Mmbullion1776
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- Apr 3, 2019
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So I guess this will be my introduction post. I’m a young man trying to get into the hobby/business of refining. I’ve been stacking for over a year and researching refining for an equal amount of time. Now on to my problems..
I decided to try the Clorox method first with a small amount of placer gold. 3 grams to be exact. I’m greatly regretting it now though as it has been 2 days and it doesn’t look like I have any gold in solution. I have added minimal bleach to my HCL every few hours to try and reduce volume of waste. I am not using heat. (This might be my problem). I filterd my solution today to remove the salt from the bottom, it appears the placer has turned a dark grey almost black I will post a picture. I kept my solution and dried my material and weighed it now it weighs 2.5 grams instead. I’m thinking about just scrapping this and investing in the proper nitric acid. Thanks guys hope I provided adequate information I really try to do my research.
I decided to try the Clorox method first with a small amount of placer gold. 3 grams to be exact. I’m greatly regretting it now though as it has been 2 days and it doesn’t look like I have any gold in solution. I have added minimal bleach to my HCL every few hours to try and reduce volume of waste. I am not using heat. (This might be my problem). I filterd my solution today to remove the salt from the bottom, it appears the placer has turned a dark grey almost black I will post a picture. I kept my solution and dried my material and weighed it now it weighs 2.5 grams instead. I’m thinking about just scrapping this and investing in the proper nitric acid. Thanks guys hope I provided adequate information I really try to do my research.