I’m not sure what’s more impressive, your refining skills or the fact you’ve captured my entire attention for a 41.41 minute video! Either way top notch content. Thanks for sharing.
I agree...not only can i easily sit and watch him so easily, i think I am memorizing the process.. 😂. I am so intrigued, im battling with myself about taking some of my placer gold and trying it.
as carl sagan used to say, we are made of star stuff literally it seems that the entire solar system is made of the remnants of a supernova, and left alot of material that forms asteroids filled with gold, platinum and palladium between other elements, that is one of the things elon musk and bezos wants to go and grab, because is literally there, to grab it
Not that easy. We can’t even keep humans safe in our polar regions here on earth. Exploring outer space with chemical rockets is akin to exploring the ocean with a life preserver. Science has no clue what gravity is. Solve the gravity problem THEN we can go harvest the stars.
@@sreetips You strike me as a bit of polymath, perhaps. I did always wonder where the heavier elements came from, guess I never got around to figuring it out, or forgot. Thnx for the info and the vids; I've enjoyed quite a few of them lately. As I was watching, I thought it might be neat if you had a camera on the camera arrangement. It might be neat to get a few shots of you doing your thing at the fume hood with the fume hood cam. Anywho, cheers.
According to the more detailed explanation, our solar system is the result of a supernova of a star (or multiple stars) which were formed from the remnants of a prior generation of stars that had gone supernova. The elements generated in the first round of supernovae are required in order for the second generation of supernovae to synthesize gold.
You made a really fine end product, I would say it was 99.9 fine gold. Very, very clean gold, I will have to watch it again. No one else makes refining video's this clean and precise.
People are willing to pay a premium to have it in the natural form. It's just interesting to look at and pretty cool that it comes from the earth. I don't think anybody buying this thinks they're getting $1800 worth of 24 karat gold when they buy.
@@bigidiot123 The thing is, with placer you can sell it for the full 24k gold value even though it isn't 24k (that's where the premium price comes from you mentioned) So you get your full monies worth at least for "weight in gold" even if not pure.
they all try it, a guy is better off finding a good placer mine and making a deal with the miners, they just want live value for their work, mot people see "gold value" is $1800 an ounce and they don't have a clue that's for pure .999 24k gold. and that NO GOLD comes out of the earth is 24k, highest you might see is 20k average is like 18k and it can go as low as 16k, hale maybe lower if it has a lot of quarts and iron mixed in gotta look at it, not just the top of a bag or container whatever, spread it out, most agencies have average purity for said region its extracted from, if its 18k, that's what you offer the miner, he usually takes it cuz you save him a ride into town to deal with the crooks and he he isn't purifying it if he does that, some do, some don't.. most know purifying it brings the honest dollar .. gold is already expensive enough, more than enough money in it they don't need to be jacking folks 20-60% cuz they are crooks and their plant is running lean, hale I didn't do the testing of your claim buddy, I've give you what its worth, no more .. .
I love Placer gold!!! I have a extensive Placer nugget collection that I love to admire every day! I've been prospecting, panning, and everything gold for years. That is why I'm on this new adventure of gold refining. Thank you so much for all the knowledge! Oh, Just a little information, I just ordered online 1 liter of Nitric acid delivered to my door $32.00 no hazmat fee!
@@helives2630 Not sure why my comments aren't going through. I guess RUclips doesn't like the instructions. From what I'm reading they are considering it spam or something. So I should stop before I get put in youtube jail. It's there though. Sorry
Watching both too... also Vo-Gus prospecting and many others... So I became a hobby goldwasher (some miligrams), preparing for refining elecronic gold scrap... Gold is just amazing... :-)
i used to watch dan hurd until he began asking people for donations, when he was doing videos where he found gemstones, gold and other things worth tens of thousands of dollars, alot of people left the channel because he is a mix of smart and fake guy, left alot of people with mixed feelings about his work, and is a shame, sometimes he can find great things in the rivers he visit
Thanks for another interesting video. I had read about Placer gold and you just confirmed what I read! If you had paid #1,303.21 for the 31.2 grams then you would have broken even. In fact, you paid 30% above the spot price for October 30. I realize this is your hobby but clearly, this seller is asking too much! Keep up the good and interesting work.
Its a rare RUclips moment that I can sit down and watch a 40+ minute video in its entirety, great work, wish you would ship to the UK, I would like to own some Sreetip merchandise.
I bought a little electronic gold tester for under 300 bucks. It seems to do a good job of karat testing. Love that color when the solution gets so rich that it gets a little redish. Thanks for the video. Good stuff.
What a cool hobby you have perfected brother,, The chemistry involved to take these Elements from metal, to liquid, precipitate into a powder, and then it takes intense Fire heat to turn back into metal form is amazing. I can follow along your different processes by heart,, Great job,!
Wow, that explanation about the origin of gold is something I have never heard as far as the scientific chemistry part of it. That is awesome i'm glad I know that now.
Loved the explanation of where gold comes from! Great science lesson! Also everything above iron comes from supernova. So we are all made of star dust!
@@sreetips Btw, there is a new theory that there are too little heavy elements observed in the Universe compared to the number of supernovae. A new theory suggests that the heavy elements, like gold, might not be forming in supernovae but in neutron star collisions. Those are very rare.
@@bormisha I was just going to comment about this, thanks for pointing it out. In a way gold can be thought of as the byproduct of the creation of some black holes, with gravitational waves traveling the universe singing the song of gold's creation.
I’m glad that I reduced the amount of silver added. Too much silver would cause the gold to crumble to a powder making separation of the silver solution from the gold difficult.
Absolutely beautiful bar!!! I believe your incremental nitric dosing is the best route. I don't care for the excess nitric problem during the precipitation attempt.
Thank you for all your videos. I actually reclaimed gold from silicon wafers and you taught me the stump out trick. Thank you for that. :) I have some or should I say alot of silicon wafers that may contain RH and or PD, and PT. If you are interested in trying some samples off line I can send them. We both can make a profit. Kind Regards, Steve
Thanks so much, Sr. I never hesitate to watch any of your videos. Never a dull moment watching chemical magic. The problem stars have with iron fusion is that it takes as much energy to contain as it produces which isn't sustainable. The "weight" of the star overcomes the "blast" of the fusion and the star collapses/implodes. It's fascinating and sometimes such things make me wonder if astrophysics was better for me than geophysics. 😁 Gold is a loving metal. It wraps its arms around the copper, etc. that is alloyed with it and won't let go. I have a reaction to wearing copper. I can have a sterling silver ring or chain on for an hour and I have green skin from it. I cannot wear sterling silver. Karat gold, even with a lot higher copper content, never does that. Not even 10k. It would be interesting to experiment with some of that 6k inquarted gold to see if the copper messes with me. BTW, I've seen 21k Alaskan gold.
Thank you once again Sreetips! Excellent video. Funny I also about flunked chemistry way back in high school, but have gone on to gain so much knowledge and understanding since then. School might be helpful, but nothing is more important than actually wanting to know something and applying ones self to get there. Beautifully executed processes. You clearly have become Very masterful at refining.
This is way better than “How it’s made”. That show is awesome but it should be called “How it’s assembled” more then “How it’s made”. I like seeing all the steps of a process which is what you get when watching Sreetips’ videos. I know “How it’s made” has constraints that prevent them from being able to show everything about how a product is made, but sometimes the videos they put out just miss the mark imo. Still neat though.
Great 👍 video thx for sharing, every time I watch your videos makes me wish I would have stayed in chemistry class when I was in high school way back when lol thx again always enjoy your videos
@@sreetips oh damn it is truly amazing how you do the refining that you do and I hope to someday be in a place that my wife and I could try but you have to have a place to be able to store the chemicals that you have to in a safe place or I would be trying it myself
Sreetips, you nailed it with the "where does gold come from" question. This answer is good for all elements heavier than iron. Question: why didn't you just dump the material as it was into H2SO4? You would have removed lesser metal impurities and saved a lot of energy.
I was wondering what you thought about using a tumbler and ceramic abrasive stones to remove gold from gold pins. I have approximately 6lbs to process and was wondering what you thought about it. I was hoping to limit the amount of nitric acid I had to use . Thanks and love watching your videos.
I’ve never tried that nor heard of it. But that doesn’t mean it won’t work. I’d be concerned about recovering the foils from the ceramic. Acid peroxide is a good method and uses no nitric. And a sulfuric acid stripping cell. But which ever you chose, do a small sample first, say, 200 grams as an experiment before going all in with the entire 6 pounds.
Thank you for your amazing videos. Looks like financially doesnt make much sense to buy this type of gold for refining. Today's spot price was 59 and change per gram so definitely losing money on this refining. Do you find that buying gold at yard/estate sales is the only way to make refining profitable?
Hold on, I didn’t lose money. I traded failing paper dollars for highly valuable GOLD. It would be a loss only if I sold it at today’s artificially suppressed price. None of the numbers that are being issued are correct - everything is out of wack. I’m not selling, I’m buying!
Very cool. I watch some shows where they sluice for placer gold and the most I've ever seen any of them do is smelt refine it. That's probably fine since they are just going to sell it to a bullion dealer
Incredible video sreetips! I also like to follow some of the prospectors out there (Vo-Gus, Dan Hurd and PioneerPauly - I thought they were saying "plaster gold" LOL). I always thought a collaboration with those guys would be really cool, but this is a great alternative. That final bar you created is really amazing looking - prefect! It would really be interesting to see a contrast and comparison of the "cupellation method" (mbmmllc uses this) to the chemical refining approach you use.
@@sreetips Yeah, I wasn't completely sure why @mbmmllc uses it - but I think it must be more relevant to mining where your first order of business is just to remove all the base metals and stone and hope you have something left. After that he has a little measurement device that gives him a reading of the precious metal content. Maybe cupellation is the way to go when your have a very small amount of precious metal in a large amount of material? He did demonstrate using it to extract platinum from catalytic converters.
Cupel Is used by miners. I am a refiner. He gets his metal from the ground. I get the metal that I work with from above the ground in the form of scrap jewelry and such. Two different worlds but closely related because we are both after precious metals.
Seeing the first second or two when you start the initial melt and you see a few tiny flecks fly off made me wonder. You've a series on the jeweler's sweeps, are you going to ever do a Sreetips sweeps series? Also, thanks for doing that stannous check on the used nitric. You've made that comment about gold going into solution during the boil before, so it was interesting to see the results.
I sweep the table into a “sweeps container” and then add a spoon of the sweeps to cement silver as I’m melting it into granules for the silver cell. It gets trapped in the silver cell filters and I recover any gold or PGMs from from the silver cell filter slimes.
Thanks for all you do As a "gold prospector" of Lake Superior flour gold, I have the angst of "to refine or not to refine". What was your best placer gold refine? Was this one the highest yield?
@@sreetips its excellent "real gold" content in placer gold. Flakes can be sold in natural state for more $ then refining. Then a smart man could flip the $ and buy .999 gold and be further ahead! 😂
Flipping (immediately reselling the refined gold) for more paper dollars is not what I’m doing. I’m converting paper dollars to gold. Just as fast as I can while it’s still on sale.
I love watching your videos. I have a question about gold inquartation with silver; can you use .999 fine silver or is sterling silver good enough and lastly if you can use either would the calculation of how much to use change depending on the purity of the silver used?
Three nines silver could be used, but that’s counter productive - going the wrong way if pure metal is what we’re after. Sterling is best for me because I refine silver also and the first step in refining sterling is to dissolve it in nitric. So why not kill two birds with one stone and use the sterling for inquartation. Essentially refining both metals simultaneously. Sterling will take more nitric than pure silver because sterling has copper in it. But I’ve found that using pure copper seems to work the best for inquartation. Much less silver chloride to deal with in refining the gold.
purely esthetically spoken this bar is the prettiest so far I've seen you pour mr Sreetips :) By the way, I was wondering whether you could try to extract any lead from your silver waste solution jar... We see you use sulfuric acid to precipitate it, but it would be interesting to see how much lead can be effectively extracted from those solutions
I cement my silver solutions on copper. Lead, being higher up in the reactivity series, won’t cement on the copper. It stays in solution and meats it’s end as metallic lead in the waste treatment bucket cementing out on iron
Why couldn't you nitric acid boil the placer gold without having to melt it with the silver? As fine as the flakes of gold were I would have thought the nitric would be able to get to the base metals this way. I'm not a chemist but I do enjoy watching your videos and I am learning.
I watched the entire video from start to finish. AT about the 10 minute mark is when you did your initial calculations on paper and used the calculator. At about the 40 minute mark you showed the earlier calculations and your "spoken" numbers didn't make sense when determining your end result... I'm confused or I must have missed something.... GREAT VIDEO SIR!!!
I will never refine gold, but really enjoy watching the process. Do you have any concerns about possible health impacts of breathing in any of the fumes from the process?
I was wondering, maybe you could do a video of where you get a lot of your acids and solvents, what your able to make and refine yourself and stockpile for use. As much as your willing to share that is. It seems getting into self refining that the first step would be stockpiling certain materials and acids. This stuff isnt cheap.
Some of those black flecks you see in there are actually gold coated in manganese. Mn is quite soluble in ground water and will coat gold grains. I've also seen Fe do the same thing to a lesser extent. That appears to be a more reddish tinted. Kudos to you for paying full price for fine particle sized placer gold for the demonstration purpose. In Alaska alluvial gold can range from 50% to 98% purity depending on the location. The mass loss could also be partially due to sulphides being driven off by oxidation.
I needed it to make the video. Gladly pay for someone else to collect that much gold. Much respect for guys and gals that go find it and concentrate it like that.
Just curious: right before you precipitate the gold, when the solution is a beautiful amber color.... Does the gold saturated solution "feel" heavy? Just fascinated with your thorough process...
The gold solution is much heavier than the same volume of water, but I can’t tell the difference in the weight by holding it in my hand. I’d have to weigh it
Nitric dissolves lead. Sulfuric precipitates it out of the gold solution as lead sulfate. Then we can 100% remove all traces of lead from the gold by filtering it out.
Chief, have you thought about buying a water distiller? A larger upfront purchase might save you from buying gallon jugs from Food Lion. Plus less plastic waste.
Yes, checked into it. It was expensive. I hate humping jugs in from the car. But I use about twenty gallons per month. Not enough to justify the expense. I’m low-budget, hobby level.
I have thought about refining some of my fines from California. Some of the hard rock gold is around 23kt and looks amazing in a button, but not the 24kt look!
I’m not sure what’s more impressive, your refining skills or the fact you’ve captured my entire attention for a 41.41 minute video! Either way top notch content. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent. I’ve watched it on my big screen three times. Each time 41 minutes feels like 15
I agree Pyro couple 570 he is a amazing guy :)
I agree...not only can i easily sit and watch him so easily, i think I am memorizing the process.. 😂. I am so intrigued, im battling with myself about taking some of my placer gold and trying it.
Dear sir I want to thank you for the lesson of "where does gold come from" I never knew. It truly is a gift from the stars, amazing.
Thank you
as carl sagan used to say, we are made of star stuff
literally
it seems that the entire solar system is made of the remnants of a supernova, and left alot of material that forms asteroids filled with gold, platinum and palladium between other elements, that is one of the things elon musk and bezos wants to go and grab, because is literally there, to grab it
Not that easy. We can’t even keep humans safe in our polar regions here on earth. Exploring outer space with chemical rockets is akin to exploring the ocean with a life preserver. Science has no clue what gravity is. Solve the gravity problem THEN we can go harvest the stars.
@@sreetips You strike me as a bit of polymath, perhaps. I did always wonder where the heavier elements came from, guess I never got around to figuring it out, or forgot. Thnx for the info and the vids; I've enjoyed quite a few of them lately. As I was watching, I thought it might be neat if you had a camera on the camera arrangement. It might be neat to get a few shots of you doing your thing at the fume hood with the fume hood cam. Anywho, cheers.
According to the more detailed explanation, our solar system is the result of a supernova of a star (or multiple stars) which were formed from the remnants of a prior generation of stars that had gone supernova. The elements generated in the first round of supernovae are required in order for the second generation of supernovae to synthesize gold.
You made a really fine end product, I would say it was 99.9 fine gold. Very, very clean gold, I will have to watch it again. No one else makes refining video's this clean and precise.
Thank you!
I am so glad I found this channel. It's not every day you gain this much knowledge of a process that is as rare as what you are working with.
I saved at least $460.00 today alone
Great video, thanks for sharing! That's a pretty good hussle that placer company has selling $1200 worth of gold for $1800 lol
People are willing to pay a premium to have it in the natural form. It's just interesting to look at and pretty cool that it comes from the earth. I don't think anybody buying this thinks they're getting $1800 worth of 24 karat gold when they buy.
@@bigidiot123 The thing is, with placer you can sell it for the full 24k gold value even though it isn't 24k (that's where the premium price comes from you mentioned) So you get your full monies worth at least for "weight in gold" even if not pure.
they all try it, a guy is better off finding a good placer mine and making a deal with the miners, they just want live value for their work, mot people see "gold value" is $1800 an ounce and they don't have a clue that's for pure .999 24k gold. and that NO GOLD comes out of the earth is 24k, highest you might see is 20k average is like 18k and it can go as low as 16k, hale maybe lower if it has a lot of quarts and iron mixed in gotta look at it, not just the top of a bag or container whatever, spread it out, most agencies have average purity for said region its extracted from, if its 18k, that's what you offer the miner, he usually takes it cuz you save him a ride into town to deal with the crooks and he he isn't purifying it if he does that, some do, some don't.. most know purifying it brings the honest dollar .. gold is already expensive enough, more than enough money in it they don't need to be jacking folks 20-60% cuz they are crooks and their plant is running lean, hale I didn't do the testing of your claim buddy, I've give you what its worth, no more .. .
I love Placer gold!!! I have a extensive Placer nugget collection that I love to admire every day! I've been prospecting, panning, and everything gold for years. That is why I'm on this new adventure of gold refining. Thank you so much for all the knowledge! Oh, Just a little information, I just ordered online 1 liter of Nitric acid delivered to my door $32.00 no hazmat fee!
Where from?
Yeah, where from?
@@JustJeff62 thank you
@UCxr6Gw_7klfyOfheok9thrA I couldn't find it online, not sure why. Thanks anyway.
@@helives2630 Not sure why my comments aren't going through. I guess RUclips doesn't like the instructions. From what I'm reading they are considering it spam or something. So I should stop before I get put in youtube jail. It's there though. Sorry
I love how you explain every step of the way until final product. Love your videos and always look forward to your next videos.
Though it was not news to me, I appreciate your simple, straight forward explanation about how gold is formed. "We are all made of star dust"
Id like to know more, like how it occurs on earth in certain places. The star bit is fascinating and all but kind of irrelevant.
the precipitation is always my favorite part . I love to see that beautiful color change of the the gold liquid. So awesome
You can't trust a lot of gold sellers but I 100 % would buy your gold and silver it's Done to perfection and that is worth every penny to me 🇺🇸
This was really interesting!
Watching you refine gold, and Dan Hurd prospecting gold. I have a great appreciation for the process!
Finding gold in nature is very difficult. I have great respect for those who can do it - like mount baker and Dan Hurd - much respect.
Watching both too... also Vo-Gus prospecting and many others... So I became a hobby goldwasher (some miligrams), preparing for refining elecronic gold scrap...
Gold is just amazing... :-)
GOLD!
i used to watch dan hurd until he began asking people for donations, when he was doing videos where he found gemstones, gold and other things worth tens of thousands of dollars, alot of people left the channel because he is a mix of smart and fake guy, left alot of people with mixed feelings about his work, and is a shame, sometimes he can find great things in the rivers he visit
I don’t watch them that much. Too busy building my channel. Sorry to hear that he went down hill.
ALWAYS looking forward to the next Video! - TY - About time for a Silver Cell update! :)
This is the best bar I have seen you pour yet Sreetips. Absolutely beautiful. Great job
I only just saw this recovery/refinement.
That is the best bar I've seen you pour, looks better than 999, beautiful.👍
Thank you.
13:30 - the unknown of if youd pick up those bits of metal was killing me! So glad you did!
Really perfectioned the refining and melting. Final product always looks astonishing! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍
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617 smiley face lol
Thanks for another interesting video.
I had read about Placer gold and you just confirmed what I read! If you had paid #1,303.21 for the 31.2 grams then you would have broken even. In fact, you paid 30% above the spot price for October 30. I realize this is your hobby but clearly, this seller is asking too much!
Keep up the good and interesting work.
very true but soon and very soon he will get his money back :)
Its a rare RUclips moment that I can sit down and watch a 40+ minute video in its entirety, great work, wish you would ship to the UK, I would like to own some Sreetip merchandise.
Ohh Ill take the refined little bar any day. Thanks for all your shows. I really enjoy watching them.
I bought a little electronic gold tester for under 300 bucks. It seems to do a good job of karat testing. Love that color when the solution gets so rich that it gets a little redish. Thanks for the video. Good stuff.
What a cool hobby you have perfected brother,, The chemistry involved to take these Elements from metal, to liquid, precipitate into a powder, and then it takes intense Fire heat to turn back into metal form is amazing.
I can follow along your different processes by heart,, Great job,!
Bravo Zulu Boats!
Wow, that explanation about the origin of gold is something I have never heard as far as the scientific chemistry part of it. That is awesome i'm glad I know that now.
god damn i didnt even realize how much i love and want gold, you are lucky, i want a house in the country and refine gold for the rest of my life
It’s a blast
Loved the explanation of where gold comes from! Great science lesson! Also everything above iron comes from supernova. So we are all made of star dust!
Quite correct
@@sreetips Btw, there is a new theory that there are too little heavy elements observed in the Universe compared to the number of supernovae. A new theory suggests that the heavy elements, like gold, might not be forming in supernovae but in neutron star collisions. Those are very rare.
Cool, thank you
@@sreetips Great to hear that! Btw, here is a video on the topic. ruclips.net/video/MmgMboWunkI/видео.html
@@bormisha I was just going to comment about this, thanks for pointing it out. In a way gold can be thought of as the byproduct of the creation of some black holes, with gravitational waves traveling the universe singing the song of gold's creation.
Nailed the yield down to the decimal point. Very impressive. You've got this locked in hard.
I’m glad that I reduced the amount of silver added. Too much silver would cause the gold to crumble to a powder making separation of the silver solution from the gold difficult.
Absolutely beautiful bar!!! I believe your incremental nitric dosing is the best route. I don't care for the excess nitric problem during the precipitation attempt.
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I must be nuts! I love watching metal stuff melt. Great video!
Yep, just like others have said, your about the only one that I able to watch from beginning to end. For that I thank you my friend 😀
loved the little lesson on stellar nucleosynthesis
Thank you for all your videos. I actually reclaimed gold from silicon wafers and you taught me the stump out trick. Thank you for that. :) I have some or should I say alot of silicon wafers that may contain RH and or PD, and PT. If you are interested in trying some samples off line I can send them. We both can make a profit.
Kind Regards,
Steve
I miss living on the farm, i want my blow torch back. Welding class in highschool was fun! 🤓
I did two of my friends welding test while the instructor wasn’t looking. I loved that class
Absolutely amazing! I know nothing about what you're doing, but I Absolutely love it. Thank you.
Great work @Sreetips. Good to know the quality of that batch of gold from the seller.
Thanks for another video Sreetips. Amazing how it looses to much, would assume it would be relatively pure right from the ground (or rock).
Much of Australian Gold is much like 23 to 24K, purest placer gold around. Alaskan will generally fall into the 18 to 20k range. Hth MikeC
Wow how cool, you always draw me in to every video. Thank you for sharing!
*sreetips* Bravo well done, thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along. God Bless.
Refining raw gold from a mine was a cool idea, very interesting!
Thanks so much, Sr. I never hesitate to watch any of your videos. Never a dull moment watching chemical magic.
The problem stars have with iron fusion is that it takes as much energy to contain as it produces which isn't sustainable. The "weight" of the star overcomes the "blast" of the fusion and the star collapses/implodes. It's fascinating and sometimes such things make me wonder if astrophysics was better for me than geophysics. 😁
Gold is a loving metal. It wraps its arms around the copper, etc. that is alloyed with it and won't let go. I have a reaction to wearing copper. I can have a sterling silver ring or chain on for an hour and I have green skin from it. I cannot wear sterling silver. Karat gold, even with a lot higher copper content, never does that. Not even 10k. It would be interesting to experiment with some of that 6k inquarted gold to see if the copper messes with me.
BTW, I've seen 21k Alaskan gold.
I love it too
This was absolutely fascinating. Chemistry is cool AF.
Another enjoyable video Sreetips. Happy to see you wearing again your white lab jacket. .lol
Amazing. I was reviewing the previous video from ~4 years ago. It was perfect then, it is beyond imagination now. Beautiful
That is so cool seeing this gold go from a liquid back to a solid mind blown
Where can I go to buy gold and silver from you
The final bar had a great look! 👏👏
Always amazed to see gold in solution. So unsuspecting.
I really enjoy watching you work.
Too bad your not in Alabama lol I could use a teacher!! Great job man! Keep sharing all the wisdom cause I’m soaking it up!! 😉
One of your best looking bars yet!
Thank you once again Sreetips! Excellent video. Funny I also about flunked chemistry way back in high school, but have gone on to gain so much knowledge and understanding since then. School might be helpful, but nothing is more important than actually wanting to know something and applying ones self to get there. Beautifully executed processes. You clearly have become Very masterful at refining.
Another great video with very good explanations.
Thanks a lot for your amazing job.
Best Regards.
Sylvain
Was really cool to watch like an episode of how it's made!
This is way better than “How it’s made”. That show is awesome but it should be called “How it’s assembled” more then “How it’s made”. I like seeing all the steps of a process which is what you get when watching Sreetips’ videos. I know “How it’s made” has constraints that prevent them from being able to show everything about how a product is made, but sometimes the videos they put out just miss the mark imo. Still neat though.
Awesome watching you do that, Alaska Gold
Every time he puts ice cubes in I can taste orange koolaid. Great video as always.
You are a master at your craft Sir!
Beautiful finish on that bar 🌟
Great 👍 video thx for sharing, every time I watch your videos makes me wish I would have stayed in chemistry class when I was in high school way back when lol thx again always enjoy your videos
Lewis, I took one chemistry class in high school over 45 years ago - got a “D” and that’s the extend of my formal chemistry training.
@@sreetips oh damn it is truly amazing how you do the refining that you do and I hope to someday be in a place that my wife and I could try but you have to have a place to be able to store the chemicals that you have to in a safe place or I would be trying it myself
That was the smoothest opening of a zip-lock I've ever seen.
I learned it from the jeweler
Video was Pure Gold.
thanx4sharing
That was a good video sreetips. I always watch the Goldrush shows and this made me think of it.
I love the different colors of the reactions. Like forbidden koolaid
That was cool. You should maybe do a nugget if you haven’t already.
nice explanation on gold being made during the collapse of a star
Amazing video as always. Your watch time must be amazing cuz your videos are mesmerizing!!
Thank you for sharing this. I am assuming that the copper in the Sterling also comes out with the base metals?
Correct, copper is soluble in hot nitric
Thank you so much. I learn from this channel constantly.
Sreetips, you nailed it with the "where does gold come from" question. This answer is good for all elements heavier than iron.
Question: why didn't you just dump the material as it was into H2SO4? You would have removed lesser metal impurities and saved a lot of energy.
That is a beautiful little bar.
Nice... Love that golden colour of that bar.. Super fine.. Good job.. Love from malaysia...
This was fascinating to see what the yield would be. 👍🏻
Great packaging from that seller BTW.
So cool to watch this done. Thanks for all the vids, they're super interesting!
I think I am starting to understand what your doing lol...keep up the good work bud
That bar turned out real nice
I was wondering what you thought about using a tumbler and ceramic abrasive stones to remove gold from gold pins. I have approximately 6lbs to process and was wondering what you thought about it. I was hoping to limit the amount of nitric acid I had to use . Thanks and love watching your videos.
I’ve never tried that nor heard of it. But that doesn’t mean it won’t work. I’d be concerned about recovering the foils from the ceramic. Acid peroxide is a good method and uses no nitric. And a sulfuric acid stripping cell. But which ever you chose, do a small sample first, say, 200 grams as an experiment before going all in with the entire 6 pounds.
Thank you for your amazing videos. Looks like financially doesnt make much sense to buy this type of gold for refining. Today's spot price was 59 and change per gram so definitely losing money on this refining. Do you find that buying gold at yard/estate sales is the only way to make refining profitable?
Hold on, I didn’t lose money. I traded failing paper dollars for highly valuable GOLD. It would be a loss only if I sold it at today’s artificially suppressed price. None of the numbers that are being issued are correct - everything is out of wack. I’m not selling, I’m buying!
Very cool. I watch some shows where they sluice for placer gold and the most I've ever seen any of them do is smelt refine it. That's probably fine since they are just going to sell it to a bullion dealer
Incredible video sreetips! I also like to follow some of the prospectors out there (Vo-Gus, Dan Hurd and PioneerPauly - I thought they were saying "plaster gold" LOL). I always thought a collaboration with those guys would be really cool, but this is a great alternative. That final bar you created is really amazing looking - prefect! It would really be interesting to see a contrast and comparison of the "cupellation method" (mbmmllc uses this) to the chemical refining approach you use.
Cupellation does not remove the silver from the button.
None of the refiners that I learned from used cupel. I’ve never used it myself.
@@sreetips Yeah, I wasn't completely sure why @mbmmllc uses it - but I think it must be more relevant to mining where your first order of business is just to remove all the base metals and stone and hope you have something left. After that he has a little measurement device that gives him a reading of the precious metal content. Maybe cupellation is the way to go when your have a very small amount of precious metal in a large amount of material? He did demonstrate using it to extract platinum from catalytic converters.
Cupel Is used by miners. I am a refiner. He gets his metal from the ground. I get the metal that I work with from above the ground in the form of scrap jewelry and such. Two different worlds but closely related because we are both after precious metals.
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Seeing the first second or two when you start the initial melt and you see a few tiny flecks fly off made me wonder. You've a series on the jeweler's sweeps, are you going to ever do a Sreetips sweeps series? Also, thanks for doing that stannous check on the used nitric. You've made that comment about gold going into solution during the boil before, so it was interesting to see the results.
I sweep the table into a “sweeps container” and then add a spoon of the sweeps to cement silver as I’m melting it into granules for the silver cell. It gets trapped in the silver cell filters and I recover any gold or PGMs from from the silver cell filter slimes.
Looks good! I wonder how much you lose in vapors with the boils? Or is that possible?
Yes, it happens, traces only.
I want to see more sweeps, filter paper and waste recovery...wow super glossy bar
Thanks for all you do As a "gold prospector" of Lake Superior flour gold, I have the angst of "to refine or not to refine". What was your best placer gold refine? Was this one the highest yield?
I’ve only done place a couple times. I bought this ounce from an eBay user judyjudygold. It ended up being 18k by weight, before refining it.
@@sreetips its excellent "real gold" content in placer gold. Flakes can be sold in natural state for more $ then refining. Then a smart man could flip the $ and buy .999 gold and be further ahead! 😂
Flipping (immediately reselling the refined gold) for more paper dollars is not what I’m doing. I’m converting paper dollars to gold. Just as fast as I can while it’s still on sale.
Love watching these, thanks!
I love watching your videos. I have a question about gold inquartation with silver; can you use .999 fine silver or is sterling silver good enough and lastly if you can use either would the calculation of how much to use change depending on the purity of the silver used?
Three nines silver could be used, but that’s counter productive - going the wrong way if pure metal is what we’re after. Sterling is best for me because I refine silver also and the first step in refining sterling is to dissolve it in nitric. So why not kill two birds with one stone and use the sterling for inquartation. Essentially refining both metals simultaneously. Sterling will take more nitric than pure silver because sterling has copper in it. But I’ve found that using pure copper seems to work the best for inquartation. Much less silver chloride to deal with in refining the gold.
purely esthetically spoken this bar is the prettiest so far I've seen you pour mr Sreetips :)
By the way, I was wondering whether you could try to extract any lead from your silver waste solution jar... We see you use sulfuric acid to precipitate it, but it would be interesting to see how much lead can be effectively extracted from those solutions
I cement my silver solutions on copper. Lead, being higher up in the reactivity series, won’t cement on the copper. It stays in solution and meats it’s end as metallic lead in the waste treatment bucket cementing out on iron
I luv your videos, I find lots of goldin Arizona ,96% purity
Nice!
Why couldn't you nitric acid boil the placer gold without having to melt it with the silver? As fine as the flakes of gold were I would have thought the nitric would be able to get to the base metals this way. I'm not a chemist but I do enjoy watching your videos and I am learning.
In boiling nitric, the placer gold would sit there and not react.
The silver melt is so satisfying
I watched the entire video from start to finish. AT about the 10 minute mark is when you did your initial calculations on paper and used the calculator. At about the 40 minute mark you showed the earlier calculations and your "spoken" numbers didn't make sense when determining your end result... I'm confused or I must have missed something.... GREAT VIDEO SIR!!!
I will never refine gold, but really enjoy watching the process. Do you have any concerns about possible health impacts of breathing in any of the fumes from the process?
Yes. The same concern as breathing the fumes from your car
@@sreetips I am glad to hear the fumes are no worse (or better) than that. They just look scary.
I was wondering, maybe you could do a video of where you get a lot of your acids and solvents, what your able to make and refine yourself and stockpile for use. As much as your willing to share that is. It seems getting into self refining that the first step would be stockpiling certain materials and acids. This stuff isnt cheap.
I get most chemicals from eBay or Ace Hardware.
Some of those black flecks you see in there are actually gold coated in manganese. Mn is quite soluble in ground water and will coat gold grains. I've also seen Fe do the same thing to a lesser extent. That appears to be a more reddish tinted. Kudos to you for paying full price for fine particle sized placer gold for the demonstration purpose. In Alaska alluvial gold can range from 50% to 98% purity depending on the location. The mass loss could also be partially due to sulphides being driven off by oxidation.
I needed it to make the video. Gladly pay for someone else to collect that much gold. Much respect for guys and gals that go find it and concentrate it like that.
Awesome video.. Glad i came across it by sheer chance
Welcome!
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Just curious: right before you precipitate the gold, when the solution is a beautiful amber color....
Does the gold saturated solution "feel" heavy? Just fascinated with your thorough process...
The gold solution is much heavier than the same volume of water, but I can’t tell the difference in the weight by holding it in my hand. I’d have to weigh it
@@sreetips thank you👍
Thanks man! that was fast... 😂🤣😂🤣 obviously i wasn't the first request!
It was some new content, it was fast and relatively easy, and it was kind of fun,
Nice job, 18k is typical for placer gold. It simply means natural gold. Flakes, nuggets / mined gold
Q: Sulphuric Acid dissolves Lead? how come car battery's dont get all dissolved away from normal use? TY Love your channel..
Nitric dissolves lead. Sulfuric precipitates it out of the gold solution as lead sulfate. Then we can 100% remove all traces of lead from the gold by filtering it out.
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Chief, have you thought about buying a water distiller? A larger upfront purchase might save you from buying gallon jugs from Food Lion. Plus less plastic waste.
Yes, checked into it. It was expensive. I hate humping jugs in from the car. But I use about twenty gallons per month. Not enough to justify the expense. I’m low-budget, hobby level.
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I have thought about refining some of my fines from California. Some of the hard rock gold is around 23kt and looks amazing in a button, but not the 24kt look!