Ok, Before anyone says anything, no this picture isn't a picture of my toilet. 
I started processing my gold plated rose. I crushed up the rose into tiny pieces with a hammer and pliers, there was copper underneath with the gold on the copper and of course dead rose pieces. I put this in my copper 2 chloride solution with a bubbler and let it go for 3-4 days (it was very cold, some of the days was only 5-10 degrees F). I checked today and all the copper seems to be dissolved, all that is left is gold flakes and rose pieces (and dirt). I've included a picture of what I have below, I tried to wash the solution with some hydrochloric but wasn't sure if I was making any progress (like LaserSteve suggests in his videos). I've done a batch of fingers and I was able to get those flakes really clean, but this is alot different.
So my question, should I keep rinsing/washing/decanting/filtering and try and get as much rose and dirt from the gold now? Or assuming i've gotten all the copper out, should I just dissolve the gold with hydrochloric and bleach and then filter to get all the yuckers out of it? Realizing i'll definitely have to re-process/wash/rinse the gold powder I get if I want a better purity. ?
I started processing my gold plated rose. I crushed up the rose into tiny pieces with a hammer and pliers, there was copper underneath with the gold on the copper and of course dead rose pieces. I put this in my copper 2 chloride solution with a bubbler and let it go for 3-4 days (it was very cold, some of the days was only 5-10 degrees F). I checked today and all the copper seems to be dissolved, all that is left is gold flakes and rose pieces (and dirt). I've included a picture of what I have below, I tried to wash the solution with some hydrochloric but wasn't sure if I was making any progress (like LaserSteve suggests in his videos). I've done a batch of fingers and I was able to get those flakes really clean, but this is alot different.
So my question, should I keep rinsing/washing/decanting/filtering and try and get as much rose and dirt from the gold now? Or assuming i've gotten all the copper out, should I just dissolve the gold with hydrochloric and bleach and then filter to get all the yuckers out of it? Realizing i'll definitely have to re-process/wash/rinse the gold powder I get if I want a better purity. ?
