Can anyone tell me why i'm not even recovering the amount of pure silver I added to inquart gold?? For example today I refined about 40g of 10k gold, I added 27g of silver to lower gold % to 25%. I then disolved base metal in 50/50 nitric, putted aside the gold powder, dropped silver chloride by adding HCL. Took the silver chloride aded 2 part water for 1 part HCL and added AL to convert to elemental. Decanted, dried. Then I heated the silver in a silica melting dish, after about 30sec heating with my oxy-acet torch huge quantity of smoke begin being produced. The powder reduced and some kind of strange liquid formed in the botom of my dish. This famous liquid is kind of exploding when dropped into cold water, anybody got any idea what this could be?!??!. The resulting silver is, as usual quite pure and clean but I lose much of it somewhere or somehow and cant figure it out. With this lot I was suposed to yield my inital 27g + about 15g from the 10k alloy, instead I only recovered about 19g ?!?!??!?! can anybody help me out?? I'm tired of loosing silver each time I inquart. Or maybe someone could teach me another way to process other than dropping chloride and then converting it... and I dont like using coper to recover silver it's too long and time consuming compared to the chloride thing.