I’m not sure what’s more impressive, your refining skills or the fact you’ve captured my entire attention for a 41.41 minute video! Either way top notch content. Thanks for sharing.
I agree...not only can i easily sit and watch him so easily, i think I am memorizing the process.. 😂. I am so intrigued, im battling with myself about taking some of my placer gold and trying it.
as carl sagan used to say, we are made of star stuff literally it seems that the entire solar system is made of the remnants of a supernova, and left alot of material that forms asteroids filled with gold, platinum and palladium between other elements, that is one of the things elon musk and bezos wants to go and grab, because is literally there, to grab it
Not that easy. We can’t even keep humans safe in our polar regions here on earth. Exploring outer space with chemical rockets is akin to exploring the ocean with a life preserver. Science has no clue what gravity is. Solve the gravity problem THEN we can go harvest the stars.
@@sreetips You strike me as a bit of polymath, perhaps. I did always wonder where the heavier elements came from, guess I never got around to figuring it out, or forgot. Thnx for the info and the vids; I've enjoyed quite a few of them lately. As I was watching, I thought it might be neat if you had a camera on the camera arrangement. It might be neat to get a few shots of you doing your thing at the fume hood with the fume hood cam. Anywho, cheers.
According to the more detailed explanation, our solar system is the result of a supernova of a star (or multiple stars) which were formed from the remnants of a prior generation of stars that had gone supernova. The elements generated in the first round of supernovae are required in order for the second generation of supernovae to synthesize gold.
I love Placer gold!!! I have a extensive Placer nugget collection that I love to admire every day! I've been prospecting, panning, and everything gold for years. That is why I'm on this new adventure of gold refining. Thank you so much for all the knowledge! Oh, Just a little information, I just ordered online 1 liter of Nitric acid delivered to my door $32.00 no hazmat fee!
@@helives2630 Not sure why my comments aren't going through. I guess UA-cam doesn't like the instructions. From what I'm reading they are considering it spam or something. So I should stop before I get put in youtube jail. It's there though. Sorry
You made a really fine end product, I would say it was 99.9 fine gold. Very, very clean gold, I will have to watch it again. No one else makes refining video's this clean and precise.
People are willing to pay a premium to have it in the natural form. It's just interesting to look at and pretty cool that it comes from the earth. I don't think anybody buying this thinks they're getting $1800 worth of 24 karat gold when they buy.
@@bigidiot123 The thing is, with placer you can sell it for the full 24k gold value even though it isn't 24k (that's where the premium price comes from you mentioned) So you get your full monies worth at least for "weight in gold" even if not pure.
they all try it, a guy is better off finding a good placer mine and making a deal with the miners, they just want live value for their work, mot people see "gold value" is $1800 an ounce and they don't have a clue that's for pure .999 24k gold. and that NO GOLD comes out of the earth is 24k, highest you might see is 20k average is like 18k and it can go as low as 16k, hale maybe lower if it has a lot of quarts and iron mixed in gotta look at it, not just the top of a bag or container whatever, spread it out, most agencies have average purity for said region its extracted from, if its 18k, that's what you offer the miner, he usually takes it cuz you save him a ride into town to deal with the crooks and he he isn't purifying it if he does that, some do, some don't.. most know purifying it brings the honest dollar .. gold is already expensive enough, more than enough money in it they don't need to be jacking folks 20-60% cuz they are crooks and their plant is running lean, hale I didn't do the testing of your claim buddy, I've give you what its worth, no more .. .
Watching both too... also Vo-Gus prospecting and many others... So I became a hobby goldwasher (some miligrams), preparing for refining elecronic gold scrap... Gold is just amazing... :-)
i used to watch dan hurd until he began asking people for donations, when he was doing videos where he found gemstones, gold and other things worth tens of thousands of dollars, alot of people left the channel because he is a mix of smart and fake guy, left alot of people with mixed feelings about his work, and is a shame, sometimes he can find great things in the rivers he visit
Its a rare UA-cam moment that I can sit down and watch a 40+ minute video in its entirety, great work, wish you would ship to the UK, I would like to own some Sreetip merchandise.
Thanks for another interesting video. I had read about Placer gold and you just confirmed what I read! If you had paid #1,303.21 for the 31.2 grams then you would have broken even. In fact, you paid 30% above the spot price for October 30. I realize this is your hobby but clearly, this seller is asking too much! Keep up the good and interesting work.
What a cool hobby you have perfected brother,, The chemistry involved to take these Elements from metal, to liquid, precipitate into a powder, and then it takes intense Fire heat to turn back into metal form is amazing. I can follow along your different processes by heart,, Great job,!
I bought a little electronic gold tester for under 300 bucks. It seems to do a good job of karat testing. Love that color when the solution gets so rich that it gets a little redish. Thanks for the video. Good stuff.
Loved the explanation of where gold comes from! Great science lesson! Also everything above iron comes from supernova. So we are all made of star dust!
@@sreetips Btw, there is a new theory that there are too little heavy elements observed in the Universe compared to the number of supernovae. A new theory suggests that the heavy elements, like gold, might not be forming in supernovae but in neutron star collisions. Those are very rare.
@@bormisha I was just going to comment about this, thanks for pointing it out. In a way gold can be thought of as the byproduct of the creation of some black holes, with gravitational waves traveling the universe singing the song of gold's creation.
I’m glad that I reduced the amount of silver added. Too much silver would cause the gold to crumble to a powder making separation of the silver solution from the gold difficult.
Wow, that explanation about the origin of gold is something I have never heard as far as the scientific chemistry part of it. That is awesome i'm glad I know that now.
Absolutely beautiful bar!!! I believe your incremental nitric dosing is the best route. I don't care for the excess nitric problem during the precipitation attempt.
Thank you once again Sreetips! Excellent video. Funny I also about flunked chemistry way back in high school, but have gone on to gain so much knowledge and understanding since then. School might be helpful, but nothing is more important than actually wanting to know something and applying ones self to get there. Beautifully executed processes. You clearly have become Very masterful at refining.
This is way better than “How it’s made”. That show is awesome but it should be called “How it’s assembled” more then “How it’s made”. I like seeing all the steps of a process which is what you get when watching Sreetips’ videos. I know “How it’s made” has constraints that prevent them from being able to show everything about how a product is made, but sometimes the videos they put out just miss the mark imo. Still neat though.
Thank you for all your videos. I actually reclaimed gold from silicon wafers and you taught me the stump out trick. Thank you for that. :) I have some or should I say alot of silicon wafers that may contain RH and or PD, and PT. If you are interested in trying some samples off line I can send them. We both can make a profit. Kind Regards, Steve
Thanks so much, Sr. I never hesitate to watch any of your videos. Never a dull moment watching chemical magic. The problem stars have with iron fusion is that it takes as much energy to contain as it produces which isn't sustainable. The "weight" of the star overcomes the "blast" of the fusion and the star collapses/implodes. It's fascinating and sometimes such things make me wonder if astrophysics was better for me than geophysics. 😁 Gold is a loving metal. It wraps its arms around the copper, etc. that is alloyed with it and won't let go. I have a reaction to wearing copper. I can have a sterling silver ring or chain on for an hour and I have green skin from it. I cannot wear sterling silver. Karat gold, even with a lot higher copper content, never does that. Not even 10k. It would be interesting to experiment with some of that 6k inquarted gold to see if the copper messes with me. BTW, I've seen 21k Alaskan gold.
Have you thought about doing a controlled experiment to measure metal losses to evaporation? MAP gas only vs MAP+oxyacetylene, different techniques (heating the bowl vs direct flame), etc.?
Some of those black flecks you see in there are actually gold coated in manganese. Mn is quite soluble in ground water and will coat gold grains. I've also seen Fe do the same thing to a lesser extent. That appears to be a more reddish tinted. Kudos to you for paying full price for fine particle sized placer gold for the demonstration purpose. In Alaska alluvial gold can range from 50% to 98% purity depending on the location. The mass loss could also be partially due to sulphides being driven off by oxidation.
I needed it to make the video. Gladly pay for someone else to collect that much gold. Much respect for guys and gals that go find it and concentrate it like that.
Sreetips, you nailed it with the "where does gold come from" question. This answer is good for all elements heavier than iron. Question: why didn't you just dump the material as it was into H2SO4? You would have removed lesser metal impurities and saved a lot of energy.
Great 👍 video thx for sharing, every time I watch your videos makes me wish I would have stayed in chemistry class when I was in high school way back when lol thx again always enjoy your videos
@@sreetips oh damn it is truly amazing how you do the refining that you do and I hope to someday be in a place that my wife and I could try but you have to have a place to be able to store the chemicals that you have to in a safe place or I would be trying it myself
Chief, have you thought about buying a water distiller? A larger upfront purchase might save you from buying gallon jugs from Food Lion. Plus less plastic waste.
Yes, checked into it. It was expensive. I hate humping jugs in from the car. But I use about twenty gallons per month. Not enough to justify the expense. I’m low-budget, hobby level.
I watched the entire video from start to finish. AT about the 10 minute mark is when you did your initial calculations on paper and used the calculator. At about the 40 minute mark you showed the earlier calculations and your "spoken" numbers didn't make sense when determining your end result... I'm confused or I must have missed something.... GREAT VIDEO SIR!!!
Seeing the first second or two when you start the initial melt and you see a few tiny flecks fly off made me wonder. You've a series on the jeweler's sweeps, are you going to ever do a Sreetips sweeps series? Also, thanks for doing that stannous check on the used nitric. You've made that comment about gold going into solution during the boil before, so it was interesting to see the results.
I sweep the table into a “sweeps container” and then add a spoon of the sweeps to cement silver as I’m melting it into granules for the silver cell. It gets trapped in the silver cell filters and I recover any gold or PGMs from from the silver cell filter slimes.
Just curious: right before you precipitate the gold, when the solution is a beautiful amber color.... Does the gold saturated solution "feel" heavy? Just fascinated with your thorough process...
The gold solution is much heavier than the same volume of water, but I can’t tell the difference in the weight by holding it in my hand. I’d have to weigh it
I'm sure the reason why that the placer gold weighed slightly more than 31.1 grams is because; in some of the placer gold was bits of sand, iron, zinc, mixed in with the gold. So they gave you slightly more than 1 T.
You're amazing. Where did you learn to do this? Mr Alchemy strikes again. I hope to try this some day with my own gold that I plan on finding in my yard.
We are Stardust, all of us! Thank you, good sir, for sharing your knowledge and expertise with us on gold refining. I'm an amateur watchmaker, and I am going to be trying my hand at gold plating watch cases etc. That's really not too difficult, compared to what you're doing. I think that I could do some of the refining techniques that you use, but it would take a significant investment in safety equipment and glassware. I'll be leaving the refining to the experts, for now, and concentrate on the plating process to begin with. Thanks again for your very informative videos, they get my mind stimulated and open the door to new horizons!
I was wondering, maybe you could do a video of where you get a lot of your acids and solvents, what your able to make and refine yourself and stockpile for use. As much as your willing to share that is. It seems getting into self refining that the first step would be stockpiling certain materials and acids. This stuff isnt cheap.
Sreetips, pretty cool! I follow Dan Hurd up in BC and see him pull Placer Gold out of the river. I don't think he refines it. It's cool to see what you get when you do. Dan does come accross gold that looks like it has Mercury on it. How does that interact with your chemistry?
@@sreetips Thanks for the reply! That should work. I know back in the old days, and in some of the 3rd world countries, they burn it off. They're using a lot of Mercury and the health effects are devastating to those involved. And while you're not working with Placer very often, should be an issue with your health. Thanks for the great videos!
I’m not sure what’s more impressive, your refining skills or the fact you’ve captured my entire attention for a 41.41 minute video! Either way top notch content. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent. I’ve watched it on my big screen three times. Each time 41 minutes feels like 15
I agree Pyro couple 570 he is a amazing guy :)
I agree...not only can i easily sit and watch him so easily, i think I am memorizing the process.. 😂. I am so intrigued, im battling with myself about taking some of my placer gold and trying it.
Dear sir I want to thank you for the lesson of "where does gold come from" I never knew. It truly is a gift from the stars, amazing.
Thank you
as carl sagan used to say, we are made of star stuff
literally
it seems that the entire solar system is made of the remnants of a supernova, and left alot of material that forms asteroids filled with gold, platinum and palladium between other elements, that is one of the things elon musk and bezos wants to go and grab, because is literally there, to grab it
Not that easy. We can’t even keep humans safe in our polar regions here on earth. Exploring outer space with chemical rockets is akin to exploring the ocean with a life preserver. Science has no clue what gravity is. Solve the gravity problem THEN we can go harvest the stars.
@@sreetips You strike me as a bit of polymath, perhaps. I did always wonder where the heavier elements came from, guess I never got around to figuring it out, or forgot. Thnx for the info and the vids; I've enjoyed quite a few of them lately. As I was watching, I thought it might be neat if you had a camera on the camera arrangement. It might be neat to get a few shots of you doing your thing at the fume hood with the fume hood cam. Anywho, cheers.
According to the more detailed explanation, our solar system is the result of a supernova of a star (or multiple stars) which were formed from the remnants of a prior generation of stars that had gone supernova. The elements generated in the first round of supernovae are required in order for the second generation of supernovae to synthesize gold.
I am so glad I found this channel. It's not every day you gain this much knowledge of a process that is as rare as what you are working with.
I saved at least $460.00 today alone
I love how you explain every step of the way until final product. Love your videos and always look forward to your next videos.
the precipitation is always my favorite part . I love to see that beautiful color change of the the gold liquid. So awesome
I love Placer gold!!! I have a extensive Placer nugget collection that I love to admire every day! I've been prospecting, panning, and everything gold for years. That is why I'm on this new adventure of gold refining. Thank you so much for all the knowledge! Oh, Just a little information, I just ordered online 1 liter of Nitric acid delivered to my door $32.00 no hazmat fee!
Where from?
Yeah, where from?
@@JustJeff62 thank you
@UCxr6Gw_7klfyOfheok9thrA I couldn't find it online, not sure why. Thanks anyway.
@@helives2630 Not sure why my comments aren't going through. I guess UA-cam doesn't like the instructions. From what I'm reading they are considering it spam or something. So I should stop before I get put in youtube jail. It's there though. Sorry
You made a really fine end product, I would say it was 99.9 fine gold. Very, very clean gold, I will have to watch it again. No one else makes refining video's this clean and precise.
Thank you!
ALWAYS looking forward to the next Video! - TY - About time for a Silver Cell update! :)
Though it was not news to me, I appreciate your simple, straight forward explanation about how gold is formed. "We are all made of star dust"
Great video, thanks for sharing! That's a pretty good hussle that placer company has selling $1200 worth of gold for $1800 lol
People are willing to pay a premium to have it in the natural form. It's just interesting to look at and pretty cool that it comes from the earth. I don't think anybody buying this thinks they're getting $1800 worth of 24 karat gold when they buy.
@@bigidiot123 The thing is, with placer you can sell it for the full 24k gold value even though it isn't 24k (that's where the premium price comes from you mentioned) So you get your full monies worth at least for "weight in gold" even if not pure.
they all try it, a guy is better off finding a good placer mine and making a deal with the miners, they just want live value for their work, mot people see "gold value" is $1800 an ounce and they don't have a clue that's for pure .999 24k gold. and that NO GOLD comes out of the earth is 24k, highest you might see is 20k average is like 18k and it can go as low as 16k, hale maybe lower if it has a lot of quarts and iron mixed in gotta look at it, not just the top of a bag or container whatever, spread it out, most agencies have average purity for said region its extracted from, if its 18k, that's what you offer the miner, he usually takes it cuz you save him a ride into town to deal with the crooks and he he isn't purifying it if he does that, some do, some don't.. most know purifying it brings the honest dollar .. gold is already expensive enough, more than enough money in it they don't need to be jacking folks 20-60% cuz they are crooks and their plant is running lean, hale I didn't do the testing of your claim buddy, I've give you what its worth, no more .. .
This was really interesting!
Watching you refine gold, and Dan Hurd prospecting gold. I have a great appreciation for the process!
Finding gold in nature is very difficult. I have great respect for those who can do it - like mount baker and Dan Hurd - much respect.
Watching both too... also Vo-Gus prospecting and many others... So I became a hobby goldwasher (some miligrams), preparing for refining elecronic gold scrap...
Gold is just amazing... :-)
GOLD!
i used to watch dan hurd until he began asking people for donations, when he was doing videos where he found gemstones, gold and other things worth tens of thousands of dollars, alot of people left the channel because he is a mix of smart and fake guy, left alot of people with mixed feelings about his work, and is a shame, sometimes he can find great things in the rivers he visit
I don’t watch them that much. Too busy building my channel. Sorry to hear that he went down hill.
This is the best bar I have seen you pour yet Sreetips. Absolutely beautiful. Great job
I only just saw this recovery/refinement.
That is the best bar I've seen you pour, looks better than 999, beautiful.👍
Thank you.
You can't trust a lot of gold sellers but I 100 % would buy your gold and silver it's Done to perfection and that is worth every penny to me 🇺🇸
Really perfectioned the refining and melting. Final product always looks astonishing! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍
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617 smiley face lol
13:30 - the unknown of if youd pick up those bits of metal was killing me! So glad you did!
Its a rare UA-cam moment that I can sit down and watch a 40+ minute video in its entirety, great work, wish you would ship to the UK, I would like to own some Sreetip merchandise.
Absolutely amazing! I know nothing about what you're doing, but I Absolutely love it. Thank you.
Thanks for another interesting video.
I had read about Placer gold and you just confirmed what I read! If you had paid #1,303.21 for the 31.2 grams then you would have broken even. In fact, you paid 30% above the spot price for October 30. I realize this is your hobby but clearly, this seller is asking too much!
Keep up the good and interesting work.
very true but soon and very soon he will get his money back :)
I must be nuts! I love watching metal stuff melt. Great video!
Ohh Ill take the refined little bar any day. Thanks for all your shows. I really enjoy watching them.
loved the little lesson on stellar nucleosynthesis
What a cool hobby you have perfected brother,, The chemistry involved to take these Elements from metal, to liquid, precipitate into a powder, and then it takes intense Fire heat to turn back into metal form is amazing.
I can follow along your different processes by heart,, Great job,!
Bravo Zulu Boats!
Video was Pure Gold.
thanx4sharing
Awesome watching you do that, Alaska Gold
Wow how cool, you always draw me in to every video. Thank you for sharing!
Yep, just like others have said, your about the only one that I able to watch from beginning to end. For that I thank you my friend 😀
I bought a little electronic gold tester for under 300 bucks. It seems to do a good job of karat testing. Love that color when the solution gets so rich that it gets a little redish. Thanks for the video. Good stuff.
Loved the explanation of where gold comes from! Great science lesson! Also everything above iron comes from supernova. So we are all made of star dust!
Quite correct
@@sreetips Btw, there is a new theory that there are too little heavy elements observed in the Universe compared to the number of supernovae. A new theory suggests that the heavy elements, like gold, might not be forming in supernovae but in neutron star collisions. Those are very rare.
Cool, thank you
@@sreetips Great to hear that! Btw, here is a video on the topic. ua-cam.com/video/MmgMboWunkI/v-deo.html
@@bormisha I was just going to comment about this, thanks for pointing it out. In a way gold can be thought of as the byproduct of the creation of some black holes, with gravitational waves traveling the universe singing the song of gold's creation.
This was absolutely fascinating. Chemistry is cool AF.
Love watching these, thanks!
Nailed the yield down to the decimal point. Very impressive. You've got this locked in hard.
I’m glad that I reduced the amount of silver added. Too much silver would cause the gold to crumble to a powder making separation of the silver solution from the gold difficult.
god damn i didnt even realize how much i love and want gold, you are lucky, i want a house in the country and refine gold for the rest of my life
It’s a blast
That is so cool seeing this gold go from a liquid back to a solid mind blown
Where can I go to buy gold and silver from you
Wow, that explanation about the origin of gold is something I have never heard as far as the scientific chemistry part of it. That is awesome i'm glad I know that now.
I really enjoy watching you work.
Thank you so much. I learn from this channel constantly.
Absolutely beautiful bar!!! I believe your incremental nitric dosing is the best route. I don't care for the excess nitric problem during the precipitation attempt.
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Every time he puts ice cubes in I can taste orange koolaid. Great video as always.
Another great video with very good explanations.
Thanks a lot for your amazing job.
Best Regards.
Sylvain
*sreetips* Bravo well done, thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along. God Bless.
Refining raw gold from a mine was a cool idea, very interesting!
Thanks for another video Sreetips. Amazing how it looses to much, would assume it would be relatively pure right from the ground (or rock).
Much of Australian Gold is much like 23 to 24K, purest placer gold around. Alaskan will generally fall into the 18 to 20k range. Hth MikeC
Another enjoyable video Sreetips. Happy to see you wearing again your white lab jacket. .lol
Thank you once again Sreetips! Excellent video. Funny I also about flunked chemistry way back in high school, but have gone on to gain so much knowledge and understanding since then. School might be helpful, but nothing is more important than actually wanting to know something and applying ones self to get there. Beautifully executed processes. You clearly have become Very masterful at refining.
The final bar had a great look! 👏👏
Great work @Sreetips. Good to know the quality of that batch of gold from the seller.
Always amazed to see gold in solution. So unsuspecting.
That was a good video sreetips. I always watch the Goldrush shows and this made me think of it.
That is a beautiful little bar.
So cool to watch this done. Thanks for all the vids, they're super interesting!
I love the different colors of the reactions. Like forbidden koolaid
Amazing video as always. Your watch time must be amazing cuz your videos are mesmerizing!!
Amazing. I was reviewing the previous video from ~4 years ago. It was perfect then, it is beyond imagination now. Beautiful
12:06 "Remember, there is no spoon!"
Beautiful, as always!!!
Was really cool to watch like an episode of how it's made!
This is way better than “How it’s made”. That show is awesome but it should be called “How it’s assembled” more then “How it’s made”. I like seeing all the steps of a process which is what you get when watching Sreetips’ videos. I know “How it’s made” has constraints that prevent them from being able to show everything about how a product is made, but sometimes the videos they put out just miss the mark imo. Still neat though.
One of your best looking bars yet!
Thank you for all your videos. I actually reclaimed gold from silicon wafers and you taught me the stump out trick. Thank you for that. :) I have some or should I say alot of silicon wafers that may contain RH and or PD, and PT. If you are interested in trying some samples off line I can send them. We both can make a profit.
Kind Regards,
Steve
Just awesome. Well done.
Great packaging from that seller BTW.
Beautiful finish on that bar 🌟
You are a master at your craft Sir!
I miss living on the farm, i want my blow torch back. Welding class in highschool was fun! 🤓
I did two of my friends welding test while the instructor wasn’t looking. I loved that class
Awesome video.. Glad i came across it by sheer chance
Welcome!
Can we all take a moment of silence for that beautiful sterling silver spoon sreetips melted 😢
Thanks so much, Sr. I never hesitate to watch any of your videos. Never a dull moment watching chemical magic.
The problem stars have with iron fusion is that it takes as much energy to contain as it produces which isn't sustainable. The "weight" of the star overcomes the "blast" of the fusion and the star collapses/implodes. It's fascinating and sometimes such things make me wonder if astrophysics was better for me than geophysics. 😁
Gold is a loving metal. It wraps its arms around the copper, etc. that is alloyed with it and won't let go. I have a reaction to wearing copper. I can have a sterling silver ring or chain on for an hour and I have green skin from it. I cannot wear sterling silver. Karat gold, even with a lot higher copper content, never does that. Not even 10k. It would be interesting to experiment with some of that 6k inquarted gold to see if the copper messes with me.
BTW, I've seen 21k Alaskan gold.
I love it too
Have you thought about doing a controlled experiment to measure metal losses to evaporation? MAP gas only vs MAP+oxyacetylene, different techniques (heating the bowl vs direct flame), etc.?
I also wonder if some of the powder gets blown away by the torch
nice explanation on gold being made during the collapse of a star
Some of those black flecks you see in there are actually gold coated in manganese. Mn is quite soluble in ground water and will coat gold grains. I've also seen Fe do the same thing to a lesser extent. That appears to be a more reddish tinted. Kudos to you for paying full price for fine particle sized placer gold for the demonstration purpose. In Alaska alluvial gold can range from 50% to 98% purity depending on the location. The mass loss could also be partially due to sulphides being driven off by oxidation.
I needed it to make the video. Gladly pay for someone else to collect that much gold. Much respect for guys and gals that go find it and concentrate it like that.
Sreetips, you nailed it with the "where does gold come from" question. This answer is good for all elements heavier than iron.
Question: why didn't you just dump the material as it was into H2SO4? You would have removed lesser metal impurities and saved a lot of energy.
Too bad your not in Alabama lol I could use a teacher!! Great job man! Keep sharing all the wisdom cause I’m soaking it up!! 😉
Very nice work!
Great 👍 video thx for sharing, every time I watch your videos makes me wish I would have stayed in chemistry class when I was in high school way back when lol thx again always enjoy your videos
Lewis, I took one chemistry class in high school over 45 years ago - got a “D” and that’s the extend of my formal chemistry training.
@@sreetips oh damn it is truly amazing how you do the refining that you do and I hope to someday be in a place that my wife and I could try but you have to have a place to be able to store the chemicals that you have to in a safe place or I would be trying it myself
Chief, have you thought about buying a water distiller? A larger upfront purchase might save you from buying gallon jugs from Food Lion. Plus less plastic waste.
Yes, checked into it. It was expensive. I hate humping jugs in from the car. But I use about twenty gallons per month. Not enough to justify the expense. I’m low-budget, hobby level.
That was cool. You should maybe do a nugget if you haven’t already.
I watched the entire video from start to finish. AT about the 10 minute mark is when you did your initial calculations on paper and used the calculator. At about the 40 minute mark you showed the earlier calculations and your "spoken" numbers didn't make sense when determining your end result... I'm confused or I must have missed something.... GREAT VIDEO SIR!!!
Love the channel!
This was fascinating to see what the yield would be. 👍🏻
That was the smoothest opening of a zip-lock I've ever seen.
I learned it from the jeweler
That bar turned out real nice
Seeing the first second or two when you start the initial melt and you see a few tiny flecks fly off made me wonder. You've a series on the jeweler's sweeps, are you going to ever do a Sreetips sweeps series? Also, thanks for doing that stannous check on the used nitric. You've made that comment about gold going into solution during the boil before, so it was interesting to see the results.
I sweep the table into a “sweeps container” and then add a spoon of the sweeps to cement silver as I’m melting it into granules for the silver cell. It gets trapped in the silver cell filters and I recover any gold or PGMs from from the silver cell filter slimes.
Nice... Love that golden colour of that bar.. Super fine.. Good job.. Love from malaysia...
Just curious: right before you precipitate the gold, when the solution is a beautiful amber color....
Does the gold saturated solution "feel" heavy? Just fascinated with your thorough process...
The gold solution is much heavier than the same volume of water, but I can’t tell the difference in the weight by holding it in my hand. I’d have to weigh it
@@sreetips thank you👍
I'm sure the reason why that the placer gold weighed slightly more than 31.1 grams is because; in some of the placer gold was bits of sand, iron, zinc, mixed in with the gold. So they gave you slightly more than 1 T.
They go a touch above and beyond as a form of goodwill. That’s why they do well.
You're amazing. Where did you learn to do this? Mr Alchemy strikes again. I hope to try this some day with my own gold that I plan on finding in my yard.
Awesome video like always.
thanks Jason- pls more content like this!!!!!!
The silver melt is so satisfying
We are Stardust, all of us! Thank you, good sir, for sharing your knowledge and expertise with us on gold refining. I'm an amateur watchmaker, and I am going to be trying my hand at gold plating watch cases etc. That's really not too difficult, compared to what you're doing. I think that I could do some of the refining techniques that you use, but it would take a significant investment in safety equipment and glassware. I'll be leaving the refining to the experts, for now, and concentrate on the plating process to begin with. Thanks again for your very informative videos, they get my mind stimulated and open the door to new horizons!
When he poured the ice in I was like “Hmm? We got soda, OJ, purple stuff…”
“Oh sweet! Sunny D!”
During your smelting process we watched bits of gold fly out from the pressure of the blowtorch.
I sweep it up and add it to my sweeps container.
Thank you for sharing this. I am assuming that the copper in the Sterling also comes out with the base metals?
Correct, copper is soluble in hot nitric
Gold makes me happy.. 🤗
gold is beautiful... mantap luar biasa 👍👍👍👍🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩
I was wondering, maybe you could do a video of where you get a lot of your acids and solvents, what your able to make and refine yourself and stockpile for use. As much as your willing to share that is. It seems getting into self refining that the first step would be stockpiling certain materials and acids. This stuff isnt cheap.
I get most chemicals from eBay or Ace Hardware.
Another good one. This was awesome.
I had no idea. Outstanding.
Sreetips, pretty cool! I follow Dan Hurd up in BC and see him pull Placer Gold out of the river. I don't think he refines it. It's cool to see what you get when you do.
Dan does come accross gold that looks like it has Mercury on it. How does that interact with your chemistry?
I’m fairly certain that heating it liberates the mercury from the gold.
@@sreetips Thanks for the reply! That should work. I know back in the old days, and in some of the 3rd world countries, they burn it off. They're using a lot of Mercury and the health effects are devastating to those involved. And while you're not working with Placer very often, should be an issue with your health.
Thanks for the great videos!
Sorry... Shouldn't be an issue. I can't type!
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