Silver reclamation

Has anyone on here ever recover silver and grown it from silver nitrate or stripped silverware to reclaim the silver

m&m prospecting wrote:Has anyone on here ever recover silver and grown it from silver nitrate or stripped silverware to reclaim the silver

what your talking about is Precious metal refining. 

And Yes I do this bud, I gave a lot of tips to BackYard Scrapping on YouTube years ago. He does this on a regular basis. 

I do not offer tips anymore because the process is very dangerous. BUT I can help clear up anything your stuck on. 

The basics are you first need to refine any silver... This means a .925 spoon for instance, you will refine it to a liquid forum. 

then you bring it to a powder form. You then put it in a silver cell to further refine it as it will still have some base metals in it. 

after that you are pretty good. 

But please for PETES sake, be careful, your playing with extremely nasty and life threating chemicals. And one inhale could result in death!!! 

This is why I will NOT tell you how to, but can help if your stuck, and only on a cryptic basis.

I understand the process I've thought about the electrolysis process with salt and the just to try and smeltwhat are your thoughts if I smelt with Chapman's flux to reclaim

Safe to say I've watched backyard and chemicals are not cheap and yes very dangerous

m&m prospecting wrote:I understand the process I've thought about the electrolysis process with salt and the just to try and smeltwhat are your thoughts if I smelt with Chapman's flux to reclaim

That will not work. 

once you smelt the silver and try something like Flux ( Borax ) you are still hitting the same temperatures as CU and other metals. You might get some metal out but by no means the majority. 

You would have to go down the AR route for this to be effective.