Silver in AP and HCL/CL process

[caracosida]

Hello,

I've successfully recovered the gold from ceramics using AP and HCL/CL but, what about silver? Is it possible? How much silver can I expect?

 

[philddreamer]

Hola hermano!

If there was any silver present in the material you processed, it would be at the bottom, as a sediment, (metallic silver), since silver doesn't dissolve in HCL alone.
You would have to rinse the sediment, incinerate, (in order to get rid of all traces of HCl), & then dissolve in 50/50 nitric/distilled water. Then cement the dissolved silver with clean copper. After cementing, you could further refine the silver thru a silver cell.

Take care!

Phil