Has anyone ever created a precious metal calculator that can give you chemical proportions based on the amount of gold that you're refining and it's carrot at the time of processing. In other words something that you can use to calculate a very closely the amount of nitric acid, hydrochloric acid sodium metabisulfate Etc?
Precious metal refining calculator?
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Your question can not be answered as no batch of scrap/ore/waste is the same.
That is why we rely on assays or assessing on the fly what is needed.
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Here is something I've learned..for the most part, it has yielded the same results. Five pound of unshielded ram cards will give you 1 pound of trimmed gold fingers. After processing the foils, I usually get no less than 3 grams, no more than 5 grams of gold. Depending on the process and the ram cards.
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1 pound of fingers from 5 pounds of ram?
I found that a bit much, can't be very close cut, I think.
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www.chembuddy.com for calculators....EBAS is very good but you need a good understanding of chemistry. Used it for years to approximate reactions.
I cut them just below the gold foils. I know I have a few ram cards left...I will weigh them just to be certain. Seems like 25-30 desk top ram cards weigh a pound. I will repost my findings.
I stand corrected..I looked in a post that I replied to back in 2022...it's 10 lbs of ram cards instead of 5 pounds. My apologies
