Hi all
First time posting, long time lurking as per usual.
My name is James aka Jungl3Jim, from the north of Auckland, New Zealand in a small place called Ahuroa.
I've been recovering silver scrap for a number of years just as a hobby. Certainly no big scrapper, but have always and will continue to, enjoy what I do.
Before I get to my question, I have to say a special thanks to Kadriver (Sreetips for me until I starting figuring out who was who), as your clip/vids have pretty much taught me the bulk of what I know in terms of processes. Legend and thank you
So.. over a short period I acquired a small amount of 9ct gold. I'm aware I should inquart, but decided to see what happened if I hit it with Nitric without doing so. Seemed to come up okay and looking like it should, nice and brown/caramel.
At that point I melted the remaining gold (+ whatever impurities still in there) back down and inquart with some cement silver down to approx. 6ct as all I wanted to do was see how the 9ct went.
Now my question being, as I've used my cement silver which the lot I used came from old cutlery and was darker than the majority I recover, do you think the green in the solution of my newly dissolving 6ct inquarted gold would be an indication of PGMs (likely paladium)? I'm near 100% certain there is very little copper.
Thanks for everything, all of you.
One of the best hobbies I have and never would have ended up where I am if not for you all.
Look forward to chatting.
Cheers!
JJ
First time posting, long time lurking as per usual.
My name is James aka Jungl3Jim, from the north of Auckland, New Zealand in a small place called Ahuroa.
I've been recovering silver scrap for a number of years just as a hobby. Certainly no big scrapper, but have always and will continue to, enjoy what I do.
Before I get to my question, I have to say a special thanks to Kadriver (Sreetips for me until I starting figuring out who was who), as your clip/vids have pretty much taught me the bulk of what I know in terms of processes. Legend and thank you
So.. over a short period I acquired a small amount of 9ct gold. I'm aware I should inquart, but decided to see what happened if I hit it with Nitric without doing so. Seemed to come up okay and looking like it should, nice and brown/caramel.
At that point I melted the remaining gold (+ whatever impurities still in there) back down and inquart with some cement silver down to approx. 6ct as all I wanted to do was see how the 9ct went.
Now my question being, as I've used my cement silver which the lot I used came from old cutlery and was darker than the majority I recover, do you think the green in the solution of my newly dissolving 6ct inquarted gold would be an indication of PGMs (likely paladium)? I'm near 100% certain there is very little copper.
Thanks for everything, all of you.
One of the best hobbies I have and never would have ended up where I am if not for you all.
Look forward to chatting.
Cheers!
JJ