hi, I'm new at this and would like to take this up as a hobby but before i do any of the actual work i want to make sure i have a sound understanding of this.
i am going to be extracting gold from cell phone circuits as well as processors and fingers. i have also been pulling any gold plated stuff off of motherboards and cell phones and keep them separate.
so after disassembling the phones i ended up with 1.55 pounds of cell boards populated. this is where I'm currently at in this process. if i understand properly these are the steps i will take to get to my gold (when I've saved up more material of course).
1 - depopulate boards with heat gun and banging inside a 5 gallon bucket.
2 - soak boards in 20% lye solution and apply heat to almost boiling, remove from heat and rinse board under water to remove mask, brush if needed.
3 - make AP solution to dissolve unwanted metals, and release foils. remove boards, let settle and decant and save foil. drop any present gold with SMB, filter and save for later.
4 - make HCL-CL dissolve gold foils, drop with SMB.
5 - wash and rinse powder, dry it.
6 - melt in crucible with borax.
is this right? is there any steps im missing? also i can only find sodium bisulphate or potassium metabisulphate will either of these work with the same amount added as SMB? i have read some of hokes book and am still reading it, so sorry if i offend anyone for asking a question someone else may have asked.
i am going to be extracting gold from cell phone circuits as well as processors and fingers. i have also been pulling any gold plated stuff off of motherboards and cell phones and keep them separate.
so after disassembling the phones i ended up with 1.55 pounds of cell boards populated. this is where I'm currently at in this process. if i understand properly these are the steps i will take to get to my gold (when I've saved up more material of course).
1 - depopulate boards with heat gun and banging inside a 5 gallon bucket.
2 - soak boards in 20% lye solution and apply heat to almost boiling, remove from heat and rinse board under water to remove mask, brush if needed.
3 - make AP solution to dissolve unwanted metals, and release foils. remove boards, let settle and decant and save foil. drop any present gold with SMB, filter and save for later.
4 - make HCL-CL dissolve gold foils, drop with SMB.
5 - wash and rinse powder, dry it.
6 - melt in crucible with borax.
is this right? is there any steps im missing? also i can only find sodium bisulphate or potassium metabisulphate will either of these work with the same amount added as SMB? i have read some of hokes book and am still reading it, so sorry if i offend anyone for asking a question someone else may have asked.
