huge hills remains. It is possible that pebbles are a product only in the cave itself. She was poured over by streams of slurry going through the crevices. But I am leaning towards the first version, which allows you to connect caves and megaliths, which, as Yach said, are located near these caves. This is if we accept the version with giant quarries and that the technology of underground leaching of ore could have been used by some highly developed forces in the past of the Earth. In short, this description is as follows: there was a certain installation on the hill, which, having drilled a well, pumped a solution into it, and then pumped it out with dissolved metals. There is water in the valley, it is full of small rivers. The question is in chemistry, acids. Then the necessary was isolated from the solution, the resulting slag was thickened using the paste thickening technology and the masses were stored in megaliths. We stored it as needed, but somewhere it turned out to be masonry, but somewhere like pancakes. And somewhere there are mountains covered with syenite. Those. In this version, another interesting conclusion appears: syenite and other granitoids are not igneous rock, but crystallized ancient rock, dissolved in chemistry. The process is similar to grown alum in a solution of copper sulfate. Only various minerals crystallized from this solution.

Cave plan. 6 km of strokes

There is still not petrified clay there, from which visitors to the cave sculpt such sculptures And this is the Big Nut Cave, also located in these places:

58 km of passages And also pebble in the rock

Rock with boulders

Petrified clay with carbonates

Views from the mountain where the cave is located. Are they all made of gravel?

One of the entrances to the cave. Sources: There are many caves in the mountains. Most likely, we know only a small number of them. I think there are caves without exits to the surface.

3. Paste thickening of waste (tailings) after separation of the liquid solution extracted from the bowels

What did you do next? Of course, the recovery of metals: separation, flotation or other, unknown to us, principles of precipitation and recovery of metals from solutions. But what about the waste liquid chemistry? Neutralize or you can thicken (or the solution itself thickens upon neutralization). The article PLATES OF LAKE SHIRA. KHAKASIYA I talked about this modern technology: Modern technology for the thickening of ore dressing products. Paste thickening means that instead of pumping un-thickened tailings from the concentrator to the tailings dump, the discharge of the thickener is dewatered to a point where no slurry segregation occurs during tailings stacking. “When using the paste technology, tailings form conical dumps, which eliminate the need for large tailings. The area of the tailing dumps is much smaller compared to traditional tailing dumps, and the risk of leaks is minimal."

Liquid tails are transformed into a thick, viscous slurry that holds its shape. Dumps in the form of hills are formed from it. Considering that these wastes have acidic or alkaline Ph, active chemical processes of oxidation and reduction continue in them. Apparently, there are many options, depending on the chemical composition, to cement the material of the dumps into a whole mass. Moreover, layering will be observed, directed not necessarily horizontally.

This technology could be used by those space watchmen or highly developed civilizations. It seems to me that the first one, tk. the indigenous inhabitants of the Earth would not turn it into a continuous quarry. And now, after the extraction of metals, an empty pasty rock remains, which, moreover, crystallizes. Below I picked up a number of examples of what they could do with it …

4. Examples of stone masses that, in my opinion, were obtained using these technologies of underground leaching and paste thickening of tailings:

Khudess labyrinth

The territory was poured, gradually pushing back the formwork.

Megaliths of the Koy Belogorie

A flat area on Mount Vetrogon, where the storage of rocks took place at the edge of the mountain

ALTAI. MEGALITES OF MOUNTAIN Sinyukha

Ergaki Doused mountains

Examples can be continued, there are dozens of them. Yes, on a large scale. But the size of the production is not comparable with ours. I am not the only one who thinks similar principles about ancient metal mining. Here is an excerpt from works by A. Makhov True, the technology described is different, so far unknown to us. But the fact that the extraction of metals in ancient times was delivered on an industrial scale is already a fact. Everything was pragmatic, no religious or cult buildings in their original sense.