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A gold refining process using Butyl Diglyme, is suitable for both large and small gold operations. High cost gold refining equipment is not necessary to extract gold, or refine gold using butyl diglyme. Extracting and separating gold in an inexpensive glass separatory funnel is one option. Gold purification of 99.9% is obtainable from this gold refining, purification process.
The process takes two to three hours. The final product is composed by gold, silver, sulphides and base metals. Although the process is simple, the elimination of mercury is not totally perfect. The problem has two causes; first, flouring or tiny mechanical reduction of size during grinding. The second cause is due to chemical reactions that forms coatings or layers of some impurities. These coatings can be oxides, sulphides, or sulphates of some base metals that present in the ore.