Hello everyone!
So I have accumulated hundreds of pounds of various costume style junk gold plated jewelry. I like to pick through bags of jewelry from thrift stores and swap meets or whatever and I always put any gold plated material to the side. I also sort gold filled, karat gold, silver etc but obviously the plated stuff gathers quicker by an order of magnitude.
For the past few years I have just been filling plastic bins and im up to nearly 500lbs. It is too much for me to attempt to recover and refine the gold content. I dont have the means or the space or quite frankly the tacit knowledge to pull off a large scale job, plus - many of the (reverse electroplate) video tutorials Ive watched and discussion posts from here are done in smaller household sized pyrex style dishes with a only few pounds at a time.
Can anyone throw some brain storming ideas my way? Do I find an online refiner who deals with both the public and plated material and ship it? Do some home hobbyists have large cells capable of this? Any advice is appreciated. Another possibility I read on a post from 2014 is to chunk it out in lots on ebay, but I am more looking to have the gold. I really have just been stockpiling this stuff havent found a solid lead on what to do.
Anyway thanks for reading if you made it this far. I really love this forum and the absolute trove of information. Especially Harold. His post are so authoritative, concise, respectful and flat out brilliant. The man has a way with words. Strong but fair. How I remember my grandfather. I picture him to look and sound like Lance Henriksen. I will leave a photo of one of my binfulls to get an idea. Thank you again you guys!!
Andrea S.
Tampa FL
So I have accumulated hundreds of pounds of various costume style junk gold plated jewelry. I like to pick through bags of jewelry from thrift stores and swap meets or whatever and I always put any gold plated material to the side. I also sort gold filled, karat gold, silver etc but obviously the plated stuff gathers quicker by an order of magnitude.
For the past few years I have just been filling plastic bins and im up to nearly 500lbs. It is too much for me to attempt to recover and refine the gold content. I dont have the means or the space or quite frankly the tacit knowledge to pull off a large scale job, plus - many of the (reverse electroplate) video tutorials Ive watched and discussion posts from here are done in smaller household sized pyrex style dishes with a only few pounds at a time.
Can anyone throw some brain storming ideas my way? Do I find an online refiner who deals with both the public and plated material and ship it? Do some home hobbyists have large cells capable of this? Any advice is appreciated. Another possibility I read on a post from 2014 is to chunk it out in lots on ebay, but I am more looking to have the gold. I really have just been stockpiling this stuff havent found a solid lead on what to do.
Anyway thanks for reading if you made it this far. I really love this forum and the absolute trove of information. Especially Harold. His post are so authoritative, concise, respectful and flat out brilliant. The man has a way with words. Strong but fair. How I remember my grandfather. I picture him to look and sound like Lance Henriksen. I will leave a photo of one of my binfulls to get an idea. Thank you again you guys!!
Andrea S.
Tampa FL