Gold mattress

[goldsilverpro]

I found mention of this on another forum. Some guy has one of these and, according to him, the cover supposedly contains 1/2 pound of 22K gold thread. He said that the mattress cost $25,000 4 years ago. He wants to recover the gold. I'll probably end up answering him. In my estimation, the cover would have to be incinerated to white ash. Then the ash could be flux melted or possibly treated directly with AR.

http://www.magniflex.us/gold.html

The thread:

http://www.finishing.com/571/11.shtml

 

[qst42know]

I'd like to see what the actual yield is.

What could that possibly be for? The ultimate in opulence or the prevention of alien brain scans? :lol:

 

[Drewbie]

Aimed at the same people that wear magnetic bracelets, I think.

 

[Harold_V]

My experience with carpet leads me to think that after incineration, the ash would require a wash in HCl, which may well eliminate 90% of the volume. That's for a very good reason, by the way. The resulting ash froths something fierce, but becomes tranquil with the HCl wash. A room full of carpet was often reduced to less than a quart of solids after that treatment. It's dead easy to recover the gold once you've completed that operation.

Carpets were incinerated, then the ash roasted, to insure that all carbon had been eliminated. That, alone, would shrink the volume considerably. I took note that you made reference to incinerating to a white ash. I agree---that would be the purpose of the roast I spoke of.

I read his post--he's concerned about losing the gold in incineration. You might suggest to him that that doesn't happen. I incinerated polishing wastes on a regular basis--the only loss was through dusting. With thread, that shouldn't happen.

Harold