Melting Silver Plated Scrap to Recover Pure Silver & Copper
Вставка
- Опубліковано 30 лис 2023
- Melting Silverplated Scrap to Recover Pure Silver & Copper #silver #refining
Recovering silver with fire experiment! Is refining silverplated items worth the effort? I think so, if you can purchase the silverplate at low cost. To test this theory, I melt over three kilos of silverplated scrap, pouring it down the lava slide, to turn it into shot • LAVA SLIDE! Melting M... . After pouring the shot, I test the alloy metal in the Olympus GoldXpert XRF. You can fast forward to XRF results towards the end of the video. The alloy metal included copper, silver, zinc, lead, manganese, tin, and trace iron all melted together. Next, the shot is further purified in a custom-built copper cell using copper sulfate electrolyte to recover the silver from all other base metals. The pure copper plates out on the copper cathode. I’m keeping track of all significant weights to calculate profit and loss from this experiment. This will be an ongoing experiment that may take several weeks with future videos to come.
Typically, I purchase silverplated items as an afterthought while searching for gold and silver jewelry and scrap. Over a year, I have collected over 50 pounds of silverplated scrap which I will be running some excitining experiments. I’m calculating different methods of purification while keeping track of supplies and other expenses. The ultimate goal is to be able to refine electroplated silver at the lowest possible cost. Just the refined copper alone has proven to be profitable and useful for other refining projects.
I appreciate your views and subscriptions! One of the best ways to support my channel is by watching or playing through the metal refining playlist - • Refining Metals
Don't forget to subscribe - / @monadnockgems
Check out gold and silver for sale on my website - anthonythomas.us/merchandise/...
Follow me on social media:
UA-cam - www.youtube.com/@monadnockgem...
Facebook - / monadnockgems
Instagram - / monadnockgems
Rumble - rumble.com/c/c-5101360
#metal #copper #silverplate - Навчання та стиль
Brilliant. I guess this is part one? Looks like you will get between 2 and 3 ounces of silver out of 3000 grams of shot. Didn't realize that there were so many other elements in silver plated scrap besides, copper, nickel and silver.
Thanks and yes! As soon as I get all the shot through the cell I'll definetly have another video showing the results. I'll be working on it this weekend. Thanks so much for watching!
I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and buy a furnace. I saw some vid's on making your own furnace. But I don't know if it's worth all the trouble. I have been doing the reverse electroplating with NaCl and it works well for me. But the furnace is an interesting method [making shot; that is] God bless you, brother. John 10:11 @@monadnockgems
The lava slide is so cool
Thanks! I'm thinking of making a new stainless steel one in an upcoming video. It works great.
Where did you get the XRF machine and how do you like it?
Awesome video. Thank you for sharing your ideas with us. Looking forward to the follow up. Nice shop too btw...
Thank you very much! Glad you liked it.
Make sure to post the follow up, it would be interesting to see how it works out. thank you
Thanks so much for watching. Here is the link to part 2 ua-cam.com/video/rMPxLyrO3-w/v-deo.html Hope you enjoy. I will have a few more videos coming up on this topic in the new year. God bless!
Love the lava slide!
Thanks so much! It really has worked great so far!
Is water running through it? I thought it would stick to the steel
Ahh, Pac Man.
Did the zinc cause any problems like causing the copper to cement out or foul the solution ?
No issue with zinc. I’m able to pull almost all zinc out with a conversion to a highly basic solution like NaOH. I have video coming up on this.
Question? After melting and pouring silver plated material to shot, couldn't you make a silver solution and grow silver crystals? Same process as this video but using silver nitrate solution?
Yes you can, and I may do that if the silver content were higher. Then the cost of nitric is justified. It takes a lot of nitric acid to contend with kilos of copper. In this case as in many cases I'm trying to squeeze out as much metal as I can with the least amount of effort and expense. I'm figuring 5 lbs of copper and 3 oz of silver, and I'm keeping track of my expensens for the follow up video. Thanks for watching!
@monadnockgems thank you, I've currently got a batch of silver crystals growing, which is all sterling. Do you have an email address? If you can't share that's fine. Your videos are really interesting, thank you, sir.
Secure email is sales@anthonythomas.com@@dannysearcy3373 I would love to see pics of your cell.
What is the voltage you run on the copper cell? 12V DC?
12 Volt DC works. I am using 30 volts DC power supply to drive the reaction. I will explain the high voltage in upcoming video. Thanks for subscribing!
Did you intentionally separate all the plated items, taking out those made of nickel and stainless steel?
I threw in what I had on hand with little testing on purpose... and I'm working on the follow up video now, will be out a week or two. Thanks for watching! Stay tuned
The only part that makes me sad about this is that silverware in a home is so uncommon now-a-days. Whereas before, silverware and fine China plates were the pride of many humble, middle-class families. Only to be brought out for special occasions. All of this silverware in the video was most likely, at one point, some housewife's pride. I have a decorative, wooden case full of my grandmother's silverware. And believe me, she was not rich. But she loved bringing it out for Thanksgiving.
I melted silver stuff, made an ingot bar out of it, I want to remelt it to remove impurities, guess what, the bar turns red but doesn't melt, not even soften.
Why?
Iron present would be my guess.
Subtítula en español por favor
Did you recover you 90 gms silver?
On going… should have results video out in 2 weeks. Thanks for watching.
It's all good if you got that kind of money to spend on that kind of equipment
Your running “silver plated” not sterling silver in this silver cell??
Running it through a copper cell. Copper will be removed and plated out on copper cathode. Silver will be left in anode basket for further refining.
@@monadnockgemsvery intetesting. Never thought about using a copper cell for this.
Thanks for the video!
That s not finish.....
It’s only 3% silver content? Wow… that’s really poor quality. What about using a copper rod in the solution to cement the silver first, then make a shot of that instead of the raw silver plated metal?
As someone who just got some silver plated stuff how would one do that?
Sandwhich
Handling molten metal you NEED a leather apron and BOOTS that go all the way over ankles, no laces. Or, leather covers for your shoes. Apron should go almost to well below knees.