The way your brain is able to multitask so efficiently is fascinating. It reminds me of someone on a unicycle, juggling random objects being thrown at him, while maintaining a responsive conversation with someone, and explaining everything going on around him at once… and not messing up.
I learned that back when I used to fly. During instrument approaches I had to fly the airplane, constantly scan the instruments, read charts, and talk to the approach controller - all at the same time.
Nobody wants to steal his precious gold he's worked so arduously over. Thus, he has to write his name over all of his non-essential items that can be purchased at Walmart dirt cheap. HIncluding his wife's pussy.
Yes quite ridiculous! Though I prefer current styling. Also has their pricing gone up in past year? ua-cam.com/video/6NJBBPMG9O8/v-deo.htmlm50s (pause) Seeing that plus 2-4 grand more on website now? www.toyota.com.au/main/rav4/prices
I had to watch this one again too!!! This was an intriguing video to watch and study!! Since it was the 2nd time watching, without missing a second! I was able to study it more than the 1st time!!! I was in trance the 1st time I watched ;) !!! Have a GREAT Day, Sreetips!!!
Please do yourself a favor and watch this at 2x speed. You can still understand everything, but you don't feel like you need to take an intermission break.
Watching in 1.5x is funny because it seems he rushes everything. The mistakes are highlighted like when a ring drops out of the melt dish in the beginning. Also it makes it seem like he's extra excited about the math. Lol
Fantastic my friend. You are an inspiration to me. Retired lab rat, now I do yard / estate sales, when I have a ton of plate, .925, ..... My old skills will be used with your instruction as a guide. I have been watching for a while now. I look forward to your videos.
i would love to see a video of you conducting a masterclass with a group of amateur refiners and seeing how well they did , i'm also interested in a vid of you reclaiming the silver and palladium. the chemistry fascinates me.
@@Shad0wBoxxer thanks, more dangeroius than pouring muriatic acid? wow. explosive dangerous? As I watched, I though about how he could make that hood safer, with a blast shield and pouring channels.
Make sure you use 30 percent peroxide. The reaction will give you water vapor and no brown nitrous fumes because you have solubilized the nitrous oxides as prompt oxides of nitrogen with the peroxide now you have close to 98 percent efficiency. Less corrosion of your hood and better reaction kinetics
Since nitric acid isn't cheap, that brown nitrogen dioxide gas we see is money going right out the fume hood exhaust. I'm not sure if it's cost effective or not, but you can bubble the nitrogen dioxide gas through concentrated hydrogen peroxide to reform nitric acid. The acid will be relatively pure, but you will likely have to distill the acid to bring it back up to azeotropic strength. Concentrated peroxide isn't cheap, but it may be worth a cost analysis. As you probably know, that exhaust NO2 just ends up acidifying outdoor precipitation.
The cost comes from scarcity. Refining is generally difficult, no matter what substances. Yet, they have managed to optimize and automate the processes so that the refined substances cost nearly nothing. Not so with gold. It's just a scarce element.
Dude, that was dope. I did some math here. Today (April 24th 2019), you had a total of U$ 5960 in 10K and 14K gold. After the refining, you got a amount of gold worth U$ 11185. That is a U$ 5225 gain just by purifying the gold, if what you say about the final bar being a 24K gold. If you recover all the acid that you used, this is a monster gain. Also, you should account the energy you spent and those powder reactants. Plus, you can take into account that you have a lot of silver in solution that could be purified also, and the palladium. Great video!
Jose, the amount of pure gold in both 10k and 14k scrap was 279 grams. The amount of pure gold after refining was 274 grams. There was actually 5 grams less after refining. This is normal because the amount in of gold in karat scrap is never plumb. The amount that you calculated, $5960, is not correct.
@@thearchive792 The delectable sour taste is somewhat offset by the tongue rapidly boiling and melting away along with any other tissue that comes in contact with the solution.
@@PP-ky2ji He is hit or miss. His chemistry is solid. But there isn't always a lot on any one subject in detail. And by detail I mean an end to end process with notable results. I've enjoyed his channel for a number of years now. His mining ones were very much my favorite.
You always make great videos, thanks! Will you include a total yield in your final stock pot refining video? I'd love to see that since the series has been going for so long :)
I have a good friend who recovers pure precious metals from what others would call "Junk" and he does well. Its amazing where,what and how he gets the "Junk" that he uses to recover them from. Nice video....Thank You
he's afraid of someone stealing his shit quality gold, lmaoo 11 grand? more like 11 cents this shit is 9 carat at best, probably mixed with cheap alloy too
If we had a monetary system where gold & silver are embroiled into the paper of dollar$, you could then use this process to reclaim the gold back out of the money.
Weird, I don't care anything about jewelry or anything like that but I was hypnotically drawn to the beauty of that gold bar. Yeah, gold is scarce/expensive, but there's more to it than that. It's BEAUTIFUL.
@Firebuster Massively appreciate that, but surely one (or maybe even two) named object(s) per shot is enough? sometimes you've got like 5 tags visible and it just looks a little silly >.< please keep up the good informative content though! :)
The nitric acid will more easily dissolve the non-gold if you inquart it a bit stronger, not to 27% gold but as low as 20%. It also helps if you make sure it is well mixed and dispersed into the smallest pieces possible.
@@sonnymery4193 It was an alloy of gold and silver, by refining the gold the silver is left over, so it's kinda refined as well. However, I haven't seen the entire video yet, so I don't know what he does with the solution that has the silver dissolved in it, but if he does nothing, just know that getting the silver out is simple enough, electrolysis should work just fine, might be some other chemical that would make the silver precipitate out of the solution, but I'm not good enough at chemistry to know for sure
@@Sheriff6170 I was thinking electrolysis as well but I wasn't sure if that's how we did it. Not sure if she would use silver for the anode or copper was just curious cuz I know even though silver isn't worth a lot I know that you wouldn't want to throw it down the drain either. Thanks
when you primary smelt gold from ore it comes out as electrum which is the base of white gold. Lots of that unrefined white gold was used to make jewelry over a hundred years ago. They just didnt go any further because it wasnt worth it. And they were right its not worth it because he probably spent several thousand dollars in acid, sodium Meta Bi sulfate and other chemicals and glassware to come out with the bar of gold.
Adding the silver, then removing it with nitric acid, does an amazing job of cleaning the gold in preparation for refining the gold with aqua regia. Trying to dissolve the gold "as is" has two major flaws: first, karat gold contains silver. The hydrochloric acid in the aqua regia will react with the silver in the karat gold forming silver chloride and make filtering a nightmare. Second, if the silver content in the karat gold is high then the HCl in the aqua regia would cause passivation. Passivation is a thick crust of silver chloride that forms on the karat gold and shields the gold from the acids. Once this layer forms it must be removed before the gold will dissolve. Adding silver and parting with nitric acid, if done correctly, completely eliminates both of these problems. If I tried to dissolve the gold without inquarting with silver then I'd still be out there trying to get the gold cleaned up, right now!
Ok I get the nitric acid to dissolve the unwanted metals. I get that the karat gold has silver in it. But why add the extra silver. That's where i'm confused. Why not just add nitric to the karat gold in order to dissolve the unwanted metals before the aqua?
@@sharudd So I've done some research on this since asking this question yesterday. It seems that if you want to remove 100% of the gold from the karat gold (or as close as possible), you have to add silver so the gold atoms are further displaced by the excess mixed in silver. This makes it that the silver has less of a chance to inhibit the dissolving of the gold atoms by means of creating a protective layer/capsule around the gold atoms, thus ensuring the maximum amount of gold gets dissolved by the acids. As recommended by @Biomorphs in the comments, Cody'sLab has a great video on this (just look up "Cody'sLab Inquarting"). Hope this helps.
I can't help but imagine that Sreetips is an eccentric individual who has been shunned by society because of his mad alchemist ways. You should do a video where you label things as "Merlin" instead of Sreetips, "Lead" (instead of Silver), "Bronze", and "Baked Earth", etc, and the various acids are "Dragon's urine", "Liquid Eye of Newt", etc. Then the end result is you end up with Gold. Ta-daa!!
- Man so kool... Some real scientific shit... I want to learn this, but feel this is outta my league... Brillant Beautiful Bar = Trip B's - Amazing stuff, glad I came across this vid!!! Cheerz!!!
@@literate-aside if you're going to be negative on someone for something irrelevant to what they're doing then yeah, that opens you up for unnecessary criticism as well. "Do unto others..."
You seems a little confused by the math so hope this helps Multiplying by 1.265 is just increasing your starting weight by 26.5% Multiplying by 0.635 finds 63.5% of your starting weight
@@antigen4 well, what he was trying to do was make both types of gold into the same karat.... its implies the 14k needs more silver to bring it down to the same level as the 10k
The way I'm understanding is that he need's a quantity of silver to gold. 10k has less gold therefore needs less silver, 14k has more gold and needs more silver.
I don't know why I watched this but it was really interesting and cool to observe. My only question was, why bother mixing silver with the gold in the first place and can't you do the process with just the gold? In my inexperienced eyes, It's like adding silver just so you have to remove it. I'm pretty sure there's a good reason for it but I'm just not informed on it.
The nitric won't penetrate the karat gold until enough silver is alloyed with the karat gold to get the gold content down around 25% gold and 75% silver and base metals - inquarting. Trying to dissolve the karat gold with Aqua regia, skipping the inquarting, makes a big mess.
Question! You cracked a glass funnel in this vid and said you were going to put it in a bag and bust it up for boiling granules!!! What are boiling granules?? And what do you use them for??
Shane. When boiling a solution, heat will build and cause little steam explosions inside the vessel. Sometimes they can actually be forceful enough to break the beaker. Adding an inert piece of glass (or stone) to the solution will eliminate these steam explosions.
I produced my first official gold nugget from gold filled scrape . 4.4 grams and I tested it and the gold mark was still there with 22 karet solution. So I'm happy spent as much as I made but learning curve. Thanks sreetips .
Thank you and I just got the rest .9 tonight . And I also just got more gold filled stuff in tonight . First time i think I've actually produced something . And I do owe it to you sir.
Out of 200 grams gold fill I got 6.2 grams 18 to 22 karet I mean 18 was strong 22 karet was still noticable on my scratch stone after solution but my first Time I thought maybe that wasn't bad I know to look for a little different goldfilled idems now which I have waiting on my nitric acid .
I have a question I made some hold from gold filled stuff And it's 14 karet want to purify it. I have nitric I have muriatic my question is can I use baking soda to defuse the acid instead of uria and do I use bonide stomp out to bring back the gold will this work want to know before I dissolvey gold . I have 15 grams of my gold and an oz and a half of gold nuggets I would like to purify but can't afford any mistakes . And sir I trust your opinion.
Not to mention of course how much the total cost of equipment is that would allow you to complete the entire process from start to finish. Count the entire cost to a person to set up an operation that would allow a person to make from, start to finish, the pure gold bars.
As usual you rocked it , cheers good man. A friend of mind just said it would make for an interesting video, if you were to record a video chat of you walking a beginner though the steps of refining gold. I know I would watch, I don’t believe anyone has recorded something like that yet.
migel reyas you’re absolutely right, he’s amazing. And as we all know with, fame comes responsibility 😎. His method helps people to become better at refiners, not to mention that he gives different ways to get the same result... phenomenal 👍🏽
@@ba8ygir1 I am not really a refiner. I was willed 5,000 acres with 3 very old mines. I am trying to process my stuff. I got gold drops today thanks to him for putting up with me. HaHa He is smart. I listened to other people for over a year and got a few grams a month, I listen to Sreetips I get more then that in a few days. If someone watches his videos and does each step ass him, they will get gold.
The ice could be contaminating your mix with chlorine, lead, and other metals and soils from the tap. Not sure but that's one major variable I think you could eliminate. Thanks for a great video!
The 156.1 silver was the number you came up with when you did the original calculation. Synchronicity? I think so. The universe in action. Was that silver sterling? You answered the question within 10 seconds of my typing the question. Again, synchronicity. Love it. Great videos.
Very fascinating watching you work. This is the 2nd video I've watched. Decided I enjoy your channel so much I need to subscribe in order to be able to find you again. I loved my chemistry courses at university. I was the only student for my teacher to ever score 100% on a test! I was studying to for my BSN degree, but really loved all my classes that involved lab work. Esp. biology. If not for pressure from my family I would have changed my major and had a much different life experience. I don't regret it, even though I'm now disabled d/t the hard physical labor my small frame went through. Thank you for all the fun!
That’s very nice of you. I scored 100% on a Trig midterm and the instructor “optioned” me out. He said if I can ace the midterm then I get an “A” for the whole course! I loved math. But I never took chemistry in college. I took one chemistry class in high school and got a “D”. Thanks for the uplifting comment.
That was quite the process! I don’t know how or where you learned it from, but must have some serious education and patience. Congrats, I enjoy learning new ways. Steve Fuller Dig Dug Gold
It looks like you are using a vacuum pump to transfer the acid into a glass container. Any recommendations on a vacuum pump, if that is what you are using?
Yes, I use an HVAC vacuum pump from harbor freight about $100 it's been in use for almost 9 years. I made a video on my vacuum system, it's posted on my channel.
That funnel wouldn't have cracked if you just had wrote sreetips on it
might be hard to replace that funnel...
Omg I'm sorry but that's actually good 🤣 that's absolutely what happend
Why would he write "sTreetips" on it?
steve
Haha I definitely was going to say the same thing before I saw your post
🤣
Its crazy how many steps you had to go through to do this. I have respect for you to learn such a skill. Great video thanks for sharing
The way your brain is able to multitask so efficiently is fascinating. It reminds me of someone on a unicycle, juggling random objects being thrown at him, while maintaining a responsive conversation with someone, and explaining everything going on around him at once… and not messing up.
I learned that back when I used to fly. During instrument approaches I had to fly the airplane, constantly scan the instruments, read charts, and talk to the approach controller - all at the same time.
Dunno how I got here, but drunk me enjoyed it.
Drunk or sober...who doesn't like an $11,000.00 bar of gold?
WowplayerMe and now that bar would be worth closer to $18k!
😂😂 Brilliant mate 👍
@@WowplayerMe right, that 11k bar would cheer my day up 🤣
Same broski
Sreetips: Say my name
Me: Heisenberg
Sreetips: You're goddamn right
*golddamn
I don't think your name was written on enough items.
Anti-theft measures man
And good for the insurance claims ;) lol
YouOnlyLiveTwice you’re right, he should write it on his gloves and glass wear too.
It's most likely to foil the video bandits. If the footage has Sreetips everywhere, they can't edit out anything, overdub it and claim it as theirs.
Nobody wants to steal his precious gold he's worked so arduously over. Thus, he has to write his name over all of his non-essential items that can be purchased at Walmart dirt cheap. HIncluding his wife's pussy.
Thanks for this, Sreetips, fascinating video!
Best process video I've seen since one for butane extraction of hash oil.
link please
Bubble hash is better
and now im addin' some
*DISTILLED WATER*
glad i wasnt the only one
Haha i was thinking the same thing before i scolled down to find a comment about it!
PRECIPITATED
@@Oomuu can you explain, I still don't understand. I have some chemistry knowledge.
@@PlateletRichGel what? They are just joking around because he said Distilled Water like a million times.
I don't know how i ended here, but im glad it happened. That gold bar is absolutely beautiful. Subscribed.
Yes quite ridiculous! Though I prefer current styling.
Also has their pricing gone up in past year?
ua-cam.com/video/6NJBBPMG9O8/v-deo.htmlm50s (pause)
Seeing that plus 2-4 grand more on website now?
www.toyota.com.au/main/rav4/prices
i cant believe i watch these all the way through. but i am really into it. good job man!
I had the same....it was just fascinating.
Whoopwhoop mcl
only use distilled water and ice off the inside of the freezer
I'm pretty sure the distilled water is only needed when silver is present, since even tiny amount of chlorine will make the silver precipitate.
Great job, was very interesting to watch, as I never knew how hard it was to refine pure gold. Keep up the great work!
(Sreetips): You and your videos have aided me in becoming a better refiner. Thank you.
$11,000 Gold Bar in DISTILLED WATER
when you dropped the bar into the water, it sounded like a laser gun! so cool!
I had to watch this one again too!!!
This was an intriguing video to watch and study!! Since it was the 2nd time watching, without missing a second! I was able to study it more than the 1st time!!! I was in trance the 1st time I watched ;) !!!
Have a GREAT Day, Sreetips!!!
I love watching you. Please show us more different ways to process precious metals. I find it very interesting.
I never get tired of seeing your big projects, nice job Sreetips!
Gold is complicated..
They should charge a lot for it.
Btw.. Did anyone else wet themselves looking at that bar?
Such a long process, but so cool to watch!
And worth it, literally.
Depends on how you look at it. Is $189.66hr worth it?
Beautiful pour lines, I love the 2 different pooling locations
I never tire of seeing the SMB reaction with liquid gold and the precipitation of the metal coming out! See ya in the next one.
Please do yourself a favor and watch this at 2x speed. You can still understand everything, but you don't feel like you need to take an intermission break.
I watch EVERYTHING at 2× speed. People speak SO slow. A 5 minute video doubles in length from speaking so slowly
Especially when your wanting some quick information but the narrator drags on and on about stuff that’s totally irrelevant to the info I seek.
@@sreetips i Watch you normal, Think its a good video, just my tempo. Thank you for your work and for enlightened me..
Respect.
Watching in 1.5x is funny because it seems he rushes everything. The mistakes are highlighted like when a ring drops out of the melt dish in the beginning. Also it makes it seem like he's extra excited about the math. Lol
Sreetips stays strapped with the gold nearby. Love it
Here You should get 279 grams pure gold
Where is remaining 5 gram gold
He probably said "distilled water" and "nitric acid" about 1000 times in this video.
97.98% yield, sounds like an outstanding result
Not for gold processing. But the remaining 5g of gold must have landed in filters, silver solutions and the like, so he will extract it later.
Fantastic my friend. You are an inspiration to me. Retired lab rat, now I do yard / estate sales, when I have a ton of plate, .925, ..... My old skills will be used with your instruction as a guide. I have been watching for a while now. I look forward to your videos.
I can't believe I watched this entire thing from beginning to end. What's wrong w/ me?
I've done the same thing, several times. It goes by quick!
Me too I watched it at work lol!
Nothing lmao. You are just watching a man who loves his work. Ain't nothing wrong with that.
Cheers - I knew nothing about this and found your video fascinating. Great narration.
i would love to see a video of you conducting a masterclass with a group of amateur refiners and seeing how well they did , i'm also interested in a vid of you reclaiming the silver and palladium. the chemistry fascinates me.
ua-cam.com/video/XTVJcOUl8bE/v-deo.html he did it about a year ago, along with platinum, he said he wouldn't do it again cause its far too dangerous.
ua-cam.com/video/VtC-j2wbuus/v-deo.html he did it two weeks ago as well
@@Shad0wBoxxer thanks, more dangeroius than pouring muriatic acid? wow. explosive dangerous? As I watched, I though about how he could make that hood safer, with a blast shield and pouring channels.
Scott Johnson muriatic acid isnt as bad as you think, but at the same time platinosis is the dangerous thing, look it up
many thanks for all the replies, i was a brand new subscriber when i wrote this and now ive binge watched loads of his videos, I love them.
Make sure you use 30 percent peroxide. The reaction will give you water vapor and no brown nitrous fumes because you have solubilized the nitrous oxides as prompt oxides of nitrogen with the peroxide now you have close to 98 percent efficiency. Less corrosion of your hood and better reaction kinetics
I'm going to try peroxide to dissolve the gold next time
Peroxide will not dissolve gold it is used with nitric acid to decrease nitrous oxides and solubilize the oxides to increase efficiency
That was a long processes and a long video haha but a good one and watched it all. Thanks, well done and very interesting. Beautiful result!
Since nitric acid isn't cheap, that brown nitrogen dioxide gas we see is money going right out the fume hood exhaust. I'm not sure if it's cost effective or not, but you can bubble the nitrogen dioxide gas through concentrated hydrogen peroxide to reform nitric acid. The acid will be relatively pure, but you will likely have to distill the acid to bring it back up to azeotropic strength. Concentrated peroxide isn't cheap, but it may be worth a cost analysis. As you probably know, that exhaust NO2 just ends up acidifying outdoor precipitation.
Imagine leaving your 10+k$ worth of gold in that acid, and find out that it dissolved everything and chemistry is a lie
lmao
I do not know why I ended up on your channel, @Sreetips but I love these videos. Totally fascinated. ❤
Welcome! And thank you.
1 gm of pure gold = 40.94 USD then 274*40.94=11234$
Good luck
1 Gram = 1g ( not gm that's a automobile company)
@@LocoMe4u I must say : Thanks.
@@AbuOmar1974 Nom problem
@@LocoMe4u "gr" is acceptable as well.
great video. No annoying music, step by step procedure, simple! keep it up!
No wonder it costs so much for certain types of luxury metals
The cost comes from scarcity. Refining is generally difficult, no matter what substances. Yet, they have managed to optimize and automate the processes so that the refined substances cost nearly nothing. Not so with gold. It's just a scarce element.
Dude, that was dope. I did some math here. Today (April 24th 2019), you had a total of U$ 5960 in 10K and 14K gold. After the refining, you got a amount of gold worth U$ 11185. That is a U$ 5225 gain just by purifying the gold, if what you say about the final bar being a 24K gold. If you recover all the acid that you used, this is a monster gain. Also, you should account the energy you spent and those powder reactants. Plus, you can take into account that you have a lot of silver in solution that could be purified also, and the palladium. Great video!
Jose, the amount of pure gold in both 10k and 14k scrap was 279 grams. The amount of pure gold after refining was 274 grams. There was actually 5 grams less after refining. This is normal because the amount in of gold in karat scrap is never plumb. The amount that you calculated, $5960, is not correct.
@@sreetips Hi Sreetips and thanks for an excellent video. If $5,960 is not correct, what would be the correct amount?
Should be very close to the value of the refined bar.
@@sreetips Thank you for taking the time to reply. Thanks also for the very interesting video - your gold bar was a beautiful end product.
That gold on ice is beautiful, I wanna take a sip.
You really don't though.
came here looking for this comment!
Gold Apple juice MMHH
@@christiansitzman5601 nah man it's probably really tasty.
@@thearchive792 The delectable sour taste is somewhat offset by the tongue rapidly boiling and melting away along with any other tissue that comes in contact with the solution.
@@christiansitzman5601 Well worth it!
THANK YOU!!! Seriously! No one details out their process in such depth. Very informative.
Codys Lab?
@@PP-ky2ji He is hit or miss. His chemistry is solid. But there isn't always a lot on any one subject in detail. And by detail I mean an end to end process with notable results. I've enjoyed his channel for a number of years now. His mining ones were very much my favorite.
You always make great videos, thanks!
Will you include a total yield in your final stock pot refining video? I'd love to see that since the series has been going for so long :)
I have a good friend who recovers pure precious metals from what others would call "Junk" and he does well. Its amazing where,what and how he gets the "Junk" that he uses to recover them from. Nice video....Thank You
pretty nice video, I didn't catch your name though
Im sure hes related to SOM DESTILLED WATER :O
Guaranteed his cat is labeled Sreetips in black Sharpie.
At today's value that same bar is now $15.5k.
Smart, keeping a gun close.
to shoot the gold?
@@drunkenmasterii3250 exactly. Make bullets and shoot it
reminds me of this for some reason www.comedycentral.co.uk/south-park/videos/suicide-takes-forever
@spinning nonsense HAHAHAHAHA :-)
he's afraid of someone stealing his shit quality gold, lmaoo 11 grand? more like 11 cents this shit is 9 carat at best, probably mixed with cheap alloy too
Very Labour and time intensive not forgetting the materials you have to acquire to do this process 👏 bravo mate!
PURE GOOOOLD!!!!!
Is it just me or can you hear him saying gold with extra "O's" too!
GUUULD
He sounds just like Yosemite Sam when he says that
If we had a monetary system where gold & silver are embroiled into the paper of dollar$, you could then use this process to reclaim the gold back out of the money.
bet this dude has a whole room dedicated to distilled water.
That’s the most beautiful bar of gold I’ve seen yet!! So shiny!
Lovely video, next I have to see if you have a video of working the silver.
Came here after watching Cody’s labs series. Very informative and enjoyable content here
Thank you! He has an awesome channel too.
i always though it was "streetips" .. wow, 1h of bamboozled
Weird, I don't care anything about jewelry or anything like that but I was hypnotically drawn to the beauty of that gold bar. Yeah, gold is scarce/expensive, but there's more to it than that. It's BEAUTIFUL.
Well said!
good video, but I think you should put your name on more objects in the video :'D
😹😹😹
@Firebuster Massively appreciate that, but surely one (or maybe even two) named object(s) per shot is enough?
sometimes you've got like 5 tags visible and it just looks a little silly >.<
please keep up the good informative content though! :)
I love the holstered pistol.
that 279.63 also contains the 2 steel pieces
The nitric acid will more easily dissolve the non-gold if you inquart it a bit stronger, not to 27% gold but as low as 20%. It also helps if you make sure it is well mixed and dispersed into the smallest pieces possible.
beautiful end result. Willy Wonka golden bar!
I like how raw these videos are 👍
voice and face do not match. the voice is looks gangster and the face is a highbrow doctor.
How about a mad scientiest or an evil professor?
I've always been into chem and science im glad I found your channel, Very fun to watch thank you :)
I would like to see you refine the silver out to
I don't think you understand how metals work...
@@mercsan117 plz explain
@@sonnymery4193 It was an alloy of gold and silver, by refining the gold the silver is left over, so it's kinda refined as well. However, I haven't seen the entire video yet, so I don't know what he does with the solution that has the silver dissolved in it, but if he does nothing, just know that getting the silver out is simple enough, electrolysis should work just fine, might be some other chemical that would make the silver precipitate out of the solution, but I'm not good enough at chemistry to know for sure
@@Sheriff6170 I was thinking electrolysis as well but I wasn't sure if that's how we did it. Not sure if she would use silver for the anode or copper was just curious cuz I know even though silver isn't worth a lot I know that you wouldn't want to throw it down the drain either. Thanks
@@wayoflifewayoflife2111 you cant throw it down the drain. It's toxic.
The amount of time you spent explaining what is (or should be) basic math is incredible.
Thank you!
I don't understand. If you are dissolving the silver out in the end then why add it in the first place? Can someone explain?
Inquarting - if you search it on you tube - Cody'sLab
has a great video to explain it all
when you primary smelt gold from ore it comes out as electrum which is the base of white gold. Lots of that unrefined white gold was used to make jewelry over a hundred years ago. They just didnt go any further because it wasnt worth it. And they were right its not worth it because he probably spent several thousand dollars in acid, sodium Meta Bi sulfate and other chemicals and glassware to come out with the bar of gold.
Adding the silver, then removing it with nitric acid, does an amazing job of cleaning the gold in preparation for refining the gold with aqua regia. Trying to dissolve the gold "as is" has two major flaws: first, karat gold contains silver. The hydrochloric acid in the aqua regia will react with the silver in the karat gold forming silver chloride and make filtering a nightmare. Second, if the silver content in the karat gold is high then the HCl in the aqua regia would cause passivation. Passivation is a thick crust of silver chloride that forms on the karat gold and shields the gold from the acids. Once this layer forms it must be removed before the gold will dissolve. Adding silver and parting with nitric acid, if done correctly, completely eliminates both of these problems. If I tried to dissolve the gold without inquarting with silver then I'd still be out there trying to get the gold cleaned up, right now!
Ok I get the nitric acid to dissolve the unwanted metals. I get that the karat gold has silver in it. But why add the extra silver. That's where i'm confused. Why not just add nitric to the karat gold in order to dissolve the unwanted metals before the aqua?
@@sharudd So I've done some research on this since asking this question yesterday. It seems that if you want to remove 100% of the gold from the karat gold (or as close as possible), you have to add silver so the gold atoms are further displaced by the excess mixed in silver. This makes it that the silver has less of a chance to inhibit the dissolving of the gold atoms by means of creating a protective layer/capsule around the gold atoms, thus ensuring the maximum amount of gold gets dissolved by the acids. As recommended by @Biomorphs in the comments, Cody'sLab has a great video on this (just look up "Cody'sLab Inquarting"). Hope this helps.
I can't help but imagine that Sreetips is an eccentric individual who has been shunned by society because of his mad alchemist ways.
You should do a video where you label things as "Merlin" instead of Sreetips, "Lead" (instead of Silver), "Bronze", and "Baked Earth", etc, and the various acids are "Dragon's urine", "Liquid Eye of Newt", etc. Then the end result is you end up with Gold. Ta-daa!!
This is a perfect video nice job Sreetips ;)
Hey bro good to see you here!
This is one of if not the prettiest bar you have ever poured in my humble opinion
I feel like you need to LOGO way more you don't have enough already
STREETIPS
- Man so kool... Some real scientific shit... I want to learn this, but feel this is outta my league... Brillant Beautiful Bar = Trip B's - Amazing stuff, glad I came across this vid!!! Cheerz!!!
1:06:12 swear that sound is out of dragon ball or something lol
Stormtrooper blaster
calculated the raw material - 14K worth is about $7,250 and 10K worth about $4,200 using the current price per troy ounce $1,274.74
When you can’t spell ‘experiment’ you know it’s going to be good.
Or round his decimals
Let's see how much gold and silver you've refined out of various objects.
@@jimmyboy131 because that's a qualifying factor for the validity of my life statement?
@@literate-aside if you're going to be negative on someone for something irrelevant to what they're doing then yeah, that opens you up for unnecessary criticism as well. "Do unto others..."
@@jimmyboy131 So what did I say that was derogatory?
start with 14k worth of gold, end with 11k gold bar + the cost of all the things were used...why?
10k and 14k gold does not cost as much as 24k cold he didnt start with $14,000 worth of gold dumb dumb
You seems a little confused by the math so hope this helps
Multiplying by 1.265 is just increasing your starting weight by 26.5%
Multiplying by 0.635 finds 63.5% of your starting weight
the only one confused here is you... like what "starting weight" are you even talking about? i dont think you understood his calculations at all
he's right- the multiiplier makes ZERO sense - it assumes that 14karat gold is more 'pure' than 24k gold
@@antigen4 well, what he was trying to do was make both types of gold into the same karat.... its implies the 14k needs more silver to bring it down to the same level as the 10k
The way I'm understanding is that he need's a quantity of silver to gold. 10k has less gold therefore needs less silver, 14k has more gold and needs more silver.
I've watched you do this like six times and for real I never get tired of seeing the end product, gold is so beautiful and alluring
There is nothing like holding pure gold - nothing
My precious 🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟♂️
Wow..you should write bed time stories 😴
I don't know why I watched this but it was really interesting and cool to observe. My only question was, why bother mixing silver with the gold in the first place and can't you do the process with just the gold? In my inexperienced eyes, It's like adding silver just so you have to remove it. I'm pretty sure there's a good reason for it but I'm just not informed on it.
The nitric won't penetrate the karat gold until enough silver is alloyed with the karat gold to get the gold content down around 25% gold and 75% silver and base metals - inquarting. Trying to dissolve the karat gold with Aqua regia, skipping the inquarting, makes a big mess.
@@sreetips That makes sense, thanks for the reply!
Question! You cracked a glass funnel in this vid and said you were going to put it in a bag and bust it up for boiling granules!!! What are boiling granules??
And what do you use them for??
Shane. When boiling a solution, heat will build and cause little steam explosions inside the vessel. Sometimes they can actually be forceful enough to break the beaker. Adding an inert piece of glass (or stone) to the solution will eliminate these steam explosions.
what a great vid, beautiful bar - gold will go up a lot in the foreseeable future, good idea to hold and appreaciate...
I produced my first official gold nugget from gold filled scrape .
4.4 grams and I tested it and the gold mark was still there with 22 karet solution. So I'm happy spent as much as I made but learning curve. Thanks sreetips .
Excellent!
Thank you and I just got the rest .9 tonight . And I also just got more gold filled stuff in tonight . First time i think I've actually produced something . And I do owe it to you sir.
Out of 200 grams gold fill I got 6.2 grams 18 to 22 karet I mean 18 was strong 22 karet was still noticable on my scratch stone after solution but my first Time I thought maybe that wasn't bad I know to look for a little different goldfilled idems now which I have waiting on my nitric acid .
But at least I produced
I have a question I made some hold from gold filled stuff
And it's 14 karet want to purify it. I have nitric I have muriatic my question is can I use baking soda to defuse the acid instead of uria and do I use bonide stomp out to bring back the gold will this work want to know before I dissolvey gold . I have 15 grams of my gold and an oz and a half of gold nuggets I would like to purify but can't afford any mistakes . And sir I trust your opinion.
Not to mention of course how much the total cost of equipment is that would allow you to complete the entire process from start to finish.
Count the entire cost to a person to set up an operation that would allow a person to make from, start to finish, the pure gold bars.
As usual you rocked it , cheers good man.
A friend of mind just said it would make for an interesting video, if you were to record a video chat of you walking a beginner though the steps of refining gold.
I know I would watch, I don’t believe anyone has recorded something like that yet.
He has. Thats how I am getting my precious metals from my ore[rock], because of him. He has been very helpful, a great guy and very knowledgeable.
I was thinking this whilst I watched it.
migel reyas you’re absolutely right, he’s amazing. And as we all know with, fame comes responsibility 😎. His method helps people to become better at refiners, not to mention that he gives different ways to get the same result... phenomenal 👍🏽
@@ba8ygir1 I am not really a refiner. I was willed 5,000 acres with 3 very old mines. I am trying to process my stuff. I got gold drops today thanks to him for putting up with me. HaHa He is smart. I listened to other people for over a year and got a few grams a month, I listen to Sreetips I get more then that in a few days. If someone watches his videos and does each step ass him, they will get gold.
Wouldn't you want to use distilled water for ice cubes? it looked to me like the cloudiness was from tap water. No?
That little bar can buy you a good car or even a decent house in some countries. The value of gold is truly amazing.
The ice could be contaminating your mix with chlorine, lead, and other metals and soils from the tap. Not sure but that's one major variable I think you could eliminate. Thanks for a great video!
did he say it was ice from tap water? I would presume he'd make ice from distilled water.
@@drunkenmasterii3250 He never said what the ice was made out of.
@@godlycookie901 Yeah I know, that's why this was a question and a presumption.
@@drunkenmasterii3250 I asked and he replied. He said it was tap water.
@@godlycookie901 that's an answer! thanks.
That was amazing. A magic show with an educational twist. I had no idea that metals dissolved like that. You are a great teacher. Thank you.
Gold will dissolve in acid just like sugar dissolves in water. It got me hooked on refining.
Great video. I found mixing the SMB powder to water then adding to gold in solution lessens the foaming (lost SO2 gas) and improves efficiency.
I used to do that. But the amount of waste that must be treated is increased.
Why couldn’t my high school chemistry teacher have been more like Sreetips?
ive wanted to get into buying scrap gold for a while now.. I never knew there were so many steps and different chemicals needed. cool video
Finally someone who heats the metal and the mold while pouring. It makes such a clean bar.
yeah that suprised me. Wouldn't have thought of that. Any other tips you might share?
why this is on my recommendation, and why I am still watching it after one hour
The 156.1 silver was the number you came up with when you did the original calculation. Synchronicity? I think so. The universe in action. Was that silver sterling? You answered the question within 10 seconds of my typing the question. Again, synchronicity. Love it. Great videos.
That’s some amazing stuff that clear liquid had that much gold in it boggles your mind
Very fascinating watching you work. This is the 2nd video I've watched. Decided I enjoy your channel so much I need to subscribe in order to be able to find you again. I loved my chemistry courses at university. I was the only student for my teacher to ever score 100% on a test! I was studying to for my BSN degree, but really loved all my classes that involved lab work. Esp. biology. If not for pressure from my family I would have changed my major and had a much different life experience. I don't regret it, even though I'm now disabled d/t the hard physical labor my small frame went through. Thank you for all the fun!
That’s very nice of you. I scored 100% on a Trig midterm and the instructor “optioned” me out. He said if I can ace the midterm then I get an “A” for the whole course! I loved math. But I never took chemistry in college. I took one chemistry class in high school and got a “D”. Thanks for the uplifting comment.
That was a real pleasure to watch. Thanks for bringing us along. Like #1.5K+.
That was quite the process! I don’t know how or where you learned it from, but must have some serious education and patience. Congrats, I enjoy learning new ways.
Steve Fuller
Dig Dug Gold
Mostly on the goldrefiningforum.com
It looks like you are using a vacuum pump to transfer the acid into a glass container. Any recommendations on a vacuum pump, if that is what you are using?
Yes, I use an HVAC vacuum pump from harbor freight about $100 it's been in use for almost 9 years. I made a video on my vacuum system, it's posted on my channel.
Thank you. I'm surprised but very appreciative of how fast you respond to questions.
OK, great, I found your video on the vacuum system. Enjoyed watching it, very good.