Emmjae my only comment on your processing technique for sweeps is please make sure that you stir the sweeps powder in your beaker as it heats or else you will get breaks and possible losses otherwise seems good to me 8)
Emmjae said:stihl88 said:You sweeps are more than likely karat scrap and would therefore have some silver content which would slow down the AR process. If this is the case then perhaps next time you could perform a small experiment and take a sample of perhaps 10g of normal sweeps and 10g of sweeps after having been inquarted and processed in nitric, how much inquarting per karat of scrap that is required would be a hard one to guess given the different grades of karat scrap the jeweler has processed but you probably couldn't go wrong in regarding it all as 12k but this would depend on how much silver was already in the sweeps...
Hi stihl88,
You have me a little confused. I think were talking about different kinds of sweeps. I was refining polishing sweeps (more like a powder or dirt) and I believe your talking about what I would call bench filings/sweeps (more like small metal bits). I'm not sure how to inquart a powder/dirt.
Mike
He said he leaves the flux there because if looks clear and no gold there
So I don't think there is something wrong with that.How do you spell LIABILITY?
golddie said:Hi nickvc
Thanks for your reply.
From talking to people I am realizing that refining is not as easy as reading the threads in this forum.
For example the jeweler tells me that how can I trust you.
But he can trust JM.
He is giving his dirt blindly to a refiner he does not know and there is no guarantee that JM is not going to cheat him.
goldnugget77 said:Than I my Ar will be kind of diluted so I guess I will have to boil it
goldnugget77 said:Hi Emmjae
I did hcl a few times
than I did AR for about 1 hour and siphon
than I did AR for about 6 hour and siphon
Now I am planning on siphoning the AR and than pouring all that dirt into a filter and washing it with water
Than I my Ar will be kind of diluted so I guess I will have to boil it so I have less water and than I will precipitate
Does this sound correct to you or could I do things differently
Thanks
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