August's
Process
by August

My gold is still boiling yellow, heres a pic, its been going for a
couple of
weeks or more.....how crappin long does this take?

While bringing the gold to the green stage, a
second 4000 ml flask was
processing iridium. the gold started its green color on 2/11 and
the next
day the iridium went green. It was deep red chloride for a month.
The gold should turn just as dark green. Perhaps tonight when I
salt it out.

Fresh gold chloride monatomic.
If it never gets to green it never gets to monatoms

Occlusion Sequence
The stuff was almost clear to start.
I was curious about the
size of vapor and realized that water vapor was just excited H2O
molecules and then realized that monatoms of gold, either expelled by
the EMF created by the electric burner like some suggest, or simply
small enough to float off with the water molecules might be coming off
the gold salting reductions as they boil away.
I wrote you all about this a week or so ago when I also followed up
with an early evaluation stating that there appeared to be no ppt in
the titrated 6M HCl collected as vapor and condensed into liquid.
But I was curious. I thought maybe it was too fine to see and let
the jar sit for a week. I fine off white flocculant fell to the
bottom of the jar. It can only be monatomic gold
Well, I think the following method is an excellent side extraction
going on during salt reductions of disolved transition metals.
1 do a fusion on gold using sodium peroxide and sodium hydroxide
2 melt the cake into 6M HCl and add more HCl and HClO4 and boil 6hrs
3 at the end of 6 hrs adjust pH to pH12 and boil 6 hrs
4 cool, filter, adjust filtrate to pH3
5 reduce filtrate to half the starting volume
6 on a spin table mix in 6M HCl (salting occurs immediately)
7 reduce to salt repeatedly in a 4L flask with a side nipple. Put
a stopper in the top, attached a automotive high temperature neoprene
gasoline hose to
the flask neck side nipple and connect the other end to a condenser
tube to cool the evaporating HCl vapor.
8 collect the vapor and adjust pH to pH7
9 Let sit until the PPT falls to the bottom of the settling vessel
you won't get much each gallon, maybe 10 or 20 ml, but it is monatomic
hydroxide.
wash it like regular precip

Yes, you can convert Gold to a white elemental
non reactive powder
If patience is a virtue, I must be loaded with virtue
And, I suppose I became an alchemist on 5-29-2002