How to Smelt your Gold and Silver

by Hank Chapman Jr.

2007 Revised Edition, 101 Pages

• I. Introduction
• • History - Environment - Safety
• II. Chapter One
• • Safety
  • • General
    • Protective Clothing
    • Gloves
    • Eye Protection
    • Respirators
    • Ventilation
    • Fire Hazards
    • Burn Hazards
• III. Chapter Two
• • Chemicals & Reagents
  • • General
    • Sodium Carbonate
    • Silica
    • Borax Glass
    • Manganese Dioxide
    • Calcium Oxide
    • Fluorspar
    • Bone Ash
    • Potassium/Sodium Nitrate
    • Nitric Acid
• IV. Chapter Three
• • Equipment and Fixtures
  • • General
    • 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
• V. Chapter Four
• • Fluxes
  • • General
    • Making the Fluxes
    • Original Mint Flux
    • Gold Smelting flux(Gold Only)
    • Gold Smelting Flux #2 (Placer Gold)
    • Silver Flux
• VI. Chapter Five
• • Slag
  • • General
    • Appearance
    • Color
    • Hazards
    • Retention of Values
• VII. Chapter Six
• • Crucibles
  • • General
    • Assay Crucibles
    • Fused Silica Crucibles
    • Silicon Carbide Crucibles
    • Crucible Management
    • How to Roll a Crucible
• VIII. Chapter Seven
• • Smelting
  • • General
    • Placer Gold
    • Concentrate
    • Scrap Jewelry
    • Precipitates
    • Precipitates #2
    • Silver Chloride
    • Silver (Metallic)
    • Carbon Ash
    • Amalgam
    • Sampling
    • What you Can't Smelt
    • Odds and Ends
• IX Chapter Eight
• • Useful Information
  • • General
    • Make More Money
    • Industrial Cupellation
• X Chapter Nine
• • Selling Your Gold
  • • General
    • Security
    • Dealing with the IRS
    • Marketing
    • What it's Worth

Happy Mining!