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Few questions about Gold recovery
Here is gold after washing it with 20 litters of water.
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No matter how much I wash it, solution still dirty. Why ?
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And after dropping the Gold with Sodium Sulfite, I added KOH to the solution that's what precipitated. Any ideas what is it?
Solution still were lightly greenish after filtering it.
I've checked PH, basic.
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Mood: It's fine. Really.
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Any chance there's a bunch of iron in there?
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Could be, I dissolved 8 ceramic processors + a lot of other gold containing scrap. Here's just 200ml tester.
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That's how pure gold looks like, dropped it from dissolved Alaskan nuggets.
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Did U just aqua regia the straight processors without first dissolving tramp metals?
Could you just wash the red goo with nitric acid to remove some of the crap?
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Ooh that looks like it'd be satisfying to melt down.
I think you're carrying a lot of Iron and Nickel; I'd decant that off and treat the precipitate with successive HCl washes 'til it comes up clear, and
take it from there.
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I tried boiling it in 3% nitric first... but after an hour nothing happened.
So chucked in very diluted AR.
Yes, that's what I thought about doing. Just waiting for the wash solutions to settle down. And they still dirty after whole day standing.
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Quote: Originally posted by Romix  | I tried boiling it in 3% nitric first... but after an hour nothing happened.
So chucked in very diluted AR.
Yes, that's what I thought about doing. Just waiting for the wash solutions to settle down. And they still dirty after whole day standing.
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It'll probably take a few goes-around but I'd put aside the nitric (Actually if I suspected there was any there I'd wash it out like a lipstick stain)
and AR, and focus on dissolving everything that *isn't* Gold.
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After boiling it in water, solution became clearer!
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Added nitric all dissolved!!!!!! No gold left!!!!
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Solution is green.
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200ml lost, what to do with the rest of gold containing solution?
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It took few seconds for all of it to dissolve, reaction was exothermic.
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Google saying that this yellow - orange precipitate is CuOH.
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Could be, decomposed it to black oxide and flame test is green.
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Cu(OH)2
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That's camera lenses of the phone's that I've dissolved, even double that because half of them didn't had cameras, were to old.
+ 8 ceramic processors.
Please help, what to drop gold with?
[Edited on 23-6-2021 by Romix]
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Lenses only weigh 15 grams. I reckon 1/100 of the weight gold maybe more.
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Only neutralized wash waters of copper nitrate solutions. Do you know maybe phone PCB's also contain nickel?
Still have plenty of concentrate.
Found cheap funnel on Ebay 4.5 litters.
Will neutralize all metals with KOH, filter it out, leave evaporate through the summer and then I'll try to crystalize KNO3.
Tried feeding KNO3 from wash solutions to my garden flowers, they died next day after watering.
And then dry dirty Cu(OH)2 on my LED lamp.
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+ All phones yielded bit over 200 grams of gold plated pins.
[Edited on 23-6-2021 by Romix]
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Ceramic lenses from old digital cameras, under 4 megapixels.
Maybe someone have a small device to crash them, interested in buying one.
They'll break average kitchen blender.
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Tried cementing sample on copper.
Small amount of black mud formed, I can tell by the look of it that it's not metal.
And all mud dissolved in nitric.
There was some metal but all of it stuck to the walls of a beaker.
After few days copper bar passivated with white CuCl and recovery stopped.
And a lot of insoluble salt farmed on a top of the solution, when AR was very very diluted.
[Edited on 24-6-2021 by Romix]
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Sodium Metabisulfite. After night standing some mirror like dirt appeared on a beaker's walls.
Added a lot of SMB, copper salts not precipitating like it was with NaSO3.
[Edited on 27-6-2021 by Romix]
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