Hey,
I just got into gold refining/recovery over half a year now and found out that processing RAM Fingers doesnt make you rich
I mostly do it for fun but of course everyone likes gold. As a matter of fact I made losses until now for buying beakers, chemicals, respirators, ... .
After looking into buying old Karat jewlery i thought its maby more profitable and interesting to work with. Here at my place i get those gold plated watches with 20 microns of gold plating basically for free. There are just 5 to 10 dollars (EUR). Does someone has an estimate of how much gold there can be extracted from the watches shown below.
The first one is actually RPG (Rolled Gold Plate) so not far away from filled?
Is there any value to recover there?
How much gold gets removed over time in the role of protecting the watch over 5, 10, 20 or more years?
I would appreciate all information about plating/gold content/refining/other about plated jewlery.
PS: I just have HCl/Peroxide/Bleach (selfmade H2So4 if needed (I would like to not use it))
Edit: nickvc pointed out to make poormans AR. I could do that but I want to avoid using any nitrate chemicals. I have a stockpot with just chlorides and I rather want to avoid NOx gases / nitric acid in gerneral.
David
I just got into gold refining/recovery over half a year now and found out that processing RAM Fingers doesnt make you rich
I mostly do it for fun but of course everyone likes gold. As a matter of fact I made losses until now for buying beakers, chemicals, respirators, ... .
After looking into buying old Karat jewlery i thought its maby more profitable and interesting to work with. Here at my place i get those gold plated watches with 20 microns of gold plating basically for free. There are just 5 to 10 dollars (EUR). Does someone has an estimate of how much gold there can be extracted from the watches shown below.
The first one is actually RPG (Rolled Gold Plate) so not far away from filled?
Is there any value to recover there?
How much gold gets removed over time in the role of protecting the watch over 5, 10, 20 or more years?
I would appreciate all information about plating/gold content/refining/other about plated jewlery.
PS: I just have HCl/Peroxide/Bleach (selfmade H2So4 if needed (I would like to not use it))
Edit: nickvc pointed out to make poormans AR. I could do that but I want to avoid using any nitrate chemicals. I have a stockpot with just chlorides and I rather want to avoid NOx gases / nitric acid in gerneral.
David
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