Is there a way to drop gold faster?

[Yggdrasil]

If I remember right by mixing smb with water it converts or changes to sodium sulfite. It still has the ability to drop gold. By mixing smb with an acid it changes it to SO2 gas. Again it still drops gold. The difference might be subtle but they are different. If we drop smb into AR, it is often wasteful of the SO2 by just covering the surface. By mixing with water it can mix into the AR but it dilutes it as well. By mixing smb into HCl it produces SO2 gas that when pumped into AR it mix’s in and drops the gold without diluting the AR solution. By dropping from a concentrated solution the drop can often work somewhat better than from a dilute solution.

They all can work, do so slightly different from each other.

Did I get that right?

Deano had a post where he presented one of his preferred methods of using SMB.
He compressed them to small balls/prills and dropped them into the liquor.
This made the SO₂ being created well under the surface and slower.

 

[Ayham Hafez]

From some of your questions in the past, I have assumed you were doing some refining on a larger scale. However having seen most of Sreetips videos I know he is not refining large amounts of gold, relatively speaking. Out of curiosity, what is your goal here, a hobby refiner or a small or medium sized commercial refiner?

Small scale refiner, I usually recover gold from E-waste, processing about 3 tons of different E-Waste materials per month using only hydrometallurgy process, also I got some raw gold from mines that usually comes between 60% to 90% purity, so I refine it to 24K