un washed finger flakes ?

[justme2]

This may be one of those unanswerable questions but, i would like to ball park it as well as possible. I have a local urban miner who has moved to a condo and can not process his recovered flakes. He offered them to me 4g for $40. I have not processed my 20 gs yet so I don't know what to expect as a loss in Harold's wash process which I want to wait until enough to yield 1oz or better before I process. So I need a # to shoot for. Would any one advise me with ball park % of loss in the wash and melt process. Thanks.

 

[Geo]

http://goldrefiningforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=19910

Here you go.

 

[justme2]

Thanks Geo. Am I correct in a loss of about 66% from unwashed state to final product. Great contest by the way.

 

[Geo]

Thank you. Of coarse no two batches will ever be the same even with the same material and the same weights. I can say that I'm pretty sure that the yield on the foils in the contest was as close as you can expect.

 

[justme2]

wow I'm not as rich as I thought. thanks.