Non-Chemical Darn weather

[bswartzwelder]

I separated the inner and outer buckets from my AP process and filtered most of the solution through a coffee filter. Put a lid on what was left and took the inner bucket into the house to process. Took the boards out and scrubbed them over the inner bucket which at this time was inside a new 5 gallon bucket. Got a lot of foils to come off into the inner bucket. Off to bed with plans to finish today. At 1:00 AM, a really violent storm went through. Before I could get dressed and downstairs, it blew the original outer bucket off the workbench spilling almost everything. I grabbed what was left and brought it inside. Today, I noticed there was still some blue liquid in the bottom of the bucket, and remarkably, a few foils. There was also some sticks, leaf fragments and dirt in the bucket. I cleaned the best I could, but it still has a little debris in there that I cannot separate out.

At this point, I'm thinking about putting the stuff in some flux and melting it. The heat would get rid of most of the trash and the flux should help everything float off the gold. Any ideas? We're talking about several grams of foils at most. I have cleaned everything with several HCl washes.

 

[maynman1751]

I think that I would incinerate all of the material and put it in a HCl/Cl solution to dissolve out any values. Incinerating should destroy most organics that have contaminated what you have left. Then filter and drop out what I could. Just my suggestion.