So I got about 2-3 grams of gold from my wastes. Well most of that came from wastes but my problem is that the gold keeps dropping totally different than what I'm used to. This gold is black and very fine. It floats and the liquid it sits in is also dark, almost black. It takes all night for it to settle and when I move it to decant the rinses it's a frustrating problem because I feel that the dark liquid is actually gold. Very fine particles. So I'm sure my coffee filters are letting it right thru. So I try my best to keep the larger particles. I've used dish soap and that seems to help only slightly and with that only larger particles. Somewhere I heard that this is happens when it comes from a dirty solution. So I went ahead and dissolved it.
I figured it would for sure drop like normal. It did not.
So I thought I'd leave it for now and went ahead and dried it. It dried black which is also new to me.
Well I took that black gold and just mixed it with a little bit of gold I had dried already. Then I melted it to see what kind of karat quality I'd get out of this weird gold of mine. Needless to say it didn't look great so I dissolved it again!
I dissolved it into this beautiful yellow/ orange color and I thought it would be very pure drop. Well it wasn't. It came out the same way. It took a lot of sulfamic acid to get the nitric out of the way. Like a lot. But that's because I was heavy handed when trying to make this gold button dissolve. There was quite a bit of settlement that did not dissolve and I took that as the impurities. Boy was I wrong. Anyone know what's going on?
Oh I used HCl and nitric well aqua regia to dissolve every time and sulfamic acid and smb. So I'm not sure what to do now.
Those 2 pictures are from tonight.
I figured it would for sure drop like normal. It did not.
So I thought I'd leave it for now and went ahead and dried it. It dried black which is also new to me.
Well I took that black gold and just mixed it with a little bit of gold I had dried already. Then I melted it to see what kind of karat quality I'd get out of this weird gold of mine. Needless to say it didn't look great so I dissolved it again!
I dissolved it into this beautiful yellow/ orange color and I thought it would be very pure drop. Well it wasn't. It came out the same way. It took a lot of sulfamic acid to get the nitric out of the way. Like a lot. But that's because I was heavy handed when trying to make this gold button dissolve. There was quite a bit of settlement that did not dissolve and I took that as the impurities. Boy was I wrong. Anyone know what's going on?
Oh I used HCl and nitric well aqua regia to dissolve every time and sulfamic acid and smb. So I'm not sure what to do now.
Those 2 pictures are from tonight.