[Rockhounds] Any Gold home refiners here?

[Paintricks at aol.com]

Hi there,
  I recently have become interested and am learning how to refine my  gold 
and scrap metal.  I'm looking for the best ways to refine out the  copper and 
leads out of the final end steps.  What are the safest ways  without noxious 
chemicals with my heated bucket foundry?  
  Would it be possible to crush up the tailing pile material off the  old 
gold mines here in the area and at least get some amounts of gold from  it?  I'm 
finding Phonolite with Fluorite, galena, some Copper, Sphalerite  and pyrite.  
Gold has to be in there somewhere.  The gold mines here  are going through 
the old tailings from the gold rush and producing values out  of it.  This stuff 
sure has all the characteristics of gold values.   It would be fun to at 
least try to refine some of it in small amounts to see  what comes out of it.
  Kind of a mad scientist approach at it.
  Thanks, 
 Kevin



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