UK Collector Travels to USA for Lithic Gold
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- A collector from the United Kingdom contacted me regarding having three 10oz gold bars made for them. Since I don't ship gold internationally, they decided to travel to the United States of America to pick them up. We met in Chicago, Illinois. Then, we traveled to the Great North Woods of Wisconsin. From there, we headed to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. We explored the A.E. Seaman Mineral Museum, the Keweenaw Peninsula, Horseshoe Cove, Cliff Mine to do some metal detecting, hunting for raw copper. Spent time along the shores of Lake Superior. Got some swimming and hiking in. And, took a bit of time to admire some gold.
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Wow! Another amazing video Jeff! Love to see your passion for minerals and sharing it with us! Must be great to combine work and passion. The only way to get things perfect 😊
Looking forward for more!
Thanks, Franky! Doing something you love for a living certainly helps keep you going on the rough days. Thank you for watching!
Jeff where in the heck have you been?? We started to send flowers but didn't have an address! We love ya here in SC and missed ya!! Stay safe my professional Friend! And don't wait 6 months to post another video, will love anything you post!!❤
Appreciate it! I get so busy in the lab. I have to pull all nighters just to make the time to edit one out. Lol that's two Sunday nights in a row now with no sleep 😁
Fully agree!
Beautiful pours! ❤️🔥 amazing pieces in the museum also 😮wow
That museum is awesome. Didn’t know about it. Greetings from Chicago.
It's definitely worth the trip! 😁
$72,000 worth of gold right there in 3 small ingots. Amazing.
Can't get enough of that ripple. It really makes it your work ✌️
Thanks for saying so, Tony. I appreciate that!
Awesome video! I am a proud owner of one of your 1oz. Gold buttons and a 3oz. vial of silver crystals through KZOO...but I am unhappy with them...they fact shame me for not owning more of your artwork 😭😭😭 ...but that will change in the future 😁 ...keep on keepin' on
I really appreciate you adding some Lithic silver and gold to your collection! Thanks so much! 😁
Geff, that brill, i myself live in the West of Scotland Uk and i must say i would love one of your Indian head coins.
Glad you enjoyed it! I'd be happy to make one for you 😁
Great to see how it looks 🖖🤟👊👋🫵👌👍✌️🫶🏴🇬🇧
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The commentary reminds me of Bob Ross!😂
I was gonna say the same thing
So cool to watch!!
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Beautiful. What a fantastic video! Thanks for making this.
And, thank you for watching, Michael! 😁
Happy to see your videos. Inspirational.
I appreciate that, Steve!
It is a beautiful area up there. I lived in Houghton-Hancock for 15 years, went to MTU for a 4yr degree and stayed a bit longer. I lived on campus for over 7 years and one of the buildings housed the mineral museum before it was relocated to the place you visited. At the time I happened to also know the curator of the museum pretty well. :)
I enjoy watching your work. Glad to see you posting again. Take care.
It must of been difficult to leave. Such a wonderful area.
@@LithicMetals It was a long trip to get to where most of my family is at - eventually I moved back.
Missed you. Glad to see you back making me envious of all that yellow metal 👍
Appreciate it! Definitely fun to play with 😁
Trip looks awesome...those bars are beautiful. I wish you could ship here! 😢😢😢
Thanks! I'm sure one day I'll be able to. 😁
💯 the viedo is phenomenal .
The Education of the museum nice touch .
10 ozt. Bars 💯 art work man.
Thanks, Bradley! 💛
Great video! Thanks for showing the natural deposits at the end. I'm glad you're making videos again.
Thank you. And, thanks for watching!
Great video!
Thank you! I appreciate you watching!! 💛
You’re like the Ultimate Lattè Foam Art Barista, for Gold
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To improve their mood some people do alcohol some people do drugs. Jeff does gold
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awesome as always bro!
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How the heck did I miss this one 😂. I can watch you do this all day brother
Thanks for video, specimens look amazing!!
I appreciate you watching! 😁
Oh nice that's lots of gold and golden works
Amazing work as always, still waiting for that 1kg bar to be poured 😀
Excellent video, both parts. Beautiful pours and crazy looking museum pieces. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching!! 😁
Amazing all of it 👍 I'm a gold prospector and you might like my strange shape nugget there in my profile picture. It weighs 7.55g and people ask me what it's worth in money and if I'm going to sell it. My simple answer is gold has real value and money is debt based and gold goes up while money loses value so no I don't want to swap it for something with less than no value. Plus I love it. The chain underneath it is a 21.5g rose gold pocket watch chain which I found in the same place right next to my old house in the same week. 💚💛❤️
That is some amazing stuff! Where is this museum at? Michigan? Upper peninsula?
It's a great place to visit. Yes, it's in the UP. Houghton, Michigan
So beautiful Jeff. Great work
Thank you! I appreciate it!!
MORE VIDEOS PLEASE!!😢
How have I not come across you! Perfect voice for YT.....some great looking bars! Loved the walk through of the museum specimens!!! I want those : )
I do, too! Glad you found me. I appreciate you watching!! 😁
@LithicMetals do you plan on starting to put more content up? It's been a while and now 2 videos in the past month.... Miss your videos.
I definitely plan to post more content, but it will likely continue to be sporadic. My main focus is the work in the lab. It doesn't leave me much time to edit content. 🙂
MANY of my SCREENSAVER pics ARE from snapshots of your Lithic MASTERPIECES. STACKON...
Awesome! Thanks for sharing that with me!! 😁
What happened to the silver harvesting? Could you explain more how the whole process works? Its fascinating! Thank you!!
No way I was asking about where I can buy one of your bars to a guy only the other day
Super 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾😎
Appreciate it! 😁
Awesome video man! this was fantastic!
Thanks, Jay! 😁
Absolutely beautiful pours Jeff! This was so much fun. The copper tour was awesome. Nice piece you found!
I believe the globular piece in the museum was a Botryoidal Hematite.
Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks! I think you're right!!
Awesome work, and... Wow, those museum specimens are something else.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video! Really loved the museum part as well, the size of some of those nuggets!!!
Thanks, Mike! I'm glad you enjoyed it!! 😁
Another great video !!
Thank you! 😁
It’s nearly impossible to describe the beauty of seeing fresh poured gold in person 😎
Indeed! 💛
I like your channel a lot you are a cool and laid back dude thanks for sharing everything you do I love gold so awesome.
Thanks, Shawn! I appreciate you watching!! 😁
So beautiful
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Dang! Y’all were up by us, wish I coulda met ya!
that must of been around a 75k pay day! not too shabby
It was a sizable order! However, I only get paid to pour the bars... I don't get the gold for free
@@LithicMetals oh i had visions of you purifying it all like sreetips lol but yeah still a nice order!
very enjoyable video thanks for sharing
Thanks, Ray! I appreciate you watching!!
Within 10 seconds you drop it out from the mould, it sets unbelievably fast.
Once you see the ripples stop moving, it's frozen solid. 😁
@@LithicMetals frozen solid lol, I would want to touch it till the next day, if your saying that. 😅
But I was intrigued by your video and have started a few more to view, as it just popped on my suggestions. Why, no idea.. but cool stuff. 👍
@@monk1100 not saying otherwise, but have you done molds of gold? i have been curious about this as well
Thats a lot of Cheaddar! I can't imagine traveling with that much gold on my person. Amazing that he/she is not stopped going through customs even though they have paperwork.
If they ask you if you have anything to declare... just say, yup! There's people that wear watches more expensive lol
@@LithicMetals that’s true, I bought one in Switzerland and declared it coming through customs
Try a clear splash shied it’s the heat drying your eyes out that irritates them with a clear shield you can see clearly and your eyes won’t be dry afterwards and by the way beautiful bars love the ripple effect you get
I'd have to differ with you on that. A clear shield just doesn't do the trick. Once the dish gets red hot, it is so bright. Without the tinted shield, it leaves you with a black fuzzy spot in the center of your vision. Thankfully, I learned my lesson halfway through the first bar I poured with that torch. But it left me with minor vision loss for a short while. Thanks for watching, Jim!
I love it Jeff!!
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Bob Ross of gold 🪙
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13:05 are dragons eggs, obviously!! 😉
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Fabulous video, thank you for sharing. Hailing from the UK myself, did you get any info on shipping that quantity of gold back over the pond? How does that process work with customs? All the best my man! 🙏😊
The owner carried it back with him on the plane. He had to declare it, of course. However, since there isn't a VAT tax on gold in the UK, there wasn't much to it. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching!
@@LithicMetals appreciate the reply.
Beautiful. Always a fan of your craftsmanship. Perhaps you were in India. I am a machineshop worker too. Done enough bench-fitting, grinding, milling and turning. I get really excited to see letter and number punches. Thought you could have 1 of those small kilns to melt your metals.
Thanks! I've yet to be able to travel to India. I appreciate you watching!! 😁
@@LithicMetals Yes, you'd be surprised to see just how many fans you'd make if you shift your business to India. ♥️🙏👍
Very interesting
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Hello Jeff, both parts of video are great... to be honest, the first part is somehow more magnetic...
Thanks! I appreciate it!!
Sounds like a bob ross painting video for gold 😂😂..
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Do you lose any weight when melting it in that fashion? I notice with silver, when I use a torch, I lose weight after I pour. There is white powder around the dish. It is silver powder which I sweep up but I'm curious if it happens with gold?
I know exactly what you're talking about. If you look at that white powder under a magnifying glass, you'll see that it's tiny silver spheres. Thankfully, gold is nothing like silver in that regard. There are no oxides, and there's no splatter either. So when working with gold, you never get any measurable losses like you do with silver.
Ah, thank you for the info. Great video and beautiful bars. I'm thinking about trying some gold pouring, but I don't have any cheaper gold to try. It's all in coin form, and I don't want to devalue it it by turning it into a bar. Maples and eagles, ya know what I mean. Cheers.
You said you started with 10 ounces of gold but why did you not lose any weight after melting the gold?
Hey, Cole. When you're melting pure gold, you don't have any measurable losses. I could re-pour it 100 times and still bot see any loss. Silver is a different story. Silver or even karat gold will form oxides when melted and exposed to oxygen. Silver likes to splatter a bit as well under the torch. You will indeed have losses with other metals than gold. Thanks for watching!
Ty I learned something very important. I didn’t know that and I’ve been dealing with g with a lot of our silver and having a hard time to get a precise weight on a bar after it’s been melted and poured. I’ve read different places to add anywhere from 3 all the way to 10% extra silver before melting to get the desired weight but still all over the place with post weights. Any suggestions?
Silver is tough. When I was pouring 4oz and 10oz Ag bars, I would add apx 0.2oz to the pour. But as you said, it was still all over the place. If you're using a torch, use the lowest flame you can while still be proficient. Keep the flame steady over the molten silver to avoid losses from oxides. Nothing that you likely don't do already, but those are the best tips I can offer.
@@LithicMetals thanks I’ll give that a try. Keep up the good videos, and I haven’t seen you on RUclips in a while I thought google magically unsubscribed me but then I got up today and there you were
Where do I go to buy one of your gold bars? Seems like an awesome way to invest lol can watch it happen too is a plus!
Hi Damien. Feel free to email me at lithicmetals@gmail.com and I'll get you all the details.
The bars look amazing . How did he transport it/take it back with him ?
He just carried the parcel on his person and declared it upon landing.
What is the residue on the first mold?
I'm not exactly sure what you are referring to, but most likely, you were seeing water vapor coming off. The only other residue would just be carbon from the mold itself.
Hi, do you know you can make copper, silver, gold crystals at home by electrolisis. I just make some copper crystal and they are so good. Only copper sulfate solution copper electrodes 0.6 volt and wait for a week. Next time i will try even lower voltage 0.1 v and let it grow maby for months.
Its pretty mind blowing that we are looking at over $70k sitting on the table
Agreed. 😁
ouh sexy ! i'm kinda sad with my 1/10th oz gold coin ! but hey ! you have to start somewhere !
Plenty of folks wish they just had a gram of gold. When panning for gold, I'm happy to just find a speck 😁
The most important thing is that you started 👍
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Jeff how do you recover silver from an aqua regia solution after recovering the 24k gold?
Well, there shouldn't be much silver in your AR. By that point, +99% has been removed. But a nice chunk of copper in the stock pot will make sure that you've dropped it all, if any.
Wow. Do you find your own gold to make the bars or do you buy it in as beads?
Much of the gold is from karat scrap that folks send in to be refined.
@@LithicMetals You've got the art of casting really well, you make it look easy but I'm sure it's very difficult.
Hey do poured silver bars come out nicer with oxy acetylene then from an electric furnace?
The final product is the same. However, there are pros and cons for both.
@@LithicMetals I was thinking higher temperature means the metal will act more liquid and when poured into a mold, it will spread out evenly nicely. I’m just gonna have to try it out for myself.
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Hey guys, why did he put the spear points point in different directions?
I think it's based on how the ripple turned out, to match it so it looks aesthetically pleasing.
Exactly right!
@@LithicMetals Be funny if it was the time of day the bar was poured.
Lol, that it would be 🙂
Is this troy ounces?? of Gold
Yes.
Always, when dealing with precious metals
Lefty
Yup!
I wonder how he got on at customs?
Just fine. You simply have to declare what you have. There aren't any VAT on gold in the UK.
@@LithicMetals Nice! I assumed there would be some silly restriction
It only becomes a problem when you try to sneak it in or out of a country.
Did they let him get out of the country with it ?
Of course, but one has to declare what they have. Otherwise, there could be problems. He had all the receipts necessary.
@@LithicMetals what kind of receipts could he have you mean from you ? Like purchase ? Or origin of funds ?
How about 5 or 10 grammars
Are you single 😍
I just asked my wife, and she said, "no". 😁