budzag
Active member
Hi guys, long story short I made a leach solution with Sodium thiosulfate for my river black sands ect left for a week. Then filtered the solution. Then i have used 2 non magnetic pieces stainless steel for anode and cathode. Then ran at around 1.5v the amps were set at around 3. after a hour or so i turned off to check progress. Now this is the part I don't get i have seen gold attached to cathode from other users ect and the gold forms as a mud colour sludge on the cathode why would my cathode look shiny like metallic gold forming? also the anode seems to be getting eaten away at a very fast pace. The solution is forming a thick brown sludge where I'm not sure it is comming from could this be iron from the stainless anode getting eaten away it's definitely contaminating the solution from a nice clear colour. I will add a couple pics. But any help would be awesome. Would it be better to use a copper and iron rod. The only reason I went stainless was i thought I could wash the gold powder off. Thanks 
