Wow I loved this!! Raw gold from Alaska to a nice pure gold bar👍👍 I’ve always wanted to know how would refine raw gold, thanks for the tips!! Love your art sir
I watch all your videos. I really enjoy the content you make. I hope one day I can do what you do as a hobby. I find it very hard to procure scrap gold and silver in my state. I really look forward to watching your videos. More videos haha!
Hello, I understand you have made a gold bar of the highest standard?! it's beautiful to watch the process! I'm more into coins made of precious metals myself, but it's always nice to have such an ingot in the collection, good luck and come visit, greetings from Russia!
The final bar is amazing looking - definitely didn't mind seeing it a second time! Does your recover (73.4% I think) match what you'd expect from this particular placer gold you used? (I understand the purity varies a fair amount).
I love your videos and have tried a handful of times but I can't get all the copper to burn off in the chemical reactions should I keep washing it in nitric acid? Lost and don't know what to do...
Copper takes longer than silver to dissolve in nitric. And for refiners, patience is a virtue. As a new refiner, I remember desperately wanting the gold so bad that I tried to force reactions, try short cuts, and continue processing before it was ready. Had to go through it to realize that it’s not the right way to go.
Is the silicate material that is found in the medicine packaging or? Goods such as we find them in small bags in shoes, the same material that is used with borax and flux to melt metals from the soil
No sir it's not the same. One is Silica like sand and the other is sodium tetraborate. You can buy Mule Team 20/20 borax at your store for about $5 a box and use that.
@@karimrazak3798 I see the question now sir. I read your post wrong. I thought you were asking if silica and borax was the same. Yes you can use that type of silica. It's SiO2 also except it's expanded. They also sell that type of silica as cat litter at Walmart.
Small quantity... well... 1 troy ounze... OK, Mr. riichtips... :-) So much gold, it is for me like 3 months of shoveling tons of sand in the river. My record is 0,5 g of placer gold in 1 day... mya be I should go to Alaska...
Hello @sreetips, can you please advise me on how can I keep my ultra fine gold from blowing out of the crucible, going to be my first time making a button with 3 to 4g of placer, only with a Map torch .
@@sreetips Thanks , will do that, also I will try to add the gold while the borax coating in crucible is hot and "melty" then maybe another layer of borax on top?
Could you please explain the reason for adding silver to the gold as part of the refining process? I can't quite makes sense of the diluting before refining methodology but I'm sure it's only because of my lack of understanding so if you don't mind explaining that that would be great and preemie up to think about other things LOL (it's a CDO thing) CDO, it's just like OCD, but the letters are in alphabetical order as they should be
Look for thumb of one of my videos that has a gold ring held by blue plastic tweezers: ua-cam.com/video/d3jBalGylQE/v-deo.html it may help you understand. It’s one of the most valuable refining techniques that I’ve ever learned.
Just rewatched this as I was working on some placer gold. It seems to me that placer gold is pure enough to skip the inquartation step without having the issues of lower karat gold. I’ll let you know how the experiment works. I’m sure I’ll have silver chloride but that’s east to deal with.
@@sreetips well the experiment is complete on a 6 gram sample. Apparently the primary impurity in placer gold is silver so at 25% silver it is enough to cause the issue of forming the crust and stalling the reaction. Therefore, inquartation is best for placer gold. It was a fun experiment tho. I now know that 75% of the placer gold will be gold and the other 25% will be silver. It makes it easier to calculate the values.
I know it’s been a while since you made this video but would you mind telling me your source for the Alaska placer gold you used? I enjoy your videos. Thanks a lot. Flybywire0
I’ve never done it, but I’ve been told by a reliable source (Harold_V on the goldrefiningforum.com) that it can be rendered to pure silver by heating in a crucible with plenty of sodium carbonate. But it makes lot of nasty fumes, and will have a tendency to boil over out of the crucible.
@@sreetips did the nitric acid to get the all the metals in solution then did aqua regia my solution is yellow tried to add sodium bisulfate but not gold drop. Did stannis test and the strip paper is dark. Could send pics of the color of solution
If stannous test shows gold then just add more SMB until the gold comes down completely. Probably too much nitric. Put beaker inside a catch dish because it may foam over on you. Add SMB slowly. Fumes are deadly poison
2:44 the forbidden orange soda 🤤🥺
Love your videos! Thanks again for a nice demonstration
Wow I loved this!! Raw gold from Alaska to a nice pure gold bar👍👍 I’ve always wanted to know how would refine raw gold, thanks for the tips!! Love your art sir
Love both your full and short vids
I watch all your videos. I really enjoy the content you make. I hope one day I can do what you do as a hobby. I find it very hard to procure scrap gold and silver in my state. I really look forward to watching your videos. More videos haha!
That was really interesting. Thank you for explaining it so well
Beautiful. Two thumbs
something about that shinny finnish of 24k , i just cant get enough , keep it up sreetips short version long version there all great
Thanks for posting.
Hello, I understand you have made a gold bar of the highest standard?! it's beautiful to watch the process! I'm more into coins made of precious metals myself, but it's always nice to have such an ingot in the collection, good luck and come visit, greetings from Russia!
Such a beauty
An XRF must be the perfect tool for determining the gold concentration after the first melt. I also want to become a gold refiner!
The final bar is amazing looking - definitely didn't mind seeing it a second time! Does your recover (73.4% I think) match what you'd expect from this particular placer gold you used? (I understand the purity varies a fair amount).
Yes
@@sreetipsWhat acid do you use to precipitate the gold here?
Thanks for the video. The raw Alaskan gold works out to just under 18K in purity.
I love your videos and have tried a handful of times but I can't get all the copper to burn off in the chemical reactions should I keep washing it in nitric acid? Lost and don't know what to do...
Copper takes longer than silver to dissolve in nitric. And for refiners, patience is a virtue. As a new refiner, I remember desperately wanting the gold so bad that I tried to force reactions, try short cuts, and continue processing before it was ready. Had to go through it to realize that it’s not the right way to go.
Wait what happened to the sterling silver? Did it get pulled out in the blue solution? Was that step really necessary? This is fascinating thanks
I recovered all the silver. Adding silver is essential for the nitric to penetrate. If you put 14k in boiling nitric it remains unaffected.
Is the silicate material that is found in the medicine packaging or? Goods such as we find them in small bags in shoes, the same material that is used with borax and flux to melt metals from the soil
No sir it's not the same. One is Silica like sand and the other is sodium tetraborate. You can buy Mule Team 20/20 borax at your store for about $5 a box and use that.
@@goldrefining What is the way to make it?
What is the chemical symbol for silica, which is used in metal smelting?
@@karimrazak3798 I see the question now sir. I read your post wrong. I thought you were asking if silica and borax was the same. Yes you can use that type of silica. It's SiO2 also except it's expanded. They also sell that type of silica as cat litter at Walmart.
I want to know if sio2 is used to extract minerals from crushed rocks using fire
Small quantity... well... 1 troy ounze... OK, Mr. riichtips... :-)
So much gold, it is for me like 3 months of shoveling tons of sand in the river. My record is 0,5 g of placer gold in 1 day... mya be I should go to Alaska...
Hello @sreetips, can you please advise me on how can I keep my ultra fine gold from blowing out of the crucible, going to be my first time making a button with 3 to 4g of placer, only with a Map torch .
Lower the flame slowly onto the gold
@@sreetips Thanks , will do that, also I will try to add the gold while the borax coating in crucible is hot and "melty" then maybe another layer of borax on top?
I’ve done that with good results
Could you please explain the reason for adding silver to the gold as part of the refining process?
I can't quite makes sense of the diluting before refining methodology but I'm sure it's only because of my lack of understanding so if you don't mind explaining that that would be great and preemie up to think about other things LOL (it's a CDO thing)
CDO, it's just like OCD, but the letters are in alphabetical order as they should be
Look for thumb of one of my videos that has a gold ring held by blue plastic tweezers: ua-cam.com/video/d3jBalGylQE/v-deo.html it may help you understand. It’s one of the most valuable refining techniques that I’ve ever learned.
Just rewatched this as I was working on some placer gold. It seems to me that placer gold is pure enough to skip the inquartation step without having the issues of lower karat gold. I’ll let you know how the experiment works. I’m sure I’ll have silver chloride but that’s east to deal with.
Probably be just fine. I inquart everything, if I can. Because it does such a fantastic job of cleaning the gold.
@@sreetips well the experiment is complete on a 6 gram sample. Apparently the primary impurity in placer gold is silver so at 25% silver it is enough to cause the issue of forming the crust and stalling the reaction. Therefore, inquartation is best for placer gold. It was a fun experiment tho. I now know that 75% of the placer gold will be gold and the other 25% will be silver. It makes it easier to calculate the values.
Figuring placer to be 18k is probably a good rule of thumb. Then if you encounter a higher concentration of gold it will be a welcome surprise.
I'll watch again!
Don't mind if I do.
Excellent! Thanks shane
Would be cool to see you recover Lithium, that's a very hot commodity just now with all the electric vehicle stuff happening.
Lol can't rinse it with water. Just catches fire
There's a ton of ppl in my area that are prescribed it. I'm sure I can recover some
I know it’s been a while since you made this video but would you mind telling me your source for the Alaska placer gold you used? I enjoy your videos. Thanks a lot.
Flybywire0
I bought it from an eBay user name: judyjudygold
You are obviously a skilled chemist
I have several quarts of new gold electroplating solution, interested in
I’m not a chemist
Where did you get your chemistry PhD? And have you ever dressed as Heisenberg for Halloween?
The goldrefiningforum.com and never dressed as Heisenberg - didn’t he my atom bombs?
Hey Sreetips. ✌
Do you know what happens to silver chloride if all you do is incinerate it?
I’ve never done it, but I’ve been told by a reliable source (Harold_V on the goldrefiningforum.com) that it can be rendered to pure silver by heating in a crucible with plenty of sodium carbonate. But it makes lot of nasty fumes, and will have a tendency to boil over out of the crucible.
@@sreetips just a curiosity, thanks.
I read somewhere Harold has left the forum for now. I liked his style and approach.
I haven’t seen much from him either. He was one of my mentors when I first started refining.
Can you give us an update on the stock pot refining?
It’s in progress, but as usual, I’ve run into some snags
@@sreetips Thank you so much!
Can I get this service done somewhere for a fair price?
I think big refiners will refine your placer into pure gold for a fee. Then send it back to you.
@@sreetips thank you for the info!
Have a jewelry store and started to do a little refining have a couple questions if you have time. Tom Kolmer fb
I’ll answer if I can
@@sreetips did the nitric acid to get the all the metals in solution then did aqua regia my solution is yellow tried to add sodium bisulfate but not gold drop. Did stannis test and the strip paper is dark. Could send pics of the color of solution
If stannous test shows gold then just add more SMB until the gold comes down completely. Probably too much nitric. Put beaker inside a catch dish because it may foam over on you. Add SMB slowly. Fumes are deadly poison
I need this done to my nuggets and fines so bad. I have about 36 or 38 grams
This is how you can make good money.
Work with GOLD
SEEN THIS 1
All the people with questions....lol. Go watch the videos.
Learn something....
USE LARGE AMOUNT OF COPPER instead of silver.
I refine silver also, so for me it’s best to use sterling silver - refining both metals at once. Like killing two birds with one stone.