To be very discriptive..
Most of the gold was off the keypads of old cell phones, but I also included most of the boards off the phones, broke the fingers off ram sticks, some old cpu processors, and the gold from ink cartridges. For the poor mans AR i used hydrochloric acid and mixed in ammonium nitrates out of the instant cold ice packs.
This was my process....
step 1: did my best to remove as much of the base metals off of everything that I could by hand before applying to acids. Step 2: soaked the boards in hydrochloric and sulfuric acids for a day or 2, and then drained off that acid. Step 3: applied the poor mans aqua regia. step 4: filtered off the acid. step 5: evaporated off most of the acid in a crock pot outside in the sunlight (i read the sunlight kills off the nitrates). step 6: added hydrochloric acid and some tap water to the acid in the crock pot. step 7: filtered off the acid. step 8: stirred in the smb into a pitcher of hot water until it was dissolved and added it into the acid. step 9: after letting the sediment settle I poured off and siphoned off as much of the liquid as possible. after the first time of this I added water to the sediment and then poured it off again. I repeated this 3-4 times. step 10: let it dry
My first attempt at dissolving the gold with the AR left a good amount of mud in the acid which threw me for a loop. So I separated the mud from acid and set the mud aside so i could see if I could get anything to drop from the acid which wasn't happening. What I think may have happened was that I didn't add enough ammonium nitrate to the acid for the gold to fully disolve. So I then did the process (stated above) to the sediment that was left from the first AR application. Before adding the SMB the acid solution was a merky green, and when I added the SMB I could see a glittery sediment seperate and settle that was the color of a gold crayon (not yellow gold jewelry) which left the solution a clear diluted green color. The sediment went from being the color of a gold crayon to the grayish color that you see in the picture once it was dry. And what you see in the picture is only a small sample of the 44 grams
Thanks for your help and time guys and gals!!!