if someone told me as a child that when I grew up I would spend hours watching videos of a guy refine precious metals I never would have believed them. Sreetips and the Hoof GP guy who trims cow hoves are my favorite channels to watch on youtube these days
If you look really carefully from about 17:00 onward it appears that there was a chunk of gold stuck to the outside of the crucible near the spout.. then when you poured it the heat melted it and it fell off when you set it back down.. at least that what it appears to be to me...
Very happy to see you recover the gold with no losses. You never know, one of these accidents may lead to a discovery of quadrupling your yield of gold 😊
Well unless he had a nuclear reactor to transmute the element of gold into lead then he was never going to lose anything. Elements do not disappear into thin air.
He never loses gold, it just gets left behind in his filters, poured out in his rinse jars and spilled onto tables. Ne never loses it! He Just temporarily misplaces it!
AWESOME I WAS ANTICIPATING THIS. I'VE LEFT A AQUAREGA SITTING FOR FOUR YEARS DUE TO BOTCHED SURGERY AND VACCINE INJURY. WONDERING WHAT I WILL DO WITH IT.
I'd like to know who when an how the heck did someone discover you could melt gold turn it in to dirty water then dry it out to dust like then back to solid gold . I mean who's going to say let's dissolve gold lol
It was incredible to see some of our questions demonstrated as a sorta "let's do it and see" experiment. Added a bunch of anticipation after the previous cliff hanger, and made for a special experience. I can't thank you enough for the creative treatment of these topics boss 😊
I knew it was still there. You can refine gold, you can melt gold, you can evaporate gold, but one thing you can't do is destroy gold. If you can destroy gold you can make gold.
Since the Mrs was pissed about the burnt gold, i hope you played a trick on her and showed her the little piece of gold and said because of "your" daughter this was all of the gold you was able to recover...then show her the bar later after she chewed out the daughter(maybe even let the daughter in on the joke as well beforehand).
Oh, I wish I’d have thought of that. That would have been a good gag. But I have pulled back from raising her stress level since we’ve entered our “golden years.”
a habit that I developed when cooking something that takes time is to set a time on my phone to remind me to go check the oven before caramelization becomes carbonization. interesting video tho,
the peroxide mix was much better a choice than my suggestion but yeah the gold wouldnt be lost in the overcooking so i figured it was just a matter of rerefining ... and it was
Not a chemistry major, but it seems to me that when you heated the gold solution to dry, you just removed water out of the equation. everything else was still there. Personally I would have started with distilled water, added some heat, and see what happened. You essentially did that, though more expensively, with the hydrochloric acid {HCL + H2O) and Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2 + H2O) I observed that it was starting to dissolve in HCL, but looked like it ran out of water to suspend it (I know it is technically acid, but it's the water that is keeping it suspended) Then you added H2O2, and viola, it all started to go. My theory is that the H2O2 was giving off the extra hydrogen atom into the atmosphere leaving nothing but pure water behind. Which leads me back to my original thesis.The gold was already broken down and bound to the nitrogen, hydrogen, and chlorine. all of which are water soluble. No need to make another aqua regea (sp?) it's all there minus the water. Would be cool, now that you know you can recover if you could test my hypothesis with say a button's worth or just try it next accident. I'm pretty sure I'm right and it'll save you like $30 in chemicals next time.
$100, and 1.5 pounds of piniõn pine nuts to refine my gold filled stuff?! Have about 300 grams. 100 grams are a couple of watches that probably dont have much. But, the other 200 grams should have some gold in it. Getting ready to start thrifting season again.
I thought he’d use the hydrochloric acid to rehydrate as he does when he boils down the solution to eliminate excess nitric. Then drip in some nitric to create aqua regia but I assume the peroxide is less reactive.
I stopped at 4:28. I As I said in the other video, you only need to rehydrate it. , and you would have percentage of metalic gold. That's what the yellow is. Like any other metalic solution if the concentration gets to high the metal will come back out as metal. Gold is no exception. As the solution begind to evaporate it must drop out some of the metal. You have some of the finnest gold known to man sitting in the bottom
Wasnt worried a bit! Had the faith in knowing youd pull it back from the brink. The Mrs can relax now.. 😂 BTW, excellent shot of the gold flowing from the dish on the pour!
I really enjoyed watching these two videos. This is what I call testing a positive control. The test being "Does sulfuric aclid really precipitate out lead contamination?" I think you answered this question. It would be nice, however, to get some elemental analysis of this sample of gold to verify you have not lead in it. You have a nice little chunk of gold that could be sent our for analysis.
What would happen if you took pure gold that needs to be refined and inquarted it with gold filled? Taking into account the ~3% gold from the gold filled
I’m ready for a filter paper recovery/refining. I was telling someone earlier this week that I’m a sucker for anything you do involving fire. Lol. I’m a firebug.
Another question if the answer is yes, then hopefully it'll be a challenge for a future video! Can you take the dehydrated gold & melt it to a bar? Maybe make a video using a small amount to show us. Reason I asked is it looked like dropped gold.
Little known fact... can add Sulfuric acid to your urine to tell if u r being poisoned... white is lead sulfate... black is chromium sulfate... dont ask me how i know....❤
Hello tohether. Sreetips would you explain why and how you make the math for the refining to reach the necessary % for the Gold to be able to refine it. I did not understand how and why this Math is made and what the math is for 18K Gold. Thank you very much.
When you are melting in the dish, is that second torch map gas or oxyacetelyne? Super cool looking bar, youtube community standards prevent me from saying what I saw there, but definately a small bust bar.
this video came up for me to watch but there was no sound but the first part was really cool but did not understand it to well would love for u to explain or do a video on it the next time you get pins Gold Recovery Using Salt | Recover Gold From Gold Plated Pins | Electrolysis Gold Recovery happy you was able to get your burnt gold back
now, i want to see pure Gold Chloride crystals that were created due to natural evaporation. also, a gold electrolitic cell experiment, perhaps? And thank You for the experiment with lead on the last video - my curiosity is satied, but new ideas arise XD
I just did the electrolytic gold cell a few months back. Used a titanium cathode. I’ll do another on evaporating to get those chloroauric acid crystals in a controlled evaporation. This one went too fast and got too hot.
Does it seem like using Hydrogen Peroxide is better than using Nitric Acid? To me, it seems like it's cost effective rather than from a purity standpoint. Just wanted to hear your opinion about it
i think it's easier and cheaper for the amateur/home chemist to produce their own nitric acid than it is for them to produce their own 29% hydrogen peroxide, if you're talking strictly in terms of purchasing chemicals then hydrogen peroxide is cheaper yeah
Would you say this is your biggest mistake to date? I often wondered if you’d ever lost gold down to knocking over a beaker or some other accident? A great set of videos, thanks for all you do.
I really enjoy watching you work thru a problem, you dont let it get to you. Just figure out how to continue and get her done. thanks another great video✌️
Most likely what happened is that part of the chloroauric acid crystallized out, and part decomposed to elemental gold and chlorine. Rehydrating and re-dissolving the elemental gold with H2O2 was exactly the right approach :)
Arkansas's middle section is folded and fractured. As the Caribbean plate was forced into and under it water boiled up through the cracks. Every time i see you dissolving and percipitating minerals i think of home. Today i was looking at 2 billion year old sea bed that had mercury sulfide forced up a thousand feet above the sea level. I cant help but compare it to the vents at Yellowstone. Thanks for the videos.
That's really cool to know. We moved to North central Arkansas last year, the Heber Springs area where my wife's mom is from. What area were you seeing the sea bed in?
@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 Northern Missouri was the South tip of rock in North America. The sea bed sloping away to the South. When small animals began they grew a huge coral reef where the sea was shallow with mud sloping deeper to where the gulf of Mexico is now. First Africa bumped into the East side so hard that it crushed the sea bed and folded it upward forming the Appalachian islands. It slid under the North American plate raising it upand folding where the Mississippi River now runs. Then South America came North. It smashed into the Caribbean and rode over it pushing it into North America and under it. Places where there were coral like Northern Arkansas and Florida had their reefs killed as they raised up out of the water but new coral grew in the warm shallow waters. In Arkansas it pushed up from Little Rock to Oklahoma a string of islands so fast that no coral grew. The Quachita Islands. The land fractured down like the Mississippi River did but this time East to West where the Arkansas River now runs.
Wow! That double eye pour surface is awesome. Looks like the bar is looking back at you. And I think that little straggler was the final drop from the pour as you lifted up. Thanks for another great video! You covered a lot of ground with this one.
I’ll bet shreetips is very accurate with his gut assaying but if an enterprising viewer or business has an XRF gun surplus to requirements please lend/give it to him so we can see who is superior experienced Man or machine. Local Aussie fossickers melt findings down in a hollowed out potato and get a about 85% gold and mostly silver on XRF test. Wobbels the mad Aussie
Gold found in nature is never pure gold. The big refiner I sometimes sell to shoots my gold with xrf to determine my pay out. Comes back three nines every time.
As far as I know they just throw it in with their next batch and re-refine it. That’s what I’d do, no matter what the analysis showed. It’s the only way to be absolutely sure.
I knew you'd have to use hydrochloric acid, what I didn't know was you'd have to add a little more h2o2 to get the more stubborn bits to re-dissolve, another fascinating video Kevin ty very much😊.
if someone told me as a child that when I grew up I would spend hours watching videos of a guy refine precious metals I never would have believed them. Sreetips and the Hoof GP guy who trims cow hoves are my favorite channels to watch on youtube these days
Hahah iknows right, getting the goldfever by watching this homecook mad scientist 🤣🤣❤️
Yep!
I like watching them both as we'll.
You could be watching something worse. At least those 2 channels are educational and entertaining.
Hoof gp.... is he the Irish or the Scottish guy?...
Good evening from Nottinghamshire UK. I hope everyone is happy and well.
Good evening
It's funny, you know, but every time I see the gold in the dish ready for melting, it always looks like you're about to feed the cat! 😂
I think it looks like my grand kids diaper….
@@jimalcott760haha me too😊
If you look really carefully from about 17:00 onward it appears that there was a chunk of gold stuck to the outside of the crucible near the spout.. then when you poured it the heat melted it and it fell off when you set it back down.. at least that what it appears to be to me...
I just watched it again and you're right. The gold piece was already stuck to the outside of the dish.
You re-dissolved it! I would have never guessed! ; ; Great video!
Awesome conclusion fantastic recovery thank you streets
Very happy to see you recover the gold with no losses. You never know, one of these accidents may lead to a discovery of quadrupling your yield of gold 😊
Well unless he had a nuclear reactor to transmute the element of gold into lead then he was never going to lose anything. Elements do not disappear into thin air.
He never loses gold, it just gets left behind in his filters, poured out in his rinse jars and spilled onto tables. Ne never loses it! He Just temporarily misplaces it!
I would be happy if it even registered on the karat scale. This is the only guy who can legitimately look at a gold bar and say it's not shiny enough!
You should trade mark your gold bars...i could spot them anywhere
AWESOME I WAS ANTICIPATING THIS.
I'VE LEFT A AQUAREGA SITTING FOR FOUR YEARS DUE TO BOTCHED SURGERY AND VACCINE INJURY.
WONDERING WHAT I WILL DO WITH IT.
Just re-dissolve, filter, precipitate and melt.
Another gorgeous ingot of gold
Looks like cocoa crispies mixed with egg. Lol… ouch.
@17:33 , is that drops of gold on the vraphite mold?
Yes, tiny balls of pure gold. I sweep em up and save them.
Congratulations on recovering the gold king! Nothing to it. How is Mrs. Sreetips?
She’s relived and happy.
@@sreetips that explains why my ears don't hurt anymore
I'd like to know who when an how the heck did someone discover you could melt gold turn it in to dirty water then dry it out to dust like then back to solid gold . I mean who's going to say let's dissolve gold lol
Wow that's turned out beautiful gold bar thanks for sharing sreetips
Sir is this burnt gold chloride also soluble in water
I’m not sure.
Nice save!
Omg thats gold abuse spilled some never in all my years lol
I wiped it up and added to my paper storage.
29 percent? I dont thinkyou can clean your ears with that.
I hope you grabbed the little gold globules that spattered on your graphite pour tray. I hope Mrs. Streetips forgave you. Ha.
I sweep the table regularly. Mrs sreetips was relieved when I put that bar in her hand.
😃
It was incredible to see some of our questions demonstrated as a sorta "let's do it and see" experiment. Added a bunch of anticipation after the previous cliff hanger, and made for a special experience. I can't thank you enough for the creative treatment of these topics boss 😊
I was really looking forward to this video
First 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 😊
I knew it was still there. You can refine gold, you can melt gold, you can evaporate gold, but one thing you can't do is destroy gold. If you can destroy gold you can make gold.
However, you can cause it to go up in smoke, literally. Beautiful purple smoke. While you cry over seeing your gold vaporize into thin air.
❤
Since the Mrs was pissed about the burnt gold, i hope you played a trick on her and showed her the little piece of gold and said because of "your" daughter this was all of the gold you was able to recover...then show her the bar later after she chewed out the daughter(maybe even let the daughter in on the joke as well beforehand).
Oh, I wish I’d have thought of that. That would have been a good gag. But I have pulled back from raising her stress level since we’ve entered our “golden years.”
a habit that I developed when cooking something that takes time is to set a time on my phone to remind me to go check the oven before caramelization becomes carbonization. interesting video tho,
Watching this is so relaxing keep up the good work ❤
the peroxide mix was much better a choice than my suggestion but yeah the gold wouldnt be lost in the overcooking so i figured it was just a matter of rerefining ... and it was
1st
First
Burnt your solution? Mr. White would not approve.
Good work Sreetips!
You got the gold back.
No microwave meatloaf for you tonight, no sir-ree.
It's a steak dinner and a well deserved back rub.
Not a chemistry major, but it seems to me that when you heated the gold solution to dry, you just removed water out of the equation. everything else was still there. Personally I would have started with distilled water, added some heat, and see what happened. You essentially did that, though more expensively, with the hydrochloric acid {HCL + H2O) and Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2 + H2O) I observed that it was starting to dissolve in HCL, but looked like it ran out of water to suspend it (I know it is technically acid, but it's the water that is keeping it suspended) Then you added H2O2, and viola, it all started to go. My theory is that the H2O2 was giving off the extra hydrogen atom into the atmosphere leaving nothing but pure water behind. Which leads me back to my original thesis.The gold was already broken down and bound to the nitrogen, hydrogen, and chlorine. all of which are water soluble. No need to make another aqua regea (sp?) it's all there minus the water. Would be cool, now that you know you can recover if you could test my hypothesis with say a button's worth or just try it next accident. I'm pretty sure I'm right and it'll save you like $30 in chemicals next time.
$100, and 1.5 pounds of piniõn pine nuts to refine my gold filled stuff?!
Have about 300 grams. 100 grams are a couple of watches that probably dont have much. But, the other 200 grams should have some gold in it. Getting ready to start thrifting season again.
You estimated 43.7 g and came out with 42.5 g
Wow!
Thanks for another fun video!
EDIT: my error correction is [43.7g]
Estimation was 43.7 g, check at 18:51
@@apveening ☹️🥺ahhh dang it. It's still a good estimation .
Thanks man ! 🙂
@@jimwednt1229 You're welcome.
@8:33 NEVER use that ice tray for personal consumption, it has traces of harsh acids from your gloves all up in it!
Correct. Good advice. I have a small refer used to make ice and keep certain chemicals cold. Dedicated and not used for foods.
Really enjoyed these last couple of videos. looking forward to the silver cell time-lapse. Thanks again Sreetips 👍
I thought he’d use the hydrochloric acid to rehydrate as he does when he boils down the solution to eliminate excess nitric. Then drip in some nitric to create aqua regia but I assume the peroxide is less reactive.
Peroxide ensures no nitroso compounds.
I stopped at 4:28. I As I said in the other video, you only need to rehydrate it. , and you would have percentage of metalic gold. That's what the yellow is. Like any other metalic solution if the concentration gets to high the metal will come back out as metal. Gold is no exception. As the solution begind to evaporate it must drop out some of the metal. You have some of the finnest gold known to man sitting in the bottom
Wasnt worried a bit! Had the faith in knowing youd pull it back from the brink. The Mrs can relax now.. 😂 BTW, excellent shot of the gold flowing from the dish on the pour!
Wonder what would have happened if you had gone straight to the melt dish vs rehydration and precipitation again 🤔
Probably be like trying to melt silver chloride. I know sodium chloride (table salt) will go molten and not burn.
Whooo boy - aqua regia and hydrogen peroxide! Turbo boost!!! Great work and video :)
Why not use a distiller to get the hcl back and stops bad fumes going everywhere
yes sir
i told you you have to make AR to recovery the burned Aucl2
AR best than hcl+h2o2
nice job
Would be cool to see you use frozen msb in ice cubes cool off the solution aswell as precipitation out the gold
That would be a cool experiment.
I really enjoyed watching these two videos. This is what I call testing a positive control. The test being "Does sulfuric aclid really precipitate out lead contamination?" I think you answered this question. It would be nice, however, to get some elemental analysis of this sample of gold to verify you have not lead in it. You have a nice little chunk of gold that could be sent our for analysis.
This! Bumping so sreetips would see it better
Nice recovery Sir. Looks like Mrs. Sreetips is going to let you sleep inside tonight. 😊
What would happen if you took pure gold that needs to be refined and inquarted it with gold filled? Taking into account the ~3% gold from the gold filled
I did it recently. Video posted maybe 6 or 8 months age. It didn’t do well. The gold crumbled to a powder during the nitric boils.
Thanks, I'll go watch it. Too bad it didn't work out too well.
Very interesting to see you recover that burned gold. 👍
Awsome video sreetips
Glad that worked out. Not more than Mrs Streetips! 😂
That will stop the Wife from Putting in the Dog House
Does it usually foam up like that when you add ice to it like that? That was odd no?
Edit: you noticed this too
That was very unusual. Thought it may be an excess of hydrogen peroxide.
@@sreetips ah, I see. 👍👍
I’m ready for a filter paper recovery/refining. I was telling someone earlier this week that I’m a sucker for anything you do involving fire. Lol. I’m a firebug.
Me too!
@sreetips i bet you know how to make a decent long island tea
Another question if the answer is yes, then hopefully it'll be a challenge for a future video!
Can you take the dehydrated gold & melt it to a bar?
Maybe make a video using a small amount to show us. Reason I asked is it looked like dropped gold.
Too risky. In that state it could vaporize and cause losses.
I think you can add aluminum and it turns red/ pink gold
Thanks for doing these experiments for our entertainment
Little known fact... can add Sulfuric acid to your urine to tell if u r being poisoned... white is lead sulfate... black is chromium sulfate... dont ask me how i know....❤
Forensics
Hello tohether. Sreetips would you explain why and how you make the math for the refining to reach the necessary % for the Gold to be able to refine it. I did not understand how and why this Math is made and what the math is for 18K Gold. Thank you very much.
Please see “how to calculate silver needed for inquartation” video posted on my channel.
When you are melting in the dish, is that second torch map gas or oxyacetelyne? Super cool looking bar, youtube community standards prevent me from saying what I saw there, but definately a small bust bar.
Map gas
Learn to extract gold from the stone, please.❤❤❤
this video came up for me to watch but there was no sound but the first part was really cool but did not understand it to well would love for u to explain or do a video on it the next time you get pins Gold Recovery Using Salt | Recover Gold From Gold Plated Pins | Electrolysis Gold Recovery happy you was able to get your burnt gold back
I used salt and vinegar to remove gold foils from trimmed circuit card fingers about 8 or 9 years ago. Thank you.
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sreetips gets roast beef
Dinner for the save
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now, i want to see pure Gold Chloride crystals that were created due to natural evaporation.
also, a gold electrolitic cell experiment, perhaps? And thank You for the experiment with lead on the last video - my curiosity is satied, but new ideas arise XD
I just did the electrolytic gold cell a few months back. Used a titanium cathode. I’ll do another on evaporating to get those chloroauric acid crystals in a controlled evaporation. This one went too fast and got too hot.
Mrs. Streetips came good then? not in the doghouse.
thank you sir, i enjoy watching your videos.
Hopefully Mrs. Sreetips has forgiven you, now that you saved the gold!
She did
Was the Purple stuff on top of the crust some PGMs ?
If so, you might have the beginnings of a thing right there !
I don’t think so. But there was some kind of contamination. SMB will bring down traces of PGMs with the gold, if present.
What is it that causes the hydrogen peroxide to put the gold chloride back into solution? Would the addition of more HCL done the same thing?
No, it has something to do with oxidation. But I’m not a chemist so I can’t give you the actual specifics.
Hey Mr Sreetips is it possible to dissolve and recover gold using sulphuric acid?
No
Is Mrs Sreetips making nice, after getting upset about the scorched solution?
Yes, I should have showed her that little piece and said, “that’s all I got.” But I didn’t think of it.
13:48 I can't believe how well that worked! 🤯 .
Slip that bar under the door, Sreetips, and maybe Mrs Sreetips will let you back into the house! 😂
I put it in her hand. She was happy.
Keeping a stash of dried chloroauric crystals is a nice stealthy method of storage. Great for when the G man comes knocking
The G man won’t know, unless you tell him.
Does it seem like using Hydrogen Peroxide is better than using Nitric Acid? To me, it seems like it's cost effective rather than from a purity standpoint. Just wanted to hear your opinion about it
i think it's easier and cheaper for the amateur/home chemist to produce their own nitric acid than it is for them to produce their own 29% hydrogen peroxide, if you're talking strictly in terms of purchasing chemicals then hydrogen peroxide is cheaper yeah
It’s cheaper and actually cleaner because no nitric present that must first be remove before precipitation. But it’s not as fast as nitric.
I had no doubt you'd find a "solution" to fix it.
A piece of gold walked into a silver bar. "AU, get outta here!"
Good one!
I HAD FAITH IN YOU.
BACK IN THE BIG BED I GUESS.
Would you say this is your biggest mistake to date? I often wondered if you’d ever lost gold down to knocking over a beaker or some other accident? A great set of videos, thanks for all you do.
No, I broke beaker full of PGMs once during my stock pot one video series. I think it was part 8 of the 16 part series.
Is the frostiness on the bar from the torch over the mold? Have you ever tried turning that off just before the pour?
No, and no
CHIEF way to not give up. It’s definitely not cause the wife’s POed. Lol 👍❤️🤙
I really enjoy watching you work thru a problem, you dont let it get to you. Just figure out how to continue and get her done. thanks another great video✌️
Mrs's streetips will be happy...............
Nice recovery :)
(pun intended)
I'm guessing Mrs Sreetips isn't furious anymore 😂😂😂
Correct. She was happy when I put that bar in her hand.
Not sleeping on the couch tonight! :D
Dear SREETIPS Why not use nitric acid instead of hydrogen peroxide to dissolve it?
Because I didn’t think of it.
@@sreetips thank you 😊
You got me at Frosting 🎂 !!!
Most likely what happened is that part of the chloroauric acid crystallized out, and part decomposed to elemental gold and chlorine. Rehydrating and re-dissolving the elemental gold with H2O2 was exactly the right approach :)
Know that golds pure... Who you foolin?
It was 24k, but not three nines.
Don't forget to put a date on your Stannous so you know when it expires
Did it
Arkansas's middle section is folded and fractured. As the Caribbean plate was forced into and under it water boiled up through the cracks. Every time i see you dissolving and percipitating minerals i think of home. Today i was looking at 2 billion year old sea bed that had mercury sulfide forced up a thousand feet above the sea level. I cant help but compare it to the vents at Yellowstone. Thanks for the videos.
Geology, mining, and refining are related.
That's really cool to know. We moved to North central Arkansas last year, the Heber Springs area where my wife's mom is from. What area were you seeing the sea bed in?
I’ve never seen that sea bad.
@chemistryofquestionablequa6252
Northern Missouri was the South tip of rock in North America. The sea bed sloping away to the South. When small animals began they grew a huge coral reef where the sea was shallow with mud sloping deeper to where the gulf of Mexico is now. First Africa bumped into the East side so hard that it crushed the sea bed and folded it upward forming the Appalachian islands. It slid under the North American plate raising it upand folding where the Mississippi River now runs. Then South America came North. It smashed into the Caribbean and rode over it pushing it into North America and under it. Places where there were coral like Northern Arkansas and Florida had their reefs killed as they raised up out of the water but new coral grew in the warm shallow waters. In Arkansas it pushed up from Little Rock to Oklahoma a string of islands so fast that no coral grew. The Quachita Islands. The land fractured down like the Mississippi River did but this time East to West where the Arkansas River now runs.
@@Michael-rg7mx that's really cool to know, I'll have to se if I can find anyplace near me where some of that is visible.
Isnt gold basically indestructible?
Yes, but it can vaporize into thin air it heated excessively.
All's well that ends well!
Wow! That double eye pour surface is awesome. Looks like the bar is looking back at you. And I think that little straggler was the final drop from the pour as you lifted up. Thanks for another great video! You covered a lot of ground with this one.
I’ll bet shreetips is very accurate with his gut assaying but if an enterprising viewer or business has an XRF gun surplus to requirements please lend/give it to him so we can see who is superior experienced Man or machine. Local Aussie fossickers melt findings down in a hollowed out potato and get a about 85% gold and mostly silver on XRF test. Wobbels the mad Aussie
Gold found in nature is never pure gold. The big refiner I sometimes sell to shoots my gold with xrf to determine my pay out. Comes back three nines every time.
@@sreetips Sort of figured so no need. Do they rerefine or do you get a bit of a premium for you work.
As far as I know they just throw it in with their next batch and re-refine it. That’s what I’d do, no matter what the analysis showed. It’s the only way to be absolutely sure.
I knew you'd have to use hydrochloric acid, what I didn't know was you'd have to add a little more h2o2 to get the more stubborn bits to re-dissolve, another fascinating video Kevin ty very much😊.