Dissolving and hiding gold with Aqua Regia

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  1. Load of Bullion

    Load of Bullion Well-Known Member

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    Dissolving gold. Hiding gold around WW2 (4:15 into vid)

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwnKU89CCdI[/youtube]
     
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    Interesting story about the dissolved Nobel Prize medals. I wonder how hard it is the reconstitute the gold?
     
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    Just drop in any metal that's higher in the reactivity series than gold...which is all of them. Put in a peice of iron, copper, what have you, and the chloride will latch onto the more reactive metal leaving the gold to precipitate out.

    I was at a mine where guy accidentially dropped his steel watch into a leach tank onto a screen. When they finally got it out at the end of the shift... he had a gold plated watch :cool:
     
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    Did he then bring his wife's watch to work next shift and accidentally drop it too? Matching set!
     
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