AgAuPtRh
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It seems there are quite a few kinds of electronic connector pins and legs for resistors, capacitors etc.. Some are considered to be of the size and plated values that the electrolytic solution is the solution.
What about the lesser graded and smaller pins--like those out of the flat ribbon cables? Seems it would take a century or two at least to go through a pound of them in an electrolytic cell.
Having never used an electrolytic cell to recover gold, and not knowing too much of what to expect I have been wondering...........hhhmmmmmm
If I were to take a small lot of the lesser graded gold plated pins and melt them together, pour to a mold, then do a dip in the electrolytic cell----will that process only allow the surface plated gold to drop in to the solution? or will the electro process allow whatever gold is trapped, no matter how deep in the base metal it may be, to be freed from the base metals????
I have been working on putting a cell together for some summer time recovery and refining and am looking to see just how far I push that bad boy to work. Discovering limitations on a small scale has usually been a good learning tool.
I have heard about leaching with cyanide----I have more chems around me now than I am truly comfortable with and not looking to add one more.
Any thoughts on melting then dipping in the cell??????
What about the lesser graded and smaller pins--like those out of the flat ribbon cables? Seems it would take a century or two at least to go through a pound of them in an electrolytic cell.
Having never used an electrolytic cell to recover gold, and not knowing too much of what to expect I have been wondering...........hhhmmmmmm
If I were to take a small lot of the lesser graded gold plated pins and melt them together, pour to a mold, then do a dip in the electrolytic cell----will that process only allow the surface plated gold to drop in to the solution? or will the electro process allow whatever gold is trapped, no matter how deep in the base metal it may be, to be freed from the base metals????
I have been working on putting a cell together for some summer time recovery and refining and am looking to see just how far I push that bad boy to work. Discovering limitations on a small scale has usually been a good learning tool.
I have heard about leaching with cyanide----I have more chems around me now than I am truly comfortable with and not looking to add one more.
Any thoughts on melting then dipping in the cell??????