Mountain Man
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- Sep 11, 2016
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Hello everyone,
I have been putting what I learned over the last 6 months or so to work and I must thank you all again for your help. It has truly been an eye opening and confidence building epereince. It is nice to feel like I am really getting it now and it is all because of your willingness to share your time and wealth of knowledge and experience. I have been having much more success now. Thank you.
I have a question though. I have stopped using smb all together and use only copper powder. It was interesting in the beginning but now I am totally sold on it. All my solutions are now testing 0 for gold content after I recovered all the gold. It is fast, works awesome and easy to separate with nitric.
Anyway, I had something I have not seen before. When I drop the gold not always but sometimes I get a purple/brown mud. Very heavy. I let it settle and have been washing it over and over. It is removing the purple cloud but the mud still has a purple color and so far I don't seem to be getting anywhere. I do not think I am losing any of the gold mud, but there is this purple color that seems to be the actual color of the mud. It is something that just started happening recently although I do think it has shown up in the past but I did not know what to do with it so it is gone except I have 2 beakers that have a fair amount of it in each beaker.
Anyone know what it is or if it has gold mud mixed in with the purple or is it still the gold but purple?
I have been putting what I learned over the last 6 months or so to work and I must thank you all again for your help. It has truly been an eye opening and confidence building epereince. It is nice to feel like I am really getting it now and it is all because of your willingness to share your time and wealth of knowledge and experience. I have been having much more success now. Thank you.
I have a question though. I have stopped using smb all together and use only copper powder. It was interesting in the beginning but now I am totally sold on it. All my solutions are now testing 0 for gold content after I recovered all the gold. It is fast, works awesome and easy to separate with nitric.
Anyway, I had something I have not seen before. When I drop the gold not always but sometimes I get a purple/brown mud. Very heavy. I let it settle and have been washing it over and over. It is removing the purple cloud but the mud still has a purple color and so far I don't seem to be getting anywhere. I do not think I am losing any of the gold mud, but there is this purple color that seems to be the actual color of the mud. It is something that just started happening recently although I do think it has shown up in the past but I did not know what to do with it so it is gone except I have 2 beakers that have a fair amount of it in each beaker.
Anyone know what it is or if it has gold mud mixed in with the purple or is it still the gold but purple?