I have a question for you more experienced refiners....
So my observation is this; when I refine gold to high purity and the powder starts clumping together in large balls and is that perfect color, it looks like a LOT! Then when I melt it, it shrinks into a much much smaller ball vs gold powder that is a bit darker and forms much smaller clumps.
I recently ran two batches. First batch was textbook. Second batch, I fell asleep several times throughout the process, had it redisolve and had to re-recover it. First batch appeared to ve 10x larger than the second batch but when I melted them, it was only twice the weight. The perfect batch was "fluffier" than the second batch. Both turned out equally beautiful.
My question is, why would one look so much larger than the other when in powder form?
So my observation is this; when I refine gold to high purity and the powder starts clumping together in large balls and is that perfect color, it looks like a LOT! Then when I melt it, it shrinks into a much much smaller ball vs gold powder that is a bit darker and forms much smaller clumps.
I recently ran two batches. First batch was textbook. Second batch, I fell asleep several times throughout the process, had it redisolve and had to re-recover it. First batch appeared to ve 10x larger than the second batch but when I melted them, it was only twice the weight. The perfect batch was "fluffier" than the second batch. Both turned out equally beautiful.
My question is, why would one look so much larger than the other when in powder form?