Non-Chemical 5 gal A/P Bucket =NEWBIE

[necromancer]

Here's my set up. Every other day I filter every bucket and replace back with more fingers if others clean and the same solution, then refine the foils and seem to be getting around 5 grams each time . Am going to do my 30 lb. lot then figure out how to get dissolved gold out of solution !! I keep around 2.5 to 3 lbs of fingers in each bucket. I keep buckets covered except when working them and fumes still can get out and I do wear gloves ,face shield and respirator ! SAFETY ALWAYS !!!

hope no one is going to be eating or sitting on that table. (safety first)

your doing a great job recovering, please make sure the little things get taken care of.
bubbles from the bucket will be putting acid & heavy metals on the seats & table top.

 

[Pantherlikher]

dirkclod
Hope you are not adding anymore peroxide.
You only needed enough to start the reaction. Then the solution does the rest. Except for maybe adding alittle HCL to keep things covered.

There will be NO gold in solution as it's all copper, nickle, etc.

Rinse the flakes good several times water, HCL, water. Warm to hot to get the Copper chlorides out. Letting gold settle each time. And pour off rinses into tall container and let sit for a day or so. More fine gold will settle out.

Looks good except not very secure. Hope there's no kids, amminals or wind to cause an accident. Maybe on the ground with a box over it so it's not so open.

B.S.
...I like pics of flakes. Lots of flakes...

 

[glorycloud]

Being a fisherman, I started processing gold fingers in an old plastic minnow bucket setup
that had a slotted bucket inside a bucket to allow you to lift the inner bucket and more
easily get the minnows that you were fishing with. I just put the fingers in the inner
bucket and with some vigorous up and down motion and water rinsing I could get most
of the foils to come off and float down into the main bucket. 8)

 

[dirkclod]

Here ya go pantherlikher .

 

[Pantherlikher]

Nice pic. I swirreled mine for over an hour playing with it.

Then poured of the brown silt from it and have the flakes next to my mouse as a constant reminder to stay focused.
The brown silt I add to other batches of HCL + bleach when I'm getting ready to drop. After a day, I decant, pour solution into drop glass, and rinse using rinse water to add to drop solution.
Helps to use up the acids for easier drop of dirty gold.
Next month or so, when it warms up(I clean the garage out as per wife), I'll start off by refinning all powders except my flakes and work on the melting to show her, and ya'll, my first button. From mostly gold trimmed glassware.

 

[butcher]

I cannot wait to see the pictures of the clean garage, and the gold also, although for me the clean garage would be the harder task, of the two, and more of an accomplishment to show the wife, although she does like the gold...