Hi everyone!
My first post... been browsing lots of sites, watching videos, and consulting with a friend on the process now I am reaching out for help from the experts.
Where do I begin?
So...
What happened?
Why is the ammonia now blue?
It the brown precipitate left over the purified gold mud?
Should I rinse the rest of my gold mud in ammonia, filter, then fire it to get the 999 gold instead of the shiny black ball?
What was the shiny black ball?
Thanks for taking the time to read this post and browse my photo/video album to help me with this process.
[EDITED 10:22PM CT: Album Link removed]
My first post... been browsing lots of sites, watching videos, and consulting with a friend on the process now I am reaching out for help from the experts.
Where do I begin?
So...
--- I started with chip free cell phone boards... soaked in a AP bath for several days...
--- Took the boards out, filtered the gold flakes, etc.
--- Then I created a AR solution heated it up on a hot plate and dissolved the gold...
--- Then a heated up a second AR solution to dissolve some gold off some stubborn boards and scrap pins etc...
--- Next I added the urea to make the acid inert... all looking good... had over 1000 ml of deep green solution afterwards.
--- I broke down the solution into 200 ml beakers... heated it back up and added SMB.
--- SMB reacted nicely and out dropped a nice amount of gold mud.
--- I let it all settle over night, poured off the remaining solution and recombined the gold mud into one beaker...
--- after all was said and done I ended up with about 205 grams of gold mud.
Here is where it gets weird.
--- I fired up 6 grams with a propane torch to a test... well..
--- it melted down to 1 gram into a Shiny Black Ball... not the shiny gold I was hoping for.
--- Then I read in a book that I had to rinse the gold mud with ammonia...
--- I then took a small amount of the mud gold and added it to the ammonia.
--- The ammonia turned bright blue and then I had some brown precipitate left over after filtering it in a coffee filter.
What happened?
Why is the ammonia now blue?
It the brown precipitate left over the purified gold mud?
Should I rinse the rest of my gold mud in ammonia, filter, then fire it to get the 999 gold instead of the shiny black ball?
What was the shiny black ball?
Picture of the Shiny Black Ball:
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/3c9dizmwuxhst37/AABbC-TzOE_3D6UuRmC7GrLBa
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/ne8t2u0u7mg7k6w/AABpXdfGKaZCD22ALWmNtZHLa
Video of the Shiny Black Ball:
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/xdq6pepm9q5rob7/AABBS-JHzMkAcSiCNfSJrhuHa
Picture of the Blue Ammonia under the purified Gold Mud in filter:
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/yevvzidbwh0llo6/AACoLBQbWOwDgvsoZoWc2zaba
Video of the gold dropping out of the heated up deep green solution with SMB:
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/osnglczv4x1lep2/AABtZ5NPuWfSHTnbC9SEKEsBa
Some of the dropped and settled gold mud:
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/iedob92w0kmb9ia/AACINohuIcR-oKPS6YKUlVKDa
Picture of the filtered left over gold mud:
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/aoxwqalytjunmrt/AAAEUxfZ00JjbKmgfiQyhoAIa
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/xjh7po396x9tswb/AABmrxqeh82aX0TiqFmR4QyOa
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/6ol4dl3fftppmdq/AAD-3C8kmrMDh--nWbtkZ0aSa
Thanks for taking the time to read this post and browse my photo/video album to help me with this process.
[EDITED 10:22PM CT: Album Link removed]