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[Barren Realms 007]

I don't want to sound discouraging but your powder looks dirty. Hope I'm wrong.

Good job though.

No you don't, if I look at the picture I would say that also. The color in the picture is a bit different than in reality, but I am confinced that it could be more pure, I didn't make a second drop.

The nugget weighs 2,22 grams and that is far more than I expected, but maybe the unexpected weight is due to some impurities. But even then I am very happy with this result!

But we'll see what the melt of this nugget will bring tomorrow. Let's hope it will be a shiny button with a nice pipe, and hopfully not a buttun with a cracked icy surface and no pipe at all :roll:

That is good I hope for the best for you.

 

[FrugalRefiner]

But we'll see what the melt of this nugget will bring tomorrow. Let's hope it will be a shiny button with a nice pipe, and hopfully not a buttun with a cracked icy surface and no pipe at all :roll:

Either ways, it's gold! Good job.

Dave

 

[patnor1011]

Cracked icy surface is a pipe too.

 

[lanfear]

It looks like you have a picture of a small chubby boy i your gold
To bad it was not madonna, you could have sold it for 3 times it's worth 8)

 

[archeonist]

It looks like you have a picture of a small chubby boy i your gold
To bad it was not madonna, you could have sold it for 3 times it's worth 8)

Haha, thats funny, I see it too. To bad the chubby boy is dissolving in AR as we speak 8)

 

[archeonist]

Cracked icy surface is a pipe too.

What is the exact meaning of the word "pipe" patnor?
I'm dutch, so English is not my first language.

 

[Barren Realms 007]

Cracked icy surface is a pipe too.

What is the exact meaning of the word "pipe" patnor?
I'm dutch, so English is not my first language.

The indention in the center of the button is known as a pipe.

 

[archeonist]

Yes barren, I know that, but partnor says the cracked surface of a gold button is also known as a pipe, so I wondered what the word itself means

 

[machiavelli976]

Cracked icy surface is not the same with frozen-like surface. When you got the so called frosted surface , you won't see any pipe. That's the prove of serious contamination.

Instead, a cracked shiny surface with no pipe could be a sign of high purity gold.

 

[patnor1011]

Cracked icy surface is not the same with frozen-like surface. When you got the so called frosted surface , you won't see any pipe. That's the prove of serious contamination.

Instead, a cracked shiny surface with no pipe could be a sign of high purity gold.

Exactly. Frozen like surface is something like on your avatar button, the one on bottom left corner. Contaminants like to present itself on surface when button is cooling, if you have to pickle your button and you see uneven not smooth surface.

 

[Anonymous]

My avatar pic shows a deep pipe, cracked surface and fern patterns all of which can be linked to gold that's pretty clean. (I hope.) 8) 8)

 

[Barren Realms 007]

My avatar pic shows a deep pipe, cracked surface and fern patterns all of which can be linked to gold that's pretty clean. (I hope.) 8) 8)

Oh is that what that picture is of. I have been trying to figure out what that was. 8)

 

[goldsilverpro]

Usually, in my experience, fern patterns indicated PGMs. When I got a fern pattern, I re-did the gold. Too low melting temperatures can produce ferns.

 

[machiavelli976]

My avatar pic shows a deep pipe, cracked surface and fern patterns all of which can be linked to gold that's pretty clean. (I hope.) 8) 8)

There's a cracking which looks like a mosaic of polygons or jigsaw puzzle and that one is always fern free . With or without any pipe , I guess that's the goal of refining.

Curved cracks goes usually with icy surfaces and weird flat bottom pipe if forming it occur.

 

[Anonymous]

Usually, in my experience, fern patterns indicated PGMs. When I got a fern pattern, I re-did the gold. Too low melting temperatures can produce ferns.

Oooh oooh thanks for that Chris! Glad I said "I hope!"

 

[archeonist]

Well, the nugget I recovered from the cpu's is almost dissolved again. Before I drop the gold, is there anything I should do to improve the purity?

 

[Geo]

Try the word "frosted" . A button with a frosted finish will be impure. Pipe is a cylinder, hollow tube. Though pipe (tubing) doesn't necessarily have to be round. It can be square, oval or almost any pattern as long as the piece is longer than it is wide and is hollow, it is a tube (pipe).

 

[Geo]

Add a drop of sulfuric acid to drop any lead as lead sulfate. Dilute the volume of solution you have by roughly double using ice to chill the solution. After the ice has dissolved, filter the solution and shine an LED light through the solution to make sure all solids has been removed. If you can see the light beam, there is still solids floating around. Allow the solution to settle over night and draw the solution off of the sediment being careful not to suck up or otherwise disturb the sediment. Stop a little short of the bottom. This small bit of solution can be diluted and then re-settled to get even more pure solution off the top. The final bit can be added to your stock pot for later.

 

[archeonist]

Try the word "frosted" . A button with a frosted finish will be impure. Pipe is a cylinder, hollow tube. Though pipe (tubing) doesn't necessarily have to be round. It can be square, oval or almost any pattern as long as the piece is longer than it is wide and is hollow, it is a tube (pipe).

Thanks for the explanation, very clear!!

 

[archeonist]

Add a drop of sulfuric acid to drop any lead as lead sulfate. Dilute the volume of solution you have by roughly double using ice to chill the solution. After the ice has dissolved, filter the solution and shine an LED light through the solution to make sure all solids has been removed. If you can see the light beam, there is still solids floating around. Allow the solution to settle over night and draw the solution off of the sediment being careful not to suck up or otherwise disturb the sediment. Stop a little short of the bottom. This small bit of solution can be diluted and then re-settled to get even more pure solution off the top. The final bit can be added to your stock pot for later.

Thanks for the advice Geo! I did these steps already but I think I didn't cool the solution enough so not all impurities got out of solution.
Very interesting technique this recovering and refining. Parts of the theory behind it I will use in my chemistry lessons, I am a chemistry teacher.