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    They use a mix of HCL acid & hydrogen peroxide to remove the gold from glass.

    There isn't a lot of gold on the glass FYI, you need a LOT of glasses to get any amount of gold.




    Red glass does have gold in it. However, its not viable to get the gold out as it doesn't take much gold to make glass red in the first place, and its not a easy thing to do.
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    I used to process a lot of this type of material, super simple to refine if you come across a refiner that does it. It's literally as easy as mixing HCl with Bleach to strip, and precipitating with SMB.

    If you come across a refiner that's interested, but isn't sure how to run the material, I'll give them a step by step for you.

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