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anachronism

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Time for a competition.

Rules: You get to ask your questions BEFORE you provide your answers. Once you put your answers in it's too late to ask again and you get one shot.

So now we have that out there here goes.

Here's a bag of 660 fuzzies.

Questions are as follows:

1. How long did it take (in hours) to get the gold into solution.
2. How many litres of solution did it take to get these into solution.
3. How much gold did I get?
4. How many litres of overall waste were generated? That includes solution, washing, everything.

I'd recommend asking a lot of questions BEFORE making your bids here guys. Let's have some fun.

For the record: A member already has all the answers and will not be guessing, that way it's all clear and transparent.
 

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Brought back the memory of taking a 5 lb bag of those and used an "all" a sharp needle hole punch. Poking each individually out. I must of had too much time on my hands back then...

Did you presoak before ar or just straight or any process of getting rid of plastics?
 
acpeacemaker said:
Did you presoak before ar or just straight or any process of getting rid of plastics?

Straight into AR- the AR leaves the plastic alone 8)

Jon
 
anachronism said:
acpeacemaker said:
Did you presoak before ar or just straight or any process of getting rid of plastics?

Straight into AR- the AR leaves the plastic alone 8)

Jon

Yeah, but you probably needed to rinse the plastic off afterwards, with the rinse waters probably needing to be evaporated down before adding to the decanted AR solution...

Anyway that is a lot of math to do, does the name "competition" implies there is a prize involved :shock: ?

my questions would be
1. What was the C0 of AR - did you warm it up or just left it to sit in a room temperature?
2. What was your chosen method of precipitation?
3. I've heard there could be Beryllium in fuzzies, was there any type of second refining involved or just straight one time recovery cycle with AR?
 
Hi Nik

The rinse waters don't need any evaporation so factor that into to the requested volumes.

Sure there's a prize. Knowledge 8) 8)

1. Roughly 70 degrees C
2. SMB
3. The fuzzies we had here showed no Be, and it was a one step refine straight to 99.9% pure gold.
 
silversaddle1 said:
Since I have over 100 of these as well, I'm just waiting for the answer! :)
100 pounds :!: :?: :shock:

Or 100 squares?

Knowing you, silversaddle, it could be either one :)
 
This will be fun!

After doing some in debt research (reading Jon's old posts) I would hazard a guess of 72.6g of gold, but let's get formal here...

anachronism said:
1. How long did it take (in hours) to get the gold into solution.
2. How many litres of solution did it take to get these into solution.
3. How much gold did I get?
4. How many litres of overall waste were generated? That includes solution, washing, everything.

Here are my answers :
1. 3.5 hours
2. 9.8 liters of AR solution
3. 72.6 g
4. 22 liters of waste

Without any motivations. :mrgreen:

And I have a question for you, but it will not affect my answer. :wink:
How did you test for beryllium in the fuzz buttons?

Göran
 
g_axelsson said:
This will be fun!

After doing some in debt research (reading Jon's old posts) I would hazard a guess of 72.6g of gold, but let's get formal here...

anachronism said:
1. How long did it take (in hours) to get the gold into solution.
2. How many litres of solution did it take to get these into solution.
3. How much gold did I get?
4. How many litres of overall waste were generated? That includes solution, washing, everything.

Here are my answers :
1. 3.5 hours
2. 9.8 liters of AR solution
3. 72.6 g
4. 22 liters of waste

Without any motivations. :mrgreen:

And I have a question for you, but it will not affect my answer. :wink:
How did you test for beryllium in the fuzz buttons?

Göran

Sorry that just struck me as very funny and I couldn't resist it, :lol:

Even though I know "spell check???" can do weird things at times.
 
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