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My name is Matt. I'm glad to find a forum for this. Because the information I have been drawn in by every resource I could imagine, and not one of them has all the information, but it has a lot of this information as a lot of information, and you need both sides to do the whole thing. lol

Feel free to use my knowledge, background, and knowledge of CS, chemistry, computer science, and electronics.

I have been doing a lot of rare chemical metal reclamation lately, and I have noticed. Locating a centralized database of resources on this is not that easy. Many people do things their way, and it's usually over years of doing that some things work better than others to get information.

I'm glad to have found this forum because I desperately needed a centralized resource database on rare metal reclamation.
Feel free to use my knowledge and background in physics, chemistry, computer science, and electronics.

I have been doing a lot of chemical metal reclamation lately, and locating quality resources on this subject is challenging. Many people do things their way, and it's usually over years of doing some things work better than others to get information.

I currently focus on computer hardware and electronics as my source of rare metals. Aqua Regia is the chemical solution with 37% HCl and 70% HNO3 concentrations. If you see me doing something wrong or using an outdated process, correct me so I can do it correctly.
I use ferrous sulfate as my precipitant and sodium bicarbonate as the neutralizer. If there are any procedures I need to read over, please direct me. By all means, help this guy.

I'm all over this, which is a bit new, but I enjoy it. I've also done a lot of smelting, which is a will trick. Identify which items are silver and which ones are not. When it comes to specific pins, I'm still looking for resources for that. Some of it is a crapshoot. Anyway, thank you all for having me in.
I look forward to the collaboration.

I am glad to be here.
 
My name is Matt. I'm glad to find a forum for this. Because the information I have been drawn in by every resource I could imagine, and not one of them has all the information, but it has a lot of this information as a lot of information, and you need both sides to do the whole thing. lol

Feel free to use my knowledge, background, and knowledge of CS, chemistry, computer science, and electronics.

I have been doing a lot of rare chemical metal reclamation lately, and I have noticed. Locating a centralized database of resources on this is not that easy. Many people do things their way, and it's usually over years of doing that some things work better than others to get information.

I'm glad to have found this forum because I desperately needed a centralized resource database on rare metal reclamation.
Feel free to use my knowledge and background in physics, chemistry, computer science, and electronics.

I have been doing a lot of chemical metal reclamation lately, and locating quality resources on this subject is challenging. Many people do things their way, and it's usually over years of doing some things work better than others to get information.

I currently focus on computer hardware and electronics as my source of rare metals. Aqua Regia is the chemical solution with 37% HCl and 70% HNO3 concentrations. If you see me doing something wrong or using an outdated process, correct me so I can do it correctly.
I use ferrous sulfate as my precipitant and sodium bicarbonate as the neutralizer. If there are any procedures I need to read over, please direct me. By all means, help this guy.

I'm all over this, which is a bit new, but I enjoy it. I've also done a lot of smelting, which is a will trick. Identify which items are silver and which ones are not. When it comes to specific pins, I'm still looking for resources for that. Some of it is a crapshoot. Anyway, thank you all for having me in.
I look forward to the collaboration.

I am glad to be here.
Welcome to us.
As it seems you are no stranger to studies which is good.
Here is a list of things we like you to study.
The first focus is Safety and waste treatment and then it is the "Bible" Hokes book, it needs several rounds of reading.
And here we consider any mix of any strength HCl and Nitric as AR aka Aqua Regia.
And we usually use it as an large excess of HCl and just enough Nitric to do the job.
Next we no longer endorse the use of Urea to remove the excess of Nitric.

We ask our new members to do 3 things.
1. Read C.M. Hokes book on refining jewelers scrap, it gives an easy introduction to the most important chemistry regarding refining.
It is free here on the forum: https://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=19798
2. Then read the safety section of the forum: https://goldrefiningforum.com/forums/safety.47/
3. And then read about "Dealing with waste" in the forum: https://goldrefiningforum.com/threads/dealing-with-waste.10539/

Suggested reading:
https://goldrefiningforum.com/forums/the-library.101/
https://goldrefiningforum.com/threads/when-in-doubt-cement-it-out.30236/
https://goldrefiningforum.com/threa...le-read-this-before-you-post-about-ore.33333/


Forum rules is here.
https://goldrefiningforum.com/threads/gold-refining-forum-rules.31182/
 
Welcome to us.
As it seems you are no stranger to studies which is good.
Here is a list of things we like you to study.
The first focus is Safety and waste treatment and then it is the "Bible" Hokes book, it needs several rounds of reading.
And here we consider any mix of any strength HCl and Nitric as AR aka Aqua Regia.
And we usually use it as an large excess of HCl and just enough Nitric to do the job.
Next we no longer endorse the use of Urea to remove the excess of Nitric.

We ask our new members to do 3 things.
1. Read C.M. Hokes book on refining jewelers scrap, it gives an easy introduction to the most important chemistry regarding refining.
It is free here on the forum: https://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=19798
2. Then read the safety section of the forum: https://goldrefiningforum.com/forums/safety.47/
3. And then read about "Dealing with waste" in the forum: https://goldrefiningforum.com/threads/dealing-with-waste.10539/

Suggested reading:
https://goldrefiningforum.com/forums/the-library.101/
https://goldrefiningforum.com/threads/when-in-doubt-cement-it-out.30236/
https://goldrefiningforum.com/threa...le-read-this-before-you-post-about-ore.33333/


Forum rules is here.
https://goldrefiningforum.com/threads/gold-refining-forum-rules.31182/
Thank you very much!
 
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