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I panned for gold and need to safely get rid of the mercury

I spent a summer panning for hard rock gold, now I have 5 lbs of mercury with any gold I may have picked up in it. How do I extract the gold safely without losing the mercury into the environment?

Donald Alarie
landscaping - Vancouver , B.C, Canada
2003

I read it some where, to remove extra mercury from gold amalgam is by pressurizing through leather.

Khair Shishani
aircraft maintenance - Al Ain, UAE
2004

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