The fact that most ppl probably just toss those out but my boy was able to pull $400 out of what looked to be trash! It looked like trash but he saw gold !! Awesome video man
@@sreetips Love your videos! How much did it cost in terms of chemicals, gass, electricity etc. to get that button of around $400? Was it worth it? I have no idea what acid and other chemicals cost. 😀
Aside from your awesome content, I actually enjoy watching the timing devices that you use slowly deteriorate over the span of many videos. It's interesting that even though you're in a fume hood, enough fumes still hang around long enough to cling to the watch from time to time.
It didn’t register with me until I was in the sink and I was pouring out the gold button right over the open drain. I contemplated faking it dropped down the drain for kicks. I wondered in an instant how many comments would be about the open drain. Oh well.
This was the most satisfying video.. we were all along for the ride on those filter papers over all this time .. just waiting. Surprised you're as efficient as you are, but still a free button!
I’ve always loved these recoveries. (Filter papers and slimes from silver recovery and stock pot). I do wonder though - when you add Sulphuric acid to the solution to precipitate lead out - then you filter the lead percip out - then that filter ends up in these refines- do you ever do anything that would remove the lead completely from the system or will @Sreetips be making a lead fishing weight someday after a filter paper refine? 😂. Jokes aside - I assume there isn’t much lead in the material except when a lead solder is used.
Gold is never free. Those items, time, electricity and expendables, are well worth giving to gain some more highly valuable GOLD. If you think about it, I traded paper currency (that’s declining in value) for those items, and used them to transform old filters, value unknown and questionable, into pure gold. Its value easily determined. Plus, unlike the paper, gold’s value is rising.
$400 - $450... amazing. I saw that little button and thought "Wow, after all those chemicals he is going to be at a loss" Its incredible how valuable even a few grams of gold can be. Thank you for the video!
I need to ask - You didn't remove all the gemstones. While amethysts, spindels, sapphires and rubies usually are resistant to acids and heat, what about diamonds? There were a lot of small stones, maybe a fraction of a karat, but still, they aren't worthless. You're not afraid incinerating diamonds could destroy them? Or are the conditions too low for that to happen (i.e. not enough oxigen, not enough heat)?
The melting point of diamonds is at around 4500 degrees Celsius. You'll never be able to reach a temperature that high with just burning some wood in a fire pit, so the diamonds will not be harmed during this process.
I liked how you shown how to get the borax off which I always wondered. I always wondered if it was worth recovering from those filters but looks like it is :)
5.2 grams hiding in filter papers! Proof that sreetips recovers Everything! Eventually 😊 Closest thing ro "free" gold anyone can get. Thank you for another filter paper series. As always it was so cool to watch. Modern day Alchemist right here, bring magicks of old to our eyes and showing us how to do it step by step! Nothing but love and appreciation for sreetips.
It's amazing all of that acid doesn't just dissolve everything into just atoms. It was strange to see that the dip test at first reacted black and the later test showed a lighter color for the gold. But this is one of the first videos of this kind I've seen.
I'm sure dealing with contaminated solutions like this is a pain in the butt, but it sure serves as a great learning opportunity for us! After part 1, I was wondering how you would specifically target the gold without bringing the PGM along with it, and i had totally forgotten how ferrous sulfate could be used for exactly that. Much love from a Texas CPO!
Kevin, I think Ferrous Sulfate acts with solutions like raw Iron in your cementation buckets. In that it drops anything out of solution thats under it on the reactivity series. Including PGMs, so it doesn't just drop the gold, but also copper, silver, and other base metals. Right?
No, ferrous sulfate drops the gold, all the gold, and nothing but the gold. This reaction is different than the emendation reaction on metallic iron. Two totally different reactions.
@@sreetips I wonder why that is, I'd have though that in solution the sulfate ion and the ferrous ion would be free to interact with most other solvated metals. I guess the sulfate ion prefers the gold, and the iron that the sulfate was split from either gets back together with a free sulfate ion and the or just slightly contaminates the gold. I bet you have iron in that gold very slightly.
beautiful button! quick question, how do/would you extract the platinum group metals and also copper and such from previously used solutions that you used to refine silver and gold?
I add the solutions with traces of PGMs to a bucket containing copper and the PGMs cement out and accumulate there. Then I transfer the copper solution to another bucket full of angle iron and cement the copper out on the angle iron.
Another master class, thank you for sharing once again 👍 One question... after precipitation with the ferrous sulphate, would it be an idea to run the waste liquid through a filter and then add said filter to your filter bucket? asking as there looked (and am only watching on a phone) like some darker shadows (precipitate?) going with it into the waste container....
That waste container is my first step in waste treatment. If some of the gold gets poured off into that container then no worries because I’ll recover the gold that accumulates there in another video.
Great video series like always. I really enjoy watching how you process your wastes and how nothing really ever goes to waste. Thank you for all your great content and God bless you and Mrs. Sreetips
Look at that three gram's more than I predicted excellent video sir very enjoyable and informative thank you for sharing this with us six stars brother
Have you ever tried MEK on finger boards. Pretty much a fiberglass harder. When I used it if you didn’t have the right amount, it would actually burn the fiberglass we built large fiberglass tanks for our fingerling ponds in TX for Redfish? (Methyl Ethyl Ketone)
@@sreetips you should give it a try if it you use it too much. It’ll actually turn the fiberglass black and it does produce heat so you want to do it outside but do a small sample and you can figure it out pretty easy. 👍
@@sreetips I would think so. I know that Home Depot and Lowe’s has it. It comes in a blue can MEK. 👍 If they don’t, eventually, we can order some for you. 👍
That's why he pours all the waste solution into a big container labeled "gold refining waste," and it's also processed in the future. Lol, nothing goes to waste. He processes everything 😂
Amazing video as always, Sreetips! I was wondering, once you're finished with the aqua regia stage, and you have the yellow filtered solution with dissolved gold, what would happen if you were to boil it down until all the liquid evaporated? I wonder if you can condense the aqua regia down to yield a darker or "thicker" gold precipitate, making it easier to filter if you are expecting a low yield
He did that a while back - maybe 6 months back, perhaps less than that? - Boiled the AR dry, leaving just a "crust" of chloroauric acid crystals in the beaker. As I recall, "fixing" it meant basiially just "re-dissolve it with AR", then finish the refining as normal. As for making filtering easier, I'd have to say "nope" - a "thicker" solution would almost certainly take more time/effort to get it thorugh the filter.
Yes, the gold solution, called chloroauric acid solution, can be evaporated down to reduce the amount of liquid. If it’s evaporated to dryness then I’d get chloroauric acid crystals forming. I’ve done this before in a previous video.
I was wondering if you'd be interested in doing a safety video about the acids you use, wherein you show what kinds of materials the different acids will disolve and highlight the dangers and need for safety. I'm thinking along the lines of the various "piranha solution" videos where they disolve chicken legs and such, only with HCL, and Nitric, etc. That's supposed to be the most potent acid, so I'm curious about these other types that you use.
Another awesome 2 part series on extracting gold from paper storage. Sreetips, they make a mesh strainer that fits the faucet drain. You might want to invest in one to pervent accidents.
It didn’t register with me until I was in the sink and I was pouring out the gold button right over the open drain. I contemplated faking it dropped down the drain for kicks. I wondered in an instant how many comments would be about the open drain. Oh well.
that amount of gold over how long youve been collecting filter paper shows just how good your processes are at recovering gold thank you sreetips for the video
What happens with the used up solids in the last big filter. Added to the bucket for the 2026 series or thrown away now? Also excellent video. You have really streamlined your technique over the years.
18:40 "It's not very much" -- that's just a testament of having a good and efficient refining routine! Not having much to recover from your waste filters is a Good Thing™
Water and acid should be miscible. When water is added to acid, or acid to water, some heat is generated. Adding a drop of water to concentrated sulfuric acid could cause it to turn to steam and spatter hot acid all over the place.
Wow 😮 It is shocking how much gold is lost in all the refining processes, over $400 in paper filters and yes there was visible gold in those filters, however I would say that atleast 60% or 70% was not visible just hiding in the papers
I know time and gravity are free and reliable - are flocculants of any help to speed up the settling process of the heavy metals / gold or would it not be worth it / create issues with purity? Thanks sreetips.
Goodday sir, what types of acid and purity% do i need, to refine, gold silver, also to make silver cell. Thank you for all the valubale information you provide us all. I watch all your videos. The silver cell one i watched again and again.
I use hydrochloric acid from Ace hardware, label says 31.46% and ACS grade (technical grade works fine) nitric from any chemical supply, label says: ASSAY 68% to 70%
It's great seeing you again, I haven't watched you for awhile. I did see pt.1 yesterday though. You will always have a supply of dirty filters to pan. Lol 😅 Have you noticed how distilled water 💦 is getting really expensive?
Yes! It went from $0.99 to $1.49 - NOT because that water has become more valuable nor more scarce. It’s because the currency (US dollar) has lost half its value (due to printing out of thin air) in the last four or five years. A guy told me his house doubled in value. I told him, no it didn’t. The currency has lost half its value so that now it takes twice as much of it to buy the same amount of house. He looked at me like I had two heads. This is the baffling feature of inflation (money printing “without limit”) most people just don’t understand what’s going on. They think it’s greedy merchants engaging in price gouging. Watch the Netflix doc on Bernie Madoff. The correlation between Bernie and the Fed leaps off the screen at you. The only difference is that Bernie didn’t have a printing press to make up his short fall. They are doing evil in high places. And it will come apart one day. Frightening.
I think it would be a great idea for you to have a custom mould of something made. To melt your silver crystals into. It could be a solid silver piece of art you could auction off. Or have a custom coin press or dies made to make your own coins! I would love a Sreetips coin or model. Just some ideas💡
Never a dull moment, Sr. You never mention the silver. I would imagine there is a bit of silver in those filters? Any idea how much there might be on average? I looked down through the comments and I didn't notice anyone mention the gold blowing out of the crucible at 19:40. Looked like a decent picker. So, I winced hard there near the end. Can you guess when? I waited on an, "Uh, oh…" lol Again, never a dull moment, Sr. Throwing that $400 away would be like people throwing broken gold chains in the trash.
I’ve heard of people doing that, throwing broken gold away because it’s broken. In fact, Mrs sreetips did that in her younger days before I met her. The piece that blew out was a piece of paper that I added from the melt table that had a smidge of gold on it from a previous video (I think it was the silver chains gold recovery a few days ago).
@@sreetips I bought a broken 18kt chain for $100 that had, at the time, a bit over $400 worth of gold in it. Now those two pieces are worth $700. I remember my mother throwing out a broken 14kt wedding band.
@@sreetips my cash savings basically amount to 6 months worth of current bills + food and a little extra just in case. I like gold and I always buy currency coins for the rather large tax advantage.
@14:05 Do you keep the filter papers, that have a clear indication for platinum group metals, in a separate stack, so that it won´t go back into an eternal cycle of gold waste refining with other used filters?
Hi @sreetips 🎉 Once again you’ve outdone yourself! I was wondering when this would be posted and I saw it was on RUclips on my way home from work but I waited till bed time so I could watch it in peace. Just one question if you would be so kind: I’ve noticed whenever you precipitate with SMB we get to see you boil the solution to get it to settle out quicker. However I’ve never seen you boil the solution with a ferrous sulphate precipitation. Could you please explain what the significance/reason of this is? Also, what is the purpose of rinsing the dropped gold sponge with HCL vs distilled water? Thank you in advance Sir 🙏🏼
1) I could boil the ferrous sulfate but I’ve only just recently begun using it regularly. I just didn’t think to do it in this video. Plus, I was burnt out from cleaning the yard and producing three video in four days so I went in and took a short nap.
@@sreetips I know we all really appreciate it and it goes without saying but I’ll say it anyway…THANK YOU FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE, PATIENCE AND YOUR DEDICATION. Just the fact that you take the time to read and respond to each and everyone’s comments is a testament to your dedication. Thank you sir 🙏🏼 🫡
It didn’t register with me until I was in the sink and I was pouring out the gold button right over the open drain. I contemplated faking it dropped down the drain for kicks. I wondered in an instant how many comments would be about the open drain. Oh well.
sreetips this channel is so damn cool. I started watching before I started studying Chemistry, and watching you handle these quantities of metals is such a treat
that is a LOT of the shiny stuff considering its from a waste product others might have thrown away.. WOW!! i hope all is well with you and yours over the other side of the pond. all the best from the UK 🙂 (been subbed for a good while but had to reset and clear my account plus change my user name due to the uk speech censoring policies, previously thetimeisnigh/cancer sucks)
You can please some of the people some of the time. But you can’t please all the people all the time. Folks were complaining because I wasn’t doing the stannous test.
@sreetips you stated once that a person can just buy gold jewelry and silver flatware, and it will follow the market price, and you don't need to refine it?
Correct. No need to refine it. It will track right on up with the bullion price. To determine the value you must first determine the karat of the jewelry. 14k is 58.3% pure gold. 10k gold is 41.7% pure gold. 18k is 75% pure gold.
And sreetips does the ultimate video - REFINING the Drain Drops 😂😂😂 Another golden video Sreetips 👍 As always - well done 🥳 Greetings from down under 🇦🇺
Amazing. Good work team. I never understood though. Why does some of the particulate that makes the solution cloudy pass through the filter the first time, but doesn't the second time? How does it happen?
It’s because the very fine particulate (probably silver chloride) is so small that it passes right through the pores in the filter paper on the first pass. But as the filter gets loaded up, then it can trap those very fine particles due to the pores getting clogged up from the first pass. The filtering efficiency increase because of the junk that gets trapped in the filter on the first pass.
Been waiting all day for this
Half as long as I've been waiting 😄
The fact that most ppl probably just toss those out but my boy was able to pull $400 out of what looked to be trash! It looked like trash but he saw gold !! Awesome video man
Ya spoiled it!
When you consider that miners determine richness of their ore in terms of grams of gold per ton, this paper was very rich indeed.
@@sreetips I hadn't considered that but yeah that's a great way to compare it
@@sreetips Love your videos! How much did it cost in terms of chemicals, gass, electricity etc. to get that button of around $400? Was it worth it? I have no idea what acid and other chemicals cost. 😀
Probably fifty bucks, all in
thank you so much for your huge works. Wish you all the goodnesses, and keep contribute for us these great videos
Aside from your awesome content, I actually enjoy watching the timing devices that you use slowly deteriorate over the span of many videos. It's interesting that even though you're in a fume hood, enough fumes still hang around long enough to cling to the watch from time to time.
Boy, when you tipped that beaker into your hand... over the open sink... 😂 I really thought this was going to become the Sink Trap Channel
It didn’t register with me until I was in the sink and I was pouring out the gold button right over the open drain. I contemplated faking it dropped down the drain for kicks. I wondered in an instant how many comments would be about the open drain. Oh well.
😂😂😂 scanalous @@sreetips trolling the trollers hahaha!
You can get a drain filter/stopper when you get more acid at the hardware store!
Yes
That might have been the coolest reaction yet.
The delay, then sudden transformation going on inside the beaker during the SMB precipitation is amazing.
Small quantities is what you want when recovering waste....it shows your methods are efficient. Good work keep it up
Torching that gold powder is my favourite part always. Soooooo satisfying. I also love the background noise from the machinery. Calming.
I love when you do the filters and the silver cell slimes !
This was the most satisfying video.. we were all along for the ride on those filter papers over all this time .. just waiting.
Surprised you're as efficient as you are, but still a free button!
"free" divided by the time, electricity and expendables
@@toyfreaks a gained button. There, I feel better about the reclassification.
@@ClassicallyNamed Sreetips would be proud
I’ve always loved these recoveries. (Filter papers and slimes from silver recovery and stock pot).
I do wonder though - when you add Sulphuric acid to the solution to precipitate lead out - then you filter the lead percip out - then that filter ends up in these refines- do you ever do anything that would remove the lead completely from the system or will @Sreetips be making a lead fishing weight someday after a filter paper refine? 😂. Jokes aside - I assume there isn’t much lead in the material except when a lead solder is used.
Gold is never free. Those items, time, electricity and expendables, are well worth giving to gain some more highly valuable GOLD. If you think about it, I traded paper currency (that’s declining in value) for those items, and used them to transform old filters, value unknown and questionable, into pure gold. Its value easily determined. Plus, unlike the paper, gold’s value is rising.
Excellent result. Thank you for the edutainment, Sir!👍👍🤟
$400 - $450... amazing. I saw that little button and thought "Wow, after all those chemicals he is going to be at a loss" Its incredible how valuable even a few grams of gold can be. Thank you for the video!
Always a treat waiting for the filter papers. Looking forward to the PGM episode
I need to ask - You didn't remove all the gemstones. While amethysts, spindels, sapphires and rubies usually are resistant to acids and heat, what about diamonds? There were a lot of small stones, maybe a fraction of a karat, but still, they aren't worthless. You're not afraid incinerating diamonds could destroy them? Or are the conditions too low for that to happen (i.e. not enough oxigen, not enough heat)?
The melting point of diamonds is at around 4500 degrees Celsius. You'll never be able to reach a temperature that high with just burning some wood in a fire pit, so the diamonds will not be harmed during this process.
NileRed made carbonated water by burning diamonds... It's definitely not something that happens by accident
@@nathanieljames7462 Yeah, even using pure oxygen it took a while for those tiny diamonds to burn away.
Thanks for the responces, guys! Good to learn these things ^_^
@@GalenLeRaazye it should be fine. No worries.
I liked how you shown how to get the borax off which I always wondered. I always wondered if it was worth recovering from those filters but looks like it is :)
@3:50 you should have extracted all the gem stones with a gold pan and clear water.Or with a sieve, that lets the fine sandy particles go through.
What a great series to see how all those filter papers actually accumulate that much gold. Love your videos
The ultimate gold collaboration I want to see is sreetips and Dan Hurd.
This would be awesome!
love your videos Sreetips!
I enjoyed this the process was different but the results spot on super cool to watch!!!
Love that reaction shows really well with a little gold instead of lots.
5.2 grams hiding in filter papers! Proof that sreetips recovers Everything! Eventually 😊 Closest thing ro "free" gold anyone can get. Thank you for another filter paper series. As always it was so cool to watch. Modern day Alchemist right here, bring magicks of old to our eyes and showing us how to do it step by step! Nothing but love and appreciation for sreetips.
Nice comment, thank you!
It's amazing all of that acid doesn't just dissolve everything into just atoms. It was strange to see that the dip test at first reacted black and the later test showed a lighter color for the gold. But this is one of the first videos of this kind I've seen.
Highly concentrated gold solution will turn the test black.
I'm sure dealing with contaminated solutions like this is a pain in the butt, but it sure serves as a great learning opportunity for us! After part 1, I was wondering how you would specifically target the gold without bringing the PGM along with it, and i had totally forgotten how ferrous sulfate could be used for exactly that. Much love from a Texas CPO!
Hello to you in Texas👍
Thanks Chief!
@@Arne-ns2mw Thank you, and hello to you too!
@@thePen_and_theSword Hello. Nice to talking to you and welcome if you ar new. God bless you 🙂
Kevin, I think Ferrous Sulfate acts with solutions like raw Iron in your cementation buckets. In that it drops anything out of solution thats under it on the reactivity series. Including PGMs, so it doesn't just drop the gold, but also copper, silver, and other base metals. Right?
No, ferrous sulfate drops the gold, all the gold, and nothing but the gold. This reaction is different than the emendation reaction on metallic iron. Two totally different reactions.
@@sreetips I wonder why that is, I'd have though that in solution the sulfate ion and the ferrous ion would be free to interact with most other solvated metals. I guess the sulfate ion prefers the gold, and the iron that the sulfate was split from either gets back together with a free sulfate ion and the or just slightly contaminates the gold. I bet you have iron in that gold very slightly.
Probably. But a second refining will get it out.
I was watching the first video, and I was thinking "I can't wait for the second one"!!!! Thank god AND Sreetips! ^^
beautiful button! quick question, how do/would you extract the platinum group metals and also copper and such from previously used solutions that you used to refine silver and gold?
I add the solutions with traces of PGMs to a bucket containing copper and the PGMs cement out and accumulate there. Then I transfer the copper solution to another bucket full of angle iron and cement the copper out on the angle iron.
Ahh. Thank you. As always a joy to watch
Another master class, thank you for sharing once again 👍
One question... after precipitation with the ferrous sulphate, would it be an idea to run the waste liquid through a filter and then add said filter to your filter bucket? asking as there looked (and am only watching on a phone) like some darker shadows (precipitate?) going with it into the waste container....
That waste container is my first step in waste treatment. If some of the gold gets poured off into that container then no worries because I’ll recover the gold that accumulates there in another video.
Thanks for the content, Mr. Tips
This process still fascinates me. amazing!
Great video series like always. I really enjoy watching how you process your wastes and how nothing really ever goes to waste. Thank you for all your great content and God bless you and Mrs. Sreetips
Thank you
Nice work. Not sure I'd have the patience to go process the filters like that.
That precipitation with SMB never gets old.
I really like watching your alchemy Sreetips 🐉 Thank you for sharing with us 🙏 God Bless
Look at that three gram's more than I predicted excellent video sir very enjoyable and informative thank you for sharing this with us six stars brother
That's quite a nice bead from filter papers!
Have you ever tried MEK on finger boards. Pretty much a fiberglass harder. When I used it if you didn’t have the right amount, it would actually burn the fiberglass we built large fiberglass tanks for our fingerling ponds in TX for Redfish? (Methyl Ethyl Ketone)
I know of it but it’s very never used it.
@@sreetips you should give it a try if it you use it too much. It’ll actually turn the fiberglass black and it does produce heat so you want to do it outside but do a small sample and you can figure it out pretty easy. 👍
@@sreetips also you can find it at any big box store so it’s easily accessible.
They have it at Ace Hardware.
@@sreetips I would think so. I know that Home Depot and Lowe’s has it. It comes in a blue can MEK. 👍
If they don’t, eventually, we can order some for you. 👍
cool how it flashed to a darker color when you added the smb
Beautiful button, it may not have been huge but $400 is still 400 and will continue to increase in value as it's gold not paper. 👍🏻❤️
You bet!
Really enjoy this content. I have often wondered how much precipitation missed the ride. 👊🇺🇸🧂
That's why he pours all the waste solution into a big container labeled "gold refining waste," and it's also processed in the future. Lol, nothing goes to waste. He processes everything 😂
That drop at 6 minutes is amazing looking. Almost like a cloud.
Out of work relaxing watching Magic!!!; )
Amazing video as always, Sreetips!
I was wondering, once you're finished with the aqua regia stage, and you have the yellow filtered solution with dissolved gold, what would happen if you were to boil it down until all the liquid evaporated? I wonder if you can condense the aqua regia down to yield a darker or "thicker" gold precipitate, making it easier to filter if you are expecting a low yield
He did that a while back - maybe 6 months back, perhaps less than that? - Boiled the AR dry, leaving just a "crust" of chloroauric acid crystals in the beaker. As I recall, "fixing" it meant basiially just "re-dissolve it with AR", then finish the refining as normal. As for making filtering easier, I'd have to say "nope" - a "thicker" solution would almost certainly take more time/effort to get it thorugh the filter.
Yes, the gold solution, called chloroauric acid solution, can be evaporated down to reduce the amount of liquid. If it’s evaporated to dryness then I’d get chloroauric acid crystals forming. I’ve done this before in a previous video.
Love the channel and what u do with gold .
Very nice video. Just one question : did you melt right after an HCl rinse or was there a water rinse in between ?
I rinsed with distilled water right after I did the HCl rinses.
@@sreetips Thank you sir for your answer.
I was wondering if you'd be interested in doing a safety video about the acids you use, wherein you show what kinds of materials the different acids will disolve and highlight the dangers and need for safety.
I'm thinking along the lines of the various "piranha solution" videos where they disolve chicken legs and such, only with HCL, and Nitric, etc.
That's supposed to be the most potent acid, so I'm curious about these other types that you use.
That would be great! Would also like to know what is done with all the waste acids, can’t just be poured down the drain…
Waste treatment
Another awesome 2 part series on extracting gold from paper storage. Sreetips, they make a mesh strainer that fits the faucet drain. You might want to invest in one to pervent accidents.
It didn’t register with me until I was in the sink and I was pouring out the gold button right over the open drain. I contemplated faking it dropped down the drain for kicks. I wondered in an instant how many comments would be about the open drain. Oh well.
There's probably 3 oz of gold in that shirt you wear lol
Love the videos as always brother
Cheers
that amount of gold over how long youve been collecting filter paper shows just how good your processes are at recovering gold thank you sreetips for the video
@6:21 Beautiful transition
Beautifully done sir. Well done
Waste refining videos are my favorites (I consider this a one). Though I'll take every video gladly.
Those filter papers you use to clean up your chloroauric acid, sure do an amazing job of clearing that junk out of there.
What happens with the used up solids in the last big filter. Added to the bucket for the 2026 series or thrown away now? Also excellent video. You have really streamlined your technique over the years.
Those will go into my paper storage for the next filter paper recovery video, if I’m still here!?
is it possible to precipitate gold with ferrous sulfate from dirty solution? (Too much copper and other metal). Thanks sreetips.
Yes
18:40 "It's not very much" -- that's just a testament of having a good and efficient refining routine! Not having much to recover from your waste filters is a Good Thing™
3:09 I thought water and acid don't mix. Is it a certain acid that I have to be extra cautious about? just asking questions for clarity.
Water and acid should be miscible. When water is added to acid, or acid to water, some heat is generated. Adding a drop of water to concentrated sulfuric acid could cause it to turn to steam and spatter hot acid all over the place.
Awesome little gold button, great job sreetips
You can never totally get all your papers finished, as each time you use two more papers
Entropy guarantees it.
19:42 did you recover that piece that blew away?
Yes
Wow 😮
It is shocking how much gold is lost in all the refining processes, over $400 in paper filters and yes there was visible gold in those filters, however I would say that atleast 60% or 70% was not visible just hiding in the papers
Good estimate, I agree
I know time and gravity are free and reliable - are flocculants of any help to speed up the settling process of the heavy metals / gold or would it not be worth it / create issues with purity?
Thanks sreetips.
I’ve never tried using flocculants.
Can ferrous sulfate contaminate with iron?
Yes, that’s why it’s best to filter it.
That poor watch! It looks like something found at a WW2 archaeological dig!
Goodday sir, what types of acid and purity% do i need, to refine, gold silver, also to make silver cell. Thank you for all the valubale information you provide us all. I watch all your videos. The silver cell one i watched again and again.
I use hydrochloric acid from Ace hardware, label says 31.46% and ACS grade (technical grade works fine) nitric from any chemical supply, label says: ASSAY 68% to 70%
@@sreetips thank you Sir
It's great seeing you again, I haven't watched you for awhile. I did see pt.1 yesterday though. You will always have a supply of dirty filters to pan. Lol 😅 Have you noticed how distilled water 💦 is getting really expensive?
Yes! It went from $0.99 to $1.49 - NOT because that water has become more valuable nor more scarce. It’s because the currency (US dollar) has lost half its value (due to printing out of thin air) in the last four or five years. A guy told me his house doubled in value. I told him, no it didn’t. The currency has lost half its value so that now it takes twice as much of it to buy the same amount of house. He looked at me like I had two heads. This is the baffling feature of inflation (money printing “without limit”) most people just don’t understand what’s going on. They think it’s greedy merchants engaging in price gouging. Watch the Netflix doc on Bernie Madoff. The correlation between Bernie and the Fed leaps off the screen at you. The only difference is that Bernie didn’t have a printing press to make up his short fall. They are doing evil in high places. And it will come apart one day. Frightening.
I would love to see you meet up with Jason from Mount Baker mining and metals
To process some of the other stuff that he does
That would be awesome
Amazing amount. Nice!
Free alchemy lessons: If this isn't the golden age, I can't imagine what will be.
I think it would be a great idea for you to have a custom mould of something made. To melt your silver crystals into. It could be a solid silver piece of art you could auction off. Or have a custom coin press or dies made to make your own coins! I would love a Sreetips coin or model. Just some ideas💡
Good ideas.
That's a nice sized button. Real purty too. 🙂
Did you get that bit that flew out of the crucible? Looked like a chunk flew off at 19:42
That was a piece of paper.
Never a dull moment, Sr.
You never mention the silver. I would imagine there is a bit of silver in those filters? Any idea how much there might be on average?
I looked down through the comments and I didn't notice anyone mention the gold blowing out of the crucible at 19:40. Looked like a decent picker.
So, I winced hard there near the end. Can you guess when? I waited on an, "Uh, oh…" lol
Again, never a dull moment, Sr. Throwing that $400 away would be like people throwing broken gold chains in the trash.
I’ve heard of people doing that, throwing broken gold away because it’s broken. In fact, Mrs sreetips did that in her younger days before I met her. The piece that blew out was a piece of paper that I added from the melt table that had a smidge of gold on it from a previous video (I think it was the silver chains gold recovery a few days ago).
@@sreetips I bought a broken 18kt chain for $100 that had, at the time, a bit over $400 worth of gold in it. Now those two pieces are worth $700.
I remember my mother throwing out a broken 14kt wedding band.
Owning gold in your savings is smart. Stacking paper in your savings is: unwise.
@@sreetips my cash savings basically amount to 6 months worth of current bills + food and a little extra just in case.
I like gold and I always buy currency coins for the rather large tax advantage.
I keep a little paper so I can trade it for more silver and gold.
Would it be possible to deliberately contaminate a pure gold solution with lead to evaluate the efficacy of sulfuric acid to remove it?
I did that in a video about a year ago. But I can’t remember which one it was.
@14:05 Do you keep the filter papers, that have a clear indication for platinum group metals, in a separate stack, so that it won´t go back into an eternal cycle of gold waste refining with other used filters?
No, I just toss them into a single bucket capper storage.
Hi @sreetips 🎉
Once again you’ve outdone yourself! I was wondering when this would be posted and I saw it was on RUclips on my way home from work but I waited till bed time so I could watch it in peace.
Just one question if you would be so kind: I’ve noticed whenever you precipitate with SMB we get to see you boil the solution to get it to settle out quicker. However I’ve never seen you boil the solution with a ferrous sulphate precipitation.
Could you please explain what the significance/reason of this is?
Also, what is the purpose of rinsing the dropped gold sponge with HCL vs distilled water?
Thank you in advance Sir 🙏🏼
I guess that was two questions 😅 sorry about that
1) I could boil the ferrous sulfate but I’ve only just recently begun using it regularly. I just didn’t think to do it in this video. Plus, I was burnt out from cleaning the yard and producing three video in four days so I went in and took a short nap.
2) hydrochloric acid does a better job of rinsing dissolved metals off the gold powder than just plain water.
@@sreetips I know we all really appreciate it and it goes without saying but I’ll say it anyway…THANK YOU FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE, PATIENCE AND YOUR DEDICATION.
Just the fact that you take the time to read and respond to each and everyone’s comments is a testament to your dedication.
Thank you sir 🙏🏼 🫡
That drain looked hungry
It didn’t register with me until I was in the sink and I was pouring out the gold button right over the open drain. I contemplated faking it dropped down the drain for kicks. I wondered in an instant how many comments would be about the open drain. Oh well.
How much in costs, such as the chemicals used in this process, did it take to recover that gold?
Maybe fifty bucks, all in
Great video nice gold button thanks for sharing sreetips
sreetips this channel is so damn cool. I started watching before I started studying Chemistry, and watching you handle these quantities of metals is such a treat
Thank you!
very impressive mr sreetips,thanks,rob...
that is a LOT of the shiny stuff considering its from a waste product others might have thrown away.. WOW!!
i hope all is well with you and yours over the other side of the pond. all the best from the UK 🙂
(been subbed for a good while but had to reset and clear my account plus change my user name due to the uk speech censoring policies, previously thetimeisnigh/cancer sucks)
Man oh man. Prays for you and your family. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
i’m always confused why you do a stannis test after filtering like you know theres gold what’s the point in losing some to the paper
You can please some of the people some of the time. But you can’t please all the people all the time. Folks were complaining because I wasn’t doing the stannous test.
I'm surprised you didn't extract silver from it first since there was silver in the filters also! Just my observation.
Mostly insoluble silver chloride in those filters. But a nitric boil before going straight to Aqua Regia wouldn’t have hurt.
You should put a screan in the drain in your sink
Agree
amazing how much you recovered.
I'm 27yrs old. $73,000 biweekly and I'm retired, this video have inspired me greatly in many ways!!!
In 2015 I had three ounces of gold and a quarter million in debt. Today I’m worth seven figures and debt free. And I did it with GOLD!
@@sreetipsYou both have work hard and deserve it❤
@@sreetips
America baby!
@sreetips you stated once that a person can just buy gold jewelry and silver flatware, and it will follow the market price, and you don't need to refine it?
Correct. No need to refine it. It will track right on up with the bullion price. To determine the value you must first determine the karat of the jewelry. 14k is 58.3% pure gold. 10k gold is 41.7% pure gold. 18k is 75% pure gold.
Nicely done.
6:35 !! There it's is! Sreetips you know what I'm talking about, I see it, I think?
And sreetips does the ultimate video - REFINING the Drain Drops 😂😂😂
Another golden video Sreetips 👍
As always - well done 🥳
Greetings from down under 🇦🇺
Thank you Down Under!
Hello Australia.
Arne . Norway 👍🙂
Golden M&M. Looks delicious.
Amazing. Good work team. I never understood though. Why does some of the particulate that makes the solution cloudy pass through the filter the first time, but doesn't the second time? How does it happen?
It’s because the very fine particulate (probably silver chloride) is so small that it passes right through the pores in the filter paper on the first pass. But as the filter gets loaded up, then it can trap those very fine particles due to the pores getting clogged up from the first pass. The filtering efficiency increase because of the junk that gets trapped in the filter on the first pass.
@@sreetips oh wow that makes sense. Thanks sreetips. Good work
As a chemistry/physics student gone construction, I highly admire your work Mr Sreetips.
Thank you!
Do you not bother recovering gems and stones? I'd imagine that they would be worth a bit, not much ofcourse, but a bit?
Yes
Nice button. Good job Sreetips 🧐
I have been wondering if the stannous test strips had been included in the waste paper.
Normally I toss them. But I recently began saving them.
I've heard tht there gold & platinum in catalytic converters wonder if u try getting any out of them yet
Cats contain platinum, palladium and rhodium.
That was an impressive button. I love seeing you get something from nothing.