I find the color change during the bars cooling absolutely fascinating. To watch it go from a dull brassy look to that beautiful color we all know and crave. What a moment. Like watching a child be born. Fantastic.
I like how you are always trying different techniques. Sometimes it doesn't work but most of the time it does, but you/we learn something new every time.
Thank you for continuing to produce these videos. My kids even made a Lego minifigure that looks like you because they see me watching these videos all the time.
Now THAT'S more like it!! ❤ a flawless perfect video from start to finish, with every step clear as a crystal! I especially liked the change in how you added the SMB, i know it probably makes no difference if it's added as a powder or a dissolved solution (other than quantity of waste solution that needs to be poured off), but i have always felt if there is any tiny particles of dirt in the SMB powder that it could pollute the gold everso slightly, so if i was doing this, id definitely dissolve and filter in the SMB just like in this video! So this video totally nailed it! 😁 good job!
That is so awesome, I always love these videos,, and haha, I like the little added spot saying how much copper you would need to hit the value.. damn, More than my pick up can haul! Great job as always sir!
Hey Sreetips. I think considering a glass cover of some sort when you are drying your refined gold would benefit you. The leftover water seems to always pop and you lose a couple grams. Love your videos and looking forward to the next one! 😊
@13:10 "It's raining gold, halleluja! it's raining gold, amen." :-) Came to think of the weather girls somehow. :-) That was a really cool precipitation. Big thumbs up!
@Shreetips I like the slight format shift in some of the editing as well as the 1470 lbs of copper equivalent it made me chuckle well done as always sir!
@@PaulAllee I try to watch all Kevin's (Sreetips) videos. I really enjoy them. Comments help the analytics. I figure it doesn't hurt to wish others well. Most importantly Sreetips has always responded back with a "gooood morning/evening." Hope you have a good one Paul.
Yoho. Hello David. Hope you feeling great my friend. Here in Trysil Norway it is lot of snow now. Lucky you live in sunshine all the year i guess 🙂 Christmas coming very soon. A year going to fast if you ask me., but nice to "stop" the tine whit a sreetips clip. Take care,and God bless you David. Arne
Excellent video yet again sir, thank you. As i always say it doesn't matter how many times I watch you go through this process i am never not entertained. With the price of gold at the moment I would be squirrelling this stuff away.
I am interested in applying a unique vibration to the mold during the pouring of liquid gold, aiming to craft patterns on each bar that resemble distinctive fingerprints!
I just realized, what I thought was occasionally white spots in the gold powder, is actually the reflection of his light on the beaker. I feel dumb. 🤦♂️😂😂😂
I just watched the modern Goldsmith's video on refining gold, and I kept thinking, "He could learn so much from Sreetips!" And then he mentioned you in his silver refining video and I was very pleased to know he learned from you and acknowledged you.
Thank you for your videos. Not sure if you do these as a business (for much profit), as a hobby (fun plus a little profit), or educational (not really profitable but fun). Thanks!
0.7g of unexpected gold is always a good surprise. :) I liked the comparison with copper at the end, it shows just how unreasonable it is to want to stack copper, especially when people waste their money on copper bars that always come with ridiculous premiums. It just isn't worth it. Keep it simple, gold and silver for metals, bitcoin and ethereum for crypto.
Hey Mr Streetips I go through a lot of distilled water, and living in a small town population 2’500 lovely souls. However I’m looking at reducing some of my costs in refining. We have different rules in Australia when it comes to purchasing bulk chemicals. And it’s certainly not cheap. Including distilled water. I’m looking at setting up a water distillation concept. So far my homeowner says it’s not worth my time. But I’ve seen some very good water purification systems that can make several thousand litres of distilled water for a great price and is once set up pretty much hands off . As in I don’t need to spend anymore precious time than needed. If any one has any good links I’d certainly appreciate them. As always great content. Cheers Paddy down under.❤️🇦🇺👍
I ran a window air conditioner and kept a five gallon bucket underneath to capture the condensate. It’s essentially distilled water. I thought about filtering it and using it for refining but never pushed forward with the idea. But it should work. I could fill a five gallon bucket in a few days. We have termites and they love moisture. That’s why I collected the water, so I could dump it away from the house.
I was wondering if there is a way to buy just a couple grams of your silver crystal? Im on a fixed income and cannot afford to buy inbulk, like oz's. Thank you for your time to read and consider my request
After the gold has been re-dissolved it would probably cool quicker if you poured it over the ice cubes in a different beaker (and probably have less chance of splashing out as well) instead of adding ice to the gold solution… just my opinion
A cool $5000 bar of gold… (its a bit more of course, todays value is $64 per gram)… this channel works with gold far more value than anything I could imagine. To think this came from a bag of scrap jewelry… everytime I see one of these videos I feel like I could do it myself, but then I go and watch mount baker mining and metal try to do it, and I seen how poorly his refining went with placer gold… and that reminds me why I leave it to professionals. Hats off to your work mr sreetips.
Great vids. Could you be able to separate gold from pay dirt with Chemicals? That would be interesting to see. Might need a lot of dirt though. Keep 'em coming.
Dan Hurd finds the gold. He and Jason from MBMM extract it. Jason runs it thru the shaker. Then Sreetips refines the cons. I'd watch the hell out of that series.
Wow. That bar is beautiful - and I'd say that the lip makes it look cooler! Wonder what caused the whole "getting-more-than-expected" thing. Maybe it was the dissolved SMB?
Ice is tap water, ppm contaminants. Not enough to affect gold assay. Gold is parts per thousand. I can tell when the color is gone from the solution. SMB is highly soluble in water so excess is easily rinsed from the gold with water.
@@sreetips Perfect. Thank you good sir. I didn’t know about the ice thing, I seen before where you talked about chlorine in tap water, and I didnt know if that was to get any more silver captured in the filter or not, or if distilled water, ice. I know to use the test to see if all the gold is out. But you are always on the money it seems and sometimes leave out the test do you the fact you know what you are doing. Thanks 😊 Keep up the great work and videos! I love the process. And hope to get the lead out mine here soon too! I have been going over the videos again, and seem to be missing the one where you refine the jewelers gold that keeps cracking due to lead in the gold.
That last reaction was interesting. It was fascinating how the gold fallen out of solution was floating on top of the gold in solution for so long. Forgive my layman's terms, but is it possible at all that gold in Aqua Regia is denser than physical, nano-gold? I've never seen that happen before in any of your videos. Usually the gold just falls through it and some remains suspended until you boil it.
Ok I gotta ask, been bugging me for a while lol. If you dissolve the gold in AR, then precipitate with SMB. Then repeat the same steps. Wouldn't all the same impurities from the 1st refining follow the gold into the 2nd refining? I mean the other metals dissolve in AR and precipitate just the same right?
The precipitation is selective. Those “other metals” will stay in solution and get poured off with the waste solution. Every cycle gets the gold cleaner, to a point.
@@sreetips hmm, guess I'm missing something. It just seems odd that if it was only selectively percipitating gold, and it was thoroughly rinsed (as you always do very well) that there is still a need to re-refine. To be clear I know 100% that multiple refinings do in fact increase purity. I just can't seem to work out why lol. Maybe understanding this can improve the process some how, I dunno, just been bugging me lol.
With the stumpout hardened into a brick, I think an idea might be to just cut it out of the plastic bottle, and then drip sulfuric acid on it, for an SO₂ precipitation?
I find the color change during the bars cooling absolutely fascinating. To watch it go from a dull brassy look to that beautiful color we all know and crave. What a moment. Like watching a child be born. Fantastic.
I like how you are always trying different techniques. Sometimes it doesn't work but most of the time it does, but you/we learn something new every time.
Thank you for continuing to produce these videos. My kids even made a Lego minifigure that looks like you because they see me watching these videos all the time.
No way, that’s awesome.
Now THAT'S more like it!! ❤ a flawless perfect video from start to finish, with every step clear as a crystal! I especially liked the change in how you added the SMB, i know it probably makes no difference if it's added as a powder or a dissolved solution (other than quantity of waste solution that needs to be poured off), but i have always felt if there is any tiny particles of dirt in the SMB powder that it could pollute the gold everso slightly, so if i was doing this, id definitely dissolve and filter in the SMB just like in this video! So this video totally nailed it! 😁 good job!
That was a cool reaction and a quick turnaround for a video! Nice work
You are welcome. A treasured upload for us. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
That is so awesome, I always love these videos,, and haha, I like the little added spot saying how much copper you would need to hit the value.. damn, More than my pick up can haul! Great job as always sir!
I love your method of refining, it saves all the other precious metals like silver and platinum group metals
I absolutely love watching these processes seems something different each time
Hey Sreetips. I think considering a glass cover of some sort when you are drying your refined gold would benefit you. The leftover water seems to always pop and you lose a couple grams. Love your videos and looking forward to the next one! 😊
That was really freaking cool to watch. Thank you
Thank you for another great video! I look forward to your videos each week. 🙂
Very nice professor.
I truly appreciate and enjoy your videos!
Whoaaaa that liquified stump out reaction looked so cool! It’s like the suspended gold in liquid turned to solid in mid liquid. That was cool
Yes! And I loved the way the Stump Out looked when we peeked in after pouring out the solution :)
What a beautiful and amazing job on the gold it looks fantastic little bar..amazing.
Once again sir you amaze me.
@13:10 "It's raining gold, halleluja! it's raining gold, amen." :-) Came to think of the weather girls somehow. :-) That was a really cool precipitation. Big thumbs up!
@Shreetips I like the slight format shift in some of the editing as well as the 1470 lbs of copper equivalent it made me chuckle well done as always sir!
Thanks for sharing with us Sreetips 🤠 Looks great 👍
Hi Ya & best wishes. SuperB! Thanks for work. Be Happy. Sevastopol/Crimea.
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Hey there Florida man. I see you say good evening every video!
You could call this the BPH precipitation.
Goooood evening!
@@PaulAllee I try to watch all Kevin's (Sreetips) videos. I really enjoy them. Comments help the analytics. I figure it doesn't hurt to wish others well. Most importantly Sreetips has always responded back with a "gooood morning/evening." Hope you have a good one Paul.
Yoho.
Hello David.
Hope you feeling great my friend. Here in Trysil Norway it is lot of snow now. Lucky you live in sunshine all the year i guess 🙂
Christmas coming very soon. A year going to fast if you ask me., but nice to "stop" the tine whit a sreetips clip. Take care,and God bless you David. Arne
Excellent video yet again sir, thank you. As i always say it doesn't matter how many times I watch you go through this process i am never not entertained.
With the price of gold at the moment I would be squirrelling this stuff away.
19:27 looks a lot like the bottom of my biscuit barrel at Christmas time, pieces and crumbs of ginger bread everywhere.
Another great episode sir just save me my cash big respect great eduction thank you
Very nice bar!
That was super cool drop outstanding video thank you for sharing this six stars
You should try to stop the melting of the gold powder halfway to see what its like and its consistency
Yeah screetips i love watchin on sundays
hi n i really enjoy watching your videos 😊, plz keep up on your great content 👍 thank you
Right on, amazing as always! Was worried you retired
Another great video
creating history, the definition of perfection thanks for this rich knowledge you sir are the main man.
Good morning from south east Asia!! The color of the solution was so brilliant, i want to refine my own gold and see it in person.
Nice👍. Using SMB solution seems to make finer gold powder. Maybe should be a little bit cleaner as if using crystals.
Awesome video absolutely another beautiful gold bar thanks for sharing sreetips
3:55 that took off QUICK !!
It's always so cool to watch the dry powder turn into liquid metal.
$5,598 current value. Beautiful piece. Nice and shiny as we like them to be :)
what a beautiful gold bar. stay Blessed
That precip was cool !!
~~~HIT THE LIKE FOLKS!~~~
Another awesome video!!!
I think aqua regia is just as beautiful as a freshly poured bar.
There must have been a gram of gold in those silver buttons you added to the quartation. Nice addition to your yield.
Now thats a differnt fascinating experiment very cool
It's crazy how you can change the state of gold from a solid to a liquid back to a solid ect ect.
I am interested in applying a unique vibration to the mold during the pouring of liquid gold, aiming to craft patterns on each bar that resemble distinctive fingerprints!
I just realized, what I thought was occasionally white spots in the gold powder, is actually the reflection of his light on the beaker. I feel dumb. 🤦♂️😂😂😂
I’ve seen those and wondered the same thing.
@@sreetips I think I was seeing that reflection. Lol…
Such a beautiful gold bar. I always love seeing that gold powder melt into liquid gold 👍🏻
i love the shiny
Video request: do a refining and keep track of all the materials and the costs of each material
Hello sreetips friends.
Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips.
Thank you for sharing this clip.
Take care and God bless you.
Arne
Thanks Arne!
I just watched the modern Goldsmith's video on refining gold, and I kept thinking, "He could learn so much from Sreetips!" And then he mentioned you in his silver refining video and I was very pleased to know he learned from you and acknowledged you.
Thank you for your videos. Not sure if you do these as a business (for much profit), as a hobby (fun plus a little profit), or educational (not really profitable but fun). Thanks!
He does it to have his own gold reserve. Probably a good idea.
All three! But I don’t refine for others. Only stuff that my wife and I find at local sales.
@@sreetips And sometimes for a jeweler friend.
Can you make a video precipitating (or cementing in this case) gold using copper ?
I’ll give it a try.
After so long that is the cleanest gold bar I have seen you pour in a long time stunning
Nice!!!
I was wondering if you had ever thought of using different types of molds to form different shapes of bars?
No, the bars are “stackable”
Have another small explosion when drying the gold powder?? Kinda looked like the same top left corner popped again.
Hot spot
@@sreetips 👍👍
0.7g of unexpected gold is always a good surprise. :) I liked the comparison with copper at the end, it shows just how unreasonable it is to want to stack copper, especially when people waste their money on copper bars that always come with ridiculous premiums. It just isn't worth it. Keep it simple, gold and silver for metals, bitcoin and ethereum for crypto.
Hey Mr Streetips I go through a lot of distilled water, and living in a small town population 2’500 lovely souls. However I’m looking at reducing some of my costs in refining. We have different rules in Australia when it comes to purchasing bulk chemicals. And it’s certainly not cheap. Including distilled water. I’m looking at setting up a water distillation concept. So far my homeowner says it’s not worth my time. But I’ve seen some very good water purification systems that can make several thousand litres of distilled water for a great price and is once set up pretty much hands off . As in I don’t need to spend anymore precious time than needed. If any one has any good links I’d certainly appreciate them. As always great content. Cheers Paddy down under.❤️🇦🇺👍
I ran a window air conditioner and kept a five gallon bucket underneath to capture the condensate. It’s essentially distilled water. I thought about filtering it and using it for refining but never pushed forward with the idea. But it should work. I could fill a five gallon bucket in a few days. We have termites and they love moisture. That’s why I collected the water, so I could dump it away from the house.
@@sreetips I have a dehumidifier, as I live in a similar (humid) climate. I use the distilled water from those for my batteries, and it works fine.
Would you consider doing some silver videos. Just an ask I always love your content.
Yes, I’ve got so much silver so backed up. I’ll have to get some done soon. Thank you.
13:03
Oooh, I quite like that effect.. 🤔
I was curious what 2 refinings looked like and was treated with that different precipitated gold. That was cool man. Thanks!
Great content as always! I’m wondering how much the pH affects either the Aqua Regia or the precipitation. Have you ever tested pH along the way??
No need. It would always be pH1
Today’s SMB reaction done like that was really cool.
That's a beauty
Silver and Gold for Christmas melt?!?!?!?!?
Ok I’ve been patient enough. Can we get some bigger bars!?(I know your stack is big by now
I thought you were going to cut off a cube of the Stump out and pour the hot Aqua Regia over it.
Didn’t think of that. Would have been cool.
I was wondering if there is a way to buy just a couple grams of your silver crystal? Im on a fixed income and cannot afford to buy inbulk, like oz's. Thank you for your time to read and consider my request
Dan, make a one dollar donation to my PayPal
@sreetips when my check clears, you bet . Thank you
After the gold has been re-dissolved it would probably cool quicker if you poured it over the ice cubes in a different beaker (and probably have less chance of splashing out as well) instead of adding ice to the gold solution… just my opinion
Thanks for the video
Waiting for someone who lives with you to replace that stamp with one that reads "MRS SREETIPS".
A cool $5000 bar of gold… (its a bit more of course, todays value is $64 per gram)… this channel works with gold far more value than anything I could imagine. To think this came from a bag of scrap jewelry… everytime I see one of these videos I feel like I could do it myself, but then I go and watch mount baker mining and metal try to do it, and I seen how poorly his refining went with placer gold… and that reminds me why I leave it to professionals. Hats off to your work mr sreetips.
❤ You sometimes refer to the gold as powder and sometimes sponge. Is there a difference?
No
That torch you use to melt it is so powerful feeling like it could cut its way into a bank vault or something
Does denoxing affect the purity of the refined aqua regia?
Excess nitric during precipitation could cause PGMs to come down with the gold, if they’re present.
Good evening Sreetips. Why did you change your technique no longer using the glass rods in a hot water bath to dry up your gold?
Speed
I have been Binge Watching your videos, is that healthy???? They are so satisfying to tbh😊
I watch them while on the elliptical at the gym.
Excellent.
Great vids. Could you be able to separate gold from pay dirt with Chemicals? That would be interesting to see. Might need a lot of dirt though. Keep 'em coming.
Dan Hurd finds the gold. He and Jason from MBMM extract it. Jason runs it thru the shaker. Then Sreetips refines the cons. I'd watch the hell out of that series.
I tried some gold tailing once. But it’s such a tiny amount. Grams per ton of dirt. Didn’t work well with the methods I use.
@@sreetips
Yeah those guys working with the ore go through a lot of dirt. I guess every process has it's strengths and weaknesses.
Magnificent 👌
Question: do you put your tests in your paper storage and pull any metals from the test strips?
No, they contain tin. I toss them
YOU WILL GIVE ME YOUR PRECIOUS SHINIES.
😂
Wow. That bar is beautiful - and I'd say that the lip makes it look cooler!
Wonder what caused the whole "getting-more-than-expected" thing. Maybe it was the dissolved SMB?
One of those buttons may have more gold than I expected.
another great haul mr streetips thats worth 4442.32 pounds in the uk today i love this channel
sweet
Gold Brew ☀️ 🪙
@sreetips
Is the ice tap, or distilled water?
Also what happens is too much smb? How do you know how much to put in?
THANKS!!!
Ice is tap water, ppm contaminants. Not enough to affect gold assay. Gold is parts per thousand. I can tell when the color is gone from the solution. SMB is highly soluble in water so excess is easily rinsed from the gold with water.
@@sreetips
Perfect. Thank you good sir.
I didn’t know about the ice thing, I seen before where you talked about chlorine in tap water, and I didnt know if that was to get any more silver captured in the filter or not, or if distilled water, ice.
I know to use the test to see if all the gold is out. But you are always on the money it seems and sometimes leave out the test do you the fact you know what you are doing.
Thanks 😊
Keep up the great work and videos! I love the process. And hope to get the lead out mine here soon too!
I have been going over the videos again, and seem to be missing the one where you refine the jewelers gold that keeps cracking due to lead in the gold.
We want to keep chlorinated tap water away from silver solutions. Gold in solution is already a chloride, so it doesn’t matter when working with gold.
We want to keep chlorinated tap water away from silver solutions. Gold in solution is already a chloride, so it doesn’t matter when working with gold.
I’d love to see what that precipitate looks like under a microscope.
That would be a neat experiment.
Just out of curiosity as you were talking about some chemicals to neutralise nitric does bicarb soda actually work
It doesn’t have the punch. The solution could be saturated with it and still be acidic.
Some people do an ammonia rinse as well. What does that do and why are you not using ammonia? Thank you
Because it’s unnecessary.
Ammonia will dissolve silver chloride. But so will hot hydrochloric acid, and hot water boils.
That last reaction was interesting. It was fascinating how the gold fallen out of solution was floating on top of the gold in solution for so long. Forgive my layman's terms, but is it possible at all that gold in Aqua Regia is denser than physical, nano-gold? I've never seen that happen before in any of your videos. Usually the gold just falls through it and some remains suspended until you boil it.
Ok I gotta ask, been bugging me for a while lol. If you dissolve the gold in AR, then precipitate with SMB. Then repeat the same steps. Wouldn't all the same impurities from the 1st refining follow the gold into the 2nd refining? I mean the other metals dissolve in AR and precipitate just the same right?
The precipitation is selective. Those “other metals” will stay in solution and get poured off with the waste solution. Every cycle gets the gold cleaner, to a point.
@@sreetips hmm, guess I'm missing something. It just seems odd that if it was only selectively percipitating gold, and it was thoroughly rinsed (as you always do very well) that there is still a need to re-refine. To be clear I know 100% that multiple refinings do in fact increase purity. I just can't seem to work out why lol. Maybe understanding this can improve the process some how, I dunno, just been bugging me lol.
With the stumpout hardened into a brick, I think an idea might be to just cut it out of the plastic bottle, and then drip sulfuric acid on it, for an SO₂ precipitation?
Good idea
hey sree I think it would be cool if you did some asmr like type sounds of the stuff boiling instead of silence !
Good idea!
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I can dissolve an ounce of powdered gold in about 150ml hydrochloric acid and 20ml 68% nitric acid. Solid gold (not powdered) takes more acids.
After putting the gold in solution, does that make the solution heavier ?
Yes