First of all, let me thank all of the people here for some excellent discussions.
Now to my question. We have our own jewellery making workshop, where we also so polishing of the gold jewellery. My uncle keeps precise data of how much gold (also of which carat) was lost for the entire month. In this way, he is able to calculate total fine gold that was lost in the polish buff.
We have been trying to use Aqua-regia method for gold recovery from this polish buff. Some of my uncles friend told us that it is possible to recover around 90 % of the gold which was lost. But when we try the process ourself, we barely recover 75-77 % of the total gold lost.
Does any one have any idea of how much percentage of gold is recovered by Aqua regia process ? or there is other process which is more efficient than Aqua regia for recovery of gold from buff polish ?
Thanks in advance,
Ravi
Now to my question. We have our own jewellery making workshop, where we also so polishing of the gold jewellery. My uncle keeps precise data of how much gold (also of which carat) was lost for the entire month. In this way, he is able to calculate total fine gold that was lost in the polish buff.
We have been trying to use Aqua-regia method for gold recovery from this polish buff. Some of my uncles friend told us that it is possible to recover around 90 % of the gold which was lost. But when we try the process ourself, we barely recover 75-77 % of the total gold lost.
Does any one have any idea of how much percentage of gold is recovered by Aqua regia process ? or there is other process which is more efficient than Aqua regia for recovery of gold from buff polish ?
Thanks in advance,
Ravi