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Gold/Mining/Energy : Desert Dirts, Gold & Platinum, the emperors new clothes -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (1519)	7/9/1998 8:41:00 PM
From: Bob Jagow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1913

"These will [not] be Au++ ions", Bill, gold(II) is non-existent -- its stable valencies are I and III (reference: "Creation, The Way It Was", or any elementary inorganic textbook). Further, Au+ and Au+++ are not stable in aqueous solution (reference: post 1516, [how soon you forgot that] "The resin has to grab Au[X]n anions, Bill -- free Au cations are rather readily reduced") Anions suffer from excess electrons -- very difficult to trap them on cationic resins. This is getting repetitive and tiresome -- don't think I would have chucked my Cambridge post had I known it would come to this ;) DrBobNoLonger