Trick or Treat! Refining Photo Contest!

[samuel-a]

@samuel-a spectacular! What is that? Bromine/iodine?

Iodine

 

[acpeacemaker]

@samuel-a That's awesome I love the color!

@MicheleM Very cool! I love upclose pics.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Starting out]

It seems as it's gotten a little ghostly here lately.
So I came up with a contest to hopefully bring back a little life. As some know I like to take pics, but this time I want to see yours.

Contest rules as follows:

User is an active member for 3 months or longer.
You can post the maximum of 2 pictures. Pictures must be yours.The pictures must be related to anything with refining and or scrap.

Maybe you got a special pic of the motherload. Or maybe some crazy out of this world gold drop. Or maybe some insane reaction. I just want to see something cool!

Pictures will be judged by 2 non biased, non forum people. Contest will be over on Oct. 31, 2021 at 11:59 pm (Mountain Daylight Time) and winners will be announced within 24 hrs. If the circumstance arises to where the winner doesn't respond in 48 hrs after being given notice. They will forfeit the prize and it will be moved down the line.

1st place: 1 gram Apmex gold bar.
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2nd place: 1/2 gram Apmex gold bar
https://www.apmex.com/search?&q=1/2 gram gold bar3rd place: 1 Oz Apmex Silver bar
https://www.apmex.com/search?&q=1 oz silver bar4th place: Your choice of being flogged with popcorn balls or those gross orange and black wax paper wrapped peanut butter kisses. Joking

Prizes will be shipped directly from Apmex.

Good luck!

I just joined yesterday and as the name says, starting out. I'm glad to be a part of this and have had a lot of fun scrapping and now recovering. I don't have any pics yet nor am I eligible as I just joined but I'll be checking out the photos for sure.

 

[Ohiogoldfever]

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All the sudden I’m craving corn on the cob slathered in butter.....

To hell with the corn, I’ll take silver and gold

 

[Topher_osAUrus]

My daughter absolutely loves the shiny bits.

 

[justinhcase]

A few of the ones I like.
The first is the result of a steam explosion at the very bottom of my quenching drum, bang like a small charge. The stainless-steel drum held but broke the gold inquartation into very fine sand like material. Wish I could replicate it. The second is aircraft supper alloy selectively striped. The third is a small bar of gold on one of my plants.

 

[acpeacemaker]

Awesome pics guys thanks for sharing!!

 

[voidforged]

Picture 1 shows some cool metal detector finds (native copper nugget with some silver and quartz here and there, and some other type of nugget that I cleaned up and had analyzed as mostly nickel with trace other metals including gold and pgms. Not worth refining but very cool to have). Picture 2 shows my collection of gemstones so far from refining broken jewelry. They vary, have some topaz, sapphires, ruby's, different quartz types, and probably some others, I'm not a gemstone guy so I don't know for sure.

 

[acpeacemaker]

Get the pics in while you can! Last call.

 

[fishaholic5]

Sparkles during precipitation from HCl/ Bleach solution from Ore. I love it when this happens

Cheers Wal

 

[Alabama938]

I’ve posted this before, but I’m real proud so…
Been almost 1.5 years and way too many experiments later.

 

[orvi]

i dont take pictures very often through refining, chemicals on hands, stil putting gloves on/off... you all know but sometimes you just feel the need to take a shot:

first picture: mixed mostly silver connector pins were melted to the bar, dissolved in nitric acid for further refining. some of the contactors clearly had some iron parts (locked inside the ingot when melted), and the nitric beautifully showed them up

second picture: sometimes you get lucky enough to discover some hidden treasures in someone´s trash pile. very old boards/cards from old "computer" stuff, like 70s or 80s. goldfingers from them averaged around 7-8g/kg, pins from boards on the right side had such thick goldplate, that AR had literally hard time to onset on them, and "corpses" of etched pins did not even float in the solution when bubbles attached to them averaged around 25-35g/kg... sweet stuff to process

 

[Rreyes097]

Who won? I probably lost, when I look at some of the very artistic photos posted I realize my photos just illustrated my hard work, with hardly no beauty taken into account at all!