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How could our library be complete without a copy of Hoke's book? Here are the links for the book.
For those of you who prefer to have their books in the "dead tree format" the following books are available from Legend;

Refining Precious Metal Wastes by Hoke HERE
Small Scale Refining of Jewelers Waste by Loewen HERE
How to Smelt your Gold & Silver by Chapman HERE
The 3 books listed above will give the non-chemist an excellent foundation in refining precious metals and are worth the investment if you are serious about refining precious metals.

And now on to the library of threads.....finally!

The Library section section is made up of previous threads that we feel are valuable for teaching refining. Each post as you proceed down through the thread is like another chapter. If you feel you want to comment on a thread found from a link, it can be done on the original thread as it is still open, the threads in this section are locked. A link to the original thread is at the end of each of these edited threads.

As we add threads to this section, the posts below will be edited to add in new links for the new arrivals. This is a work in progress.

Most of these individual threads have been edited to take out chatter and, for the most part, the bulk quoting of previous posts. In the general forum quoting entire threads has potential value as members can and have ruined a decent thread by editing out their posts, but here in the library, they are safe. Once it's here it will not be deleted.

We have made this Library section in an attempt to organize the individual threads in the posts below this one, to make them easier to find, and give a brief description of content. If you know of an interesting thread you would like to see here, PM a moderator with a link and if it is appropriate we will work to include it here. It is our goal to make this a respectable resource for refining so if you feel something is missing PM a moderator.
 
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REFINING RELATED INFORMATION

A collection of video's on refining which we recommend can be found HERE


A glossary of common terms. _____HERE

List of items that contain precious metals _____HERE

Rules of solubility _____HERE

Furnace temperature colors _____HERE

Solutions for testing

Stannous chloride test solution Video _____HERE

Testing for Rhodium _____HERE

Karat Gold testing

Links to guides for testing gold and making test solutions _____HERE

The Pawnbrokers Guide to Testing Metals ______HERE

Chemicals

Urea, and its uses in refining _____HERE
 
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GOLD REFINING

Inquartation

Semi Refining Gold by inquartation _____HERE

More Inquartation when to use it and when not to _____HERE

Aqua Regia Refining

Aqua regia refining of karat gold scrap _____HERE

More karat gold scrap with pictures _____HERE

Gold refining from Jewelers "bench sweeps" (filings and clippings). _____HERE

Aqua Regia special applications

Jewelers sweeps

Recovering gold from polishing sweeps with aqua regia _____HERE

More gold from polishing sweeps with pictures _____HERE

Stone removal

Chemical stone removal _____HERE

Aqua regia refining on a commercial scale

Setting up a small refinery with procedures _____HERE

Medium sized refinery to process karat _____HERE

Large scale acid refining _____HERE

Refining gold from mines (Large scale) _____HERE
 
Pretreatment

Incineration

Incineration (not for e-scrap!) _____HERE


Controlled Pyrolysis


Controlled pyrolysis (for e-scrap) _____HERE

Concentration of ores

Discussions of leaching and concentration methods_____HERE

E - SCRAP REFINING

Recovering gold from ceramic e-scrap wastes _____HERE

Processing SIM cards _____HERE

Acid Peroxide processing _____HERE

Recovering gold inside chips (Not CPU's) _____HERE

Sulfuric acid cell for deplating pins _____HERE
The sulphuric cell is also a great way to use the Tumbler described in the build your own equipment section.

Smelting e-scrap to produce copper based bullion for refining in a cell _____HERE

Processing copper based bullion from e-scrap smelting in a copper plating cell _____HERE
 
. THE END ...... but it will never end .......

Thank you for visiting the library. Remember this is an evolving resource for refining information, please PM suggestions for threads to be included with links to any Moderator and it will be passed on and, if the mod's feel it is worthy, it will be cleaned up and posted in the Library. So you see, it never will end !
 
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