Extracting Gold With Aqua Regia And Zinc

[@77FelipeDuarte]

What an incredible video!!!! Just amazing. Loved it. Thanks a lot for showing this Ernie. The whole process must be very enjoyable

[@themahoneymine]

That was awesome buddy! Great success. I've never had success with that. You did great.

[@ErnieDionne]

@@themahoneymine Thank you Mr. Mahoney, I appreciate your kind words. 🤗💪🏻⛏️🥾

[@mandybrown7758]

I absolutely love these kinds of gold extractions so neat how this is possible very nice work Ernie ✌🏼

[@ErnieDionne]

@@mandybrown7758 Thank you Mandy! I’m glad you’re enjoying this. Maybe you might want to give it a try. I appreciate you bringing here. Take care 🤗

[@SilvasSmallMining]

Awesome video Ernie! It makes me nervous though. Be safe around those vapors. Very cool stuff. Good gold hunting! Take care.

[@ErnieDionne]

@@SilvasSmallMining Thank you Bob! I wore my respirator the whole time. I thought about not worrying it at one moment, and while I was at the door, getting ready to go back into the room with the doors open, I smelt the vapors and decided not wearing my respirator would be a very bad idea, especially at times I could feel my eyes burning just a tiny bit. How was your fishing trip? What did you catch? 🎣

[@SilvasSmallMining]

@ Im glad you are being safe. Its super cool to see, but very dangerous. Our fishing trip to Carson City was fun, but we got skunked again. No fish. It might be too cold? Not sure. I hope your mine exploration trip was fun and safe.

[@ErnieDionne]

@ Yeah, it was cold and I’m sure that was it. We went back to a place we were at a few weeks back for some samples then went sightseeing around. Take care Bob, we’ll chat soon.

[@bobsunkees3392]

I have never seen this done like that before thank you for showing us this process. Keep it up 👍

[@ErnieDionne]

@@bobsunkees3392 Thank you Bob. I just learned this a few weeks back. I made several mistakes along the process. I’m glad you enjoyed this process and thank you for joining us 🤗

[@grantlucas2012]

Wow, you did great! I really enjoyed this episode. Cheers!

[@ErnieDionne]

@@grantlucas2012 Thank you Grant! That means a lot to me coming from you. I deeply appreciate it. I’m hoping I can make it down your way in the spring. I’m looking forward to it. Take care, my brother. 🤗

[@GSProspecting]

Just amazing work fam. Keep at it. Gold Squad Out 🤠

[@ErnieDionne]

@@GSProspecting Thank you my brother. I hope you are doing fine and living your dream! Take care 💪🏻⛏️🥾

[@jamesculver829]

You did great. I learned from this as well. You did a few things different from what I have seen before. Nice looking bead Ernie!

[@ErnieDionne]

@@jamesculver829 Hi JC, i’m glad that you and I both learned from this process. There are many ways to use these chemicals and variation of chemicals. As the saying goes, there are more ways than one to skin a cat. It was fun and I’ll be doing more. Take care JC 💪🏻⛏️🥾

[@AquaDonkeyProspecting]

So awesome Ernie. You have a wealth of knowledge. Thank you for video my friend!💪🫏💛

[@ErnieDionne]

@@AquaDonkeyProspecting Thank you AD, I appreciate your kind words. A lot of hours of studying, but not enough! Take care my friend and thank you for being here 🤗

[@Lord-Shadow]

Glad to see you here today Ernie and as always good Vid

[@ErnieDionne]

@@Lord-Shadow Hi LS, thank you. This episode took a few days to put together. Thank you for your kind words, I appreciate them. I’ll chat with you soon. Take care! 🤗

[@MrWillBison]

Very cool process Ernie.

[@ErnieDionne]

@@MrWillBison Yes, this is interesting indeed. Thank you for joining us. I’m glad you enjoyed this process.

[@mountainchild9322]

CONGRATULATIONS, THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO

[@ErnieDionne]

@@mountainchild9322 You’re welcome and thank you my brother! I’m glad you’re here with us! Take care and stay safe 💪🏻

[@carlherrnstein9544]

Im curious why you didn't simply melt your ore. Wouldn't the metals all sink to the bottom and turn all the sand into slag on top? Then you'd have a small bead of gold alloy to chemically refine. After you have a bead you would test it with acid to determine the gold content and alloy it with either copper or silver to reduce it to 6k and use nitric acid boils to pull out all the base metals. Then if you wanted to you could use aqua regia to clean it up further.

[@ErnieDionne]

@@carlherrnstein9544 Hi Carl, that is a great process I have done before, but not on video. I just wanted to do it this way to see how the process would turn out. There are many ways to skin a cat, this is one of them. I appreciate your thoughts and I will use it, thank you! I deeply appreciate you being here with us and please feel free to share any advice you may have. 🙂

[@sureshjisoni7714]

Good processes🎉❤❤

[@ErnieDionne]

@@sureshjisoni7714 Thank you my friend and I’m so glad you’re here with us. Take care 🤗

[@mrgreenswelding2853]

Zinc will drop everything below it in the reactive series, which means it will drop silver and copper. The gold looks very dirty

[@ErnieDionne]

@@mrgreenswelding2853 Thank you for your insight. Yes, the whole process was very dirty. It was frustrating. Thank you for joining us and please feel free to give me any advice that I may need. I appreciate it. Take care.

[@mrgreenswelding2853]

@ErnieDionne no worries. I refine gold from ewaste myself. If you have smb, then use that over zinc. Then you can recover the silver separately. Your nugget has a lot of silver in it.

[@ErnieDionne]

@ Thank you for that advice. I give it a try. You have a very good eye my friend 💪🏻

[@mrgreenswelding2853]

@@ErnieDionne no problems

[@Mike_biglin_]

Where did the sliver go is it still extractable ?

[@ErnieDionne]

@@Mike_biglin_ Hello Mike, in this Zinc process we don’t recover the silver. I’m not sure if the silver is still recoverable after using zinc? That’s a great question and I’ll need to research it. We’ll be getting together soon. Take care my brother 💪🏻🥾⛏️

[@garrettmillsap]

​@ErnieDionne if there was silver in the cons when using aqua regia, it would have dissolved but upon cooling would have came out of solution as silver chloride which is a white fluffy substance.

[@garrettmillsap]

​@@ErnieDionneif you know for sure you have silver in solution you have to use nitric only to dissolve, then drain. Then use aqua regia on cons to get gold. In the solution you drain off, you can use copper metal in the jar to cement the silver from solution

[@ErnieDionne]

@ Yes, That’s what I think I heard! Thank you so much for your insight, I deeply appreciate it. Please feel free to advise me in any way that I may need it. I can always use the help! God bless you!

[@ErnieDionne]

@@garrettmillsap Thank you! Please assist me in this please? I was given some ore from the Comstock Lode. I know it will contain Electrum as I processed this same ore a year ago and got electrum when I smelted it. This time, when I crush it, wash it and pan out the concentrate and roast it, do i just use nitric to wash out the silver, then use aqua regia to extract the gold? In that order?

[@NayNayNV]

Ernie. I am very impressed with your chemistry. You get better and better each video. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[@ErnieDionne]

@@NayNayNV Hi Renay, thank you! I appreciate your encouragement. This is a huge learning curve for me. I’m glad you enjoyed this episode. We’ll be chatting with you soon 🤗

[@JhevPetualang]

❤❤❤

[@ErnieDionne]

@@JhevPetualang Thank you 💙💪🏻

[@highlandermachineworks5795]

That was cool stuff! I sent you the email the other day. Did you get it?

[@ErnieDionne]

@@highlandermachineworks5795 Thank you my brother! I’m glad you enjoyed this episode. Are you IP on the email? 😊

[@highlandermachineworks5795]

@ErnieDionne H R ill send you another one. I don't think I put a number in on it.

[@highlandermachineworks5795]

I'm sorry. Yes. I totally forgot about IP. I still sent a new one. I don't know how to change that. I added a number to it this time.

[@ErnieDionne]

@ Thanks! I’ll chat with you soon 💪🏻