Re: Just bought NEW C.M. Hoke Refining Precious Metal Wastes

[metalmickey]

Hi all :lol: I have just bought a NEW C.M. Hoke Refining Precious Metal Wastes Recovery Gold Silver Platinum book on ebay for $125. I am led to believe they retail at $250-$400 new. I have learned that the seller has a dozen copies to sell and they selling at cost. Wants shut of them. :arrow: I know you can download it and people have provided links for it, most helpful, thanks for that, but If anyone like me find it easier to read a book than look at a screen. Get you butt on ebay. They just selling one at a time relisting after each sale there isn't a dozen lots. I don't know how easy tablets are to read from as I don't have one :?: Anyway it goes well with my collection of other books.

For the record, that book can be purchased for under $60 from Gesswein. Do not flock to ebay unless you have too much money.
We do not use the A word here. That is grounds for being banned from the forum. I fully expect you guys to behave as if you actually have some breeding and upbringing. Treat this forum as if it has great value (it has). If you prove to me you don't have what it takes to behave, it's not going to take me long to see to it you don't spend your time here.

You won't get a second chance.

You also best not be the guy selling the books. You'll get banned for spamming if you are.

Harold

 

[jimdoc]

You could have bought it at IPMI for $74.00. And there are some other links on the forum to get it cheaper than that.

#1105
https://ipmi.org/publications/index_non.cfm

Jim

 

[metalmickey]

Sorry Harold. Comments taken on board. I honestly thought I had got a bargain compared to abebooks.com that sell rare and out of print books. I'm not the seller of the books. Will have a look for C.M Hoke testing precious metals from the retailers mentioned. Is there a spell check on the forum, I wasn't going to use that word, but couldn't remember how to spell a word I was going to use in sentence.

 

[Harold_V]

Sorry Harold. Comments taken on board. I honestly thought I had got a bargain compared to abebooks.com that sell rare and out of print books.

If you purchased an original copy of the book, then, yes, you got a bargain, but I expect that is not the case. I've seen original copies advertised for as much as $300. While the information contained within is certainly worth that amount, unless one is a book collector, I don't see the logic in paying that kind of price. All the more so considering I paid $10 for my copy.

I'm not the seller of the books.

Thanks. I was hoping you were not.

Will have a look for C.M Hoke testing precious metals from the retailers mentioned.

I am not aware of Hoke's book on testing being available in reprint, but her book on refining has an adequate amount of information in that regard, that the average guy will be very well served by simply making a study of what it has to offer. That's not to discount the value of her book on testing.

Is there a spell check on the forum, I wasn't going to use that word, but couldn't remember how to spell a word I was going to use in sentence.

Sorry, no spell check on the forum, but if you type anything like I do, you badly need spell check. I touch type, and have my errors up to about 60 per minute now! :lol:

I generally cut and paste, sending my message to my email program, where I can proof read what I've said (then spend the next half hour trying to make it worth reading), then spell check. Works for me, albeit not quite as convenient as doing so without cutting and pasting.

Don't lose a lot of sleep over my admonition to clean up your language (although I do expect that you will do just that). I've tried hard to get you guys to talk on this forum as if your grandmother was reading. Lowering conversation to the level of a saloon has the potential to drive away folks that have a lot to offer. Further, it has the potential to give casual readers the idea that we're not a credible source of information, and that simply isn't the case. We all hope to be taken seriously, so there's no better way than to present ourselves as if we are educated, and not just a bunch of street brawlers.

I've commented on several occasions that I am not offended by coarse language. I use all the words, and all too frequently. I just don't do it online, where everything I say is subject to the scrutiny of countless numbers of people, and archived for eternity. I don't want the world to think of me as a fool that can't put two words together without profanity. I hope to have them see me as an individual who has something to contribute, and to bolster the idea that this forum is a more professional site--one that has credibility. Can't think of a way to lose that idea faster than to allow substandard language, or to promote misinformation.

Thanks for your polite response.

Harold

 

[DONNZ]

I use Text Edit when I have something to say. This doesn't help because it never comes out right.

Anyway, I'm on a Mac and use Firefox. Don't know if it the way I have this system set up, but the spellchecker works.

Spealchecker samppler: Loooks baad dont' ot.

Cut and paste that line:

Spellchecker sample: Looks bad don't' it.

Mine works but can't tell you why. Firefox Preferences?

 

[DONNZ]

Spellchecker:

Look under your browser preferences /Advanced/General, and see if this is available. Spellchecker may not be on.

Footnote: This might not activate till you quit the browser and come back online?

 

[metalmickey]

I have started copy pasting into Microsoft Word then cuting pasting back in. Thank you for the tips. 8) I may take a look at changing browser setting as it may save time.

 

[DONNZ]

I have started copy pasting into Microsoft Word then cuting pasting back in. Thank you for the tips. 8) I may take a look at changing browser setting as it may save time.

It's quick and easy. Step one, which I omitted. Right click on browser, Open Preferences

I tend to forget that most people don't fiddle with their putor settings the way I do.

 

[Gatordoc]

I'm new to the forum, and keep seeing references to C.M. Hoke's Refining Precious Metal Wastes Recovery Gold Silver Platinum book. However, so far, I don't see any links to where I can find it at a reasonable price, only references to the links. Granted, I haven't spent hours and hours looking, but you guys look so helpful I think perhaps I won't have to. Anyone wanna save me some time and just point me in the right direction?

Also, I thought I saw references to free Handbooks on refining. Did I imagine that, or is that available, too?

Thanks in advance for your assistance. I spell fine, and I'll watch my mouth... )

 

[Palladium]

I'm new to the forum, and keep seeing references to C.M. Hoke's Refining Precious Metal Wastes Recovery Gold Silver Platinum book. However, so far, I don't see any links to where I can find it at a reasonable price, only references to the links. Granted, I haven't spent hours and hours looking, but you guys look so helpful I think perhaps I won't have to. Anyone wanna save me some time and just point me in the right direction?

Also, I thought I saw references to free Handbooks on refining. Did I imagine that, or is that available, too?

Thanks in advance for your assistance. I spell fine, and I'll watch my mouth... )

http://www.gesswein.com/search.aspx?SearchTerm=c.m.+hoke

 

[Anonymous]

I just purchased Hoke's book on refining over at

http://www.gesswein.com/search.aspx?SearchTerm=c.m.+hoke

I'll be glad once it gets here.

As far as spell-checking, simply use Firefox. It'll automatically check your spelling as you type, and if you type a word it doesn't recognize, then it will underline that word in red. If you right-click on the underlined word, it'll drop down a list of words that it has in the dictionary and you can choose the correct word. If the word isn't in the dictionary, and you know the word is spelled correctly, you can right-click and add the word to the dictionary.


Kevin

 

[Maniacop]

Does anyone have page 63 of Hokes first book? it isn't in the PDF file. Also has anyone converted the testing book to PDF format and if so could you be kind enough to post the link?

Thanks a million. You guy are very informative and even though we have never met, I respect you all.

Sincerely

Brett

 

[Palladium]

Can't help you with page 63, but here is the other one.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14426836/Testing-Precious-Metals-CM-Hoke1

 

[tamlove]

Hi everyone. I recently obtained the pdf version of hoke. Refining precious metals waste, I got it from a link on the forum. I am only at page 100 and it feels like I've just gone through an entire set of encyclopedias. Is shocking to me how much more u can learn from Hoke than to just read forums and other places on the web. I'd like to thank jim for sending me in hoke' s direction. My passion for urban mining and refining gets greater after every page I read. I hope this encourages other newbies to get and read the book too. Thank you for listening. Keep safe all.