MAKE M-STATE GOLD WITH THE SODIUM BURN METHOD
WARNING
The sodium burn method is so dangerous that the Essene does not even like doing it for base
metals (Gold, Iridium, etc.) because of the danger. The black sand they use for the M3 burns (using sodium) is a
hundred times less reactive than using gold metal. During our 1.5 years of perfecting the Essene's gold sodium burn
method, we have had many near misses (accidents) and one major explosion where one of our party got boiling NaOH
blown into his face during the wet down process. His skin began melting from his face and he looked like a monster.
Fortunately he was wearing protective goggles and his eyes were spared. immediately upon the explosion occurring,
we drowned his head and face in gallons of distilled water and got him in the shower immediately. He remained there
for an hour and then we applied many, many pieces of fresh cut aloe to his face and performed Reiki as well. His
mouth had internal burns and his tongue was melting.
This person was into his 3rd bottle of M3 and that along with the other things, allowed him
to heal within one month. Now there is not a single sign that the accident occurred.
This procedure makes m-state gold starting with pure gold and sodium. One ounce of gold
produces approximately a one-year supply for one person.
OVERVIEW: There are eight main stages in this process:
STAGE 1 - PREPARING THE GOLD: Flatten the gold and cut it into
small pieces (about 1 hour).
STAGE 2 - PREPARING THE SODIUM: Cut a block of sodium metal
into strips (about 20 minutes).
STAGE 3 - THE BURN: Apply a high flame to a sealed pan
containing the gold and sodium (20 minutes).
STAGE 4 - WETTING THE UN-REACTED SODIUM: Mist the pan's
contents with distilled water to react all the sodium (30 minutes to 2 hours).
STAGE 5 - BOILING THE SLUDGE IN LYE WATER:Boil the pan's
contents in lye water (3 hours).
STAGE 6 - REMOVING SULFUR WITH ZINC: Remove any sulfur with
zinc (about 5 minutes plus a few days reaction time).
STAGE 7 - FILTER THE SOLUTION: Filter the
solution.
STAGE 8 - TITRATE WITH HCl TO PRECIPITATE M-STATE GOLD: Add
HCl to the filtered solution to bring the pH down to 8.5, resulting in m-state gold precipitate (about 1
hour).
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Much of this process will be done outdoors. Do the process on a fair-weather day when rain is
not predicted. You do not want any rain water getting into the pan with sodium in it because sodium reacts
violently with water.
EQUIPMENT
- A 1-quart stainless steel sauce pan. One source: an oriental grocery. One type of pan is
the 555 brand saucepan from Shanghai, China, no. 3SAS 8502-16, about $10.
- Six 1-1/2" C-clamps from a hardware store.
- Rubber gloves, safety glasses, respirator or dust mask. One source: Home
Depot.
- Buchner funnel (a funnel that holds a filter). One source:
- Vacuum flask and pump (to speed the filtering). The pump can be a hand pump such as made
by Actron. One source:
- Trap (flask with a 2-hole stopper). One source:
- Filter paper. One source: 9 cm grade 111 Ahlstrom glass fiber filter paper.
- pH meter. One source: Hanna Instruments H1 9025 pH meter with pH and temperature
probes.
- Holder for probes. One source:
- Magnetic stirrer. One source: Hanna Instruments Speedsafe.
- Teflon cutting board from a grocery store.
- Two-handled blade or cleaver. One source:
- Outdoor cooker (propane burner). One source: Home Depot, $52.
- A 12-quart stainless-steel pot for the lye solution. One source:
- A wash-water bottle. One source:
- A 1-quart spray bottle filled with distilled water. One source: Home Depot.
- A gold roller. One source: ??? $400.
- Several jars and 250 ml beakers.
- A jar or plastic container with a screw lid (to hold olive oil and sodium
pieces).
- Plastic chopstick or plastic stir rod.
MATERIALS
- Hydrochloric acid (HCl) or Muriatic acid from a hardware store.
- Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) or Red Devil Lye from a grocery store.
- Sodium metal, 1-pound block. Cost: About $100. One source: UN1428 sodium from Fisher
Scientific Co. LLC, 2775 Horizon Ridge Ct., Suwannee, GA 30024. It comes in a bag inside a can, which is inside
a box.
- 1 ounce of 24 carat gold (.999 pure). Sources: A Canadian maple leaf coin (this also
contains 20% bismuth). Or a gold ingot from a jeweler (about $370 -- varies with the current price of
gold.)
- Zinc metal filings. One source: Spectrum Quality Products Inc., Gardena, CA 90248 or New
Brunswick NJ 08901. 500 grams zinc metal, 10 mesh, granular, reagent A.C.S., Z10101 A.W. 65.39.
- Several gallons of distilled water from a grocery store. To remove any sulfur from the
distilled water, ideally the water should be distilled again in a distiller (such as made by Sears, cost about
$100).
STAGE 1: PREPARING THE GOLD
Equipment:
- 1.2-ounce gold coin or 1-ounce gold ingot
- A block of wood
- Blowtorch
- Metal tongs
- Gold roller
- Scissors
- Small jar with a lid
1. Take the 1-ounce gold coin or gold ingot. Place it on a block of wood and apply heat to
the gold with a blowtorch until the gold starts to soften.
2. Grab the gold piece with tongs and run the gold several times through the roller until it
is thin enough to cut with scissors.
3. Cut the gold foil into confetti-size pieces about 3/8" square. Store them in a labeled
jar.
STAGE 2: PREPARING THE SODIUM
Equipment:
- 1 lb. sodium
- Rubber gloves
- Safety glasses
- Respirator or dust mask
- Sealed 2-quart container (may be plastic)
- Extra-virgin olive oil
- Teflon cutting board
- Ruler
- Two-handled blade or cleaver
- 1-quart stainless-steel sauce pan with lid
- Gold "confetti" you made before
- Six 1-1/2" C-clamps
- Garden hose outdoors
1. CAUTION: Sodium is dangerous; it reacts violently with water and breath moisture. When
working with sodium, wear rubber gloves, safety glasses, and a respirator or dust mask. You might turn the room
temperature down to 60 degrees F to reduce humidity.
2. Half-fill a jar or plastic container with extra-virgin olive oil. This container will be
used to store unused pieces of sodium.
3. Open the sodium containers. The sodium is a white, soapy block about 2 inches on a side.
Place the sodium block on a Teflon cutting board.
4. Using a ruler and a blade, mark the block of sodium with shallow slices every 3/4" or so
to mark the block in five divisions. Later, using those marks, you will cut the block into five equal
pieces.
[illustration - line drawing]
5. Coat the blade with olive oil so it will slide through the sodium easier.
6. Pressing down with both hands, cut through the sodium block at each slice mark. This
divides the block into five equal pieces.
7. Put four of the pieces into the container of olive oil for future use. Add more olive oil
as needed to cover them. The oil prevents reaction of the sodium with moisture in the air. Seal the
container.
8. Cut the remaining 1/5 pound block into several 1/8" thick slices. NOTE: Future experiments
might use only 1/8 pound of sodium. To get this, cut a 1/5 pound block of sodium in 2/3.
The rubber gloves will get wet because sodium draws moisture out of the air.
[illustration - line drawing]
9. Lay the sodium slices in the bottom of the 1-quart sauce pan. They will look like slices
of gum. Cover the bottom of the pan with the sodium slices, building up a few layers.
10. Put the gold "confetti" uniformly on top of the sodium slices.
[photo of gold and sodium pieces in pan bottom]
11. Put on the sauce pan lid. Clamp it with six C-clamps so the lid won't fly off during the
burn later. Do not over-tighten the clamps -- allow a little pressure relief. Keep the pot level.

12. Outdoors, hose down the cutting board, gloves and knife to remove sodium from
them.
STAGE 3: THE BURN
Equipment:
- Outdoor cooker (propane burner) placed outdoors.
- Clamped gold/sodium pan
- Matches
- 12-quart stainless steel pot
- Lye
- Distilled water
- Safety glasses
- Rubber gloves
1. Light the outdoor cooker (propane burner). Put the clamped gold/sodium pan on top. Turn
the heat up full blast and note the time. You will turn off the heat 20 minutes later. Stand at least 15 feet away
from the cooker during the burn.

The sodium will react with the gold according to this equation:
3 Na + Au = AuNA3
2. NOTE: Some stainless-steel pans contain an aluminum layer on the bottom, or an
aluminum/steel sandwich. The aluminum will melt and drip down. This is not a problem.
3. During the burn, you may see some slight smoke initially as the sodium burns. If you see
more smoke later, that's the gold burning. Stop immediately if that happens.
4. Otherwise, stop the burn 20 minutes after you started. (This time will vary depending on
the temperature of your heat source.)
5. Back indoors or outdoors, put on safety glasses and a respirator or dust mask. As the pan
cools on the cooker, you will create a lye solution in a well-ventilated area.
CAUTION: Lye is very caustic. Do not spill it or splash it. Do not inhale the
fumes.
Put 4 cups of sodium hydroxide (lye) into 2 gallons of distilled water in a 12-quart
stainless steel pot. Stir well. The solution will get hot.
6. Carefully bring the open pot of lye solution outside. Do not spill or splash
it.
STAGE 4: WETTING THE UN-REACTED SODIUM
Equipment:
- Safety glasses
- Spray bottle with distilled water
- Gold/sodium pan on outdoor cooker
1. Wearing safety glasses, undo the C-clamps on the sauce pan. Remove the lid. Some smoke will
come out.
2. In the pan you will see "the skin of the rhino." It's a gray material with many fissures
or wrinkles, and perhaps some gray-green areas. This material is the gold reacted with the sodium, plus some
un-reacted sodium. You will react the un-reacted sodium by misting it with distilled water.

3. Spray one puff of water into the pan from about 18 to 24 inches away. As the sodium reacts
with the water, there will be bubbles, a little smoke, sputtering sounds, and perhaps some small flames.
CAUTION: Don't inhale the smoke. Step away if there's a big flare-up.
This is the reaction taking place: Na + H2O = NaOH + H
[photo of flames]
4. Spray the material in the pan periodically, letting the reaction die down each
time.
CAUTION: Do not spray a lot of water at once onto the sodium in the pan. The sodium and water
could react violently, blowing ORMES out of the pan. Go slowly.
CAUTION: Don't stir the sludge. You might open a big pocket of sodium and get a dangerous
reaction.
5. Eventually you will see a gray material with black wet bubbles. Any red or orange spots
might be due to bismuth in the Canadian maple leaf gold coin, if you started with one.

6. Keep adding water a spray at a time. Let each spray react and die down. Over time the
material in the pan will be mostly black with gray areas of un-reacted sodium. Spray those Grey spots.
7. Gradually all the material turns black and bubbly like hot tar. The bubbles are hydrogen
from the sodium/water reaction.
There may be hidden layers of sodium underneath, accessed by water through a crack in the
sludge, causing a flare-up.
When most of the sodium/water reaction is done, spray a water stream (instead of a mist) on
the material. The stream breaks through the crust and gets at the sodium beneath.
8. When the sludge is completely covered by water, and you can swirl the sludge around and
get no further reaction, it's done.
STAGE 5: BOILING THE SLUDGE IN LYE WATER
Equipment:
- 12-quart pot of lye water
- Outdoor cooker
- Gold/sodium pan
- Plastic stir rod
- Spray bottle of distilled water
- Safety glasses
1. Wearing safety glasses, bring the 12-quart pot of lye water near the cooker and
pan.
2. Pour the gold-sodium black sludge from the pan into the lye water. Spray the sludge with
water, and scrape the sludge out of the pan into the lye water, to remove as much sludge as possible from the pan.
Use the plastic stir rod to scrape the sludge. Wash the sides of the pan as well.
Any yellow coloration on the pan bottom is gold you lost. It's plated on the pan
bottom.
3. When you have removed as much sludge as possible from the pan, set the pan aside. You now
have a 12-quart pot with some black sludge covered by lye water.
4. Put the pot of sludge and lye water on the cooker with the fire turned off.
5. Spray the inside surface of the lye pot with water to get all the material in
solution.
6. Cover the pot with a lid. You do not need to clamp it.
7. CAUTION: Wear safety glasses. Light the cooker and set it to full blast. Let the water
come to a steady boil for 15 minutes while stirring.
8. Place the lye pot on the burner of a char-broil grille, or use the cooker on low heat. Let
the pot simmer for 2-3/4 hours. While this is happening, you can set up the equipment described in Stage
7.
9. At the end of 3 hours, add 1 gallon of distilled water to the pot to cool it.
10. Bring the pot indoors. CAUTION: Do not spill the caustic lye solution.
STAGE 6: REMOVING SULFUR WITH ZINC
Equipment:
- Pot with lye water and sludge
- Three 1-gallon jugs with lids
- Zinc filings
- Stir rod
1. The sludge water might have some sulfur in it. This sulfur might come from the original
gold or from poorly distilled water. You need to remove the sulfur because it prevents the m-state gold from
precipitating. Zinc reacts with sulfur to remove it.
2. Stir the sludge? Pour the lye water (and the sludge?) into three 1-gallon jugs.
3. To each jug of water add 1/4 teaspoon of zinc filings.
4. Let the jugs react overnight or longer. Do not seal the jugs tightly: allow some
off-gassing during the zinc-sulfur reaction. The zinc sulfate is black.
STAGE 7: FILTER THE SOLUTION
Equipment:
- Stainless steel pot with gold/sodium/zinc sulfate/lye solution
- Ladle
- Rubber gloves
- Safety glasses
- Fan
- Buchner funnel
- Vacuum flask
- Trap flask and stopper
- Filter paper
- Hand pump
- Wash bottle of distilled water
- Several jars
1. The solution should be mostly settled, with relatively clear liquid on top and dark
sludge on the bottom.
2. Wearing gloves and safety glasses, ladle out the liquid part of the solution into quart
jars. CAUTION: Lye makes your fingers slippery - you lose grip on jars. Hold jars underneath.
3. Turn on a fan and vent.
4. Put the Buchner funnel into a stopper in a vacuum flask. Connect the vacuum flask to
another flask acting as a trap. Connect the output of the trap to a hand pump. Put a filter paper in the Buchner
funnel and wet the filter with distilled water so the filter won't float.
[photo of vacuum-flask equipment]
An alternative vacuum pump is to connect the vacuum flask to the top inlet of a 5-gallon
container of water with a bottom spout that can be opened to create suction.
5. Pour the lye solution from the jar into the filter and pump out the vacuum flask. Black
particulate will appear in the filter. Filtered solution will collect in the vacuum flask. When the filter appears
to be full, throw it out, put in another, and wet it down. Change the filter every gallon or so.
[close-up photo of filter]
6. Continue this process, filling jars with filtered solution.
Once the water in the lye pot is mostly gone, you can add more distilled water and lye to the
remaining sludge, re-boil it and filter it to get more usable m-state material.
STAGE 8: TITRATE WITH HCl TO PRECIPITATE M-STATE GOLD
Equipment:
- Three gallon jars
- Several 500 ml jars or beakers
- Hydrochloric acid
- Pipette
- pH meter and probes
- Buffer solutions
- Magnetic stirrer
- Spring-loaded arm to hold the pH and temperature probes
1. Calibrate the pH meter by putting the probes into buffer solutions. For example, use pH
7.01 yellow Exaxol buffer solution and pH 10.01 blue buffer solution.
2. Put one 500 ml jar or beaker on the magnetic stirrer and turn it on. Pour in some filtered
solution.
[photo of beaker with solution on stirrer with probes]
3. Put the probes in the solution on the stirrer.
4. The starting pH will be approximately 12 due to the lye. Start titrating the acid into the
solution in the beaker, checking the pH as you go. CAUTION: Do not breathe the acid fumes.
5. The pH will drop very slowly. When the pH reaches 8.5, a thick white precipitate should
appear. That's the m-state gold. Stop adding HCl.
6. Pour the solution and precipitate into a gallon jug.
7. Repeat steps 2-6 until all the filtered solution has been processed.
8. Wash the precipitate three times with distilled water. If you want to ship the material,
do not wash it. Leave it in a salty solution to protect it from X-rays.
9. Store the m-state gold in colloidal form in well-sealed jugs or jars. Keep the material
out of light and magnetic fields.
10. The remaining sludge can be re-boiled in lye water, filtered, and titrated to yield more
m-state gold precipitate.
11. Ingest 1 teaspoon per day of the m-state gold slurry, maybe eventually dropping to 1
teaspoon per week.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q. Would it be possible for someone to lesson most of the dangers involved by using
PPE (personal protective equipment) rubber gear with full face, head and hand protection?
A. When you are trying to use Au metal, protective gear is essential during the wet
down phase. I recommend a face shield, wrap around glasses minimum. When doing the M3 with fine sand, there is very
little sodium reaction to contend with. I still recommend glasses at all times. There will probably be little
droplets coming from the pan which will get on your clothing, so wear something that you can stand losing to tiny
holes... As for hand protection, good idea too. make sure it's thick rubber like for dish washing and not surgical
gloves which may melt to your hand...
Q. Would cutting the amount of sodium down to 1/10 lb. with 1 cup of sand
lesson danger? What would be an appropriate size pan to use with this amount of sand (12 quart?)? Also,
is it important to keep a generous amount of sand surrounding the sodium?
A. We are considering exactly that, cutting down to about 1/10 pound of sodium. We
are going to cut what we feel is a good thickness and line the pan. We will weigh the pan before and after and give
you the weight of sodium metal we use on the next burn. We use a 1 quart saucepan (stainless steel). When you get
the bottom covered with the sodium (sliced about 1/8 inch thick), just cover it with the 1 cup of sand. BE SURE TO
PLACE THE SAND ON THE RANGE FOR A FEW MINUTES TO MAKE SURE IT'S DRY - PUTTING MOIST SAND ON THE SODIUM WILL MAKE
YOUR FACE UNBEARABLE. It's not too important if the sand fills in the cracks, as the sodium will be very molten
before the sand does anything. The sodium will digest the sand. I thought I posted a photo of the pan on the
cooker... I will try again in a minute...
Q. Can acceptable results be obtained by using less heat than 600-800 degrees C for
cooking?
A. We don't know, we never tested the temperature inside the pan, or around it. I
guess as long as the stainless steel pan gets RED HOT in just a few seconds, you have enough heat... Remember,
there is only sodium and sand in the pan, to it's temperature is limited to the boiling temperature of the
materials...
Q. Are there extra steps or tricks of the trade in making M-3 that you would care
to give us some information on?
A. Sure. When you have finished wetting down the sand, it will be caked hard like
peanut brittle on the bottom of the pan. Don't use too much water in wetting down, because what you should do (our
experience) is to use a screwdriver or similar instrument to break up the hardened sand into little chunks about
1/2 square if you can... If you use too much water, you will get splashed with lots of lye (result of mixing Na and
H20). The reason we do this is because you are now going to add the hard sand, lye, and water (in a 12 quart pan)
and if you have chunks, you will have more surface area to leach the M-State off of. The Essene pours the water and
lye into the same vessel he does the burn in and therefore, I believe is only getting the top surface area leaching
M-3... We have had very good yields with our modifications... granted, it add an extra hazard (splashing lye) to
the process, but we really have very little sand to waste... We were using 2 cups of sand, but we always had about
1 cup of powdered sand on top of the hard stuff which demonstrated it was not engulfed by molten sodium and
therefore wasted... This is why we now will use 1 cup in our next burn... Another thing is, you can boil the sand 3
times with water and lye and get more material. We got one gallon of M-3 from the initial burn/boil, and another
gallon total from the subsequent 2 boils... I suppose you could go through all the trouble of grinding down the
dried material into fine sand and then reburning it, but we are grateful for the yields we are
getting...
Q. Tell us more about why you add the zinc.
A. When we first began the Au/sodium burn method, we were only getting a caramel
colored (sometimes real dirty looking gray) precipitate and only 50 ml or so at that. I remember the first time we
even got that, we were in seventh heaven. Someone we consulted about the color said it was a normal thing and that
the color could be improved by adding more water to the solution before titrating it. We tried that, but only got
less yucky stuff...
After thinking that this process may not be worth the trouble for the yield
achieved, I gave a call to the Essene and explained the entire process from start to finish. He pointed out a few
(many) foolish things we were doing...
As it turns out, there was sulfur getting into our process somehow. We suspected it
was the water, and went to Sears and bought a distiller. We were double distilling. We would buy distilled water
and run it in the distiller. Still, on the next burn, we got the same results.
We noticed that as we began the titrating, our solution was turning a very deep
yellow and was not yielding any precipitate... A call to the Essene again resulted in some corrections which
included adding zinc (10 mesh) to the solution at 1/4 teaspoon per gallon.
Oh yeah, the first batch of caramel colored stuff was dissolved with HCl then based
back up to 14 and re-titrated after letting it zinc for a week... It yielded 1 gallon of pure white
precipitate.
So here is the plan, filter your solution after the boil, place the solution into
gallon plastic jugs (milk jugs). Fill them up about 3/4 full. Add 1/4 teaspoon of zinc shavings (10 mesh) into each
jug, cap it and shake well. Lift the cap slightly then to allow for gas escape and place somewhere safe... Each
day, shake the jug once or twice to mix up the solution (with the cap in place) and then uncap slightly and set
back in place for the day... We do our burn and boil/filter on Saturday morning and let the solution zinc until the
next Saturday when we filter out the zinc and then titrate. You only have to add the 1/4 teaspoon of zinc once, not
everyday... the zinc will turn into a dark black powder which settles on the bottom of the jugs. The zinc pulls out
the sulfur as zinc sulfate.
One ounce of gold should yield about 2 gallons of M1 and still return 80 percent of
your metal. At least that's what we get.
So now you know... If there is ANY sulfur in the solution, you will not get
M1...
BTW, the sulfur gets into the solution from the gold, The Asian gold we use
(Canadian ML too) is precipitated gold, they use Sulfur Dioxide I think to precipitate it out from solution... So
unless you dig up the gold from the earth or use pure natural nuggets, get some zinc (10 mesh).
Q. Is the burn time for the M-1 and M-2 about the same (15-20 min.) and is there
any negative effect from adding a little time to the burn?
A. The burn times can be the same. We did 20 minutes for gold and 10-15 miutes for
black sand.
Q. After the burn and cool down, do you think there is anything that could be added
to the unreacted sodium, other than a little water mist (and run like hell) to neutralize it? (maybe a little black
sand or something) Probably a dumb question!
A. Not a dumb question. Not that I know of, the sodium must be totally reacted
during the burn in order for there not to be any left to react with the water spray... using an ounce of gold, we
would need to cut down the sodium amount by quite a bit... There is plenty of black sand at 1 to 2 cups to totally
use up the sodium atoms... Use water and be careful.
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