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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (75341)	8/20/2001 9:06:03 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Respond to of 116762

if you tutor me will you allow me to nuzzle while you do? musk and gold aheeeeeeeeee what a turn on.

To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (75341)	8/21/2001 6:24:11 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

The overvoltage is common in some electrolytic methods to pull all the stuff fast. In this case they are not concerned with getting copper too as they want to get it all quickly. the smelting will slag the oxidizing stuff that is not economic. You may oxidize metals like iron, lead and copper, and managanese with lots of knitre and higher heat in the furnace. This is aiming at a gold, not gold-lead button. Always reuse your slag. Gold-lead is a better recoverer of gold though, if you want to deal with the volumes of lead later in a vapour and in bone-ash with driving the lead or furnace oxidation. South African bone ash is preferred for this. Some people take the lead into pure acid, leaving the gold as sludge and decant/filter. If you use a lead as a collector, put some litharge on the surface of your furnace charge and put a thin layer of borax on that. A trick is to use litharge with some silver in it such as GL shipyard litharge which is cheap and makes an excellent collector. Then adding silver to collect is not necessary. It is Idaho or Missouri lead and has no gold. You can fire assay for pennies a sample if you ignore the non-necessity of using USP reagants. They are a ridiculous waste of money. Good reagants can be bought bulk in impure form. Brown or white pool sand makes better silica than Fisher Sci, stuff. 7 dollars for 25 pounds versus 20 dollars per kilogram. If there was +50 ppb gold in pool sand or the average beach sand I will eat the beach. With the overvoltage you get a brown crud that contains lots of stuff. With aqua regia, not cyanide, this is a volume problem. This explains why Noranda just burns circuit boards and furnace slags the material to a metal crud. Then they plate out stuff which leaves the gold in sludge and then they furnace or electrolytically separate again. If you take the crud into sulfuric and hcl acid pure (no nitrates!), the copper will dissolve and the iron. Plating the other stuff leaves the gold in sludge. When pouring the heavier metals always pour first out of the crucible then the slag. If you "step" pour and you don't have amalgams then the metals and slags will separate in your steps, which fill and pour from one to another down a stair of vessels. EC<:-}