Poly-1-Au prepared by the sequential sorption protocol described above was then recovered by filtration, air-dried and then pyrolyzed at 1200 ºC. The resulting gold-bearing product was further pyrolyzed in a ceramic crucible using a Bunsen burner and butane torch to provide 6.992 g of crude gold. For refining, the crude gold was first re-leached with TCCA/NaBr and then reductively precipitated with ascorbic acid. This precipitated gold was isolated by filtration and remaining organic matter was pyrolyzed using a Bunsen burner and butane torch. The gold could then be consolidated by melting (Fig. and Fig. ). The final recovered gold (6.50 g) had a purity of 99.9%, as determined by reverse aqua regia digestion of a sample and analysis by ICP-MS and ICP-OES.