Gold_Daze,
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What you are trying to learn is a skill in a complicated trade, the science of precious metal recovery and refining, using chemistry and chemical reactions.
With this type of chemistry there are many dangers involved.
It is not as simple as you think it is.
The chemistry involved and the understanding involved is very complex, the intranet will lead you to believe it is very simple and easy, this science is far from that, like any chemistry there is much involved, many reactions, and dangers when doing this work, you need to gain an understanding of what you are doing, and learn to do it safely.
You are making very toxic solutions, which if not dealt with properly can be very dangerous to you and others, you will be working with many deadly gases of these reactions, you need to understand these dangers, and learn how to minimize them and keep yourself , and others safe. In some cases you are getting close to making explosive reactions, especially when mixing chemicals and metals with no idea of these reactions.
This chemistry, like any chemistry or trade, takes an education, and an understanding of the basics, and the chemical reactions involved, and the needed safety precautions, understanding of the chemicals, their dangers, their reactions with each other, and with metals, the safety of using them, and how to dispose of them, or their waste properly.
You can learn this without learning all of the chemistry like the chemical equations, but you will still need to understand their chemical behaviors, their danger...
To be successful at recovery and refining it will take a lot of work and a lot of time studying, it is not hard to learn, you cannot just read a little, or watch some videos and then dump some acids on some metals, or other materials, mix a few other chemicals in and figure it all out that way.
This science like other sciences, chemistry, art, or skill is a learning process, one that will take dedication.
If you have no mechanical knowledge or skill would you be able to take an old truck apart, separating every part of it down to individual parts (every nut bolt and part, including taking all of the wiring apart) throw the parts all in a big shed with other bad parts from several other truck parts, and mix them up, then separate out the parts you need and then rebuild your truck putting it all back together and have it run, better than before you tore it down.
You would need to gain an understanding of how the truck is made, what each part was, how the parts work, how they go together, an understanding of basic mechanical knowledge, and understand how the truck runs, why one thing will work and way something else will not work, and also understand how to work on it safely, without dropping the jacked up truck on top of you while your under it, or not blow the gas tank up while cutting off a rusted bolt close to the gas tank.
Like becoming a scientist in this art and skill you must first gain an understanding of the basics, basic safety, the basic principles of how it works, why it works one way and not another way, how to do it safely and responsibly.
Study is the key to learning to recover and refine, to learn how to get the gold, here with this forum you have been given all of the needed manuals of how to do it,, in Hokes book you can learn the basic principles, you also have many members willing to help you when you do not understand what your studying, or willing to give you a hand to help guide you in the right direction, who may tell you when your going the wrong way, to help you to get back on the right track.
I am not sure what you have learned up to this point, but it seems to me you haven’t learned much yet about the science of recovery and refining, and what you have learned may well be wrong, trying to use chemicals with metals at this point, will only cause you problems and slow your learning process in the long run.
Starting with study now, with Hokes book, and the forum, and learning the safety, the basic principles involved, and the chemistry involved will prepare you for when you do start using the chemicals to recover and refine gold, or recover and refine other valuable metals.
The study will seem slow, there is a lot to this science, art and skill, but with study and starting with simple processes you will gain knowledge and the skill needed to do this work safely and successfully, and build on that knowledge and skill as you can in other complicated skills or trades, to learn it can take a lifetime, if you wish to learn it all you would need many lifetimes, but if you learn this like you would any complicated science, art, skill, or trade, you can easily learn to recover and refine metals.
And enjoy a lifetime of learning more and getting better at this skill, and trade.
Learn the basic principles first, learn the safety, learn the simpler processes, and work your way up, improving your knowledge and skill in this science.
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