I fair GRINNED from start to finish of this video, thank you for including us in an obviously private chapter in the gold refining journey. you never fail to entertain and educate us.
I said it before and I will say it again. There might be some gold being refined as good, but in no way better then Sreetips. My gosh your gold is so fine oh so fine. Watching you process fine metals. Just doesn’t get old. You have inspired my wife and I. To start going to flea markets with our extra money and buying scrap silver and gold. We don’t have any means of processing it. But we will not need to for about 10 years yet. But when we do, maybe we will hire and pay you to do it. lol Thank you sreetips.
The scrap gold and silver can be held like it is. No need to refine it because it contains a known quantity of gold. Just don’t try to “melt it down” and ruin the markings. Then its purity, and therefore its value, becomes questionable.
Adding the materials procurement portion to the beginning of the video was so delightful and made for a really good video. Following along with you while you found the pieces out in the wild and then watching the refinement made this like the most fascinating video I've seen of yours yet.
It was nice seeing You and the Mrs., on your excursions to gather the smalls of gold plated artifacts. Every time i watch your videos, i see new processes and equipment. I baffles me, when you say you're not an expert, yet, your more experienced than the average joe. Love your enthusiasm and Work/hobby. I'm 72, you're one cool dude for what you do.
Thanks Mr and Mrs Sreetips. Kitco Scrap it. What handy tool you shared here. Found free on the App Store. I made a similar thing but need to be sitting at my computer to use it.
I need to know the other process for the spring steel arms of the GF eyeglasses. I have ran them in my batches and it rarely ends well, the steel does not like to dissolve in nitric. Any help with this would be much appreciated Sreetips, you are the gold standard. because of you I’ve learned so much and have improved my yard sale and flea market yields. You are the man
Those need to boil in hydrochloric acid to soften the steel up. Then add just a few ml of nitric acid - AND NO MORE! Add too much nitric and there will be a delayed runaway reaction that will overflow even the tallest beaker. It’s very tricky.
So Gunny..... when you actually try to melt gold fill, you get a really nasty white smoke that sticks to the torch! Im guessing that it's from the base metals. This video has been really helpful! You burn them, you don't have them go molten! I watch. I learn, (supposedly, if im not in to big a rush to "Git er Done", not paying attention to the WHOLE video!). You are a true artist my friend! No more eating white smoke for Wade! YAY!! 😂😂😂😂 Sometimes, I amaze myself at my ability to get ALMOST all of the information I need. Sometimes it really is the little things....... Your constant fan, Wade
Correct, I heat the recovered gold foils to redness, but not to melt. This converts compounds that causes problems during the refining to insoluble material that can be easily filtered out. Skip the incineration step and the yield suffers greatly. Don’t know why, it just does.
@sreetips Well, I can definitely concur! I need to slow down and pay more attention! Luckily, I haven't had too many foils to mess up! Now, I have the process embedded in my cerebral cortex! Thanks again Gunny! You are a true friend! Wade
WOW! BRAVO!! I had to come back to finish the last half of this video after I got off work. The way you precipitated the gold with gas was the coolest thing!
I always gamble with alcohol myself but then again, I imagine Mrs. Sreetips is more REFINED than I am. Ha! See what I did there? Refined? Because you refine gol... nevermined, lol. I thought it was funny. Anyway, I hope you can start having the two of you in more videos together. My wife and I always enjoy things more when we can do them together. Its important so its good to see the two of you both doing what you love.
So I really love watching your videos you’ve got me completely hooked on doing these projects. I have now accumulated about 50 g of pear gold I know it’s not anything in comparison to what you do, but I’m pretty happy with the outcome. I will not stop watching your videos, but I do have a question for you, I would like to purchase a couple of spray bottles or the white squirt bottles that you use to rinse out your beakers and what not can you tell me where you buy those and what size they are also, I would like to purchase another Bucknel the ceramic funnel can you tell me what size you use, I had purchased a glass funnel and I thought I was getting a bigger size and when I received it in the mail, I had to do nothing but laugh because what I purchased it looked like something that you would put in a dollhouse that a little kid would useso I definitely would like to purchase a larger size glass funnel as well. Keep up the good work and I will continue to watch your videos.
I like watching the various solutions you can utilize to refined the gold. Would it be hard to stop the reaction when it's clear and hard to tell the difference between the dissolved gold solution and water?
22K gold leaf china plates, Gunny. It is so easy to recover. Granted, you need china plates in bulk to make it worth your while. We waited until they had a 75% off sale. Easy picking! Just saying.....
A complete video from finding gold to refining it using many different techniques in the span of an hour! If this is not vocational I don't know what is. Have you ever been interested in refining natural gold coming from claims or mines by any chance? (have to find the good people to team up with!) Congratulations on 300k subscribers too!
Never gets old! Thanks sreetips! Started recovering and refining some computer scrap. After a couple batches I'm trying to recycle the waste-copper-water on the next batch and just adding nitric to save on distilled water after filtering/recovering the foils. Foresee any problems with that?
@@sreetips It worked perfectly. Foils removed-recovered with nitric, water stayed copper blue, no gunky mess or problems. Also able to recycle the copper water to rinse foils off the boards. No more ugly waste treatment buckets!
I'm glad you included the "treasure hunt" portion of the process in your video. I always pass over the GF stuff when out treasure hunting because I didn't know that 3.5% of the weight was pure gold.
@sreetips I know that you save precious stones. Is there a market for them 🤔? I don't throw them out. I just don't have any way to determine what they actually are. What do you do with them? An old Brother in our church, John Bohman, who was the owner of Bohman Technology, Lancaster Pa. Bohman Tech taught jemoulogy and tool and die and hourology, clock making. He was an extremely proficient jemoulogist. He collected all types of stones. His evaluation with a loop was amazing! Probably, he was more accurate with his loop than any spectroanalysis. I still remember a prized Sapphire he had. Absolutely beautiful! Where do you market any precious stones you find? How difficult is it to become proficient in evaluating the stones you recover? I find this remarkably fascinating! Your constant fan, and friend, Wade
She does all the gambling. I usually sit with her and rub her feet on my lap while she spins the dials. The clean up lady came by once and said, “we need more husbands like you in this place.”
Absolutely amazing. I love the golden color of the dissolved gold. If the Ferrous Sulfate only precipitates the gold out then would it be possible to have used the nitric and aqua regia to dissolve everything in the beginning and then just precipitate out only the gold?
Good morning! Good to see you both out on the job. I have a hard time finding CorningWare, at least reasonably priced. I found a couple small gold items at the Salvation army. A few more grams and I think I will try my hand at gold refining for the first time.
This is so interesting. Loved the added clips of scouting for gold. You and your wife have such a keen eye and much knowledge, it's really admirable. I've been in a month-long rabbit hole of chemistry videos though I was never great at it in school. When I saw the boiling hydrochloric acid splashing your gold up, I thought how I just learned from NileRed about 'bumping' and how he adds broken glass for more nucleation points. Would there be merit in doing that here, or was simply adding more HCl the ideal solution since you were cleaning up your precipitated gold? Keep at it sreetips!
Dear sreetips, since your previous few videos was around electrolytic cell I was wondering, for the waste solution coming out of the nitric boils(nitric acid full of copper and silver) why not directly perform an electrolytic refining using silver anodes to get the pure silver instead of cementing it first, rinsing it of the copper solution(which is a tiring process), melting it and then electrorefine the silver shot.
@@sreetips I will surely look into if something like this can be done and will make sure to update you on the same. Cleaning the residues off of silver is a pain in the butt to be honest.
Because this way other high value metals will cement out with the silver and remain in the anode basket as slime. If you directly perform that electrolytic refining, those high value metals will precipitate out with (or even before) the silver, thus contaminating it.
@@2207amol So why is there always platinum, gold and other precious metals in the anode basket slime as evidenced by the reclamation of same when processed? In the presence of palladium, platinum is slightly soluble in nitric acid like other PGMs. And gold is slightly soluble in nitric acid as well. Normally all of the above isn't enough to worry about when refining them but it is enough to get measurable contaminations when refining silver.
I was selling scrap gold on eBay. I began to wonder what the buyers were doing with it. I began to look into refining myself. But there were no books, no publications, no periodicals, nothing. Then I stumbled on the goldrefiningforum.com and the rest is history. I made a short refining video and posted to my channel and forgot about it. A year later I did a search for “gold refining” and my video popped up. It had 92k views. I was flabbergasted. So I logged on to my channel and found that I had 1600 subscribers. I knew I’d struck digital gold, but only if I gave it away for free. Most refiners would rather take their refining secrets to the grave. I exploited this fact to have a successful UA-cam channel.
Check this out: the value of the gold has NOT gone up. It only appears to have increased. What’s really happened is the value of the currency that’s used to price the gold (US Dollar) has declined in value by so much (due to currency printing) that it takes much more of it to buy the same amount of gold. Same is true with the price of your home, groceries, and other goods. Most people just dont understand this, nor do they take the time to study it. And that’s what enables them (the currency printers) to pull it off. Slowly folks will begin to realize that the currency is nearly worthless, and there will be a scramble to convert it (the paper currency) into real assets, including gold and silver. How do you think that they will be able to control the bond market to keep interest rates low with this new rate cut? They must buy their own bonds to keep the price from collapsing and interest rates from skyrocketing. How will they pay for these bonds? They’ll use printed paper currency. And that means more price rises due to inflation of the currency (more currency printing). And everything will appear to rise in value. But it’s really the currency losing value (due to currency printing). This will go on and on until finally the currency will be utterly worthless. It’s the only “tool” that they (the currency printers) have left. Gold (and silver) don’t change. They are stable. So which would I rather stack? Paper currency in my savings. Or real money, real wealth: gold and silver. It’s a no-brainer, but only if you understand what’s really happening.
Have you ever refined placer gold. It would be interesting to compare the amount of purities in placer gold to what actually is produced after the refine process. Thank you Sir for these fascinating videos.
I’ve been waiting and wondering when you would post a new video…thank you !! One question from a newbie if you wouldn’t mind indulging me; what is the significance or purpose to incinerate the material before dissolving it in AR? Theoretically, if I skipped this step because I do not have an burn oven, would it affect the yield by a lot? Backstory: Inspired by watching you and reading hokes book and binging the GR forum and other pages related to refining, I started processing GF material as a hobby. Although I’ve never been able to achieve a 2.5% yield…in my most recent batch of GF material I started with 175g of GF material with an expected yield of 4.375g however when all was said and done I had a little over 2.5g of pure gold to show for the work. Any advice or tips are always appreciated ❤ ps: THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME FIND MY PASSION!!!
Yields will suffer if you skip the incineration. Incineration converts troublesome compounds into insoluble material that can be easily filtered out. I don’t fully understand why it’s so important. But it just is. I remember doing a batch of 700 grams of GF when I first started. Expecting about 16 grams of pure gold. Only got 7 grams. I skipped the incineration step. That made a believer out of me. You can burn the gold mud and foils with a small propane torch, flame turned down low so you don’t blow it out of the dish, in a melt dish if you don’t have a furnace. Either way, DO NOT SKIP THE INCINERATION STEP OR ELSE YOUR YIELDS WILL SUFFER.
@@sreetips I have an old toaster oven in the garage somewhere that heats up to about 450 F - would this fit the bill? Any tips or advice on how to by pass it’s temp sensor so it heats up more if that’s necessary? Thank you again Mr Sreetips for your in depth videos and advice - you really are a a legend and I look forward to binging all your up coming content.
@@sreetips we’re you able to recover the difference? I still have all the refining waste including the filter papers for every GF batch I’ve processed in the last year. Is it possible that the “lost” gold is sitting in my filters ? Or would it be in the refining waste waiting for me to cement out on copper…? Thank you 🙏🏼
Yes, any nitrate can be used, along with sulfuric acid, to make nitric acid. Philip Bender (his UA-cam user name) has the best video on how to make nitric acid. But it’s cumbersome and a little dangerous. For these reasons, I just buy nitric. It’s available from any chemical supply.
Do you use distilled water to make your ice cubes ?. sorry if you have answered this question before. Very Nice Watch you are wearing by the way, I have several constellations myself. Im a watchmaker & can state that they are one of the finest usable watches ever made. a bit risky using it near all those chemicals I might add tho LoL !! all the best from North Yorkshire England.
Good to see you back. I really like the videos where you show how the gold gets found.
Very fun to watch you and Mrs Sreetips find and purchase the jewelry and then see the whole refining process. Well done!
5 min into video and this is one of my favorite videos so far . Nice to see both of yall living life having fun
I fair GRINNED from start to finish of this video, thank you for including us in an obviously private chapter in the gold refining journey. you never fail to entertain and educate us.
I said it before and I will say it again. There might be some gold being refined as good, but in no way better then Sreetips. My gosh your gold is so fine oh so fine. Watching you process fine metals. Just doesn’t get old. You have inspired my wife and I. To start going to flea markets with our extra money and buying scrap silver and gold. We don’t have any means of processing it. But we will not need to for about 10 years yet. But when we do, maybe we will hire and pay you to do it. lol Thank you sreetips.
The scrap gold and silver can be held like it is. No need to refine it because it contains a known quantity of gold. Just don’t try to “melt it down” and ruin the markings. Then its purity, and therefore its value, becomes questionable.
Adding the materials procurement portion to the beginning of the video was so delightful and made for a really good video. Following along with you while you found the pieces out in the wild and then watching the refinement made this like the most fascinating video I've seen of yours yet.
Thank you!
So funny “in the wild”, but so true. It has to be one of the better ways to “mine” for gold in 2024. Anyone can do it. With a little know how.
@@sreetipswish I had a teacher like you really want to start refining been collecting material for the last year
It was nice seeing You and the Mrs., on your excursions to gather the smalls of gold plated artifacts. Every time i watch your videos, i see new processes and equipment. I baffles me, when you say you're not an expert, yet, your more experienced than the average joe. Love your enthusiasm and Work/hobby. I'm 72, you're one cool dude for what you do.
Thank you
The rarest gem Sreetips ever found was Mrs Sreetips 🧐. Bless you both and thanks for the content.
Beautiful shine on that bar. Thanks for sharing.
What a great show. Thank you Sir, and Ma'am. That last precipitation was amazing.
I love your longer videos. Thank you for taking the time to do these. It is much appreciated and such a nice way to relax the mind.
Streetips is livin' the dream. Good for you, man. Love your videos.
Thanks Mr and Mrs Sreetips. Kitco Scrap it. What handy tool you shared here. Found free on the App Store. I made a similar thing but need to be sitting at my computer to use it.
Awesome trip. It’s cool seeing that side of it too! Still my favorite refining channel!
Good to see you and the Mrs having fun ! ❤
I'm # 700. Been great rides on your gold/silver trip. Thank you!
Thanks for taking us to the flea market it was a blast! Loved the video, like always.
Love it!! Nice to see the wife's handy work. What a huge help for Mr.Streetips!!!
I need to know the other process for the spring steel arms of the GF eyeglasses. I have ran them in my batches and it rarely ends well, the steel does not like to dissolve in nitric. Any help with this would be much appreciated Sreetips, you are the gold standard. because of you I’ve learned so much and have improved my yard sale and flea market yields. You are the man
Those need to boil in hydrochloric acid to soften the steel up. Then add just a few ml of nitric acid - AND NO MORE! Add too much nitric and there will be a delayed runaway reaction that will overflow even the tallest beaker. It’s very tricky.
@sreetips thank you so much for the reply I will get on that process as soon as my acid is delivered. 👍
It was fascinating to see Mrs Sreetips at work and then enjoyable to watch you processing down all the gf items. 👍🏻
Thanks Arielle
So Gunny..... when you actually try to melt gold fill, you get a really nasty white smoke that sticks to the torch! Im guessing that it's from the base metals. This video has been really helpful!
You burn them, you don't have them go molten! I watch. I learn, (supposedly, if im not in to big a rush to "Git er Done", not paying attention to the WHOLE video!).
You are a true artist my friend! No more eating white smoke for Wade! YAY!! 😂😂😂😂 Sometimes, I amaze myself at my ability to get ALMOST all of the information I need. Sometimes it really is the little things.......
Your constant fan,
Wade
Correct, I heat the recovered gold foils to redness, but not to melt. This converts compounds that causes problems during the refining to insoluble material that can be easily filtered out. Skip the incineration step and the yield suffers greatly. Don’t know why, it just does.
@sreetips Well, I can definitely concur! I need to slow down and pay more attention! Luckily, I haven't had too many foils to mess up! Now, I have the process embedded in my cerebral cortex! Thanks again Gunny! You are a true friend!
Wade
WOW! BRAVO!! I had to come back to finish the last half of this video after I got off work. The way you precipitated the gold with gas was the coolest thing!
I always gamble with alcohol myself but then again, I imagine Mrs. Sreetips is more REFINED than I am. Ha! See what I did there? Refined? Because you refine gol... nevermined, lol. I thought it was funny.
Anyway, I hope you can start having the two of you in more videos together. My wife and I always enjoy things more when we can do them together. Its important so its good to see the two of you both doing what you love.
I wish I could intern with this guy for a couple years. His knowledge of chemistry is amazing.
So I really love watching your videos you’ve got me completely hooked on doing these projects. I have now accumulated about 50 g of pear gold I know it’s not anything in comparison to what you do, but I’m pretty happy with the outcome. I will not stop watching your videos, but I do have a question for you, I would like to purchase a couple of spray bottles or the white squirt bottles that you use to rinse out your beakers and what not can you tell me where you buy those and what size they are also, I would like to purchase another Bucknel the ceramic funnel can you tell me what size you use, I had purchased a glass funnel and I thought I was getting a bigger size and when I received it in the mail, I had to do nothing but laugh because what I purchased it looked like something that you would put in a dollhouse that a little kid would useso I definitely would like to purchase a larger size glass funnel as well. Keep up the good work and I will continue to watch your videos.
The squirt bottles are from Grainger are 500ml. I have 70mm, 90mm, 110mm, 125mm and a giant 240mm Büchner funnels.
Nice to see you guys again, all the best, thanks for sharing!! ❤
It'd be cool if you had some different kinds of molds you could actually pour the gold into and make little figurines and stuff that'd be cool
Props to Mrs. Sreetips! This lady knows how to find great value!
If not for her, I’d be punching the time clock at home depot this morning to start my shift.
@@sreetips❤
Congrats on 300k subscribers!
Thank you
You two are a good team together
Awesome gold bar, nice to see your guys fun trip my friend 👍
that color change with the so2 precipitation was so cool! another great video, thank you mr and mrs tips
I like watching the various solutions you can utilize to refined the gold. Would it be hard to stop the reaction when it's clear and hard to tell the difference between the dissolved gold solution and water?
Once it goes colorless, pulling the gas delivery tube out won’t stop the solution from going over to brown as the gold comes out of solution.
Man I wish we had flea markets around here .. Best I can do is hit the yard sales. This year was slim pickings.. Only found 2 small 925 items so far
Love the videos looks like a fun day together 😊
Enjoyed your video! Thanks
I would love that 1965 Bulova automatic - damn, what finds you have there
I really enjoyed this video and laughed at some of your funny one liners. You've blown us away with your amazing work.❤❤❤
Thank you!
I talk to my local silver dealer about you all the time. Everyone in this hobby and business knows who you are.
Good job Sreetips'.
That’s incredible.
This is my favorite way you precipitate the gold out it looks so much cleaner plus the reaction is really cool and the gold just looks immaculate
Beautiful work sir, thanks for sharing!
I really liked this video. Change of scenery.
What a nice video! Calming and fun
What a great way to spend time with your sweetheart.
Well mr and mrs sreetips you were not too far from me. Just to the north is iowa been watching for years all from iowa 😊
I grew up in CR
I wish I knew you were close, I would have came to meet you. Love the videos. Built my fume hood couple months ago.
Thanks 4 taking us alongon your adventure. Adding the stump out is always my favorite part. It makes me think of transmutation??
You are welcome. A real treasure hunt and adventure with a victory over the brass to get the gold! Thank you Sir.👍👍🤟
22K gold leaf china plates, Gunny. It is so easy to recover. Granted, you need china plates in bulk to make it worth your while. We waited until they had a 75% off sale. Easy picking! Just saying.....
Nice!
Your love of Mrs Sreetips is so refreshing.
I can not believe how enthralled i am watching your work
You 2 are a gorgeous couple, you seem to be good friends too.
Much love to you both❤
Thank you
In my home state. Great video my friend
Awesome video nice gold bar thanks for sharing sreetips
A complete video from finding gold to refining it using many different techniques in the span of an hour! If this is not vocational I don't know what is. Have you ever been interested in refining natural gold coming from claims or mines by any chance? (have to find the good people to team up with!)
Congratulations on 300k subscribers too!
I’ve done Alaskan placer gold, video is posted.
Never gets old! Thanks sreetips! Started recovering and refining some computer scrap. After a couple batches I'm trying to recycle the waste-copper-water on the next batch and just adding nitric to save on distilled water after filtering/recovering the foils. Foresee any problems with that?
I’ve never tried it, no experience.
@@sreetips It worked perfectly. Foils removed-recovered with nitric, water stayed copper blue, no gunky mess or problems. Also able to recycle the copper water to rinse foils off the boards. No more ugly waste treatment buckets!
I'm glad you included the "treasure hunt" portion of the process in your video. I always pass over the GF stuff when out treasure hunting because I didn't know that 3.5% of the weight was pure gold.
9 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 🤗
I can only hope that I enjoy life and hobbies like you and mrs sreetips one day. Wonderful change up to your already great videos.
Seeing the thumb alone has me grinning from ear to ear. Thank you Ma’am!👍👍👏👏
Welcome to Missouri Mr and Mrs Sreetips. Greetings from Springfield Mo. Hope you find some wonderful treasures!
Missouri was awesome!
One man's trash is another man's treasure, quite literally! It was amazing to watch scraps becoming a nice sized gold bar.
Is that a pocket spectrometer, Mrs. S is using? I didn't know they made them that small! Pretty Cool!
It’s a MIZAR diamond tester.
@sreetips I know that you save precious stones. Is there a market for them 🤔? I don't throw them out. I just don't have any way to determine what they actually are. What do you do with them?
An old Brother in our church, John Bohman, who was the owner of Bohman Technology, Lancaster Pa. Bohman Tech taught jemoulogy and tool and die and hourology, clock making. He was an extremely proficient jemoulogist.
He collected all types of stones. His evaluation with a loop was amazing! Probably, he was more accurate with his loop than any spectroanalysis. I still remember a prized Sapphire he had. Absolutely beautiful!
Where do you market any precious stones you find? How difficult is it to become proficient in evaluating the stones you recover? I find this remarkably fascinating!
Your constant fan, and friend,
Wade
I just put them in a bag and save them.
Sreetips, you guys are living your best life. God bless, you two!!
The slots😂😂😂 What a date! Love you guys! Hey y'all, never stop dating your spouse.
She does all the gambling. I usually sit with her and rub her feet on my lap while she spins the dials. The clean up lady came by once and said, “we need more husbands like you in this place.”
🙏❤🙏@@sreetips
Absolutely amazing. I love the golden color of the dissolved gold.
If the Ferrous Sulfate only precipitates the gold out then would it be possible to have used the nitric and aqua regia to dissolve everything in the beginning and then just precipitate out only the gold?
No, dirty solution and passivation would happen.
@@sreetips got it. Thanks
Absolutely stunning video. Mad props to going the extra steps. You truly are an inspiration🎉🎉🎉
Good morning! Good to see you both out on the job. I have a hard time finding CorningWare, at least reasonably priced. I found a couple small gold items at the Salvation army. A few more grams and I think I will try my hand at gold refining for the first time.
I find Corning ware frequently at yard sales (when I go with Mrs sreetips).
This is so interesting. Loved the added clips of scouting for gold. You and your wife have such a keen eye and much knowledge, it's really admirable.
I've been in a month-long rabbit hole of chemistry videos though I was never great at it in school. When I saw the boiling hydrochloric acid splashing your gold up, I thought how I just learned from NileRed about 'bumping' and how he adds broken glass for more nucleation points.
Would there be merit in doing that here, or was simply adding more HCl the ideal solution since you were cleaning up your precipitated gold?
Keep at it sreetips!
Adding glass would help
We love your videos.
Gooooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Goooood evening!
Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips.
So sweet both of you ar ❤
Very nice clip Sir🔥
God bless you🙏
@@Arne-ns2mw Hello Arne! Hope you and your family are doing well. Have a fantastic weekend my friend!
@@DavidDavis-fishing So kind you ar 🌺Thank you very much 🌺Have a lovely weekend ❤️
God bless you 🙂
Thanks Arne!
Awesome job! As usual 😊
Dear sreetips, since your previous few videos was around electrolytic cell I was wondering, for the waste solution coming out of the nitric boils(nitric acid full of copper and silver) why not directly perform an electrolytic refining using silver anodes to get the pure silver instead of cementing it first, rinsing it of the copper solution(which is a tiring process), melting it and then electrorefine the silver shot.
Because I don’t know how to do that, or even if it can be done. This is how I learned it from other refiners who have way more experience than I do.
@@sreetips I will surely look into if something like this can be done and will make sure to update you on the same.
Cleaning the residues off of silver is a pain in the butt to be honest.
Because this way other high value metals will cement out with the silver and remain in the anode basket as slime. If you directly perform that electrolytic refining, those high value metals will precipitate out with (or even before) the silver, thus contaminating it.
@@apveening well palladium is the only metal that goes into nitric acid all the rest are recovered from aqua regia.
@@2207amol So why is there always platinum, gold and other precious metals in the anode basket slime as evidenced by the reclamation of same when processed?
In the presence of palladium, platinum is slightly soluble in nitric acid like other PGMs. And gold is slightly soluble in nitric acid as well. Normally all of the above isn't enough to worry about when refining them but it is enough to get measurable contaminations when refining silver.
Congratulations on 300k 🎉
You two make a great team.
Got some nice ripples in that bar great job 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍🇺🇸
I loved the full circle video thank you😊
Your videos always amaze me. You really know what you are doing. Good job.
Thank you
Chemistry has always amazed me thank you Sreetips for the work you do...
Your wife has a gift. Love seeing you 2 together doing your thing!
Also, I love seeing the reversed engineered glassware... Corning started making good stuff after roswell. Interesting
One last thing... any Alexandrite you get, I will buy. Any beryl is great at slowing light, especially when doped with a certain amount of silica.
extract the mineral chrysoberyl, which is then processed together with Pr-doped Y2SiO5
extract the mineral chrysoberyl, which is then processed together with Pr-doped Y2SiO5
There is a third step that I do not have access to. This is open source yet scarce to find do to extreme censorship.
What was the catalyst that started you refining precious metals? I'm just curious.
I was selling scrap gold on eBay. I began to wonder what the buyers were doing with it. I began to look into refining myself. But there were no books, no publications, no periodicals, nothing. Then I stumbled on the goldrefiningforum.com and the rest is history. I made a short refining video and posted to my channel and forgot about it. A year later I did a search for “gold refining” and my video popped up. It had 92k views. I was flabbergasted. So I logged on to my channel and found that I had 1600 subscribers. I knew I’d struck digital gold, but only if I gave it away for free. Most refiners would rather take their refining secrets to the grave. I exploited this fact to have a successful UA-cam channel.
Mrs sreetips is a savvy gold purchaser. I am impressed ❤😂. You both enjoy it. Thankyou for showing the "hunt" lol😂
Well..... that looks exactly like my Flea Market! Go Figure? There is GOLD in them there Flea Markets!
footlocker bar,.,.Tkzz for sharing,.,.,.peace
Loved the picnic and casino scene. Can I come along one day on your travels?
Wow from clear to dark brown so fast
Have you ever thought of putting that last filter under a microscope. Just to see what might be there?
Excellent video
Good work 👍🏻
I've probably watched every video you've done, and this is your best one.
Thank you!
You two look like you have a blast together,
Omg I just woke up and it hit over $2600 . Geeez unreal 😊
Congrats on the 300k kadriver😊
Check this out: the value of the gold has NOT gone up. It only appears to have increased. What’s really happened is the value of the currency that’s used to price the gold (US Dollar) has declined in value by so much (due to currency printing) that it takes much more of it to buy the same amount of gold. Same is true with the price of your home, groceries, and other goods. Most people just dont understand this, nor do they take the time to study it. And that’s what enables them (the currency printers) to pull it off. Slowly folks will begin to realize that the currency is nearly worthless, and there will be a scramble to convert it (the paper currency) into real assets, including gold and silver. How do you think that they will be able to control the bond market to keep interest rates low with this new rate cut? They must buy their own bonds to keep the price from collapsing and interest rates from skyrocketing. How will they pay for these bonds? They’ll use printed paper currency. And that means more price rises due to inflation of the currency (more currency printing). And everything will appear to rise in value. But it’s really the currency losing value (due to currency printing). This will go on and on until finally the currency will be utterly worthless. It’s the only “tool” that they (the currency printers) have left. Gold (and silver) don’t change. They are stable. So which would I rather stack? Paper currency in my savings. Or real money, real wealth: gold and silver. It’s a no-brainer, but only if you understand what’s really happening.
Look how many words it took me to say all that. People lose interest, and blow it off. And that’s why they (the currency printers) are delighted.
@@sreetips you are absolutely right uncle sreetips . I’m glad people listen to you and I’m one of them.
"Not a good idea but I am gonna go ahead and do it." My kinda man.
Did you snag that Corning Ware in the consignment shop?
No, I’ve got too many pieces laying around.
Congrats on 300k Kevin 💪
Thank you
Have you ever refined placer gold. It would be interesting to compare the amount of purities in placer gold to what actually is produced after the refine process. Thank you Sir for these fascinating videos.
Yes
Beautiful job! You are a true MASTER! 👏👏👏
Thanks 4 Chemistry lessons bud 👍 dreaming high.
I’ve been waiting and wondering when you would post a new video…thank you !!
One question from a newbie if you wouldn’t mind indulging me; what is the significance or purpose to incinerate the material before dissolving it in AR? Theoretically, if I skipped this step because I do not have an burn oven, would it affect the yield by a lot?
Backstory: Inspired by watching you and reading hokes book and binging the GR forum and other pages related to refining, I started processing GF material as a hobby. Although I’ve never been able to achieve a 2.5% yield…in my most recent batch of GF material I started with 175g of GF material with an expected yield of 4.375g however when all was said and done I had a little over 2.5g of pure gold to show for the work.
Any advice or tips are always appreciated ❤ ps: THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME FIND MY PASSION!!!
Just finished watching the entire process…56:37 🎉
3.4% yield! Bravo Sir 🫡
Yields will suffer if you skip the incineration. Incineration converts troublesome compounds into insoluble material that can be easily filtered out. I don’t fully understand why it’s so important. But it just is. I remember doing a batch of 700 grams of GF when I first started. Expecting about 16 grams of pure gold. Only got 7 grams. I skipped the incineration step. That made a believer out of me. You can burn the gold mud and foils with a small propane torch, flame turned down low so you don’t blow it out of the dish, in a melt dish if you don’t have a furnace. Either way, DO NOT SKIP THE INCINERATION STEP OR ELSE YOUR YIELDS WILL SUFFER.
@@sreetips I have an old toaster oven in the garage somewhere that heats up to about 450 F - would this fit the bill?
Any tips or advice on how to by pass it’s temp sensor so it heats up more if that’s necessary?
Thank you again Mr Sreetips for your in depth videos and advice - you really are a a legend and I look forward to binging all your up coming content.
I by-passed the contact on the little breaker that opened to regulate the temp. I called my “Frankeoven” and it got up around 800 F.
@@sreetips we’re you able to recover the difference? I still have all the refining waste including the filter papers for every GF batch I’ve processed in the last year. Is it possible that the “lost” gold is sitting in my filters ? Or would it be in the refining waste waiting for me to cement out on copper…?
Thank you 🙏🏼
Great seeing how you find the jewelry. How about using Sodium Nitrate fetilizer to make the Nitric? Can that be done?
Yes, any nitrate can be used, along with sulfuric acid, to make nitric acid. Philip Bender (his UA-cam user name) has the best video on how to make nitric acid. But it’s cumbersome and a little dangerous. For these reasons, I just buy nitric. It’s available from any chemical supply.
Silly question. Is the ice you use distilled water or regular water? Thanks
Tap water
Do you use distilled water to make your ice cubes ?. sorry if you have answered this question before.
Very Nice Watch you are wearing by the way, I have several constellations myself. Im a watchmaker & can state that they are one of the finest usable watches ever made. a bit risky using it near all those chemicals I might add tho LoL !!
all the best from North Yorkshire England.
Tap water ice cubes. I love my “Connie” Mrs sreetips got it for me at an estate sale.