OH WOW…This is amazing…
What’s that white stuff starting to form on the right side of the photo…???
I read that Rhodium is the whitest of all the Previous Metals…
Before, everything kept passing through the Coffee Filter, so I decided to place a metal plate in the solution…
After taking a few pictures and posting them, I decided to remove everything I could from the metal plate…
I dumped it back in the existing solution and let it all soak overnight…
Next, I prepared a new Cup and Filter and carefully drained most of it before dumping more Vinegar into the stuff that settled at the bottom of the cup…
I let that soak and finally poured everything in the Filter…
I can’t wait to see what shows up next…
I sure wasn’t expecting to see this…
This was from a third sample I brought home from the same area as the other samples…
All three samples look different…
I’m now thinking of soaking my other dried concentrates in fresh vinegar and filtering it again…
This is all becoming very exciting…
If this even turns out to be mostly Silver, what little I see represents a fortune in Silver…
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Wow, that's exciting. I hope it's silver. It looks like that metal. Let's hope so.
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It’s all very exciting…
That white crust on the plate reminds me of silver chloride and it often goes milky then darkens if you leave it in sunlight :)
Did your solution pick up any chloride from salt or tap water?
Nice call swapping to a metal plate and that cementing trick defintely saves what slips past the filter.
Maybe try small sunlight test on a speck.
If it grays up it is a good sign for silver'
I’ve only been using distilled water and vinegar… I scrapped everything off the metal plate with a razor blade and soaked it in fresh vinegar… Then I filtered it again and this is what didn’t go back into solution… This makes me want to do more experiments on the other dry concentrates…
what stayed out of solution makes sense with vinegar, silver chloride won’t budge in it. quick check: leave a tiny pinch in sunlight; if it greys over time, that points to AgCl, and a drop of household ammonia usually can clear it :) Also run a magnet across the scrap in case tiny steel from teh razor got mixed in, that can make the residue look odd. defintely keep a small control sample from each batch so you can compare when you run the other concentrates.
I have a stack of samples, including more of that white stuff… I’ll see what happens to the white stuff in the sunlight…
Nice, the sun test will tell you alot. If it greys or goes purple, that definately points to silver chloride, and vinegar won’t move it, so a quick hot-water dip is a cross-check for lead chloride. If it does darken, you can reduce a small pinch with aluminum foil plus baking soda in warm water to prove it’s silver, then keep the bulk for a cleaner run later. Mind keeping one speck sealed in the dark as control so your sure the change is light-driven? :)
Thanks… I already put a capsule of the White Stuff out in the Sun…