USING THIS FILTER TO RECOVER SILVER AND PALLADIUM FROM YOUR GOLD SOLUTIONS Your gold solutions have

more than just gold in them as you well know. The base metals such as copper you will want to keep out of your gold. This can be done in large measure by washing it out with HCl and AmOH. We will leave the washing of your gold powder with dilute HCl as you well know that process. Recovering your Silver is pretty well known. Recovering Palladium is not very well known. When you drop your gold with SMB and filter the gold precipitate you have left most of your silver and palladium in your solution. There will be quite a bit of silver and palladium in your gold precipitate no matter what you do but there is more left in your solution than in with your gold precipitate. If you do not have a large volume of gold solution you may want to leave the gold precipitate in your filter and on the 5 gallon bucket with the gold solution in it and pour into your filter AmOH. The more concentrated you can get the better but washing AmOH will work better than you expect. Stir the gold precipitate around with the AmOH and let the liquid AmOH which has turned colors (deep blue for silver and greenish for Palladium) I have a method of refining Platinum that comes up with loads of platinum and palladium out of regular cpus. Cant tell you about it now tho. There will be lots of palladium relative to platinum in your gold solution. Palladium is pretty easy to dissolve sort of like silver and gold. The palladium is red to green to brown so it is easy to mistake it for gold. The color of the AmOH will tell you the relative amounts of silver and palladium in your gold precipitate. Keep rinsing (within reason, say 3 or 4 times) the gold with AmOH as this will remove the Contaminants of silver and pd from the Gold Filtrate making it cleaner each rinse. You will still want to do at least a couple of Dilute HCl (10% HCl rest water) gold washings. I like to let the last AmOH rinse set all night before I do the HCl washings. It will have a blue color to it I bet mine always do that is silver, perhaps the most difficult of contaminants to remove from gold filtrate next to copper. The dilute HCl does a better job of removing the copper. If you will start soaking your cpus and fingers and what ever E Scrap you are refining in a 2 to 1 solution of HCl and H2O2 for a 2 or three day period you will put most of your base metals in solution and have a much more pure Gold scrap to refine with whatever method you like. The Silver and Palladium will go into the solution also so dont pitch the HCl and H2O2 solution. The darker the HCl and H2O2 almost to black means that it has taken into solution a lot of copper and other base metals as well as silver and palladium. The silver will convert to silver chloride and precipitate out and fall to the bottom of the HCl and H2O2 container so dont pour it into your gold to be refined.

There is more palladium in E Scrap than we think due to the use of Pd in solder in earlier times of cpu manufacturing and where you have pd you have pt but dissolving the pt is very difficult so dont look for too much of it in your gold filtrate. Now, here is the unique value of our PGM Filters: The AmOH dissolves the silver and Pd in your gold precipitate and then is filtered into your erstwhile gold solution now barren of gold we hope. When you want to drop Pd you need Ammonium Chloride, right? What do you get when you mix AmOH and HCl together? Right. Ammonium Chloride which will precipitate your palladium out of solution in your gold solution which has now become your palladium and silver solution. You can now filter your gold solution now your palladium solution (use a clean filter- you really need more than one filter- or use coffee filters) and save your palladium filtrate. Be careful with Palladium you can destroy it by trying to torch it. That black smoke is pd going off forever. Refining Pd is another story that is not simple. Save it in an air tight container until you learn to process it. Palladium is a catalyst and will catalyze in the air and lose a lot of values. You can also leave it in your solution and save it that way until you have a lot to do. Dont close the container too tightly in changing temperatures tho. After you filter your pd off (if that is the route you choose) and seal it off from the air you still have your silver dissolved in AmOH. You can drop your silver with common salt, sodium chloride. I prefer using HCl as it is cleaner.

Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Palladium Solution Filter

I will start with each refining System that I sell on Ebay regularly and tell you where and how I employ these filters. I use them in all the refining systems except the Electronic Sys No 2 for obvious reasons. I use them in the AR Sys no 3 could not get along without them in that application as a matter of fact. I use them for the Gold Finger Refining Sys No 1 also to separate the silver from the Gold Foils and to damp dry the Gold Foils. First of all: They fit a 5 gallon bucket perfectly with draw strings to hold the filter in the place you put it- this means you can vary the pocket size to fit the amount of solution you haveand the colors are selected so you can see your product very well and you can adjust the size of the pocket or Basket in the filter to about any size to contain filtrate or washing solution such as AmOH or water. Please do not pour AR into these fabric filters AR will eat copper or stainless steel and fabric filters. You can filter the gold out of your AR solution but it must first be buffered with Urea and then the solution brought to a ph of about 3.5 to 4. After this ph adjustment you will be able to drop your gold powder with no problem. With intelligent application of these Filters you should get years of use out of one. Buy you cannot

get by with just one. I use ten to twelve and could use some more sometimes when I get carried away. When you have filtered your gold filtrate and it is almost drained but before it dries up you can add Ammonium Hydroxide directly to the gold in the filter pocket to dissolve the silver chloride out of your filtrate. You can change to a dry clean bucket to catch the Blue AmOH to save the silver or you can just drop the AmOH into the Gold Acid solution and use the acid from the gold SMB reaction to acidify your silver AmOH. I do not recommend filtering Nitric acid solutions of silver or anything else. AR refining uses Nitric Acid in the refining procedure but the AR solution will be buffered as per the above discussion to 3.5 to 4 before you drop your gold and it works beautifully well. The place that these beautiful filters come into prominence is in the filtering of Gold Finger Foils after the Acid has been poured off as much as possible and water added to the remaining solution with the gold foils to wash them well. After the foils are washed with water you can add AmOH to the filter with the gold foils directly to dissolve the Silver Chloride to save it to your silver stock pot. Works perfectly. My favorite application for them is the AR filtering of the Gold Powders. These filters are not as cheap as paper coffee filters but will stand more and I have some that I have been using for over 4 years and they still work perfectly. Some of the color is gone where I did not listen to my own cautions but they are still very usable and do not lose any filtrate. The mesh size is much more perfect than coffee filters or stainless steel screened strainers and I have several of the strainers. They work great to separate silver chloride from gold finger foils. These uses alone justify a price of a hundred dollars per filter and they would pay for themselves every few days of intensive refining. I am starting them at 19.95 and expect them to bring at least 30.00 each or I may discontinue marketing them. I have them made up for my own use with a double drawstring so I can use them in a multitude of different applications just remembering the caveat of 3.5 to 4 ph for your solution and you would not be messing with a solution more acid than that in any application I can think of right now. The most acid is the AR solution and that has to be brought to 3.5 to 4 ph in order to drop your gold powder. Thank you for reading this long ad. I am always verbose but you always get some new and useful items of information just reading my ads.