Hello again,
I did want to start a new thread but, we have here a perfect example as the name of this thread states it. I received these videos from a person who has made quite a mess and has been desperately trying to recover the PMs from this bucket. There are two buckets, the one containing the blue sediment is precipitate that resulted after having some of the solution decanted from the brown solution into this bucket and then the iron was added. Although it has now converted to crystal form because it had been left over for a year by now. The original bucket however (now brown sludge), contains the following :
Metals:
Mercury
Tin
Iron
Copper
Lead
Pd
Pt
Silver
Gold
Chemicals :
Nitric
HCL
H2SO4
NaOH
SMB
The starting material was electronics such as a couple of Ram boards, phone boards and (nokia and china). The availability of mercury came as a mercury nitrate waste and the platinum solution was a different experiment, (unable to precipitate) too ended up in here.
As far as I understand, this can be called a waste bucket, but with the presence of Sn, Hg, Pt and NaOH, I really couldn't suggest him any advice about treating this material.
So now, this case is over to you fine experienced refiners to help me help the guy clear his mess up.
Thanks for your time on this one.
I did want to start a new thread but, we have here a perfect example as the name of this thread states it. I received these videos from a person who has made quite a mess and has been desperately trying to recover the PMs from this bucket. There are two buckets, the one containing the blue sediment is precipitate that resulted after having some of the solution decanted from the brown solution into this bucket and then the iron was added. Although it has now converted to crystal form because it had been left over for a year by now. The original bucket however (now brown sludge), contains the following :
Metals:
Mercury
Tin
Iron
Copper
Lead
Pd
Pt
Silver
Gold
Chemicals :
Nitric
HCL
H2SO4
NaOH
SMB
The starting material was electronics such as a couple of Ram boards, phone boards and (nokia and china). The availability of mercury came as a mercury nitrate waste and the platinum solution was a different experiment, (unable to precipitate) too ended up in here.
As far as I understand, this can be called a waste bucket, but with the presence of Sn, Hg, Pt and NaOH, I really couldn't suggest him any advice about treating this material.
So now, this case is over to you fine experienced refiners to help me help the guy clear his mess up.
Thanks for your time on this one.