Mercury disposal?????

[TTIT]

Need to get rid of about 1 litre (20 or 30kg) of liquid mercury. Does anyone know if this stuff is of any value these days or where I take such a quantity to get rid of it?????? Currently located at Ballarat.

[wolften]

...maybe ring the local tip, they should be able to point you in the right direction.
Cheers

Glenn

[AlexS]

Had to get rid of some a few years ago, the only place I could find was a place around Sydney's northern beaches. They supplied iron carboys that we had to put it in and deliver it to them in. I'll try to dig up their name.

Later: Sorry, they don't seem to be around any more, at least I couldn't find them. Suggest you try your local EPA or waste disposal authority.

[Master Splinter]

If only you were closer, I'd take it off your hands!

[Woodwould]

Anyone who restores barrometers would be glad to purchase the mercury. Perhaps if you contacted the Australian Antique and Art Dealers Association (http://www.aada.org.au/#), they could put you onto one of their members who would relieve you of it. There are two scientific instrument restorers (http://www.aada.org.au/index.cfm/service-by-category/?cc=60) listed in Victoria (I know Ron Gorsuch).

Alternatively, you could use the mercury to make and sell lots of Mexican Jumping Beans.

[hughie]

Too bad your not in Africa as its used in various occult practices in some parts and sells real well :C

[Black Ned]

Try Gold Prospectors. It is used to attract fine gold. The gold bearing material is pulverised and washed over the mercury. the mercury absorbs the gold and later the mercury is distilled (possibly not the right word) and the gold is extracted.
As it is in Ballarat - someone local should be able to point you in the right direction.

[Plumbkelly1946]

Need to get rid of about 1 litre (20 or 30kg) of liquid mercury. Does Hanyone know if this stuff is of any value these days or where I take such a quantity to get rid of it?????? Currently located at Ballarat.
Hello, i wil take ti off you hands for nothing

[TTIT]

Thanks for the responses guys :2tsup:. Found a buyer for the mercury with the LOML's uncle (prospector) - little does he know it originated from her other late uncle (also a prospector) :harhar::roflmao:

[RETIRED]

Keeping it in the family or a family affair?:wink::D

[Daddles]

Keeping it in the family or a family affair?:wink::D

I'd like to know why he's keeping its origin secret from the uncle - family war over prospector's rights?

Richard

[mjmjm]

When i was a kid mercury was a toy. Can't remember how I ever got hold of it but I remember playing with it. I should be dead apparently.

[Wongdai]

+1 to what MJMJM said. We had a little Aprin bottle full of mercury, which we used to pour out into our hands and play with. Maybe I'm dead also. :)

[mjmjm]

I seem to remember some bad kids doing stuff with mercury and cats.

[Daddles]

I seem to remember some bad kids doing stuff with mercury and cats.

They were experimenting with being 'good kids' were they? :D

Well I'll be blowed, my Siamese just glared at me.
Everytime my father comes for a visit, he walks in the door, looks at the cat and says "I see you haven't become a good cat yet" :D

Richard

[bsrlee]

I'll post this here in case someone comes along later looking for the solution.

Mercury is quite valuable & a lot of places offering to take it off your hands for a considerable fee as 'hazardous material' are just going to take it down the road & cash it in at an industrial metals dealer.

It is toxic if enough is eaten or otherwise absorbed, so don't play with it (it is fascinating stuff) but it was used for medicines into the 20th century so its less deadly than, say, plutonium. If you are over 30 or so, you would have been walking around with a fair bit of it in the amalgam fillings in your teeth, but that is being replaced with epoxy 'ceramic' now.

The body does eventually excrete the stuff, just very slowly. In the gold fields mercury has been replaced with a cyanide process industrially, which strangely enough is also toxic and takes years to recover from.

[BobL]

Need to get rid of about 1 litre (20 or 30kg) of liquid mercury. Does anyone know if this stuff is of any value these days or where I take such a quantity to get rid of it?????? Currently located at Ballarat.

Nice to hear you found a home for it!
BTW A litre of mercury should weigh 13.6 kg?

[TTIT]

Nice to hear you found a home for it!
BTW A litre of mercury should weigh 13.6 kg?For bloke who spent 2 years working as a scale tech', I do a lousy job of guesstimating weight eh!!!:U It actually turned out to be 16.3kg total for the three containers :shrug:

[super55]

Hi if you still have the mecury ,contact me i will help on johnhharrissuka@yahoo.com

[Sturdee]

Another old thread resurrected for no reason as post 9 clearly states that it was sold.

:doh:


Peter.