How to Separate Copper from Gold

How To Separate Copper From Gold?

You need to use 50% Nitric Acid. The acid will dissolve the Copper but not the Gold. Then filter off the Copper Nitrate and you are left with a sludge of Gold. Melt the Gold sludge in a furnace and you can cast it into Gold metal ingots.

How do you separate gold from other metals?

parting, in metallurgy, the separation of gold and silver by chemical or electrochemical means. Gold and silver are often extracted together from the same ores or recovered as by-products from the extraction of other metals. A solid mixture of the two, known as bullion, or doré, can be parted by boiling in nitric acid.

Robert Thorne

Robert Thorne

Automotive & Future Transportation Editor

Robert Thorne covers electric vehicle innovations, autonomous driving systems, global mobility trends, and automotive engineering developments.

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