nateatkins0120
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Hello all, I have been reading this forum for the past few weeks, which I understand is just a drop in the bucket, and I have read Hoke's book which has taught me a great amount, excellent resource to say the least. The reason for the post is that I used the AP process to get gold from old computer and other electronic sources, and that worked great, I then dissolved the gold in HCL and clorox, after of course 3 HCL and 3 water rinses.
I then waited 24 hours so as to let the free chlorine escape, the next day I went out and tested the liquid with Stannous chloride and it went black which to me indicates the presence of gold, so I diluted the mixture 3 times as per laserSteves website video and I used about 2 grams of SMB to precipitate out the gold (I am expecting about 1.5 grams). Nothing happened, at all.
So I did some research on this forum and I decided to heat the solution and did so for a few hours, afterwards I tested again with stannous and still had a black mark, so I tried again to precipitate with 2g of SMB. Nothing happened at all.
Then I tried heating and reducing (never boiling) the solution and then adding some HCL to it to increase the acidity and then adding some more SMB but again nothing happened, at all.
I am just wondering what I am doing wrong or if there is anything I can do just to start all over again in dissolving the gold. Now just so you know I read somewhere here to waft the air towards you to see if you can smell chlorine and there is no smell to chlorine at all.
Any ideas? I'm at a loss of what else I could try.
Thanks in advance for your help.
I then waited 24 hours so as to let the free chlorine escape, the next day I went out and tested the liquid with Stannous chloride and it went black which to me indicates the presence of gold, so I diluted the mixture 3 times as per laserSteves website video and I used about 2 grams of SMB to precipitate out the gold (I am expecting about 1.5 grams). Nothing happened, at all.
So I did some research on this forum and I decided to heat the solution and did so for a few hours, afterwards I tested again with stannous and still had a black mark, so I tried again to precipitate with 2g of SMB. Nothing happened at all.
Then I tried heating and reducing (never boiling) the solution and then adding some HCL to it to increase the acidity and then adding some more SMB but again nothing happened, at all.
I am just wondering what I am doing wrong or if there is anything I can do just to start all over again in dissolving the gold. Now just so you know I read somewhere here to waft the air towards you to see if you can smell chlorine and there is no smell to chlorine at all.
Any ideas? I'm at a loss of what else I could try.
Thanks in advance for your help.