AuMINIMayhem
Well-known member
Hey guys, I know I sort of dropped off the face of the planet for a bit there.. anyways, I've been working like crazy but I finally got a chance to do some refining. I recovered this gold from some scrap which turned out to have some plating on it and some various odds and ends pieces of gold filled wire and stuff. I melted it all down together to drastically bring the karat down and then made some home-made AR using the great techniques Catfish discussed with me and a couple of ammonia and then water rinses..(probably should have taken pictures of the brown powder,but I wasn't confident it was gold until I had it melted down for me. In the midst of it all I couldn't find the cupels Lazersteve so generously sent me :? (I'm in the middle of moving out of my house.. yes, the lovely Mrs. AuMINIMayhem and I are no longer an item.. another reason I disappeared for a bit.).. to make a long story short (too late) I took it to the local jeweler who made an engagement ring for me a couple years back and he gladly melted it down free of charge for me while I watched (I gave him a $5 tip just because he was so nice about it). He also did a little scratch test with it and discovered it was just over the 22 karat mark and weighs 2.2 grams!! (Nice! considering nothing I started out with was over 10k, even before melting it all down into ugly little BB's of very little karat value..GSP, your technique for making shot worked out excellent, I built a unit I can describe on another thread soon, based on your story if you'd like.) ) YAYYYY!! I finally did it! Sorry about the picture size.. I'm just so excited to finally have some success that I can show for once. :shock: :lol:
so without further ado...
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sorry the quality isn't fantastic but you should see the crystalization of it, very nice..
Thank you guys for all the help and answering all my stupid questions! I'm finally on my way to being able to call myself a "casual" refiner. Now I just have to practice and work on getting my methods down to where it costs me less than what I retrieve..
so without further ado...
[img::]http://a239.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/110/l_3c41ae288d3601f0a98dbc3431f17496.jpg[/img]
[img::]http://a260.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/125/l_dc983c24b659977ba9da438a7db5b94b.jpg[/img]
sorry the quality isn't fantastic but you should see the crystalization of it, very nice..
Thank you guys for all the help and answering all my stupid questions! I'm finally on my way to being able to call myself a "casual" refiner. Now I just have to practice and work on getting my methods down to where it costs me less than what I retrieve..