A picture is worth a thousand words

This has kept me distracted from my other projects.

Sun is shining on the right hand side, keep your eyes on the free fall as the sun strikes some of the flakes they look like small mirrors flashing.



Below the video is the filter cake.

From previous posts most of ya know I'm getting my catalytic converters at very reasonable prices, I've also alluded to the differences between city and country cats.

Given these are country cats, had I sold them to a buyer I would have fared far better monetarily wise. in the end I'll end up with platinum and palladium without a buyer - the markets are too volatile.

On a side note did a brief study of oxides and hydroxides, most with a few exceptions are easily returned into their metallic state.

I had previously posted in a thread a river with dissolved gold in the water, my mentor suggested using an ion exchange resin to recover the gold. leaving a sack full submerged for several months.

Yea the resins work and the mines use them on there tailings ponds to recover values, but patience is not my long suit.besides the resins are expensive, not in my meagre budget.

Activated carbon also works but may not be as selective as the resins, activated carbon every scrap car or truck has a evaporation emissions canister and the carbon is easy to regenerate.

Reverse osmosis in my opinion is the way to go,

The second image dissolved gold ions in river water attracted to the iron in the rocks, first image, some water from the river I had evaporated the condensate from the steam on the camp stove clearly contains gold ions. Gold ions is added to make Cranberry glass the more gold that is added will produce Ruby red.

Still need an assay from the river water to see if it has enough gold values to chase.

Water Treatment Systems For The Mining Industry | Reverse Osmosis
https://www.pureaqua.com/reverse-osm...ations/mining/

I have a few potters living nearby who have asked me to make oxides from metals to be used in glazes, the oxides produce a beautiful iridescence. This type of pottery is referred to as Lusterware.

The piece shown below is glazed in platinum.
https://www.technology.matthey.com/article/3/2/60-65/


The Original Lustre Process


Means of producing lustre effects—a metallic or nacreous iridescence—on ceramics were known in the Near East before a.d. 900 (2).

Egyptian and Syrian potters soon mastered the technique, which spread thence to Persia and to Moorish Spain, where the magnificent large dishes of Valencia were produced before a.d. 1400.

Italians imported the Spanish wares via Majorca—whence their term Majolica—and by the beginning of the sixteenth century were themselves masters of the art of madreperla or giltwork, as they also called it (1). No later products have equalled the beautiful yellow lustres, produced from a silver stain, of Deruta or the coppery reds of Gubbio (3).

An early nineteenth-century English coffee pot, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, showing the use of silver lustre (bright platinum) on earthenware as an inexpensive substitute for silver

2 Large Bread Loafs
1 Small Bread Loaf
2 Small cats from older V8 GM
1 Cat from small Ford car.

41 grams of very high grade concentrates, the spent comb is now in the ultrasonic tank scavenging values which may have been missed.

Now that the trash metals have been removed the concentrates tend to clump together.

The 41 grams added to the jar then thoroughly homogenized, a 1.2 gram sample removed for assay, once the results are in I'll probably post them.

Originally Posted by alloy2

Have you figured out who I am yet, on May 28th of this year I sent you several digital books on refining precious metals.

Ayup, didn't take long to figure it out - the details and pics are instantly recognizable. Hence the wink about sending you some cats!