Thoughts on cornstarch/gold recovery

[Wyndham]

From the little I understood after reading the article, it seemed to say that corn starch was the percipient engine for the gold bromide salt to gold. Does this suggest that adding cornstarch to the gold bromide solution the gold will drop out..

Now if this is correct, they why shouldn't any gold salt have this same reaction such as gold chloride or any other ?
Am I wrong in thinking that this reaction with a starch must produce a reaction that the sugar reduces to carbon and the gold falls out.
Hey, I'm the least in line for understanding most of this stuff here on the forum so I could be waaaaay off.
What do folks here think about this working with any of the processes that dissolve gold into solution.
Wyndham

 

[Claudie]

What article are you referring to?

 

[Wyndham]

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-05/cornstarch-replaces-cyanide-clean-new-gold-extraction-method

The topic is on page 2 cornstarch instead of cyanide

It didn't get a lot of response attention at the time
Wyndham

 

[g_axelsson]

It's already been discussed before :
http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=20443&hilit=Cornstarch
http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=18332&hilit=Cornstarch

Göran

 

[Wyndham]

What I was wondering, even after reading both past post is the gold reduction from the gold bromine by the sugar/starch unique to the bromine or could it also work with gold chloride solution. I realize that there are other methods of getting gold out of solution.
Wyndham

 

[Irons]

You will find out why it's not a favorite method when you try to filter it.

 

[Wyndham]

ahh, but it would seem to make a golden soup,?? thanks
Wyndham