steyr223
Well-known member
Hello Everyone how's the head I hope everyone had a good Christmas
I have a friend that came across about 35 lb of gold-plated wire, we hit it with the xrf which I know isn't the right thing but it was what we had
The readings were 85% copper 6-8% gold and 7% nickel
I Tried reading up on Nickel in AP but apparently it's not the best thing , GSP says hot nitric maybe if room temp doesn't work
Nitric is so expensive and unavailable to me we are going to try it in AP, anybody have any suggestions any ideas I looked around the Forum it's hard to find anything like that there's so much stuff that has plated wire and AP in it.
Maybe somebody can point me in the right direction where I can study up on it maybe a thread I'll keep looking in the meantime
I guess basically I'm just wondering where the nickel comes in if it'll dissolve in AP or if it's left with the Gold foils and if so how to separate of course
One more thing if the 6-8% is even close that means we're looking at a lot of gold and I've never melted a lot of gold should we smelt it instead I don't think I could do that much with an oxy acetylene or can I.
Thanks in advance I do appreciate everything you guys have done for me in the past and have a good New Year's if I don't talk to you till then
Steyr223 rob
I have a friend that came across about 35 lb of gold-plated wire, we hit it with the xrf which I know isn't the right thing but it was what we had
The readings were 85% copper 6-8% gold and 7% nickel
I Tried reading up on Nickel in AP but apparently it's not the best thing , GSP says hot nitric maybe if room temp doesn't work
Nitric is so expensive and unavailable to me we are going to try it in AP, anybody have any suggestions any ideas I looked around the Forum it's hard to find anything like that there's so much stuff that has plated wire and AP in it.
Maybe somebody can point me in the right direction where I can study up on it maybe a thread I'll keep looking in the meantime
I guess basically I'm just wondering where the nickel comes in if it'll dissolve in AP or if it's left with the Gold foils and if so how to separate of course
One more thing if the 6-8% is even close that means we're looking at a lot of gold and I've never melted a lot of gold should we smelt it instead I don't think I could do that much with an oxy acetylene or can I.
Thanks in advance I do appreciate everything you guys have done for me in the past and have a good New Year's if I don't talk to you till then
Steyr223 rob