How would you handle the "precious ones"?

LoL, your secret is safe here!

 

The mining and recoveryof "precious metals" and valuable minerals has been developed by folks muc more skiled in those areas than Iam. Thus I wouldhave THEM handle te recovery.

 

The mining and recoveryof "precious metals" and valuable minerals has been developed by folks muc more skiled in those areas than Iam. Thus I wouldhave THEM handle te recovery.

Let me know !!!

 

Every material has electrons...

Why is that relevant? You asked about substituting something for the quartz crystal in a crystal oscillator. The reason such a circuit works is the critical property of quartz that most other materials don't possess.