Let’s get back to the original OP.
Skinny,
Finding threads that can directly help a specific problem can feel pretty futile at times, no doubt. Been there myself. I still read the forum, and often do random search’s just to see something new, or more like old. Just something to read. This often leads to re finding things I had forgot, or more importantly, things that i didn’t understand the first time around. When you do a search and you get hundreds of results I am always curious as to why so many results. What I have found is that the same questions are ask over and over. This is a problem if you need it quick, but long term those posts often have a new piece of information on the subject. By reading the majority, or even all of them, you will often get a full education on the subject. As well, you can get side tracked into another subject and learn a lot about a future question you may have later, and you may not even realize your getting ahead in one subject while feeling overwhelmed by the search result numbers of another subject. Keep the fact you’re looking for an education in mind and try to soak it all in. Putting it into practice later will be much easier.
Also I feel your original post may have been a bit misunderstood. You tried to explain your plan, as you understood it and we often ask to be done. Being very new, it may not have came out right or at least from the point of more experienced people. Reading the mass search results will also eventually improve this for both sides. Think of it this way, if someone ask about sodium metabisulfate, and the answer to the question was given correctly and simply, would it help the one asking if they actually wanted information on sodium metabisulfite? This is why many times posting links are more helpful than just getting one question answered. Frustrating at times, yes, but long term it can be more helpful.
that is a fair reply and i respect that. i do not mean to be rude by asking the things i did but i wish it was easier to sort through all of these threads. i dont want you to think i didnt look through them once you posted them i did and learned alot exactly as you wanted but with out your link to it i likely wouldnt have found it and for just that reason im glad i asked a stupid question.
Its not that a question is stupid, but if you sat at a help desk day after day and only ever heard one or two questions, for years in many members cases, how long would it to take to start falling asleep on the job? Now suppose that your job now pays absolutely nothing. How long would a person keep that job just for the fun of it? For me, I don’t think I could make to the end of the first day.
Now as for your plan.
my plan is simple at the moment.
calculate how much material i have and inquart it to 6k gold alloy using sterling silver.
dissolve silver and base metals with nitric acid boils until solution is clear
filter rinse and then use sulfuric acid to drop lead
filter rinse
do an aqua regia dissolve on the remaining gold sponge
filter and then precipitate and repeat aqua regia for a second refine.
We need to know what the material is. We can assume, based on your plan of inquarting, that it karat gold. Assuming not a good thing. Hence the questions on what you have.
Nitric would be a nice step, if you inquarted karat gold and made it into shot, hence my answer of pouring your shot, I assumed, not a good thing.
I am not sure adding sulfuric into nitric will drop lead, I need to do some research, or a forum search. I don’t need another assumption.( I truly do not know the answer here. )
Filtering here sounds good, if all my assumptions are correct.
AR here sounds good, again if I assumed correctly. This is where I would add the sulfuric to deal with any lead. Now if lead is there, and this is an assumption (I know, not a good thing) but it is better to find out now if lead is an issue here, and not when melting the gold later. Also, do not forget to use a step here to take out any residual silver that may have snuck by and made it to this point. Excess water, or ice will help with that.
Here is a spot that you missed if your looking very high grade results. Do not skip your wash procedures here. Another search subject with many ways to do it, and most are right in their respective situation when originally posted. Harold had a good working method especially for karat gold, if that assumption was correct.
I do a second refine, even if the powders look clean. The whole procedure, every step. I may use different chemicals as precipitants at times.
This all assumes that our/my assumptions are correct. I wish I was that good, but it is best to assume I may not be.
The real answer, if none of us assume, we will be better at this.
