Gold extraction and refine from 1.83Kg of square flatpack processors
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- In this video we extract and refine gold from 4 lbs or 1.83Kg of processor flatpacks. I walk through the entire process from start to finish. This video is very long with lots of detail and dialogue. I hope you enjoy the video as much as I enjoyed making it and earning the gold :)
Xilinx, pronounced zy-links, was a prominent chip manufacturer established in the mid-80s and swallowed up by AMD a couple years ago. They were big in the FPGA market, if that interests anyone.
It’s of interest to me! ☺️. Thanks so much for the view and the information. zy-links. Got it.
Absolutely awesome video.
Your dialogue and attention to detail is beautiful. A person without prior knowledge could follow these instructions and be successful . Great job......!!!!!!
руки у него из попы растут, вытащить можно было в 3 раза больше!!!!
Luckily with gold, mistakes are recoverable. That fuzzy math was fairly spot on …. Nice! Beautiful button.
Very true. Very true. Thank you for the view and the comment!
Most people using a gold pan use a snuffer bottle to suck out the gold and leave the black sands behind.. And I dont know if you are still doing all these steps, but you can literally use smaller and smaller classifieds and screens (down to 1000 mesh or smaller) to get your gold with NO chemicals at all (except water for wet screening) until the very last step when you have to separate the bond wires from the very finest bit of black dust. And the black dust that remains can be reground in a blender and ran again until no more copper can be screened out (it covers the gold). Also, you can use sulphuric acid and potassium nitrate instead of nitric acid.
Great points. Thank you very much for your view and the detailed comment. I really appreciate it. I recently purchased smaller classifiers but I’ve got varying lengths of gold bond wires so I never felt comfortable using them. Maybe I’ll play around with them a bit in a future video.
Nice video, thanks 👍.
Best advice I can give, remember gravity is your friend. Don't be afraid to invert the containers. Precious metals are heavy and the frits are deep 😁👍
Thanks so much for the advice!
I was about to try a ball mill.🤣I typed that before that part in the video.🤣Exactly what I was about to try! Also thinking you could pull the magnetics out wet in a beaker.
Great! The ball mill is slower than the blenders and grinders I’ve seen other tubers using, but it’s super cheap and works great! Thanks for the comment/view and the suggestion!
@@KKRRenewables I’m doing some tests with eco-gold and purex resins. I will make any interesting results public.
16:15 you could make a mortise and pestle set up using a stainless steel mixing bowl and an aluminum baseball bat and do that at scale all in one batch
Yep! Thanks!
16:15 they're mostly if not all tin and it's definitely worth it to separate that before it is processed because trying to do it later is a pain in the ass
So I’ve found out as well! Ick! Will be doing all I can to remove tin in future.
Good job at cleaning up the flat packs. You done a good job and put a lot off time into that
Indeed. Thank you very much for the view and the comment.
1:14:59 If you turn the pan so the flat part is down, you can rinse the grooves out to the flat part and out of the pan. ProspectorPete has it wrong with the aqua regia and tap water.
You were right. I could tell you have not do much panning. It appears at times you go overboard in your process. I'm sure you never loss any gold though. All in all, you put together
a good video. Hope to see more of your videos in the future.
Thank you very much for comment and suggestion. You are very right, I don’t do much panning (like never). 😊. I try really hard to move slowly and thoroughly and it does seem like overboard sometimes, but that’s ok. Sometimes it just experimenting. Thanks again!
Dude... if you have Muriatic Acid, Nitric Acid (or Sodium Nitrate instead of Nitric), SMB, Urea, a heating pad, a few beakers, a spray bottle, coffee filters, a funnel, then I can spoon feed you information that will make it so easy for you.
Awesome! I appreciate the view and the comment!
There is a faster way than a magnet. Dry or wet sieving. Some legs will still pass through but it is easier. Another trick is a reusable coffee filter. Ash and some gold will go through but nothing else. I am building a rotary burner, rotisserie cage and a variable speed motor. With a fine mesh screen inside the cage and large nuts. Running a low flame setting with a garden torch into the side. On the bottom I have a steel pan. You get the idea. Yes it works
Hey that sounds like a great idea. I recall seeing something like that from Successful Engineer, but they did not use it for tumbling/crushing. I bet you can put quite a lot of material through that when it’s built. Let us know how it goes. Sounds like it’s going to work great! Thank you for the view and the comment.
@@KKRRenewablesIt’s not poor panning, your pans haven’t been sanded/prepped for use! Very common mistake for new folks.
Hi, great videos. I have a question:
-Where did you buy/found that suction pump that you use? Seem to be working great and I like to have one myself.
Keep up filming, I’m learning a lot. 🙏🏻
And I suppose out from your pedagogical and knowledge including the use of correct nomenclature, that you as me is GRF-members?😉
Best regards from Sweden. /proffshuggarn
Hey there. Apologies for the delayed response. I appreciate the comments. Yes, I am a member of GRF as well 😊. As for the pump, I got it from Amazon in US. Not sure if it’s available globally. Here’s an Amazon link. Homesprit lab Vacuum Filtration Pump for Laboratory Vacuum Filtration Distillation Apparatus to Filter The Liquid Quicker a.co/d/38xLc74
when refining with aqua regia, always use distilled water so you don't make silver chloride, if silver happens to be there also add a shot of H2SO4 in case there is any lead present
Excellent. Thank you very much.
23:49 propane torches varie alot and I saw someone doing the same thing using a weed burning torch that did it better and a couple of 3 or 4 times faster then even in a Crucible in a Foundry with a supplemental air compressor introduced airflow and I have seen it done many different ways and this was by far heads and shoulders above anything else
Yeah I think I saw that PUB guy using a crucible and brake line. If I had brake line I’d try it also. Would love something faster, easier, and cleaner than what I’m doing for sure.
idk if you done this or if i just missed it.. but when you're crushing your material like you did.. you should use a magnet (strong one) to get any ferrous metals that would definitly contaminate your solution and just cause problems.. out of your way and saves you much headache.. if you're not going to use nitric... if nitric is hard for you to get.. without just ordering it online.. you can make it relativly simply.. which is legal too.. so dont have to worry about that.. im speaking in the usa ofcouse
Thank you so much for the view and the comment. Yes, that process is detailed starting around 25:00. I really appreciate your time.
@@KKRRenewables 😁
Something tells me you are Nate the hoof guy 😂 sound just like him, either way great job!
Hey thanks! Not Nate the Hoof Guy. His videos are mesmerizing! I appreciate the view and the comment!
25:27 thats crazy. It did sound like a geiger counter!
Indeed! Thank you so much for the view and the comment.
Thanks for the video. Well done!
Thanks so much for the comment and the view!
Those chips with the copper heat sinks on top are not flat packs.
Theyre the tops of gold corner bgas
You come to make advice on this chanel but i saw your chanel. You are not a good refiner you make many mistake and many times your reaction are completly undercontrol.
So keep your advice for you and try to keep your reaction under control for the next times before giving lesson.
@davidgold531 wow.
I dont know where you get that from. I've been refining for over 13 years and my refines are far better than this one.
Where did you see mine go wrong ?.
Certainly wasn't from my videos
@@davidgold531 you have no videos.
If you're so good, make videos and show us how you do better.
I bet you cant
@prospectorpete. Nope. No Gold Corner BGAs in this lot. Only flatpacks. Maybe you thought so because of the heat spreader disk on top. It looks similar to Gold Corner BGA but this one was a flatpack.
@@KKRRenewables ok sorry
13:40 if you give them a soak in hydrochloric acid for a day or two or even overnight you can get rid of a lot if not all of those legs which are made of tin and potentially avoid all of the problems of trying to separate the extremely fine metastanic acid later that causes all of the difficulties with filtering later.
Agreed. Thank you.
Put it back in that same beaker when you had the little fine pieces of gold and use AR
Sounds good. Thank you for the view and the comment. I really appreciate you.
25:20 it does sound a little like a geiger counter or at least the ones from movies and television.
The one I used to use never made any noise but it was in a hospital and everything there is supposed to be quiet so I never actually heard it with its audible warning indicators turned on
Hey!! Good to see you’re still around and commenting. Yep, my Geiger sounds very much like this when I put it against depression glass or known radioactive material (very week material of course)
Keep up the good work
Thank you for the view and the comment.
You could cement out the precious metals in solution on that first batch.
Not sure I recall the exact point you’re referencing. If you have time, can you give me the time stamp? Either way, thank you so much for the view and comment.
28:04 smh... your neibs knew you were recording 😅
Hahhahaaa
22:05 you can increase the effectiveness and also the efficiency of that by throwing a few more balls in there and they don't have to be the same size infact I speculate that at least one or two smaller ones my help so experiment with that and figure out what's best (but I wouldn't go much larger)
I have smaller sized balls also. I’ll add next time.
Good job very interesting
I’m glad you thought so. Thank you for the view and the comment.
You said adding nitric to the tap water would create aqua regia.thats wrong.
Adding hcl to tap water creates aqua regia. Thats why your stannous test was positive.
You should have thoroughly rinsed the sediment with distilled water to remove the chlorine
So tap water contains chlorine and that with hydrochloric acid and heat = aqua regia
@@chh1318dont pay attention of propectorpete comment before he give lesson he must learn to keep a reaction in the jar. He spend more time to recover gold going out of the solution than refine 😂
@davidgold531 youre a tool. The only reaction I've done which over flowed is my recent video with AP. I'm not responsible for how it reacted.
And this video isn't about AP. It's a gold refine. A totally different process.
So keep your opinions to yourself.
Hey Pete. I’m not understanding your comment. The reason adding nitric acid to tap water creates a weak Aqua Regia is because of the chlorine in tap water added for disinfection of water systems. Chemical equation for Aqua Regia is HNO3 + 3HCl. There’s no Nitrogen in tap water (inconsequential ppm anyway). If you add HCl to Tap Water, that will not dissolve gold. My second HCl boil with the gold bond wires was just as hot and long, and had no positive stannous. Please try tap water + HCl and let me know if you got that to dissolve gold and exact set up. I’ll try your exact approach and see if I can dissolve gold also. The positive test I had must have been some other PM. Hot HCl will dissolve palladium. Maybe that was it.
@chh1318. No it will not. Aqua Regia is HNO3 + 3HCl. You can check out Wikipedia or goldrefiningforum for much more detail.
Great video!
BTW: Pronounce Xilinx like "Zilinks"
Thanks so much! Yeah, I stumbled over that one pretty good. Thanks again for your view and your comment! Have a great day.
23:28 what's up with the blue glass or whatever it is under your ball mill
That’s a fire pit that prevents the ball mill from vibrating off the table. 😊
Did you get the gold out of the pan?
I think so yes 👍
Hi bud great video so far when I do anything with legs I soak in AP for a week or two before hand and it eats legs away and even up inside so far and so less to proses and $$$$on nitric 1 gallon here cost me $129 but great video and try a gold clean up sluice was away light proses the rest
That’s great. Thank you for the view and the comment!
Should have just processed the wires in the beaker with aqua Regina instead of panning as u would have lost some in the process. Good video though
I sure will next time. ! Thank you for the comment and the view. I appreciate it.
Don’t they use stanous for silver in solution too?
1 it’s. 2 were is the water for smb and just boil out nitric or denox then add water and ice and smb gold will drop it dropped because you finally added the water
Yep that makes sense. Thank you so much for the comment.
And what about the silver?
Frankly, I don’t feel like I know enough to attempt silver recovery yet. So I avoid it, however, I’m saving all my waste for future processing, liquids, solids and papers. I’ll get into some silver when I feel like I have a better grasp on it. Thank you so much for the comment and the view! I really appreciate appreciate you.
1:12:55 you could have rinsed them down the smooth side of the pan or the bigger riffles (then rinsed them towards the smooth side from there).
Excellent. Thank you so much for the recommendation. If I try it again, I’ll do that. I’m going gold panning in a stream next week. Will try it that way too!
The two sorters, what are the meshes of each?
I’m not exactly familiar with how to tell mesh screen size. These came from Amazon and they only list off the model number making no reference to mesh size. However, I got my tape measure and counted. The larger hole classifier has 4x4 holes per square inch so 16 holes per square inch. The smaller hole one has 20x20 per square inch so 400 holes per square inch. I hope that answers your question. Thanks for the question / comment and the view!
Thank you for the quick response. That's the info I need.
SUB, I like the fuzzy math, we all have some... 🙂
Seems to work out 😊
let it cool down first or add some water
Excellent. Thank you so much for the view and the comment!
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Thank you for the comment and the view.
16:15 you could make a mortise and pestle set up using a stainless steel mixing bowl and an aluminum baseball bat and do that at scale all in one batch
I’ve seen some folks doing that. I’m lazy and like the set/forget ball mill. Thank you so much for the views and comments. I really appreciate you.