Anarchy618
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I used a solution of muriatic acid & H2O to strip gold off some plates by dipping them in solution and then using an eye dropper to drop clorox/bleach in solution few drops per dish. As soon as you drop in clorox you watch the gold immediately begin to dissolve. After a test run (as this was my very 1st attempt at gold recovery & I am very eagerly starving for any & all education, constructive criticism, new ideas or even someone putting me in my place if I'm doing something the wrong way & making you cringe while viewing the unbearable gold waste at mine own hands) I then used SMB/Stump Out to "drop" the dissolved gold from the acid solution without doing stannous chloride (tin solder/tin powder dissolved in muriatic/hydrochloric acid in small amounts due to the degradation/lifetime of product after mixing occurs being just a few months) test due to inability of excercising patience from excitement of 1st time. You can all yell at me later about skipping that MOST IMPORTANT part & tell me how foolish of a thing to "not do" that was while working with such a rare, beautiful, magnificent & very valuable precious metal after you first help me with answering my melting problem. 1st just to let the weary breathe better & relax, I saved every drop of solution & totally plan on using stannous chloride (tin solder/tin powder + muriatic acid) to test for gold in solution on next venture. 2nd after dropping gold & filtering my awesome brown sludge (which is PURE gold) that formed over night from SMB/Stump out helping it to form/precipitate, I let the filter air dry for an hour or two and then folded the filter & attempted a melt by way of benzomatic propane torch & homemade melting dish (before learning MAPP gas is much more suitable for task at hand) & I used borax to glaze & then to melt. Problem is instead of seeing a nice little gold button I ended up with a hardened piece of kinda half transparent goo with visable pieces of flaky gold. Question is, where do I go from here & why did this happen, what caused this reaction? Was it from using too much borax during melt? Not melted enough? Plz help! I'll try attaching pics.