I've seen your setup a hundred times and I never tire of listening to you explain it again. So glad to see you back. I can't wait for the paper waste video. It's exciting because you never know what you are going to get.
i think we can be fairly certain of what he will get from the paper/filter recovery, a deceptively high amount of precious metals that'll be a pain to refine because of rhodium and platinum group metals
I had tremendous fear of investing in silver until I started watching your channel, and because of the confidence your channel gave me in understanding physical metals I have been enjoying the ride since $18 an oz.
Be advised, silver will remain grossly undervalued as long as they can print currency out of thin air, and people believe it has value. My philosophy is to just keep buying (without regard to reselling it) put it away, and forget about it.
@@sreetips It is such a hassle to get physical sliver, I can't imagine parting with any until I develop some need for it. But it sure is nice knowing I have some set aside for 20-30 years in the future. It is hard to imagine anything else lasting that long.
I just read the entire Bible cover to cover. Gold and silver were mentioned over two hundred times. What this means to me is that long after paper dollars, Amazon, Apple and bitcoin are gone and forgotten, gold and silver will still be here. And they’ll still be valuable.
You have so many gift and visdom Sir. It shine to all you do and say. You and your lovely wife are a blessing for so many people. It moves my hart that the words of God leads and guide you every single day. God bless both of you 🙏 Arne
Awesome video I was wondering when you was going to start up your silver cell I love watching the video seeing the beautiful silver crystals that it produces thanks for sharing sreetips
As I calculated for you earlier, 1 amp results in 96,6 gram of silver per day. So two amps achieves the the double, and trhree amps, you get the drift. A great beast you have created.
I was wondering when you were going to fire up the beast and here you are reading my mind this has been a very enjoyable and informative video thank you for sharing this with us six stars sir
That comment was probably a reference to Ormus or “monatomic gold” a substance that is supposed to have miraculous health and healing benefits. I’ve done some research and couldn’t find any solid science behind it. Wikipedia called it “pseudoscience”.
@@jakesmerth1919 no it was in the ARK OF THE CONTRACT and heals your body and stops aging , they used to eat it ...sorry you must have went to the public schools like me and GOT HYPNOTIZED to use the drugs they deal........MK ULTRA.....all the victims have no clue , i was TORTURED 100 times to split personalities and then hit with a CONCUSSION HELMATE .......the white powder is very real monotomic gold....
As always-great video!! Thank you for the detailed information!! I always enjoy all of your videos and I look forward to seeing the next one. Have a great day Sreetips.
Always a pleasure to watch a Sreetips video. I learned such a lot here, I don't refine but if I were ever to start it would be a great start thanks to trial and tribulations of Sreetips.
Seit drei Jahren versuche ich mich im Silberschmieden. Durch deine Videos habe ich soviel gelernt. Nie hätte ich in der Schule gedacht mich mal mit Chemie zu beschäftigen. Ich würde so gerne auch so ein Silver cell Monster bauen aber im 44qm Dachgeschoss einer deutschen Großstadtwohnung sehr gefährlich. Schon beim schmieden löse ich den Feueralarm aus 🙁
❤ THANKS FOR THE VIDEO ❤ This was the best description so far on your silver cell❤. I've collected all the parts and have the bowl and filter basket ready, just gotta find the "source for silver" locally 😁♥️🙏🏻🇱🇷
Sreetips, as an auto mechanic, I'll do infrequent specific jobs from time to time so I know what it's like to forget something you haven't done for a while, but remember; You always have your own videos to look back on ya know 😉
Do you think alchemists were ever trying to transmute base metals into gold really? I kinda feel like they weren't that stupid to try and that alchemy was always really about refining gold.
@@dunravin Mrs and Mr Sreetips is the only channel i described to..So .much knowledge..so much love...passion. Sreetips is nr 1 for many of us. God bless You
I have some questions about the fume guard and exhaust system. I’m curious about the process of exhausting the noxious fumes and where they go. Are they expelled into the exterior atmosphere.? Is there any filtering or sequestration of the fumes? Are the gases expelled considered a pollutant? And does it pose any potential harm to humans, pets, wildlife? I’m genuinely interested in the answers. I have no attachment to any particular answer to these questions.
There’s no filter. It exhausts into the outside air. Just think of it like this: you wouldn’t pull your car into the garage, shut the door, then start the car to work on it in an enclosed space. If you did, then the exhaust fumes would kill you. The same applies with the fumes from my refining processes. I’m not a professional refiner. I don’t work on other people’s material. This is my hobby. Driving your car for a hundred miles does far worse damage to the air than my occasional chemistry experiments. Hope this answers your questions.
@@sreetips I thought you were a goldsmith. So the carbon filter in the mask won't protect my health from acid fumes? It's also my hobby but I want to set up a business to get into acids. I admire your great work.
Doing this as a business is a whole different animal. You’ll have a ton of regulations to abide by. I don’t know anything about it. You could check on the goldrefiningforum.com they have professional refiners with tons of experience refining as a profession. But be careful. There’s also folks on there who sound like they know what they’re talking about, but they really don’t.
@@sreetips we know how much silver you have in the electrolyte per liter, but do you weigh the silver shot before adding it to the cell? How much total silver goes into growing 4 kilos of high-purity silver?
@@skinnywheelz the impure silver shot is probably 98% pure silver, plus or minus a percent. So, for every 100 grams of 98% impure silver that I add to the anode basket, I’ll expect to harvest 98 grams of high purity silver crystal from the cell.
Great to see you got a beefy power supply. 20amps! If you get time, I hope you are able to do a update in a day or two, I want to see how many amps it will Max out at. Watch the temperature of the cell. May start to heat up.
People watching this really need to factor in the whole cost of this setup and operation. This is a hobby, a demo of metallurgical principles, not a money maker. Precious metals are a regulated commodity. This isn't a get rich venture.
Morning Mr Sreetips. What if you made your silver cell taller and have it so that the crystals will grow horizontally and when they get too long they will break and fall to the bottom of the cell allowing for more Crystal growth
Critical distance between anode basket and the cathode of 4 inches to 4.5 inches. Any closer and the silver may contact the anode basket, burn a hole in the filter, and ruin the batch of silver. Any further away and efficiency is reduced - it slows down the electrolytic action and takes more time to convert the impure silver to high purity silver crystal.
Always good to see your tips, BUT I'M waiting for the next gold bar, 😀 And with the way resent prices have increased I think many of us will soon be priced out of the buying game soon.
What is the cost analysis/ difference between price of sterling, and time, electricity, chemicals, to process it into .999 ? Is there that big of price difference between .999 and sterling?
None that I know of other than this; a hundred grams of sterling silver will contain 92.5 grams of pure silver. A hundred grams of pure silver will contain 100 grams of pure silver. That’s the only difference that I can think of.
Came here to say the same. Dacron is the trade name for polyester, very inexpensively obtained via yard sales where crafting, quilting and such are being sold. A bolt should run cheap, remnants even cheaper.
Out of context for this video, but I have a quick question after Aqua regia, what can be done with the aftermath of solution from the process, I have about 4 gallons of poured off and filtered solution. Is there any other use for it? Thank you as always. Overtime I have learned everything I know about gold and silver refining from you and I thank you😊
First step in waste treatment process: I add every drop of my gold refining waste solutions to a small bucket full of copper (my stock pot). Any traces of precious metals that remain in the waste solution will cement out on the copper as a fine black powder and accumulate there so I can recover and refine it.
Do you ever try to recover the nitric acid? When i used to do this i distilled the excess nitric to reuse it as it was sort of expensive. Also inquirted with copoer then used copper sulfate in a cell similar to your silver cell to pull the copper and other base metals out. The PMs some lead and antomony stayed in the filter basket, copper and nickel plated out on the cathode
I usually consume every bit of nitric possible by boiling in the presence of metallic sterling silver until no more fumes are being produced. Recovering used copper for re-use would cost more than just buying clean copper for refining. It’s cheap and plentiful.
Yes, but it’s not recommended. First because it’s taking a step backward because it would use more copper to get it out of solution. Second, the PGMs would follow the silver and build up in the silver. And this could cause problems in the silver cell.
The silver cell is pulling the silver from the impure silver and transferring it to the bowl where it forms pure silver crystal. This is a way of purifying it, not creating more silver. Correct?
Hi Streetips! I never get tired of watching your videos. Thank you so much. And as always I am a huge fan. I do have a question, your stirring rods. They are extremely tough, where would one find them?
I have to wonder if there's a way to more continuously feed the impure silver shot into the cell... then again you have to harvest relatively often, I guess daily maintenance isn't that much to ask
I just checked it. With the small retainer insert that I added to the anode filter basket installed, I can add enough impure silver to let it run in auto-pilot for several days.
@@sreetips With how much cement silver you've got, it might be interesting to make a basket that runs one full cycle on auto-pilot. That should provide you with a decent visual indicator of completeness if you end up running more than a couple cells at once. Make the electrolyte, assemble the filter basket, fill basket and start cell, when the basket runs low harvest the cell. I wonder what size of cell you'd need before you can't get 2 runs out of them before needing fresh electrolyte...
I wonder wether you could use the processed shot copper that is waste from the silver refining, to cement out future silver. Or is not thin enough to make that work?
It’s heavily contaminated with other metals. Clean copper for refining precious metals is cheap and plentiful. Trying to recover the used copper would cost more than just buying new clean copper.
Thank you for your answer! so I take it should be clean copper to work best for the cementing process? I just thought it wouldn’t need to be clean copper, since it would go right back to becoming the next batch of silver and waste metal buck shots for the next batch of silver refining anyways. Might be an interesting experiment for science and possibly a future video, to try and start a little marmalade jar with refinement waste and spent buckshots, if only to drive the point home, that it just wouldn’t work well.
I’ve done videos like that. The gold melt drop bars different computer parts bars, the hard disk platters from digital hard drives. They are lots of work and nearly zero yield.
I saw a chain fall into your basket. it might of been a silver chain, but the clasp was on it. the spring is steel in the claw I believe. will that cause a problem?
Silver is money. Real money, real wealth. So the answer is yes. But I don’t trade my valuable silver for currency. Because currency is not valuable. It can be printed into existence out of thin air “without limit” but they can’t print more silver. However, they can, and they do, create paper silver out of thin air, and use it to crush the price of silver (and gold). That’s why silver is so grossly under valued.
@ What are all the equipments I need to get started? I would love to sell kilograms of new grown 99.99 silver. Also, if I just bought some silverware from like the marketplace and used that to grow would that be enough? I’m still shocked silver can be grown, when it grows does it actually take the real silver and just refine it, meaning it’s not technically a “new” silver?
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
Sterling is only about 925 parts per thousand pure silver. Fine silver is 999 parts per thousand. So fine silver has 075 parts per thousand more silver than Sterling does.
What makes you think he's not documenting everything, including costs of the chemicals as a business expense? He likely has it in an LLC so his RUclips channel is the corporate entity controlling the assets.
It can, but it’s not recommended. Karat gold contained platinum group metals. Using cement silver to inquart would cause the PGMs to build up in the cement silver. And this could cause problems in the silver cell.
I have a question about how to sell (homemade) pure silver in a situation of need. I've noticed that especially in the US so called "silver rounds" are very popular. Since pretty much every person and buisness is allowed to produce them I count them as "third party fine silver products", wich includes all kinds of privately manufactured fine silver products. The problem is that in my country aswell as many other parts of Europe it is very hard to sell such products for spot value or even close to that price. Only fine silver coins produced by certain government-owned mints and bars produced by LBMA-certified manufacturers can be traded close to spot price. All other kinds of pure silver are treated as scrap wich needs to get re-refined. That means you will get 80 to 85% of spot price maximum for any kind of privately refined or minted fine silver products just because they are not certified by a certain authority. Does this apply anywhere else or is this devaluation of certain pure silver products just a "European problem"?
It’s everywhere. But your first mistake, I believe, is counting silver as an investment. Gold and silver are NOT investments. They are real money. Paper currency is a money substitute. And declining rapidly. I hold my silver as savings. I have no paper dollars in my savings account. But you can’t spend it. So if I need some paper to pay bills or buy food, then I just sell a little of my metals. They (the currency printers) have convinced the world that gold and silver (especially silver) are not worth holding because they don’t go up in value. They want you in their paper. If you reject holding their paper, and convert it into real money (gold and silver) then they lose their ability to control and rob you by printing currency out of thin are. Every new note that gets printed into existence, destroys the value of every note that’s already in existence, in your pocket, or in your bank account. They have the ability to keep the silver price low. A large paper futures market exists that enables them (the currency printers) to easily and conveniently control the price, and therefore the demand, for physical gold and silver. And that’s why the spot price can’t move up. They kill it with paper silver! This is public knowledge and can be verified. They crush the inflation hedge, with more inflation. It’s brilliant. And the public never takes the time to study any of it. And this lack of understanding is what allows them to pull it off. So don’t worry about trying to resell your silver. Put it away, and forget about it. Then buy some more, and do the same with it.
Any Chance of Making a video Showing us you Entire Silver Collection? You've been doing this for years, I think We'd all like to see how much silver you've accumulated over the years.
@@sreetips Hochmut? Showing off? You've already shown us your Buckets of Silver Powder, All your gold bars you've refined, What's hochmut about putting them all together into 1 Video?
I noticed a Silver chain was in your In-pure silver shot container when you were spooning it into your silver cell. The chain made it into the cell. Was this intentional?
Hey Sreetips, I've wondered, would you ever consider sending out some of your cement silver for others to run their own silver cells, then they send you back the silver crystal. Just was thinking of an option to help get through them bucket loads of it? I know personally id love to give that a try!
When you are all done with your refining how do you get rid of your liquid waste I’m just curious if you take it to a toxic waste disposal company or how you get rid of it.
Because they don’t need to do it. They just print more money. If we need money to buy something or pay a bill, then we must either work to earn it or sell something to raise the capital needed to pay the expense. If they need more they just print it, out of thin air. You end up paying because printing money (inflation) causes higher prices. So they print, you pay higher prices. It’s a scam. Makes Bernie Madoff Ponzi look like a Sunday picnic.
I use currency (paper dollars) to make real money: gold and silver. Paper dollars aren’t money. They are a money substitute and need third party validation to give them value. Take away the third party and the currency goes to zero. A good example would be confederate currency printed during the civil war. Not so with gold and silver. They stand on their own and require no third party validation. Because gold and silver are real money, since biblical times, and before. Paper currencies have a 100% failure rate. This can be fact checked and verified. It’s a mathematical certainty.
Right now I been going back and watching videos and just trying to start with a list of equipment and chemicals to get for both silver recovery and gold recovery from computer parts....and a small amount of copper. Also considering a metal melting furnace......but that is in the future. But every time I watch a video I come across an item i missed. Id love to come others peoples list of what they use as im new in this space and in close to retirement.
Thanks Buddy, I agree. I am a Christian and know that things are controlled against the majority. However, a bit of boxing clever could save a few quid for you and yours, me and mine. Stock market is shaky. Could be sensible to put a couple of hundred quid in metals. Thank you for your advice but above all wonderful chemistry lessons. If you look me up, I’m a fan! All the best buddy, Simon
Mate, I have crushed and put that rock in nitric solution but its too hard to tell (if any) what is silver and what isnt. This makes it impossible to tell if there is any acid left. If I was to pour in some nitrate, with the copper in it, after cementing out my last batch of 925, and waited for the brown smoke to eventually dissapear, would that be an indicator of it being finished? Thanks, and thanks for the new hobby. I love it.
@@sreetips Thats the point. I cant tell if there is any silver in this rock, so no way of telling if the acid has finished. The copper would burn the excess acid off. I will find out once I cement it out if there is any silver in this rock. Correct?
@@joegoedhart1259 I’m not sure how miners determine the silver content of their material. But I do know that it’s measured in ounces per ton, or even grams per ton. So I would not get my hopes up. And yes, after the “brown smoke” clears then you should be able to tell if there’s any gray powder (silver) for your efforts.
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
So just to get it straight your input of unpure silver comes out to the same amount output in pure silver right? Its not like youre getting an infinite amount from one source like getting 10oz of pure silver from 2oz of sterling silver.
Correct. For every 100 grams of 98% impure silver that I add to the anode basket. I’ll get 98 grams of pure silver crystal from the cell at harvest time.
Mr Streetips, I thought after cementing out the silver with copper, it would be pure, so after watching your videos, I melted my cement into bars. Is this cell a step I should have also done? Why do you still call it inpure after you have made the shot? Shall I melt my bars back down again and run it through a cell? Thank you..from Australia.
I’ve made cement silver that was very pure. Looked like investment grade silver bars when I melted it. But after doing this for over a decade I’ve come to realize that running the cement silver through the silver cell, keeping strict control of the parameters, is the only way to be absolutely sure that the silver meets the industry standard for pure silver: 999 parts per thousand.
@@sreetips Thanks mate, I am buying a DC power source today. Another question...A mate of mine is a gold prospector in Sthrn cross, West Australia and has given me a decent size rock full of silver. Can I run that through the Nitric acid to make silver nitrate or must I use the silver cell. I dont know what else is mixed with it, but its not iron ore because the R.E magnet is doing the correct thing. (Slowly sliding down the rock)
Unfortunately I don’t have any experience with that kind of material. For electrolytic refining the anode material must be relatively high purity to begin with.
Chief! While that's a LOT of work for you over the years, I think you're now ready to start your own mint. Maybe South Carolina's interested in a State Silver Reserve?
I actually got some small bottles of silver nitrate granules from a friend of mine and dissolved it in distilled water to plate it out on copper. Made a ring and a silver chain necklace out of the collected silver that I wear every day. He occasionally gets it out of the trash where he works whenever it is disposed of by our government.
Question: I've seen you use dozens of those filter bags, is there any way that you could have a reusable setup for removing the insoluble solids? The first design that comes to my mind would be a Stainless mesh that holds the shot with a catch bowl suspended below it to catch the "junk". It just seems like there should be a way to reduce your cost on this, but you would know better than I.
You should keep the cement silver in that state, and hilariously, store it in empty "cement bags". Since it appears like cement and is heavy, thieves might bypass it.
Theory: Would a larger anode puck and coiled wire, from the center out, (use a melt dish to construct, for more surface area.) help decrease the resistance, increase electric flow, thus maintain consistent amperage? And/Or does wire size play a factor, considering the short length? electricians chime in... Always enjoy what you do, Mr. Sreetips, makes me want go into urban mining, every time I watch an episode.
@@sreetips I agree, with such a short length run, I don't believe wire size is much of a factor, 10 gauge should allow for a sufficient flow rate throughout. I believe the anode size though could be key.
Today I realized the nitric acid is blue because of copper. I thought the blue was from the silver and copper made things green. Everyday is a school day.
I don’t know. I’ve never taken the time to figure it. I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
I've seen your setup a hundred times and I never tire of listening to you explain it again. So glad to see you back.
I can't wait for the paper waste video. It's exciting because you never know what you are going to get.
Like a box of chocolates!
i think we can be fairly certain of what he will get from the paper/filter recovery, a deceptively high amount of precious metals that'll be a pain to refine because of rhodium and platinum group metals
I’m not looking forward to it.
Woohoo! I love the silver refining. Sometimes I think the crystals are more beautiful than the gold. Absolutely stunning.
I absolutely love your videos it's one of my favorite channels on RUclips
Thank you
I knew exactly zero of the words he is using but I watched the whole thing. He's truly a mad scientist and I love it!!!
I had tremendous fear of investing in silver until I started watching your channel, and because of the confidence your channel gave me in understanding physical metals I have been enjoying the ride since $18 an oz.
Be advised, silver will remain grossly undervalued as long as they can print currency out of thin air, and people believe it has value. My philosophy is to just keep buying (without regard to reselling it) put it away, and forget about it.
@@sreetips It is such a hassle to get physical sliver, I can't imagine parting with any until I develop some need for it. But it sure is nice knowing I have some set aside for 20-30 years in the future. It is hard to imagine anything else lasting that long.
I just read the entire Bible cover to cover. Gold and silver were mentioned over two hundred times. What this means to me is that long after paper dollars, Amazon, Apple and bitcoin are gone and forgotten, gold and silver will still be here. And they’ll still be valuable.
You have so many gift and visdom Sir. It shine to all you do and say.
You and your lovely wife are a blessing for so many people.
It moves my hart that the words of God leads and guide you every single day. God bless both of you 🙏 Arne
Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips.
Thank you for putting this clip right now🙂🌺 God bless you and have a lovely day.
Arne
Thanks Arne
Hello Arne! How are you my friend? Hope you have a wonderful week ahead of you!
Awesome video I was wondering when you was going to start up your silver cell I love watching the video seeing the beautiful silver crystals that it produces thanks for sharing sreetips
As I calculated for you earlier, 1 amp results in 96,6 gram of silver per day. So two amps achieves the the double, and trhree amps, you get the drift. A great beast you have created.
Too many secondary reactions occur at higher voltages.
@@Apparition338 He's talking about amps, not voltage.
I love what u do it's amazing work the way u work with gold and silver.
I was wondering when you were going to fire up the beast and here you are reading my mind this has been a very enjoyable and informative video thank you for sharing this with us six stars sir
I really love these silver cell videos!
I have zero silver and zero gold... And I don't understand chemistry. But I watch every video :-)
Thank you
He's about 2 videos away from Mad Scientist.
I love this guy.
i wish he could turn gold into WHITE POWDER.............high spin.............
@@RobertRicci777 yeah, that sounds loke a drug reference and I'm a recovering addict, so maybe please just don't? At least not with me?
That comment was probably a reference to Ormus or “monatomic gold” a substance that is supposed to have miraculous health and healing benefits. I’ve done some research and couldn’t find any solid science behind it. Wikipedia called it “pseudoscience”.
@@sreetips thanks for explaining
@@jakesmerth1919 no it was in the ARK OF THE CONTRACT and heals your body and stops aging , they used to eat it ...sorry you must have went to the public schools like me and GOT HYPNOTIZED to use the drugs they deal........MK ULTRA.....all the victims have no clue , i was TORTURED 100 times to split personalities and then hit with a CONCUSSION HELMATE .......the white powder is very real monotomic gold....
Thank you sir for another great show. Love your silver sell, could watch you make crystals all day.
Your work is always great.
You, my friend scaled up your operation big time
As always-great video!! Thank you for the detailed information!! I always enjoy all of your videos and I look forward to seeing the next one. Have a great day Sreetips.
Alot of people can home grow tomatoes, some even home grow their own smoke. But not many people can say their silver is home grown.
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Always a pleasure to watch a Sreetips video. I learned such a lot here, I don't refine but if I were ever to start it would be a great start thanks to trial and tribulations of Sreetips.
Brilliant, I really enjoy watching this silver cell in operation 👍🏻
I really want to see you do a crazy silver video where you make a Fort Knox size silver bar. Keep up the great videos!
Thanks sreetips for another awesome video. I like the different electrolytic cells. Their really cool ways to extract and refine different metals. 🎉🎉🎉
Seit drei Jahren versuche ich mich im Silberschmieden. Durch deine Videos habe ich soviel gelernt. Nie hätte ich in der Schule gedacht mich mal mit Chemie zu beschäftigen. Ich würde so gerne auch so ein Silver cell Monster bauen aber im 44qm Dachgeschoss einer deutschen Großstadtwohnung sehr gefährlich. Schon beim schmieden löse ich den Feueralarm aus 🙁
Thank you. Awesome detail. I suppose if you had time you could keep the process going until you have all the Gold, Silver. Platinum, Copper, Lead, etc
Yes
❤ THANKS FOR THE VIDEO ❤
This was the best description so far on your silver cell❤. I've collected all the parts and have the bowl and filter basket ready, just gotta find the "source for silver" locally 😁♥️🙏🏻🇱🇷
Check your local estate sales.
always love your vids and the process employed therein.
Excellent. Thanks Sreetips for a great tutorial.
Sreetips, as an auto mechanic, I'll do infrequent specific jobs from time to time so I know what it's like to forget something you haven't done for a while, but remember; You always have your own videos to look back on ya know 😉
Good point, thank you.
But you are truly one of the best Alchemists I've ever seen in my life
Thank you
That’s a joke
Do you think alchemists were ever trying to transmute base metals into gold really? I kinda feel like they weren't that stupid to try and that alchemy was always really about refining gold.
@@dunravin
Mrs and Mr Sreetips is the only channel i described to..So .much knowledge..so much love...passion. Sreetips is nr 1 for many of us. God bless You
He's tops in my book, watching every episode!
I have thought about this a lot. In the 80s, my mother used to bake casserole, goulash, and candied yams in those same dishes!
Same here.
always surprises me that you post so late at night
I was working on silver all day. Then I got a wild hair about 8:30pm.
One of my favorite channels, watch every video.
Thank you
@@sreetips materials science is such a cool field of study. Thank you for the content!!!!!
I have some questions about the fume guard and exhaust system. I’m curious about the process of exhausting the noxious fumes and where they go. Are they expelled into the exterior atmosphere.? Is there any filtering or sequestration of the fumes? Are the gases expelled considered a pollutant? And does it pose any potential harm to humans, pets, wildlife? I’m genuinely interested in the answers. I have no attachment to any particular answer to these questions.
Odsávání par je přes uhlíkový filtr, který páry zbaví toxicity.
There’s no filter. It exhausts into the outside air. Just think of it like this: you wouldn’t pull your car into the garage, shut the door, then start the car to work on it in an enclosed space. If you did, then the exhaust fumes would kill you. The same applies with the fumes from my refining processes. I’m not a professional refiner. I don’t work on other people’s material. This is my hobby. Driving your car for a hundred miles does far worse damage to the air than my occasional chemistry experiments. Hope this answers your questions.
Nepoužívám filtr, protože nejsem firma. to je můj koníček.
@@sreetips I thought you were a goldsmith. So the carbon filter in the mask won't protect my health from acid fumes? It's also my hobby but I want to set up a business to get into acids.
I admire your great work.
Doing this as a business is a whole different animal. You’ll have a ton of regulations to abide by. I don’t know anything about it. You could check on the goldrefiningforum.com they have professional refiners with tons of experience refining as a profession. But be careful. There’s also folks on there who sound like they know what they’re talking about, but they really don’t.
Any gueses on what the harvest will be?
Great video
Thanks for sharing!
I’m expecting at least four kilos of high purity silver.
@@sreetips we know how much silver you have in the electrolyte per liter, but do you weigh the silver shot before adding it to the cell? How much total silver goes into growing 4 kilos of high-purity silver?
@@skinnywheelz the impure silver shot is probably 98% pure silver, plus or minus a percent. So, for every 100 grams of 98% impure silver that I add to the anode basket, I’ll expect to harvest 98 grams of high purity silver crystal from the cell.
This video assumes I know more than I do. Dumbed down step by step with explanations would be awesome.
Please see my video “Silver Cell Build From Scratch Step by Step”
@sreetips Thank You!
Great to see you got a beefy power supply. 20amps! If you get time, I hope you are able to do a update in a day or two, I want to see how many amps it will Max out at. Watch the temperature of the cell. May start to heat up.
The anode bar was already warm to the touch.
People watching this really need to factor in the whole cost of this setup and operation. This is a hobby, a demo of metallurgical principles, not a money maker. Precious metals are a regulated commodity. This isn't a get rich venture.
Morning Mr Sreetips. What if you made your silver cell taller and have it so that the crystals will grow horizontally and when they get too long they will break and fall to the bottom of the cell allowing for more Crystal growth
Critical distance between anode basket and the cathode of 4 inches to 4.5 inches. Any closer and the silver may contact the anode basket, burn a hole in the filter, and ruin the batch of silver. Any further away and efficiency is reduced - it slows down the electrolytic action and takes more time to convert the impure silver to high purity silver crystal.
Always good to see your tips, BUT I'M waiting for the next gold bar, 😀 And with the way resent prices have increased I think many of us will soon be priced out of the buying game soon.
Sounds interesting keep on teaching God bless you❤
What is the cost analysis/ difference between price of sterling, and time, electricity, chemicals, to process it into .999 ? Is there that big of price difference between .999 and sterling?
None that I know of other than this; a hundred grams of sterling silver will contain 92.5 grams of pure silver. A hundred grams of pure silver will contain 100 grams of pure silver. That’s the only difference that I can think of.
Feed the beast! Love these videos.
Sreetips, I really love your work. Can I suggest buying the Dakron material by the meter? It would save you a lot of money.
Yes, good suggestion, thank you.
Came here to say the same. Dacron is the trade name for polyester, very inexpensively obtained via yard sales where crafting, quilting and such are being sold. A bolt should run cheap, remnants even cheaper.
what type of protection do you wear while handling these chemicals?
Gloves and reactions in my fume hood.
Out of context for this video, but I have a quick question after Aqua regia, what can be done with the aftermath of solution from the process, I have about 4 gallons of poured off and filtered solution. Is there any other use for it? Thank you as always.
Overtime I have learned everything I know about gold and silver refining from you and I thank you😊
First step in waste treatment process: I add every drop of my gold refining waste solutions to a small bucket full of copper (my stock pot). Any traces of precious metals that remain in the waste solution will cement out on the copper as a fine black powder and accumulate there so I can recover and refine it.
Do you ever try to recover the nitric acid? When i used to do this i distilled the excess nitric to reuse it as it was sort of expensive. Also inquirted with copoer then used copper sulfate in a cell similar to your silver cell to pull the copper and other base metals out. The PMs some lead and antomony stayed in the filter basket, copper and nickel plated out on the cathode
I usually consume every bit of nitric possible by boiling in the presence of metallic sterling silver until no more fumes are being produced. Recovering used copper for re-use would cost more than just buying clean copper for refining. It’s cheap and plentiful.
Oh Lordy! The best is back!
Could you use cement silver to inquart the gold? What would happen?
Yes, but it’s not recommended. First because it’s taking a step backward because it would use more copper to get it out of solution. Second, the PGMs would follow the silver and build up in the silver. And this could cause problems in the silver cell.
Awesome stuff as usual my friend 👍
The silver cell is pulling the silver from the impure silver and transferring it to the bowl where it forms pure silver crystal. This is a way of purifying it, not creating more silver. Correct?
Correct.
Why melt the cement silver into shot? Wouldn't it have more surface area to dissolve as cement silver? I would think it would process faster that way.
It clogs the filter and current flow drops off rapidly.
YESSSS the silver cell is back, brilliant 👏👌👍😁💕xxx
Love you man!!! Wish we were neighbors:'( my life sucks lmao
Sorry to hear that. Life can be like that sometimes.
I'm interested to know why the cement silver is melted to shot? Is it because the cement silver would clog the filter if used directly?
Yes
Hi Streetips! I never get tired of watching your videos. Thank you so much. And as always I am a huge fan. I do have a question, your stirring rods. They are extremely tough, where would one find them?
I bought mine on eBay.
I have to wonder if there's a way to more continuously feed the impure silver shot into the cell... then again you have to harvest relatively often, I guess daily maintenance isn't that much to ask
I just checked it. With the small retainer insert that I added to the anode filter basket installed, I can add enough impure silver to let it run in auto-pilot for several days.
@@sreetips With how much cement silver you've got, it might be interesting to make a basket that runs one full cycle on auto-pilot. That should provide you with a decent visual indicator of completeness if you end up running more than a couple cells at once.
Make the electrolyte, assemble the filter basket, fill basket and start cell, when the basket runs low harvest the cell.
I wonder what size of cell you'd need before you can't get 2 runs out of them before needing fresh electrolyte...
I wonder wether you could use the processed shot copper that is waste from the silver refining, to cement out future silver. Or is not thin enough to make that work?
It’s heavily contaminated with other metals. Clean copper for refining precious metals is cheap and plentiful. Trying to recover the used copper would cost more than just buying new clean copper.
Thank you for your answer! so I take it should be clean copper to work best for the cementing process? I just thought it wouldn’t need to be clean copper, since it would go right back to becoming the next batch of silver and waste metal buck shots for the next batch of silver refining anyways. Might be an interesting experiment for science and possibly a future video, to try and start a little marmalade jar with refinement waste and spent buckshots, if only to drive the point home, that it just wouldn’t work well.
I’ve done videos like that. The gold melt drop bars different computer parts bars, the hard disk platters from digital hard drives. They are lots of work and nearly zero yield.
I saw a chain fall into your basket. it might of been a silver chain, but the clasp was on it. the spring is steel in the claw I believe. will that cause a problem?
Not at all
Do not trust those wire handles on five gallon buckets! You probably already know that but be extra careful.
Yes, they corrode and get weak also.
Man you really doing well, alot of Silver .
SrC,can you put the powder directly into the anode basket,without turning it into shot?
No
Is growing silver possible to actually growing in order to consistently make money?
Silver is money. Real money, real wealth. So the answer is yes. But I don’t trade my valuable silver for currency. Because currency is not valuable. It can be printed into existence out of thin air “without limit” but they can’t print more silver. However, they can, and they do, create paper silver out of thin air, and use it to crush the price of silver (and gold). That’s why silver is so grossly under valued.
@ What are all the equipments I need to get started? I would love to sell kilograms of new grown 99.99 silver. Also, if I just bought some silverware from like the marketplace and used that to grow would that be enough? I’m still shocked silver can be grown, when it grows does it actually take the real silver and just refine it, meaning it’s not technically a “new” silver?
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
How much more valuable is fine silver than sterling?
Sterling is only about 925 parts per thousand pure silver. Fine silver is 999 parts per thousand. So fine silver has 075 parts per thousand more silver than Sterling does.
I think the IRS would have a problem with you manufacturing money like that
U ever see this guys eBay store what a rip off
@@jimcatanzaro7808dick
Good thing he don't live in the states.
What makes you think he's not documenting everything, including costs of the chemicals as a business expense? He likely has it in an LLC so his RUclips channel is the corporate entity controlling the assets.
Kind of like us gold mining folks. The IRS only raises their head when you actually sell it. Always nice to keep some under the bed.
Filter bucket looks full! Would love to see them processed in a video soon.
Can you use the cement silver to encourt gold instead of Sterling? Or is there more you’d have to do to it?
It can, but it’s not recommended. Karat gold contained platinum group metals. Using cement silver to inquart would cause the PGMs to build up in the cement silver. And this could cause problems in the silver cell.
I have a question about how to sell (homemade) pure silver in a situation of need.
I've noticed that especially in the US so called "silver rounds" are very popular. Since pretty much every person and buisness is allowed to produce them I count them as "third party fine silver products", wich includes all kinds of privately manufactured fine silver products.
The problem is that in my country aswell as many other parts of Europe it is very hard to sell such products for spot value or even close to that price. Only fine silver coins produced by certain government-owned mints and bars produced by LBMA-certified manufacturers can be traded close to spot price. All other kinds of pure silver are treated as scrap wich needs to get re-refined. That means you will get 80 to 85% of spot price maximum for any kind of privately refined or minted fine silver products just because they are not certified by a certain authority.
Does this apply anywhere else or is this devaluation of certain pure silver products just a "European problem"?
It’s everywhere. But your first mistake, I believe, is counting silver as an investment. Gold and silver are NOT investments. They are real money. Paper currency is a money substitute. And declining rapidly. I hold my silver as savings. I have no paper dollars in my savings account. But you can’t spend it. So if I need some paper to pay bills or buy food, then I just sell a little of my metals. They (the currency printers) have convinced the world that gold and silver (especially silver) are not worth holding because they don’t go up in value. They want you in their paper. If you reject holding their paper, and convert it into real money (gold and silver) then they lose their ability to control and rob you by printing currency out of thin are. Every new note that gets printed into existence, destroys the value of every note that’s already in existence, in your pocket, or in your bank account. They have the ability to keep the silver price low. A large paper futures market exists that enables them (the currency printers) to easily and conveniently control the price, and therefore the demand, for physical gold and silver. And that’s why the spot price can’t move up. They kill it with paper silver! This is public knowledge and can be verified. They crush the inflation hedge, with more inflation. It’s brilliant. And the public never takes the time to study any of it. And this lack of understanding is what allows them to pull it off. So don’t worry about trying to resell your silver. Put it away, and forget about it. Then buy some more, and do the same with it.
Any Chance of Making a video Showing us you Entire Silver Collection? You've been doing this for years, I think We'd all like to see how much silver you've accumulated over the years.
That would be hochmut.
@@sreetips Hochmut? Showing off? You've already shown us your Buckets of Silver Powder, All your gold bars you've refined, What's hochmut about putting them all together into 1 Video?
@scrapman502 I don’t know, that just came into my mind.
Maybe not bragging but might encourage bad ppl...
I hope he only holds silver long enough for a sudden price spike. Those lab supplies aren't free. 😢
Love from France my Brother 👍👌👏 best Regards
Thank you France
I would love to know the profit and loss for this operation?? I would get a Di-water system to save on buying gallons from the store
After harvesting the pure silver crystal from the cell, I put it away and forget about it. The silver is my profit.
I noticed a Silver chain was in your In-pure silver shot container when you were spooning it into your silver cell. The chain made it into the cell. Was this intentional?
Not really, didn’t notice until it was already in the basket. Doesn’t matter. Won’t hurt anything because it’s too small.
Morning Sreetips, just a heads up, I found the dacron filters on Amazon 3 for 14 bucks.
Yes, I’ve bought those before. Plus the Dacron material can be bought in bulk.
That’s quite a lot going on!
I was wondering if you had been working the silver cell. Keep the videos coming!
Hey Sreetips, I've wondered, would you ever consider sending out some of your cement silver for others to run their own silver cells, then they send you back the silver crystal. Just was thinking of an option to help get through them bucket loads of it? I know personally id love to give that a try!
No, I’ve never thought of doing that.
When you are all done with your refining how do you get rid of your liquid waste I’m just curious if you take it to a toxic waste disposal company or how you get rid of it.
Waste treatment.
man, chop the flourished end off those silver silverware, and make a ring, that sells for 30-40 bucks
You are amazing. Have no clue how you do any of that and am curious why the government doesn’t do it.
Because they don’t need to do it. They just print more money. If we need money to buy something or pay a bill, then we must either work to earn it or sell something to raise the capital needed to pay the expense. If they need more they just print it, out of thin air. You end up paying because printing money (inflation) causes higher prices. So they print, you pay higher prices. It’s a scam. Makes Bernie Madoff Ponzi look like a Sunday picnic.
Silver cell does make any profitable…?
Yes, the silver is my profit. I harvest it, put it away, and forget about it.
I just need to watch all of the videos very closely so I can manufacture my own money
🤣🤣😂😂
😅 have in the knowledge is important. it all so takes money to make money
I thought the same thing about 10 years ago... aalllll I can say is, good luck!!! Lol😂😂😂
I use currency (paper dollars) to make real money: gold and silver. Paper dollars aren’t money. They are a money substitute and need third party validation to give them value. Take away the third party and the currency goes to zero. A good example would be confederate currency printed during the civil war. Not so with gold and silver. They stand on their own and require no third party validation. Because gold and silver are real money, since biblical times, and before. Paper currencies have a 100% failure rate. This can be fact checked and verified. It’s a mathematical certainty.
@@sreetipsbeautifully said!
Right now I been going back and watching videos and just trying to start with a list of equipment and chemicals to get for both silver recovery and gold recovery from computer parts....and a small amount of copper. Also considering a metal melting furnace......but that is in the future. But every time I watch a video I come across an item i missed. Id love to come others peoples list of what they use as im new in this space and in close to retirement.
Thanks Buddy, I agree. I am a Christian and know that things are controlled against the majority. However, a bit of boxing clever could save a few quid for you and yours, me and mine. Stock market is shaky. Could be sensible to put a couple of hundred quid in metals. Thank you for your advice but above all wonderful chemistry lessons. If you look me up, I’m a fan! All the best buddy, Simon
Thanks Simon
You have upgraded! Thats a much bigger setup than your old cell, do you still run the old cell too?
I can, but I didn’t set it up.
Mate, I have crushed and put that rock in nitric solution but its too hard to tell (if any) what is silver and what isnt. This makes it impossible to tell if there is any acid left. If I was to pour in some nitrate, with the copper in it, after cementing out my last batch of 925, and waited for the brown smoke to eventually dissapear, would that be an indicator of it being finished? Thanks, and thanks for the new hobby. I love it.
I’m not familiar with crushed rock. Brown smoke means lots of excess nitric is needlessly consuming your copper.
@@sreetips Thats the point. I cant tell if there is any silver in this rock, so no way of telling if the acid has finished. The copper would burn the excess acid off. I will find out once I cement it out if there is any silver in this rock. Correct?
@@joegoedhart1259 I’m not sure how miners determine the silver content of their material. But I do know that it’s measured in ounces per ton, or even grams per ton. So I would not get my hopes up. And yes, after the “brown smoke” clears then you should be able to tell if there’s any gray powder (silver) for your efforts.
Thank you Sreetip
Question, do you grow silver? Other than refining it.
The silver increases in size or mass on the cathode
@@sreetips Thank you very much for the reply. I find your work fascinating.
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
So just to get it straight your input of unpure silver comes out to the same amount output in pure silver right? Its not like youre getting an infinite amount from one source like getting 10oz of pure silver from 2oz of sterling silver.
Correct. For every 100 grams of 98% impure silver that I add to the anode basket. I’ll get 98 grams of pure silver crystal from the cell at harvest time.
You work your butt off on making this project
True. But I e found that getting pure gold and silver is never quick and easy.
Mr Streetips, I thought after cementing out the silver with copper, it would be pure, so after watching your videos, I melted my cement into bars. Is this cell a step I should have also done? Why do you still call it inpure after you have made the shot? Shall I melt my bars back down again and run it through a cell? Thank you..from Australia.
I’ve made cement silver that was very pure. Looked like investment grade silver bars when I melted it. But after doing this for over a decade I’ve come to realize that running the cement silver through the silver cell, keeping strict control of the parameters, is the only way to be absolutely sure that the silver meets the industry standard for pure silver: 999 parts per thousand.
@@sreetips Thanks mate, I am buying a DC power source today. Another question...A mate of mine is a gold prospector in Sthrn cross, West Australia and has given me a decent size rock full of silver. Can I run that through the Nitric acid to make silver nitrate or must I use the silver cell. I dont know what else is mixed with it, but its not iron ore because the R.E magnet is doing the correct thing. (Slowly sliding down the rock)
Unfortunately I don’t have any experience with that kind of material. For electrolytic refining the anode material must be relatively high purity to begin with.
@@sreetips I'll give it a crack and let you know how it goes.
Chief! While that's a LOT of work for you over the years, I think you're now ready to start your own mint. Maybe South Carolina's interested in a State Silver Reserve?
Andy, they don’t care about real money (gold and silver). They want paper dollars instead. Absolutely insanity.
I actually got some small bottles of silver nitrate granules from a friend of mine and dissolved it in distilled water to plate it out on copper. Made a ring and a silver chain necklace out of the collected silver that I wear every day. He occasionally gets it out of the trash where he works whenever it is disposed of by our government.
Nice
Question: I've seen you use dozens of those filter bags, is there any way that you could have a reusable setup for removing the insoluble solids? The first design that comes to my mind would be a Stainless mesh that holds the shot with a catch bowl suspended below it to catch the "junk". It just seems like there should be a way to reduce your cost on this, but you would know better than I.
I could buy bulk Dacron material for a lot less.
You should keep the cement silver in that state, and hilariously, store it in empty "cement bags". Since it appears like cement and is heavy, thieves might bypass it.
Thieves wouldn’t want it. They think that paper dollars are more valuable than gold and silver.
You’re welcome. It’s good to see the BEAST back in action! Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
Theory: Would a larger anode puck and coiled wire, from the center out, (use a melt dish to construct, for more surface area.) help decrease the resistance, increase electric flow, thus maintain consistent amperage? And/Or does wire size play a factor, considering the short length? electricians chime in...
Always enjoy what you do, Mr. Sreetips, makes me want go into urban mining, every time I watch an episode.
I don’t think a larger anode or wire gauge would make a big difference. But I can make a bigger anode electrode bar with a thicker wire to see.
@@sreetips I agree, with such a short length run, I don't believe wire size is much of a factor, 10 gauge should allow for a sufficient flow rate throughout. I believe the anode size though could be key.
Today I realized the nitric acid is blue because of copper. I thought the blue was from the silver and copper made things green.
Everyday is a school day.
Correct!
I want a bag of silverware like that 😁
It’s out there. But you got to get up early and be there first. It won’t just fall in your lap.
I'd be curious to know what kind of numbers you are pulling. Cost of equipment, and cost of materials vs value of the final product.
I don’t know. I’ve never taken the time to figure it. I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
Please don't get arrested because I would like to buy a few silver bars
I swear to god you're a magician.