Byron Bound
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Howdy!
I have not been able to find the right posts with info regarding this, any links would be greatly appreciated.
I am a Jeweller in Aus and tried sand casting with some fancy new aluminium rings. Cleverly using 18ct yellow gold I accidentally poured some gold onto the aluminium. I did not realise it would happen, however the gold alloyed to the aluminium.
I dropped the blend into some Hydrochloric acid, I had a very small amount handy, assuming it would convert the aluminium into aluminium chloride and leave the gold and copper content.
Now, did I do the right thing? Or should I have approached this differently?
Before proceeding further, what is the best mothod to then remove, wash and remelt the gold.
As a second I have some alloyed gold/copper/silver that I would like to separate also, can you point me to the best posts regarding this process as my only experience is watching Cod's Lab the past few years and do not want to approach this unsafely. Doing my own refining will work very well as I have about 20gm of gold to refune currently that I would love to recast into new jewellery.
I have all the materials and setup there, just lack quality instruction or direction pointing to safely proceed.
Cheers
Zac
I have not been able to find the right posts with info regarding this, any links would be greatly appreciated.
I am a Jeweller in Aus and tried sand casting with some fancy new aluminium rings. Cleverly using 18ct yellow gold I accidentally poured some gold onto the aluminium. I did not realise it would happen, however the gold alloyed to the aluminium.
I dropped the blend into some Hydrochloric acid, I had a very small amount handy, assuming it would convert the aluminium into aluminium chloride and leave the gold and copper content.
Now, did I do the right thing? Or should I have approached this differently?
Before proceeding further, what is the best mothod to then remove, wash and remelt the gold.
As a second I have some alloyed gold/copper/silver that I would like to separate also, can you point me to the best posts regarding this process as my only experience is watching Cod's Lab the past few years and do not want to approach this unsafely. Doing my own refining will work very well as I have about 20gm of gold to refune currently that I would love to recast into new jewellery.
I have all the materials and setup there, just lack quality instruction or direction pointing to safely proceed.
Cheers
Zac