So when you test, one drop to one drop. Using one drop on a soaked paper is really hard to interpret.
What is chl? Are you saying chloride? Just us Cl, or spell out chloride. It's important.
baby_beans said:
This endless discussion about not attempting to make money because it might be dangerous sort of comes down to the economy. America has less social mobility than Medieval Europe. People are doing life threatening things everyday to try to save their families from a lifetime of struggling financially because we have a corrupt joke of a "judicial" system. Some people would rather die knowing they tried rather than just going along to get along like a worm.
Look, I'm not going to disagree with you. In fact, I will completely agree on the financial situation in this country. My dad was a custodian, my mom was an office manager, I dropped out of college as a senior. BUT...I'm busting my butt to do things as close to correct, and as properly, as possible. Because in order to climb that ladder of social mobility, you have to move past doing this in buckets and tupperware on your picnic table, holding your breath...and learn how to do it properly. You don't make real money doing it in a small fashion, and you always have everything at risk. You need reasonably good ventilation in a controlled atmosphere, or you are best off not doing it all. You make the investment, call it a hobby...and if it seems like it can pay off, you just keep investing.
Geo said:
Definitely a lot of copper.
Not necessarily, even though I think he's now said it was? I'm personally having trouble following this thread.
But...a small amount of contamination can cause what appears to be copper. I just sold a button yesterday that assayed at 98.75 Au and the outside was red. In fact, I was quite annoyed because I gave them three buttons that were all beautiful, and what came out of the crucible had all of the junk on it. In fact, I was quite annoyed as I also dumped a bunch of silver, and was left to stare at an ugly lump of gold while I waited for the silver to melt. Well, it turned out that it was all surface contamination.