You may have been in a hurry on this one, Sreetips, but in my opinion it was one of the cleanest, most impressive refining you've ever posted. Truly wonderful stuff, sir!
I love when you post a late video, and to find out it's a large melt all the better. Your yield estimate was nearly perfect . Your Silver jar is full again so we got that to look forward to. Thank you ❤️
Video is well explained and put together out of all videos I’ve watched over last couple days yours I can clearly understand n doesn’t leave one guessing!!!
The chain of silver coming out with the tangle of other stuff on the end when you were inquarting gave me a vivid flashback of the magnet fishing game I had as a kid.
This has become the video channel i wait all week to watch. Can you do another video of scaring Mrs Sreetips that was incredibly funny. Love your work sir can't wait for the next video!
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. I take a break from washing the floor, and toilets... and halleluja.. a clip from the best gold refining on UA-cam 🎉. Whis everybody a great day,and God bless. Arne 🇳🇴
I just love watching u work on your experiments with gold it is amazing and beautiful plus it looks so good and listening to u expanding everything u have to do it's so calming your voice fantastic job. 😊
Wow that ended up being a beautiful bar of gold luv watching I'm saving all my scrap and what I find at estate sales I'm getting a nice little collection
@@nikolajwinther5955 Look at 26:17 - they are near perfectly circular and share the same centre point with different radii so concentric. That's why it looks just stunning. Agreed, the eccentricity of the outer ellipses are of course < 1 hence eccentric.
Failed at my first gold recovery of CPU's...lol. Looking for Gold Scrap on ebay to melt down next in my furnace! Just started this adventure! Thank you for the great vids! I uploaded some myself on my channel! Much love!
Recycle it, man the gold is still there. That's the beauty of chemistry. If you didn't incinerate the gold ,literally burned it away, it should be in the material you have left.
Dont buy the Ebay bars lol, they are a scam. Your failed cpu attempt is salvagable as long as u kept the acid. Check out the 'stock pot' series on this channel on how to cement out valuables from the acid waste.
@@osmia3561 I’ll check it out! Thanks! I have a Gallon of acid, with gold and silver contents. And about another gallon of gold flakes flaking off a Muriatic peroxide solution. Been frustrating at times but extremely cool!
all your experience is showing your professionalism is what makes you successful and I always learn something new with every refining process you make available to us you are a treasure for my own aspirations in gold refining and a I am so glad you take the time to share your knowledge with us...thanks sreetips
I JUST watched a video on UA-cam about using heavily salted water 💧 and a small electric current in a stone dish using a piece of lead attached on negative terminal and a piece of copper made into a small bowl with positive attached to it and the gold plating came off in like 15 seconds he processed a lot of gold 😋 very quickly with that homemade setup. BY THE WAY GREAT VIDEO SREETIPS. 👍🏻👍🏻
We are but a ripple in the pool of gold in this life!! That's a stunningly beautiful bar! Thanks for sharing your life an experience with us here!! ✌🏼💗😊👩🔬
Another great video, it still amazes me that you are able to mix the different carats and still get the gold out. Inquarting is the key but its still amazing. Thanks sreetips,stay safe✌️
I have got bags of mixed gold and silver jewelry from a couple of inheritances, and in the past, I dealt with a lot of computer and mobile phone scrap etc, so I think my next step is refining.
I was amazed that you only did a single refining to it with "aqua regia".. Unless you did a couple more off camera.. Nice Chunky Bar.. Thank you for sharing.. Always a delight to watch...
That was a quick $5200 in a very nice bar, Sr. That was a good job. You always do pours right with really hot metal and a really hot mold. I've seen other UA-camrs pour nice, hot metal into a mold that's either cold or they just put a torch on it before the pour. The bars or rounds end up junky because the metal starts to freeze before it has even settled fully in the mold. You never do that. That bar is gorgeous. The pour lines are amazing.
That's a very pretty piece of gold, and we could tell it was going to be good, you could see it before you even melted it, it was looking more gold and not quite so brown the way it usually is.
That’s what I’m talking about. Just wait until people realize that all their valuations are based on a mountain of debt. Then we won’t be able to find gold anywhere. When? Who knows? But it’s coming,
What a gorgeous pour on that lovely ingot! I thought it was going to overflow your mould for sure. You always add sulphuric acid to precipitate out lead, but I've never seen it precipitate out. Have you ever had it happen?
The chance of lead being in the scrap is very low because lead is not normally used in gold jewelry. The only way is if someone, who didn’t know any better, used lead solder to do a repair. Doesn’t matter, I add the sulfuric just in case. I’ve never seen lead precipitate either. But the sulfuric hurts nothing, costs almost nothing, and provides a big benefit. Lead, even in trace amounts, ruins the ductility and malleability of gold. Better to add it, even if the presence of lead is not suspected, rather than not add it and risk getting a trace of lead in the gold.
Hello, I find your videos fascinating; I am a subscriber and I watch them all. I have a question for you, if I may. Have you ever thought of refining gold by the Wohlwill process as some industrialists and jewelers do?
With those amounts of gold, it would be nice when you would dry it before melting. The collor change of the gold is just sooo mesmorising… Aspecialy when it’s this pure, like you always menage!! Cheers Jo-Z
I've been watching you for quite some time and was curious if you had any advice for someone who is interested in attempting a start in precious metals refining. Perhaps books you recommend or guiding someone to where you learned from.
Another excellent video, well done! I've seen your other various videos that show how you treat the waste solutions by cementing silver out on copper, and then cementing copper out on iron, but what happens after that? Can you melt the copper to pull silver out again? Where do the finished waste chemicals go once there's no further use for them?
The copper is highly contaminated with other metals after cementing out on iron. So it gets tossed. The iron solution gets dropped with sodium hydroxide. The solids (metal hydroxides) get filtered out, dried to a moist cake and disposed of. The caustic solution gets brought to pH7 with pH swimming pool decreaser and disposed of down the drain. Nothing toxic or acidic gets dumped into the waste stream,
Questions! 1. The nitric you saved from the boils: it's obviously been 'used up' a bit, but does it lose more potency when you store it for future use? Is there a way to tell? 2. I wondered why you don't use that nitric to make Aqua Regia, and I think it's because you can't be sure of the concentration, so it might slow the reaction, is that right?
1) The nitric is still able to dissolve silver. I can tell because of the red fumes it evolves when added to the silver in my silver jar. 2) that nitric will have some silver in it. I’m trying to remove the silver so it’s best to use fresh nitric to make the aqua regia.
Love your videos! I was wondering if I sent you some scrap gold made by gold computer scrap, what would it cost to have you refine it? Of course, you could make a video of doing so.
Still waiting for you to take a piece of the inquarted gold and put a pinch on it with some pliers/channel-locks/vice grips after dissolving out the silver and base metals with nitric boils. Super curious to see how it reacts to pressure after having 3/4 of a flake's mass removed by nitric.
Yeah, maybe just poke it with a glass stir rod to keep everything clean, I'd enjoy seeing if cracks into pieces or disintegrates or if it's more squishy
Love it buddy thank u for the lesson I'm interested in why to multiply the 24k by 3 I'm thinking from ur lessons to account for it mixing with the other gold... I get the karat stuff and that percentage but I was wondering how to figure for adding that 24k.... keep up the good work love the videos
Hello again ,thank you for your videos. I've a couple questions . First why are you using a cutting tip on your oxy acetylene torch. And not a rosebud tip or a big orifice welding tip .( I can't remember the numeric sizes) . Also why not a bigger beaker for more volume for solutions? Other than trying to keep from having a boil over .
So, after boil #2 there was a lot of nitric in the solution, would it be beneficial at that point to break up the gold and macerate it at all? Seems that the boils may be more effective (or maybe they weren’t needed) if it has better contact with the base metals and silver from gold mixtures. At the very least maybe that solution could also be recaptured for future boils to reduce expenses on the nitric acid purchases?
Breaking the gold up during nitric boils is not recommended. It causes the gold to form nano particles that suspend (or even worse colloidal gold) making separation of the silver solution difficult.
@@sreetips interesting. Didn’t know that but it’s good to know. What about recapturing some of that mixture for future nitric boils? Can you do that or is it too far gone by that point despite the vigorous reaction after pouring off the nitric boils from 2 and 3?
I know you have mentioned a book that you go to when it comes to precious metal mining and recovery. I think it was wrote in the 1930's I thought. I can't find the video awhile back you showed it or remember the name of the book. Any chance you know what book I'm trying to remember? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
And it looks so good I need to find out where to get the acids and powders and I'm pretty sure I could do that I wish I stay on science and chemistry that looks fun watching the chemicals and powders reacting to different metals breaking them down to liquid and they back solid pure bars definitely something I have to try
I noticed that u didnt use a board to drop the inquarted melted metal onto in the pot. Do u not do that anymore? If so, why not? What did u observe, that brought you to change that? Thanks for sharing. Aloha
You may have been in a hurry on this one, Sreetips, but in my opinion it was one of the cleanest, most impressive refining you've ever posted. Truly wonderful stuff, sir!
Yes
Beautiful bar! Don’t know why but watching the silver melt during the inquartation is always so satisfying.
I love when you post a late video, and to find out it's a large melt all the better. Your yield estimate was nearly perfect . Your Silver jar is full again so we got that to look forward to. Thank you ❤️
Beautiful job. Love how seamless the inquarting makes the process. That gold cleaned up really nicely
I havent been here in awhile and your mastery and confidence have increased dramatically. Another fine video sir, many thanks.
Video is well explained and put together out of all videos I’ve watched over last couple days yours I can clearly understand n doesn’t leave one guessing!!!
Just amazing!! No matter how many of your videos I watch the best part is when you add the SMB. The whole process is magical.
That's one beautiful chonky boy you made...been watching for years. So satisfying and soothing
This one was gorgeous. I love the bigger melts. Keep up the good work!
That precipitation was one of the best. I love your work, man
Always anxious to watch whatever you’re putting now! I’m picking up what you’re putting down!
I am so impressed by the yield results you get vs predicted. Thanks for a great video!!
The chain of silver coming out with the tangle of other stuff on the end when you were inquarting gave me a vivid flashback of the magnet fishing game I had as a kid.
Mighty nice looking bar for a single refining! Excellent work as always!
I really enjoy just watching and learning this process. Ty and keep up the good work!
Your videos are always fascinating to watch. Seeing and hearing every step in the process. Never stop making these videos, my friend! 💪🏻
Well played again sir! Excellent work and another great video
I can't express it enough but THANK YOU Shipmate. I've been refining for the last 3+ years because of your videos...
Nice!
This has become the video channel i wait all week to watch. Can you do another video of scaring Mrs Sreetips that was incredibly funny. Love your work sir can't wait for the next video!
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips.
I take a break from washing
the floor, and toilets... and halleluja.. a clip from the best gold refining on UA-cam 🎉. Whis everybody a great day,and God bless. Arne 🇳🇴
I never get tired of the hot nitric acid getting poured onto the silver making those beautiful orange fumes!!
I just love watching u work on your experiments with gold it is amazing and beautiful plus it looks so good and listening to u expanding everything u have to do it's so calming your voice fantastic job. 😊
Much agreed..
Wow that ended up being a beautiful bar of gold luv watching I'm saving all my scrap and what I find at estate sales I'm getting a nice little collection
You are wise to hang on to the gold and don’t trade it for declining paper dollars
For a single refining that's amazing. Those concentric pour lines are just stunning too. Well done!!
Eccentric, but yes.
@@nikolajwinther5955 Look at 26:17 - they are near perfectly circular and share the same centre point with different radii so concentric. That's why it looks just stunning. Agreed, the eccentricity of the outer ellipses are of course < 1 hence eccentric.
@@AndyGraceMedia I didn't even know that's where the word eccentric came from, every day is a school day! Lol
You’re welcome. You really dialled in to channel 24k with this one! Thank you Sir. 👍👍🤟
Not sure why but these types of videos are so relaxing and satisfying to watch
Great video. One of the most informative I have watched. You also have the creepiest voice I have ever heard. Congratulations!
Thank you! I had a terrible speech impediment as a child. Still working to overcome it.
@@sreetips what happens to the silver that you dump all the excess water in.
Failed at my first gold recovery of CPU's...lol. Looking for Gold Scrap on ebay to melt down next in my furnace! Just started this adventure! Thank you for the great vids! I uploaded some myself on my channel! Much love!
Recycle it, man the gold is still there. That's the beauty of chemistry.
If you didn't incinerate the gold ,literally burned it away, it should be in the material you have left.
Dont buy the Ebay bars lol, they are a scam. Your failed cpu attempt is salvagable as long as u kept the acid. Check out the 'stock pot' series on this channel on how to cement out valuables from the acid waste.
@@osmia3561 I’ll check it out! Thanks! I have a Gallon of acid, with gold and silver contents. And about another gallon of gold flakes flaking off a Muriatic peroxide solution. Been frustrating at times but extremely cool!
@@jimwednt1229 I’m gonna try! It can get frustrating! More attempts coming soon!
Those have gold, but the amount is tiny. Stannous tests are not optional. Get some and use it to verify gold in solution.
all your experience is showing your professionalism is what makes you successful and I always learn something new with every refining process you make available to us you are a treasure for my own aspirations in gold refining and a I am so glad you take the time to share your knowledge with us...thanks sreetips
I JUST watched a video on UA-cam about using heavily salted water 💧 and a small electric current in a stone dish using a piece of lead attached on negative terminal and a piece of copper made into a small bowl with positive attached to it and the gold plating came off in like 15 seconds he processed a lot of gold 😋 very quickly with that homemade setup.
BY THE WAY GREAT VIDEO SREETIPS. 👍🏻👍🏻
That is amazing - and continues to be amazing! Absolutely beautiful bar and excellent prediction on the yield. Outstanding video! 👍
Wow that was fascinating. Thank you for this.
i was hoping this was going to be a 10 Hour video :)
Agree😊. Have a nice day.
That was a beautiful pour. Well done sir.
*sreetips* Bravo well done, thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along. GOD Bless.
Holy smokes, I think that was your finest pour / bar yet. That bar looked PERFECT. A++++++ Sreetips!
We are but a ripple in the pool of gold in this life!!
That's a stunningly beautiful bar! Thanks for sharing your life an experience with us here!! ✌🏼💗😊👩🔬
Sreetips - this was one of your finest processes I've ever seen. So efficient, clean & your end product was truly beautiful. 87.5g of beauty.
Your best bar imo.
Cleanest ingot i've seen thus far!!!❤
I could watch this process again and again and again. You make this look easy even though it obviously isn't, I kinda wish this was my job lol
That bar bangin' 🔥🤟💯 sree!!!
Amazing work, your knowledge is shining.
Another great video, it still amazes me that you are able to mix the different carats and still get the gold out. Inquarting is the key but its still amazing. Thanks sreetips,stay safe✌️
Thank you
Beautiful the colour and look of gold. Always fun to watch.
I have got bags of mixed gold and silver jewelry from a couple of inheritances, and in the past, I dealt with a lot of computer and mobile phone scrap etc, so I think my next step is refining.
Good chemist. Love the lab notebook
Those ripples are SOO beautiful! I'm soo jelly! When will you be revealing the winning viewer that gets the bar??
😉
Dang, that’s your cleanest pour yet! Incredible.
Thanks, for another great clip.
I was amazed that you only did a single refining to it with "aqua regia".. Unless you did a couple more off camera.. Nice Chunky Bar..
Thank you for sharing.. Always a delight to watch...
No, that was once through the grinder. A second refining would have removed that little bit of surface discoloration.
New fan here. Love watching these videos, I find them so relaxing and interesting.
Welcome!
That was a quick $5200 in a very nice bar, Sr. That was a good job. You always do pours right with really hot metal and a really hot mold. I've seen other UA-camrs pour nice, hot metal into a mold that's either cold or they just put a torch on it before the pour. The bars or rounds end up junky because the metal starts to freeze before it has even settled fully in the mold. You never do that.
That bar is gorgeous. The pour lines are amazing.
Every now and then I lite the mold torch a little too late and the bar forms ugly.
@sreetips is there such thing as heating the mold too early ? Or is a general rule you go by for time ?
I begin heating the mold as I begin the melt and it seems to work fine. A graphite mold can be overheated and the graphite will become deteriorated.
Beautiful bar. Great video.
Hello sir, today it was some kind of elegant brute force... No messing arroud, let the acid o its job... precipitate, melt, DONE.
That may be the most perfect bar I have seen you pour yet! Nice!
Preheating the mold is key.
That's a very pretty piece of gold, and we could tell it was going to be good, you could see it before you even melted it, it was looking more gold and not quite so brown the way it usually is.
Ii couldn't sleep so I came here. Always awesome, thanks!
That was a beautiful bar of gold thanks for the video Sreetips.
You sure are pumping out the videos Sreetips. Awesome! Let’s get you to 1 Million Subs.
That’s what I’m talking about. Just wait until people realize that all their valuations are based on a mountain of debt. Then we won’t be able to find gold anywhere. When? Who knows? But it’s coming,
What a gorgeous pour on that lovely ingot! I thought it was going to overflow your mould for sure. You always add sulphuric acid to precipitate out lead, but I've never seen it precipitate out. Have you ever had it happen?
The chance of lead being in the scrap is very low because lead is not normally used in gold jewelry. The only way is if someone, who didn’t know any better, used lead solder to do a repair. Doesn’t matter, I add the sulfuric just in case. I’ve never seen lead precipitate either. But the sulfuric hurts nothing, costs almost nothing, and provides a big benefit. Lead, even in trace amounts, ruins the ductility and malleability of gold. Better to add it, even if the presence of lead is not suspected, rather than not add it and risk getting a trace of lead in the gold.
I liked watching the excess nitric react with that sterling silver after the second nitric boil.
Hello, I find your videos fascinating; I am a subscriber and I watch them all. I have a question for you, if I may. Have you ever thought of refining gold by the Wohlwill process as some industrialists and jewelers do?
Yes, I have a couple videos of it on my channel. Just type “wohlwill” into the search block on my channel.
You really have perfected the process now.
With those amounts of gold, it would be nice when you would dry it before melting. The collor change of the gold is just sooo mesmorising… Aspecialy when it’s this pure, like you always menage!! Cheers Jo-Z
I don't know about anyone else but I need a new Sreetips video. Thanks for sharing I really have enjoyed watching the episodes.
Taxes
@@sreetips I understand sir
Do you have to pay capital gains on the gold you refine?
Yes, even nickel.
I've been watching you for quite some time and was curious if you had any advice for someone who is interested in attempting a start in precious metals refining. Perhaps books you recommend or guiding someone to where you learned from.
I started on the goldrefiningforum.com my user name there is kadriver.
@@sreetips Awesome and thank you. Now let's see what I can get into. Thank you again.
Another excellent video, well done!
I've seen your other various videos that show how you treat the waste solutions by cementing silver out on copper, and then cementing copper out on iron, but what happens after that? Can you melt the copper to pull silver out again? Where do the finished waste chemicals go once there's no further use for them?
The copper is highly contaminated with other metals after cementing out on iron. So it gets tossed. The iron solution gets dropped with sodium hydroxide. The solids (metal hydroxides) get filtered out, dried to a moist cake and disposed of. The caustic solution gets brought to pH7 with pH swimming pool decreaser and disposed of down the drain. Nothing toxic or acidic gets dumped into the waste stream,
@@sreetips Thank you for taking the time to explain 👍
Magical work sreetips you are the master of refining gold
great evolve in you're melting methode professor now it's perfect :)
Questions! 1. The nitric you saved from the boils: it's obviously been 'used up' a bit, but does it lose more potency when you store it for future use? Is there a way to tell? 2. I wondered why you don't use that nitric to make Aqua Regia, and I think it's because you can't be sure of the concentration, so it might slow the reaction, is that right?
1) The nitric is still able to dissolve silver. I can tell because of the red fumes it evolves when added to the silver in my silver jar. 2) that nitric will have some silver in it. I’m trying to remove the silver so it’s best to use fresh nitric to make the aqua regia.
Love your videos! I was wondering if I sent you some scrap gold made by gold computer scrap, what would it cost to have you refine it? Of course, you could make a video of doing so.
Hello, unfortunately I only refine my own material. This is my hobby.
Really nice looking Pour!
Great job as always!!
Might be your best pour ever
Just like the other comments my friend you have knocked it out of the park again. Love your work Sir...😎👍
Really enjoy watching this process even though I’ve seen this process before still amazed by it
That was a perfect pour on that bar. Nice rounded beveled edges!
Getting the mold real hot is key to getting a good shape on the bar.
24:32 My favourite part! 🔥👈🤩👍✨
Great looking bar, frost notwithstanding. 👍
Awesome video sir...question for the silver jar, are you able to extract pure silver from the "mixed" eventually?
Yes
im watching your silver cell video now lol, thanks!
Look at all the bits of gold on the melt dish 🤤🤤🤤
Good job as always sir 👌
Still waiting for you to take a piece of the inquarted gold and put a pinch on it with some pliers/channel-locks/vice grips after dissolving out the silver and base metals with nitric boils. Super curious to see how it reacts to pressure after having 3/4 of a flake's mass removed by nitric.
Yeah, maybe just poke it with a glass stir rod to keep everything clean, I'd enjoy seeing if cracks into pieces or disintegrates or if it's more squishy
Hes done it before and it just squishes. Im willing to bet if he dries a piece out, it will crumble.
Pure gold powder can be cold-pressed into a solid bar of gold, but I’ve never tried it.
@@sreetips I'll suggest that over at the hydraulic press channel :D
@@sreetips Time for a collaboration vid with the hydraulic press channel, bet you'd see a crazy jump in subs. Would be fucking awesome!
Another awesome gold bar thanks for sharing sreetips
Man, this may be your prettiest bar to date!
i think thats the most beautiful bar u have poured yet.
Love it buddy thank u for the lesson I'm interested in why to multiply the 24k by 3 I'm thinking from ur lessons to account for it mixing with the other gold... I get the karat stuff and that percentage but I was wondering how to figure for adding that 24k.... keep up the good work love the videos
Three times the amount of Ag in the alloy reduces Au to o.25%.
A quarter.
Inquartation...
😉✌️
I want an alloy that is 1 part pure gold and three parts silver.
Hello again ,thank you for your videos. I've a couple questions . First why are you using a cutting tip on your oxy acetylene torch. And not a rosebud tip or a big orifice welding tip .( I can't remember the numeric sizes) . Also why not a bigger beaker for more volume for solutions? Other than trying to keep from having a boil over .
It’s how I learned it. It’s worked great for the last five or six hundred ounces of gold that I’ve refined over the last twelve years.
I might be wrong but i belive i read somewhere that the cutting tip or smaller flame creates a cleaner enviroment then a larger flame.✌️
So, after boil #2 there was a lot of nitric in the solution, would it be beneficial at that point to break up the gold and macerate it at all? Seems that the boils may be more effective (or maybe they weren’t needed) if it has better contact with the base metals and silver from gold mixtures.
At the very least maybe that solution could also be recaptured for future boils to reduce expenses on the nitric acid purchases?
Breaking the gold up during nitric boils is not recommended. It causes the gold to form nano particles that suspend (or even worse colloidal gold) making separation of the silver solution difficult.
@@sreetips interesting. Didn’t know that but it’s good to know. What about recapturing some of that mixture for future nitric boils? Can you do that or is it too far gone by that point despite the vigorous reaction after pouring off the nitric boils from 2 and 3?
I save the final nitric boil and I’ll use it to do the first nitric boil in my next batch.
that is the nicest looking ingot I've seen.
I think it is so cool to see that color change after that first spoonful of SMB 👍👍👍
Fantastic video 👌 thanks!
i always enjoy mr sreetips channel,rob
I know you have mentioned a book that you go to when it comes to precious metal mining and recovery. I think it was wrote in the 1930's I thought. I can't find the video awhile back you showed it or remember the name of the book. Any chance you know what book I'm trying to remember? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Refining Precious Metal Wastes by C.M. Hoke free PDF download all over the internet.
Very nice work. You know your system down
Would the process have gone quicker if you'd created more surface area in the inquarted gold by rolling it into a foil and cutting it into strips?
Yes, but that adds a lot more work. I’d rather let the chemicals do that work.
Great video. Have you ever used the electrolysis process for gold?
Yes
You make it look so easy and I want to try
And it looks so good I need to find out where to get the acids and powders and I'm pretty sure I could do that I wish I stay on science and chemistry that looks fun watching the chemicals and powders reacting to different metals breaking them down to liquid and they back solid pure bars definitely something I have to try
I noticed that u didnt use a board to drop the inquarted melted metal onto in the pot. Do u not do that anymore? If so, why not? What did u observe, that brought you to change that? Thanks for sharing. Aloha
It takes extra time to set it up