What I did was depopulate about 35lbs of ram sticks with HCL. It went well considering I needed to do all 35lbs in 3 batches, re-using the HCL. The last batch went considerably slower than the first. I tried to keep the batches covered to keep out oxygen, only opening every so often to mix the ram sticks to eliminate dead spots in the solution.
So now I have about 1.5 gallons of spent acid which I'm assuming is mostly stannous chloride. Also there were considerable metallic powders that dropped out which I will be processing to hopefully recover silver from.
I have a couple of questions here; The spent HCL is a nice transparent purple color, is this colloidal gold? If so how do I recover? I noticed over time it wants to settle... very slowly.
The used solution, how do I treat for waste? Could I simply evaporate the water and remainder HCL and recover stannous chloride crystals? Not that I need the salt, Stannous is easy enough to make on demand. Or would it be better to drop the tin out and adjust Ph to neutralize?
Thanks.
So now I have about 1.5 gallons of spent acid which I'm assuming is mostly stannous chloride. Also there were considerable metallic powders that dropped out which I will be processing to hopefully recover silver from.
I have a couple of questions here; The spent HCL is a nice transparent purple color, is this colloidal gold? If so how do I recover? I noticed over time it wants to settle... very slowly.
The used solution, how do I treat for waste? Could I simply evaporate the water and remainder HCL and recover stannous chloride crystals? Not that I need the salt, Stannous is easy enough to make on demand. Or would it be better to drop the tin out and adjust Ph to neutralize?
Thanks.