Talk:Borax method

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This article is bs. As others have mentioned borax doesn't change the melting point at all. I'll try to fix it but i doubt I'll be able to find references — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:645:500:AB2E:B9DB:DA4C:2019:F3FE (talk) 04:38, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is wrong because the melting point of gold is not changed, its the slagging that changes. The temperature in simple furnaces is easily enough to melt gold, that why it appears as a button at the bottom of the crucible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.250.227 (talk) 10:04, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The delete request is specious. The article says very clearly what the significance is: let SSMs melt gold at low temps. The writing is poor and refs are a mess in this article, but that's a different problem. Keitsist (talk) 01:17, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Borax does nothing to affect the melting point of gold. Borax is a flux which is and has been long used to flux away impurities, it does nothing to aid in melting the actual gold. The premise of this article is fictitious and solely based on two sets of writings from a single author from which it is quoted from.

So such thing[edit]

There is no such thing as a borax method, the practice of using borax to clean up after mercury extraction is common, it does not replace the use of mercury.

Refs?[edit]

..and refs are a mess..

What refs?
Just because some aspect of some topic is significant, doesn't mean that it deserves its own WP page. I would suggest deleting this page and moving the minimal content to a sentence or two on gold refining or gold mining. If you really care, then make a redirect from "Borax method" to which ever page mentions that you can use borax to flux the slag.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.1.89 (talk • contribs) 05:41, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]