GotTheBug
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- Sep 25, 2012
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After 4 years of learning, and much trial and error, I got my first toll refine. Not a big one by any stretch, but a milestone for me in a couple of ways, and I owe it all to you guys. Enjoy the journey with me, and any critiques are more than welcome.
My local gold guy told me about some jewelry he had, sterling with gold accents, and asked me if I could "do anything with it", in other words recover the gold.
Since it was mostly sterling, I thought "perfect for inqarting", and melted into shot.
I went to nitric straight away, and worked a treat, then dropped the silver, in another beaker of course.
After washing out silver (and copper) bearing solution, straight to AR
I had some excess nitric when I tested, so by the time I took this picture it was already turning back
a little bit, but gave a hot positive for Gold!
It looks like we have a 5 picture limit, so I'll see if I can do the rest on the next post.
My local gold guy told me about some jewelry he had, sterling with gold accents, and asked me if I could "do anything with it", in other words recover the gold.
Since it was mostly sterling, I thought "perfect for inqarting", and melted into shot.
I went to nitric straight away, and worked a treat, then dropped the silver, in another beaker of course.
After washing out silver (and copper) bearing solution, straight to AR
I had some excess nitric when I tested, so by the time I took this picture it was already turning back
a little bit, but gave a hot positive for Gold!
It looks like we have a 5 picture limit, so I'll see if I can do the rest on the next post.