It's amazing how much Copper you can get from crushing and smelting down a small rock of Malachite ore. If anyone has a better way of doing it, please leave us a comment on how to do that. PLUS - all the Copper we smelted down today we will be giving away ....how do ya like them beans. Next, we will turn that Copper into Gold using the Philosophers stone ....stay tuned .
They say you learn something new everyday, and today I learnt all about copper. Loved it. Thank you so much Jeff. Years ago I can remember watching my dad melt down lead to make fishing weights. Always fascinated me. But, through dad's work trade, he ended up with severe lead poisoning! So, whenever he melted down lead, he had to drink a pint of full fat milk. This helped to neutralise the lead in his system. He's nearly 83 & having radiotherapy treatment (had 3rd dose today) but he does buy the fishing weights instead now!! Many thanks for all your hard work Jeff. Much appreciated. Take care.
I agree I have better pours and avoid fast cooling I also use a bigger mold it doesn’t have to be filled to the top a 5oz to 10oz molds are nice and they avoid spill over
To get a decent looking bar from metal, you should get your mold hot enough that it glows and keep it there until you are finished pouring, this allows the metal to stay liquid for longer so that bubbles rise up and out, and the liquid is able to level off. You'll still likely get some defects from the bar shriveling up in the cold, but it'll shine up very well.
I've seen other people also sprinkle some powdered graphite in their mold when they pour in their smelted metals. Does that make a significant difference?
@@dionh70 If you are using a steel mold or similar, it helps improve the finish and release of the metal, but if you use a graphite mold it's made of the stuff.
If anyone knows how to cast nice metal bars it will be the Australian guy from the bigstackD Casting YT channel. He made an art out of making metal bars from all sorts of scrap metal. He also shows how he does it, and how he gives the bars a nice finishing polish. I'm sure that if you watch his videos that you can learn from it. And besides that it is a joy to watch his videos.
I like it when Jeff pretends his a novice, he explains "see the mistake" I made, so, other words, don't go be a fart smeller and do this here at home kids, thermal shocking, water vaper creating bubbles in the cast. If anything, it's being in a hurry, having stage fright to perform in front of camera lences in a timeous fashion and not the fact that he does not know. OH he knows, OH the humanity...take 6...
I asked BigstackD to do a copper ore video a couple of years ago , as far as I know he still hasn’t done it . But I am more than happy to be corrected. Well done Jeff for doing it .
Many years ago, I visited a copper smelter in upper Michigan. They poured the copper into molds made of copper. Immediately after the mold was filled, the whole thing was sprayed with water. Shortly after, the ingots were solid enough to be dumped out of the mold into a pool of water. The ingots were quite nice looking, being only slightly discoloured. Possibly a mold of the same material resulted in the ingots being so nice,
Hi Mr. JEFF, (and Slim) Post bar making you can use tomato paste to clean copper. The acidity of 🍅 🍅 🍅 cleans the bottoms of my copper kitchen pans quite well. Worth a shot smart feller.
2 things for a good copper bar: 1: you gotta top it off with flux when you reheat it, and 2, then you reheat it in the mold [typically in a refractory/heat-treating type oven] and let it sit there at the melting point for 2 hours, then really slowly let it cool back to at least the freezing point before letting it completely cool outside of the kiln/oven.
Heating your molds up before pouring would help to get rid of any moisture in/on the molds. Steam generated from that moisture would cause bubbles on the surface. A tiny bit of water will expand into a large volume of steam.
@@darrenbrisson4336 If you have oxides on the mold surface and traces of other salts from previous use you have a potential to hydrate those salts with water molecules. This water is not just sitting on the surface but is actually locked tightly into the salt structure. The humidity in the surrounding air might be very low there but it is never zero. These salts can pull water directly right out of the air. That's how those silica gel packets work to bring down humidity. This " water of hydration " is so tightly bound in the salt structure it can only be freed with extremely high temperatures. Molten metals like copper are at a high enough temperature to explosively release the water as steam bubbles in the molten metal.
There's something you put in molten copper to keep it from absorbing nitrogen. Grant Thompson struggled with that. I know copper is more common and less valuable, but that color has got to be the prettiest and most unique in the periodic table. It all deserves to be cast into cool steampunk-looking machine parts or something.
The mineral itself is more beautiful, and in my opinion more valuable than the garbage piece of copper you get, besides all the process needed and cancer from the dust. Nice and informative video anyhow.
Crushing the ore qill be a faster/better reaction because crushing the ore will increase the surface area exposed to the chemicals/gases during the reaction in the furnace.
What up Jeffery Scott here Hey, that's awesome, beautiful stuff. Thank you for sharing that smelting fun. I'll tell ya what though, it looks freakin hot! Oh that's right, it wasn't hot at all, due to the cozy weather. Lol Hilarious!!🤣🙂
And thank you enough you are the man I like all your educational videos thank you thank you Jeff for taking the time to do that there's people out here that that really love that profession and are just learning and thank God it's through you good man
Eureka Yeee Haaa I think I will keep the course natural looking Copper nuggets Jeff.. Well done on sharing your process on converting natural copper oar to bars.. Have a wonderful weekend Jeff and Lila.. Cheers Tony Famo59 and Wendy 👍🥂⛏🤓
What a great video Jeff. Very interesting to see this and that great ripper shout out, at 58 seconds. And the extra funny stuff…. The ear guy and the “what’s that?” guy.. love watching.
Hey Jeff, that’s awesome, always loved smelting. If you get a chance, look up Steetips on UA-cam. This guy is a genius meticulous garage chemist. He shows precise brake down on gold and silver. I think a smart feller like you will enjoy it. Your copper should be 4.3 Oz
I just came across this video and I'm so glad..Bro you're f*ckin hilarious....I'm talking seriously entertaining..Can't wait to watch more of your content !!
If you take your pieces of pure gold/copper and put them into a bar mold and remelt them your bars will come out looking nice. You want to avoid pouring the molten metal. This allows the molten metal to use gravity to settle without any holes or imperfections in the mold.
You might also be to take the mold right after to pour the bar into it and put it back into the kiln or furnace. This way you wouldn’t have to wait as long for the gold to become molten again. And the liquid gold would still level its self off in the mold.
Thanks Jeff, I have a few good copper vain’s on one or two of my claims. I haven’t done anything yet the copper yet. Because I wasn’t sure how to smelt it out. So thanks again & please keep the videos coming.
Get a Propane Torch like a Bernzomatic TS8000 (Swirl flame version) and lay it flat flaming the mould from above while you get the crucible so it keeps the mould heated, and keep it going on the bar surface during and for 4-5 seconds after pouring. Slows the surface cooling of the bar. Same method to get smooth PGM bars
when we were purring molten chocolate in the mold we tap it so that the liquid gets settled all around and the air bubbles go away. dont know about copper but it works with choco 😁
First of all, Thanks for all your hard work and great videos. The most likely source for advice for cooking and pouring would be Jason. He uses a cone mold almost all the time. Large enough to hold all the stuff you are pouring. I've seen Dan Hurd, yourself, Brent Underwood and others pour bars with limited success. The one channel where I saw pretty good results pouring bars (silver) was Rob Finds Treasure. Robs copper bars look like bread also. I'd try Jason first. He helped Brent recently with lead and silver. Best wishes...oh yeah!!!
BigStackD is a channel where he smelts all kinds of recovered metals into ingots in his garage. His results vary, but he seems to use a variety of techniques while pouring, so his ingots vary as well.
Jeff I remember living in Havasu watching the GPAA channel. Begged my dad to take me. He never did! I’m 38 now, still want to go out and do it. Do you have personal classes? I would love to bring my son out. He loves watching you too!
Smashed the flux! Lol! Why did I find that very tongue in cheek? Or is it just my way of thinking 🤔?? 😂 Hope you're both keeping well over there my lovelies & not too hot 🥵 Stay safe.
Professor, I always recommend my friends to watch your videos. Completely professional. I think there was some gold in your copper metal. Is it so? Because when I melt malachite, there is gold in it.
I used to make my own bullets and fishing sinkers by pouring melted lead into molds. I found that heating up the molds before pouring in the lead makes the best quality sinkers and bullets. My lead furnace had a bottom spout to pour from to keep out all the slag from going into any of the molds. Hey Jeff, could you make me about a dozen one-ounce sinkers out of gold, I'd bet that they would catch fish like crazy?
@@danielninedorf5502 Hi Daniel, Eagle Claw years ago used to sell large 24K gold plated hooks to give as good luck pieces to pin on fishing hats. I still have a bunch of them in one of my old tackle boxes. I was always partial to gold hooks for use ice fishing and pan fishing. Thanks for bringing back those memories for me. I live in Florida now which means most of my ice fishing gear is about worthless.
Nice video bud I go up to copper country quite often... Aka the keweenaw peninsula of Michigan... Going to have to try some of the techniques you use in your videos
Addrock and bigstackd use cardboard under the crucible when firing copper to stop sticking must just be that ash that stops the sticking if you need to penny pinch 👌
Very satisfying video, some people use borax to melt copper so it can clean all that unpured copper out of it!! I'm new to your channel so far I'm loving all your videos, take care and God bless
Haha!! When the rooster crowed on your video, my rooster heard it outside and crowed back!! He is still going. LOL. I have a mess of copper ore to smelt that I got from the mines up in Michigan's UP. Looking for the best way to do it.
An enclosed mold would help make that copper bar look better. I think. Similar design to the ones they used when they made the ball for cap and ball rifles.
Hie jeff, love the apparent simplicity of you process. Whats the name of the flux and thinner you use and how much would you use per kg of oxide copper ore
Is it correct to fill the crucible with charcoal before melting the copper ore with a little iron, cover the crucible and heat it up? Or is it correct to add the copper ore to the iron pan and roast it before melting it? Advise
Smashed it hard. I’d try melting the 100% copper down and pour it in the same mold you were using. Also cardboard will keep your crucible from sticking. You should preheat to prevent steam explosions but you already knew that. Lol
Hi, Jeff I would get your mould nice and hot pour at 1200 degrees C and pour at least 1 pound of copper or about 1/2 a kg for perfect bars and should turn out perfect 👍 Thanks for sharing. PS I poured 5 bars just yesterday about 6 pounds each😃beautiful 👍
I've run this experiment before, but i convert the sulphate into carbonate. Adding metals to the sulphate to extract copper I feel like would add metal contamination requiring an extra purification step.
The first best thing I can tell you to get prettier bars is to heat up your molds. That iron sucks the heat right out of that molten copper and it freezes before it settles in the mold. It seemed you had the copper hot enough so I don't think it's that. When I say heat up, red hot isn't too hot, SON. 🤭 See you next time, Jeff! 🖖
It's amazing how much Copper you can get from crushing and smelting down a small rock of Malachite ore. If anyone has a better way of doing it, please leave us a comment on how to do that. PLUS - all the Copper we smelted down today we will be giving away ....how do ya like them beans. Next, we will turn that Copper into Gold using the Philosophers stone ....stay tuned .
THERE YOU GO BOSS!! LETS COPPER!!!!!
In a previous life I sold air pollution monitoring systems to a smelter in AZ. They have some of the scariest smokestacks I've ever been up! 🤠
@@motokenzo763 Intresting, I remember as a kid seeing active chimnies but not anymore! Thanks !!
I think if you heat up your molds the bars will come out better.
Could you use electrolysis to remove the copper
The "smart feller/fart smeller" got me subscribed. Educational content is a bonus
hahhahaha thanks for the Sub
Heat the mold red hot before and during the pouring, the shock of heat difference is minimal.
Try skimming some of the slag off before you pour.
They say you learn something new everyday, and today I learnt all about copper. Loved it. Thank you so much Jeff. Years ago I can remember watching my dad melt down lead to make fishing weights. Always fascinated me. But, through dad's work trade, he ended up with severe lead poisoning! So, whenever he melted down lead, he had to drink a pint of full fat milk. This helped to neutralise the lead in his system. He's nearly 83 & having radiotherapy treatment (had 3rd dose today) but he does buy the fishing weights instead now!! Many thanks for all your hard work Jeff. Much appreciated. Take care.
thats great Sue, you betcha and you too
Wtf is great bout what Sue said. You fw
Sreetips has a torch aimed into the mould as he pours the metal in it keeps it right up to temperature till the end of the pour.
Copper boils way faster than gold, sreetips melts gold or silver only.
I agree I have better pours and avoid fast cooling I also use a bigger mold it doesn’t have to be filled to the top a 5oz to 10oz molds are nice and they avoid spill over
not really I have been melting and don’t have problems
Hey Big boy! It's me Dave from Florida! I love the fact that you are doing videos again, anything you do is cool with me!
To get a decent looking bar from metal, you should get your mold hot enough that it glows and keep it there until you are finished pouring, this allows the metal to stay liquid for longer so that bubbles rise up and out, and the liquid is able to level off. You'll still likely get some defects from the bar shriveling up in the cold, but it'll shine up very well.
I've seen other people also sprinkle some powdered graphite in their mold when they pour in their smelted metals. Does that make a significant difference?
@@dionh70 If you are using a steel mold or similar, it helps improve the finish and release of the metal, but if you use a graphite mold it's made of the stuff.
The preheating technique is what Sreetips uses on his channel, he usually uses map gas or acetylene
And if you cool the bar slower the wrinkling will be less significant
If anyone knows how to cast nice metal bars it will be the Australian guy from the bigstackD Casting YT channel. He made an art out of making metal bars from all sorts of scrap metal. He also shows how he does it, and how he gives the bars a nice finishing polish. I'm sure that if you watch his videos that you can learn from it. And besides that it is a joy to watch his videos.
I agree 100%
I think it’s New Zealand…but Aussie still I guess…
I like it when Jeff pretends his a novice, he explains "see the mistake" I made, so, other words, don't go be a fart smeller and do this here at home kids, thermal shocking, water vaper creating bubbles in the cast. If anything, it's being in a hurry, having stage fright to perform in front of camera lences in a timeous fashion and not the fact that he does not know. OH he knows, OH the humanity...take 6...
Yup, he's good
I asked BigstackD to do a copper ore video a couple of years ago , as far as I know he still hasn’t done it . But I am more than happy to be corrected. Well done Jeff for doing it .
Many years ago, I visited a copper smelter in upper Michigan. They poured the copper into molds made of copper. Immediately after the mold was filled, the whole thing was sprayed with water. Shortly after, the ingots were solid enough to be dumped out of the mold into a pool of water. The ingots were quite nice looking, being only slightly discoloured. Possibly a mold of the same material resulted in the ingots being so nice,
All these years and you're still making great, entertaining videos :)
thanks
I used your Parkes process from a long time ago. It worked perfectly
Great to hear!
Everybody needs at least one dude like this in their lives
I love this guys energy!
Thank you for sharing brother God bless! 👍
thanks
Great to see Jeff up and about, don't care none, just the smelting of mental is enough to get my AU boiling.
Hi Mr. JEFF, (and Slim)
Post bar making you can use tomato paste to clean copper. The acidity of 🍅 🍅 🍅 cleans the bottoms of my copper kitchen pans quite well.
Worth a shot smart feller.
thanks
2 things for a good copper bar: 1: you gotta top it off with flux when you reheat it, and 2, then you reheat it in the mold [typically in a refractory/heat-treating type oven] and let it sit there at the melting point for 2 hours, then really slowly let it cool back to at least the freezing point before letting it completely cool outside of the kiln/oven.
thanks
You gotta eat the beans first! That’s the secret to a good pour! Thanks for the fun content and the knowledge!
I knew it ....thanks
Was working with copper all day and was wondering the smelting process. Loved the video and answered my questions!
Glad I could help!
Jeff,
All we can say is you are a scientific maniac. Enjoy. Sounds like a Master's dissertation. You are a crazy and extremely intelligent dude.
thanks
Grinding it up is the answer Jeff.
Heating your molds up before pouring would help to get rid of any moisture in/on the molds. Steam generated from that moisture would cause bubbles on the surface. A tiny bit of water will expand into a large volume of steam.
He's in the desert how much moisture in the mold can there be ?
@@darrenbrisson4336 If you have oxides on the mold surface and traces of other salts from previous use you have a potential to hydrate those salts with water molecules. This water is not just sitting on the surface but is actually locked tightly into the salt structure. The humidity in the surrounding air might be very low there but it is never zero. These salts can pull water directly right out of the air. That's how those silica gel packets work to bring down humidity. This " water of hydration " is so tightly bound in the salt structure it can only be freed with extremely high temperatures. Molten metals like copper are at a high enough temperature to explosively release the water as steam bubbles in the molten metal.
There's something you put in molten copper to keep it from absorbing nitrogen. Grant Thompson struggled with that. I know copper is more common and less valuable, but that color has got to be the prettiest and most unique in the periodic table. It all deserves to be cast into cool steampunk-looking machine parts or something.
The mineral itself is more beautiful, and in my opinion more valuable than the garbage piece of copper you get, besides all the process needed and cancer from the dust. Nice and informative video anyhow.
Crushing the ore qill be a faster/better reaction because crushing the ore will increase the surface area exposed to the chemicals/gases during the reaction in the furnace.
Thank you sir for showing us the way to smelt a copper.
you betcha
What up Jeffery
Scott here
Hey, that's awesome, beautiful stuff. Thank you for sharing that smelting fun.
I'll tell ya what though, it looks freakin hot!
Oh that's right, it wasn't hot at all, due to the cozy weather. Lol Hilarious!!🤣🙂
hahahahaha thanks
Great video! Can't wait for Jeff to make a video on how to make gunpowder out of sulfur rock and charcoal, hint, hint!
and Potassium Nitrate
@@Askjeffwilliams Yessirree! That stuff doesn't grow on trees!!😄
We had silver and copper mines here in my region in Slovakia - where mining ended around 1789-179x...
And thank you enough you are the man I like all your educational videos thank you thank you Jeff for taking the time to do that there's people out here that that really love that profession and are just learning and thank God it's through you good man
Powder!!! Let’s Goooooooo!!!
Eureka Yeee Haaa
I think I will keep the course natural looking Copper nuggets Jeff..
Well done on sharing your process on converting natural copper oar to bars..
Have a wonderful weekend Jeff and Lila..
Cheers Tony Famo59 and Wendy 👍🥂⛏🤓
Thanks 👍 Tony , you too my friend and heal up soon .....need to get you back in the gold fileds
@@Askjeffwilliams
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What a great video Jeff. Very interesting to see this and that great ripper shout out, at 58 seconds. And the extra funny stuff…. The ear guy and the “what’s that?” guy.. love watching.
Glad you enjoyed it Gary
This exciting and extremely cool! Thanks, now i know the ancient secrets of working with semi precious stones.
You can put cardboard under your crucible if you don't have bone ash. It forms a thin layer of ash. Cool!
So I'm back on the Patron list! Yeah!
Thats Great Ronald
You can also use a piece of cardboard under the crucible to keep it from sticking. (Tip courtesy of a BigstackD channel subscriber.)
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This is great. This guy is great and heck think i learned something! I gotta see what other videos this guy has!
Heat the mold before and while pouring. That way material doesn't start solidify immediately, when it hits cold mold. Flows much smoother.✌️😎
Hey Jeff, that’s awesome, always loved smelting. If you get a chance, look up Steetips on UA-cam. This guy is a genius meticulous garage chemist. He shows precise brake down on gold and silver. I think a smart feller like you will enjoy it. Your copper should be 4.3 Oz
Sreetips you mean? I agree 100% he has a great YT library of high purity refining tech. His bars beautiful.
@@matthewbarnes646 yes I spelled it correctly in the second comment. “Predictive text” 😁
I just came across this video and I'm so glad..Bro you're f*ckin hilarious....I'm talking seriously entertaining..Can't wait to watch more of your content !!
just keep them pants on ....we got more on the way
If you take your pieces of pure gold/copper and put them into a bar mold and remelt them your bars will come out looking nice. You want to avoid pouring the molten metal. This allows the molten metal to use gravity to settle without any holes or imperfections in the mold.
You might also be to take the mold right after to pour the bar into it and put it back into the kiln or furnace. This way you wouldn’t have to wait as long for the gold to become molten again. And the liquid gold would still level its self off in the mold.
thanks
Thanks Jeff, I have a few good copper vain’s on one or two of my claims. I haven’t done anything yet the copper yet. Because I wasn’t sure how to smelt it out. So thanks again & please keep the videos coming.
you betcha
I live in Nevada and I have alot of those rocks on my property. Thanks for the tip
You bet!
Cool! I recently collected a small pile of Malachite I may try this !
Thanks for your hard working friend Mr Jeff.keep up
You are very welcome
Thanks for all the education you've given me over the years bub
you betcha
Loved the whole process, Jeff. Very informative, couldn’t turn it off if we wanted to.
thanks you two
Very hot mold 👌with a bit of graphite or sawdust to eat the oxygen and stop sticking 👌
Get a Propane Torch like a Bernzomatic TS8000 (Swirl flame version) and lay it flat flaming the mould from above while you get the crucible so it keeps the mould heated, and keep it going on the bar surface during and for 4-5 seconds after pouring. Slows the surface cooling of the bar. Same method to get smooth PGM bars
I did just the opposite a while back. I turned copper into it's salts with different acids. Fun times!
That sound at 7:30 is so cool
Haven't seen you in over a year bless u jeff
thanks
I own a copper mining claim right in the northern copper belt of Namibia . I’m definitely going to research and try this
52.5 gms WOW TOO COOL! If and when I find precious metals, I’ll leave it to the professionals Jeff
Awesome Jeff!! I know where some is at! Thanks for sharing video, this'll is definitely being saved!! All the best to you and family!!
thanks ...there is a mine full of it called Copper World
Great video Jeff. i am in process of crushing the copper ore i got from the old mine then gonna smelt it.
when we were purring molten chocolate in the mold we tap it so that the liquid gets settled all around and the air bubbles go away. dont know about copper but it works with choco 😁
Another cool video JW! Have a great weekend!!
thanks and you too
Smelting is so much fun!
First of all, Thanks for all your hard work and great videos. The most likely source for advice for cooking and pouring would be Jason. He uses a cone mold almost all the time. Large enough to hold all the stuff you are pouring. I've seen Dan Hurd, yourself, Brent Underwood and others pour bars with limited success. The one channel where I saw pretty good results pouring bars (silver) was Rob Finds Treasure. Robs copper bars look like bread also. I'd try Jason first. He helped Brent recently with lead and silver. Best wishes...oh yeah!!!
BigStackD is a channel where he smelts all kinds of recovered metals into ingots in his garage. His results vary, but he seems to use a variety of techniques while pouring, so his ingots vary as well.
Lots of folks grind a polish to get a smoother or extreme smooth and shiny finish.
damn, that's some pretty green rock
I just found your channel! The videos are so interesting! Thank you so much!
You gotta have more subscribers!
Glad you like them! Thanks
Jeff I remember living in Havasu watching the GPAA channel. Begged my dad to take me. He never did! I’m 38 now, still want to go out and do it. Do you have personal classes? I would love to bring my son out. He loves watching you too!
yes we have 3 day Gold mining Tours that you guys will love
Jeff, you always make your videos Interesting, informative and fun!
I appreciate that!
Try smoking your mold first jeffuse the acyl. Side of your cutting torch to smoke your mold, it helps the metal flow into the corners easier
Thanks Jeff I have copper all around me I'm going to refer to this one when or if I start 👍🙏
Thank You for that Harles69 , we really appreciate it
Ok, that was just great. Thanks, Jeff.
Thank you for posting this video it was only the other day I was asking you about the blue Rock
and here it is
You gotta do some gold smelting next man!!!!
You are so funny! Awesome video to learn what smelting is 😊
Looked a bit of gold in the chunky ✨️ they heat up the molds
I can't wait to come out there & hunt for heavy elements.
Very interesting video Jeff we really liked this one, so we smashed the flux out of your like button!
Thanks so much
Smashed the flux! Lol! Why did I find that very tongue in cheek? Or is it just my way of thinking 🤔?? 😂 Hope you're both keeping well over there my lovelies & not too hot 🥵 Stay safe.
Nice can't wait to hear from you Jeff so come on let's go
here I am sonny Jim
Me likes that tiny oven. Great heater to cook the Bush's. Oh and a power goes quicker..................... Nope I was wrong.
Just the man I needed to see. Go Go Gadget information 😂
Another fantastic video .......goot job.
That was definitely cool. That hot stuff splashing is that from not heating up the molds. Be safe thank you for sharing ✌️ 🙏
that was from a little water in the pan
@@Askjeffwilliams thanks for letting me know.
Professor, I always recommend my friends to watch your videos. Completely professional. I think there was some gold in your copper metal. Is it so? Because when I melt malachite, there is gold in it.
thanks ....yes ....
I used to make my own bullets and fishing sinkers by pouring melted lead into molds. I found that heating up the molds before pouring in the lead makes the best quality sinkers and bullets. My lead furnace had a bottom spout to pour from to keep out all the slag from going into any of the molds. Hey Jeff, could you make me about a dozen one-ounce sinkers out of gold, I'd bet that they would catch fish like crazy?
hahaahahha you betcha
I will for sure watch the copper into gold episode! Electroplated copper is one way!
@@johnramirez5032 I don't miss an episode!!!!!
We used bare gold plated small hooks to catch alewives, smelt and small bait fish to catch salmon.
@@danielninedorf5502 Hi Daniel, Eagle Claw years ago used to sell large 24K gold plated hooks to give as good luck pieces to pin on fishing hats. I still have a bunch of them in one of my old tackle boxes. I was always partial to gold hooks for use ice fishing and pan fishing. Thanks for bringing back those memories for me. I live in Florida now which means most of my ice fishing gear is about worthless.
You need a deeper bar mold to produce the layering that happens in the cone mold.
Nice video bud I go up to copper country quite often... Aka the keweenaw peninsula of Michigan... Going to have to try some of the techniques you use in your videos
Addrock and bigstackd use cardboard under the crucible when firing copper to stop sticking must just be that ash that stops the sticking if you need to penny pinch 👌
exactly
Very satisfying video, some people use borax to melt copper so it can clean all that unpured copper out of it!! I'm new to your channel so far I'm loving all your videos, take care and God bless
thanks
The powdery sample will absorb quicker if you can keep it from balling up in the process.
thanks
Awesome video! !! !!! !! !!! ! ! ! ! !!! ! ! ! !!!
I love this kind of thing. More flux chemistry is more better!
Haha!! When the rooster crowed on your video, my rooster heard it outside and crowed back!! He is still going. LOL. I have a mess of copper ore to smelt that I got from the mines up in Michigan's UP. Looking for the best way to do it.
*Very interesting Jeff Williams 🙌👌☺️*
Yes,I smashed it 😃
Very cool. Great information my brain will forget
Glad to help
An enclosed mold would help make that copper bar look better. I think. Similar design to the ones they used when they made the ball for cap and ball rifles.
I’d assume you need to powder it? I have some of that I found in NV but it appears to have pyrite in it too. Would this process still work?
Hie jeff, love the apparent simplicity of you process. Whats the name of the flux and thinner you use and how much would you use per kg of oxide copper ore
using Chapman flux 1 to 1 ratio by volume
Is it correct to fill the crucible with charcoal before melting the copper ore with a little iron, cover the crucible and heat it up? Or is it correct to add the copper ore to the iron pan and roast it before melting it? Advise
you only need iron in the crucible for sulfides ....same for roasting
Smashed it hard. I’d try melting the 100% copper down and pour it in the same mold you were using. Also cardboard will keep your crucible from sticking. You should preheat to prevent steam explosions but you already knew that. Lol
Hi, Jeff I would get your mould nice and hot pour at 1200 degrees C and pour at least 1 pound of copper or about 1/2 a kg for perfect bars and should turn out perfect 👍
Thanks for sharing.
PS I poured 5 bars just yesterday about 6 pounds each😃beautiful 👍
Cool, thanks
I've run this experiment before, but i convert the sulphate into carbonate. Adding metals to the sulphate to extract copper I feel like would add metal contamination requiring an extra purification step.
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can you make a video about how we can get the right flux from natural deposits
The first best thing I can tell you to get prettier bars is to heat up your molds. That iron sucks the heat right out of that molten copper and it freezes before it settles in the mold. It seemed you had the copper hot enough so I don't think it's that.
When I say heat up, red hot isn't too hot, SON. 🤭
See you next time, Jeff! 🖖