Its kinda give a person a fish and he eats for today but teach a man to fish an he can eat for a life time! Consept :) im with ya Knowledge is definitely power!!!!!
This makes me want to go to my watch repair guy and offer to "clean up" his workspace...but I guess he's probably smart enough to not let me do that. Thanks for another very cool video, Mr. S!
Sreetips can we have a “meet sreetips episode” where we find out more about you, your interests and how you got involved in metallurgy and stuff? After watching so many videos it would be good to find out more about the guy who makes the videos! Legend sreetips ⭐️👍
Nothing short of amazing - 25% pure gold from that pile of grungy looking drawer dust. That's a fantastic yield - and it was amazing seeing you remove all the junk one step at a time. Really incredible skill at work in this video. 👍
If this jeweler at some point replaces his desk, all the wood and organic materials will bear gold. Imagine,... 25% of the scrap in this drawer was pure gold. Excellent return by a master of his craft. Good work Sir! (and very informative)
I know nothing about chemistry but this is absolutely captivating not only for walking thru every step and explaining whats going but also the photography. PRICELESS!!!!
you've taught me so much about chemistry! thank you very much for the content. i loved the gold ring explanation, everything makes sense when we think about it, and you make a very good job making sense of it
I work in science and frequently use palladium in my work. The price of lab-grade palladium has exploded in recent months. Presumably because most of the worlds palladium is extracted in Russia. It might be interesting to keep an eye on palladium prices. It might become lucrative to look at your filters, your silver cell slimes and maybe even your stock pot.
I watch a lot of your videos and appreciate the tips. I have also saved some of your videos for myself as well to my hardrive for personal use of all my metals if I truly need to reshape them for some reason. Thank you for the knowledge and wisdom that is hard to just find and have a raw example of.
I know a story of an old jewellers work bench. The jeweler one day closed his shop, the heirs sold most of the equipment but one buyer showed much interest in the old work bench. The workbench was in use for decades and showed a lot of wear and tear, and it certainly had seen better days. So you would not set up a workshop with the old work bench. The daughter then took some time and found a very special business that had the special kind of knowledge and equipment to take care of the workbench. They burned it and recovered around one pound of gold from the ashes. So the bench had a much greater value than anybody expected. Certainly much more than the original offer was.
@@BabyJesus66 I do not know any of the persons involved. However it seems plausible that gold particles will stick to the wood of a workbench and get worked into the wood and that you can retrieve it by burning and extracting the ashes.
I just got my Silver Crystals in the mail, and boy are they something beautiful to look at!!! Just mind blown at how beautiful they are. you sir did a fabolous job on the refining. Keep up the great work and I look forward to the next video.
I'm honestly so in love with this channel. Nothing makes me happier than seeing 'trash' literally turned into gold, and it's so nice to see something otherwise wasted being treated with such care and attention.
Love your videos and I'm always learning by watching them. I recently just watched a video of a man refining waste from sidewalks outside of jewelry stores and Smith's. Surprising return aswell!
I was a diamond setter for 35 years use to save all the finding ,filing and clippings an that was your Christmas bonus. Them i left and became a chef till i retired.
Sreetips- thank you for another wonderful upload!! I have been enjoying your content for years now. It's great to see you have been regularly contributing to the education of this topic and entertaining many, many people!
That was a surprise Sreetips that didn't look like it had that much gold , it really didn't look as though it would . Shows you what I know lol . That a nice mix of events to get that yield . I simply love the process it takes . Thanks again for your wisdom and I'll see you soon my friend . Cheers
I used to work in a jewelry shop. Once a year the goldsmiths would clean out their bench drawers and it would all get shipped off to the refiners, along with all the other accumulated scrap. The store would then get a credit on their next gold order.
A client owned a jewelry supply company. They made gold chains and findings( catches, stone mount prong settings etc) . They kept a individual section of carpet under each jewelers bench that did gold work and periodically replaced the rugs after vacuuming to be sure no stray stones were in it they wrapped it up and sent to to a refiner who burned the rugs in a furnace and recovered the gold for a percentage.
I have about 2000g of gold rivets from the early 1980s that were used for PCB electrical contacts; I think the base metal is nickel, It is a shame they were not solid gold. Your videos amaze me
On the inquartation Cody from "Cody's Lab" did a little demonstration video on it using minecraft blocks as a visual aid, that really helped explaining the process.
In the future try to avoid putting ice into the solution. Even though it was made with Distilled water the tray itself is a potential contaminant. A better way that I use is a ice salt-water bath.
I have never been a huge fan of gold and have always preferred wearing silver jewellery, however, after watching a few (lot) of your videos recently, I have to admit that I'm falling n love with gold. It's intrinsic "permanence" It's incorruptability The way it drops out of solution when you add SMB The way that mud, which you wouldn't so much as look at if you saw it lying on the ground, turns into bright, shiny gold with the simple application of heat and the glittering little ingots that drop out of your mould which I would love to hold, weigh and caress in my hands. Mmmm! 🤤 *Ahem* Safe to say, I enjoy your videos very much.
Just some tips or ideas you may try. Three decades ago when I did fire assaying of ores on our mining claims, we used lead litharge to collect the gold, silver and PGMs and a flux to remove the base metals, that the gold, silver and platinum group metals were collected in the lead - the silver and gold helped collect the PGMs - then used bone ash cupels to absorb the lead oxide leaving a precious metal bead/button. When you have a good guess of how much gold, silver, etc, you can add a known weight of silver could be added at the cupeling stage to aid in the nitric acid separating the gold and PGMs. If you are using stirling silver add it to the flux smelt and you can remove the copper (or/and nickel from some alloys) into the slag and adjust the amout of flux to accommodate for the copper. I also used a polished steel anvil and ballpen hammer to flatten the button of alloy before putting it in the nitric acid to aid in parting the metals.
By the way everything takes practice to perfect. But you can save a lot of money using your electric furnace to smelt with a flux to remove base metals, that you are wasting in acids and the amount of time you're using. Potash, Soda Ash, and some clean silica sand, lead litharge or other pure lead as the collecter, maybe some wheat flour as a reducer in silicon carbide 16 oz crucibles that are reusable if you take care of them, and a metal button cone mold that the whole melt is poured into it and after cooling the button is broken from the slag.
By the way everything takes practice to perfect. But you can save a lot of money using your electric furnace to smelt with a flux to remove base metals, that you are wasting in acids and the amount of time you're using. Potash, Soda Ash, and some clean silica sand, lead litharge or other pure lead as the collecter, maybe some wheat flour as a reducer in silicon carbide 16 oz crucibles that are reusable if you take care of them, and a metal button cone mold that the whole melt is poured into it and after cooling the button is broken from the slag.
@@sreetips There are two books you should invest in and study - the first one I reccommend you start with and can get by without the other book - "Recovery and Refining of Precious Metals" by C.W. Ammon (2nd edition) The second is "Sampling and Assaying of the Precious Metals, comprising gold,silver, platinum and the other platinum group metals in ores, bullion and products" by Ernest A. Smith. That you are only doing small batches of refining or separating alloys to recover the precious metals the electric furnace should be okay to use and control the temperature. A small propane burner furnace - you can build yourself - can do bigger batches that have a lot of base metals to separate into a flux takes learning color temperatures as too hot will release the base metals from the flux into the button, that can be removed by chemicals like you already do, but far less of them as most will stay in the flux. While at first this is all extra expences to start, in the long run it will save you money and time. Hope to see future videos with these changes.
@@sreetips Just another tip. If you use lead as a collector it can easily be separated from the silver after precipitation from a weak nitric acid as clorides by boiling in hot neutral ph water. After it cools the lead cloride will re-precipitate - maybe a little sodium chloride to start it. Tip 2, before you try to precipitate anything with regaents the solution should be close to ph 7. The only difference is using a cementing method by a lower base metal that needs the acid or caustic to cause the reaction.
Aqua regia will turn orange even with no gold in it. You’d be surprised at how many viewers have tried to precipitate gold from a solution that contained no gold. A simple stannous test would reveal this error. Did you test with stannous?
That was quite a lot of work to extract that amount of Gold out, but this small amount turns out to be worth $2,430.00 USD 👍. I would say all the fiddle and fuss was worth it.👍👍
In the 80s there was an old watch repair guy with a little shp down a side street. Looking through the window it was like a hoarder house. I went in to ask if the stuff was for sale ( it wasn't) but I spoke to the old guy for a while. His workbench was in the basement. He showed me a box completely filled with gold. For as long as he'd been repairing jewelry and watches he had been taking a few links from chains, keeping broken clasps and shaving a little gold from the inside of watch cases. Later that shop was empty and I often wondered, if the old fellow had died and what the people who cleaned out the shop found
Could at some point you explore eco-gold ex as it strips gold no probs but recovery seems difficult.....Your the most trusted scientist in amateur gold recovery IMO. And you would weigh the gold before and aft, sorry if you can't recover the full amount back. Its interesting as I would use different approaches with Eco-Au ex, wonder if its a ferri-cyanide or something novel.....Thanks Mr Sreetips, all the best from the UK.
Hello Mr sreetips. Very Nice bare 😊. I like you passion and you allways going the "exstra" mile. More and more People see that, and take part of this grate canal🎉 Take care, and god bless you and your wife😊
I just watched a video of yours on my TV melting clips and bits from your savings into a stunning bar but not sure which video it was🙈 Anyway I'm an e-waste scrapping woman and love all kinds of metal melting etc and loved your slightly different style content. I've joined you 🙂👍
You once told me, "The value isn't in the gold, it's in the knowledge." Sir, I couldn't agree more! Thank you for the knowledge!
Unless you get a LOT of gold... then the value is prolly in the gold. 😁
Knowledge is power. Health is wealth. Gold is elemental.
Its kinda give a person a fish and he eats for today but teach a man to fish an he can eat for a life time! Consept :) im with ya Knowledge is definitely power!!!!!
В наше время знания без золота не получить 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Замкнутый круг где золото помоему всех опережает 😂
I nearly lost it, when you said. " Here's a peanut " Been watching a lone time. Thanks
Das a gold peanut right there
He snacks on peanuts while he works
This makes me want to go to my watch repair guy and offer to "clean up" his workspace...but I guess he's probably smart enough to not let me do that. Thanks for another very cool video, Mr. S!
Sreetips can we have a “meet sreetips episode” where we find out more about you, your interests and how you got involved in metallurgy and stuff? After watching so many videos it would be good to find out more about the guy who makes the videos! Legend sreetips ⭐️👍
Seconded
Under “community” on my channel, I give a brief bio on how I got started in refining.
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Nothing short of amazing - 25% pure gold from that pile of grungy looking drawer dust. That's a fantastic yield - and it was amazing seeing you remove all the junk one step at a time. Really incredible skill at work in this video. 👍
If this jeweler at some point replaces his desk, all the wood and organic materials will bear gold. Imagine,... 25% of the scrap in this drawer was pure gold. Excellent return by a master of his craft. Good work Sir! (and very informative)
I know nothing about chemistry but this is absolutely captivating not only for walking thru every step and explaining whats going but also the photography. PRICELESS!!!!
you've taught me so much about chemistry! thank you very much for the content. i loved the gold ring explanation, everything makes sense when we think about it, and you make a very good job making sense of it
You are a master recovery expert at this point I'm blown away by which you recovered from that mess I had to watch it twice great job awesome video.
I work in science and frequently use palladium in my work. The price of lab-grade palladium has exploded in recent months. Presumably because most of the worlds palladium is extracted in Russia. It might be interesting to keep an eye on palladium prices. It might become lucrative to look at your filters, your silver cell slimes and maybe even your stock pot.
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night! Great video and thanks for sharing!
Hello Central Florida!
I watch a lot of your videos and appreciate the tips. I have also saved some of your videos for myself as well to my hardrive for personal use of all my metals if I truly need to reshape them for some reason. Thank you for the knowledge and wisdom that is hard to just find and have a raw example of.
I know a story of an old jewellers work bench. The jeweler one day closed his shop, the heirs sold most of the equipment but one buyer showed much interest in the old work bench. The workbench was in use for decades and showed a lot of wear and tear, and it certainly had seen better days. So you would not set up a workshop with the old work bench. The daughter then took some time and found a very special business that had the special kind of knowledge and equipment to take care of the workbench. They burned it and recovered around one pound of gold from the ashes. So the bench had a much greater value than anybody expected. Certainly much more than the original offer was.
That story just doent add up/// Ive been a jeweler 50 years...
@@johnshipp3050 hence why it says "stoooooory"
Fake news
@@BabyJesus66 I do not know any of the persons involved. However it seems plausible that gold particles will stick to the wood of a workbench and get worked into the wood and that you can retrieve it by burning and extracting the ashes.
I was buying the story until I heard "one pound"
Wow the old tales about tuning base metals into gold must have been about you, A true Alchemist........
I just got my Silver Crystals in the mail, and boy are they something beautiful to look at!!! Just mind blown at how beautiful they are. you sir did a fabolous job on the refining. Keep up the great work and I look forward to the next video.
You can buy from him? How
eBay user name: sreetips
Ships to USA locations only
Phew! Nicely done. As many of us are, your friend the jeweller must be very happy to see this. Thank you!
I'm honestly so in love with this channel. Nothing makes me happier than seeing 'trash' literally turned into gold, and it's so nice to see something otherwise wasted being treated with such care and attention.
Love your videos and I'm always learning by watching them. I recently just watched a video of a man refining waste from sidewalks outside of jewelry stores and Smith's. Surprising return aswell!
Great video! Just fascinating! Love watching!
Thank you for your continuous education on refining metals
I have learned more about Chemistry in this video than in 4 years of High School.
I have no idea why I love watching your videos so much, but I do :)
Very nice gold bar thanks for sharing seertips
I was a diamond setter for 35 years use to save all the finding ,filing and clippings an that was your Christmas bonus. Them i left and became a chef till i retired.
He taught me to set diamonds
Awesome recovery it's always amazing how much you get from jewelry scrap thank you for sharing five stars sir
Streetips, you and a half bottle of scotch are a perfect blend for this insomniac’s late night
Awesome as always. Please keep the videos coming!
Sreetips- thank you for another wonderful upload!! I have been enjoying your content for years now. It's great to see you have been regularly contributing to the education of this topic and entertaining many, many people!
These are my favorite Senior. Fascinated by your skill, I would spill stuff everywhere and really scare my neighbors.
That was a surprise Sreetips that didn't look like it had that much gold , it really didn't look as though it would . Shows you what I know lol . That a nice mix of events to get that yield . I simply love the process it takes . Thanks again for your wisdom and I'll see you soon my friend . Cheers
Love content ,especially the melt table....thanx4sharing
I always look forward to your videos. You have ignited my interest in chemistry.
How can anyone not love chemistry - great video!
I'll check this out in the morning. Sure it will be as good as I think.
I always learns something new every time I watched your vedios
This video serves as a reminder that all things are valuable. Great video sir
That is the first double-decker gold bar I have ever seen. Super nice.
That was pretty good video Streetips. Thnx much ✌️😎
Thank you for this information 🙏 luv your work and knowledge
I love the way the bar was poured!!
Very cool.
That was first for me Shane
Stunning car shape that’s unique Sree! Great video great looking colours.
Wow. This is super interesting stuff. I watched it all the way through!
I used to work in a jewelry shop. Once a year the goldsmiths would clean out their bench drawers and it would all get shipped off to the refiners, along with all the other accumulated scrap. The store would then get a credit on their next gold order.
Love the attention to detail with the bowl rinse at 11:07. 👍👍 (Been watching him too long when I knew that was coming 🤣🤣)
Great video once again ,this process is fascinating it’s like alchemy ,great work 👍👍
A client owned a jewelry supply company. They made gold chains and findings( catches, stone mount prong settings etc) . They kept a individual section of carpet under each jewelers bench that did gold work and periodically replaced the rugs after vacuuming to be sure no stray stones were in it they wrapped it up and sent to to a refiner who burned the rugs in a furnace and recovered the gold for a percentage.
I’ll be doing the carpet from under his bench in an up coming video
Cool looking double decker bar!
I have about 2000g of gold rivets from the early 1980s that were used for PCB electrical contacts; I think the base metal is nickel, It is a shame they were not solid gold. Your videos amaze me
Om Ah Houm
It is always an enjoyably entertaining episode... thanks for continuing to bring such contents!
Woooh for science!
Amazing video very insightful and educational seems like a very smart dude inspiring to the layman out there
I bet the jeweler appreciates having someone close by to refine his gold for him. I know our local jeweler would.👍
We both gain. He gets refined for free. I get to make videos of actual jewelers waste.
Fun video and excellent quality as always.
The channel with the forbidden Tang 😁
Fascinating how did this appear on my feed a most interesting video thank you.
Welcome!
" here is a , peanut... " made me quite literally laugh out loud. my neighbors heard quite the loud " HA! "
He eats peanuts while he works.
Really cool refining video and I like the shape of the bar.
jesus that background noise ! happy to see you fixed that in your newer videos
You think it’s bad in the video, you should hear it standing right next to it.
I have ADD with youtube, but im glued to these videos, so fascinating.
On the inquartation Cody from "Cody's Lab" did a little demonstration video on it using minecraft blocks as a visual aid, that really helped explaining the process.
Seconded, it's a fantastic explanation. Very geometrically intuitive.
Best explanation out there.
This channel used that video,
in the past. Agreed, a great
video from Cody.
steve
Excellent show as always!
Open the pod bay doors!
So fascinating watching this!
I've never heard of this channel until it came up today, but I see I was missing out. Great content! Worth a subscription. 👍💯
Welcome and thank you!
Awesome job!
Other people have said too, but im blown away by that yield!
Excellent video thank you!!!
That was fun to watch!
the peanut part made me laugh 100x more then it should have, omg
Awesome job buddy 👍
Thank you for the video stay safe
In the future try to avoid putting ice into the solution. Even though it was made with Distilled water the tray itself is a potential contaminant. A better way that I use is a ice salt-water bath.
What if the beaker breaks?
I have never been a huge fan of gold and have always preferred wearing silver jewellery, however, after watching a few (lot) of your videos recently, I have to admit that I'm falling n love with gold.
It's intrinsic "permanence"
It's incorruptability
The way it drops out of solution when you add SMB
The way that mud, which you wouldn't so much as look at if you saw it lying on the ground, turns into bright, shiny gold with the simple application of heat and the glittering little ingots that drop out of your mould which I would love to hold, weigh and caress in my hands.
Mmmm! 🤤
*Ahem*
Safe to say, I enjoy your videos very much.
Greatest love springs from the greatest hate.
Just some tips or ideas you may try. Three decades ago when I did fire assaying of ores on our mining claims, we used lead litharge to collect the gold, silver and PGMs and a flux to remove the base metals, that the gold, silver and platinum group metals were collected in the lead - the silver and gold helped collect the PGMs - then used bone ash cupels to absorb the lead oxide leaving a precious metal bead/button. When you have a good guess of how much gold, silver, etc, you can add a known weight of silver could be added at the cupeling stage to aid in the nitric acid separating the gold and PGMs. If you are using stirling silver add it to the flux smelt and you can remove the copper (or/and nickel from some alloys) into the slag and adjust the amout of flux to accommodate for the copper. I also used a polished steel anvil and ballpen hammer to flatten the button of alloy before putting it in the nitric acid to aid in parting the metals.
By the way everything takes practice to perfect. But you can save a lot of money using your electric furnace to smelt with a flux to remove base metals, that you are wasting in acids and the amount of time you're using. Potash, Soda Ash, and some clean silica sand, lead litharge or other pure lead as the collecter, maybe some wheat flour as a reducer in silicon carbide 16 oz crucibles that are reusable if you take care of them, and a metal button cone mold that the whole melt is poured into it and after cooling the button is broken from the slag.
By the way everything takes practice to perfect. But you can save a lot of money using your electric furnace to smelt with a flux to remove base metals, that you are wasting in acids and the amount of time you're using. Potash, Soda Ash, and some clean silica sand, lead litharge or other pure lead as the collecter, maybe some wheat flour as a reducer in silicon carbide 16 oz crucibles that are reusable if you take care of them, and a metal button cone mold that the whole melt is poured into it and after cooling the button is broken from the slag.
Excellent information. Thank you.
@@sreetips There are two books you should invest in and study - the first one I reccommend you start with and can get by without the other book - "Recovery and Refining of Precious Metals" by C.W. Ammon (2nd edition) The second is "Sampling and Assaying of the Precious Metals, comprising gold,silver, platinum and the other platinum group metals in ores, bullion and products" by Ernest A. Smith.
That you are only doing small batches of refining or separating alloys to recover the precious metals the electric furnace should be okay to use and control the temperature. A small propane burner furnace - you can build yourself - can do bigger batches that have a lot of base metals to separate into a flux takes learning color temperatures as too hot will release the base metals from the flux into the button, that can be removed by chemicals like you already do, but far less of them as most will stay in the flux. While at first this is all extra expences to start, in the long run it will save you money and time. Hope to see future videos with these changes.
@@sreetips Just another tip. If you use lead as a collector it can easily be separated from the silver after precipitation from a weak nitric acid as clorides by boiling in hot neutral ph water. After it cools the lead cloride will re-precipitate - maybe a little sodium chloride to start it. Tip 2, before you try to precipitate anything with regaents the solution should be close to ph 7. The only difference is using a cementing method by a lower base metal that needs the acid or caustic to cause the reaction.
Your so lucky to have a jeweller friend!!!
Excellent video as usual.
LOL
That stannis test on the super bright chloroauric.
What else were you expecting
Aqua regia will turn orange even with no gold in it. You’d be surprised at how many viewers have tried to precipitate gold from a solution that contained no gold. A simple stannous test would reveal this error. Did you test with stannous?
Awesome job! I always watch your videos right away 👍
That was quite a lot of work to extract that amount of Gold out, but this small amount turns out to be worth $2,430.00 USD 👍. I would say all the fiddle and fuss was worth it.👍👍
So fascinating how you do this!
Thank you for the heart!
Thanks for your comment.
Great work sir 👍
First 👍's up thanks for sharing
Am I the only one who is oddly satisfied by the humming in the background?
This is gonna be a good one!
Величезний лайк за ваше відео і надзвичайно велику і тяжку роботу! Привіт вам з України! З нетерпінням чекаю наступних відео!!!
In the 80s there was an old watch repair guy with a little shp down a side street. Looking through the window it was like a hoarder house. I went in to ask if the stuff was for sale ( it wasn't) but I spoke to the old guy for a while. His workbench was in the basement. He showed me a box completely filled with gold. For as long as he'd been repairing jewelry and watches he had been taking a few links from chains, keeping broken clasps and shaving a little gold from the inside of watch cases. Later that shop was empty and I often wondered, if the old fellow had died and what the people who cleaned out the shop found
"I'm going to add some bor-AX" 😆
Maybe using a seive to separate the powder from the larger objects? Great videos as always!
He did
Love this video,, always amazing content..
Hope all is well.
Life is good, thank you!
"One mans waste is another mans treasure" How true!
Cool to see how this is done.
Another good vid . 🎉
I can just imagine how the conversation with Mrs. Sreetips went over the ring demonstration.
Hope he told her after it happened! 👀😁
Im over here laughing niow, I was gonna ask if your ice was distilled water but I stopped myself cause I knew at some point you would say it was.
That's one way to clean your wedding ring. Lol!
Love it brother.
another great video.,.tipps.,.,thank you .,.,peace
Good job!
Could at some point you explore eco-gold ex as it strips gold no probs but recovery seems difficult.....Your the most trusted scientist in amateur gold recovery IMO. And you would weigh the gold before and aft, sorry if you can't recover the full amount back. Its interesting as I would use different approaches with Eco-Au ex, wonder if its a ferri-cyanide or something novel.....Thanks Mr Sreetips, all the best from the UK.
I’ve never tried it. I wouldn’t know how.
@@sreetips Make a different and interesting video when you proved yes or nah. (yes, no)......It strips plating in minutes.....Night, take care.
Amazing videos sreetips! Appreciate the education and always knew I love science and just had to be something interesting.
Hello Mr sreetips. Very Nice bare 😊. I like you passion and you allways going the "exstra" mile. More and more People see that, and take part of this grate canal🎉
Take care, and god bless you and your wife😊
Thank you my friend 🙂
I just watched a video of yours on my TV melting clips and bits from your savings into a stunning bar but not sure which video it was🙈 Anyway I'm an e-waste scrapping woman and love all kinds of metal melting etc and loved your slightly different style content. I've joined you 🙂👍
Welcome! That was pure gold from my bottle of catches.
@@sreetips yes I saw you sort it all and wondered how long that must have taken you 😂🙈