Hi everybody.
Today I want to ask everyone about my silver bar issues.
First I will describe a bit about the origin of silver as well as how I do it:
- This silver is recovered by me from the anode sludge of copper electrolysis.
- I use the method of separating silver with concentrated sulfuric acid and then silver cement from silver sulfate solution with clean copper rods.
The cement silver is then heated with 1: 1 hydrochloric acid and all is washed off with hot water.
Then I proceed to melt and cast into silver bars as the image I attached.
My problem now is that after casting my silver bars are covered with an impurity layer, a purple bar and an opaque white bar.
I boiled them with 1: 1 sulfuric acid but it was not nearly as clean. So I have to polish them.
After polishing it I sent them for testing at a gold and silver store and the result was about 99.7% silver and some impurities as shown.
So I would like to ask you for advice so that my silver bar after casting it is the correct color of silver, not covered with impurities as before.
Another information is that when I melted, I removed the slag from the surface with a stainless steel spoon, all the slag was picked up by me, but on the surface of the molten silver water there was always a thin film and I could not remove it.
After removing the slag I put the smashed charcoal into a cooking pot and mixed well to remove oxygen while hoping it could stick the impurity film on the molten silver water but it seemed when pouring it in. in the mold, the film still follows and sticks to the surface of the silver bar.
Hope among the experienced members of the forum can have useful advice for me and I will be very grateful for that.
I wish you a good day.
Today I want to ask everyone about my silver bar issues.
First I will describe a bit about the origin of silver as well as how I do it:
- This silver is recovered by me from the anode sludge of copper electrolysis.
- I use the method of separating silver with concentrated sulfuric acid and then silver cement from silver sulfate solution with clean copper rods.
The cement silver is then heated with 1: 1 hydrochloric acid and all is washed off with hot water.
Then I proceed to melt and cast into silver bars as the image I attached.
My problem now is that after casting my silver bars are covered with an impurity layer, a purple bar and an opaque white bar.
I boiled them with 1: 1 sulfuric acid but it was not nearly as clean. So I have to polish them.
After polishing it I sent them for testing at a gold and silver store and the result was about 99.7% silver and some impurities as shown.
So I would like to ask you for advice so that my silver bar after casting it is the correct color of silver, not covered with impurities as before.
Another information is that when I melted, I removed the slag from the surface with a stainless steel spoon, all the slag was picked up by me, but on the surface of the molten silver water there was always a thin film and I could not remove it.
After removing the slag I put the smashed charcoal into a cooking pot and mixed well to remove oxygen while hoping it could stick the impurity film on the molten silver water but it seemed when pouring it in. in the mold, the film still follows and sticks to the surface of the silver bar.
Hope among the experienced members of the forum can have useful advice for me and I will be very grateful for that.
I wish you a good day.