I think this may be an old address:
Plating is the magazine  of the AESF which used to be the AES
I believe the current address is:
American Elecroplaters and Surface Finishing Society
12644 Research Parkway
Orlando FL 32826
407-281-6441
FAX 407-281-6446

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Subject: Gold Plating Specs and other information
Date: Wednesday, June 05, 1996 2:39PM

Contact:   American Electroplaters' Society, Inc
                56  Melmore Gardens
                East Orange, New Jersey 07017

Also look in the journal 'Plating' which has ton of information on plating
related issues. There is a good paper on Gold Plate Spec for electronics
equipment by RG Baker and TA Palumbo, Plating, August 1971, pp 791-800.