We wish to learn a skill to find to recover and refine gold from scrap and electronic trash.
These skills take many years to learn, and many more years to get good at it.
So where do we begin?
We do not begin by mixing acids with metals, trash or rocks, as this is not only dangerous but just stupid without having some kind basic understanding of the chemistry involved and the dangers, and knowing how to properly and safely deal with the reactions and the waste products.
Gold fever is the first thing we need to learn to overcome, gold fever causes blindness and will make someone jump off a cliff blindly chasing gold, it is the drive to learn but also an obstacle to learning.
Well, I have started this thread in hopes of helping some of our new friends in getting started, to get them to learn to study, to learn safety first and discuss it, and then move on to doing a few getting acquainted experiments.
Our goal here is to learn to begin, not to discuss different ways of doing things or different refining methods.
There are so many different ways to go, and many members will suggest a different way to go, this will only confuse our new member, we all need to be on one track, or let one member at a time help with a situation, but all following the same basic ideas or procedures...
To begin we will use dealing with the waste thread, as a place to begin our study.
Then move on to discuss some of the dangers involved, and some ways to help protect ourselves.
Then we can proceed to some small getting acquainted experiments.
Gaining an understanding of how some metals react in solution.
Then maybe do some experimenting with the Cupric chloride leach.
and a simple experiment to dissolve and recover gold without nitric.
Basically helping our new friends get started safely.
These skills take many years to learn, and many more years to get good at it.
So where do we begin?
We do not begin by mixing acids with metals, trash or rocks, as this is not only dangerous but just stupid without having some kind basic understanding of the chemistry involved and the dangers, and knowing how to properly and safely deal with the reactions and the waste products.
Gold fever is the first thing we need to learn to overcome, gold fever causes blindness and will make someone jump off a cliff blindly chasing gold, it is the drive to learn but also an obstacle to learning.
Well, I have started this thread in hopes of helping some of our new friends in getting started, to get them to learn to study, to learn safety first and discuss it, and then move on to doing a few getting acquainted experiments.
Our goal here is to learn to begin, not to discuss different ways of doing things or different refining methods.
There are so many different ways to go, and many members will suggest a different way to go, this will only confuse our new member, we all need to be on one track, or let one member at a time help with a situation, but all following the same basic ideas or procedures...
To begin we will use dealing with the waste thread, as a place to begin our study.
Then move on to discuss some of the dangers involved, and some ways to help protect ourselves.
Then we can proceed to some small getting acquainted experiments.
Gaining an understanding of how some metals react in solution.
Then maybe do some experimenting with the Cupric chloride leach.
and a simple experiment to dissolve and recover gold without nitric.
Basically helping our new friends get started safely.
