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Dissolving Gold and Precipitating Gold Pyrometallurgy ...
If you leach with aqua regis (nitric and hydrochloric acids), you can precipitate the gold with sodium metabisulfite (a reducing agent). Mixing muriatic acid (hydrochloric acid) with bleach (sodium hypochlorite), you are freeing chlorine to attack the gold. You are making gold chloride.