Hello everyone. I am having trouble getting my gold to settle. I started with 30 pounds of Military connectors. I used hydrochloric acid distilled water and a very small amount of hydrogen peroxide to separate gold foils. Dissolved gold in aqua regia, boiled everything down to a syrup to ensure all nitric was boiled off. Rehydrated with hydrochloric and began dropping SMB and adding distilled water as needed to continue diluting solution until the solution turned black. Continued to drop SMB until I got a negative stanus test (way more SMB than I thought it would take). It has been 3 days and the gold seems to be just very finely suspended in solution and won't settle to the bottom.
I took a 1 liter sample and boiled it down to 500 ml because I thought I may have added too much water. But the sample seems to be acting the same as the main solution.
Has anyone had this kind of problem before? Any advice?
I took a 1 liter sample and boiled it down to 500 ml because I thought I may have added too much water. But the sample seems to be acting the same as the main solution.
Has anyone had this kind of problem before? Any advice?