That ,right there, is top of the line grade A Merlin style alchemy. I am fascinated by the process you are gracious enough to share with us. Thank you Sir.
Sreetips: "I'm going to put my wedding ring in acid" Mrs. Sreetips runs in: "What do you think you are doing?? I can't leave you alone for 5 minutes!!" 🤣🤣🤣
That was my first reaction, too. He's been doing this long enough, though, that I'm sure she's learned to trust him. BTW, am I the only one that's seen her and thought he's batting out of his league? Lol!
OMG!!!!! this is absolutely amazing man.... The amount of science and chemistry is mind blowing. I don't just watch your vids, I literally study them and wrote down your steps .. I'm so happy for this channel, metal recovery is something I love. Thanks for teaching what you like to do and know. Seriously changing lives man really appreciate you
That is the best looking gold bar I have ever seen you pour!!! The ripples are beautiful, it's really good work! Thanks for the entertaining and informative videos!
I remember I asked about the silver alloying process a long time ago and sree actually took time out and typed a response to me about it, I was pretty happy about that, I like how he takes time to really show and explain what he is doing and why. I wish we had more science classes like this in either k-12 or even college classes. On a side note, he is one brave man... Imagine if he got the reaction wrong while experimenting with his wedding ring. "I swear honey it got A LOT of views on youtube! Look I made you a pretty pink gold/silver lump..."
Thanks for showing your craft. I’ve been collecting urban gold for 11 years, but haven’t got around to smelting it. Really like your S O2 gas refinement. Thank you so much for doing this.
Sreetips. this happens to be , in my opinion your best video thus far. it was so good on so many levels from the educational content and value to the management of time and the quality of videography the way you demonstrated the importance of inquartation , the precipitation of the gold using first the SMB and then showing a stunning SO2 precipitation and taking a Dustin from the comments on removing the gas tube when it went clear..just everything all around was spot on and you should definitely be proud that your videos continue to progress and get better just like everyone should strive to achieve.. Personal progression. really ,really good video! keep up the great work and thank you very much for the class on precious metal refining. You really hit this one right out of the park! 10 out of 10
As a teacher, I can easily see a first year university chemistry student doing this experiment. I wouldn't do this with high school kids though. It's too much of a liability, because too many uneducated Christian parents would complain that's it's voodoo/woke learning.
Absolutely love seeing the real time colour changes with the SO2 precipitation. Can watch it a thousand times over and it never gets old. Cheers from down under 🍻
Sreetips, I remember the first time you used your wedding band as a demonstration for inquartation processes. Your wife is truly an angel and one of great faith. God bless you both. Your videos are such an educational and life lesson experience!
One of my favourite channels. Shout out to you sir from myself over in Wales UK and may God bless you and your family for providing us with a decent RUclips channel.
You see a difference in the wedding band, and the 6K gold, the low Karat gold turned brown almost as soon as the nitric acid touched it, the band stayed golden yellow. Seen you do this a time or 2 before this. It is still amazing
Wow! Just wow! Just when I thought you couldn't amaze me any more. You have got the whole process down to a tee and it is hypnotic how the gold ends up so pure and beautiful, well done again sir!
I think the inquartation has finally sunk in as long as you remember to melt the two metals together first. You said copper can be used as well, I'm going to assume the same 75% as you did with the sterling. Very informative and thank you Sreetips.
I've been watching your videos for a couple of months now, and I've gotten to where I usually know what you're going to do before you do it. I know they didn't have these videos when you started, so many thanks for sharing your hard-won knowledge. That was the shiniest most beautiful bar I've seen you make so far. I feel like I might be able to do it now, if I wanted to invest in the vent hood, all the beakers, the acids, the melting equipment, etc. I'm afraid of the upfront costs to getting started, that's for sure.
The experiment with your wedding ring was so kool. I love seeing the inquartations, precipitations and melts. SO2 gas precipitation is really stunning to see. Nice. 👍
My take is that quartering au with ag is ideal. The demonstration between carat au Vs cu in the hno3 solution was amazing. Note: The carat au was unaffected but the cu finely separated into solution. The inquartation of 25% au with 75% ag cast as shot then boiled in the hno3 H20 solution several times resulted in three 9's au. Quite frankly it becomes obvious that low carat au is cast fairly often so it must do well. That said, I'm left wondering if graphite pour cubes shaped like 14 mm chess pieces are available or if you would need to cast using other methods. Probably 24 k kings, 18 k queen's, 14 k knights and bishops, and 10 k rooks would be interesting. Adding gems would be really fun. Cheers,✌️♥️👍 Kudos to the Mrs.'s
Hello Mr sreetips. Seems to me that Mrs sreetips has work hard to get gold to your hobby. God truly blessing both of you. It is so nice to see. Hard woork and gods blessing realy pays out🌹🌹. Have a Nice day, and thank you for a nice clip. Arne 🇳🇴
We used to find gold in Goodwill jewelry jars all the time. But now we don’t even bother looking because, like you said, they’ve figured out how valuable GOLD really is. This trend will continue as people slowly turn away from printed paper notes, that have no value, and turn to the only true money: GOLD and silver. Then, we won’t be able to find it anymore.
I love this! I shared this video with my wife, to reignite her desire to go, "Urban Mining", at Estate Sales! Please don't boil your wedding ring....... again! I cringe every time you do that! 👍 Great and FANTASTIC CONTENT! NEVER GET TIRED OF WATCHING YOUR RUclips VIDEOS! Wade
Most people don’t understand gold and silver. They believe, incorrectly, that paper dollars are more valuable than the metals. For those that do understand, a world of prosperity awaits.
That buddist necklace might be worth more on it's own. If it's a legitimate old hand-me-down necklace from an oriental origin, the piece might be an antique! My friend had a very similar thing with a 3D Vishnu on it made of 24k gold that was hundreds of years old, and it was worth like £5-6k, way more than it's weight in gold (about £3k of gold iirc).
Seeing that pile of mud in the crucible gave me the idea on how to safely store large amounts of gold. No thief in hell is going to give two craps about a few "mud" filled jars strew across your garage.
That was .9999 Pure Gold! Beautiful bar!...Where's mine! Lol 😂...And thanks for the Sulphuric purification after using the SMB twice...That's why that Ingot looked so bloody good...Well done...
Don't feel obligated to answer, I know it's taboo to ask.. but as someone who loves a good bargain I'm dying to know how much Mrs. Sreetips was able to get all this great material for.
To those who ask why the senior chief doesn't start off by dissolving the 14K and 10K gold in aqua regia: Doing so would result in all of the silver turning into silver chloride, which requires a couple of messy reactions to refine back into silver, and the solution will contain base metals in addition to the precious metals. Inquartation, followed by a nitric acid boil, extracts the silver as silver nitrate, the base metals also go into solution, and only the precious metals remain as solids. Recovering the silver metal from the solution is a much less messy procedure.
I’m happy to see your channel growing man. I’ve been following you since the beginning. Back when you had a few hundred views and almost no comments other than a few questions. Plus you took care of the headset issue I noticed. Keep up the great work and I’ll always check out what you’re doin mister.
That's really neat! Imagine the very first person on earth to have figured out how to do that whole process from start to finish...mind blown. Before the torch when it still looked like sludge I'd never have known there was gold in it. But after that torch hit it, it got really pretty. I have to wonder if that necklace would be worth more in tact. If they bothered putting high quality gold in it maybe it was a designer piece.
Hands down best content on yt my add/adhd is totally invested lol currently collecting scrap and karat gold also step dad was a jewler i have sweeps platninum gold many scrap pieces ect cant wait to execute this method of refinement
Excellent video every time I see you use your wedding band for example it's always interesting to think people still don't understand why you use silver outstanding video awesome content thank you for sharing six Stars brother
Another great refining sreetips! The aqua regia must feel weirdly heavy for that small amount of liquid. I imagine that the dissolved gold would just add such an unexpected amount of weight that it would be odd to handle. As usual, all the valuable information and steps were great to watch and hear you iterate. I learn so much every time I watch you do this, even when things go a little wrong.
If you do the gas bubbling process again, can you explain what is happening exactly? Besides that last bubbling process, I was super happy with this video with you explaining every step, thank you for a very great video. And I hope one day you can pour a full bar in that last size.
Like the powerful bond of gold atoms, the fact that Mrs. Sreetips allows you to put your WEDDING band in ANY kind of ACID speaks volumes to the strength of your bond.
that was cool to see and helpful. I wouldnt of risked my ring tho lol. Just goes to show you really know what youre doing and trust yourself and skills. I like it other then a little cleaning the ring was fine, did not expect that.
Hey, Thanks for going out of your way to be a little more detailed in the how's and why's rather than the what's this time around. It was an enjoyable watch. Do you remember how much you payed for the whole batch?
Thank you for this as I've collected over 20 oz of electronic parts that nitric does not affect and will do an experiment in inquarting on them. Hoping that adding more silver than necessary will not affect the quality as I have no way of guessing the K content
Love the video! I believe we will see gold/silver continue to fall through 2023 and then climb for the next 5 years or so. What do you think? Internet never forgets. So, I may be proven foolish with this post, but I did predict the $50 silver boom and it’s fall. Sadly some fought me on that. I hope they didn’t lose too much.
When you did the hydrochloric boil after the first aqua regia precipitation, what was coming out of the gold at that point to cause the little bit of color?
What a great demonstration and the gold bar is the best ever. So do you go back and recover the silver out of it also or is that gone from all the chemicals?
Another awesome video. Question on sourcing your gold and silver, what is the max you'll pay per gram in relation to spot per gram to ensure a descent profit when figuring cost of acid, propane and other chemical costs, etc. Maybe 35% of spot?
Today, I paid 85% of spot. It’s either that, or I get nothing. But you must understand. People are clueless about gold. They believe, incorrectly, that paper dollars are more valuable than gold. This ignorance enables us to buy highly valuable gold, at a discount. Sometimes, as in this video, at a very steep discount. You can take advantage of this ignorance to gain a fortune for yourself. If you know when where and what to look for.
My wife gets most of the gold that I refine. She got up at 3am this morning and is out searching right now. It’s out there. But it won’t just fall in your lap. You’ve got to get up early and be there first. Here’s a pro tip: when you go to a yard sale, quietly ask the seller if they have any jewelry for sale. Sometimes they’ll go inside, get it, and put GOLD in your hand.
Since the wedding band came out discolored - a slightly darker shade - it shows that a little part (silver and copper) of the alloy was dissolved. Weighing the band prior and after the demonstration would show that a tiny amount of the wedding band went in solution. I think that inquarting modifies the structure (more silver interspersed between the pure gold) of an alloy so that the acid has easier/faster access to the soluble metals. Please correct me if I am wrong.
If I were you Sreetips, I would be saving as much of this gold as you can. Inflation is Eventually going to hit the price of gold, just like its hit the prices of everything else, and gold will be worth 1.5x-2x what its worth now. Great video as always. I hope you save a Kilo of pure gold to sell in a year or two after the price of precious metals goes up. You know its going to happen
I love your videos I watch every night and learn something new every episode I have a question for you can I add sulfuric acid after my nitric boils to get the lead into solution with out going thru the aqua regia process
When the gold is refined all the down to right before precipitation, if you stop there would the gold stay in solution permanently? Without adding anything and just put the beaker on shelf would time precipitate the gold or come out of solution?
Yes, it should last indefinitely. But if it sits in the open for long enough then it could evaporate and form chloroauric acid crystals. To get the gold back out of these crystals I’d simply dissolve with some warm hydrochloric acid, filter out any junk, and drop the gold with SMB.
So interesting. Last question, when the gold is in solution right before you would go to precipitate does the solution weigh more from the dissolved gold?
Just wondering, would it make the process quicker if you used straight copper instead of sterling silver? In other words, would silver be slightly more resistant to the nitric?
I know you recover silver as crystals, as sort of a kind of crystalized powder. Would it be useful to keep it in that state so when you inquart the gold you could just pour precise amounts of silver for when you're inquarting?
Sree! You just went full Walter White with that SO2 precipitation - that was really cool. Seem like you got the process down to a science. I'm glad the wedding ring went unscathed :) After watching so many of your videos I feel like I'm ready to try this. My biggest questions after most videos are: - How do you safely dispose of the acids and neutralize them with hydroxides - Once neutralized where do you pour them!? - What's the exact temperature of that heating plate? 😂 - Where can I hunt for plated jewelry at below spot prices? - Where can I buy lab grade equipment and a flow hood to vent fumes? - And just curious - why do you prefer chemical extraction over say fire assay and cupellation? Sorry for bombarding you with questions Sree! Great video 😃
Waste treatment makes it safe to dispose in the normal waste stream. I’ve never measured the temperatures so I don’t know them exactly. Plated jewelry I don’t have much experience. Buying below spot? Go to yard sales. Quietly, away from other buyers, ask the person having the sale if they have any jewelry for sale. Sometimes they will lead you to a table or go inside and bring it out to you. Get a fume hood that’s suitable for acid digestions - no metal parts. I bought all my glassware and other stuff on eBay.
Took me a while to figure that out! I still think we will figure out a way to separate metals when molten. Centrifuge? Large enough crucible full, boiled good n long then very slowly cooled over weeks? Lol i have a bunch of copper specimens that ive been told contain gold too. I live about 2 miles from the old Ropes gold mine so i guess its possible. Now that i know i can use copper, im going to use those to do a run. Upper michigan has plenty of copper floating around here.
So. Sreetips. I had asked about this aspect in another video, ill ask again here in case my question wasnt understood in the other instance. I had been wondering about using your silver crystal in the Inquartation process. I guess id need to understand what other base metals are in Karat gold to fully understand why you wouldnt want to use the crystals over sterling flatware since you already know what metals are in the silver youd be adding during the Inquartation. (999 fine) Is there any benefit to using it? or do the base metals in the gold (that are not silver) get into the refine process anyways so you still need to use the same amounts of nitric and other acids to get them into solution? I can see why youd place sterling in your (silver jar whith the other trace liquids from the process) Thank you for spending the time to respond. Love your channel, and content.
The answer is simple; the silver crystal has already been through the silver cell. If I use it to inquart then I’d be taking a step in the wrong direction. I have plenty of sterling to use for inquartation. The first step in refining the sterling to high purity is to dissolve it in nitric acid. So why not use it to inquart? Like refining both metals at once.
Nice video again Mr. Sreetips- I do have one question- would it be more efficient to allow a big refiner to get you platinum group stuff out of the waste papers and just get a check- thinking of Atlantic or some of the big refiners set up for full extraction.
Yes, if I didn’t make videos of it that’s probably what I’d do. However, the big refiners only pay 80% and none that I know of give credit for rhodium.
Hi, I have possibly a dumb question: is there anything usable in the gas, which could be concentrated or distilled back into liquid? I was just wondering 🤔 Thank you very much. I'm enjoying the videos.
That ,right there, is top of the line grade A Merlin style alchemy. I am fascinated by the process you are gracious enough to share with us. Thank you Sir.
Sreetips: "I'm going to put my wedding ring in acid" Mrs. Sreetips runs in: "What do you think you are doing?? I can't leave you alone for 5 minutes!!" 🤣🤣🤣
That was my first reaction, too. He's been doing this long enough, though, that I'm sure she's learned to trust him. BTW, am I the only one that's seen her and thought he's batting out of his league? Lol!
Now that’s hilarious however, if price persist vs pay of ring then …why not. 😂
Lol each time adds a layer of gold 😅
I can see him extracting and refining his jewelry polishing pads.
I think the same thing, what must she think when he does that 🤣
OMG!!!!! this is absolutely amazing man.... The amount of science and chemistry is mind blowing. I don't just watch your vids, I literally study them and wrote down your steps .. I'm so happy for this channel, metal recovery is something I love. Thanks for teaching what you like to do and know. Seriously changing lives man really appreciate you
Excellent, thank you
That is the best looking gold bar I have ever seen you pour!!! The ripples are beautiful, it's really good work! Thanks for the entertaining and informative videos!
You haven’t gone back far enough! Holy some of those multiple multiple multiple Troy oz bars from back in the day were insanely beautiful!
I remember I asked about the silver alloying process a long time ago and sree actually took time out and typed a response to me about it, I was pretty happy about that, I like how he takes time to really show and explain what he is doing and why. I wish we had more science classes like this in either k-12 or even college classes. On a side note, he is one brave man... Imagine if he got the reaction wrong while experimenting with his wedding ring. "I swear honey it got A LOT of views on youtube! Look I made you a pretty pink gold/silver lump..."
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He's literally the best channel operator on yt. Can tell he has a real passion for educating others and this hobby. Appreciates his viewers.
He is very good with that , l personally love the way he explain step by step 👍🙏🏻🇧🇷🇺🇸
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Never realised how much I liked gold until I saw you pour and get that beautiful result. The whole process was mesmerising.
Thanks for showing your craft. I’ve been collecting urban gold for 11 years, but haven’t got around to smelting it. Really like your S O2 gas refinement. Thank you so much for doing this.
Sreetips. this happens to be , in my opinion your best video thus far. it was so good on so many levels from the educational content and value to the management of time and the quality of videography the way you demonstrated the importance of inquartation , the precipitation of the gold using first the SMB and then showing a stunning SO2 precipitation and taking a Dustin from the comments on removing the gas tube when it went clear..just everything all around was spot on and you should definitely be proud that your videos continue to progress and get better just like everyone should strive to achieve.. Personal progression. really ,really good video! keep up the great work and thank you very much for the class on precious metal refining. You really hit this one right out of the park! 10 out of 10
And as Ryan Taylor said that was also your best gold bar pour. Killed it!
Agreed!!! 👏👏👏
Thank you!
I changed name to sreetips
As a teacher, I can easily see a first year university chemistry student doing this experiment. I wouldn't do this with high school kids though. It's too much of a liability, because too many uneducated Christian parents would complain that's it's voodoo/woke learning.
Absolutely love seeing the real time colour changes with the SO2 precipitation. Can watch it a thousand times over and it never gets old.
Cheers from down under 🍻
This was one of your best videos and one of the best practical Chemistry lessons I have had the pleasure to sit through.
Sreetips, I remember the first time you used your wedding band as a demonstration for inquartation processes. Your wife is truly an angel and one of great faith. God bless you both. Your videos are such an educational and life lesson experience!
One of my favourite channels. Shout out to you sir from myself over in Wales UK and may God bless you and your family for providing us with a decent RUclips channel.
Excellent, thank you!
You see a difference in the wedding band, and the 6K gold, the low Karat gold turned brown almost as soon as the nitric acid touched it, the band stayed golden yellow. Seen you do this a time or 2 before this. It is still amazing
Wow! Just wow! Just when I thought you couldn't amaze me any more. You have got the whole process down to a tee and it is hypnotic how the gold ends up so pure and beautiful, well done again sir!
Watching the show precipitation is like watching pure unadulterated natural magic. Amazing. Simply amazing.
I think watching the forks and spoons melt in is my favorite part of the videos lol. Besides the forbidden blue and orange coolaids
I think the inquartation has finally sunk in as long as you remember to melt the two metals together first. You said copper can be used as well, I'm going to assume the same 75% as you did with the sterling. Very informative and thank you Sreetips.
Same weight whether sterling or copper. But copper takes more acid.
Not only the patterns on the bar were awesome, but also the weight was exactly 50,0g. Perfect.
I've been watching your videos for a couple of months now, and I've gotten to where I usually know what you're going to do before you do it. I know they didn't have these videos when you started, so many thanks for sharing your hard-won knowledge. That was the shiniest most beautiful bar I've seen you make so far. I feel like I might be able to do it now, if I wanted to invest in the vent hood, all the beakers, the acids, the melting equipment, etc. I'm afraid of the upfront costs to getting started, that's for sure.
Same here, but my biggest concern is getting the jewelry. Where do you find jewelry that let you turn a profit?
Start with a silver cell and go from there.
The experiment with your wedding ring was so kool. I love seeing the inquartations, precipitations and melts. SO2 gas precipitation is really stunning to see. Nice. 👍
Best bar to date. Only one I still like more is the bar that had the crystalline structure showing on the surface. Top notch 😃.
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OMG! Absolutely gorgeous!! That may be the cleanest precipitation yet on your channel, Sreetips!
My take is that quartering au with ag is ideal. The demonstration between carat au Vs cu in the hno3 solution was amazing. Note: The carat au was unaffected but the cu finely separated into solution. The inquartation of 25% au with 75% ag cast as shot then boiled in the hno3 H20 solution several times resulted in three 9's au. Quite frankly it becomes obvious that low carat au is cast fairly often so it must do well. That said, I'm left wondering if graphite pour cubes shaped like 14 mm chess pieces are available or if you would need to cast using other methods. Probably 24 k kings, 18 k queen's, 14 k knights and bishops, and 10 k rooks would be interesting. Adding gems would be really fun.
Cheers,✌️♥️👍
Kudos to the Mrs.'s
I have since learned the proper use of Carat as opposed to Karat.✌️♥️
Hello Mr sreetips. Seems to me that Mrs sreetips has work hard to get gold to your hobby. God truly blessing both of you. It is so nice to see. Hard woork and gods blessing realy pays out🌹🌹. Have a Nice day, and thank you for a nice clip. Arne 🇳🇴
We both embrace and say a prayer of thankfulness to Him for the good fortune He has granted us.
@@sreetips amen sir🙏🌹
Checked the listing 3 hours after it went live and that beauty sold quickly! Congrats on the refine, pour and sale!
So much fun going thru that stuff and testing. I used to buy bags of jewelry from goodwill, but they've gotten better at figuring it out.
We used to find gold in Goodwill jewelry jars all the time. But now we don’t even bother looking because, like you said, they’ve figured out how valuable GOLD really is. This trend will continue as people slowly turn away from printed paper notes, that have no value, and turn to the only true money: GOLD and silver. Then, we won’t be able to find it anymore.
I’m going to melt some of my fine gold and make a wee bar soon! Learnt a lot from you channel⛏🏴
Are you in Scotland?
@@JoSeeFuss from his name I’m guessing Paraguay 🇵🇾 🤷🏻♂️😂 lol
@@johnheckles8239 😂 😛
@@JoSeeFuss Yeah I am from Scotland lol👍🏻
@@johnheckles8239 😂
I've always thought that this procedure was so cool , especially the way the liquid color shifts the way it does .👍👍
as if the gold left us when it turned clear and then returned, simply amazing
Went very fast on ebay! Congratulations on another great video, and thank you sir for showing us how it's done!
"Darling, my love for you is like a 14k gold ring in a sea of nitric acid... everlasting, uncompromising, and a little bit impure."
I love this! I shared this video with my wife, to reignite her desire to go, "Urban Mining", at Estate Sales! Please don't boil your wedding ring....... again! I cringe every time you do that! 👍 Great and FANTASTIC CONTENT! NEVER GET TIRED OF WATCHING YOUR RUclips VIDEOS!
Wade
Most people don’t understand gold and silver. They believe, incorrectly, that paper dollars are more valuable than the metals. For those that do understand, a world of prosperity awaits.
@@sreetips TESTIFY MY BROTHER! COULDN'T AGREE MORE! ALL THANKS TO YOUR TUTORIALS ON RUclips!
That buddist necklace might be worth more on it's own. If it's a legitimate old hand-me-down necklace from an oriental origin, the piece might be an antique! My friend had a very similar thing with a 3D Vishnu on it made of 24k gold that was hundreds of years old, and it was worth like £5-6k, way more than it's weight in gold (about £3k of gold iirc).
That’s why I saved it.
Flawless pour Chief .. as always a pleasure to watch you work!
Seeing that pile of mud in the crucible gave me the idea on how to safely store large amounts of gold. No thief in hell is going to give two craps about a few "mud" filled jars strew across your garage.
That was .9999 Pure Gold! Beautiful bar!...Where's mine! Lol 😂...And thanks for the Sulphuric purification after using the SMB twice...That's why that Ingot looked so bloody good...Well done...
Don't feel obligated to answer, I know it's taboo to ask.. but as someone who loves a good bargain I'm dying to know how much Mrs. Sreetips was able to get all this great material for.
$340 for everything
@@sreetips No freaking way... what a great Lady you got there Sreetips.
@@sreetips you’ve got to be kidding. Wow!
@@sreetips Wow! Way to go
@@sreetips ❤❤❤ no wonder you married her!
Senior chief, you never cease to amaze!!! Keep the videos coming.
To those who ask why the senior chief doesn't start off by dissolving the 14K and 10K gold in aqua regia: Doing so would result in all of the silver turning into silver chloride, which requires a couple of messy reactions to refine back into silver, and the solution will contain base metals in addition to the precious metals. Inquartation, followed by a nitric acid boil, extracts the silver as silver nitrate, the base metals also go into solution, and only the precious metals remain as solids. Recovering the silver metal from the solution is a much less messy procedure.
Well said
Thanks. I was wondering that.
This is a fantastic mixture of art and science, awesome!
This channel has got to be one of the greatest sources of ASMR of all time.
I’m happy to see your channel growing man. I’ve been following you since the beginning. Back when you had a few hundred views and almost no comments other than a few questions. Plus you took care of the headset issue I noticed. Keep up the great work and I’ll always check out what you’re doin mister.
Thank you for hanging in
I’ve been watching this channel for years now, thank you so much for your attention to detail! I might have to start refining our stock here soon.
Make sure you have a fume hood
@@sreetips definitely!
That's really neat! Imagine the very first person on earth to have figured out how to do that whole process from start to finish...mind blown. Before the torch when it still looked like sludge I'd never have known there was gold in it. But after that torch hit it, it got really pretty. I have to wonder if that necklace would be worth more in tact. If they bothered putting high quality gold in it maybe it was a designer piece.
Love your content! You're the Walter White of precious metals refining! Great use for pyrex too!
Add a dash of chili powder
He really has the best channel on this process
One stunning piece my friend. It is truly beautiful !
you're just amazing, sreetips. I cannot believe how gutsy you are for putting your wedding ring in the nitric lol.
I love learning the different ways to precipitate gold put of solution when I watch these videos
Hands down best content on yt my add/adhd is totally invested lol currently collecting scrap and karat gold also step dad was a jewler i have sweeps platninum gold many scrap pieces ect cant wait to execute this method of refinement
that's got to be one of Streetip's best poors ever! intact you have 3 lovely poors in a row now from what I cans see.
I'v said it once , I'll say it again ....Best refining videos on RUclips. Thanks for sharing Sreetips.
Awesome video K. I’ve watched you for awhile now and that bar is the best yet. So nice.
These are addicting videos. Thanks for your time making them
Explaining the reason you add silver for the nitric acid boils was really helpful
I put my ring in this one.
Excellent video every time I see you use your wedding band for example it's always interesting to think people still don't understand why you use silver outstanding video awesome content thank you for sharing six Stars brother
Another great refining sreetips! The aqua regia must feel weirdly heavy for that small amount of liquid. I imagine that the dissolved gold would just add such an unexpected amount of weight that it would be odd to handle. As usual, all the valuable information and steps were great to watch and hear you iterate. I learn so much every time I watch you do this, even when things go a little wrong.
Always wondered about the viscosity of it as well
I have a video where I evaporated the liquid down to around 500ml and it had about 15 Troy ounces of pure gold dissolved in it.
@@sreetips I’d love to see that video, will you link to it please?
Very confident, if this goes wrong you would be sleeping on the couch 😂. Informative video, had no clue about this. Thank you.
Wow that bar went fast on ebay!!! Such a nice looking bar too.
Had it priced too low.
That's by far the best looking gold bar you've done yet sreetips 👍
Your just showing off your glassware lol awesome job man great video
Cheers Sree great detailed explaining of everything and proper reminders of what not to do!!
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Very beautiful bar! I really liked your video.
Very nice video. The bar came out so good! Thank you dear sir!
nice purification process it was nice to see how you did that.thank you for sharing the information .
Your passion is infectious, in the best way.
Im so glad I pulled the tube out I was wondering if it would continue just like that! Very good vidio!
If you do the gas bubbling process again, can you explain what is happening exactly? Besides that last bubbling process, I was super happy with this video with you explaining every step, thank you for a very great video.
And I hope one day you can pour a full bar in that last size.
I must admit, I’m not exactly sure how the reaction happens. That’s why I didn’t explain it. But it sure looks like magic.
"Honey, what did you do with your wedding band?"
"I just had it in boiling nitric acid, dear. I'm making a point." 🤣🤣🤣
Like the powerful bond of gold atoms, the fact that Mrs. Sreetips allows you to put your WEDDING band in ANY kind of ACID speaks volumes to the strength of your bond.
Those gems must be worth a fair bit on their own. I saw some pristene black pearls & saphires in that haul. Dayum!
Amazing how watching you work the magic is so satisfying!
What a very pretty loaf I love watching it do that and that SO2 guess again I think is the cat's meow
The bee’s knees
that was cool to see and helpful. I wouldnt of risked my ring tho lol. Just goes to show you really know what youre doing and trust yourself and skills. I like it other then a little cleaning the ring was fine, did not expect that.
Hey,
Thanks for going out of your way to be a little more detailed in the how's and why's rather than the what's this time around. It was an enjoyable watch.
Do you remember how much you payed for the whole batch?
She said $340
That whole process is so facinating.
I love watching the silver melt under the open flame it's my favorite part.
Thank you for this as I've collected over 20 oz of electronic parts that nitric does not affect and will do an experiment in inquarting on them. Hoping that adding more silver than necessary will not affect the quality as I have no way of guessing the K content
Those ripples are the best I can remember from any of your goldbars poured.
Love the video! I believe we will see gold/silver continue to fall through 2023 and then climb for the next 5 years or so. What do you think? Internet never forgets. So, I may be proven foolish with this post, but I did predict the $50 silver boom and it’s fall. Sadly some fought me on that. I hope they didn’t lose too much.
I think making predictions is risky business. Especially if they’re about the future.
Looks like the nitric did a nice job of cleaning your ring though lol
I believe that is one of your best looking pours to date Sreetips. Cool stuff bro.
I notice a huge difference in lighting on this vid. Most noticeable at the melt table. Looks fantastic.
When you did the hydrochloric boil after the first aqua regia precipitation, what was coming out of the gold at that point to cause the little bit of color?
May have been some gold going on solution due to a little excess nitric.
And that pour was spot on! Beautiful bar!
What a great demonstration and the gold bar is the best ever. So do you go back and recover the silver out of it also or is that gone from all the chemicals?
I recover all the silver.
Another awesome video. Question on sourcing your gold and silver, what is the max you'll pay per gram in relation to spot per gram to ensure a descent profit when figuring cost of acid, propane and other chemical costs, etc. Maybe 35% of spot?
Today, I paid 85% of spot. It’s either that, or I get nothing. But you must understand. People are clueless about gold. They believe, incorrectly, that paper dollars are more valuable than gold. This ignorance enables us to buy highly valuable gold, at a discount. Sometimes, as in this video, at a very steep discount. You can take advantage of this ignorance to gain a fortune for yourself. If you know when where and what to look for.
Thank you sir. I have my mini lab together now, just trying to figure out the sourcing side of things and not lose my shirt :)@@sreetips
My wife gets most of the gold that I refine. She got up at 3am this morning and is out searching right now. It’s out there. But it won’t just fall in your lap. You’ve got to get up early and be there first. Here’s a pro tip: when you go to a yard sale, quietly ask the seller if they have any jewelry for sale. Sometimes they’ll go inside, get it, and put GOLD in your hand.
Great pro tip, much appreciated sir.@@sreetips
Great videos. Question though, How do you deal with white gold and all that rhodium? Especially can you recover the rhodium?
It all goes in my stock pot and then I get it later.
Since the wedding band came out discolored - a slightly darker shade - it shows that a little part (silver and copper) of the alloy was dissolved. Weighing the band prior and after the demonstration would show that a tiny amount of the wedding band went in solution. I think that inquarting modifies the structure (more silver interspersed between the pure gold) of an alloy so that the acid has easier/faster access to the soluble metals. Please correct me if I am wrong.
You are correct
Man that gas is the way to go. Another beautiful bar sir, great job.
Superb video. Always a pleasure to watch your content.
If I were you Sreetips, I would be saving as much of this gold as you can. Inflation is Eventually going to hit the price of gold, just like its hit the prices of everything else, and gold will be worth 1.5x-2x what its worth now. Great video as always. I hope you save a Kilo of pure gold to sell in a year or two after the price of precious metals goes up. You know its going to happen
They are crushing demand for gold, a hedge against inflation, with inflation! It’s brilliant.
My debt gets paid BEFORE I save any gold.
I love your videos I watch every night and learn something new every episode I have a question for you can I add sulfuric acid after my nitric boils to get the lead into solution with out going thru the aqua regia process
I don’t think so
When the gold is refined all the down to right before precipitation, if you stop there would the gold stay in solution permanently? Without adding anything and just put the beaker on shelf would time precipitate the gold or come out of solution?
Yes, it should last indefinitely. But if it sits in the open for long enough then it could evaporate and form chloroauric acid crystals. To get the gold back out of these crystals I’d simply dissolve with some warm hydrochloric acid, filter out any junk, and drop the gold with SMB.
So interesting. Last question, when the gold is in solution right before you would go to precipitate does the solution weigh more from the dissolved gold?
@@markhutchins3643 yes, a volume of liquid with gold dissolved in it will weigh more than the same volume of liquid with no gold in it.
@@sreetips Thank you Sir for your time! Love the content! It’s really interesting
Hey just curious what do you do with your plastic/glass beads that maybe threaded ? Need sone for fishing lures n such.
Just wondering, would it make the process quicker if you used straight copper instead of sterling silver? In other words, would silver be slightly more resistant to the nitric?
No, it takes more nitric to dissolve copper. Something to do with the charge. Silver is plus one. Copper is plus two.
I know you recover silver as crystals, as sort of a kind of crystalized powder.
Would it be useful to keep it in that state so when you inquart the gold you could just pour precise amounts of silver for when you're inquarting?
No, after it’s been thru the silver cell, using the crystal to inquart would be like taking several steps backwards.
Sree! You just went full Walter White with that SO2 precipitation - that was really cool. Seem like you got the process down to a science. I'm glad the wedding ring went unscathed :)
After watching so many of your videos I feel like I'm ready to try this. My biggest questions after most videos are:
- How do you safely dispose of the acids and neutralize them with hydroxides - Once neutralized where do you pour them!?
- What's the exact temperature of that heating plate? 😂
- Where can I hunt for plated jewelry at below spot prices?
- Where can I buy lab grade equipment and a flow hood to vent fumes?
- And just curious - why do you prefer chemical extraction over say fire assay and cupellation?
Sorry for bombarding you with questions Sree!
Great video 😃
Waste treatment makes it safe to dispose in the normal waste stream. I’ve never measured the temperatures so I don’t know them exactly. Plated jewelry I don’t have much experience. Buying below spot? Go to yard sales. Quietly, away from other buyers, ask the person having the sale if they have any jewelry for sale. Sometimes they will lead you to a table or go inside and bring it out to you. Get a fume hood that’s suitable for acid digestions - no metal parts. I bought all my glassware and other stuff on eBay.
Assay and cupel doescnot separate the precious metals. The only way to get pure gold or silver is to refine them with a wet chemical process.
@@sreetips Hey Sreetips, your the man. I really appreciate all the information. I'll put it all to good use. Thank you :)
Took me a while to figure that out! I still think we will figure out a way to separate metals when molten. Centrifuge? Large enough crucible full, boiled good n long then very slowly cooled over weeks? Lol i have a bunch of copper specimens that ive been told contain gold too. I live about 2 miles from the old Ropes gold mine so i guess its possible. Now that i know i can use copper, im going to use those to do a run. Upper michigan has plenty of copper floating around here.
When metals are melted together they don’t separate, they alloy.
So. Sreetips. I had asked about this aspect in another video, ill ask again here in case my question wasnt understood in the other instance. I had been wondering about using your silver crystal in the Inquartation process. I guess id need to understand what other base metals are in Karat gold to fully understand why you wouldnt want to use the crystals over sterling flatware since you already know what metals are in the silver youd be adding during the Inquartation. (999 fine) Is there any benefit to using it? or do the base metals in the gold (that are not silver) get into the refine process anyways so you still need to use the same amounts of nitric and other acids to get them into solution? I can see why youd place sterling in your (silver jar whith the other trace liquids from the process) Thank you for spending the time to respond. Love your channel, and content.
The answer is simple; the silver crystal has already been through the silver cell. If I use it to inquart then I’d be taking a step in the wrong direction. I have plenty of sterling to use for inquartation. The first step in refining the sterling to high purity is to dissolve it in nitric acid. So why not use it to inquart? Like refining both metals at once.
Nice video again Mr. Sreetips- I do have one question- would it be more efficient to allow a big refiner to get you platinum group stuff out of the waste papers and just get a check- thinking of Atlantic or some of the big refiners set up for full extraction.
Yes, if I didn’t make videos of it that’s probably what I’d do. However, the big refiners only pay 80% and none that I know of give credit for rhodium.
@@sreetips They will, once you show them appreciable amounts of 999 rhodium.
@@sreetips Whoa! That seems unfair.
I'm betting that they don't see enough Rh to process the collected slimes themselves very often.
I'm wondering if some sort of diffuser for the bubbles would make it more efficient?
No, it would quickly get clogged up with gold.
Hi, I have possibly a dumb question: is there anything usable in the gas, which could be concentrated or distilled back into liquid? I was just wondering 🤔
Thank you very much. I'm enjoying the videos.
Possibly, I could connect a reflux condenser.