Got 623.9 grams of gold filled for this batch, a lot of it was stamped 1/20th 14k so hoping for a good yield. My projected yield should be 18.5 grams

I took the board out of the direct tv out side receiver pic of housing is the first one what I am asking is that top foil gold ? I have not seen any other like this one

I have successfully refined a batch of gold filled, gold plated, and gold jewelry. I attempted to do a batch of E scrap and gold pins, and was left with no brown precipitate coming out of solution (just a black/grey) using both iron sulfate or SMB. I put the solution into my stock pot and proceeded to try again after a second failed recovery. I changed my stock pot to a small glass container and attempted to refine from there.I failed again while the solution had minimal nitric (less than a milliliter) I decided to D Knox with sulfamic acid and a try again first with iron sulfate then with SMB I got a gray precipitate and the solution with fresh Stannus first going clear than brownish red I put a piece of copper in the solution and watched as some metal precipitated out black what could I be dealing with here? Im at wits end as each time, i drop in a gold flake to ensure it dissolves.

I have approx 6 gallons of silver,sulfur,iron sludge from to spent Kodak Junior Model ll Chemical Recovery Cartridges that were used to filter dental X-ray film fixer.
I’m interested in trying to extract the silver myself. Any advice or ideas welcomed

These boads look promising what yall say

It come out of the direct tv box that chip in the middle looks good any comments let me know more about it

New here and very new to refining. I mostly wanted to share but any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated ( I'm currently looking through some previous posts and Google )

Essentially, I do a bit of rock hunting I got an opportunity to explore an abandoned mine. Found what looks to be Galena.

Is there a better way to pull the galena from quartz? ( I just used chisel / rock hammer and then rock crusher to break it down some ). I now have a small smelter as well but doing homework first

what would be the best/ safest way to refine this and extract the silver? Plus any advice/ precautions/ etc.

PS if anyone has good links on how to design/ create your own mold, I would appreciate it.

It's entirely copper inside?!!? 🤔😍😍

Had a couple people ask for an update on my last post about the brown sludge during my nitric boils of some gold filled items. I decided to just power through the refine and add more nitric till it stopped reacting. Ended up with a purple sludge and the foils. Thought this was colloidal gold so melted everything into shot and continued with aqua regia. Was able to precipitate out 12.6g which was only 2 grams short of my initial 14.5 gram estimate. I think that’s pretty good for only my second attempt

Hello, I found these gold wire ends at an estate sale. It’s 85.41 grams of 5.18 k gold or 21.6% pictures! Local refineries aren’t interested because it’s less than 25%. Where would y’all recommend taking them to sell? I’m not able to attempt refining, I live in an apartment, and the extra cash would be very helpful right now. Thank you!

I'm not even trying to be stupid here, I guess I'm just a natural.

I'm not doing anything big. The melt dishes of the size that Sreetips commonly has would do me just fine. Where do you guys go for melt dishes? I'm sure plenty of companies have good ones and even sub par will probably do with proper prep and care but I'm a little nervous about just going and buying one without a few recommendations.

So as the title implies, we moved into our new home and the previous owners had a hobby auto shop on the property. I have found 7 oem bmw cats now (newer models) local scrap yards want to rip me off by paying “shred” because I don’t have the titles to the cars.. you know damn well they will turn around and sell them for market rate. So my question is.. is the process similar to gold/sliver recovery?

Hi all,

I came into possession of four crucibles that I spent an hour or two mining and came up with quite a bit of mostly 14K chunks. All 4 still have little pearls of gold throughout, I would imagine there is still a couple of grams between all of them. The left bag is tested 14K or higher, the middle is a mix and smaller pieces (much of which has foreign material still caked on), and the right is almost completely broken down crucible pieces.

So I guess my question is what should I do?

My refiner declined to run the bag of 14K through his testing machine as he wouldn’t buy it and said it needs to be further processed. They aren’t usually so picky, they are down in the diamond district on 47th st in nyc and I’ve worked with them for over a decade.

I am thinking it’s time I learn how to get into the chemistry as I’ve dealt with PMs most of my adult life and this is probably a great opportunity as this group was free and there is some pretty dense reclaim. The 14K bag on the left is 20g as is.

Any advice you can give would be much appreciated, even in the form of your favorite how-to videos or “entry level” processes for this type of scenario.

Thanks for reading, much luck and fortune to all.

We had some chickens, the last of them recently died and/or moved to a different place. I built the coop with an easily cleanable fiberglass resin panel floor. So I figured… why deal with fumes and kids bumping it near the house, and try using the coop. Hosed it out, bleached it, and it is now where I’m running my first little silver cell.

I made the electrolyte at a final concentration of 120.8 g/L (my target was 120 so I think I did pretty good there). Haven’t balanced a chemistry equation since college so that was neat, trying to guesstimate where I’d land between concentrated nitric and dilute nitric equations for silver nitrate.

So stinkin cool. This will probably never be profitable, but it’s fun! (But I’m open to tips on making it profitable, too!)

Anyway- thanks for checking it out. 54.5 hours running, .400A constant current the whole run. I think it should have around 87g in it. I’m just stoked and wanted to share!

#chickenlab photos

This is my first attempt at recovery. I think this would be recovery anyhow.

I'm sure there's other junk in here. This is from silver plated pieces. I stripped them with a DC power supply and salt water. Probably or at least looks convincingly like silver slimes?

Next step is nitric boil? Going to be a minute until I can do that safely though. I'm going to let this dry and put it with my silver breaker contact buttons.

Update from previous post.

BLUF, this took for everrrrrrr lol

Silver contacts yielded silver at about 40%. Not bad I suppose. The breakers were free and this is just a hobby for me.

I started by drilling the rivets out with a drill press, the breaking them open with a flat head screw driver like shucking clams. Small amount of dirty brass and copper were also recovered. Maybe 10-20 dollars worth.

Some people talk about smashing the breakers with a hammer, it’s gross, asbestos and fiberglass from the casing goes everywhere. Don’t recommend this method.

If you’re doing it for fun and to build a cheap silver stack it’s worth it. But it was a lot of work spread out over a several month period.

I know of a current company that throws away all of their leftover De Icing Ink and it contains silver. They have said I can have the leftover ink and it would be about 500 grams a week. Would it be worth it? How do I extract the silver?

Newer to this and curious.

How do you all source your silver to consistently run cells for those of you who do? Are you all paying under melt prices or finding it yourself?

Does this look OK? It's enough for what I want to do and I can afford it. So long as these guys make good stuff it'll be fine for me.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/JSP-Nitric-HNO3-Acid-67-500mL-CP-Lab-Grade-Gold-Silver-Refining-Ships-Free/135730882?classType=REGULAR&from=/search

I just want a pinhead of silver and gold so I can say I've done it. I can't say that this is going to be a hobby what with the waste processing, storage, and disposal.

That said I'm going to roam this sub and look at how people deal with waste. I can't say this won't be a thing. I watch a lot of Sreetips and I really love watching him.

Here’s a quick look at the silver cement out of solution! I think it’s freaking awesome

Any of you who run a cell probably find all sorts of interesting Crystal structures. I have a particular fascination with the faceted crystals, I want to optimize my process to grow these in particular and try to push the limits on the size I could achieve. I was wondering if anybody had any advice on what environment or conditions are ideal for crystals like this to form. And how to encourage them to grow. And furthermore if there is a technical name for the crystals that are common in the cell, (the small dense treelike crystals) to help better differentiate and categorize the crystals while I am researching the topic. Thanks!

So I was able to harvest the Silver Cell Run from the 4th of July. I was able to yield 795g of Silver Crystals from the run. I still need to process the leftover solution into cement silver once I get that completed I’ll post the final results. I also got a video of the silver cement onto the copper.

My sterling melt crucible was on its last leg, so after its last melt I tossed it in some water and it exploded. It looks like it has some silver up on the walls and the bottom, is this worth anything to anyone?