Escrapwastemanagement1

ok, so this last bit of gold is going to be uh... just the finest particles they will float around in the goo so all this has to be filtered so what I'm doing here is filtering this last bit of gold out this stuff that I'm using here, this is all saturated with copper so uh... once I filter it I'm saving it in this five-gallon bucket over here more testing testing testing before you dispose of anything or precipitate anything or electroplate anything out you want to know exactly what's in it if at all possible well especially precious metal content wise so we're gonna test it what i have here is a known copper chloride solution this just has copper dissolved in HCL nothing else this is known gold solution, it's just gold dissolved in HCL clorox mix this is my unknown solution, this is the waste after the treatment of the PC cards, so... there is probably other stuff in here besides copper like tin zinc possibly nickel, mostly copper but there could also be some gold dissolved in here, especially since we were using air and or hydrogen peroxide to speedup the process of dissolving copper that can sometimes lead to some gold getting dissolved in there so, first step, we're gonna test the copper solution here's my known copper solution here is my stannous chloride which is just tin solder wire dissolved in HCL I'll just touch that on there like that I'm going to get it in the sun so you can see see my thing, it picks up some of that green HCL actually I think it if you get enough on there it will turn green next we will test the known gold get another swab stannous chloride and test and you see we get this nice brown and it kinda goes purple nice darkening a noticeably different result than from the copper here next we're going to test our unknown solution I'm going to use the other end of this swab here alright, as I'm preparing to uh... electroplate out copper from my solution, what I'm going to do first is I'm going to throw a big chunk of copper in there if you're processing computers you will probably find some of the heatsinks off some of the processors anyway that is where this chunk of copper came from. It's a good selection because it has a lot of surface area actually there's a lot of these fins here the object is to uh... let it dissolve and uh... if this uh... fluid has any action left what i would like to see happen is, i would like to see the copper dissolve and uh... if there is the slightest bit of gold in solution or any other precious metals in solution they will precipitate out and i will give this a few days to settle and syphon the water off the top or, not the water but the solution of the top and then I will know for sure that the solution is quite well ready, uh... it will be saturated with copper and uh... and I will know for sure that there are no precious metals if there is any sludge in the bottom of the bucket, i'm gonna filter that and process that sludge back through as though it had precious metals in it.