I agree. It was the flow rate from the crucible to the mold that was the highlight. Usually I’m all nerves watching the pour, clenching my jaw and rotating my head with the crucible but seeing the “laminar flow” of this pour overrode my anxiety. Lol!
@@sreetips Yes, looking better but read on... Yup, even at that, the mold lacked some heat, and the liquid gold had to warm it up. If you want better-looking sides and bottom try burnishing those surfaces of the mold with smooth-tipped carbide, tungsten carbide would work. The corners will need special attention from very small rounded tips, I suggest tungsten welding tips with rounded not pointy ends. The gold shows all the imperfections and will require either machining or burnishing to get it right and looking like all the ones we see in the mints. They use heated and cooled molds which have been polished to at least a number 5 mirror finish. I do not expect this from any hobby creator. Most likely the mold you are using was made by compaction of graphite and only struck twice before it was sold. Once to get all that was in the mold, tightened, and second to set the binder wax. Might have used high stearic acid-strengthened wax as the binder. Of course, the wax is long gone now, and some of the graphite it was holding as well, hence the holes and line layer tears we see on the sides. This is the reason the grain structures are too granular as we see. Those can be burnished a bit to improve the finish.
Watching you lower the cutlery into the crucible is so cool, it Looks like the bowl is super deep...😀 I know, I know, it's just an optical illusion, but still.
Love how the time lapse of nitric boils shows the heating element expanding and contracting making the beaker move Lol... you said it shortly after my comment
You're spot on! 👍 The only thing that comes close is finding gold nuggets with a metal detector; the uniqueness and beauty of it in its natural state 😍 Beautiful video once again, thankyou 😋👍🇦🇺🍀⛏️
Kevin - beautiful job! Time and patience = excellent outcome. I certainly appreciate your work and your willingness to share it with us. Its great entertainmemt for many.
I was really confused the first time I watched you do this it took me a little while to understand what the process but I really do like to learn about stuff like this very interesting..... And it is so cool to watch the dance it does when you precipitate the pure gold out and then the mud to beautiful pure gold when you melt it into a bar magical
Thank you for a wonderful Christmas gift. While holding physical gold is great, the gold in solution, along with that beautiful orange color, is stunning. That with the knowledge that it can be concentrated is just crazy. Thanks for another great video. Hoping you're and Ms. Sreetips had a blessed Christmas. BSafe. BBlessed
I like how you can see the condensation being driven off the graphite mold, when you first turn the torch on. So very important to make sure there's no moisture when you are casting molten metal.
You are welcome. There’s definitely SOMETHING about viewing an excellent production showcasing a superbly educational refining of this magnificent metal. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟🎉
Thank you for another great video. I love watching the process as well as seeing the final product. I hope you and your wife are enjoying the holiday's and wish you both a Happy New Year. Thanks again from Canada. 😎👍
From the meticulousness of the chemistry, to the lab technique, to the eventually pure end product, all from what was originally scrap, is absolutely fascinating and mesmerizing ! It's like watching the LockPicking Lawyer....except with Gold instead of Locks. :- D
And you do very well at explaining what your doin and what's goin on that helps a lot. This is the only gold refining channle I watch I've seen others but it's like Macys to dollar store this is such a great channle to learn from
About 25 years ago, as part of a group of university students visiting a company making dental crowns, I got to hold a 10 kg gold bar in my hands. What a strange sensation that was, since I was holding enough value in my hands to buy an average starter-level house. (Inflation, gold price and housing prices 25 years later means that 10 kg today would actually get me quite a bit more of a house compared to back then.)
An acquaintance told me that his house had doubled in value over the last few years. I had to explain to him that it had not doubled in value, but rather, the currency (US dollar) has lost half its value, so that now it takes twice as much currency to buy the same amount of house. He looked at me like I had two heads. This is the baffling feature of creating currency out of thin air. People just don’t understand what’s happening. And that’s what enables them (the currency printers) to pull it off.
@@sreetips Here it is a bit of both: yes, year-over-year inflation increases the housing prices, but over here in the Netherlands there is also a serious housing crisis going on. So part of the increase is inflation, but another part is housing shortage. Because of the latter, housing prices have significantly out-paced inflation.
@@sreetips It's the name for exactly what you just described. In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy. Goods get more expensive and salaries rise, but a dollar loses some of its value each year. US$ 100 back in 1980 doesn't represent the same value as it does in 2024.
I think there is! Digging a big natural gold nugget out of the ground is bloody amazing. This year, I found a 47.77 gram and a 84.67 gram gold nugget both 98+% purity (zrf tested). Total of 234 grams for 4 months metal detecting
Another great post, thank you. Is the heat used during the Nitric boil simply to speed up the process? Would the reaction still occur at, say, room temperature but over many days or weeks? ie is the heat a catalyst?
Another great video! Thank you. I learned a lot with your videos in order to make one of my last videos (about the dissolved gold nobel medals). And it went well, I dissolved 10g and recovered 9,9! Just one question, why you did not add borax to the sponge gold at the melting? Thank you again
@@sreetipsAnd it blows off too easily with no heat to liquefy it. The melt dish is glazed in borax, some is left from prior additions, the gold carries some trash from the precipitation which floats on top, we see it stratified just before he adds the pinch of borax towards the end of the heat. Some of the prior trash also contributes to that float, it is always there unless you use a clean, new, freshly glazed melt dish. This is all of no concern though, when he sells it they pay for the gold as they see it and at the price they determine -in fiat dollar bills.
Sree I don't watch TV Ain't in 10 years Been on the search for truth since I seen them Giant tree stumps. I'm tell you Right now Above and Beyond all else. Yours iS the Best... Entertainment in this place. Gold is Truth Last
Can you be sure the measurement weights are correct when your scale shows low Battery? When my Digital multimeter has a low battery the voltage reading can be off as much as 3 or 4 volts. I assume your scale may have similar issues if you have a low battery in the scale.
So, obviously the dark residue in the melt dish doesn't affect the alloy (or you wouldn't use that dish), but how long does a crucible last? How often do you replace them?
Questions. Pardon me if you've probably answered this before. Is there a reason to use sterling silver with its impurities rather than the .999 fine silver from your silver cells? Do the impurities play a role in easier inquartation? Thanks for your videos!
Oh my Sreetips. You've out done yourself, that's the most perfect ingot I've seen you pour. I hope you and your family had a great Christmas. And I wish you and your family a happy new year 🎉.
Very nice gold bar, mr Sreetips :) How abut showing us casting silver chess pieces? Have you thought about resuming this project? Happy New Year to you and your loved-ones !
I understand, but, one has to admit that creativity can bring its own rewards :) I'm sure you would enjoy it, even if you only manage to cast a single perfect chess piece (or something else ?) The French say: L'appétit vient en mangeant.... The desire for (more) food comes with the eating (or tasting)
Why do you boil the inquarted gold in dilute nitric acid, not in pure nitric acid? I am sure there is a good reason but I can't remember it being mentioned in any of the videos I've watched.
The water provides a medium for the metals to dissolve into. You could use just liquid dish soap, with no water, to clean your hands. It would work. But if you add some water then the liquid dish soap works much more efficiently.
Do you keep a tally on how much precious metal you have recovered? Not asking for a number just curious if you keep track. My nerd-ass would have to keep a spreadsheet. Great video!
the ancients powdered gold and ate it, it supposedly opened up their third eye .. yup, these hieroglyphs are all around in egypt, rah, the staph with the funky circle.. that's the third eye
Love your content, I understand the process, but it always breaks my heart when you melt down beautiful silverware... Any chance you could make your own sterling silver with silver cell and the refined waste?
@@sreetips ya I could see that it needs a little hydration somethin for it to float in because the nitric acid is being consumed so it needs something to leave behind
I’ve never beheld pure gold in real life before, only karat gold. The feeling of that weighty bar in your hand must be spectacular; almost as good as knowing you own it! 😆
In a previous video you showed us two buckets filled with cement silver waiting to be processed through silver cells. Cannot you use that cement silver for inquartation? It would certainly be much cheaper than continuing to purchase sterling silver cutlery.
Not recommended for several reasons. 1) it’s already been cemented on copper. 2) PGMs tend to follow the silver and could build up in the cement silver causing problems in the silver cell.
Was this video made awhile back... the watch used during timelapse is in good condition. Recent videos the watch looks like it's been through hell and back 😂. Or did Santa get you a new timelapse watch. Great video Kev!
While watching, my wife complained to me that it looked really bad, so I cleaned it off to make her happy. She’s always trying to run my life and tell me what to do. When I complain to her about this, she simply reply’s: that’s marriage for ya!
"A little bit of scrap gold." Yield = 4ozt pure gold.
~ $11,000 later
You blow my mind! I always enjoy your videos, thank you!
Thank you for posting during the holidays. I just checked an hour ago and didn't see anything. So good to see your content again.
Wow, what a beautiful pour. I would have to rank this as one of the most flawless pours I think you’ve achieved, yet.
I think the key is to get that graphite mold real hot before pouring in the molten gold.
Agreed 👍🏻 Def a balancing act, learned through trial and error.
I agree. It was the flow rate from the crucible to the mold that was the highlight. Usually I’m all nerves watching the pour, clenching my jaw and rotating my head with the crucible but seeing the “laminar flow” of this pour overrode my anxiety. Lol!
@@sreetips Yes, looking better but read on...
Yup, even at that, the mold lacked some heat, and the liquid gold had to warm it up. If you want better-looking sides and bottom try burnishing those surfaces of the mold with smooth-tipped carbide, tungsten carbide would work. The corners will need special attention from very small rounded tips, I suggest tungsten welding tips with rounded not pointy ends.
The gold shows all the imperfections and will require either machining or burnishing to get it right and looking like all the ones we see in the mints. They use heated and cooled molds which have been polished to at least a number 5 mirror finish. I do not expect this from any hobby creator.
Most likely the mold you are using was made by compaction of graphite and only struck twice before it was sold. Once to get all that was in the mold, tightened, and second to set the binder wax. Might have used high stearic acid-strengthened wax as the binder. Of course, the wax is long gone now, and some of the graphite it was holding as well, hence the holes and line layer tears we see on the sides. This is the reason the grain structures are too granular as we see. Those can be burnished a bit to improve the finish.
Your such a great teacher, I have really enjoyed your years worth of shows. God bless you and your family.
Thank you!
So glad to see the King of Inquartation back during Christmas.
Watching you lower the cutlery into the crucible is so cool, it Looks like the bowl is super deep...😀 I know, I know, it's just an optical illusion, but still.
Watched this process hundreds of times- it never gets old.
Love how the time lapse of nitric boils shows the heating element expanding and contracting making the beaker move
Lol... you said it shortly after my comment
I NEVER get tired of watching this process!
As ever, Pure magical alchemy. Hope you and mrs sreetips had a great christmas.
You're spot on! 👍 The only thing that comes close is finding gold nuggets with a metal detector; the uniqueness and beauty of it in its natural state 😍
Beautiful video once again, thankyou 😋👍🇦🇺🍀⛏️
So glad your back Kevin. I continue to be absolutely mesmerized by your videos. It just never gets old!! Happy Festivus!
Looking forward to the feats of great strength!
The legend has returned! Long live Sreetips! Hope you had a good festive break :D
Kevin - beautiful job! Time and patience = excellent outcome. I certainly appreciate your work and your willingness to share it with us. Its great entertainmemt for many.
Thanks
I was really confused the first time I watched you do this it took me a little while to understand what the process but I really do like to learn about stuff like this very interesting..... And it is so cool to watch the dance it does when you precipitate the pure gold out and then the mud to beautiful pure gold when you melt it into a bar magical
Doing the precipitation never gets old for me.
Thank you for a wonderful Christmas gift. While holding physical gold is great, the gold in solution, along with that beautiful orange color, is stunning. That with the knowledge that it can be concentrated is just crazy.
Thanks for another great video.
Hoping you're and Ms. Sreetips had a blessed Christmas.
BSafe. BBlessed
I like how you can see the condensation being driven off the graphite mold, when you first turn the torch on. So very important to make sure there's no moisture when you are casting molten metal.
You are welcome. There’s definitely SOMETHING about viewing an excellent production showcasing a superbly educational refining of this magnificent metal. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟🎉
Thank you!
So complex, yet beautiful and simple and pure. Love it.
Outstanding! Slick trick with the spray bottle to capture the few grains stuck at the pour end of the dry beaker!
Hope you and mrs sreetips had a wonderful xmas and thanks for the vid steetips.
Nice, at 17:00, check out what looks to be fire on the bottom of the beaker when you add the smb, I get this same illusion in reverse electroplating
Thank you for another great video. I love watching the process as well as seeing the final product. I hope you and your wife are enjoying the holiday's and wish you both a Happy New Year. Thanks again from Canada. 😎👍
I agree, holding pure gold feels great and it looks great. Very nice
From the meticulousness of the chemistry, to the lab technique, to the eventually pure end product, all from what was originally scrap, is absolutely fascinating and mesmerizing ! It's like watching the LockPicking Lawyer....except with Gold instead of Locks. :- D
And you do very well at explaining what your doin and what's goin on that helps a lot. This is the only gold refining channle I watch I've seen others but it's like Macys to dollar store this is such a great channle to learn from
Thank you! I try to be as thorough as possible.
Great work. You do a lot of interesting stuff but these are my favorite to watch.
Always fantastic to see that brown pure gold powder slowly melt into brilliant shiny droplets and pools of metal! ❤
Thank you very much, and Happy Holidays to you and your family. Beautiful bar, just before the New Year, see you then Sir!
Same to you
About 25 years ago, as part of a group of university students visiting a company making dental crowns, I got to hold a 10 kg gold bar in my hands. What a strange sensation that was, since I was holding enough value in my hands to buy an average starter-level house.
(Inflation, gold price and housing prices 25 years later means that 10 kg today would actually get me quite a bit more of a house compared to back then.)
An acquaintance told me that his house had doubled in value over the last few years. I had to explain to him that it had not doubled in value, but rather, the currency (US dollar) has lost half its value, so that now it takes twice as much currency to buy the same amount of house. He looked at me like I had two heads. This is the baffling feature of creating currency out of thin air. People just don’t understand what’s happening. And that’s what enables them (the currency printers) to pull it off.
@@sreetips Here it is a bit of both: yes, year-over-year inflation increases the housing prices, but over here in the Netherlands there is also a serious housing crisis going on. So part of the increase is inflation, but another part is housing shortage. Because of the latter, housing prices have significantly out-paced inflation.
What is inflation?
@@sreetips It's the name for exactly what you just described.
In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy. Goods get more expensive and salaries rise, but a dollar loses some of its value each year.
US$ 100 back in 1980 doesn't represent the same value as it does in 2024.
Ok, thank you.
Another beautiful bar. A joyous newyears to you and mrs sreetips
Same to you!
I think there is!
Digging a big natural gold nugget out of the ground is bloody amazing.
This year, I found a 47.77 gram and a 84.67 gram gold nugget both 98+% purity (zrf tested). Total of 234 grams for 4 months metal detecting
That’s amazing. Congratulations. All the gold we find is already above ground.
Congratulations buddy🎀
SREETIPS is back. Happy holidays Chief from Florida😊
Thanks, Happy Holidays to you too!
Happy Holidays sreetips! I hope the new year brings you piles of gold and silver!
Just what I needed to calm my nerves after a hectic holiday! Nice bar!
God bless you 🙏
Thank you for the reminder. Ages ago I did watch the why and the numbers for adding silver but if you had asked me I couldnt have told you.
It’s all basic arithmetic
Thank you again Kevin! Nicely done 🎉🎉
Ahhh a holiday video, gotta love that. Hope you, the better half and the rest of your family are having an amazing holiday season!
Another great post, thank you. Is the heat used during the Nitric boil simply to speed up the process? Would the reaction still occur at, say, room temperature but over many days or weeks? ie is the heat a catalyst?
I’ve never tried cold acid. Heat is essential. It makes the acid work faster.
That bar is beautiful what a perfect pour 👍
Great video, you have the process nailed down nicely. ❤
Love your videos hope u had a merry Christmas and a Happy New year to come .😊
Thank you! You too!
Better $$ than silver, worth so much more great job .Again
Beautiful bar as always merry Christmas
Another great video!
Thank you. I learned a lot with your videos in order to make one of my last videos (about the dissolved gold nobel medals). And it went well, I dissolved 10g and recovered 9,9!
Just one question, why you did not add borax to the sponge gold at the melting? Thank you again
Didn’t need it.
@@sreetipsAnd it blows off too easily with no heat to liquefy it. The melt dish is glazed in borax, some is left from prior additions, the gold carries some trash from the precipitation which floats on top, we see it stratified just before he adds the pinch of borax towards the end of the heat. Some of the prior trash also contributes to that float, it is always there unless you use a clean, new, freshly glazed melt dish. This is all of no concern though, when he sells it they pay for the gold as they see it and at the price they determine -in fiat dollar bills.
Wow that steam coming off of it was absolutely beautiful!
Sree
I don't watch TV
Ain't in 10 years
Been on the search for truth since I seen them Giant tree stumps.
I'm tell you Right now Above and Beyond all else.
Yours iS the Best...
Entertainment in this place.
Gold is Truth
Last
Thank you!
_'There is nothing, and I mean nothing like the feel of pure gold in your hands'_
You've clearly never held a cold beer on a hot day.
Ahh been missing some sreetips t.v., hope yours and the mrs.sreetips holiday was well
Best channel on RUclips 💯❣️
Thank you!
❤
Happy holidays sreetips!
You know I've always wanted to try doing the opposite and bring the gold content over 75% and do a refining
I was watching a guy poor bar last night and he was tapping the side of the mold. It turned out pretty damn smooth.
Can do do a segment on the chemicals you use? Also where to buy and the cost etc. Enjoy the videos.
Most come from Ace Hardware. Nitric is available at any chemical supply.
Alright… Professor Sreetips is back from the Holidays.
Can you be sure the measurement weights are correct when your scale shows low Battery? When my Digital multimeter has a low battery the voltage reading can be off as much as 3 or 4 volts. I assume your scale may have similar issues if you have a low battery in the scale.
Yes, I have a standard test weight that I can use to check the scale accuracy.
Great video absolutely beautiful gold bar thanks for sharing sreetips and happy new year
So, obviously the dark residue in the melt dish doesn't affect the alloy (or you wouldn't use that dish), but how long does a crucible last? How often do you replace them?
Maybe ten or fifteen times.
Questions. Pardon me if you've probably answered this before. Is there a reason to use sterling silver with its impurities rather than the .999 fine silver from your silver cells? Do the impurities play a role in easier inquartation? Thanks for your videos!
Pure silver had already been through the silver cell.
Be like taking a step backward.
A happy holidays to you Mr and Mrs Sreetips and a safe and prosperous new year...🎉🎉😊
Thank you! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you as well!
Exactly how gullom from the Lord of the rings felt.
My precious.
I have "Sreetips here, today I'm doing a precious metals recovery series of the cardboard and woodblock in the fumehood" on my 2025 BINGO card.
Oh my Sreetips.
You've out done yourself, that's the most perfect ingot I've seen you pour.
I hope you and your family had a great Christmas.
And I wish you and your family a happy new year 🎉.
Thanks, same to you.
hey sreetips, i hear you're the king of inquartation now!?😎 big time, dude!!
Gooooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Hello David. Hope that you having some relaxing days my friend 🎀
I will wish you a happy new year 🎈God bless you buddy
@Arne-ns2mw Hello Arne! Hope your having a wonderful holiday season my friend!
Goooood evening!
@@DavidDavis-yep Thank you David my friend ❤️
Very nice gold bar, mr Sreetips :) How abut showing us casting silver chess pieces? Have you thought about resuming this project?
Happy New Year to you and your loved-ones !
One of my viewers beat me to it. I’d still like to try it. But the older I get, the less exciting starting new projects becomes.
I understand, but, one has to admit that creativity can bring its own rewards :) I'm sure you would enjoy it, even if you only manage to cast a single perfect chess piece (or something else ?)
The French say: L'appétit vient en mangeant.... The desire for (more) food comes with the eating (or tasting)
I wish you and Miss Sreetips, in advance, the best for the new year.
Best Regards.
Sylvain
Thank you, same to you
@@sreetips Thank you.
Really nice looking bar .
Precipitation never gets old. So cool! Hope you and the misses had a wonderful xmas and have a safe and stellar New Year's. 🤙🏻🖤
Thank you, we had a great Christmas! Same to you!
Why do you boil the inquarted gold in dilute nitric acid, not in pure nitric acid? I am sure there is a good reason but I can't remember it being mentioned in any of the videos I've watched.
The water provides a medium for the metals to dissolve into. You could use just liquid dish soap, with no water, to clean your hands. It would work. But if you add some water then the liquid dish soap works much more efficiently.
aaaaaand he's back!
That is one pretty bar of gold.
Keep up the good work streetips 👍
Do you keep a tally on how much precious metal you have recovered? Not asking for a number just curious if you keep track. My nerd-ass would have to keep a spreadsheet. Great video!
I have my notebook with all the refinings that I’ve ever done over the last decade and a half. But I’ve never gone back and tallied it up.
the ancients powdered gold and ate it, it supposedly opened up their third eye .. yup, these hieroglyphs are all around in egypt, rah, the staph with the funky circle.. that's the third eye
Eating gold doesn’t hurt humans
R u using distilled water ice or tap water ice?
Tap water
Awesome looking gold bar sreetips, Hope you & the family have a safe & Happy New Year my friend 👍
Hopefully you and yours had a great Christmas sir. This has been a very enjoyable video with awesome content six stars sir and have a happy new year
Merry Christmas!
How did the ancient people purify their gold?
Good question
What do you use to control the vacuum, some kind of electronic gadget that turns off the pump at a certain pressure? What's it called?
Please see my video titled how to build a reliable vacuum system. It’s has a vacuum switch that controls the vacuum pump motor.
Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips.Thank you for a Christmas clip for us🎀
God bless you and a happy new year🎈❤️🎈
Same to you Arne!
@sreetips Thank you Sir🎈
Love your content, I understand the process, but it always breaks my heart when you melt down beautiful silverware...
Any chance you could make your own sterling silver with silver cell and the refined waste?
I could but that’s like taking a big step backwards. The silver has already been through the silver cell.
@sreetips I appreciate the response, keep doing what you are doing sir!
Happy holidays Mr n Mrs sreetips hope yall have a great holiday and happy new year
Same to you
Thanks man, love this stuff. Would love to know what more or less the face value is of all the karat gold you put in the crucible.
I’m not sure. We buy it at local estate sales and yard sales.
Have a wonderful and shining 2025 Kevin!
Same to you
👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 🤗
I still don't know why you dilute the nitric acid does it do the same as if it were just strait acid kinda like a little dab will do ya
Think of using just liquid dish soap with no water to wash your hands. It would work, but if you add some water it works much more efficiently.
@@sreetips yes sir that makes a lot of sence. I guess it spreads it out and makes it get in all the nucks and crannys
@@sreetips ya I could see that it needs a little hydration somethin for it to float in because the nitric acid is being consumed so it needs something to leave behind
The extra water provides a medium for the metals to dissolve into.
Yay a gold refining vid! 🤩👍✨
Good to see your video sir.
Hi Sreetips,
Merry Christmas / Happy Hanukkah / Happy Holidays & Happy New Year to you and yours.
Thanks, same to you!
Hey SREETIPS how’s everything? I hope you had a merry Christmas say hello to Teresa.😊❤
Everything is great, thanks. Merry Christmas!
Really nice one Sir! 👊
Good work team
That's a beautiful bar of gold
I’ve never beheld pure gold in real life before, only karat gold. The feeling of that weighty bar in your hand must be spectacular; almost as good as knowing you own it! 😆
Most people don’t get to see or hold pure gold.
Love your content my guy keep up the good work
That was a really good estimate on the final weight.
Pretty close
Every move is perfect, the master has accomplished it.
In a previous video you showed us two buckets filled with cement silver waiting to be processed through silver cells. Cannot you use that cement silver for inquartation? It would certainly be much cheaper than continuing to purchase sterling silver cutlery.
Not recommended for several reasons. 1) it’s already been cemented on copper. 2) PGMs tend to follow the silver and could build up in the cement silver causing problems in the silver cell.
Was this video made awhile back... the watch used during timelapse is in good condition. Recent videos the watch looks like it's been through hell and back 😂. Or did Santa get you a new timelapse watch. Great video Kev!
While watching, my wife complained to me that it looked really bad, so I cleaned it off to make her happy. She’s always trying to run my life and tell me what to do. When I complain to her about this, she simply reply’s: that’s marriage for ya!
@sreetips 🤣