Hello, I am new to this forum, so first off let me say thanks to the goodwill of this forum, its content, and its members dedicated to helping others.
Okay, so I have dedicated the last two months of my life attempting to remove GP through aqua regia process and finish by melting my AR biproduct with an oxy\ace torch in order to aquire pure gold. Unfortunately, I have never been able to successfully turn my "pure gold dust" into a metallic gold. My most recent attempts is outlined as followed: I always do step
1. Make nitric acid (pool store HCL, stump remover nitrate, copper L
2. Use 3/1 hcl/nitric mixture to make aqua regia and allow jewelery to be eatten up over night, periodically adding a few Ml of HCL and stirring the AR.
3. Filter all undisolved jewelery from the AR solution and place them in my recycle jar.
4. I started with Urea, but the fert I used had 2 other substances which were not disolving, so I switched to baking soda in order to neutralize the nitric.
- does fert containing the time released blue urea and the tiny rocks affect the solution?
- does baking soda have negative affect on the solution, and how do i remove exccess soda?
5. add SMB equivilant to the weight of the jewelery used (32gm in this case but i've tried using just the expected yield weight as well) stir excessively for about 15 minutes and allow to subtle in cool temp.
- I understand to much SMB starts to pull copper out of the AR
- Home made Stannous Chloride has never successfully shown purple, or any other color (maybe a minor hint of purple initially)
!! I am confused at this point. !! steps 4&5
SOME people say that if the solution turns into a light coffee color then I have ruined my solution, because I have attempted to neutrilize the acid to quickly thuse causing something to pH to riseto high to quickly. I have attempted this step with several methods and eventually end up with a coffeelike light tan solution which will eventually subtle at the bottom of the remaining clear liquid.
5. Pour off the liquid, and usea buchner funnel to quickly filter the dust. I filter water through the funnel twice, and once with ammonia, and finally distilled water.
6. place the sludge on a hotplate and allow to dry
7. I wet my crucible by melting some boric acid and then place the dust and sprinkle a little more boric acid ontop then I use a propane burner/torch to gently get the boric to melt over the dirt so when I use my oxy/ace torch I dont blow my dust away.
8. Burn until melted to "liquid" periodically sprinkling a little bit more boric.
- All I have ever ended up with is glass, either green, light blue, dark black, even dark red one time
So after wasting two months of my life I have finally munstered the courage to ask for help. I have attached a few photos of various dirts created through my process of refining. Please help me understand where I am going wrong , thanks in advance.
Okay, so I have dedicated the last two months of my life attempting to remove GP through aqua regia process and finish by melting my AR biproduct with an oxy\ace torch in order to aquire pure gold. Unfortunately, I have never been able to successfully turn my "pure gold dust" into a metallic gold. My most recent attempts is outlined as followed: I always do step
1. Make nitric acid (pool store HCL, stump remover nitrate, copper L
2. Use 3/1 hcl/nitric mixture to make aqua regia and allow jewelery to be eatten up over night, periodically adding a few Ml of HCL and stirring the AR.
3. Filter all undisolved jewelery from the AR solution and place them in my recycle jar.
4. I started with Urea, but the fert I used had 2 other substances which were not disolving, so I switched to baking soda in order to neutralize the nitric.
- does fert containing the time released blue urea and the tiny rocks affect the solution?
- does baking soda have negative affect on the solution, and how do i remove exccess soda?
5. add SMB equivilant to the weight of the jewelery used (32gm in this case but i've tried using just the expected yield weight as well) stir excessively for about 15 minutes and allow to subtle in cool temp.
- I understand to much SMB starts to pull copper out of the AR
- Home made Stannous Chloride has never successfully shown purple, or any other color (maybe a minor hint of purple initially)
!! I am confused at this point. !! steps 4&5
SOME people say that if the solution turns into a light coffee color then I have ruined my solution, because I have attempted to neutrilize the acid to quickly thuse causing something to pH to riseto high to quickly. I have attempted this step with several methods and eventually end up with a coffeelike light tan solution which will eventually subtle at the bottom of the remaining clear liquid.
5. Pour off the liquid, and usea buchner funnel to quickly filter the dust. I filter water through the funnel twice, and once with ammonia, and finally distilled water.
6. place the sludge on a hotplate and allow to dry
7. I wet my crucible by melting some boric acid and then place the dust and sprinkle a little more boric acid ontop then I use a propane burner/torch to gently get the boric to melt over the dirt so when I use my oxy/ace torch I dont blow my dust away.
8. Burn until melted to "liquid" periodically sprinkling a little bit more boric.
- All I have ever ended up with is glass, either green, light blue, dark black, even dark red one time
So after wasting two months of my life I have finally munstered the courage to ask for help. I have attached a few photos of various dirts created through my process of refining. Please help me understand where I am going wrong , thanks in advance.
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