Thank you for a wonderful Christmas gift. While holding physical gold is great, the gold in solution, along with that beautiful orange color, is stunning. That with the knowledge that it can be concentrated is just crazy. Thanks for another great video. Hoping you're and Ms. Sreetips had a blessed Christmas. BSafe. BBlessed
Kevin - beautiful job! Time and patience = excellent outcome. I certainly appreciate your work and your willingness to share it with us. Its great entertainmemt for many.
I was really confused the first time I watched you do this it took me a little while to understand what the process but I really do like to learn about stuff like this very interesting..... And it is so cool to watch the dance it does when you precipitate the pure gold out and then the mud to beautiful pure gold when you melt it into a bar magical
And you do very well at explaining what your doin and what's goin on that helps a lot. This is the only gold refining channle I watch I've seen others but it's like Macys to dollar store this is such a great channle to learn from
You are welcome. There’s definitely SOMETHING about viewing an excellent production showcasing a superbly educational refining of this magnificent metal. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟🎉
Thank you for another great video. I love watching the process as well as seeing the final product. I hope you and your wife are enjoying the holiday's and wish you both a Happy New Year. Thanks again from Canada. 😎👍
Watching you lower the cutlery into the crucible is so cool, it Looks like the bowl is super deep...😀 I know, I know, it's just an optical illusion, but still.
Love how the time lapse of nitric boils shows the heating element expanding and contracting making the beaker move Lol... you said it shortly after my comment
I like how you can see the condensation being driven off the graphite mold, when you first turn the torch on. So very important to make sure there's no moisture when you are casting molten metal.
I think there is! Digging a big natural gold nugget out of the ground is bloody amazing. This year, I found a 47.77 gram and a 84.67 gram gold nugget both 98+% purity (zrf tested). Total of 234 grams for 4 months metal detecting
Another great post, thank you. Is the heat used during the Nitric boil simply to speed up the process? Would the reaction still occur at, say, room temperature but over many days or weeks? ie is the heat a catalyst?
Another great video! Thank you. I learned a lot with your videos in order to make one of my last videos (about the dissolved gold nobel medals). And it went well, I dissolved 10g and recovered 9,9! Just one question, why you did not add borax to the sponge gold at the melting? Thank you again
About 25 years ago, as part of a group of university students visiting a company making dental crowns, I got to hold a 10 kg gold bar in my hands. What a strange sensation that was, since I was holding enough value in my hands to buy an average starter-level house. (Inflation, gold price and housing prices 25 years later means that 10 kg today would actually get me quite a bit more of a house compared to back then.)
An acquaintance told me that his house had doubled in value over the last few years. I had to explain to him that it had not doubled in value, but rather, the currency (US dollar) has lost half its value, so that now it takes twice as much currency to buy the same amount of house. He looked at me like I had two heads. This is the baffling feature of creating currency out of thin air. People just don’t understand what’s happening. And that’s what enables them (the currency printers) to pull it off.
@@sreetips Here it is a bit of both: yes, year-over-year inflation increases the housing prices, but over here in the Netherlands there is also a serious housing crisis going on. So part of the increase is inflation, but another part is housing shortage. Because of the latter, housing prices have significantly out-paced inflation.
@@sreetips It's the name for exactly what you just described. In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy. Goods get more expensive and salaries rise, but a dollar loses some of its value each year. US$ 100 back in 1980 doesn't represent the same value as it does in 2024.
Very nice gold bar, mr Sreetips :) How abut showing us casting silver chess pieces? Have you thought about resuming this project? Happy New Year to you and your loved-ones !
I understand, but, one has to admit that creativity can bring its own rewards :) I'm sure you would enjoy it, even if you only manage to cast a single perfect chess piece (or something else ?) The French say: L'appétit vient en mangeant.... The desire for (more) food comes with the eating (or tasting)
You're spot on! 👍 The only thing that comes close is finding gold nuggets with a metal detector; the uniqueness and beauty of it in its natural state 😍 Beautiful video once again, thankyou 😋👍🇦🇺🍀⛏️
Can you be sure the measurement weights are correct when your scale shows low Battery? When my Digital multimeter has a low battery the voltage reading can be off as much as 3 or 4 volts. I assume your scale may have similar issues if you have a low battery in the scale.
Why do you boil the inquarted gold in dilute nitric acid, not in pure nitric acid? I am sure there is a good reason but I can't remember it being mentioned in any of the videos I've watched.
The water provides a medium for the metals to dissolve into. You could use just liquid dish soap, with no water, to clean your hands. It would work. But if you add some water then the liquid dish soap works much more efficiently.
Do you keep a tally on how much precious metal you have recovered? Not asking for a number just curious if you keep track. My nerd-ass would have to keep a spreadsheet. Great video!
the ancients powdered gold and ate it, it supposedly opened up their third eye .. yup, these hieroglyphs are all around in egypt, rah, the staph with the funky circle.. that's the third eye
Love your content, I understand the process, but it always breaks my heart when you melt down beautiful silverware... Any chance you could make your own sterling silver with silver cell and the refined waste?
I’ve never beheld pure gold in real life before, only karat gold. The feeling of that weighty bar in your hand must be spectacular; almost as good as knowing you own it! 😆
Sree I don't watch TV Ain't in 10 years Been on the search for truth since I seen them Giant tree stumps. I'm tell you Right now Above and Beyond all else. Yours iS the Best... Entertainment in this place. Gold is Truth Last
In a previous video you showed us two buckets filled with cement silver waiting to be processed through silver cells. Cannot you use that cement silver for inquartation? It would certainly be much cheaper than continuing to purchase sterling silver cutlery.
Not recommended for several reasons. 1) it’s already been cemented on copper. 2) PGMs tend to follow the silver and could build up in the cement silver causing problems in the silver cell.
Was this video made awhile back... the watch used during timelapse is in good condition. Recent videos the watch looks like it's been through hell and back 😂. Or did Santa get you a new timelapse watch. Great video Kev!
While watching, my wife complained to me that it looked really bad, so I cleaned it off to make her happy. She’s always trying to run my life and tell me what to do. When I complain to her about this, she simply reply’s: that’s marriage for ya!
A quick question: Why don't you use your sponge silver from your silver bucket to inquart the gold, and thus store your other sterling silver as forks and such?
Not recommended for several reasons. 1) it’s already been cemented on copper. 2) PGMs tend to follow the silver and could build up in the cement silver causing problems in the silver cell.
Questions. Pardon me if you've probably answered this before. Is there a reason to use sterling silver with its impurities rather than the .999 fine silver from your silver cells? Do the impurities play a role in easier inquartation? Thanks for your videos!
Hope you had a good Christmas. Would the process for scrap gold work also for unprocessed ore as well? I would give an example but refuse to cross-post another channel without prior permission.
"A little bit of scrap gold." Yield = 4ozt pure gold.
~ $11,000 later
You blow my mind! I always enjoy your videos, thank you!
Thank you for posting during the holidays. I just checked an hour ago and didn't see anything. So good to see your content again.
So glad to see the King of Inquartation back during Christmas.
Watched this process hundreds of times- it never gets old.
So glad your back Kevin. I continue to be absolutely mesmerized by your videos. It just never gets old!! Happy Festivus!
Looking forward to the feats of great strength!
As ever, Pure magical alchemy. Hope you and mrs sreetips had a great christmas.
Thank you for a wonderful Christmas gift. While holding physical gold is great, the gold in solution, along with that beautiful orange color, is stunning. That with the knowledge that it can be concentrated is just crazy.
Thanks for another great video.
Hoping you're and Ms. Sreetips had a blessed Christmas.
BSafe. BBlessed
Kevin - beautiful job! Time and patience = excellent outcome. I certainly appreciate your work and your willingness to share it with us. Its great entertainmemt for many.
Thanks
Wow, what a beautiful pour. I would have to rank this as one of the most flawless pours I think you’ve achieved, yet.
I think the key is to get that graphite mold real hot before pouring in the molten gold.
Agreed 👍🏻 Def a balancing act, learned through trial and error.
The legend has returned! Long live Sreetips! Hope you had a good festive break :D
I was really confused the first time I watched you do this it took me a little while to understand what the process but I really do like to learn about stuff like this very interesting..... And it is so cool to watch the dance it does when you precipitate the pure gold out and then the mud to beautiful pure gold when you melt it into a bar magical
Doing the precipitation never gets old for me.
And you do very well at explaining what your doin and what's goin on that helps a lot. This is the only gold refining channle I watch I've seen others but it's like Macys to dollar store this is such a great channle to learn from
Thank you! I try to be as thorough as possible.
You are welcome. There’s definitely SOMETHING about viewing an excellent production showcasing a superbly educational refining of this magnificent metal. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟🎉
Thank you!
Great work. You do a lot of interesting stuff but these are my favorite to watch.
Outstanding! Slick trick with the spray bottle to capture the few grains stuck at the pour end of the dry beaker!
Thank you for another great video. I love watching the process as well as seeing the final product. I hope you and your wife are enjoying the holiday's and wish you both a Happy New Year. Thanks again from Canada. 😎👍
I NEVER get tired of watching this process!
I agree, holding pure gold feels great and it looks great. Very nice
Hope you and mrs sreetips had a wonderful xmas and thanks for the vid steetips.
Thank you for the reminder. Ages ago I did watch the why and the numbers for adding silver but if you had asked me I couldnt have told you.
It’s all basic arithmetic
Happy Holidays sreetips! I hope the new year brings you piles of gold and silver!
Your such a great teacher, I have really enjoyed your years worth of shows. God bless you and your family.
Thank you!
Thank you very much, and Happy Holidays to you and your family. Beautiful bar, just before the New Year, see you then Sir!
Same to you
Watching you lower the cutlery into the crucible is so cool, it Looks like the bowl is super deep...😀 I know, I know, it's just an optical illusion, but still.
Thank you again Kevin! Nicely done 🎉🎉
Just what I needed to calm my nerves after a hectic holiday! Nice bar!
God bless you 🙏
Better $$ than silver, worth so much more great job .Again
Nice, at 17:00, check out what looks to be fire on the bottom of the beaker when you add the smb, I get this same illusion in reverse electroplating
SREETIPS is back. Happy holidays Chief from Florida😊
Thanks, Happy Holidays to you too!
Great video, you have the process nailed down nicely. ❤
That bar is beautiful what a perfect pour 👍
Another beautiful bar. A joyous newyears to you and mrs sreetips
Same to you!
Love how the time lapse of nitric boils shows the heating element expanding and contracting making the beaker move
Lol... you said it shortly after my comment
I like how you can see the condensation being driven off the graphite mold, when you first turn the torch on. So very important to make sure there's no moisture when you are casting molten metal.
Exactly how gullom from the Lord of the rings felt.
My precious.
I think there is!
Digging a big natural gold nugget out of the ground is bloody amazing.
This year, I found a 47.77 gram and a 84.67 gram gold nugget both 98+% purity (zrf tested). Total of 234 grams for 4 months metal detecting
That’s amazing. Congratulations. All the gold we find is already above ground.
Congratulations buddy🎀
Alright… Professor Sreetips is back from the Holidays.
Ahhh a holiday video, gotta love that. Hope you, the better half and the rest of your family are having an amazing holiday season!
Another great post, thank you. Is the heat used during the Nitric boil simply to speed up the process? Would the reaction still occur at, say, room temperature but over many days or weeks? ie is the heat a catalyst?
I’ve never tried cold acid. Heat is essential. It makes the acid work faster.
Beautiful bar as always merry Christmas
Love your videos hope u had a merry Christmas and a Happy New year to come .😊
Thank you! You too!
I have "Sreetips here, today I'm doing a precious metals recovery series of the cardboard and woodblock in the fumehood" on my 2025 BINGO card.
Another great video!
Thank you. I learned a lot with your videos in order to make one of my last videos (about the dissolved gold nobel medals). And it went well, I dissolved 10g and recovered 9,9!
Just one question, why you did not add borax to the sponge gold at the melting? Thank you again
Didn’t need it.
Ahh been missing some sreetips t.v., hope yours and the mrs.sreetips holiday was well
About 25 years ago, as part of a group of university students visiting a company making dental crowns, I got to hold a 10 kg gold bar in my hands. What a strange sensation that was, since I was holding enough value in my hands to buy an average starter-level house.
(Inflation, gold price and housing prices 25 years later means that 10 kg today would actually get me quite a bit more of a house compared to back then.)
An acquaintance told me that his house had doubled in value over the last few years. I had to explain to him that it had not doubled in value, but rather, the currency (US dollar) has lost half its value, so that now it takes twice as much currency to buy the same amount of house. He looked at me like I had two heads. This is the baffling feature of creating currency out of thin air. People just don’t understand what’s happening. And that’s what enables them (the currency printers) to pull it off.
@@sreetips Here it is a bit of both: yes, year-over-year inflation increases the housing prices, but over here in the Netherlands there is also a serious housing crisis going on. So part of the increase is inflation, but another part is housing shortage. Because of the latter, housing prices have significantly out-paced inflation.
What is inflation?
@@sreetips It's the name for exactly what you just described.
In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy. Goods get more expensive and salaries rise, but a dollar loses some of its value each year.
US$ 100 back in 1980 doesn't represent the same value as it does in 2024.
Ok, thank you.
I was watching a guy poor bar last night and he was tapping the side of the mold. It turned out pretty damn smooth.
A happy holidays to you Mr and Mrs Sreetips and a safe and prosperous new year...🎉🎉😊
Thank you! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you as well!
hey sreetips, i hear you're the king of inquartation now!?😎 big time, dude!!
Very nice gold bar, mr Sreetips :) How abut showing us casting silver chess pieces? Have you thought about resuming this project?
Happy New Year to you and your loved-ones !
One of my viewers beat me to it. I’d still like to try it. But the older I get, the less exciting starting new projects becomes.
I understand, but, one has to admit that creativity can bring its own rewards :) I'm sure you would enjoy it, even if you only manage to cast a single perfect chess piece (or something else ?)
The French say: L'appétit vient en mangeant.... The desire for (more) food comes with the eating (or tasting)
You're spot on! 👍 The only thing that comes close is finding gold nuggets with a metal detector; the uniqueness and beauty of it in its natural state 😍
Beautiful video once again, thankyou 😋👍🇦🇺🍀⛏️
Happy holidays sreetips!
You know I've always wanted to try doing the opposite and bring the gold content over 75% and do a refining
Can you be sure the measurement weights are correct when your scale shows low Battery? When my Digital multimeter has a low battery the voltage reading can be off as much as 3 or 4 volts. I assume your scale may have similar issues if you have a low battery in the scale.
Yes, I have a standard test weight that I can use to check the scale accuracy.
Best channel on UA-cam 💯❣️
Thank you!
❤
Yay a gold refining vid! 🤩👍✨
Can do do a segment on the chemicals you use? Also where to buy and the cost etc. Enjoy the videos.
Most come from Ace Hardware. Nitric is available at any chemical supply.
Really nice looking bar .
I wish you and Miss Sreetips, in advance, the best for the new year.
Best Regards.
Sylvain
Thank you, same to you
@@sreetips Thank you.
That is one pretty bar of gold.
Why do you boil the inquarted gold in dilute nitric acid, not in pure nitric acid? I am sure there is a good reason but I can't remember it being mentioned in any of the videos I've watched.
The water provides a medium for the metals to dissolve into. You could use just liquid dish soap, with no water, to clean your hands. It would work. But if you add some water then the liquid dish soap works much more efficiently.
aaaaaand he's back!
Keep up the good work streetips 👍
Do you keep a tally on how much precious metal you have recovered? Not asking for a number just curious if you keep track. My nerd-ass would have to keep a spreadsheet. Great video!
I have my notebook with all the refinings that I’ve ever done over the last decade and a half. But I’ve never gone back and tallied it up.
the ancients powdered gold and ate it, it supposedly opened up their third eye .. yup, these hieroglyphs are all around in egypt, rah, the staph with the funky circle.. that's the third eye
Eating gold doesn’t hurt humans
Precipitation never gets old. So cool! Hope you and the misses had a wonderful xmas and have a safe and stellar New Year's. 🤙🏻🖤
Thank you, we had a great Christmas! Same to you!
R u using distilled water ice or tap water ice?
Tap water
Hopefully you and yours had a great Christmas sir. This has been a very enjoyable video with awesome content six stars sir and have a happy new year
Merry Christmas!
Gooooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Hello David. Hope that you having some relaxing days my friend 🎀
I will wish you a happy new year 🎈God bless you buddy
@Arne-ns2mw Hello Arne! Hope your having a wonderful holiday season my friend!
Goooood evening!
@@DavidDavis-yep Thank you David my friend ❤️
I still don't know why you dilute the nitric acid does it do the same as if it were just strait acid kinda like a little dab will do ya
Think of using just liquid dish soap with no water to wash your hands. It would work, but if you add some water it works much more efficiently.
Love your content, I understand the process, but it always breaks my heart when you melt down beautiful silverware...
Any chance you could make your own sterling silver with silver cell and the refined waste?
I could but that’s like taking a big step backwards. The silver has already been through the silver cell.
👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 🤗
Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips.Thank you for a Christmas clip for us🎀
God bless you and a happy new year🎈❤️🎈
Same to you Arne!
@sreetips Thank you Sir🎈
Happy holidays Mr n Mrs sreetips hope yall have a great holiday and happy new year
Same to you
Good to see your video sir.
Thanks man, love this stuff. Would love to know what more or less the face value is of all the karat gold you put in the crucible.
That's a beautiful bar of gold
Hi Sreetips,
Merry Christmas / Happy Hanukkah / Happy Holidays & Happy New Year to you and yours.
Thanks, same to you!
Really nice one Sir! 👊
Another Great Video
Good work team
That was a really good estimate on the final weight.
Pretty close
Love your content my guy keep up the good work
Every move is perfect, the master has accomplished it.
I’ve never beheld pure gold in real life before, only karat gold. The feeling of that weighty bar in your hand must be spectacular; almost as good as knowing you own it! 😆
Most people don’t get to see or hold pure gold.
Sree
I don't watch TV
Ain't in 10 years
Been on the search for truth since I seen them Giant tree stumps.
I'm tell you Right now Above and Beyond all else.
Yours iS the Best...
Entertainment in this place.
Gold is Truth
Last
Thank you!
Beautiful Pour Very Smooth!!!; )
Awesome video thank you 😊 Merry Christmas my friends
Stellar Bar, beautiful
In a previous video you showed us two buckets filled with cement silver waiting to be processed through silver cells. Cannot you use that cement silver for inquartation? It would certainly be much cheaper than continuing to purchase sterling silver cutlery.
Not recommended for several reasons. 1) it’s already been cemented on copper. 2) PGMs tend to follow the silver and could build up in the cement silver causing problems in the silver cell.
New nitric acid process? Does it use less acid than the 6-7 boils you were doing? Happy Holidays!!
I didn’t notice a big difference
Was this video made awhile back... the watch used during timelapse is in good condition. Recent videos the watch looks like it's been through hell and back 😂. Or did Santa get you a new timelapse watch. Great video Kev!
While watching, my wife complained to me that it looked really bad, so I cleaned it off to make her happy. She’s always trying to run my life and tell me what to do. When I complain to her about this, she simply reply’s: that’s marriage for ya!
@sreetips 🤣
Good job
A quick question: Why don't you use your sponge silver from your silver bucket to inquart the gold, and thus store your other sterling silver as forks and such?
Not recommended for several reasons. 1) it’s already been cemented on copper. 2) PGMs tend to follow the silver and could build up in the cement silver causing problems in the silver cell.
@@sreetips Thanks for answering! Merry Christmas!
Questions. Pardon me if you've probably answered this before. Is there a reason to use sterling silver with its impurities rather than the .999 fine silver from your silver cells? Do the impurities play a role in easier inquartation? Thanks for your videos!
Pure silver had already been through the silver cell.
Be like taking a step backward.
great bar this one
10 10 spoons full AH AH AH!
that's weird, i've never seen the inquarted gold end up as big flat leafs like that, i wonder what happened there
It stays molten and sticks together even under water.
@@sreetipswhat happened to the block of wood under running water?
Too lazy to set it up. And as you can see, the big flat leaves worked just fine.
We miss your videos ❤
Have a happy holidays sreetips
Hope you had a good Christmas. Would the process for scrap gold work also for unprocessed ore as well? I would give an example but refuse to cross-post another channel without prior permission.