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[Claudie]

Name : Claudie
Sex : M
Age : 45
Location : Iowa
Profession : Contractor
Hobbies :
Interests : Computers, electronics, energy.
How long have you been refining gold? : Been playing with it for a couple of years.
What are you looking for in our community? : Looking to learn something.
How did you discovered our Forum? : I don't remember exactly how I found this place.
Other :

 

[gringo]

hello all my name is mike I'm male age 57 I live in SC but spend a great deal of time in Central America. I am an industrial mechanic by trade. My hobbies are caring for just about anything that grows ,plant or animal. (farmer)I'm here because along with 3 latino friends we have leased over 17000 acres of old spanish mining sites. We have some great assays but don't really have a clue what we are doing. Hope I can learn somthing

 

[Barren Realms 007]

hello all my name is mike I'm male age 57 I live in SC but spend a great deal of time in Central America. I am an industrial mechanic by trade. My hobbies are caring for just about anything that grows ,plant or animal. (farmer)I'm here because along with 3 latino friends we have leased over 17000 acres of old spanish mining sites. We have some great assays but don't really have a clue what we are doing. Hope I can learn somthing

Welcome to the forum.You will find what you are looking for here. You will just need to do some reading.

Where at in Central America, I use to live in Panama many many years ago.

 

[renatomerino]

Hello everyone:
The greeting from Oruro, Bolivia.
I'm producing silver by leaching and I would like to exchange operational data.

hello all my name is mike I'm male age 57 I live in SC but spend a great deal of time in Central America. I am an industrial mechanic by trade. My hobbies are caring for just about anything that grows ,plant or animal. (farmer)I'm here because along with 3 latino friends we have leased over 17000 acres of old spanish mining sites. We have some great assays but don't really have a clue what we are doing. Hope I can learn somthing

Welcome to the forum.You will find what you are looking for here. You will just need to do some reading.

Where at in Central America, I use to live in Panama many many years ago.

 

[Barren Realms 007]

Hello everyone:
The greeting from Oruro, Bolivia.
I'm producing silver by leaching and I would like to exchange operational data.

hello all my name is mike I'm male age 57 I live in SC but spend a great deal of time in Central America. I am an industrial mechanic by trade. My hobbies are caring for just about anything that grows ,plant or animal. (farmer)I'm here because along with 3 latino friends we have leased over 17000 acres of old spanish mining sites. We have some great assays but don't really have a clue what we are doing. Hope I can learn somthing

Welcome to the forum.You will find what you are looking for here. You will just need to do some reading.

Where at in Central America, I use to live in Panama many many years ago.

Welcome to the forum, there is a lot of reading here for you on the subject. Get a copy of hokes and read it. That will take you a long way.

What kind of material are you processing to get your silver?

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Everyone!!

Name : Bryan Coleman
Sex : Male
Age : 31
Location : Florence, SC
Profession : Sports Memorabilia
Hobbies : Firearms, Football, Being Outside, Precious Metals
How long have you been refining gold? : Have not as of yet, but will be refining my first patch of silver this weekend/
What are you looking for in our community? : Input and opinions on the safest and most fruitful ways to refine metals. Hopefully in time, swapping success stories with other members.
How did you discovered our Forum? : I watched the Nitric Acid tutorial video on Youtube.

As I said above, I'm looking to make my first batch of Nitric this weekend and then try my first batch of silver with a couple ounces of scrap sterling that I have.
I've done my research and feel pretty confident that I am ready to give this a shot, but I'm always open to input and ideas from the guys & gals that have been doing it for years.

 

[Claudie]

Hello Bryan,
I hope you learn a lot here, I know I have (and still am).

 

[Anonymous]

Hello Bryan,
I hope you learn a lot here, I know I have (and still am).

Thank you!

I think I'll learn a lot here. I was reading around earlier and have already picked up some good tips. That doesn't seem to even scratch the surface of the useful info here!

 

[Anonymous]

Name : Curtis Russell
Sex : male
Age : 22
Location : tennessee,usa
Profession : mechanic
Hobbies :racing, martial arts, parkour
Interrests :really anything that catches my eye
How long have you been refining gold? :never, completely noob.
What are you looking for in our community? : as much info as i can get.
How did you discovered our Forum? : youtube
Other :i have recieved about 15 old computers and seeing as ive recently lost my job im very interested in pm recovery and refining.

 

[Anonymous]

Welcome In guys
Present your self to the rest of the community, feel free to add things :wink:

Name :Steve Marsh
Sex :Male
Age :48
Location :Albemarle, NC.
Profession :Electrician
Hobbies :Gold prospector,Jewelry repair and casting
Interrests :
How long have you been refining gold? :New to refining, Have been doing jewelry repair and casting jewelry for 25 years
What are you looking for in our community? :To learn all i can about refining gold and silver, Safely.
How did you discovered our Forum? :Utube
Other :

Hello to everyone, I have a lot of computer boards and fingers i have accumulated over the years and want to recover the metals off them. Also have a lot of black sand cons i want to process, i want to know what other precious metals are in the con's besides gold.

 

[GrailSeeker]

Hi, nice to meet you all. Engineering background, and a little knowledge of chemistry, at least pure encyclopaedic knowledge which I recall from high school. :roll: Fellow hobbyist and an avid scepticist on matters like gold extraction, refining. After my first attempts I will try to post some findings, although I truly believe most of the work done here is more than enough lol!

 

[harryr]

Name : Harry
Sex : M
Age : 55
Location : Nevada
Profession : Varied over the years. Now mining.
Hobbies : Skiing, hiking, reading, and learning
Interrests : History, people, anything new......
How long have you been refining gold? : New, sort of....
What are you looking for in our community? : Expert advise. Share my experiences, successes and failures.
How did you discovered our Forum? : online.
Other :

 

[Beadman]

Hi everybody, it looks to me like I have found one of those diamonds in the rough as far as websites go. I wander aimlessly online usually with an intention in mind but ultimately clicking on what what catches my fancy. Sometimes my interest lasts for a minute or two, other times I find something that will stay with me for the rest of my life. This subject seems to be of the latter. When I find something that really interests me and I know nothing about my mind sets to work on it and won't let it go, asking this and that, wondering about the what if's and the I wonder why's. If I make a hairbrained mistake, can't sleep at night, normally it is because I am thinking about what I am interested in and don't yet know about. That's why I had to give up crosswords, I would be laying in bed trying to sleep and my mind is working on the puzzle and won't let it go. So here I am wanting some relief from the what if's and the I wonder why's. When I become interested in something I normally fall in over my head and I don't come up for air until I have the basics down, hence the long list of hobbies, this one grabbed me because it has my interest and it has the potential of paying me for it, what a novel idea. I have spent a good deal of time these last few days gathering computer scrap and now I am trying to come up with a shopping list of lab supplies and chemicals I will need to find out what this is all about, the approach is a little backward but normal for me.The one thing I always do before actaully pouring anything is find out about the pitfalls of messing around with these chemicals. That behavior is the only reason I still have all my fingers and toes,eyesight etc.
name- JohnnyBeadman, Beadman, JBman, BM if you like humor
sex- male
age- 44
location- planet earth
trade- commercial overhead door installer
hobbies- interests-High voltage, RC cars, boats, helicopters, glass bead making, fishing, pyrotechnics, paper airplanes, computer games,model building, woodworking, mostly I like figuring things out, sometimes that is a blessing othertimes it's a curse.
how long- I have yet to begin
what do I want- a RELIABLE source of ACCURATE information coming from people who aren't afraid to talk about their failures as well as their successes, for every one thing I have figured out how to do right I have figured out how to do it wrong at least 10 different ways. It is through my failures that my fundimental understanding emerges, but in this case that won't happen if I am dead.
how I found- you tube- Looking for the answer to a question I have involving nitric acid and explosions. I'll have to get back to that. This looks like a fun way to learn chemistry without involving things like orange jumpsuits and bars and the like.

 

[4metals]

Welcome Beadman,

Since I'm the first to read your post I'll be the first to tell you that you will get out of this website what you put into it. If you read the posts, view Lasersteves videos and read Hoke, you will have a good basic understanding of the principles involved in refining. If you blow it off we will know it from the questions you ask and likely no-one will take your questions seriously.

First off find the PDF of Hokes book on refining, I believe there is a link on a few signature lines of members (palladium, for one, I think) This is an old text and it does not deal with e-scrap but it was written for the non chemist and it will take you step by step through the testing you will need to be good at the art of refining.

Put in the time, and if you are serious, this website will become your best resource.

 

[bwcbob]

Name : Bob B.
Sex : M
Age :52
Location : Charleston. SC
Profession : Business Owner "Crazy Bob's Electronics"

Great Forum, you all are so helpful. I spent the last 45 days reading through many of the posts here. Purchased most of Steve's Videos and would recommend them to all. Also Chris's manual is awesome. Thanks to you both and all the great people here who share their wealth of knowledge and experience.

Bob

 

[butcher]

BOB, this is as fun as learning electronic's welcome to the forum, we usually tell new members to read, but looks like you are ahead of the game.

 

[Anonymous]

Name : Lavender Lee
Sex : female
Age : 21
Location : Quebec City (Canada )
Profession : student
Hobbies :Computers
Interrests : Music, Money, Sports..
How long have you been refining gold? : I want to learn(on my way)
What are you looking for in our community? : I'm here to learn about gold refining, to get as much knowledge as possible.
Other : Hi everyone, Im here to learn, have fun, to be one of you

 

[emac]

Name : eddie
Sex : m
Age : 30
Location : New England
Profession : nuclear armed oficer
Hobbies : Dj, gaming
Interrests : Refining, astronomy, history
How long have you been refining gold? : noob
What are you looking for in our community? : education, feedback from you all and contributaion from me, anyway i can
How did you discovered our Forum? : stumbled over it on a post from ATS
Other : spent a tour in iraq, soon to be married, and expecting our first child in late march. Im looking to dive into something that interests me, I will continue to read through this wonderful site and go from there. I enjoy four days off a week and im looking to learn a trade with the possibilities of profit.

 

[andrew john]

Name : Andrew B
Sex : M
Age : 25
Location : New Zealand
Hobbies : computer games, movies and recovering metals
Interrests : Refining gold and silver
How long have you been refining gold? : havent yet, getting the tools and info i need befor i do.
What are you looking for in our community? : knowledge, information on how to refine gold & silver.
How did you discovered our Forum? : on youtube, some1 looked like they new what thy were doing and that led me here.
Other : this is a great site, i have only been on here for 2 months but learning heaps.

Im going to buy the dvds from lazer steve soon. lol costs $80 just in shipping costs so im going to save up and spend big lol.

 

[lazersteve]

I'm going to buy the dvds from lazer steve soon. lol costs $80 just in shipping costs so im going to save up and spend big lol.

Eighty bucks sounds way too high to me. Send me your address and I'll confirm that the Paypal shipping calculator isn't acting up on you. Typically I can fit all four DVD's into a single small flat rate box which should ship anywhere in the world for less than $20 USD.

Steve