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TreySeaJax

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Hi all,

In the last couple weeks I have learned a good deal, much of it through this board. Following advice, I slowed down.

With the stress on safety and testing, I dedicated time and money on making a good stannous test. I did not have any pure gold to test, but did have some karat peices that were made in early attempts at melting what I had recovered. I still don't have a scratch test, but the pawn shop does so I know the peices were between 10 and 18 K.

I dissolved a few peices in AR despite the extra work to retrieve the gold I will have to do. I really just wanted to see the stannous test work so I could learn how to use it properly. The results are on the notebook paper. Not a lot of gold in the solution. Hopefully you can see the purple black color in the picture.

Wanting to see more and not having any pure gold to work with I went to a local coin dealer.

I purchased a 1 gram bar for 40 something USD. I haggled with the sales person but to no avail. I knew I paid a bit too much. I just wanted the assurance I was working with relatively pure gold and maybe the experience would be worth the premium.

Currently, it is alone in an AR solution, patrially dissolved. The other test on the bottom of a white yogurt cup for contrast is the test for what was supposed to be a gram of .9999 gold.

Why does the test look like there is a bunch of platnum in it? Could it be that platnum is about 300 dollars less than gold per ounce currently?
 

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Follow up test a couple hours later showed this.
 

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