Hydrochloric Acid and gold ?

[DiggerJohn]

I am working with gold, looking for all info. i can get on the reaction with gold ?

[Darkblade48]

I was led to believe that hydrochloric acid does not attack (pure) gold directly, and could only attack it when an oxidizer was present (hence the reason why aqua regia works)

[YT2095]

it will complex with Cyanides too, but I think you`re safer with Aqua Regia to make your Gold Chloride

[nitroglycol]

Suppose you were to electrolyze HCl solution with a gold anode. Would that work?

[YT2095]

it Should do, I can`t see any reason why not, although it will start to plate out at the cathode fairly quickly, and long before it gets anywhere near to being a strong soln of gold chloride.