Is this gold dust??

[phil]

Hi,
A simple question: Is this gold dust??

 

[Ian_B]

simple answer no one knows

 

[6oldfinger]

Phil, if you give the forum some details about what you are processing and how then maybe they can help you identify the material.

 

[goldenchild]

Its copper.

 

[Oz]

Its copper.

You are a lot slicker than I am if you can definitively identify that as copper.

While it is unlikely given that this is a first post and the quantity of solids shown in this solution, I have precipitated gold from concentrated auric chloride that looked just like that. The slight green hue left to the solution is the residual copper contamination, still in solution.

Frankly I think that much more information is needed in order to even hazard a guess. It could be dirt in water.

 

[4metals]

You really aren't giving a lot of details but if I had to venture a guess, I'd say it's your waste solution, after the copper was dropped with iron and filtered off the pH was raised to a bit over 3 and out dropped the iron.

Just a guess, but if it is iron, it's got iron pyrite beat as fools gold!

 

[eeTHr]

It looks like a liquified layer of something fairly light weight, because it's so flat on top.

 

[Claudie]

It has white specks, evenly mixed in it.

 

[Ian_B]

10 cents Canadian Tire Money next to beaker with a in store coupon given to you from the gas pump cashier

 

[Dan72ccx]

Hi
I will say it is a gold dust sometyme if going wrong i had same problem

 

[butcher]

Testing would be the only way to tell.

It looks to me like some Iron solutions I have formed.

 

[goldsilverpro]

Testing would be the only way to tell.

It looks to me like some Iron solutions I have formed.

That's what it looks like to me - iron.

 

[eeTHr]

phil---

Scoop 1/8 teaspoon from the brown stuff, put a few drops of HCl on that, and see what happens. If it all dissolves, it's not gold.

 

[eeTHr]

OK, so what is it, phil?

 

[Claudie]

I have been waiting to find out what it is too. It's like hearing part of a joke, and then the person leaves before telling the punch line.... :|

 

[Acid_Bath76]

reminds me of drinking yoo-hoo out of a dirty cup.... . .. that's my vote. It's chocolate milk.

 

[eeTHr]

Well, phil joined on the 6th, made his one and only post on the 12th, and hasn't been heard from since. I guess it wasn't a burning question for him.

 

[butcher]

Was he dissapointed to find out all that gold was Iron? or did he strike it rich and gave up refining?

maybe he will be back and give us the answer?

 

[callicom]

this is funny 8)