Refining Gold with Borax... Missing a step asking for CLARITY.
I am new to the gold refining process and all research I did stated and demonstrated the process of crushing, and running gold flour down the sluice over felt carpet, …
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2. At the melting process, the sediments were in the filter paper and carefully burned it. Not having any of them flying out. I added a few sparkles of soda ash and more borax. Much Borax it seems, and the result was black substances and less gold. IN context I processed 600 grams of IC chips, 100 grams of gold-plated fingers and Ribbon flex ...
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Filtration problems and small gold particles in solution
7. The gold was suspended in the solution like nanoparticles. 8. I let it settle, but some gold was still present in the solution. 9. I tried a pretreatment with nitric acid, and again the gelatinous precipitate appeared. 10. This time, I saw little …
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how to seperate gold from borax????
The process you used should be considered a recovery process, not a refining process. You should have dissolved the recovered gold, then filtered and precipitated to purify (refine). It's a bit late for that now, but you'll be able to refine the recovered values with just a …
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Karat Gold should not need much Borax or flux in the smelt/melt. What was your plan with melting it in the first place? Reply. DeBangis Member. Joined Aug 8, 2024 Messages 23 ... Beginners Gold Refining Process Forum. Looking for learning, Latest: Yggdrasil; Today at 9:44 AM; Introductions - About Yourself. M.
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Boiling slag in water
I had clients in NYC who purposely used only borax for melts. And the dense slag held up beads. They used large stainless steel pots to boil water and dissolve the slag, leaving behind all of the beads. ... Beginners Gold Refining Process Forum. Silver Moon. Latest: Yggdrasil; Today at 3:12 AM; Silver. PCB scrap. Latest: Yggdrasil; Today at 3: ...
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Removing Diamonds from borax/flux/slag | Gold Refining
Beginners Gold Refining Process Forum . Removing Diamonds from borax/flux/slag. Thread starter Fournines; Start date Apr 16, 2009; Help Support Gold Refining Forum: ... your description though it seems you may have a more complicated slag than just some flux from melting up a button of gold in a borax fluxed dish. Reply. Fournines Well-known ...
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Gold stuck in borax
If there is borax stuck on the gold button, Geo gave me the tip to boil it in dilute sulfuric acid. Cleans all the borax off. artart47 . Reply. B. butcher ... Beginners Gold Refining Process Forum. S. For Sale COLTAN ORE FOR SALE. Latest: suf190; Yesterday at 3:16 PM; For Sale, Trade & Wanted. Pgm refining.
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Extracting gold using borax? Can someone explain? | Gold Refining
Then the excess mercury is burned off, I think the ratio of precious metal to mercury is something like 1/5. Then the mercury is burned off when the gold is melted. The borax was only used after the gold had been extracted. At best the borax was used to refine impurities, not extracting the gold.
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Shifting to pyrometallurgy process
After long read and thinking about the differences between hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy processes for gold and PM's recovery from E-waste I noticed the following: A- regard cost, chemicals used in hydrometallurgy process make it much expensive than pyrometallurgy. B- Time consumption in hydrometallurgy much higher because in most of …
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kind of Borax | Gold Refining & Metal Extraction Forum
Chapman Recipe Gold & Silver Smelting / Refining Flux. Contains 40% Borax, 20% each: Soda Ash, Manganese Dioxide, Silica. ... then dry it or give it a recrystallization to get an even purer borax. You can see the 1° process (borax to boric acid) here (p. 208): ...
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Excess borax
If you are using borax to flux impure gold in the melt you may need to add other flux ingredients, such as glass or silica, maybe an oxidizing or reducing agent, thinning agent, …
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Borax is stealing my gold
However, this revelation has spurred me to seek out a superior alternative. Introducing a groundbreaking new formula, Formula, designed to outperform borax in every aspect. Its efficacy not only preserves gold but enhances the overall quality of the jewelry-making process, ensuring both precision and integrity in every piece crafted.
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Understanding the Gold Melting and Assaying Process: A
Fire assay is the traditional and most common method for refining gold. This process involves heating the gold in a crucible to a high temperature, causing it to melt and …
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Refining Gold with Borax... Missing a step asking for …
I am new to the gold refining process and all research I did stated and demonstrated the process of crushing, and running gold flour down the sluice over felt carpet, using soap to weigh down gold and panning it into plastic, adding equal amount of borax. Prepare clay with borax by melting it...
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flux recipe for smelting fines
douglas23, Gold or even silver can be cleaned up a little bit (slightly) in a melt with flux, but in reality the improvement is only minor basically, and even if you tried it with the placer gold you still would most likely not improve the gold to make it workable enough to make jewelry out of the impure gold. The gold needs refined. Hoke's book will describe the flux used to …
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Gold Recovery Computer Scrap Complete Process
I learned some things that will help streamline the process ... to add What do you add to the gold and the filter and what does it do when smelting and does it alter the purity of the gold What does the molten borax ... color. Then once the peroxide is driven off you can ppt the gold. This of course will be a dirtier gold but a second refining ...
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Kerr Maximelt with new graphite crucible | Gold Refining
Borax will not harm gold purity, vise versa, it will absorb traces of base metals, separating them from the gold. Sprinkle lightly some borax at the bottom of the crucible and add your metals, once the metals are melted, add more borax and the more metals if you need to. when stirring the molten metals and borax with graphite rod, the borax ...
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Borates in Metallurgy and Gold Refinement | U.S.
Why is borax used in melting gold? When used in a gold refining flux, borates keep recovery high and equipment degradation low. In gold metallurgy, borates are: Incorporated in refining flux formulations to dissolve metal oxides. Used …
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Removing Borax Trapped Gold from My Crucible | Gold Refining …
The gold in the bottom mass of borax was still there and the borax was still hard. I carefully rinsed all the free gold and other loose substances from the crucible into a small beaker and after rinsing it off, put the crucible in a pan of water. I used a u-shaped wood carving tool to scrape through the borax to remove all the encapsulated gold.
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Removing Gold From Borax
That's the mix for old borax in a remelt but for just melting karat gold use 2 parts borax, 1 part soda ash, and 1 part flourospar. That will make a nice fluid flux that shouldn't hold up your beads. ... Beginners Gold Refining Process Forum. K. Would these chips be worth trying to recover the gold from? Latest: kurtak; Today at 6:46 AM;
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Need help removing borax from Button... | Gold Refining
I melted my brown gold dust produced and ended-up with a very beautiful button-nugget about 1/4 ounce in weight.. I say nugget because it was poured from the graphite dish into the water a bit soon and it looks a lot like a native gold nugget. The problem I have is that a bit of borax ended-up sticking on the nugget.
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refining using borax, soda ash, etc | Gold Refining & Metal …
Assuming you have to inquart your gold to get to the point of purification, the only thing lacking at that point is actually dissolving the gold in AR, then going through a proper …
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The gold smelting furnace and flux
Each one of the items will require a different process. The first step for refining Gold, is to "refine", or collect, the Gold out of the host minerals, into a button or bead. This will produce an alloy of metals. Then you will further refine the metals further down into each individual element via chemicals.
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"Borax Method"
Hello, I'm going to introduce myself since I'm kinda new. My name is Herb Bartley. I have been gold mining as a hobby for about 20 years. My interest in refining really is more of an interest in recovery. This sounds very similar to the way I have processed black sands. I have seen the videos on youtube of filipinos smelting gold. It's pretty ...
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Using Borax Flux to Refine Gold
Borax does more than clean clothes; it can also "clean" gold ore to produce samples of pure gold. Learn how borax-based refining works in this article.
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Processing MLCC's | Gold Refining & Metal Extraction Forum
Then melted with appropriate fluxes (mainly borax) and poured into a conical mold, so that the metal is easily separated from the slag. ... Beginners Gold Refining Process Forum. Clean Gold Fingers. Latest: GoIdman; Today at 3:02 PM; General Gold Refining Discussion. newbie. Latest: Yggdrasil; Today at 2:42 PM; Introductions - About Yourself. P.
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Arc Smelting Precious Metal Ores Concentrates | Gold Refining …
Hi Folks, Would any forum members help provide some guidance to me on; 1. smelting different PM ore types. 2. dealing with refiners. 3. doing inhouse chemical intermediate refining before sending to big boy refiners 4. uses of fluxes to get lower melt temps 5. uses of fluxes to get separation of pm from non-pm metals 6. finding folks that have access to pm …
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