How do you make your silver look professional?

[Michael4891]

those are some photos of what the flakes looks like after nitric wash before aqua regia am trying to figure out best way to clean it before it goes into the regia so this way I am dealing with more gold than other crud that may stop the gold from dropping. I dissolved the last one just fine tested for gold my strip turned dark black on stannous test. I added urea to neutralize the acid a bit added urea slowly till there was no reaction then bucks on a kilo again filtered solution added ice solution turned like oj but with a light tint of green which I seen people extract gold out of way nastier solution on you tube and other sights I just cant seem to get the gold to drop I got it to drop on one small batch a little over a gram of pure gold mud and the I followed the same steps again and nothing dropped I cant figure out what I did wrong if any one has a suggestion on what it may be before I start another small batch I don't want to waste the gold its all pure profit at this point. my first drop covered my chemical cost my crucibles and material plus I was able to get 2 more kilos of gold pins for very cheap if I can get this drop done perfectly I can profit over 1500$ on a kilo of gold CPU pins my first drop was 18 grams at 98% purity that was measured an assay machine at 2 different local pawn shops. was just under a half ounce of pure gold I could have gone one more time through the process to try and get to the 99.9 but I was scared of doing something wrong and loosing all my gold that was my first time dropping and I haven't been able to get it proper ever since I should have recorded the exact process but I didn't think about it I got to excited.

 

[Yggdrasil]

well to start seems like you did just fine with my lack of commas and other punctuation just less I have to type. you seem to have had no issues reading it and understanding it perfectly, I melt in a temp. controlled smelter with propane gas. I try to use crucibles that my buddy makes it has a screw on door top that keeps things from falling into the molten metal I usually just poor directly into the heated molds always preheated to at least 150 to 250 degrees of the metal itself. my crucible has a small spout with a small air hole to allow the metal to pour out with out splashing allowing small amounts of air into the container as the metal comes out.so should I pour faster allowing less oxygen to absorb? and I melting coins cause these have no set value if you cant really tell what the coins is the coins I melt are not even legible so it's easier to make a kilo bar than have a bunch of coins with unreadable dates or faces are so worn out you can barely even tell what the coins is. that's why I melt them I don't melt anything that can be seen what it is by the naked eye or has a date every coin I melt is pretty much almost completely worn down and unreadable there for has no coin value if you cant see the artwork on the coins or the date at all no one will be able to give you a value therefore easier to melt into a bar and shine up at least that way its easier to store and i also make some of the coins I melt down into pendants with custom engraving and I can sell them for over the spot price of silver I sell one ounce pendants for like 45 dollars depending on the engraving and 2 ounce can go as much as 80 just something I do for fun. I am having more trouble getting pure gold to drop from my agua regia. also there has to be a better way to filter out the regia and getting the flakes off the filters to purify the gold I processed close to three ounces of pins and processor with nitric acid now I have a crap load of gold flake mixed with a little sludge and broken down filter the last time I put this in my agua regia I couldn't get the gold to drop at all I still have a container that should have close to 3 grams of pure gold that I can never figure out how to get it to separate out of the regia.

I'm sorry to say that the only reason I read your post is that I'm a moderator and are obligated to do so.
But the ones best suited to help you might not wish that headache.

I will only comment at the Gold question.
How much material did you process?

 

[Yggdrasil]

those are some photos of what the flakes looks like after nitric wash before aqua regia am trying to figure out best way to clean it before it goes into the regia so this way I am dealing with more gold than other crud that may stop the gold from dropping. I dissolved the last one just fine tested for gold my strip turned dark black on stannous test. I added urea to neutralize the acid a bit added urea slowly till there was no reaction then bucks on a kilo again filtered solution added ice solution turned like oj but with a light tint of green which I seen people extract gold out of way nastier solution on you tube and other sights I just cant seem to get the gold to drop I got it to drop on one small batch a little over a gram of pure gold mud and the I followed the same steps again and nothing dropped I cant figure out what I did wrong if any one has a suggestion on what it may be before I start another small batch I don't want to waste the gold its all pure profit at this point. my first drop covered my chemical cost my crucibles and material plus I was able to get 2 more kilos of gold pins for very cheap if I can get this drop done perfectly I can profit over 1500$ on a kilo of gold CPU pins my first drop was 18 grams at 98% purity that was measured an assay machine at 2 different local pawn shops. was just under a half ounce of pure gold I could have gone one more time through the process to try and get to the 99.9 but I was scared of doing something wrong and loosing all my gold that was my first time dropping and I haven't been able to get it proper ever since I should have recorded the exact process but I didn't think about it I got to excited.

First of all.
It is decompose or deNOx the Nitric, not neutralize when we are talking about acids.
Neutralizing an acid means to bring it to a pH of 7 (Neutral).

If you have trouble dropping your Gold, try to cement it on Copper.
Add a piece of solid Copper until it stops dropping powders.
It should be between 98 and 999 in purity if done right.

 

[4metals]

well to start seems like you did just fine with my lack of commas and other punctuation just less I have to type.

Reading threads on a screen is made easier by punctuation and spacing.

Ygg simply pointed this out to you and proceeded to answer your question.

Your response however, simplified my response, because of your attitude I too have much less to type.

It is a shame because from your description there a number of things you could do better. I'm just not inclined to type that much.