Mountain Man
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Hello to all and thank you again for your help with my smelting furnace.
I have a new issue I would like your opinions on. I have had trouble getting my gold to gather in the melting dishes for some time now. Looking through my jewels magnifying glass I see lots of small beads of gold that would not gather in the bottom of the dish but rather get suspended in the flux on the sides and the bottom of the dish. Over several weeks of trying to correct the issue without success I went to a furnace and that has solved the issue. However, the dishes are still filled with a lot of very small but clearly visible gold balls.
I decided to use a rock crusher and crush the dish with it into a fine powder and then I put all that into an A.R. solution in hopes that it would dissolve the gold again and I could recover all the lost gold. As soon as I put the powder into the A.R. solution it went to work and turned the AR green. After several times of stirring the powder and left to work on the gold for about 2 days I poured of the solution and began the process of trying to recover the gold. I neutralized the AR and checked for the gold using the standard Sta nous chloride test and it shows nothing. The color is a clear medium green. But no response on the S.C. test.
I would think the A.R. solution would have dissolved the gold but it does not show.
Any ideas on what is going on?
Mountain man.
I have a new issue I would like your opinions on. I have had trouble getting my gold to gather in the melting dishes for some time now. Looking through my jewels magnifying glass I see lots of small beads of gold that would not gather in the bottom of the dish but rather get suspended in the flux on the sides and the bottom of the dish. Over several weeks of trying to correct the issue without success I went to a furnace and that has solved the issue. However, the dishes are still filled with a lot of very small but clearly visible gold balls.
I decided to use a rock crusher and crush the dish with it into a fine powder and then I put all that into an A.R. solution in hopes that it would dissolve the gold again and I could recover all the lost gold. As soon as I put the powder into the A.R. solution it went to work and turned the AR green. After several times of stirring the powder and left to work on the gold for about 2 days I poured of the solution and began the process of trying to recover the gold. I neutralized the AR and checked for the gold using the standard Sta nous chloride test and it shows nothing. The color is a clear medium green. But no response on the S.C. test.
I would think the A.R. solution would have dissolved the gold but it does not show.
Any ideas on what is going on?
Mountain man.