Harold,
My most recent electrolytic cell cleaning has left me with 22 grams of unrefined gold powder. It has hardened after drying for several days. I washed the powder with nitric before it dried. It now appears as a hard brownish purple 'kiss' (like the chocolate ones).
Here is a photo of it:
My question is should I go straight to the melting dish with a thin layer of borax on the dish or is there something else I should do before melting it? I don't want to have to use any flux if it's not required. The kiss is hard enough that it won't blow away under the wind of the torch. It seems that when I use the borax as I have been, the borax always comes out purple which I know is colloidal gold. In the past the gold has always been powdery which is partly why I used the borax to help keep it from blowing away.
I will be sharing a video of the process you prescribe with the forum.
Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated. I'm working on breaking my old bad habits and moving towards more pure gold.
Thank you,
Steve
My most recent electrolytic cell cleaning has left me with 22 grams of unrefined gold powder. It has hardened after drying for several days. I washed the powder with nitric before it dried. It now appears as a hard brownish purple 'kiss' (like the chocolate ones).
Here is a photo of it:
My question is should I go straight to the melting dish with a thin layer of borax on the dish or is there something else I should do before melting it? I don't want to have to use any flux if it's not required. The kiss is hard enough that it won't blow away under the wind of the torch. It seems that when I use the borax as I have been, the borax always comes out purple which I know is colloidal gold. In the past the gold has always been powdery which is partly why I used the borax to help keep it from blowing away.
I will be sharing a video of the process you prescribe with the forum.
Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated. I'm working on breaking my old bad habits and moving towards more pure gold.
Thank you,
Steve