Non-Chemical purple/red solution & gold residue

[Harold_V]

Placed some in a spoon and added a flame and got this brown residue. Look's like it could be the right stuff?

This is an excellent example of what I'm talking about. If you think it's the right stuff, it's dead easy to ascertain if it is, or isn't.

Have you been reading Hoke? The answers, and how to find them, are all in that book. Testing the sample you showed would be a simple operation.

Can you envision how to go about doing the test? If not, would you like some guidance?

Harold