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ur off the tap water into the container with the acid. Do not pour off any parti
cles of brown. Repeat this rinsing 3-4 times or more.
After completing the final tap water rinse, rinse once again with aqua ammonia (
%10 ammonia to %90 distilled water ) white vapors will appear. The aqua ammonia
cleans impurities from the gold mud while, at the same time, it neutralizes any
acid still clinging to the gold mud.
While in the fine paper filter, give the mud on last rinse, this time with disti
lled water until mud and filter is clean.
Take filter with clean gold mud and gently squeeze of any excess water and place
filer with mud into crucible for melting.
Once melted, the gold will again take on the appearance of metal. If you've foll
owed the instructions carefully and used filters, the gold will be 999.5 % Pure
with virtually no losses.
Platinum- If you had platinum in your gold, it will not dissolve, to any appreci
able degree, in the room temperature aqua regia. It will be left behind when you
pour off the aqua regia, prior to precipitation. To insure high purity of the p
latinum, you will need to re-refine this material. Put this material in a fresh
aqua regia bath. This time, however, heat the acid to simmering. Continue heatin
g until all the platinum is dissolved (that may take 1-2 hours). When completely
dissolved at 1 ounce of ammonium chloride for every ounce of dissolved platinum
. The platinum will precipitate as a red mud. If you want to leave the iridium i
n the platinum, then wait for it to precipitate before recovering the platinum.
Iridium will precipitate as a blue-black mud after the platinum precipitates. Pl
atinum group metals will also show up on the stannous chloride test. Platinum tu
rns red, palladium Palladium turns orange and iridium turn blue-black.