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Gold Recovery Computer Scrap Complete Process

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aga - 4-11-2016 at 12:02

Hello dlog.

It would be helpful if you could post the 'recipies' that you tried, i.e. weights, volumes, concentrations etc.

aga - 5-11-2016 at 12:57

24hrs has not done much with that mix.

24hrs.JPG - 44kB

The gold plating does appear to have been attacked a little, but hardly enough to make it useful.

deltaH's recipe worked much better.

dlog - 5-11-2016 at 13:32

Hello Aga
I post a phot of it later. The Board is refusing to upload a 1Mb file.
I think they use another oxidazing agent like HNO3 or NaClO or something like this.

aga - 5-11-2016 at 13:37

If you read the entire thread you'll see that gold was successfully dissolved in a known mixture.

Better to start there and improve on that formula by experimentation.

A lot of 'papers' and patents are total bollocks.

diddi - 5-11-2016 at 14:31

I have been playing in this area for a while now and to be honest, unless you have access to tonnes (literally) of FREE scrap, and free chems, you are wasting your time. it may be viable at a large scale if you can get up to about 7 grams per tonne, but I would be lucky to have a 2mm bead after tens of hours cutting up and sorting etc, let alone the cost of reagents. on the up side I have enough basic copper carbonate to last a lifetime.

dlog - 5-11-2016 at 15:41

Aga
Here my tests.


dlog - 5-11-2016 at 15:48

Sorry Aga. I cannot post photos on the post.
diddi...It is stimated that 1 tonn contains about 150-200g of Au(maybe a bit less). So I think worth the effort

dlog - 5-11-2016 at 16:01

Aga,
My tests:

Steanous chloride Test: N
obs:

Test 5
Acetic Acid: 2mL
HCl: 2mL
CaCl2: 1 M(1mL)
H2O2: 4 drops

Steanous chloride Test: N
obs: Very yellon in presence of IRON.

Test 6
Acetic Acid: 2mL
HCl: 1mL
CaCl2: 1 M(1mL)
H2O2: 7 drops

Steanous chloride Test: N
obs:

Test 7
Acetic Acid: 2mL
HCl: 0.5mL
CaCl2: 0.2 M(1mL)
H2O2: 3 drops

Steanous chloride Test: N
obs:

Test 8
Acetic Acid: 2mL
HCl: 0.25mL
CaCl2: 0.2 M(1mL)
H2O2: 3 drops

Steanous chloride Test: N
obs:

Test 9
Acetic Acid: 1mL
HCl: 1mL
CaCl2: 1 M(1mL)
H2O2: 3 drops

Steanous chloride Test: N
obs:

dlog - 6-11-2016 at 15:28

I missed some data but it is.
I would like to hear deltaH's oppinions about it


dlog - 6-11-2016 at 15:41

test sheet

dlog.jpg - 843kB

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