melting gold using amalgamite ,,help

[Anonymous]

How do I use amalgamite to melt my gold...

 

[Harold_V]

Can you be a bit more specific?

What are you trying to accomplish?

Harold

 

[Anonymous]

didn't the people that sold you that stuff tell you?

 

[Oz]

I think I have seen that stuff advertised as a cuppeling medium. Beats me if it is just lead.

 

[Lou]

I thought we hashed this out--it's bismuth. All bismuth does is offer a similar PM capacity without the annoyance of lead vapor, at several price multiples with respect to assay lead.


Bismuth can be dissolved in dilute nitric acid, FYI. Personally, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't even use it for capturing PMs. Lead is much easier to separate and costs much less. Even better is silver!


Lou