I'm so glad I just saw this thread.
Because it is so wrong, and in so many ways! I'm close to locking it, except for a few bits of possibly useful information.
I'm sick of seeing T-6 recommended in refining. It has no place.
"Using a kitchen strainer lined with a coffee filter filter 5 gallons of your source water into a 5 gallon bucket. Add 1/4 cup clorox bleach and 1/4 cup plain household amonia and stir vigorously with a log plastic spoon. The foam forming on the to is the precious metals and they will slowly precipitate out and fall to the bottom of the bucket. Carefully pour off the water and filter the powder through a coffee filter. You can then view it under a jewelers loupe or microscope and you will actually see the pieces as small nugget and flake shapes of each metal. this powder can be weighed by a very good scale and will tell you how much metal you can recover per gallon of water. A good estimate is that if the pile in the bottom of the bucket is the size of a dime it is commercially recoveralble and profitable to do so. "
LET NO ONE ACTUALLY DO THIS!!! This is a very dangerous procedure which does not accomplish anything close to what is claimed. For lack of a better word, it is insane. No one should mix ammonia with bleach in any circumstances.
Because it is so wrong, and in so many ways! I'm close to locking it, except for a few bits of possibly useful information.
I'm sick of seeing T-6 recommended in refining. It has no place.
"Using a kitchen strainer lined with a coffee filter filter 5 gallons of your source water into a 5 gallon bucket. Add 1/4 cup clorox bleach and 1/4 cup plain household amonia and stir vigorously with a log plastic spoon. The foam forming on the to is the precious metals and they will slowly precipitate out and fall to the bottom of the bucket. Carefully pour off the water and filter the powder through a coffee filter. You can then view it under a jewelers loupe or microscope and you will actually see the pieces as small nugget and flake shapes of each metal. this powder can be weighed by a very good scale and will tell you how much metal you can recover per gallon of water. A good estimate is that if the pile in the bottom of the bucket is the size of a dime it is commercially recoveralble and profitable to do so. "
LET NO ONE ACTUALLY DO THIS!!! This is a very dangerous procedure which does not accomplish anything close to what is claimed. For lack of a better word, it is insane. No one should mix ammonia with bleach in any circumstances.
