dilution of hcl/cl solution

[captain1]

Hey guys I was wondering if instead of diluting with 3 times the amount of water. Can I use sodium sulfate to neutralize the chlorine? Why I am asking is I am using calcium hypochlorite at 73% available chlorine. And I am using about 50 gallons of 4/1 hcl/cl . So diluting with water makes huge amounts of solution to precipitate my gold out of. And to dispose of when finished. I will use most of it to put on my next batch of ore. After I sweeten it up. And to pre clean my ore with. Lot's less solution to work with would be great. Especially when it comes to filtering. I am loading up my solution before I drop my gold out. Any Ideas on this would be great. Thanks kirt

 

[lazersteve]

Kirt,

Dilution is to insure that any dissolved silver chloride precipitates out if the acid solution.

Cooling the solution down with ice before filtering has the same effect without the increase in volume.

If silver is not in the source material dilution is not required.

Steve