If I have different types of silver, (i.e; oxide, chloride, sulfide, etc.) all mixed together, how can I separate them?

[Parallel Mint]

If I have different types of silver, (i.e; oxide, chloride, sulfide, etc.) all mixed together, how can I separate them? I know what you're asking... Why would they be mixed together.? Let's just say I gotta get it all gathered up quickly, I'm limited on storage containers and time. I'd like to finish what I started at a later date. I have some silver precipitates that have been cleaned of all acids and some that are not, however even the acidic containers have all dried up. How can I do this?

 

[Yggdrasil]

If I have different types of silver, (i.e; oxide, chloride, sulfide, etc.) all mixed together, how can I separate them? I know what you're asking... Why would they be mixed together.? Let's just say I gotta get it all gathered up quickly, I'm limited on storage containers and time. I'd like to finish what I started at a later date. I have some silver precipitates that have been cleaned of all acids and some that are not, however even the acidic containers have all dried up. How can I do this?

Welcome to us.
You have a veritable mess on your hands that is correct.
But in order to sort it out we need to get some more info.
You said you have Silver Chloride, Silver Oxide and Silver Sulfate in a mix.
So we need to know how this came to be.
The silver Chloride, how was it created?
Silver Oxide how did that come into action?
And the Silver sulfate.

The good thing is that Silver Oxide will dissolve in Nitric.
So that may be fixed.
Dried Silver Chloride more or less have only one route and that is smelting.

So please indulge us with a more detailed description.

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[Martijn]

If I have different types of silver, (i.e; oxide, chloride, sulfide, etc.) all mixed together, how can I separate them? I know what you're asking... Why would they be mixed together.? Let's just say I gotta get it all gathered up quickly, I'm limited on storage containers and time. I'd like to finish what I started at a later date. I have some silver precipitates that have been cleaned of all acids and some that are not, however even the acidic containers have all dried up. How can I do this?

Is it silver sulfide or -sulfate? And what are the etcetera's exactly?
if it's silver sulfate and not sulfide, the sulfuric / iron method may be the all in one solution. It might even work on silver sulfide, but you will create H2S, so study and ask before you do anything!