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SCW_Summoner

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I was wondering if anyone has done a complete video series on Hokes book. I ask since I have a disability. I read words understand them then in 4 pages lose them. But I retain almost everything I see through visual aid. Anything like that? I've seen many you tubers and I have all the videos memorized. But when things go sideways for me I cant find videos. Or even forums on it. Thank you for your time.
 
Welcome to the forum.
Sorry but if that is your problem then perhaps this is not a field for you, we deal with highly toxic substances and solutions if you can’t remember what’s what perhaps look to harvest and sell 8)
 
SCW_Summoner said:
I've seen many you tubers and I have all the videos memorized. But when things go sideways for me I cant find videos.

Not to be a wise butt, but if you can memorize every video you watch, you are definitely in the wrong hobby.
 
Well I'm retired. And I have many hobbies. But as I was changing out my well water filter media. I noticed shiny metal coming out. And thought it was bits of iron and copper. Tried to clean it. Got it to cleaner copper. Melted or in homemade electric furnace. And it turns out to be 8k or so gold. Panned the rest of it out and now I have 10 pounds of it. And would like to refine it. Just joined here. But been looking at other forms as well. And tons of videos over the last 3 months. Downloaded the hoke book. But again info in then out. Would appreciate help. And what other hobbies should I add? Thanks
 
And just to clarify I know what's what. That's not the issue. The only issue is trying to get help and answers. I learn different. You sound like most of the teachers I had. Go read a book, and that's it. Well either way I will learn, with help or not. And I was a nuclear technician in the Air Force, I dealt with much worse chemicals. In the future if you dont know the answer dont raise your hand. Thank you.
 
I only melted 2 bars so far. stopped after shinning them up. thought i was melting copper to start with. Again its a new hobby. but used a jewelers test kit on it. 14k the line instantly disapears. 10k solution line disapears slowly over 30 seconds.
 
@SCW_Summoner, You have your own Gold Mine but about how long did it take to get 10 pounds? The best thing it's free.
 
Sorry if you feel our answers are not what you are looking for but we only have your best interest at heart.
When you are using chemicals that can seriously injure you or others if not worse we tend to be cautious in offering advice about using them.
My advice is to get one of your bars xrf read to find out exactly what you have there not just any gold but the base metals, if it’s mainly copper we may have a simple process to help you but we need those details first and a promise from you that you fully understand the process and it’s dangers.
 
I have a hard time to believe that you would find 10 pounds of low karat gold in your water filter. There is no real mechanism that would deposit gold and as a solid alloy in a water filter that I know of. Pipes and pipe fittings are often made from copper and copper alloys. Maybe the metal came in from work done to the pipes upstream or even a broken pump shedding pieces of metal.

It's a bit tricky but I tried to measure the size of the bars and found them to be about 31x65x101 mm sitting side by side. With 5 pounds of metal = 2270 grams it gives a density of 10,8 g/ml. Copper have a density of 8,96 and gold 19,32 g/ml. To get a density of 10,8 you have an alloy of about 4,4 karat.

This calculation is based on my approximations of the size so it can easily be off by more than 10% which means the alloy might be just plain bronze, brass or copper.

You should redo the touch stone acid test and compare it to bronze, brass and copper to see if it reacts similar to any of those alloys.
Or as Nick suggested, have the bars tested by XRF.

Göran
 
SCW_Summoner said:
Well I'm retired. And I have many hobbies. But as I was changing out my well water filter media. I noticed shiny metal coming out. And thought it was bits of iron and copper. Tried to clean it. Got it to cleaner copper. Melted or in homemade electric furnace. And it turns out to be 8k or so gold. Panned the rest of it out and now I have 10 pounds of it. And would like to refine it. Just joined here. But been looking at other forms as well. And tons of videos over the last 3 months. Downloaded the hoke book. But again info in then out. Would appreciate help. And what other hobbies should I add? Thanks

What is the source and composition of your well water filter media? If you know who the manufacturer was, Can you request an SDS (old MSDS) sheet?

Peace and health,
James
 
I am with Butcher, Nick, and Goran on this. While I do know a few people that have found traces of gold in well water, it was only traces that were identified by professionals when testing different filter media to determine best choice. I want more evidence showing what was found, filter media used (manufacturer, model, part number), material while still trapped in filter.

Please do not take this the wrong way. The skeptics here, of which I am one, love to be proven wrong. Being proven wrong increases our knowledge base.

Time for more coffee.
 
It's not from the media. The first tank is a drop tank. I live on a peninsula. Most people dont do well water here. Even with 3 filter tanks the water still tastes a little off. With out though. Its tea color. And smells of sulfur. I'm not sure what else I need to do to get help here. I know the story seems fishy. But I'm not trying to get a good story out there I'm trying to clean this up. And my well isn't bringing it up any more. Probably due to it's already to far from the inlet pipe for the pump to pull up. But I might dig a new hole. But I want to make sure that this is worth it. Again. I could use some help. Thank you
 
Be patient wit me. No there are no copper pipes. Or up stream. Pictures later. My holding tank had .5 cut of gravel. But I dumped my other tanks first of crushed charcoal. The others have tiny resin. First tank had some with charcoal. The second tank filled with it, but it was almost black due to high iron. And there was something else in holding tank. It's almost like plastic. Some are red and some are black. I will try to get a pic of that. I will look around for xrt fun as I know it will tell me everything in it. Just wanted to skip that step to be honest. And again i know the dangers of chemicals and i know how to read a msds. It was a big part of my job. I really did work with nukes. In my pic with the pipe going in floor you will see pvc shavings. Took cap off. Was going to pull pipe out and measure depth to bottom. Again plan to dig a hole spending outcome. But its capped at other end. I do know that it's no more than 13 feet. And water is at 8ft. Again i live close to ocean. It took a while to pan this. As the copper has impurities that make it fall out. Unlike gold that is heavy and stays in the pan. Anything else to look for? And if it's not gold that's fine to. This started as me being excited about copper and mixing it with aluminum to make display daggers and vases. Things like that. Not here to make gold items. But will be trying to recover the copper in either case. Thanks
 
I live in Pacific County Washington. Anyone around that can help let me know. Any more info to someone that lives close might know who I am. lol

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Oh and muriatic acid 20% did nothing to the shiny areas that look like gold but did eat at the copper area. Turned spots of the bar green. And other things like that to find out what it was without xrf gun.
 

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