I love watching your stock pot refining videos because you start with an unknown mixture of materials and then have to separate each group of elements one step at a time.
I'm not sure if it is something that you would be interested in making, but a neat thing to see would be a bunch of vials of all the different transition metal solutions you see during refining next to each other for reference. Something like copper in sulfuric, copper in nitric, copper in hydrochloric, and same for the silver and gold and platinum and palladium. You can probably get nitrates and sulfates and chlorides of the platinum group metals online. Something like that would make a cool reference video for amateur/new refiners, and you could pull them up in future vids as a comparison of 'dirty' solutions to pure ones.
Hey kev I just finished my 1st gold and silver recovery , I want to thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for posting these Educational videos I’m so glad I stumbled upon your videos now I have something to do with my life
I absolutely enjoy watching your videos, regardless of their subject matter; from fixing a fume hood and installing a vapor machine, to sorting carat scrap and refining precious metals. You're definitely one of my favorite RUclipsrs. I only wish I had enough $$$ to afford one of those "sreetips-stamped" Au bars.
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night! I could have sworn you were done with PGM refining lol. Looking forward to the series!
It started with a smile of enjoyment, but right around the 35 minute mark, the smile was definitely derived from this display bordering on masochism. Though im not sure how much pleasure you personally extract from working with the PGMs. Sisyphus of the fume hood. Love your work man, love the series. Its gonna be a wild ride.
Hi! Question: Why don't you use a strainer at the beggening in order to separate lil parts of copper from precious metals mud instead of spendind acid and time to disolve them? Thanks again for all the knowledge you share, all schools should have a teatcher like you!
Sreetips says I have a four-parter coming my way and I don’t have to watch the video at 12pm EST?!?!?! I’m always going to be a sreetips fan. This is just a hell of a good day for me. Haha.
Any plans on making more silver refining videos? I know you probably only refine Sterling as a by product of gold refining but I love watching the silver dissolve and also watching it cement out onto the copper.
Hey Master chief, when you add that nitric it seems to me that you essentially making aqua regia and putting precious metals into solution. I've found that dehydrating and lightly incinerating the material gives me the best returns from stock pots.
After completely watching this, I ran my keep it 100 gold crystals on my channel in nitric. The solution went bright red orange, I dosed it with a couple drops of sulfuric, to rid the iron best of my knowledge from memory. The solution remained reddish, decanted it, to submerge the telluride in AR. The decant solution cementing out with a tiny copper wire "when black right away" looked that orange and was about 3g for roughly 1oz of dirty 50/50 quartz/chalcopyrite telluride. The AR solution after 72 hours with the copper wire also, never precipitated but went black. I never tested though, and the precipitate didn't smell like sulfur even when burned. What was interesting though in the pyrometallurgy test, is I smelted the same stuff at 2500 degrees, nothing melted, believing the gold I found might be iridium. In the hydrometallurgy test the same thing happened I got the orange percipient, bit the left overs that didn't solute even after AR where lots of silvery metallic particles golding their shape. The science guy with the fizzy hair explained that that ore I found might be the ultra rare band of iridium deposits from the astroid that killed the dinosaurs. Bad news is after all the science experiments, I got nitric on my hand looking at the percipient, rinsed immediately, but that didn't save me, everything quickly dropped out, and an emergency restroom visit took place shortly afterwards, And the fumes from my hands was enough to severely burn the sphincter. Lmao but really, be careful it is not a fun thing to happen.
FYI. In the case you didn’t see it yet. NurdRage did a nitric acid (90%) recovery, and copper recovery from copper nitrate. Might cut back a little waste. About three months ago.
another fascinating process! i still have about 2 ounces in solution and the metals keep cementing, dissolving and cementing again. still dont know what happened. but the process is very interesting. today i stir, the next day i see gold crystals covering the pins. gold cementing on copper cementing on steel...🤣 ps: i tested with stannous but i cant see anything, i just wonder why the gold cements. im still reading hokes book till i understand every process
It’s the reactivity series of metals. As long as base metals are present the gold will cement out on them just as fast as it dissolves. This will continue until all of the base metals have dissolved completely. Im quite sure it has befuddled many a novice refiner including me when I first encountered it.
If you want to check for the presence of copper, just add ammonia to the solution. The resulting copper-tetramine-complex has a vivid blue color. Much more sensitive than judging an acidic solution of copper.
Hello sir, this seems to be interesting series... I am realy curious, what PGMs and how much will be there. You process lots of jewelery, so, it might be something... Not sure, if it is worth the effort, but entertaining no doubt...
Your sludges could be anything. I know that you're very careful about going PGM>Au>Ag>Cu and, finally Fe. I'm thinking that green solution is actually Ni. A spot test with dimethyl glyoxime would be definitive. That'd make sense because your 14k and 10k stuff, along with gold filled jewelry is going to be Cu plated, then Ni plated, then Au flashed. Same with circuit boards. But yeah. Anything left after the HNO3 boils would be PGM, less Pd...
Привіт вам з України!!! Велике Дякую вам за це відео, завжди все супер приємно дивитися і усе дуже добре поясюєте як завжди все на вищому рівні! Мільйони лайків!!! А завжди забуваю спитати що ви робите з тою міддю в ведрі, чи ви її в подальшому переплавляєте? Дякую!!!
Always torn between stock pot and the jeweler videos.....both are great. glad to hear you sounding better. Curious, at around 13:21 on top of the solution there appears to be some metallic looking stuff there right in the center. What is this? Or is it the lights playing tricks?
Thank you! I was waiting impatiently for a stock pot video! I saw your response to my question about schools not reaching out... that is rediculous! You sir are STEM! You are more fascinating than the tin foil hats creating the beginnings of the singularity with their headless robot dogs! What State are you in, if you don't mind me asking?
Do you ever have to reduce the water volume in the stock pot? Or is that when it's time to refine it? Just wondering if you would boil the water off or let it evaporate naturally.
Stannous tests can be unreliable when theres an excess of oxidizer in solution.... Im always extra cautious when refining material with unknown contents... Be careful with wastes... Dont wanna throw values out with the bathwater so to speak
I have lots of silver switch buttons that I've been saving do you have any step by step vids on refining stuff like that, would really appreciate and enjoy watching that I'm no chemist nor refiner please help thanks and keep up the vids
@@sreetips copper base most of the time with a silver top almost every switch made is this way, because of the small arc that occurs during current breaks, I get mine mostly from old appliances, any kind of electronics, and lots of old light switches, there small but seem to be high content and normally I've seen attached to a copper or bras base structure, I cut anything I can away, fou d your channel and been watching hoping to someday refine the silver out, also planning to start collecting old silver wear and silver plated home decoration stuff to refine for the silver thank you again for all the great informative vids
At one point you say blue color is copper related then you say green is copper related. I thought the blue would correlate with silver such as your silver cell. Am I mistaken? Sorry for my ignorance as I have no clue.
I was hoping to see you actually take a full stockpot and recover the acids along with the metals. Most people don't know that the Nitric, Hydrochloric and Sulfuric can be recovered. Granted in diluted form, but that can be rectified and concentrated again. Please show people the full chemistry of precious metals recycling
By the way you wrote that date, You are (or were) a Military man. I am forbidden from using that notation, even though it removes ALL doubt. My birthday, 6,4, 58 could be April 6, or June 4. 04 Jun 58 removes all guessing. (Yes, I AM an old "Phart!") steve
I have been watching you for a couple years now .. I would be curious if you where to incinerate that green work shirt if you would find trace of gold in it 🤔🤔
I always assumed you were American until I saw you write a date... where are you from? -edit ... lowes foods? You ARE American. Now I'm very curious to where you're from. Why do you write the date DD/MM/YY instead of MM/DD/YY
Gold and platinum, even in the finely divided state, will not dissolve in nitric acid alone. I think there were soluble chloride salts in your initial solution, and you made a mistake by not washing it (and possibly even incinerating it) before proceeding to nitric acid. The chloride salts would have acidified in the nitric acid and complexed with gold and platinum.
@@sreetips There must have been some other reactant involved. The reactions of gold/platinum and nitric acid is well-characterized. Only amounts smaller than can be seen with the naked eye will dissolve.
Here’s an anomaly: an alloy of 5% or less platinum and 95% or greater silver - both metals will dissolve completely in hot nitric acid. I’ve seen traces of platinum, that was dissolved in HCl and H2O2, then cemented on zinc, go into solution (trace amount but enough to color the solution) with hot hydrochloric acid. I guess if you work with it long enough you get to see all the rules broken.
@@sreetips ok because I was yelling "wait dont use that" to the video. Lol Love your content have suggested your channel to several people! Thanks for your hard work and knowledge!
Any metal lower than copper in the reactivity series of metals including tungsten, mercury, silver, gold and all six sister metals in the platinum group.
To bad their isn't some kinda basket u could put the copper in and let the other metals cement off it that way when time comes u can pull the basket of copper if theirs any left in it and all the other junk stays at the bottom so ya don't have to worry bout trying get all the leftover copper pieces out of it
@@sreetips just finding something not to big not to small so that the cemented metals go through but the small pieces of copper stay in I'm sure some small bits will get through but would make the task u just done a little bit easier knock a bit of time off
@@ericbeeman8717 any plastic basket, colander, strainer, whatever that is a compatible plastic would work. i'm sure some polymers will get eaten up by the chemicals in use
@@sreetips What about that massive Buchner funnel someone gave you? You can get porcelain colanders but stainless steel mesh with an epoxy coating would be perfect.
And add sodium bicarbonate to your stock pot now before adding anything more and you can drop the copper out to make copper carbonate and reduce your waste storage
Only reason I suggested that is to drop the copper out of your refining waste and a neutralizes all your acids I don't know how you clean your final waste for disposal
Dollars are just printed and in the long term worthless. Even cents have some intrinsic value. You can throw a few kilos of them into a waste treatment bucket so that precious metals will cement out on them.
@@NOFX0890 I did a little research as I was waiting for his reply and I did how ever find that you can recover the copper and recover the used nitric acid. It's not a hard process either hope he knows. I sure he dose. I just feel that anything saves is worth profit. But I'm a tight ass
@@hannable3871 Sreetips is a Precious Metals refiner, not a scrapper. Copper is a necessary component of the process, but it is cheap and abundant, with the end result of copper being a waste product. The mans not 30s years old anymore. Time is money, experience is time, is money. You have to be efficient with your time and allocate it wisely. This is not his whole life, yet he dedicates alot of his life to precious metals. 10% or more of the people who watch this channel, im being conservative, have asked this question. Its asked every video. Its not worth his time. Some people like copper, I like copper. But Im informed enough to put it in perspective. Copper is a waste product once its been through a contaminated stockpot. Force the issue if you have strong convictions, though youre wasting your breath. It wont endear you to him. Just enjoy the videos. Time spent cleaning, recovering acids and waste BASE Metals could be spent learning about Rhodium. Hes also foreshadowed that hes going to reveal a new process for PGMs. That is TIME and research. Then its time for practical applications. Time, time, time. More glassware, more chemicals, more space to work, more research. For cheap base metals and relatively cheap chemicals. It is not worth it. If you want to save YOUR copper. Do it. Film it. People will watch it.
You ever flirt with the idea of melting down some of your copper to cast into a large anode of sorts to use in your stock pots? Just so your don't get little pieces of copper mixed in with your mud? You got the equipment now that you got your home forge set up.
I love watching your stock pot refining videos because you start with an unknown mixture of materials and then have to separate each group of elements one step at a time.
I'm not sure if it is something that you would be interested in making, but a neat thing to see would be a bunch of vials of all the different transition metal solutions you see during refining next to each other for reference. Something like copper in sulfuric, copper in nitric, copper in hydrochloric, and same for the silver and gold and platinum and palladium. You can probably get nitrates and sulfates and chlorides of the platinum group metals online. Something like that would make a cool reference video for amateur/new refiners, and you could pull them up in future vids as a comparison of 'dirty' solutions to pure ones.
That would be really neat
Cool idea!
I would like to see that
Hey kev I just finished my 1st gold and silver recovery , I want to thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for posting these Educational videos I’m so glad I stumbled upon your videos now I have something to do with my life
Excellent!
Congratulations Maggie.
I absolutely enjoy watching your videos, regardless of their subject matter; from fixing a fume hood and installing a vapor machine, to sorting carat scrap and refining precious metals. You're definitely one of my favorite RUclipsrs. I only wish I had enough $$$ to afford one of those "sreetips-stamped" Au bars.
30th! YIPPEE! Will be watching for your next video to see what you will come out with. Roger in Pierre South Dakota
Best T shirt ever. “Please remember -I’m making this up as I go. “. 😂
Lovely jubble...lets settle down with a glass of brandy and enjoy 😊😊
Glad to see stanous chloride make a comeback lol. Glad you are back. Been subbed for a couple of years and absolutely love your content.
I always learn something new when I watch sreetips videos 👍👍
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night! I could have sworn you were done with PGM refining lol. Looking forward to the series!
Goooood evening!
Ah yes, platinum refining. May the safety squints be with you.
F*ck yea! It’s stockpot time! Almost better than Christmas!
A new video from my favorite modern day alchemist. Always a treat.
You’re welcome! It was my pleasure to watch. A parade of past guest stars getting together on stage for a final bow. 👍👍🤟
The legend sreetips might hate his stock pot refining, but I think I speak for everyone when I say these are "the best"!!!
you might make it up as you go but its fun to watch the way you do it, and we still learn something :) thanks for the videos!
glad you're back! stay healthy
Mr. Sreetips, you are a patient man. It clearly serves you well.
Excited to see what you get from this thank you for sharing five stars my friend
STOCK POT TIME. I dont refine but for some reason for years I am always looking forward to your stock pot videos.
Excellent once again, thank you. You always leave us wanting more.
Side note- the last gold video you did was also great, concise and to the point.
that green liquid sure aint Momma’s Lime Kool Aid!
Glad you posted a new video. Can't wait to watch your videos
I love the complexity of these stockpot refining processes. Looking forward to part two.
Sreetips has always got these great informational videos. Keep up the good work!
It started with a smile of enjoyment, but right around the 35 minute mark, the smile was definitely derived from this display bordering on masochism. Though im not sure how much pleasure you personally extract from working with the PGMs.
Sisyphus of the fume hood.
Love your work man, love the series.
Its gonna be a wild ride.
Cant Wait to see it melted. Sreetips we need an hour long melting video of various metals. You do such a fantastic job at it.
BigstackD will not disappoint.
Learning As We Go! Sreetips ROCK's!!!
Good work Sreetips,!👍🤗👍
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Hi! Question: Why don't you use a strainer at the beggening in order to separate lil parts of copper from precious metals mud instead of spendind acid and time to disolve them? Thanks again for all the knowledge you share, all schools should have a teatcher like you!
Didn’t think of it
I can hardly wait for part 2👍
For the seasoned RUclipsrs.... Platinum smoke, don't breathe this!
Love the stock pot videos. Never know what you end up with 😮
Sreetips says I have a four-parter coming my way and I don’t have to watch the video at 12pm EST?!?!?!
I’m always going to be a sreetips fan. This is just a hell of a good day for me. Haha.
Any plans on making more silver refining videos? I know you probably only refine Sterling as a by product of gold refining but I love watching the silver dissolve and also watching it cement out onto the copper.
Hey Master chief, when you add that nitric it seems to me that you essentially making aqua regia and putting precious metals into solution. I've found that dehydrating and lightly incinerating the material gives me the best returns from stock pots.
Bro, you have some very nice glassware!
52👍's up sreetips thanks for sharing
Love the Stock Pot Series!!
Loving your work @sreetips. One day you need to process that shirt of yours. Must have accumulated a couple of ounces of PGMs over its journey. 🤣🤣👍👍
After completely watching this, I ran my keep it 100 gold crystals on my channel in nitric. The solution went bright red orange, I dosed it with a couple drops of sulfuric, to rid the iron best of my knowledge from memory. The solution remained reddish, decanted it, to submerge the telluride in AR.
The decant solution cementing out with a tiny copper wire "when black right away" looked that orange and was about 3g for roughly 1oz of dirty 50/50 quartz/chalcopyrite telluride. The AR solution after 72 hours with the copper wire also, never precipitated but went black.
I never tested though, and the precipitate didn't smell like sulfur even when burned.
What was interesting though in the pyrometallurgy test, is I smelted the same stuff at 2500 degrees, nothing melted, believing the gold I found might be iridium. In the hydrometallurgy test the same thing happened I got the orange percipient, bit the left overs that didn't solute even after AR where lots of silvery metallic particles golding their shape.
The science guy with the fizzy hair explained that that ore I found might be the ultra rare band of iridium deposits from the astroid that killed the dinosaurs.
Bad news is after all the science experiments, I got nitric on my hand looking at the percipient, rinsed immediately, but that didn't save me, everything quickly dropped out, and an emergency restroom visit took place shortly afterwards, And the fumes from my hands was enough to severely burn the sphincter.
Lmao but really, be careful it is not a fun thing to happen.
Thankyou sir for uploading this series
I tip my hat to you because you posted very cool content. I will wait to watch the second part
Yeesss been waiting for this series!
Oh yes, here we go!
🍻 im here for this
FYI. In the case you didn’t see it yet. NurdRage did a nitric acid (90%) recovery, and copper recovery from copper nitrate. Might cut back a little waste. About three months ago.
another fascinating process!
i still have about 2 ounces in solution and the metals keep cementing, dissolving and cementing again. still dont know what happened. but the process is very interesting. today i stir, the next day i see gold crystals covering the pins. gold cementing on copper cementing on steel...🤣
ps: i tested with stannous but i cant see anything, i just wonder why the gold cements. im still reading hokes book till i understand every process
It’s the reactivity series of metals. As long as base metals are present the gold will cement out on them just as fast as it dissolves. This will continue until all of the base metals have dissolved completely. Im quite sure it has befuddled many a novice refiner including me when I first encountered it.
If you want to check for the presence of copper, just add ammonia to the solution. The resulting copper-tetramine-complex has a vivid blue color. Much more sensitive than judging an acidic solution of copper.
Hello sir, this seems to be interesting series... I am realy curious, what PGMs and how much will be there. You process lots of jewelery, so, it might be something... Not sure, if it is worth the effort, but entertaining no doubt...
It's interesting to see what that zinc did to the solution. 👍
Hey, seems like you using quite a lot copper. What you do with it after refining?
Toss it
Cool stuff my man. Cool stuff.
Can't wait for the next part
Your sludges could be anything. I know that you're very careful about going PGM>Au>Ag>Cu and, finally Fe.
I'm thinking that green solution is actually Ni. A spot test with dimethyl glyoxime would be definitive. That'd make sense because your 14k and 10k stuff, along with gold filled jewelry is going to be Cu plated, then Ni plated, then Au flashed. Same with circuit boards.
But yeah. Anything left after the HNO3 boils would be PGM, less Pd...
Real life alchemist, Mr Sreetips. Not sure if you told us how often you refine this stock pot?
About once per year or so.
What's the blue stuff on the bucket? Unobtainium 😆
Some sort of copper compound
Привіт вам з України!!! Велике Дякую вам за це відео, завжди все супер приємно дивитися і усе дуже добре поясюєте як завжди все на вищому рівні! Мільйони лайків!!! А завжди забуваю спитати що ви робите з тою міддю в ведрі, чи ви її в подальшому переплавляєте? Дякую!!!
The PGM would fall out of the green solution if you put chunks copper in it right?
Yes
Always torn between stock pot and the jeweler videos.....both are great. glad to hear you sounding better. Curious, at around 13:21 on top of the solution there appears to be some metallic looking stuff there right in the center. What is this? Or is it the lights playing tricks?
Junk
@@sreetips Thanks! Thought so but wanted to confirm.
Thank you! I was waiting impatiently for a stock pot video!
I saw your response to my question about schools not reaching out... that is rediculous!
You sir are STEM!
You are more fascinating than the tin foil hats creating the beginnings of the singularity with their headless robot dogs!
What State are you in, if you don't mind me asking?
Sweet!
One for the algorithm!
Do you ever have to reduce the water volume in the stock pot? Or is that when it's time to refine it? Just wondering if you would boil the water off or let it evaporate naturally.
Evaporation would reduce liquid volume and be a benefit. But I keep it covered a cement the metals out with copper.
Excellent.
Do you do a cost of recovery for these?
It's fascinating stuff, but I wonder if the cost do do this would be financially viable?
It’s my hobby so I’ve never taken the time to calculate cost.
Stannous tests can be unreliable when theres an excess of oxidizer in solution.... Im always extra cautious when refining material with unknown contents... Be careful with wastes... Dont wanna throw values out with the bathwater so to speak
No way, any wastes will go back into the stock pot.
TY for Sharing! :)
I have lots of silver switch buttons that I've been saving do you have any step by step vids on refining stuff like that, would really appreciate and enjoy watching that I'm no chemist nor refiner please help thanks and keep up the vids
I’ve never tried silver switch buttons. No experience with them
@@sreetips copper base most of the time with a silver top almost every switch made is this way, because of the small arc that occurs during current breaks, I get mine mostly from old appliances, any kind of electronics, and lots of old light switches, there small but seem to be high content and normally I've seen attached to a copper or bras base structure, I cut anything I can away, fou d your channel and been watching hoping to someday refine the silver out, also planning to start collecting old silver wear and silver plated home decoration stuff to refine for the silver thank you again for all the great informative vids
Copper and silver are both soluble in nitric acid.
@@sreetips thank you
At one point you say blue color is copper related then you say green is copper related. I thought the blue would correlate with silver such as your silver cell. Am I mistaken? Sorry for my ignorance as I have no clue.
Blue is the color of copper in solution. Platinum, in small amounts, will appear as yellow. Yellow and blue make green.
do you ever refine to get back all the copper used, or can you even?
No, once it gets used, I toss it.
I'm nuts and want you to mix all 3 beakers together and make Adamantium!! ROFLMAO 😆 🤣 😂 😁 !!
I was hoping to see you actually take a full stockpot and recover the acids along with the metals.
Most people don't know that the Nitric, Hydrochloric and Sulfuric can be recovered. Granted in diluted form, but that can be rectified and concentrated again.
Please show people the full chemistry of precious metals recycling
I don’t know how
By the way you wrote that date,
You are (or were) a Military man.
I am forbidden from using that
notation, even though it removes
ALL doubt.
My birthday, 6,4, 58 could be April
6, or June 4. 04 Jun 58 removes
all guessing. (Yes, I AM an old "Phart!")
steve
Yes, I’m a twenty-year Navy man.
Sorry Mr. for making content about palladium live streaming, please give me a schedule so I can follow the live streaming.
Didn’t you used to have a heating stir plate? What happened to that?
Still got it
I have been watching you for a couple years now .. I would be curious if you where to incinerate that green work shirt if you would find trace of gold in it 🤔🤔
It’s in nearly all of my videos. Mrs sreetips wants me to sell it
PGMs seem more complicated to refine compared to the other metals you work with.
Infinitely so
I always assumed you were American until I saw you write a date... where are you from?
-edit ... lowes foods? You ARE American. Now I'm very curious to where you're from. Why do you write the date DD/MM/YY instead of MM/DD/YY
Somewhere near the great lakes maybe?
Sree is a Navy vet. The armed forces teach you to use the dd/mm/yy format.
@@1911darkstar Ah, thank you!
I label all my computer files like this: year, month, day, title. 20220921_title
Gold and platinum, even in the finely divided state, will not dissolve in nitric acid alone. I think there were soluble chloride salts in your initial solution, and you made a mistake by not washing it (and possibly even incinerating it) before proceeding to nitric acid. The chloride salts would have acidified in the nitric acid and complexed with gold and platinum.
I’ve seen platinum and gold dissolve in hot dilute nitric.
@@sreetips There must have been some other reactant involved. The reactions of gold/platinum and nitric acid is well-characterized. Only amounts smaller than can be seen with the naked eye will dissolve.
Here’s an anomaly: an alloy of 5% or less platinum and 95% or greater silver - both metals will dissolve completely in hot nitric acid. I’ve seen traces of platinum, that was dissolved in HCl and H2O2, then cemented on zinc, go into solution (trace amount but enough to color the solution) with hot hydrochloric acid. I guess if you work with it long enough you get to see all the rules broken.
stock pot stock pot stock pot stock pot
Stock pot = first step in the waste treatment process
Dora the Explorer fan?
Sreetips do you refine the rhodium out as well?
I know it’s in there, but I’m clueless about rhodium
@@sreetips I'm sure you'll get it someday,as what I heard about rhodium is its very tricky to refine
What is the light blue sediment on the sides of this stockpot? I have the same color stuff covering the top of mine
Copper compound. It dissolves easily in the waste solutions.
so good!
Ws that schmoo on the beaker or was that a fracture in the glass?
It’s reflection from the two led lights I have hanging in the overhead.
@@sreetips ok because I was yelling "wait dont use that" to the video. Lol Love your content have suggested your channel to several people! Thanks for your hard work and knowledge!
What metals does copper cement out?
Any metal lower than copper in the reactivity series of metals including tungsten, mercury, silver, gold and all six sister metals in the platinum group.
What is the light blue sediment on the inside walls of your stock pot bucket?
Some copper compound
To bad their isn't some kinda basket u could put the copper in and let the other metals cement off it that way when time comes u can pull the basket of copper if theirs any left in it and all the other junk stays at the bottom so ya don't have to worry bout trying get all the leftover copper pieces out of it
That’s not a bad idea
@@sreetips just finding something not to big not to small so that the cemented metals go through but the small pieces of copper stay in I'm sure some small bits will get through but would make the task u just done a little bit easier knock a bit of time off
@@ericbeeman8717 any plastic basket, colander, strainer, whatever that is a compatible plastic would work. i'm sure some polymers will get eaten up by the chemicals in use
@@sreetips What about that massive Buchner funnel someone gave you? You can get porcelain colanders but stainless steel mesh with an epoxy coating would be perfect.
Should the intake be covered with a material like filter paper?
In refining, a stock pot is the first step in the waste treatment process
@@sreetips Okay.....I just finished watching all the way through to the end. I struggled at first but now am excited again. Clarity floods my mind.
@@sreetips 🍔 Always making me hungry
And add sodium bicarbonate to your stock pot now before adding anything more and you can drop the copper out to make copper carbonate and reduce your waste storage
Only reason I suggested that is to drop the copper out of your refining waste and a neutralizes all your acids I don't know how you clean your final waste for disposal
Hangi asitle yapıyorsunuz çökertmeyi acaba şöylermisiniz
Probably nitric acid
@@sreetips teşekkür ederim kolay gelsin
At which point do you stop spending Dollars to recover Cents?
When they put me in the ground.
@@sreetips And for that we thank you because the real value is in knowledge you're sharing ...or at least the entertainment you're providing!
Dollars are just printed and in the long term worthless. Even cents have some intrinsic value. You can throw a few kilos of them into a waste treatment bucket so that precious metals will cement out on them.
So is there ever a point that you recover the copper is it possible or even worth it?
No
Sreetips knows that someone is going to show up on his last day on this earth and ask him this question.
@@NOFX0890 I did a little research as I was waiting for his reply and I did how ever find that you can recover the copper and recover the used nitric acid. It's not a hard process either hope he knows. I sure he dose. I just feel that anything saves is worth profit. But I'm a tight ass
@@hannable3871 Sreetips is a Precious Metals refiner, not a scrapper.
Copper is a necessary component of the process, but it is cheap and abundant, with the end result of copper being a waste product.
The mans not 30s years old anymore.
Time is money, experience is time, is money.
You have to be efficient with your time and allocate it wisely. This is not his whole life, yet he dedicates alot of his life to precious metals.
10% or more of the people who watch this channel, im being conservative, have asked this question.
Its asked every video.
Its not worth his time.
Some people like copper, I like copper. But Im informed enough to put it in perspective.
Copper is a waste product once its been through a contaminated stockpot.
Force the issue if you have strong convictions, though youre wasting your breath. It wont endear you to him.
Just enjoy the videos.
Time spent cleaning, recovering acids and waste BASE Metals could be spent learning about Rhodium.
Hes also foreshadowed that hes going to reveal a new process for PGMs. That is TIME and research. Then its time for practical applications.
Time, time, time. More glassware, more chemicals, more space to work, more research.
For cheap base metals and relatively cheap chemicals.
It is not worth it.
If you want to save YOUR copper. Do it. Film it. People will watch it.
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What has sitting on top of the salads to do with it?
A question for the philosophers, not the alchemists...
How do you discard waste after its no more use
Waste treatment
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You ever flirt with the idea of melting down some of your copper to cast into a large anode of sorts to use in your stock pots? Just so your don't get little pieces of copper mixed in with your mud? You got the equipment now that you got your home forge set up.
Hi guys ,anyone there knows if XRF analysis detect metals precipitate/ sponge?