Turning a BLOB into PURE GOLD!

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  • Опубликовано: 13 янв 2023
  • A client came to my shop and left me a gold blob. Can I uncover its secrets?
    PART 2 SILVER: • Turning a BLOB into PU...
    So @NileRed , how did I do? If any of you are interested in a project like this from an actual chemist, I highly recommend you check out his video: • Turning old jewelry in...
    I would also like to thank @sreetips for all of the informative gold refining videos which helped me navigate my own project.
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    Description: Gold refining. Turning a gold blob into pure 24K gold.
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  • @juststevoo
    @juststevoo 7 месяцев назад +1093

    As a chemist, seeing 96% yield of 99% purity from a process by someone who calls themself a non-chemist is mind-boggling. Smithing is definitely chemistry imo, and I have some serious respect for you for doing something like this so flawlessly. 10/10.

    • @michialphelps2339
      @michialphelps2339 7 месяцев назад +24

      It doesn't seem like it takes as much knowledge as it does patience. Anybody can do it you just have to focus and make sure you do it right and repeat repeatable processes and double check to make sure your ready to move on. Sounds like basic chemistry to me and I took two years of chemistry

    • @donovansimon2636
      @donovansimon2636 7 месяцев назад

      @@michialphelps2339 That is mostly what the goal is in a lot of reactions. The problem for inexperienced folks in chemistry is that it's not so easy to repeat a process that generally does not go off of set times but off of visual queues and identifying the stages as they complete and guaging your success based off of the outcome, yield, and the understanding of what that should look like or be.. In most cases, a simple change of color, type of physical reaction (bubbling, gassing, simmer, etc) can mean so much to the observer who knows what they are doing and could be an indication to make necessary changes either in the moment or later as needed because of this, it is amazing that somebody who would be so unsure about the exact details and not have any way to determine if the information he is getting is for sure the best source of information if he's researching it online and taking whatever information he can get ahold of, maybe he got a book but what if that's outdated information, there is so much to this than just patience and repeating a couple of steps when it comes to getting a high yield and purity of an end product in whatever recipe you follow for any reaction you are trying to accomplish in chemistry whether it be a reduction, extraction, or reaction. I am not even a trained chemist myself but have lots of at home experience as a teen and young adult doing experiments and I am very impressed at how confident he seems and the fact he just has all this shit at his disposal and isn't substituting with some type of kitchen / shop technique haha as well as the fact he is performing this on something that isn't necessarily even his, so he says.

    • @emilymayer5926
      @emilymayer5926 7 месяцев назад +9

      You're not a chemist 😂

    • @nekomimicatears
      @nekomimicatears 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@emilymayer5926and your proof to back this claim up is...?

    • @EeveeRealSenpai
      @EeveeRealSenpai 6 месяцев назад +2

      You really only have to follow a guide and buy the right tools/materials from the looks of it.

  • @TomCelar
    @TomCelar Год назад +1346

    I am 100% sure that if children at school watched this video in a chemistry class there would be a huge increase in interest in that subject, good job on the process and on filming it well (y)

    • @divineantiwokegangster
      @divineantiwokegangster Год назад +22

      school is for general knowledge not practical knowledge,

    • @itzl2124
      @itzl2124 Год назад +10

      If the kids watch Breaking Bad for sure they’ll be interested in chemistry class, however that show has some mature topics and scenes

    • @leepic5631
      @leepic5631 Год назад +3

      @@itzl2124 so what?

    • @noompsieOG
      @noompsieOG Год назад

      Wow I never thought of that. So you are saying that subjects and information can be taught in a school? And not only that whatever the students are exposed to will increase an interest in that subject due to becoming aware of it ? My mind is blown right now omg .
      I’m certain (no need for percentage because any less that 100% wouldn’t be certain would it ?) that you may have just stumble upon why school exists. Anything you show or bring to the awareness of curious learning minds is going to generate further interest it doesn’t matter what the subject is. So I’ll call your comment with a similar bet.
      I’m 100% (certain) that if you handed out money to people on the street some of them would take it and spend it. (Fulfilling its purpose)

    • @noompsieOG
      @noompsieOG Год назад +4

      @@itzl2124 yeah true , I watched Rambo as a kid so I was interested in obtaining ptsd and feeling bastardised by society to the point that violence which was I learned from society can be used against the society for noble purposes. They never had the classes at school for it though so I just did the next best similar thing which was baking and food decorating .
      Good thing about kids is they are naturally interested in things it’s doesn’t matter what you choose to expose them to, the curiosity will always prevail.
      Furthermore school is designed to create effective and obedient workforce to build economic wealth and nothing more. It’s up the individual or parent expose their own beliefs and ideas interests onto their kids because society is already doing that with their subjects that essentially say “learn this to get money and have less adversity via currency” opposed to “learn whatever you are passionate about and innovate it and use it to make our world better “

  • @vesstig
    @vesstig 5 месяцев назад +91

    The craziest part to me is knowing the generations of Alchemists who tried to create gold which also lead to the discovery of so many interesting reactions in chemistry.

    • @foxmulder7616
      @foxmulder7616 3 месяца назад +6

      Good thing they didn't succeed or gold would be worthless. Lol

    • @masonhales
      @masonhales Месяц назад +8

      @@foxmulder7616 but if they had succeeded then gold would be plentiful and we could use it more often in things like electronics and machines

    • @nicfab1
      @nicfab1 15 дней назад +1

      @@foxmulder7616 In the very end their successors did succeed. We can turn lead to gold now, it only requires a particle accelerator and so much energy and equipment and work that it's not even close to worth it to do.

    • @user-pr6ed3ri2k
      @user-pr6ed3ri2k 4 дня назад

      *lead*

  • @OnlyAnOpinion20
    @OnlyAnOpinion20 7 месяцев назад +10

    How captivating, that was an amazing outcome, well worth the time you invested in it, I can’t wait to see what you do next. Thanks for the upload.

  • @tul5124
    @tul5124 Год назад +597

    This is easily one of the best, well documented videos I've ever seen on RUclips. Amazing watch. Totally captivated the entire time.

    • @HyperHrishiHD
      @HyperHrishiHD Год назад +5

      Literally I didn’t even get bored for a second 😂

    • @alexdrockhound9497
      @alexdrockhound9497 Год назад +1

      This was a very nice video, but this is just the tip of the iceberg for the quality of many youtube videos out there.

    • @m4rvinmartian
      @m4rvinmartian Год назад +5

      Apparently Matt's only seen 100 videos on YT. Can't wait to see what his next year will be like.

    • @tanelviil9149
      @tanelviil9149 Год назад +1

      Now give the gold to me... you are already rich ... but i am poor... give it to me.

    • @edelweiss-
      @edelweiss- Год назад +1

      a creature got killed in this video lol

  • @el_dominikilla7511
    @el_dominikilla7511 Год назад +697

    These are the kind of science experiments i wished they conducted in high school. Never thought of watching someone turn a piece of blob into pure Gold. You sir are definitely the Modern Goldsmith.

    • @nachomolaolivera7580
      @nachomolaolivera7580 Год назад +126

      Way too expensive and way too dangerous as well. Not a good idea at all.

    • @Srsli
      @Srsli Год назад +107

      that's $13,000 in gold, something tells me it might be a little outside the budget of a school :D

    • @SteelBlueVision
      @SteelBlueVision Год назад +52

      It's all fun and games, until you take a sip of the forbidden orange juice and puff some of that orange Nitrogen Dioxide gas to see if it will get you high (warning, don't do this!).

    • @seanblackford5953
      @seanblackford5953 Год назад

      Im 😁

    • @no-bk4zx
      @no-bk4zx Год назад

      Why would you let school kids near fucking aqua regia??? Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

  • @ChippyMapping
    @ChippyMapping 7 месяцев назад +6

    I've seen chemists do this sort of thing, but your perspective definitely makes it seem way cooler and more interesting to watch

  • @thepaperboy9009
    @thepaperboy9009 6 месяцев назад +4

    My 2nd time around watching this. Still very well done and still satisfying to watch. Your well written script helps, and to film while doing all the multiple acid dissolving, my head is spinning. Congrats! 😀

  • @NickAndriadze
    @NickAndriadze Год назад +1684

    A regular chemist wouldn't struggle with the chemical-related part, but would struggle with the actual goldsmith-related part, so seeing a goldsmith who didn't struggle with the gold smithing part, but with the chemical part, is truly an interesting change in roles.
    Also *3:29* RIP blob 2023-2023. He will be missed ;~;

    • @johnmcwick1
      @johnmcwick1 Год назад +73

      Blob is not dead but was born again into a new blob body! Lol

    • @BirnieMac1
      @BirnieMac1 Год назад

      Can confirm
      Was a chemist for a while and holy fuck I'd be fine with the chemical side (though I really have to give him due respect for handling stuff like Aqua Regia; it's impressive imo)
      Like yeah I could do the casting part
      but that hardly counts comparatively to his work haahaha
      We used something similar (designed to get organic T A R) off the beakers
      Pirahna solution is evil shit; a mate got a tiny tiny on his arm and washed it immeditately (was in the fume hood)
      Still got a really nasty blister/chemical burn

    • @tanmaychaitanya4920
      @tanmaychaitanya4920 Год назад +38

      @@johnmcwick1 blob reincarnation

    • @nastykerb34
      @nastykerb34 Год назад +14

      u didnt watch Nilered

    • @warriorapple705
      @warriorapple705 Год назад +2

      the blob was a family thing so it was probably born a long time before that

  • @Sevenigma777
    @Sevenigma777 10 месяцев назад +280

    The thought of how people figured this all out is just amazing. Theres so many steps that need to be done in an exact certain way that i can only wonder the frustrations people had in the past to figure this all out.

    • @ericknabenshue5689
      @ericknabenshue5689 10 месяцев назад +24

      While being prosecuted by the church in the process. Having to do it underground had to make it a thousand times harder to share information between alchemist.

    • @tudeslildude
      @tudeslildude 9 месяцев назад +11

      Generations upon generations of applied sciences, culminating to what we have today. It's likely the result of100 smaller experiments for different reasons, that gave way to the knowledge needed for the process.

    • @niggamaster9139
      @niggamaster9139 9 месяцев назад

      @ericknabenshue5689 bs ,ure 🤡, this thing came from Egypt, this knowledge is not even from humans but annunaki and different kind of aliens that also build piramids

    • @alansmith5267
      @alansmith5267 9 месяцев назад +11

      Fun fact: (kinda)
      We humans have been fascinated with gold since around 5,000 BC.
      If today, we were to take the entire world supply of gold, collected since 5,000 BC and we melted it all into one giant cube...
      (rough calculation only, as gold supply is always expanding each year by 1% > 2%)
      That giant golden cube would be roughly 22m * 22m * 22m (22m^3 or 10,648 cubic meters)
      and would easily fit under the first level of the Eiffel Tower.
      Imagine an Olympic sized swimming pool, that's as deep as it is wide and is long:
      25m * 25m * 25m
      The world's gold would fit in that and still have 3m on each side before even being close to being filled.
      I can't find the source, but I once read that this 'gold cube' grows at the rate of about 1cm to 2 cm per year.

    • @niggamaster9139
      @niggamaster9139 9 месяцев назад

      @alansmith5267 the reson al the gold dissapir3d from prev civiliazations is annunaki that took that gold,they still do from time to time coming back and taking all the gold

  • @Indie9999
    @Indie9999 7 месяцев назад +48

    A good tip to deal with black crud like you had at the start is to add some hydrogen peroxide. Most likely the black stuff is carbon, which isn't water soluble. Hydrogen peroxide will break it down and give off simple carbon dioxide. It's also quite safe to use really.

    • @taploko
      @taploko 3 месяца назад +2

      And remember to put plants near the CO2 to prevent greenhouse emmisons

    • @violettracey
      @violettracey 12 дней назад

      Thanks!

  • @user-qx2qe9nf6z
    @user-qx2qe9nf6z 6 месяцев назад +1

    Your passion shines through in every video! 💖

  • @nbow51
    @nbow51 Год назад +205

    First time I watched this process was NileRed refining a viewers gold. It’s cool to see a gold smith do it just using some research. The yield was very high I was surprised. In the original block there was a huge section of dirt and other metals and I thought that would bring the yield down a lot from the initial estimate. Great video!

    • @kelvinluk9121
      @kelvinluk9121 Год назад +8

      the yield is not really that high considering lots of losses during the process.
      the estimated weight was based on an inaccurate measurement of a non representative sample

    • @Sralit
      @Sralit Год назад +3

      @@kelvinluk9121 I suspect you are right, but we don’t really know the lose, since we (as you say) don’t really know if his original measurement of purity was representative. He should have melter the blob and then measured the purity.

  • @herval
    @herval Год назад +268

    That was so satisfying to watch! Glad you had the patience to go through the whole process!🎉

    • @moderngoldsmith
      @moderngoldsmith  Год назад +19

      Glad you enjoyed!! Was def a test of patience haha

  • @carlcowan7044
    @carlcowan7044 5 месяцев назад +37

    I remember coming across this gem of a video back in the beginning of this 2023 year when you first uploaded it. Now, it's less than a week until Thanksgiving as of this writing, and I'm STILL amazed by the whole gold refining process you blessed us with! Keep up the greatness!

    • @moderngoldsmith
      @moderngoldsmith  4 месяца назад +2

      Ahhh thank you so much! Appreciate you coming back for more

    • @carlcowan7044
      @carlcowan7044 3 месяца назад +1

      @moderngoldsmith Definitely, Sir! It's now a full year later in late January 2024, and I STILL come back to watch this amazing display of sciences you put into this amazing video! 👏

    • @faroukmakubuya4858
      @faroukmakubuya4858 Месяц назад +1

      Hi
      What an amazing video, its very captivating.
      Am wondering, did you have to lower the ph of the Aqua Regia to 5 before adding the Sodium Metabisufite to drop the gold ? Or its okay to add it without lowering the pH ?
      Many thanks in advance for getting back to me

  • @tippytappy
    @tippytappy Год назад +225

    This is definitely not your average jeweller channel 😍 i’ve always loved your videos, and this turn you’ve taken makes you even more awesome

    • @moderngoldsmith
      @moderngoldsmith  Год назад +21

      Thanks! Though I might be done with gold refining for awhile....

    • @tippytappy
      @tippytappy Год назад +3

      @@moderngoldsmith awww 🤗 it looks insanely complicated and dangerous, but you’re still a badass for having done it

    • @Coder4894
      @Coder4894 Год назад +1

      @@moderngoldsmith haha!

    • @MisterTwisted-bh1yn
      @MisterTwisted-bh1yn Год назад +1

      @@moderngoldsmith 12:07 mmm what a tasty orange juice...wanna drink

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  • @sayerwoadhyll8440
    @sayerwoadhyll8440 Год назад +296

    As a metal detectorist, many years ago, I found a similar yet much smaller blob. It had silver and gold melted together. A local historian (Southern Missouri) showed me photos of recovered items from local bandits. Among the items were 'cobs' that were the stolen booty that the bandits had melted and then distributed to the gang. Apparently this practice was commonplace during and after the civil war for that region. (Quantrill raiders)

    • @cheriehomebody9454
      @cheriehomebody9454 Год назад +8

      If you find a melted blob like this and you can tell it is metal, what is the next step to finding out what kinds of metal it is?

    • @varno
      @varno Год назад +18

      @@cheriehomebody9454 Find someone with an XRF machine, and then get them to do a report for you. Shouldnt do anything and is non-distructive.

    • @DesertTuna
      @DesertTuna Год назад +4

      @@cheriehomebody9454 throw it and catch it is it denser then steel

    • @stvjjgcj
      @stvjjgcj Год назад +2

      Man thats awesome

    • @georgegordonbrown9522
      @georgegordonbrown9522 Год назад +3

      @@DesertTuna It´s ndenser than lead

  • @PurpleSurple
    @PurpleSurple 8 месяцев назад

    WOW!!! I am so impressed with what you did. Great job!

  • @michellebailey5892
    @michellebailey5892 Месяц назад

    That was so fascinating. What a process! Thank you for sharing.

  • @rebeccabanner1499
    @rebeccabanner1499 Год назад +126

    I’m a chemist and work with aqua regia frequently- you did a fantastic job, but I am wondering how you handled the aqua regia waste. If left unneutralized in a plastic waste container, it can eat at the plastic and spill everywhere! love you channel and have been watching for a while :)

    • @alfredoprime5495
      @alfredoprime5495 Год назад +12

      You're not going to mention that Büchner funnels are not meant to be used for gravity filtration? A lot of the finer particles he tried to filter out likely made their way under the filter paper because there was no vacuum holding it firmly against the funnel.

    • @hosammohamed7107
      @hosammohamed7107 Год назад

      @@alfredoprime5495 yeah i'd be more happy if he plugged air suction haha

    • @MichaelGroves777
      @MichaelGroves777 Год назад +4

      He probably didn't do the stoichiometry, would have gave him the quantities needed for all the reactions

    • @MichaelGroves777
      @MichaelGroves777 Год назад +1

      His method is very old school.

    • @Mike__B
      @Mike__B Год назад +2

      @@alfredoprime5495 Yeah I was cringing a tad when I saw him fill this funnel so full knowing full well some of the liquid was passing unfiltered right under the paper.

  • @AusMiner
    @AusMiner Год назад +114

    Very good and well described video. I am a retired metallurgist who worked for many years in the gold mining industry in Western Australia. I managed laboratories where we not only conducted our own assays on bullion by traditional fire assay methods - we also produced our own 99.9% "proof" gold to use as standards in the fire assaying processes. Our method of producing "proof" gold was very similar to what you have shown here, except that after the aqua regia digestion, we filtered out any remaining solids (silver chloride) and took the solution up in hydrochloric acid / reduced over heat and re-filtered a couple of times before finally taking up in distilled water giving us about 5 litres of a very clear, but still acidic solution containing the gold. We then slowly added caustic soda to this clear solution while gently stirring - the metallic gold precipitating out of the solution looked like "gold rain" falling to the bottom of the beaker. Precipitate was then washed in distilled water a number of times before drying. We then weighed out one gram lots of this dry precipitate into small china / porcelain crucibles and put into a dedicated furnace to melt down / anneal into small gold buttons or "prills". These were then put through manual "bullion rolls"and rolled out into long strips, which were stored and cut up when required to make "proof" standards to compare routine assay results against.
    You could also purchase certified "proof" gold ribbon and solutions from the Perth Mint for use in making your own "standards" but these were very expensive. As a result, we only very rarely purchased these standards and used them to confirm / validate our own site-produced standards - usually when conducting assays for other clients / joint venture partners etc.

    • @jaymaraz711
      @jaymaraz711 Год назад

      So you are in Gold Rush in Bendigo?

    • @AusMiner
      @AusMiner Год назад

      @@karenwallace462 probably less time than it took you to read it, given your apparent lack of anything much between the ears.

    • @sarahyoung646
      @sarahyoung646 Год назад +1

      This was really interesting. Thanks for taking the time.

  • @JewelryEnthusiast
    @JewelryEnthusiast 6 месяцев назад

    Wow this was absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing this amazing process.

  • @michaelcolley1631
    @michaelcolley1631 2 дня назад

    That was one of the most enjoyable and fascinating videos I’ve ever watched on RUclips. Great job.

  • @Jayguevara1982
    @Jayguevara1982 11 месяцев назад +573

    Given that even that little disc of gold is worth almost $13,000 (U.S.) as of the day I'm writing this, the amount of work invested into this process is absolutely worth a goldsmith's time. As for me, I was just completely mesmerized by the chemistry. Great video!

    • @Kosisxnaing
      @Kosisxnaing 9 месяцев назад

      me to

    • @michaelj8582
      @michaelj8582 8 месяцев назад +2

      me tree

    • @BurkenProductions
      @BurkenProductions 8 месяцев назад +1

      pretty basic stuff, nothing to be amazed about.

    • @xallax
      @xallax 8 месяцев назад

      @@BurkenProductionsdude ._.

    • @Xushux
      @Xushux 8 месяцев назад +56

      @@BurkenProductions ofc minecraft guy, like duuhh just use an iron pickaxe and smelt the ore right??

  • @stickman4719
    @stickman4719 Год назад +1173

    Can we just take a moment to appreciate how much work he put into this gold?

    • @hutlazzz
      @hutlazzz Год назад +34

      for a 12.5k$ blob it worth it :P

    • @stickman4719
      @stickman4719 Год назад +11

      It's actually 17K in my currency (Canadian Dollar CAD)

    • @hutlazzz
      @hutlazzz Год назад

      @@stickman4719 its also called trudeau pesos

    • @SleepyPlushy
      @SleepyPlushy Год назад

      ​@@stickman4719sheesh

    • @ModernBeastx1
      @ModernBeastx1 Год назад +11

      Well I would hope he would that blob is now worth 15 thousand dollars.

  • @FactsRiddles-ly6cf
    @FactsRiddles-ly6cf 6 месяцев назад

    Loved it great of you to show the proyect!

  • @bradshores9617
    @bradshores9617 18 часов назад

    This was very enjoyable to watch. I loved it

  • @GiannahNoelle
    @GiannahNoelle Год назад +66

    Jordan this is crazy! Your talent and passion go so much further than surface level jewelry. Your depth of appreciation for your craft is one of the reasons I cherish my engagement ring (other than the man who gave it to me of course haha). It is an honor to have had something handmade by someone who truly is a master at the craft

  • @moderngoldsmith
    @moderngoldsmith  Год назад +666

    PART 2: SILVER REFINING: ruclips.net/video/b76SJfgiZIM/видео.html
    WOW. The comments! I'm happy so many of you enjoyed this video. Makes all the hours worth it. Please subscribe and tell 50 of your closest family and friends. haha.
    As mentioned in my video description, I owe a debt of gratitude to NileRed and Sreetips for their videos, which helped me tremendously.

    • @chouseification
      @chouseification Год назад +8

      Nice video overall, although I'd call out that when you add your nitric, you want to add it a little bit at a time; both to make sure to not let the reaction boil over, and so your end product has only a little bit of free nitric. i.e. go stoichoiometric and estimate the max amount of nitric you would possibly need, so you don't waste a lot of time (and materials) doing the de-nox step after.
      Sreetips does a lot of great videos showing that method.

    • @everythinghate666
      @everythinghate666 Год назад +8

      @@chouseification love Streetips

    • @benjaminwaterman9580
      @benjaminwaterman9580 Год назад +7

      Your experiment was entertaining - but oh boy did you do it the hard way! Sreetips goes into great detail on this process. You were probably better off going inquarted, just nitric boils, then aqua regia. You had iron, copper, silver, who knows what else in there...nitric acid dissolves everything but the gold at a low enough enrichments (25% gold) so that you could dodge all that silver-chloride. Silver chloride is a bear to filter.
      All that said, for a first-timer, you did great!

    • @theresapittman205
      @theresapittman205 Год назад

      Aaaaaaaand now I feel like a loser, because I don’t have 50 close friends/family.
      I kid

    • @dodgeit3014
      @dodgeit3014 Год назад +1

      Streetips will take hours of your day away and you will LOVE IT lol

  • @CrazyHustlerTV
    @CrazyHustlerTV 6 месяцев назад

    Great info and great video on gold refining and chemistry🏆

  • @user-zb6nc3iw5i
    @user-zb6nc3iw5i 7 месяцев назад

    Thank you for sharing !

  • @audiodiktat6337
    @audiodiktat6337 6 месяцев назад

    beautiful work !! really enjoyed watching your experience !! thanks for sharing

  • @eboyd53
    @eboyd53 Год назад +21

    I really enjoyed the process for the gold refinement. It helps me understand all of the gold miners excitements of finding flakes of gold.

  • @gamingbuildingandcubing5644
    @gamingbuildingandcubing5644 Год назад +11

    15:18 thats some expensive cereal!

  • @LlamaKingGaming
    @LlamaKingGaming 26 дней назад

    Great job, Very impressed. I can tell you watched a lot of sreetips. Do more like this. 😊

  • @John.of.all.tradezzz
    @John.of.all.tradezzz 4 месяца назад

    This a spectacular instructional. Thank you so much!

  • @__________________________.__.
    @__________________________.__. Год назад +10

    11:58 imagine you're doing this, but then your brother comes in, mistakes that for orange juice and drinks your gold

    • @Bidensucks1
      @Bidensucks1 Год назад

      I mean I don’t think I’d be worried about the gold anymore if he drank it😂

  • @Xavierpng
    @Xavierpng Год назад +215

    I recently just bought my first gold bar that is only 1 gram and it was pretty expensive. The fact that this turned out to be 213 grams is pretty wild. To put that in perspective, that blob of gold is worth $14K+ right now.

    • @QueJoto
      @QueJoto Год назад +21

      xavier what you doin here

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      @robinsonhiciano1586 Год назад +4

      Ur not the real on this isnt the correct badge that shows that

    • @Fuzionjay2
      @Fuzionjay2 Год назад +1

      I thought it was like 19k

    • @trevortalbot4325
      @trevortalbot4325 Год назад +8

      @@Fuzionjay2 Depends on your currency, but it's about 12.5k USD at the moment for 213 grams @ highest bid.

    • @pastexpiry2013B
      @pastexpiry2013B Год назад +1

      Are you the guy with the hillarious quotes on Twitter?

  • @raymondbrown8940
    @raymondbrown8940 Месяц назад

    This is much fun watching! Thank you.

  • @antoniorodriguez9028
    @antoniorodriguez9028 6 месяцев назад +2

    Wow!
    Master of the craft, really enjoyed each second of the video.
    Thanks for the chemistry class

  • @CrimFerret
    @CrimFerret Год назад +17

    The orange fumes were mostly nitrogen dioxide and you were correct about not wanting to breathe those. They were also an indication there was a fair amount of silver mixed with the gold which was the main reason there was so much metal left after the first try at dissolving it. Silver doesn't dissolve well in aqua regia so it took several repeats. The gold you get when you precipitate it is incredibly fine. There's not enough surface on any given particle to really reflect light so it looks like clumpy brown flour. Just going by appearance, that button is 99%+ pure. The initial blob didn't look to be a very consistent alloy so you got a really good yield. Given that you hadn't done it before you did a great job.

  • @winfordnettles3292
    @winfordnettles3292 4 месяца назад

    I really enjoyed the video. The gold blob looks really good! Thanks for posting.

  • @mystoryeventuae
    @mystoryeventuae 7 месяцев назад

    awesome !! how you explain things. amazing

  • @virtualfroggy
    @virtualfroggy Год назад +45

    I love this video
    Not only is it fun to see a non-chemist try something like this - and for it to succeed so well (seriously your yield is astonishing)
    This video also has story to it, *The Blob* is a lovely little character and im happy to see him looking purer and healthier than he's ever been
    Thank you for this

  • @fullup91
    @fullup91 Год назад +9

    The gold blob is much more beautiful than the initial bar-shaped casting. Good call.

  • @jsfernald
    @jsfernald 6 месяцев назад

    Great video, you explained things very well. Much appreciated!

  • @sadecetamir
    @sadecetamir 7 месяцев назад

    That's very amazing project!

  • @RexSkittles
    @RexSkittles Год назад +81

    This is seriously one of the best videos I’ve seen in at least the last year or two! Outstanding work and your diligence is impressive! Thanks for doing this!

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      @tree4104 Год назад

      if you like this kind of content a channel called Nile Red does quite a bit of chemistry stuff similar to this and in a similar format as well, you should check em out.

  • @PimpMatt0
    @PimpMatt0 11 месяцев назад +32

    For a non-chemist, you did a really good job. I'm super impressed!

  • @profesionalniamater5909
    @profesionalniamater5909 7 месяцев назад

    That soo beautiful well done man !

  • @lancegleco5226
    @lancegleco5226 7 месяцев назад

    Love your show dude!!! Good stuff right there...

  • @Alorand
    @Alorand Год назад +7

    14:55 - I absolutely love the 'clumpy yellowish brown dirt' look.

    • @austincde
      @austincde Год назад

      Brown gravy powder before you boil it

  • @johnniewelbornjr.8940
    @johnniewelbornjr.8940 Год назад +17

    Probably the last subject I expected to be watching but certainly a pleasantly surprising process for this layman. This could have been a boring process but your production made this quite interesting. Well done! Thanks for sharing.

  • @suedezu4fun2007
    @suedezu4fun2007 8 месяцев назад +2

    I watched with pleasure and I admire you for what you do

  • @FarazBeg
    @FarazBeg 5 дней назад

    The 18 minutes of this video are pure gold, literally!

  • @nero0631
    @nero0631 Год назад +7

    8:55 oh so thats how matcha tea is made

  • @zoratschung
    @zoratschung Год назад +13

    I hope you make more explorative videos on your channel because I'm sure I'm not the only one who found this fascinating! Love your channel!

  • @julienrobitaille9884
    @julienrobitaille9884 7 месяцев назад +1

    Wow! super cool! I really enjoyed .Thank you! I didn’t know gold could look like this during the procedure…

  • @nazirahmed7579
    @nazirahmed7579 6 месяцев назад

    It was a great work. Thanks for your time and effort

  • @jeffypeters333
    @jeffypeters333 Год назад +15

    It’s clear from other chemist videos, people love watching broken up old jewelry, or in this case dirty hunks of impure gold, being turned into pure clean 23-24 karat gold, so I would definitely consider continuing to make videos like this. Who knows your videos could be worth their weight (or more) in GOLD!

    • @Dragon-Slay3r
      @Dragon-Slay3r Год назад

      What's taking them so long to come forward? They waiting to go to work on canoes? Then they will come

  • @alexicolon9360
    @alexicolon9360 Год назад +14

    15:00 luxury, dog food

    • @just_a_bird1
      @just_a_bird1 Год назад +1

      That finna hurt when it come out the other end 💀

  • @thomasanglin1751
    @thomasanglin1751 7 месяцев назад +1

    Wow that's the first time I have seen smelting done like this, looks like a lot of work but the purity is the reward..

  • @somebeachdetecting
    @somebeachdetecting 7 месяцев назад

    Freaking kick ass man that was awesome ! one of the best videos I've seen on RUclips! I'll be watching the rest of your videos. 👍

  • @danbrawn9262
    @danbrawn9262 Год назад +52

    This was byfar one of the best videos I have ever seen. You didn't go too heavily into the chemistry and kept it at a low high school level that was easy to understand. I can't wait to see you do the same for turning silver back into the pure ore. When you make the rings or whatever out of these blobs, please make it a bit of a retrospective of the whole process.

    • @brandonowens282
      @brandonowens282 Год назад

      Well don't take this video as how it's done.
      He should have started the chemical process with straight nitric acid-->filter> rinse and theeen start with AquaRegia

  • @emamartinez4489
    @emamartinez4489 Год назад +9

    Man, just watching you went trough the entire process was fascinating, great job and keep up the good work!

  • @ytpremium7649
    @ytpremium7649 4 месяца назад +1

    Loved your process! Now I'll go look at traditional process videos

  • @mattshu
    @mattshu 16 часов назад +1

    Wow you more than doubled subs since this video. Congratulations and I’m happy to find you as your videos are relaxing

  • @Nomorewar6756
    @Nomorewar6756 Год назад +7

    The patience you showed is commendable, great job.

  • @RaghavRaiRalhan
    @RaghavRaiRalhan Год назад +4

    Hats off to your patience bro ❤️ loved the video loved the process. More power to you!

  • @BriceCapelle
    @BriceCapelle 7 месяцев назад

    Super interressant ! Thank you !

  • @neilsmith2047
    @neilsmith2047 7 месяцев назад

    Really interesting to see. Thank you.

  • @Trevih
    @Trevih Год назад +8

    So satisfying! Thank you for taking the time to share this. I have always been super curious how gold goes from those earth chunks to the pure stuff. :D This was discovery channel worthy content.

  • @Shasha-jo5iv
    @Shasha-jo5iv Год назад +22

    This was extremely cool!!! I really love your channel because you, unlike other channels aren't a 'ultra luxe' channel showing off but you're actually interested in gold and your skills as a smith and in teaching us. ❤️
    Will you do something with silver or titanium next?

  • @michialphelps2339
    @michialphelps2339 7 месяцев назад +1

    This guy is low key my hero 👏💪

  • @boyharmon357
    @boyharmon357 28 дней назад

    Thanks for the great video , so good to see something on the tube that is so interesting .

  • @davidsnyder2000
    @davidsnyder2000 Год назад +9

    Really enjoyed seeing all your hard work. Great job at filming, editing, and the audio sounded great. Liked and subscribed 🙂 I didn’t know how much work goes into refining gold. I got a real education here. Thank you 👍🙂

  • @csantos2
    @csantos2 Год назад +19

    That’s an incredibly impressive yield. Good job on the chemistry and the video.

  • @demianw572
    @demianw572 6 месяцев назад

    absolute amazing work Dude. 🤩

  • @Insectoid_
    @Insectoid_ 7 месяцев назад

    Wow. Came out beautifully

  • @JayDee-kw8oz
    @JayDee-kw8oz Год назад +3

    By far the best video I've seen on this in every way. The blob face had me cracking up and you simplified the entire process as much as it could be while maintaining a high standard. I've been making handmade jewelry on the side for a couple years now and end up with a lot of scraps of gold and silver. I've been watching chemistry and smelting videos all over YT off and on and it's a daunting time/money investment. Especially the chemistry part. Guess I can say I already started the time investment. If I wasn't doing so many other things I could just focus on this.

  • @Marksman3434
    @Marksman3434 Год назад +109

    This was so cool and educational. Seeing the whole process of gold extraction from an ore is mesmerizing, and way more complex than I imagined

    • @knutolavbjrgaas1069
      @knutolavbjrgaas1069 Год назад

      Absolutely agree it was really cool to see the process. However, the blob wasn't an ore, it was a chunk of metal alloy with gold, silver and lots of impurities.

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  • @user-su7il1eg3r
    @user-su7il1eg3r 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you very much, sir. I really enjoyed watching the video and benefited from the information

  • @SeanSpecker
    @SeanSpecker 7 месяцев назад

    i cant wait to try this at home. thanks.

  • @lisamarcel1
    @lisamarcel1 Год назад +7

    Wow! That was an awesome video. Thanks for taking us along on your learning journey😊

  • @thelongwayback2528
    @thelongwayback2528 Год назад +26

    It's amazing to witness the transformation of raw materials into something so valuable and precious. Your dedication and hard work have truly paid off!

    • @michaeldblake
      @michaeldblake 7 месяцев назад +1

      I think he took something valuable and turned it into a raw material.

  • @MrTornoTube
    @MrTornoTube 6 месяцев назад

    This video was amazing, great job.

  • @budojitsu1
    @budojitsu1 6 месяцев назад

    I thoroughly enjoyed this 🔥

  • @slapdat.byteme
    @slapdat.byteme Год назад +15

    Awesome! Thx for walking us through what must’ve been a painstaking (but rewarding) process. Glad I didn’t have to do the dishes afterward!

  • @robertwhite3752
    @robertwhite3752 Год назад +111

    There’s about $13,200 at 23k and almost $14,000 at 24k. What a beautiful process. I love chemistry and always wanted to get into it. Such valuable information to learn. Thanks for taking the time to make the video it was really well made. 👍👍👍

    • @damiontaylor1121
      @damiontaylor1121 Год назад +1

      So that dial was/is worth 14 thousand dollars???

    • @nathanvaughn7744
      @nathanvaughn7744 Год назад

      @@damiontaylor1121 yup roughly

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    • @plaguedoctor8180
      @plaguedoctor8180 11 месяцев назад +4

      With the spot change, it's currently worth 15,368 USD.

    • @tubqhe
      @tubqhe 11 месяцев назад +3

      Wow, was kinda wanting to know how much the final outcome was worth. Thanks

  • @Pauletta.d
    @Pauletta.d 7 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing job !

  • @pkoppula
    @pkoppula 8 месяцев назад

    New visitor to your channel. Probably lucky that I watched this as the first video? 😊
    Sure enough, subscribed. This video was so satisfying to watch 💯👏🏽👍🏽

  • @bethiebooya
    @bethiebooya Год назад +5

    WOW, WOW, WOW!!! The skill! You are a true Master! Congratulations on achieving 24k purity. I seriously had my doubts, but WOW!

  • @backslash4571
    @backslash4571 Год назад +10

    Excellent job for a first time! As others said, with lower purity gold it’s much easier to use hot nitric acid to remove impurities. Luckily, gold chemistry tends to be pretty much quantitative because it’s so easy to precipitate it and test the solution for gold. It also makes such a bright yellow solution that it’s easy to see when you’ve washed it off of filter papers and glassware.

  • @Rasalghoul123
    @Rasalghoul123 Месяц назад

    This was awesome to watch I am always shocked at how far we have come in the word of alchemy/chemistry

  • @user-kt3lc6rr8u
    @user-kt3lc6rr8u Год назад +10

    This is awesome!! It’s so cool to see people appreciate chemistry as it applies to their fields. As a chemist, I have one tip: add a very small amount of sulfuric acid (like a few drops worth) to your reaction before adding the sodium metabisulfite. This will keep lead in solution as the gold precipitates. That should ensure purity for jewelry making because even small amounts of lead will ruin the gold’s malleability. If you really want to get extremely pure, you can run it several times. Then, eventually precipitate the gold with oxalic acid instead of sodium metabisulfite (but this might require you to adjust the pH in order to precipitate the gold).

  • @V2k2010
    @V2k2010 Год назад +6

    Let me just clarify something. Just because the sliver of gold that was tested came back as 41.7% pure gold doesn't mean that the entire chunk was only 41.7%. It most likely was higher and lower in different parts and I suspect it was higher throughout the entire piece and that this process might have wasted a lot of gold. All the same, you did excellently and now it makes me wonder how much is in my 5-gallon pail I need to refine. It will take a fume hood, metabisulfite as well as crucibles and a filter system before I can get started after making my own nitric acid. You have inspired me!

  • @texas_germanic7073
    @texas_germanic7073 8 месяцев назад

    Great job and such a tedious process, but in the end very rewarding accomplishment

  • @jurikii
    @jurikii 6 месяцев назад

    This is so satisfying to watch! Thats a nearly $13k blob of 24k Gold! Fantastic video!

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    @gingerkilkus Год назад +639

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      @WowUrFcknHxC Год назад

      Yeah but that's actually a myth. There was way more of "i have too much of this and you need it. Take it." Until official money was invented in the 700s BCE in Lydia. There wasn't an exchange, people just kind of have away what they didn't need to the people who did need it.

  • @eijazamily6460
    @eijazamily6460 Год назад +4

    I must say this is your best video yet simply because you showcased how cool chemistry can be 😊
    Keep up the good work Jordan ✨💕