So you synthesize gold in a bath of mercury. Gold and mercury form an amalgam. Isn't amalgam solid? The amalgam in my teeth certainly is. So will you get nugget

So you synthesize gold in a bath of mercury. Gold and mercury form an amalgam. Isn't amalgam solid? The amalgam in my teeth certainly is. So will you get nuggets of it clogging up the mercury pumps? Apparently not, because the physical properties depend on the ratio of gold to mercury - when there's only a tiny bit of gold, it behaves just like mercury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAGYGGmUmUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAGYGGmUmUw I'm not sure how you would separate the gold from the mercury in this approach. The paper doesn't seem to say. I suspect the approaches used in mining assume a much higher concentration of gold, and would be impractical here.