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Zero. The volume needed would make that completely impractical. Smuggling 100L for 10oz is definitely conspicuous.

• jack_riminton 3y ago
  I think you're off by several orders of magnitude https://www.finishing.com/236/27.shtml#:~:text=The%20amount%20of%20gold%20per,the%20temperature%20of%20the%20solution https://www.finishing.com/236/27.shtml#:~:text=The%20amount%.... Correct me if I'm wrong but 100 litres would be able to dissolve about 23kg of gold which is more than 800oz
  • reactordev 3y ago
    Yeah, my only knowledge is from watching sreetips on YouTube and his process for refining. My point was about the volume of aqua regia required. I’m not a chemist. Wouldn’t that scrap need further refinement into pure(er) gold? To get 99.9?
    • jack_riminton 3y ago
      Well you wouldn't start with scrap
• AnimalMuppet 3y ago
  Even with your numbers... 100L is about 25 gallons. 10oz is about $23,000. That seems perfectly reasonable to attempt. With the corrected numbers, 25 gallons to move 800 oz, which is nearly $2 million? Yeah, that seems quite enticing. The secret may be that you have to look like you're smuggling hazardous chemicals into the other country, rather than smuggling money out of the country of origin. I have never attempted either side of this, but I suspect that the bribes for smuggling small[1] amounts of hazardous chemicals is smaller than the bribes for smuggling money. [1] Small by industrial standards.
  • jack_riminton 3y ago
    Yes very good points. Although I would guess that the number of barrels out of a whole shipment that are tested to see if it is what is says it is very small. E.g importing 50 barrels of a specialist but non suspicious acid and one happens to be aqua regia with $2m dollars of gold dissolved in it sounds fairly good odds to me