I've used the foil method to clean native silver wire and nuggets from Cobalt, Ontario. It's seems to work well. Most silver from Cobalt is usually with Cobalt, Nickeline and arsenides or can be coated with Acanthite, a silver suphide which doesn't come off with cleaning.
In 1859 the Comstock lob mine was discovered in Nevada. Because of the enormous amount of silver that was produced from that mine still affects the market to this day. Today’s price around $17.00 per Troy ounce.
I have an ultrasonic cleaner at work. I’ve used it to try to clean all sorts of things. In my opinion it’s completely worthless. It doesn’t do anything that can’t be done with other methods of cleaning. It looks cool and sounds cool but that’s all it’s good for.
Those silver specimens are looking gorgeous! I really enjoyed the video Shane 😎 Greeting from PL as allways😁 Its good to come back after some time and see the giant progress on your videos! ( I did some progress too on my channel)And uhhh...last time you were at a 120k subs as I remember lol 🤣I have a lot of videos to go through! Still waiting on that 2nd newer better episode of budget prospecting at Arapahoe Bar if youre living stil close to it.Im planning of doing that kinda video for my own but now we have floods here in Poland and theres no way of going inside any river.
Hey Mr Zlotko - Great to hear from you ! Yeah I will get over to A-Bar hopefully before the snow comes for another video havent been prospecting in a while
Very cool ore! Thanks for sharing the information. Looks like the comments have a bunch of suggestions for you to try. Looking forward to the follow up!
As always another great video 👍👍 .. thanks for sharing this info.. always nice to learn something new .. well until next time I'll be looking forward to your next videos (both channels) until then God Bless and Be Safe .. Don E. In Denver
I like to use straight ammonia to clean silver. Just buy the 10% janitorial grade ammonia solution from Ace or TruValue hardware stores. I like that stuff because all it's made of is just water and ammonia, it has no soap, so when it dries it leaves no residue. I use that to clean up the silver crystals I make. I've tried the aluminum foil method, but that only seems to work if the tarnish isn't too bad, or to clean purposefully chemically tarnished silver.
I use a lot of ammonia on my sterling for polishing. However, I've done more refining than ore / specimen collecting. I still don't have a piece of native silver that pretty. :( Someday I'll dig again...
Should check out the silver wire specimens from kongsberg, norway! Also the ones from germany are great as well. I love silver and its ore minerals (acanthite being my favorite lol)
Another interesting video from Klesh who does such great research. I have never heard of this kind of silver or seen it before today. Thanks Shane for the video. Enjoy your weekend and week. 🤗🤗
You should need vinegar or another weak acid. That's what works on rust (baking soda is a base). As rust is oxidized iron, so too is tarnish oxidized silver
I've got a bit of a native silver habit (some from Canada, but mostly from Keweenaw).. The foil, sodium carbonate and hot water method usually works but I've always added some table salt to the mixture as well. The specimens from those locations tend to have more solid lumps, so maybe that helps.
Did you ever check out @MeMiner on UA-cam? He goes up to Cobalt, Ontario where they discovered Silver in 1903 and became one of the world largest mines in the world. He finds beautiful Silver in the tailings left behind….And he definitely knows lots about Silver. The place is loaded with history. It was a booming town in the early 1900’s! Just fascinating…Great video and just love your channel.🤩👍🏼 Keep up the interesting work. HH and GL on your next adventure!🍀🍀🍀 Blessings send from Canada🙏🏼♥️👋🏼🇨🇦
Don’t do that. I do a lot of metal detecting myself. In my experience, silver coins come out of the ground looking good. All they need is a run under water to remove the loose dirt. I can see tumbling the clad and copper, if it’s common. But silver, you’ll just destroy any numismatic value it has. Even if you don’t plan on selling it at the moment…
I'm not worried about numismatic value, the coins I dig up are my treasure & they go into my display cabinet. Once cleaned up all nice & shiny, they're fantastic
White metals react together. I have a few suggestions. Even your pliars are reacting and can cause an orange/red staining through electrolysis. Beautiful specimens btw. Keep up the great content brother. Thanks.
Oxalic acid or vinegar and salt "pickle solution" *not the kind you drink, in glass with bamboo, copper, or plastic tongs should give nice shiny results. No brushing...The dark stuff is lead, zinc, and tin more than likely which is why I suggest the Oxalic method. It will dissolve the carrier metals from the ore and leave behind the clean native silver. My .02.
Really enjoy these episodes Klesh. My Grandmother (who used to be a silver fanatic and would buy almost anything if it had silver in it), she'd use a toothbrush with some baking powder mixed into a dab o toothpaste. Her collection was always nice and bright, not to mention minty fresh too! I have an Ultrasonic cleaner, but from what I understand you have to be careful with what type of Matrix is with the specimen. The Ultrasonics can destroy them (hence possibly devaluing the piece itself).
Hey, if you want to find some native silver yourself look up Cobalt Ontario Canada. I go there and find lbs of silver metal detecting there, you can find leafs/plates of silver or vein chunks that you can slice. I was just slicing some silver today and found your vide afterwards.
Shoot me an email with GPS coordinates of the area, the parking location, etc and I'll make a trip up. Any pointers would be great kleshkrums@gmail.com thanks!
2 Tbs Tarn X, add to 1/2 cup of jet dry, mix well, then add to 1/2 Qt warm water. Put a secamin in for abt 20 seconds then check it. Some process might need a rerun. 🤘👍
If I'm not mistaken it's three other things you can try one is toothpaste you can soak it in ammonia and that stuff that comes in a Black bottle at the drugstore it cleans jewelry
You can set that container of blue water in the ultrasonic cleaner with water on the outside and then drop the silver in the blue chemical and probably get better results
TARN-X is simply AMAZING at cleaning silver, gold, platinum or any other precious metal!!! Literally it takes 2 seconds and BAM 💥 INSTANT SHINE!!!!!!! Try it!!! Please let me know what you think! It's at Walmart!!!! Dark Brown Bottle . They keep it near the C.L.R. section
Watch what acids you use, it most likely will dissolve the calcite matrix, and destroy the uniqueness of the sample. If you want to use an acid, I’d go no stronger than vinegar. Hydrochloric acid will really do a number on that calcite.
@@Klesh You can dilute it by half with water, if you think the sample could be damaged by vinegar. Another thing I’ve done to clean rocks is to make a vinegar/baking soda solution, because the baking soda neutralizes the acid. Plus it adds a light scrubbing action.
Hey klesh I was wondering how good the silver looks today or in a few more weeks. My problem is I did this on a stamp and tru 925 necklace … and it was good , but I wore it. And put it back in my stash for a day or two . But it seems to look worse… the tarnish came right back?!?!?
Lasers you got to use lasers also some ketchup would have done the same thing let it sit in Coca-Cola any of those low level acids would have cleaned that just fine
Silver can be in a matrix known as Galina, silver/lead, in that situation lead is shining ,silver oxide is flat black, in Virginia city they at first didn't know what the dull black rocks were they were putting on the city street's was, found out later , the rich silver ore was discovered 😀
HI, buy some potassium hydroxide and see, I've cleaned a lot with KOH, infact KOH paired with an ultrasonic bath would work great i bet (The dissolution of silver oxides in aqueous potassium hydroxide) plus whatever other metal oxides, not sure what the non silver component of this ore is but ya I DO CHEMISTRY, SO ALTHOUGH IVE NOT DONE THIS MYSELF I KNOW IT SHOULD WORK @Klesh
We have a couple of these. You can store them in an acrylic case to minimize the tarnishing. PS...They glow orange/red under UV!
I've used the foil method to clean native silver wire and nuggets from Cobalt, Ontario. It's seems to work well. Most silver from Cobalt is usually with Cobalt, Nickeline and arsenides or can be coated with Acanthite, a silver suphide which doesn't come off with cleaning.
In 1859 the Comstock lob mine was discovered in Nevada. Because of the enormous amount of silver that was produced from that mine still affects the market to this day.
Today’s price around $17.00 per Troy ounce.
That's funny, UA-cam says it's been 11 months since your post & me, today. With that timespan silver is more like $20/oz.
Nice specimens Shane..
Have a wonderful weekend.
Cheers Famo59 👍🍻⛏🤓
I have an ultrasonic cleaner at work. I’ve used it to try to clean all sorts of things. In my opinion it’s completely worthless. It doesn’t do anything that can’t be done with other methods of cleaning. It looks cool and sounds cool but that’s all it’s good for.
Definitely some cool looking rocks, thanks for the show. See you on the next one.
Those silver specimens are looking gorgeous! I really enjoyed the video Shane 😎 Greeting from PL as allways😁 Its good to come back after some time and see the giant progress on your videos! ( I did some progress too on my channel)And uhhh...last time you were at a 120k subs as I remember lol
🤣I have a lot of videos to go through! Still waiting on that 2nd newer better episode of budget prospecting at Arapahoe Bar if youre living stil close to it.Im planning of doing that kinda video for my own but now we have floods here in Poland and theres no way of going inside any river.
Hey Mr Zlotko - Great to hear from you ! Yeah I will get over to A-Bar hopefully before the snow comes for another video havent been prospecting in a while
Very cool ore! Thanks for sharing the information. Looks like the comments have a bunch of suggestions for you to try. Looking forward to the follow up!
Really like the 'gear change'-Im not into silver, but I found it very informative and enjoyed the 'view'...JG
@03:21 "just brushing them off" Ahh, G'day Mate! Brush it off! Ha ha!
The piece with the cut silver was my favourite. Very cool ore!
As always another great video 👍👍 .. thanks for sharing this info.. always nice to learn something new .. well until next time I'll be looking forward to your next videos (both channels) until then God Bless and Be Safe ..
Don E. In Denver
I also use toothpaste on my necklaces. nice video Shane, as always.
Very informative. I've been thinking about starting a silver collection
I used to clean my grandmothers silverware like this. Makes things go SO MUCH quicker. 😉
I like to use straight ammonia to clean silver. Just buy the 10% janitorial grade ammonia solution from Ace or TruValue hardware stores. I like that stuff because all it's made of is just water and ammonia, it has no soap, so when it dries it leaves no residue. I use that to clean up the silver crystals I make. I've tried the aluminum foil method, but that only seems to work if the tarnish isn't too bad, or to clean purposefully chemically tarnished silver.
I use a lot of ammonia on my sterling for polishing. However, I've done more refining than ore / specimen collecting. I still don't have a piece of native silver that pretty. :( Someday I'll dig again...
Have a great day sir hope all is well and your garden is doing good
Should check out the silver wire specimens from kongsberg, norway! Also the ones from germany are great as well. I love silver and its ore minerals (acanthite being my favorite lol)
Great learning opportunity, thanks, i do have mineral specimens that could use this. Regards Mico...
That silver cleaner was smiling before you put the silver into it 😂
very cool!!! thanks for sharing
Another interesting video from Klesh who does such great research. I have never heard of this
kind of silver or seen it before today. Thanks Shane for the video. Enjoy your weekend and week. 🤗🤗
Hi Shirl!
@@donmoor4e974 Hey How you doing? Good to see you on YT!! 🤗🤗
You should need vinegar or another weak acid. That's what works on rust (baking soda is a base). As rust is oxidized iron, so too is tarnish oxidized silver
I've got a bit of a native silver habit (some from Canada, but mostly from Keweenaw)..
The foil, sodium carbonate and hot water method usually works but I've always added some table salt to the mixture as well.
The specimens from those locations tend to have more solid lumps, so maybe that helps.
Awesome video thanks for sharing stay safe,God bless you and your family
When you and friends are drinking at a bar, do you add a few drops of Jet-Dry to your drink?
I would not recommend ingesting it
Did you ever check out @MeMiner on UA-cam? He goes up to Cobalt, Ontario where they discovered Silver in 1903 and became one of the world largest mines in the world. He finds beautiful Silver in the tailings left behind….And he definitely knows lots about Silver. The place is loaded with history. It was a booming town in the early 1900’s! Just fascinating…Great video and just love your channel.🤩👍🏼 Keep up the interesting work. HH and GL on your next adventure!🍀🍀🍀 Blessings send from Canada🙏🏼♥️👋🏼🇨🇦
Hit the river for some panning I miss them uploads
Really like your videos keep it up 👍
Where did you get that little chest on the shelf behind you?! 🏴☠️
Yard sale 👍
Awesome specimens. As for my silver coins that I found detecting, I tumble them as I generally don't sell them.
Don’t do that. I do a lot of metal detecting myself. In my experience, silver coins come out of the ground looking good. All they need is a run under water to remove the loose dirt. I can see tumbling the clad and copper, if it’s common. But silver, you’ll just destroy any numismatic value it has. Even if you don’t plan on selling it at the moment…
I'm not worried about numismatic value, the coins I dig up are my treasure & they go into my display cabinet. Once cleaned up all nice & shiny, they're fantastic
White metals react together. I have a few suggestions. Even your pliars are reacting and can cause an orange/red staining through electrolysis. Beautiful specimens btw. Keep up the great content brother. Thanks.
Oxalic acid or vinegar and salt "pickle solution" *not the kind you drink, in glass with bamboo, copper, or plastic tongs should give nice shiny results. No brushing...The dark stuff is lead, zinc, and tin more than likely which is why I suggest the Oxalic method. It will dissolve the carrier metals from the ore and leave behind the clean native silver. My .02.
Thanks!
@@Phoenix_Enterprises Wouldn’t the vinegar dissolve the Calcite though?🤷🏻♀️ Just a thought…😌👋🏼🇨🇦
@@McChrister Yes, if you left it too long.
@@Phoenix_Enterprises Thanks for your reply…Take care!☺️👋🏼🇨🇦
I did this a while back .
I’m just wondering about your experience after a while
Really enjoy these episodes Klesh. My Grandmother (who used to be a silver fanatic and would buy almost anything if it had silver in it), she'd use a toothbrush with some baking powder mixed into a dab o toothpaste. Her collection was always nice and bright, not to mention minty fresh too! I have an Ultrasonic cleaner, but from what I understand you have to be careful with what type of Matrix is with the specimen. The Ultrasonics can destroy them (hence possibly devaluing the piece itself).
Thank's for the Tipps. you are absolutely right
Hey, if you want to find some native silver yourself look up Cobalt Ontario Canada. I go there and find lbs of silver metal detecting there, you can find leafs/plates of silver or vein chunks that you can slice. I was just slicing some silver today and found your vide afterwards.
Shoot me an email with GPS coordinates of the area, the parking location, etc and I'll make a trip up. Any pointers would be great kleshkrums@gmail.com thanks!
Have you tried diluted nitric acid? Just a thought. Cool pieces.
All that aside great video man
Shane didn’t push the mic away like he usually does. I don’t know how I feel about this lol
woow great info ;)
great video
Thank you
The "don't clean coins" advice is just a meme at this point.
A meme that’s true
2 Tbs Tarn X, add to 1/2 cup of jet dry, mix well, then add to 1/2 Qt warm water. Put a secamin in for abt 20 seconds then check it. Some process might need a rerun. 🤘👍
Thanks for the tips!
If I'm not mistaken it's three other things you can try one is toothpaste you can soak it in ammonia and that stuff that comes in a Black bottle at the drugstore it cleans jewelry
I always use Silvo silver polish- it works incredibly.
You can set that container of blue water in the ultrasonic cleaner with water on the outside and then drop the silver in the blue chemical and probably get better results
Hey Klesh, one of those specimens would look awesome tumbled
That 8 o'clock specimen is so unique
😮
😮😮😮⛏⛏⛏🍌🍌🍌🤣
Such a cool vid
Very cool.
I have always seen the water, soda,aluminum used in the pan while it is still boiling????
Good video
Most of the silver mined has lead in it too
Nice!!!
TARN-X is simply AMAZING at cleaning silver, gold, platinum or any other precious metal!!! Literally it takes 2 seconds and BAM 💥 INSTANT SHINE!!!!!!! Try it!!! Please let me know what you think! It's at Walmart!!!! Dark Brown Bottle . They keep it near the C.L.R. section
Watch what acids you use, it most likely will dissolve the calcite matrix, and destroy the uniqueness of the sample. If you want to use an acid, I’d go no stronger than vinegar. Hydrochloric acid will really do a number on that calcite.
Thank you! And for what I understand vinegar could also damage even the calcite
@@Klesh You can dilute it by half with water, if you think the sample could be damaged by vinegar. Another thing I’ve done to clean rocks is to make a vinegar/baking soda solution, because the baking soda neutralizes the acid. Plus it adds a light scrubbing action.
@@Klesh Definitely….It will just crumble! Learned my lesson the hard way…😖
if you brush the baking soda dry on thr jewelry it works great
Thanks !
I did do this on a silver necklace.. it worked great but seems to re tarnish again.. how do we stop tarnish
Hey klesh I was wondering how good the silver looks today or in a few more weeks. My problem is I did this on a stamp and tru 925 necklace … and it was good , but I wore it. And put it back in my stash for a day or two . But it seems to look worse… the tarnish came right back?!?!?
I saw the thumbnail and assumed it was MeMiner
Use a bowl with Aluminum shavings.. more contact
Lasers you got to use lasers also some ketchup would have done the same thing let it sit in Coca-Cola any of those low level acids would have cleaned that just fine
Cool ideas!
Cool
@klesh did you finally get a place?
Yep ! Check my KleshGuitars UA-cam channel for lots of videos on the new property!
I’m been missing some of your vids, the bell is on but I won’t see it till a couple days later
Have you tried tarnex?
No I have not heard of it but I will put it on the list for a follow up video
yeeeeeeew
Silver can be in a matrix known as Galina, silver/lead, in that situation lead is shining ,silver oxide is flat black, in Virginia city they at first didn't know what the dull black rocks were they were putting on the city street's was, found out later , the rich silver ore was discovered 😀
If you knew it was mixed metals you could have used electrolysis steam steam would work
Don't use metal in your solution. Use wood, plastic or bamboo tongs.
Thanks!
Toothpaste will remove tarnish.
* lower surface tension 😜
Clean jewelry with toothpaste and a toothbrush
Tooth paste and hot water work best I feel.
That blue color jewelry dip with basket.... u should not b touching it with bare hands
Haha oh
Hello blogger, I am Kelly, I am very interested in your channel and want to consult business cooperation, looking forward to your reply, thank you，
U wish
I've used "Tarnex', and it works fast.
HI, buy some potassium hydroxide and see, I've cleaned a lot with KOH, infact KOH paired with an ultrasonic bath would work great i bet (The dissolution of silver oxides in aqueous potassium hydroxide) plus whatever other metal oxides, not sure what the non silver component of this ore is but ya
I DO CHEMISTRY, SO ALTHOUGH IVE NOT DONE THIS MYSELF I KNOW IT SHOULD WORK
@Klesh
Thanks for the tip!