rogersdt93
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Alright, so here's the story.
Ive been in the Jewelry, Diamond & Cash for gold business since about 2007 and ive been talking and talking and talking for YEARS about refining my own gold because im getting ripped at all the refinery ive been using.
Ill bring in nice clean 14K scrap.... no clasps, no stones, all cleaned up.... and they will melt it and test it with the XRF and and on my final Invoice with the check... it will say I lost about 4 grams of melt loss and the the final gold content read by the XRF was 51.878% or like 52.93% gold purity or something stupid like that. Ive figured I lose about $400 every time i send my gold off. and that's 3 times a week.... you do the math. Needless to say, they are crooks. ANYWAY, in order to avoid getting ripped, ive decided to refine my own scrap.
So here in lies the questions....
Ive been using the inquartering process. and What i really need to know is.... exactly how much acids should I be using to refine this gold.
EXAMPLE: 100g of 14K scrap. to inquarter ill add 133g of sterling silver. Grand total of 233g of 6K gold with an estimated 58.33g of .9999Au and 123g of .9999Ag
In the nitric Leaching step.... How many Ml of Nitric should I use and in the Aqua Regia step... how many Ml of Hydrochloric should I be using.
Please help ANNNDDDD.... THANK YOU in advance
Ive been in the Jewelry, Diamond & Cash for gold business since about 2007 and ive been talking and talking and talking for YEARS about refining my own gold because im getting ripped at all the refinery ive been using.
Ill bring in nice clean 14K scrap.... no clasps, no stones, all cleaned up.... and they will melt it and test it with the XRF and and on my final Invoice with the check... it will say I lost about 4 grams of melt loss and the the final gold content read by the XRF was 51.878% or like 52.93% gold purity or something stupid like that. Ive figured I lose about $400 every time i send my gold off. and that's 3 times a week.... you do the math. Needless to say, they are crooks. ANYWAY, in order to avoid getting ripped, ive decided to refine my own scrap.
So here in lies the questions....
Ive been using the inquartering process. and What i really need to know is.... exactly how much acids should I be using to refine this gold.
EXAMPLE: 100g of 14K scrap. to inquarter ill add 133g of sterling silver. Grand total of 233g of 6K gold with an estimated 58.33g of .9999Au and 123g of .9999Ag
In the nitric Leaching step.... How many Ml of Nitric should I use and in the Aqua Regia step... how many Ml of Hydrochloric should I be using.
Please help ANNNDDDD.... THANK YOU in advance