johnny309 said:
If this is the filter and you applied a good wash(plenty of water)...the most interesting part will be the "MUD" from that filter. Early days manufactures used as gold barrier Pd/Ag(70/30 or 80/20...they replaced in the 90-th by Ni or a Ni/Pd alloy).
So....money wise....if you have more of that material and my assumption are true....."MUD" is the true value.
Study ,learn,read and most important......: "Do not throw away anything".
Got it?
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This is a separate filter I used just to pull my first gold foils from the actual filter out of my Buchner funnel to keep for the sake of having them. I have plenty of material and some of it is processing as we speak.
I am keeping all straining filters (102 discs) separate and I will process them once they stack up a bit. I do intend to process the mud, the leftover filters, the spent solution including keeping the extracted copper, and washing/refining all of my yields thoroughly. I'm currently waiting on a small shipment of Nitric to arrive, and I have nearly all the supplies needed to build a small sulfuric cell setup for deplating experiments. I'm on my second run of Hoke's book and I spend a ton of time on my free days reading here and elsewhere, soaking up video demonstrations, and exchanging messages with a couple helpful vets on this forum. I am an engineer by trade, and every detail of every step is very carefully considered before I attempt, ESPECIALLY safety and disposal procedures. That's the most important aspects of this as I learn, to me. So painstakingly and very slowly putting together 30g of well-covered fingers in a 100ml breaker of AP and seeing gold is just cause for celebration in my tiny world of PM recovery thus far. I'm very grateful to the replies containing advice and next step ideas here.
This little, dirty, assorted pile of tiny crumbs was posted simply to thank everyone here for providing the information and taking the time to help folks like myself just starting out in this as a hobby. If it pays a bill or two somewhere down the line, fantastic. My learning approach to this is slow, steady, celebrating small victories and building up slowly. I was hoping a complete and total prospective introductory member might see this and understand that it's good to start slow and small, even if it's to the most miniscule degree.
I appreciate the advice and direction, and I will continue to explore all of the valuable content here and elsewhere as I slowly scale up. Basically I just wanted to post a little tiny victory as a show of gratitude to everyone putting fourth the effort to help people experiment and learn correctly, safely and with the best results. I've had nothing but good experiences in my correspondence with various experiences members on this forum the past few weeks.
Not meant to show yield, purity or even great success. I just wanted to say, "Hey guys look, all of your hard work compiling and organizing this information helped a new guy make a tiny pile!". I do appreciate your advice without a doubt, and I am hopeful that my next upload will show a pure little BB, also the result of this community's efforts and guidance. This is the best place on the web to find your way into this venture, and I figured by the same standard it's the best place on the web to show my proud little dusty pile.