How To Smelt Your Gold & Silver by Hank Chapman

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How To Smelt Your Gold & Silver by Hank Chapman Jr. – 2019 Revision 5

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This book is intended for amateurs and professionals who are smelting and refining concentrates, ores, and other metallurgical products. It is an excellent “how to” manual with specific fluxes recommended for various products. If you are getting started with refining and smelting, this is an excellent starting point.

Contents
Chapter 1. Information.

Chapter 2. Safety: Protective Clothing, Gloves, Eye Protection, Respirators, Ventilation, Fire Hazards, Burn Hazards.

Chapter 3. Chemicals and Reagents: Sodium Carbonate; Silica, Borax Glass, Manganese Dioxide, Calcium Oxide, Fluorspar, Bone Ash, Potassium/Sodium Nitrate, Nitric Acid.

Chapter 4. Equipment and Fixtures: Attitude Toward Safety, Basic Structure and Fixtures, Personal Protective Equipment, Heat Source, Furnace Controller, Tongs, Scrapers, Etc., Balance or Scale, Pouring Molds, Odds & Ends, Notebook.

Chapter 5. Fluxes: Making the Fluxes, Original Mint Flux, Gold Smelting Flux (Gold Only), Gold Smelting Flux #2 (Placer Gold), Silver Flux.

Chapter 6. Slag: Appearance, Color, Hazards, Retention of Values.

Chapter 7. Crucibles: Assay Crucibles, Fused Silica Crucibles, Crucible Management, How to Roll a Crucible.

Chapter 8. Smelting: Placer gold, Concentrate, Scrap Jewelry, Precipitates # 2, Silver Chloride, Silver (Metallic), Carbon Ash, Amalgam, Sampling, What You Can’t Smelt, Odds & Ends.

Chapter 9. Shotting: General, Digesting or Refining Silver, Colored Gold.

Chapter 10. Useful Information: Make More Money, Industrial Cupellation.

Chapter 11. Upgrading Your Concentrate: Observations, Options.

Chapter 12. Selling Your Gold: Security, Dealing with the IRS, Marketing, What’s It Worth.

Apendices include:

How to Read a Material Safety Data Sheet
The Anatomy of a Tilting Furnace
Useful Conversions
List of Suppliers

ISBN-10: 096626780X ISBN-13: 978-0966267808