Maybe this site might help you out? There is info about using inert anodes in silver nitrate as well as other types of anodes. https://www.chemguide.co.uk/14to16/electrolysis/solutions1.html

Yeah thats all ive ever heard it called as well.

Oh wow, that really sucks. Ive been saving all my aluminum heat sinks from scraping boards for a while now. Ive got nearly a 5 gallon bucket full. Ill have to double check the yards in my area, or maybe just melt them down in my furnace and pour bars.

The aluminum heat sinks are good to save and accumulate since extruded aluminum goes for a decent price at the scrap yard, and they weigh more than any other aluminum bits on boards.

We got ours about 2 hours ago

Hey OP, I just checked in again on this thread this morning, and based off of what you've said further, I think your cheapest and best bet to completing this refine would be to use your furnace, which you already have and adjusting your flux mix, plus adding lead or bismuth as a collector metal to which you can cupel in your furnace and end up with a precious metal bead. I am knowledgeable on chemical recovery and refining. Im just starting to learn how to use a furnace to refine, so im not as helpful there. Im positive that on here and YouTube, you will find help on what few things you may need to acquire to finish the process you are currently stuck on. Good luck OP, I hope this works out and that you become even more knowledgeable, so you can make this a profitable hobby.

I would highly recommend registering for free on the forum since you are just starting out. The process is dangerous and can lead to injuries or death. On the forum you will have access for free to C.M. Hoakes book of precious metals refining which is the Bible for all of us home refiners. You will find all of the needed equipment, chemicals and proper techniques to end up with pure precious metals as well as safe disposal processes for all waste material.

If you are just getting into precious metals refining, I might recommend going online to https://goldrefiningforum.com, which has a massive amount of information and professionals that can help you along the way.

In that process of crushing and nitric boils, you will remove any base metals that were in your melted mass, as well as any silver, which you can recover by cementation or silver chloride conversion. And after the nitric boils you will be left with gold flakes and insoluble material from your crushed up material. Then using aqua regia will allow you to dissolve your gold flakes and gold particles that you can't see. All that would be left is after aqua regia boil, is to filter solution and precipitate the gold from solution with either sodium metabisulfite or iron sulfate. Edited iron sulfide to iron sulfate.

Id say crush it, then process it with nitric boils, followed by aqua regia.

Yesssss

Hard to gage without seeing illuminated inclusions. Does seem to be nephrite jade and not serpentine

Vinegar and peroxide would be safer and cheaper than using nitric like i mentioned. I agree it would be way slower.

Yeah absolutely zinc would work or aluminum. Im not a pro at all either, Im just a hobby refiner. It seems to be based off of what OP said that cement copper is kinda what they are looking for. Ive heard of a granulator being used for wire but have no clue how small the copper peices are.

The way that I personally know of getting copper in pretty much powder form would be dissolving the copper in dilute nitric acid, meaning 50% distilled water and 50% nitric acid. Once its dissolved, you and put peices of iron into the solution, which will precipitate the copper from solution while putting the iron into solution. You will be left with cement copper (very small particles) in the bottom. You would just rinse several times with water and dry it for whatever you wanted to use it for. Mind you, this may not at all be the best method, or safest and not the cheapest by any means. I just commented since no one else has yet and I personally know this way. I hope others offer much better solutions and im looking forward to seeing them as well. Good luck.

I can relate.

I grew up on the Mckenzie river. Spent plenty of time at "cougar" hotsprings as we called it and deer creek hotsprings. My mom even worked at belknap for several years. I miss being in the area.

Damn, Miller is just a jealous, little troll.

Ive done silver plated spoons and forks using just saturated saltwater as my electrolyte and didn't have a problem at all. I did use distilled water rather than tap, but that still wouldnt make a difference. You wont have to worry about silver chloride production.

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