Great series overall. Your dogged pursuit ended up being worth it. Looking forward to all the new stuff, especially the Jeweler’s carpet. Who knows what you’re gonna process out of that. Thanks for sharing this stuff with us. Happy 4th!
The blue color is just unbelievable. Heaven must be that exact color sreetips. The silver you have recovered is something that would really make killer jewelry. The price would be reasonable and the random patterns would get top of show for certain. Look forward to see the silver carpet project. Nice work also Sir.
Amazing series thanks Sreetips. You really put so much time and effort into what you do. I expect some of the chemicals are not cheap let alone the Borosilicate beakers and flasks you have. It all looks so well looked after. I appreciate your time,👍
Those silver crystals are beautiful! I was wondering if you have ever made monatomic gold? That is something that would be fascinating to see! Ive always wanted to make it but i have no where near the capabilities as a chemist or the resources that you do. If you could try that would be really interesting! Im sure you dont really do fan requests but i dont know many with an audience that could pull it off in the first place. Anyway regardless, great content. I was really interested to see you introduce peroxide in place of the nitric in some of the refinings, great move for sure.
@@sreetips There are many examples of it being created, including battery companies that have been experimenting with transition metals. A man by the name of David Hudson, a cotton farmer tried to patent it. Monatomic gold is well documented to have been an extremely important part of the Egyptian Pharisees life, and a whole priesthood that created it. It is real and it can be made. The question is how. What i have been been able to find is that it is most likely made with a very strong base under heated conditions. If it were made in the Egyptian times then there are limited chemicals available, but one thing that seems very available is Sodium Hydroxide, maybe peroxide? Not sure, i dont have alot of chemical insight into how this reaction might occur but if you can figure it out that would be gigantic! It might even change things in grander ways than we might imagine. Please try, as you can see its not well documented, but i guess in some ways, that makes it the wild west lol I have watched your videos for a long time and while you wing it some times, your experience helps you through. Thats what is needed to break new ground.
Great series! I’m left intrigued by the chunky bits in the filter. Nicely finished with a look at a beautiful silver maraschino cherry sword on top. Thank you Sir!
Wow ! You're finally done Mr. Sreetips. 😳 I was hoping you would cast out a nice big, fat, silver bar at the end for us to see ? You must have Kilos and Kilos of recovered silver powder and crystals at this point 👍😃. You need to do a series called, "Silver Bar Casting Day. How much recovered Silver do I have ?" I look forward to that video 👌.
Welp, thanks KS, I'm now even more excited about the stock pot series and I would be happy for another long series like the first two where they went on for a long series. I would love to know about the iridium and rhodium contents of the material. I think many of us have talked about xrf and those results could inform the steps you take along the way. Thanks for the content
I looked into XRF. To rent, $4500 per month. Almost $1500 per week. Plus a visit from local government to ensure proper use because it uses radiation. Too rich for sreetips.
Was just telling my father how much respect I have for your series and the fact your could probably process a person down for the magnesium/calcium in their bones in a pinch :)
Sreetips melt that silver up! Those videos are my most favorite!! To go threw all that refining process, to get the desired result has got to be the coolest thing on the planet, like a god but with minerals. You know I often think of the many failed attempts That all metal eurgest throughout the centuries Have gone through to get what they want out of the ground to what we take for granted today..
You can test that stuff you think is Iridium/Rhodium by attempting to melt it. If it refuses to melt as well as gold (and you should be able to tell easily with your experience) and doesn't burn, it has to be a PGM of some sort. Another thing you could test would be if it catalytically decomposes hydrogen peroxide on contact.
Seriously looking forward to some of your up coming videos!! This has been an excellent series! Can't wait to see the stock pot series and see a big button of palladium!!
Chief, I'd be interested in seeing a video on everything that goes into your videos. Like a behind the scenes. Going to a yard sale, buying your chemicals, etc. Then a breakdown of how much you spend on materials every month versus how much you recoup by selling refined materials.
Great job Sreetips . And those 2 crystals are very stunning in appearance . Is it possible to target them , by that I mean can you induce the formation of that style of crystal by way of manipulation ?? That was a great 7 part series of events . And I love how your not always sure that you're doing it right . Love your channel sir . You always have me anticipating your next video , thanks . Cheers
The crystals form based on a variety of inputs. Current flow, electrolyte concentration, copper content, to name a few. It would be difficult to replicate the exact conditions that cause crystals to form.
You should see if anyone in your area has one of those x-ray spectrometer machines. You might be able to do a collab with them and test out some of your samples/products to see what's in them. If the local college has any chemistry classes then they absolutely will have one and most of the time the professors are pretty awesome about helping people out with this kind of stuff.
Maybe you can encase those nice silver crystals in glass vile like pendants or someone can put them in clear epoxy resin to make a paper weight or whatever they wanted. It's amazing what can be made to happen : )
have you thought about taking 2-300g of that pure silver and trianing on casting the diffrent sizes you have? as i been a watcher of the channel for a really long time your casting has become so much better over time :) sorry for the crappy english
Why not just use a nice tight mesh and pour the silver through it. Recover more of the electrolyte without adding a lot of water, so it stays mostly pure.
I was thinking about that dark red-brown salt ... potentially hydrated rhodium trichloride. There are various forms with different properties depending on how many water molecules hydrate the salt. You'd have to heat the precipitate fairly gently to get rid of the water molecules till it's anhydrous, then presumably incinerate carefully to liberate the chlorine as Cl2 gas above about 800C. That would leave elemental Rh, but this is not my area of expertise - university was a LONG time ago.
Rhodium is an enigma to me. Those who know how to get it are not eager to share their secrets. Especially to someone who likes to share with the masses on his RUclips channel.
Hi, Sreetips! ) First of all, I want to say that I enjoy you videos immensely and watch them almost religiously )) ..as well as to thank you for the effort of making them - for some reason I happen to derive an unexpected amount of pleasure from watching them, especially gold and PGM related ones ) However, I do have a question I can find no answer to, namely: why do you go through the whole tedious inquartation, multiple nitric boils, filtering & SMB preciptiation process when refining carat gold? Why not simply dissolve everything with aqua regia, filter the solution & precipitate gold with copperas (since you say it precipitates "all the gold and nothing but the gold")? Seems to be much faster than doing all these multiple boils to extract silver you've inquarted scrap carat gold with, even with all the extra water & HCl rinsing of the precipitate you have to do when using copperas.. I'm sure there's a good reason for you doing it the way you do, I'm just really curious as to why )) Also, while I've got your attention: I get why you use borax when melting gold, but why do you sometimes also add "a pinch" of potassium nitrate? What is it for? Keep up the good work, cheers! )))
Two serious problems putting karat gold straight in AR. 1) it puts everything in solution and makes a very dirty solution that looks like used motor oil. 2) passivation - a thick crust of silver chloride forms on the gold and shields it from the acids. It won’t dissolve the gold until the passive layer of silver chloride is removed. Inquartation completely eliminates both problems. It’s one of the most valuable refining techniques that I’ve ever learned. Potassium nitrate adds extra oxygen and burns off impurities that tend to float to the top of the molten gold. Some of the gold burns away also.
What if any ideas have you given to upscaling your silver cell? Seems that you should be able to use a larger vessel for both crystal growth and a larger anode basket for your silver shot.
could you please make a video that shows what you do with all that silver crystal please? I enjoyed watching them get this far and I would like to see how they end up.
Hello, the greatest chemist in history How are you, thanks for your great effort. Let me inquire after depositing the gold and get a light brown powder that I melt by all methods of smelting, but in the end it turns Cristal black And weak I mean crushable This is for the seventh time in a row , so what is wrong here? Thank you
i think it should, but since the goal is refine pure paladium and pure platinum, in this powder state is easier to precipitate, so he will keep it in this state for a future process
Yes, but I plan to do a refining later after collecting some more of the mixed black pgm powders. Refining just a few grams is not very efficient. When I do my stock pot I’ll add this, along with some other platinum group precipitations that I’ve been saving so we have a little more metal to work with,
What does it mean when the rooto stops dissolving the metal and metal still dissolves on the acid scratch test and never went to powder, it stayed solid?
I want ask you. how to neutralize the acid solution, after taking all the metals in the acid solution and I want to throw it away so as not to pollute the environment. thank you, we are waiting for your answer. thanks sir
I precipitate all the metals (mostly copper) on pieces of angle iron. Once the copper is out and I have nothing but iron in solution then I add sodium hydroxide to drop the metals as metal hydroxides. I filter the solids out and dry them best I can then throw them out. I add pH down to the filtrate to pH7 then add to the regular waste stream.
What's the overall efficiency of producing silver crystal? Overall it's 100% as nothing is wasted but there is a process efficiency loss through electrolyte and slimes.
Thats why you should have a stock pot system in place to process your waste stream. You can recover all of your pm's this way. Although I think your question/thought process is; you will never get all of the silver that is put in back out as pure silver crystals and that is correct. Some silver will remain in the electrolyte and in the slimes but as long as you have that waste processing stream setup you can recover all of it back. Of course you may lose some to micro splatter, but that is neglegible.
I use 600 grams of pure silver in 3.5 liters of liquid for the electrolyte. I harvest about 1.5 kilos of pure silver crystal from that (electrolyte use) in about ten days. Some of the silver in the electrolyte plates out and it (the electrolyte) become depleted after a single use. I re-use the electrolyte for a second run but only after adding another 200 grams to the 3.5 liters of electrolyte to augment the silver nitrate concentration in the electrolyte for the second run. I also add small quantities of fresh electrolyte to compensate for dehydration. Maybe another 100g of silver nitrate over the ten days for both runs. So it take about 1000g to 1100g of pure silver for two ten-day runs of the silver cell. I harvest roughly (+/-) 3 kilos (3000 grams) of high purity silver crystal from both runs. This is not accounting for the impure silver shot that I feed into the anode filter basket. So, I put in 1 kilo of pure silver crystal for electrolyte and get out 3 kilos of high purity silver per two ten-day runs (twenty days total). One in, three out equals 2 kilos or one kilo per run. That’s a lot of ciphering, hope it helps.
I understand you get silver crystals like those two when reducing the voltage in the silver cell to around 1.5 or 2 volts. Has anyone get those results or had a scenario like that? You would get short chunky crystals instead of larger/thinner ones.
@@sreetips Grand…..look through past vids. Find the one titled Wholwill Process, and enjoy….As the man says himself the end product looks like a gold Morrel mushroom.
Hey sreetips I sent you 2 messages on you ebay store about a question I had that I didn't want to ask in your comments section. I just wanted to make sure I reached out on here to let you know. I look forward to your response. Cheers and thank you for all you do!
Hello, I include as much detail as possible in my videos. And unfortunately I don’t offer any training or tutoring services. When I first started I studied and took notes. But be advised, there’s no way to safely do these reactions without a fume hood. Trying hold your breath in the back yard when adding refining reagents just doesn’t work. Even if you approach from upwind, the fumes will still wrap around you, getting in your hair, eyes and in your clothing. After you turn and walk away ten paces, when take your gulp of air your lungs will get those fumes that linger around you. Once again, there’s no way to safely do these reactions without a fume hood the draw the dangerous fumes away from you. Hope this helps.
I would never do any of this without a fume hood nor outdoors. I have a business loan approved for a substantial sum hence the want to purchase a full list of materials including a reliable fume hood brand. As well as a chemical suplier to obtain quality product at an afordable price. You just have somany hours of material to go through and to watch it all again is not a problem I was just hoping to save myself the time by offering to pay for an inventory list from someone who has been through it all and already done the trial and error. I understand that you doing it for a hobby and not offering tutoring seeing as the videos are just that. Maybe you would be willing to do a video to give the specific names of the flasks and beakers and every chemical and acid required for a successful refiner to possess. Regardless your decision on a video detailing those things or not. I still love everything you do and appreciate you for sharing what you have. I find you to be an inspiration to myself but I'm sure to many others as well.
Try the goldrefiningforum.com there are professional refiners who will help you set up a refining operation from A to Z. I think aquillarefining does it. His user name on the forum is “Palladium”. They will come to your site and get you going for a fee. Unfortunately, I don’t offer such a service. This is my hobby. I’m not a professional refiner. Just love doing it and making videos.
i saw some really nice crystals that you didn't sell on eBay.. why don't you sell the 2 to 3 gram crystals size of penny or so on eBay.. people pay premium for that.just my 2 nickles
Not to rub it in. But a few years back I asked you why you were selling some silver on eBay for double spot price and your response was silver is going to $100. I should of made a wager with you on that lol
Never did i think I'd be addicted to watching a 8part series on anode filter baskets.
We’re here now…Embrace it…
Neither did I...but here we all are!🤩
Yes you are having fun ☺️
I do wonder how I ended up here sometimes
Couldn't agree more. But I can't stop watching it.
Great series overall. Your dogged pursuit ended up being worth it. Looking forward to all the new stuff, especially the Jeweler’s carpet. Who knows what you’re gonna process out of that. Thanks for sharing this stuff with us. Happy 4th!
I just love seeing that blue Cu2+ color!
The blue color is just unbelievable. Heaven must be that exact color sreetips. The silver you have recovered is something that would really make killer jewelry. The price would be reasonable and the random patterns would get top of show for certain. Look forward to see the silver carpet project. Nice work also Sir.
Excellent series! Crystals are absolutely stunning! Great job! Thank you! Looking forward to the upcoming videos!
That crystal is breathtaking 😍
That silver crystal is spectacular indeed!
A joy to see. Best of luck!
I will never get tired of looking at that silver!
It's always a pleasure to watch your videos. Those silver crystals are incredible masterpieces!
Amazing series thanks Sreetips.
You really put so much time and effort into what you do.
I expect some of the chemicals are not cheap let alone the Borosilicate beakers and flasks you have.
It all looks so well looked after.
I appreciate your time,👍
That's a heck of a glass rod you have in that bucket!
Got that at a yard sale for a buck
Those silver crystals are beautiful! I was wondering if you have ever made monatomic gold? That is something that would be fascinating to see! Ive always wanted to make it but i have no where near the capabilities as a chemist or the resources that you do. If you could try that would be really interesting! Im sure you dont really do fan requests but i dont know many with an audience that could pull it off in the first place. Anyway regardless, great content. I was really interested to see you introduce peroxide in place of the nitric in some of the refinings, great move for sure.
He has done a number of refining videos using peroxide….just go back a few videos and you should find one of them
Monatomic gold is something I know nothing about. Wikipedia calls monatomic gold “pseudoscience” and there’s really no information on it.
@@sreetips def pseudoscience
@@sreetips There are many examples of it being created, including battery companies that have been experimenting with transition metals. A man by the name of David Hudson, a cotton farmer tried to patent it. Monatomic gold is well documented to have been an extremely important part of the Egyptian Pharisees life, and a whole priesthood that created it. It is real and it can be made. The question is how. What i have been been able to find is that it is most likely made with a very strong base under heated conditions. If it were made in the Egyptian times then there are limited chemicals available, but one thing that seems very available is Sodium Hydroxide, maybe peroxide? Not sure, i dont have alot of chemical insight into how this reaction might occur but if you can figure it out that would be gigantic! It might even change things in grander ways than we might imagine. Please try, as you can see its not well documented, but i guess in some ways, that makes it the wild west lol I have watched your videos for a long time and while you wing it some times, your experience helps you through. Thats what is needed to break new ground.
Pseudoscience = a collection of beliefs or practices that are mistakenly regarded as scientific.
Great series! I’m left intrigued by the chunky bits in the filter. Nicely finished with a look at a beautiful silver maraschino cherry sword on top. Thank you Sir!
Awesome 8 videos nice 9 grams of gold button and that crystal silver is just beautiful thanks for sharing the videos and wait for your next video
Thank you for showing us how you go about processing your anode baskets. Fun stuff Sreetips...
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night! Been looking forward to this video! Thanks for sharing!
Wow ! You're finally done Mr. Sreetips. 😳 I was hoping you would cast out a nice big, fat, silver bar at the end for us to see ? You must have Kilos and Kilos of recovered silver powder and crystals at this point 👍😃. You need to do a series called, "Silver Bar Casting Day. How much recovered Silver do I have ?" I look forward to that video 👌.
Not that I ever had any doubt but those silver christals are absolutely perfect.
I feel like your lab could use a larger silver anode setup, which would also make it possible to make even BIGGER crystals!
Welp, thanks KS, I'm now even more excited about the stock pot series and I would be happy for another long series like the first two where they went on for a long series. I would love to know about the iridium and rhodium contents of the material. I think many of us have talked about xrf and those results could inform the steps you take along the way. Thanks for the content
I looked into XRF. To rent, $4500 per month. Almost $1500 per week. Plus a visit from local government to ensure proper use because it uses radiation. Too rich for sreetips.
I really do love the look of silver crystals. It is absolutely beautiful.
3.8 Grams is currently at $67.00 USD, buy them up
Was just telling my father how much respect I have for your series and the fact your could probably process a person down for the magnesium/calcium in their bones in a pinch :)
That is so cool! The silver crystals are so beautiful!
Sreetips melt that silver up! Those videos are my most favorite!! To go threw all that refining process, to get the desired result has got to be the coolest thing on the planet, like a god but with minerals. You know I often think of the many failed attempts That all metal eurgest throughout the centuries Have gone through to get what they want out of the ground to what we take for granted today..
Cool video. Those crystals are badass. I am super excited about the jewelers carpet.
You can test that stuff you think is Iridium/Rhodium by attempting to melt it. If it refuses to melt as well as gold (and you should be able to tell easily with your experience) and doesn't burn, it has to be a PGM of some sort.
Another thing you could test would be if it catalytically decomposes hydrogen peroxide on contact.
Silver (and most other precious metals) also decompose hydrogen peroxide on contact.
Seriously looking forward to some of your up coming videos!!
This has been an excellent series! Can't wait to see the stock pot series and see a big button of palladium!!
I’m working on the trimmed fingers and the jewelers carpet right now.
@@sreetips EXCELLENT!!!
I love your videos. Thank you!
man encasing those silver crystals in a super clear epoxy cube would make for a nice desk ornament
Those crystals would make a pretty cool pendant
Chief, I'd be interested in seeing a video on everything that goes into your videos. Like a behind the scenes. Going to a yard sale, buying your chemicals, etc. Then a breakdown of how much you spend on materials every month versus how much you recoup by selling refined materials.
Glassware, ceramics, graphite, chemicals.
so you are asking for him to give away all the trade secrets & put himself out of business ?
@@themyceliumnetwork I highly doubt even knowing everything he does people will have the patience and knowledge to proceed as he does
He has stated many times that he doesn’t really do it to profit he does it as his hobby
@@themyceliumnetwork Umm, no. Not at all.
When I saw this was posted I heard Handel's Messiah.
Outstanding video Great recovery just a bit of everything thank you for sharing five stars my friend
That first crystal would make a beautiful pendant. I don't know how sharp it is. But, it would look good hanging from a silver chain.
Might be too delicate to use as jewelry….but I agree would look amazing!
I enjoyed this series a lot!
Great job Sreetips . And those 2 crystals are very stunning in appearance . Is it possible to target them , by that I mean can you induce the formation of that style of crystal by way of manipulation ??
That was a great 7 part series of events . And I love how your not always sure that you're doing it right . Love your channel sir . You always have me anticipating your next video , thanks . Cheers
The crystals form based on a variety of inputs. Current flow, electrolyte concentration, copper content, to name a few. It would be difficult to replicate the exact conditions that cause crystals to form.
@@sreetips thank you sir that helps me to understand a little more than before. Cheers
You should see if anyone in your area has one of those x-ray spectrometer machines. You might be able to do a collab with them and test out some of your samples/products to see what's in them. If the local college has any chemistry classes then they absolutely will have one and most of the time the professors are pretty awesome about helping people out with this kind of stuff.
Great series Kevin 👍👍
Maybe you can encase those nice silver crystals in glass vile like pendants or someone can put them in clear epoxy resin to make a paper weight or whatever they wanted. It's amazing what can be made to happen : )
those bigger silver crystals are awesome, I'd love to get one of them👍
Great series Sreetips.
Thanks for sharing.
Great series sreetips. Think we all learned alot.
I appreciate the hard work.
Great silver. I have seen video with 1,5 V silver cell, where bigger crystals grew. May be worth the shot and sell bigger crystals on EB.
idea: those good lookingsilver crystals you see, cut them down, make some decorative ornaments from them, maybe sealed in an Epoxy resin cube.
have you thought about taking 2-300g of that pure silver and trianing on casting the diffrent sizes you have? as i been a watcher of the channel for a really long time your casting has become so much better over time :) sorry for the crappy english
Why not just use a nice tight mesh and pour the silver through it. Recover more of the electrolyte without adding a lot of water, so it stays mostly pure.
I was thinking about that dark red-brown salt ... potentially hydrated rhodium trichloride. There are various forms with different properties depending on how many water molecules hydrate the salt. You'd have to heat the precipitate fairly gently to get rid of the water molecules till it's anhydrous, then presumably incinerate carefully to liberate the chlorine as Cl2 gas above about 800C. That would leave elemental Rh, but this is not my area of expertise - university was a LONG time ago.
Rhodium is an enigma to me. Those who know how to get it are not eager to share their secrets. Especially to someone who likes to share with the masses on his RUclips channel.
That’s really cool! Good video
What are you doing with the copper after cementing it out with Iron?
He doesn't usually bother with it
Toss it.
Video 8 makes it a full circle and I watched all 8 in 10 hours.
What the hell? How big is that glass rod dude ?
Got it at a yard sale for a dollar. Couldn’t pass it up.
oh snap! can't wait for the next stock pot refining!
Hi, Sreetips! )
First of all, I want to say that I enjoy you videos immensely and watch them almost religiously ))
..as well as to thank you for the effort of making them - for some reason I happen to derive an unexpected amount of pleasure from watching them, especially gold and PGM related ones )
However, I do have a question I can find no answer to, namely: why do you go through the whole tedious inquartation, multiple nitric boils, filtering & SMB preciptiation process when refining carat gold?
Why not simply dissolve everything with aqua regia, filter the solution & precipitate gold with copperas (since you say it precipitates "all the gold and nothing but the gold")?
Seems to be much faster than doing all these multiple boils to extract silver you've inquarted scrap carat gold with, even with all the extra water & HCl rinsing of the precipitate you have to do when using copperas..
I'm sure there's a good reason for you doing it the way you do, I'm just really curious as to why ))
Also, while I've got your attention: I get why you use borax when melting gold, but why do you sometimes also add "a pinch" of potassium nitrate?
What is it for?
Keep up the good work, cheers! )))
Two serious problems putting karat gold straight in AR. 1) it puts everything in solution and makes a very dirty solution that looks like used motor oil. 2) passivation - a thick crust of silver chloride forms on the gold and shields it from the acids. It won’t dissolve the gold until the passive layer of silver chloride is removed. Inquartation completely eliminates both problems. It’s one of the most valuable refining techniques that I’ve ever learned. Potassium nitrate adds extra oxygen and burns off impurities that tend to float to the top of the molten gold. Some of the gold burns away also.
How much pgms have gone over to the waste bucket and cemented back out on the copper? That video series is going to be exciting.
The silver crystals in epoxy to turn on a lathe might come out really nice, like an egg or sphere or something...
I wish you have a Timelapse of the inside of the silver cell.
Thanks you sir for your videos.
You are the best 👍👍 انت الأفضل
What if any ideas have you given to upscaling your silver cell? Seems that you should be able to use a larger vessel for both crystal growth and a larger anode basket for your silver shot.
I’m planning on getting a second silver cell made up - if I can just find the time.
could you please make a video that shows what you do with all that silver crystal please?
I enjoyed watching them get this far and I would like to see how they end up.
Silver is awesome. I love the beautiful crystals. I used to melt them into bars. But I stopped because it took a lot of time and input to make them.
Hello, the greatest chemist in history How are you, thanks for your great effort. Let me inquire after depositing the gold and get a light brown powder that I melt by all methods of smelting, but in the end it turns Cristal black And weak I mean crushable This is for the seventh time in a row , so what is wrong here? Thank you
I use lots of borax during the melt to help the gold form into a nice bead
Thanks Mr Sreetips......How physically strong or stable is that crystal in terms of handling for making jewlery? like earings.
They are fragile.
Hey will the black powder not melt down into a button the way it is I’m curious?
i think it should, but since the goal is refine pure paladium and pure platinum, in this powder state is easier to precipitate, so he will keep it in this state for a future process
Yes, but I plan to do a refining later after collecting some more of the mixed black pgm powders. Refining just a few grams is not very efficient. When I do my stock pot I’ll add this, along with some other platinum group precipitations that I’ve been saving so we have a little more metal to work with,
Right on time
have you done a copper refining video or series yet if so i personally couldnt find it
No, I don’t know how to refine copper
Move over Martha Stuart, sreetips is cook'n up a batch of pure silver crystal
Mr sreetips thnk you for your time sir love you videos
does the silver powder need to be melted into shot for the silver cell?
Yes
Sreetips truly is the Heisenberg of gold refining!...
How much for the whole bowl and electrolyte man thats beautiful
No shiny metal button?
Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
Will you be selling anymore of the crystals? I bought 1/2oz or 1oz from you before.
I’ll get some more crystals listed soon
@8:20 I really love silver, more than the color of gold.
Bama!
What does it mean when the rooto stops dissolving the metal and metal still dissolves on the acid scratch test and never went to powder, it stayed solid?
That’s baffling, I don’t know.
Perhaps a second silver cell or a larger one is in order with how much silver you have to go through.
Edit for spelling.
Strongly agree
I want ask you.
how to neutralize the acid solution, after taking all the metals in the acid solution and I want to throw it away so as not to pollute the environment. thank you, we are waiting for your answer. thanks sir
I precipitate all the metals (mostly copper) on pieces of angle iron. Once the copper is out and I have nothing but iron in solution then I add sodium hydroxide to drop the metals as metal hydroxides. I filter the solids out and dry them best I can then throw them out. I add pH down to the filtrate to pH7 then add to the regular waste stream.
I have a waste treatment video that charts the path from scrap to to refining to waste treatment
I was wondering if I could use potassium nitric too refine silver
I’ve never heard of potassium nitric
Thank u for selling some I will be picking some up
What's the overall efficiency of producing silver crystal? Overall it's 100% as nothing is wasted but there is a process efficiency loss through electrolyte and slimes.
Thats why you should have a stock pot system in place to process your waste stream. You can recover all of your pm's this way. Although I think your question/thought process is; you will never get all of the silver that is put in back out as pure silver crystals and that is correct. Some silver will remain in the electrolyte and in the slimes but as long as you have that waste processing stream setup you can recover all of it back. Of course you may lose some to micro splatter, but that is neglegible.
I use 600 grams of pure silver in 3.5 liters of liquid for the electrolyte. I harvest about 1.5 kilos of pure silver crystal from that (electrolyte use) in about ten days. Some of the silver in the electrolyte plates out and it (the electrolyte) become depleted after a single use. I re-use the electrolyte for a second run but only after adding another 200 grams to the 3.5 liters of electrolyte to augment the silver nitrate concentration in the electrolyte for the second run. I also add small quantities of fresh electrolyte to compensate for dehydration. Maybe another 100g of silver nitrate over the ten days for both runs. So it take about 1000g to 1100g of pure silver for two ten-day runs of the silver cell. I harvest roughly (+/-) 3 kilos (3000 grams) of high purity silver crystal from both runs. This is not accounting for the impure silver shot that I feed into the anode filter basket. So, I put in 1 kilo of pure silver crystal for electrolyte and get out 3 kilos of high purity silver per two ten-day runs (twenty days total). One in, three out equals 2 kilos or one kilo per run. That’s a lot of ciphering, hope it helps.
I understand you get silver crystals like those two when reducing the voltage in the silver cell to around 1.5 or 2 volts. Has anyone get those results or had a scenario like that? You would get short chunky crystals instead of larger/thinner ones.
I run mine at 3.5 VDC
What’s the weight of each of those crystals ?
3to5 grams
Uncle sreetips did you try Eco gold x to recover gold????????
I’ve never tried it
What's the price on a crystal like that? I would treasure that. Can I buy one please?
I’ve got a pretty big one saved. I’ll list it as soon as I get a jar for it. Thank you
@@sreetips awesome 😊😎
Always awesomeness
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Can you make gold crystals the same way you do silver?
Yes
@@sreetips Grand…..look through past vids. Find the one titled Wholwill Process, and enjoy….As the man says himself the end product looks like a gold Morrel mushroom.
Excellent.
Do you mean sedimentation? I wondered where the cement came from.... 😊
Cementing the precious metals on copper. It’s a refining term. I think it’s because the cement silver looks like wet cement.
Now, we're waiting for melting Pt and Pd)
How much money do you want for the crystal
Sorry, I don’t want to sell any silver.
Excellent
Hey sreetips I sent you 2 messages on you ebay store about a question I had that I didn't want to ask in your comments section. I just wanted to make sure I reached out on here to let you know. I look forward to your response.
Cheers and thank you for all you do!
Hello, I include as much detail as possible in my videos. And unfortunately I don’t offer any training or tutoring services. When I first started I studied and took notes. But be advised, there’s no way to safely do these reactions without a fume hood. Trying hold your breath in the back yard when adding refining reagents just doesn’t work. Even if you approach from upwind, the fumes will still wrap around you, getting in your hair, eyes and in your clothing. After you turn and walk away ten paces, when take your gulp of air your lungs will get those fumes that linger around you. Once again, there’s no way to safely do these reactions without a fume hood the draw the dangerous fumes away from you. Hope this helps.
I would never do any of this without a fume hood nor outdoors. I have a business loan approved for a substantial sum hence the want to purchase a full list of materials including a reliable fume hood brand. As well as a chemical suplier to obtain quality product at an afordable price.
You just have somany hours of material to go through and to watch it all again is not a problem I was just hoping to save myself the time by offering to pay for an inventory list from someone who has been through it all and already done the trial and error.
I understand that you doing it for a hobby and not offering tutoring seeing as the videos are just that.
Maybe you would be willing to do a video to give the specific names of the flasks and beakers and every chemical and acid required for a successful refiner to possess.
Regardless your decision on a video detailing those things or not. I still love everything you do and appreciate you for sharing what you have. I find you to be an inspiration to myself but I'm sure to many others as well.
Try the goldrefiningforum.com there are professional refiners who will help you set up a refining operation from A to Z. I think aquillarefining does it. His user name on the forum is “Palladium”. They will come to your site and get you going for a fee. Unfortunately, I don’t offer such a service. This is my hobby. I’m not a professional refiner. Just love doing it and making videos.
i saw some really nice crystals that you didn't sell on eBay.. why don't you sell the 2 to 3 gram crystals size of penny or so on eBay.. people pay premium for that.just my 2 nickles
I’m so mad I watched multiple days of videos just for it not to be finished
I’ll be combining some material and refining the PGMs soon. Thank you
Wow... bucket for a beaker 😂🤣😂
2:22 Mmmm, cursed kool-aid.
Seed the new silver cell with one on them big crystals, just to show what will happen.
Not to rub it in. But a few years back I asked you why you were selling some silver on eBay for double spot price and your response was silver is going to $100. I should of made a wager with you on that lol
Well, they have their price.