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Gold/Mining/Energy : A Little Forum For Gold Microclusters
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To: Chuca Marsh who wrote (28)8/8/1997 3:37:00 PM
From: Michael J. Wendell   of 142
 
Chuca, you can recover all kinds of gold ions with resin columns. There are gold specific columns that collect the common +1 and +2 ions. They are not what you want. The more general anion resins would probably be better for microcluster gold. Also the retention time of transfer fluids might be greater or lesser, depending on the charges of the clusters. Now getting the gold off of the resins might be a little more difficult. Try 20% salt water if the resin is a chlorine type. After washing the resin with salt water the resin might be useable again.
I would expect that the salt water might not want to release cluster values to conventional precipitation methods. Use a welder as a power supply. Use two carbon rods as electrodes and feed the juice to the works. You should see coagulated clusters of all kinds separate from the brine. Turn the welder off and the clusters will go right back into the brine as charged colloids. At least that is my guess. What you have to do now is filter out the gold from the brine while the solution is still under the welders juice. Wash the precips with distilled water. Dry the residue and the stuff should fire conventionally, especially if the gold to silver ratio is greater than 1 to 2.5 gold to silver. In that ratio formula, treat platinum and palladium as silver for ratio purposes.
Believe me, the above is all guess work. However, based on what I know about clusters, the method just might work. Do you need the rest of the hypothetical recipe or do you know someone that can provide the low cost leach formula to you? Thats the dirt cheap formula that moves the clusters to the resin. Remember, the cluster process moves mega ions, select your general purpose anion resin accordingly. mike
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