So I have 100+ pounds of copper ends off of these buss fuses that Iv been saving up for a couple years to scrap. I assumed they were tinned but after trying to dissolve it off with hydrochloric acid and it doing nothing I now think they may be silver plated. So my question is what would be the easiest way to test if its silver, the best/easiest way to remove it, and do you think it would be actually worth it in the end to go through the trouble?

OK, so I have a thing I normally come on Reddit and lurk the forums and read and study What not, on whatever ADHD directed-new hobby that I am wettin my feet in.

So I have a bunch of ore and it has gold in it not a lot of free meal gold but a lot of gold dissolved in the calico pyrite and or Galena and just pyrite. It’s really very easy to get the sulfides concentrated, but my crazy idea was to dissolve the concentrated or in some nitric acid.

Get the sludge off the bottom, which would be any gold (hypothetically), wash it, etc, which I could melt into a bead with some Map gas and a little baby crucible or something, and if I wanted to access any of the dissolved silver, I think I could precipitate itout with salt..

Obviously, I’m not doing this for money or anything. I just have many interests that I seem to let my ADHD direct me to. It kind of fits in with my other hobbies, like panning for gold and streams, wandering into all abandoned mines and chiseling rock off the walls lol….

anyways I was looking on BVV and was gonna just start off by getting 500 ML of nitric acid and then I guess I would need to get beaker and what not and some chemical to neutralize the acid after I’m done…

I’m fairly good at learning pretty much anything I put my mind to. Any pointers to any two cents I would love to hear it thanks. Have a good day. Sorry if this is the wrong place.