How to Refine Your Own Gold

This article shows you an easy way to refine your scrap gold or old jewelry. Once you finish this process you will end up with .999 pure gold bullion. This at the current market price is over eight hundred fifty dollars per ounce. Just follow these few easy steps any you will learn how to refine you old gold in to .999 pure bars of gold

First you need to get the gold that you want to refine. It could be old rings, necklaces, earrings, or anything that is made of gold that is no longer wanted. Once you get the gold it will be tossed into a hot acid bath of something called Aqua Regia. Aqua Regia is a mix of Nitric acid and Hydrochloric acid, usually in a volumetric ratio of one to three. Next you would add the gold carefully as to not splash the acid, remember to always wear gloves and protective clothing, as you would not want to hurt yourself in the process. The Aqua Regia is left to sit overnight and the next day.

Then you pour off the acid. The acid is what contains all your gold. Once you pour off the acid you will want to collect anything that is left over. Only good metals will not dissolve so what you have is most likely silver. Rinse the pieces that are not dissolved At this point you are also able to recover any gem stones that were in the jewelry, diamonds etc as the acid does not harm good stones. These can be sold or reused. Next you must neutralize the nitric acid witch has partially been done by heating the acid but is best done by adding Urea/ Uric acid...and yes its urine and yes urine does work.

But urea fertilizer is more sanitary, and then we add sodium Bi Sulfite to precipitate the gold out of solution. It falls to the bottom as a nasty brown powder and it's not the nicest form of gold to look at. That is rinsed several times and filtered. Then after the gold is filtered it then will be heated by a torch. The final result is a pool of gold once melted. The gold is allowed to cool for a short time and then tossed into water, once the gold cools down and is not steaming its safe to pick up and hold. Congratulations you have completed the process and made gold bullion