I could watch gold refining all day absolutely amazing it boggles my mind every time i see it and the final product is always stunning god i love gold! It is the most beautiful metal!
Always enjoy your uploads. Many more are missing out and hope they find you like I did. Beautiful piece. Almost makes me want to send in some nuggets 😉
That's so great to hear Rob! Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoy my content... that's what makes it fun for me! Lol maybe someday I'll break through the algorithm, who knows! 🤣
I do believe the yellow may be iron. When beginning to see Crystal's in solution rehydrate with additional hydrochloric acid to dilute the solution and continue nitric boils. Inquarting seems to have save some time. Good job.
Agreed, very likely was iron! I was too concerned with possible nitric contamination. I should of recognized it immediately. I'm not sure adding HCL would have made a difference in this case. I had an ample amount in solution. Those chlorides are tough buggers!
Maybe Iron, most likely just red dirt. Red clay is red because it contains Iron. The red dirt trapped in the crevasse of the nuggets has iron in it. Maybe you should have soaked the nuggets in acid before starting the experiment, that would have eliminated the Iron from your solution.
@@LithicMetals I need to. I’ve gotta get my silver cell back up and running too. I love producing beautiful crystals. You should check out the few low quality vids on my channel. I refined a huge lot (25 kg) of silver and didn’t video it 🤦♂️
Just watched this again as I have been refining a few small nuggets recently. Western Australian gold seems to have bugger all silver and pd group metals so refining without inquartation works well with anything that tests out at over 85%Au.
Hi, I've refined quite a lot of small gold from the Pilbara region lately and so far one refine in a strong solution 3:1 of AR does the trick. I leave it on low heat and then turn off before bed and look again in the morning. I've done another trial on the remaining powder and when tested with Stannous no gold present. remember to rinse WELL. Hope this helps and no I', in Karratha.
What was the purpose of the ammonia rinse? I have never used ammonia for a rinse, nor so many multiple rinses. They seem pretty unnecessary. You can do HCL rinse and a distilled rinse and done.
Hey Brad. Thanks for watching. The ammonia rinse can actually capture traces of platinum group metals that might be lingering. Also, it seems to scrub the gold clean... and it removes nearly all traces of the HCL, which can also carry trace elements. If I only do a HCL rinse followed by a single water rinse... when I go to melt the gold... you will see visible oxides form at the surface of the gold if left exposed to air. With the rinse procedure I've adopted, I don't have to fear those trace elements... the gold stays nice and clean!
Er.. G'day. After the initial refining you ended up with 7.5 grams of impure gold shot. Then you inquarted it with silver. May I ask what ratio of silver to gold shot you used? And if I may ask another question: Why do you wash the re-refined gold with ammonia? I understand why you wash with HCL but I can't grasp the reason for doing a wash with NH3.... Unless it is used to dissolve micro traces of copper or maybe silver chloride that somehow got into the wash water??.
Just a thought, but it is possible for your nuggets to have nitrates or nitrites from the dirt they were in, and while it caused the "yellowing" of your hydrochloric acid, there wasn't enough of the nitrites or nitrates, to actually create Aqua Regia, however, was enough to cause the color change in the hydrochloric.
Lol that thought def flashed through my head right then. But I think it be unlikely. Much more likely would be the presence of iron. Thanks for watching!
the yellow color is definitely iron going into solution. I've seen HCl samples that have the exact same color due to iron contamination and that leads me to believe the HCl is dissolving iron from the nuggets/matrix material
New to your channel. Familiar with most of the methods you used. The only thing you did I didn't understand was the ammonia rinses, what does the ammonia do to clean the precipitated gold?
The ammonia is great for capturing the remaining traces of solution/impurities that might cling to the precipitated material. The only time I saw a visible change in the solution was when working with a batch of white gold. I assumed platinum group metals... it went slightly green. Plus, I noticed that my gold sponge becomes lighter and bonds better into clumps.
The heavy elements that make up the Earth, including gold, were formed in the hearts of stars. Through nuclear fusion, the elements were fused together under intense heat and pressure. But, the creation of very heavy elements such as gold requires an even more extreme event: the explosion of a supernova 💫
That's iron, witch you normally get from load gold vs alluvial gold, reason your seeing it in your acid is because you bypassed metallurgy before going to aqua Regia, the iron and other metals that are dissolved or vapored or inquarted before refining
Awesome video. Solid refining techniques. I'm guessing that was iron in solution. I was hoping to see you take a few drops of that solution and put it into a plastic spoon or spot plate. Then drop a couple Ferrous Sulfate Crystals in to see if they turned red indicating iron in solution. Lots of patience, distilled water, filter, wash & repeat. Fun stuff bro. Best wishes and keep that blus solution away from you skin...L0L
So I know there was rock and what not in your initial weight so this value I’m about to give is a little off but based on that your starting gold was right around *18.8K. But the fact that you had a bunch of silver passivation issue when trying to dissolve in aqua regia, it makes me want to say it was less because you shouldn’t have any problem dissolving gold 18K or above (as 6k or below), but it’s possible there was just more silver concentrated in those nuggets in that particular area and not dispersed uniformly throughout. I wonder if you would have just melted them first and poured it into shot if you would have had the same passivation problem or not. Based off the numbers I would suspect not but it could go either way. Btw, Love your vids. I’m going to be honest, when I do my gold sponge rinses I’ve never done an ammonia rinse and have never had a problem with purity but I’m actually going to start doing that now because it does make the sponge look so much better/cleaner.
I think you're correct. Melting the raw gold first is a big help. Lately I've been turning it into buttons deep in borax. Pluck them out and then into AR, without "many" problems. But moving forward, I'm going to inquart the buttons instead because the Ag content is often right on the edge of messing with me lol. The ammonia rinse has been a game changer for me. After every batch, everything feels so clean. Not just the gold, but my whole both. And like you said, it really brightens up the sponge. It really chases out those last traces of base metal clinging to the sponge.
I like the new intro it’s a really nice touch. 👍 And I never knew you had super human powers, how did you make the gold nuggets float when you did the Close up shot. are you secretly GOD?? (joke) :)
Thanks for saying so! It's a little intense, more energetic than I am lol. But it's fun, and goes well with the branding. Lol I often take my outdoor pics on a mirror, which is the effect you see.
I’m new to your page so forgive my ignorance. After you make these gold bars do you package and sell them? Also how did you get into making gold and silver bars? Are you a geologist? Sorry I have so many questions. If you’ve already answered these questions then just send me the link to it if possible. Thanks.
Hi Marc! Thanks for tuning in!! I love great questions. Yes, each piece ends up being shipped out... either via commission or more often, sold within a private fb group. I'm definitely not a geologist, however I am a huge fan of geology and science in general. Ive always been very interested in precious metals, primarily gold. I spent a couple years learning about refining. I later began conducting various experiments. That quickly blossomed into a passion to learn more. Eventually it became how I spent most of my time. Do what you love, they say!
Hey Rob! For the most part, I don't. I generally am refining karat scrap. If a piece is marked and feels right, I tend to trust its true. If something isn't marked, I test it with chemicals. As long as I don't make a gross miscalculation, I can adjust my methods as needed. As far as my finished gold... I used to make a big deal out of having each piece tested by a third party. But now... I trust my experience and methods, so the necessity isn't as great.
Sure! but that isnt going to stop me. I am a gold miner in Canada and I will be refining my own gold. So whether you help or not I will be doing it. Also I must mention I have a bachelors in science @@LithicMetals
That gives me more confidence! Many folks does take the hazards seriously enough. Your best source for detailed info is the goldrefiningforum.com and download a pdf of CM Hoke's book online.
Not sure if you will get this question but, why boil it in ammonia? I did look , it seems nobody asked that question. I'm thinking to remove any traces of silver chloride. Yes, No
Got all this black sand with gold on it that is coating a lot of the artifacts. The stuff is just falling off, so I’m starting to bag it up. I have no idea how to turn all that gold dust into something sellable.
I love your camera work and thorough explanations. I would suggest when working under the fume hood, replacing the audio in post with a voice over and adding royalty free music when you cut all audio. Keep up the great work
Where do you find a collector that would want raw nuggets? I have a amazing specimens from Oregon and idaho. I was just going to start melting some down for travel money
Thanks! They really were. But all nuggets are amazing! Do you hunt for nuggets in your area? I'd like to plan a trip in your direction one of these years!
@@LithicMetals yeah I have 20k worth of detectors. Including the best on the market. I plan to go detecting soon but health probs have stopped me so far. I've been panning many times but only found flour gold near where I live The richest Goldfields in the world are 6 hours drive away . Ill get there some day
hello i also buy gold nuggets, what is the best way and most accurate way to test them, and knowing that there is more gold than the other earthly minerals.
Hey Isaac! I'm not an expert on nuggets, but some up the things I would focus on is where they came from, the color, and accessing the visible gold. A specific gravity test may be useful as well at determining the actual gold content.
I would say, anytime you're dealing with gold that is less than 98% pure and is suspected of containing silver... it's a good idea to inquart. But say you have 22k gold, which is apx 91.7% gold... and you know for a fact the only other contaminate is copper... you can go right to AR and not have any issues.
Don't you normally melt the nuggets first and add silver to take the gold to 25% and make your shot? The do nitric boils until clear, the make aqua regia and get your gold from there? Any silver or platinum in the used nitric can be cemented out on copper in another bucket.
Inquarting the gold as you mentioned is the typical way I would refine karat scrap, but for this experiment I chose to go straight to AR. I was hoping that the minimal amount of silver in these nuggets wouldn't create havoc for me... however it did actually cause a bit of trouble, but nothing I couldn't handle 😁
Never seen ammonia wash before, what's that do? Amazing what a good search engine can do. Apparently, ammonia wash can dissolve traces of both copper and silver chloride.
I thought your videos would be good to sleep to.. calming, nothing too jarring or explosive…. Turns out it’s far too interesting and I’ve just been binging for the last 3 hours instead of sleeping 😂
It does a great job at rinsing the old solution off of the gold. Carrying away the trace elements it holds within. Basically it scrubs the gold clean better than HCL alone.
Low carat gold in just hydrochloric acid will dissolve don't need nitric with low carat gold it takes longer but it will dissolve the gold without a heavy oxidizer of the nitric acid
@@LithicMetals did you figure out what it was? I just red it in a book and heard it in conversation same as zinc powder drops 99-100% of gold out of solution, SMB drops 90-95% from what I read
So what is the yield out of these Raw Gold Nuggets x 7 totalling 13 grams? Sorry you don't mention the weight of your endproduct nugget. The point here is to get an estimate of how pure is native gold. Thanks for any data you share!
سلام استاد استاد دو اسید نیتریک وکلریدریک اکولوژیا رالطف میکنید وایا د رصد دو بار اسید نیتریک قبل از اکولوژیا همان درصد نیتریک اکولوژیاست خیلی متشکرم .
@@LithicMetals so 13.13 gave 10.23g of 24karat!! Thats pretty good yield And do the raw stones stick to a strong metal?? I know the refined gold doesnt but wondering if the raw stones do
Lol as funny as your comments are... it's probably best to not pretend to know something that you clearly don't understand. But thanks for watching the vid, and thanks for the laughs 😅
Dude this is the S**t!! I know nothing about anything so my opinion doesn't matter but I want to find gold like a prospector, tent & pick n hoe in tow. I thoroughly enjoyed the session, beers to ya! 🍻
I could watch gold refining all day absolutely amazing it boggles my mind every time i see it and the final product is always stunning god i love gold! It is the most beautiful metal!
Always enjoy your uploads. Many more are missing out and hope they find you like I did. Beautiful piece. Almost makes me want to send in some nuggets 😉
That's so great to hear Rob! Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoy my content... that's what makes it fun for me! Lol maybe someday I'll break through the algorithm, who knows! 🤣
Well done you!! Finally, a refiner who properly rinses his gold powders!
Thanks Julian 😁
Awesome Jeff , love all your pieces and videos, can’t wait for the next piece
Nice to see ya back in action!
Thanks Jaybyrd! 😁
Love your videos. awesome content. I could watch it several times and learn something .
I do believe the yellow may be iron. When beginning to see Crystal's in solution rehydrate with additional hydrochloric acid to dilute the solution and continue nitric boils. Inquarting seems to have save some time. Good job.
Agreed, very likely was iron! I was too concerned with possible nitric contamination. I should of recognized it immediately. I'm not sure adding HCL would have made a difference in this case. I had an ample amount in solution. Those chlorides are tough buggers!
Maybe Iron, most likely just red dirt. Red clay is red because it contains Iron. The red dirt trapped in the crevasse of the nuggets has iron in it. Maybe you should have soaked the nuggets in acid before starting the experiment, that would have eliminated the Iron from your solution.
Can you also get the other materials out? Maybe you collect it and if you have it in a bigger amount I don't know several liters
Old timers would say gold rides an iron horse. HCL acid and iron will give you that yellow color.
Silver can also cause this in hydrochloric acid because the acid is strong enough to start to slightly dissolve it and give off the yellow color
Yes, that's the color of iron chloride.
6:30 That yellow tinge is probably iron dissolving in the HCl.
17:30 I don't know if you noticed, but your nugget count went from 8 to 7.
Rob finds treasure sent me!!!!!!! Awesomeness content keep it up
Thanks for checking out my channel, I certainly appreciate it Russ!
You explain everything perfectly well and articulately! Thanks. 👏👏
Looking good my man. I’ve gotta get some of my refining uploaded. Keep up the great work brother.
Post it! Our community needs more good content!!
@@LithicMetals I need to. I’ve gotta get my silver cell back up and running too. I love producing beautiful crystals. You should check out the few low quality vids on my channel. I refined a huge lot (25 kg) of silver and didn’t video it 🤦♂️
This guy is amazing... Very careful, very thurough. A craftsman.
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Just watched this again as I have been refining a few small nuggets recently. Western Australian gold seems to have bugger all silver and pd group metals so refining without inquartation works well with anything that tests out at over 85%Au.
Julian, you don't inquart WA gold? how many times do you dissolve it in aqua regia? I'm gonna do some soon. Are you near Kal
Hi, I've refined quite a lot of small gold from the Pilbara region lately and so far one refine in a strong solution 3:1 of AR does the trick. I leave it on low heat and then turn off before bed and look again in the morning. I've done another trial on the remaining powder and when tested with Stannous no gold present. remember to rinse WELL. Hope this helps and no I', in Karratha.
much appreciated, mate. I will contact you soon. I will start my refining soon. @@julianalcorso5703
It makes one appreciate all the time, effort and skill that goes into what you do. Thank you so much for sharing. 😁🙏👍
Great video, always a blast watching you work brother. What are the white circular pads your using for hammering and stamping?
Love your videos. awesome content. Your fans from Dingfeng Precious Metals Recovery.
Use a cotton ball plug in your funnel when decanting off The gold powder to catch any gold particles.
If I have a hunk of copper is it worth dissolving the copper to see if there is any gold in it?
No, at least not monetarily. 😁
What was the purpose of the ammonia rinse? I have never used ammonia for a rinse, nor so many multiple rinses. They seem pretty unnecessary. You can do HCL rinse and a distilled rinse and done.
Hey Brad. Thanks for watching. The ammonia rinse can actually capture traces of platinum group metals that might be lingering. Also, it seems to scrub the gold clean... and it removes nearly all traces of the HCL, which can also carry trace elements. If I only do a HCL rinse followed by a single water rinse... when I go to melt the gold... you will see visible oxides form at the surface of the gold if left exposed to air. With the rinse procedure I've adopted, I don't have to fear those trace elements... the gold stays nice and clean!
@@LithicMetals I'm pretty sure those oxides are contaminates inside your melting dish.
@@scrapman502 what makes you say that?
Nice job looks great
Is that you Necro ? Sheep here lol nice chemistry lesson thanks Bud 😎👍🇺🇲💯 impressive button 🙂👍
😆 thanks for watching! 😁
Er.. G'day. After the initial refining you ended up with 7.5 grams of impure gold shot. Then you inquarted it with silver. May I ask what ratio of silver to gold shot you used? And if I may ask another question: Why do you wash the re-refined gold with ammonia? I understand why you wash with HCL but I can't grasp the reason for doing a wash with NH3.... Unless it is used to dissolve micro traces of copper or maybe silver chloride that somehow got into the wash water??.
Near pure gold is a beautiful thing, it almost glows.
Just a thought, but it is possible for your nuggets to have nitrates or nitrites from the dirt they were in, and while it caused the "yellowing" of your hydrochloric acid, there wasn't enough of the nitrites or nitrates, to actually create Aqua Regia, however, was enough to cause the color change in the hydrochloric.
Lol that thought def flashed through my head right then. But I think it be unlikely. Much more likely would be the presence of iron. Thanks for watching!
Very nice video , champ. Watched it 1.5 times over 👍
I appreciate you watching! 😁
@LithicMetals interested in converting some gold nuggets I have?
The craftsmanship is impeccable 👌 👏 🙌
Thank you 💛
Where in the world did these huge nuggets come from? Also what was the white powder that was added to make the gold drop out of solution?
the yellow color is definitely iron going into solution. I've seen HCl samples that have the exact same color due to iron contamination and that leads me to believe the HCl is dissolving iron from the nuggets/matrix material
New to your channel. Familiar with most of the methods you used. The only thing you did I didn't understand was the ammonia rinses, what does the ammonia do to clean the precipitated gold?
The ammonia is great for capturing the remaining traces of solution/impurities that might cling to the precipitated material. The only time I saw a visible change in the solution was when working with a batch of white gold. I assumed platinum group metals... it went slightly green. Plus, I noticed that my gold sponge becomes lighter and bonds better into clumps.
The heavy elements that make up the Earth, including gold, were formed in the hearts of stars. Through nuclear fusion, the elements were fused together under intense heat and pressure. But, the creation of very heavy elements such as gold requires an even more extreme event: the explosion of a supernova 💫
What bullshit.... The almighty living God created it all.
That's what he said lol don't you know the sun is God?
Wy my aqua regia ist not dissolving gold plz help meg
Crazy talk
Fantastic results. Ty.
Great video! I learned a lot!
Thanks Pete! 😁
That's iron, witch you normally get from load gold vs alluvial gold, reason your seeing it in your acid is because you bypassed metallurgy before going to aqua Regia, the iron and other metals that are dissolved or vapored or inquarted before refining
Awesome video. Solid refining techniques. I'm guessing that was iron in solution. I was hoping to see you take a few drops of that solution and put it into a plastic spoon or spot plate. Then drop a couple Ferrous Sulfate Crystals in to see if they turned red indicating iron in solution. Lots of patience, distilled water, filter, wash & repeat. Fun stuff bro. Best wishes and keep that blus solution away from you skin...L0L
So I know there was rock and what not in your initial weight so this value I’m about to give is a little off but based on that your starting gold was right around *18.8K. But the fact that you had a bunch of silver passivation issue when trying to dissolve in aqua regia, it makes me want to say it was less because you shouldn’t have any problem dissolving gold 18K or above (as 6k or below), but it’s possible there was just more silver concentrated in those nuggets in that particular area and not dispersed uniformly throughout. I wonder if you would have just melted them first and poured it into shot if you would have had the same passivation problem or not. Based off the numbers I would suspect not but it could go either way. Btw, Love your vids. I’m going to be honest, when I do my gold sponge rinses I’ve never done an ammonia rinse and have never had a problem with purity but I’m actually going to start doing that now because it does make the sponge look so much better/cleaner.
I think you're correct. Melting the raw gold first is a big help. Lately I've been turning it into buttons deep in borax. Pluck them out and then into AR, without "many" problems. But moving forward, I'm going to inquart the buttons instead because the Ag content is often right on the edge of messing with me lol.
The ammonia rinse has been a game changer for me. After every batch, everything feels so clean. Not just the gold, but my whole both. And like you said, it really brightens up the sponge. It really chases out those last traces of base metal clinging to the sponge.
I like the new intro it’s a really nice touch. 👍
And I never knew you had super human powers, how did you make the gold nuggets float when you did the Close up shot.
are you secretly GOD?? (joke) :)
Thanks for saying so! It's a little intense, more energetic than I am lol. But it's fun, and goes well with the branding. Lol I often take my outdoor pics on a mirror, which is the effect you see.
Exceptional information.
I’m new to your page so forgive my ignorance. After you make these gold bars do you package and sell them? Also how did you get into making gold and silver bars? Are you a geologist? Sorry I have so many questions. If you’ve already answered these questions then just send me the link to it if possible. Thanks.
Hi Marc! Thanks for tuning in!! I love great questions. Yes, each piece ends up being shipped out... either via commission or more often, sold within a private fb group. I'm definitely not a geologist, however I am a huge fan of geology and science in general. Ive always been very interested in precious metals, primarily gold. I spent a couple years learning about refining. I later began conducting various experiments. That quickly blossomed into a passion to learn more. Eventually it became how I spent most of my time. Do what you love, they say!
@@LithicMetals Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions.
How do you test material before and after refining? Thanks for another cool video!
Hey Rob! For the most part, I don't. I generally am refining karat scrap. If a piece is marked and feels right, I tend to trust its true. If something isn't marked, I test it with chemicals. As long as I don't make a gross miscalculation, I can adjust my methods as needed. As far as my finished gold... I used to make a big deal out of having each piece tested by a third party. But now... I trust my experience and methods, so the necessity isn't as great.
when you're hammering the button, are you putting it in between two filter papers or something else?
Yes, I use paper filters. It protects them, and I like the texture.
It looks amazing sir.
Thank you!!!
I skipped forward a bunch. What did you do with the dissolved silver?
I reprocessed it later 🙂
@@LithicMetals Ah, okay.
Nice clean work! 👍
I seriously enjoy watching your videos. What is the percentage you’re using for the acid solutions.
Is 35% enough to do this process?
I'm glad you enjoy the vids! But I don't recommend folks do these experiments at home.
Sure! but that isnt going to stop me. I am a gold miner in Canada and I will be refining my own gold. So whether you help or not I will be doing it. Also I must mention I have a bachelors in science @@LithicMetals
That gives me more confidence! Many folks does take the hazards seriously enough. Your best source for detailed info is the goldrefiningforum.com and download a pdf of CM Hoke's book online.
Not sure if you will get this question but, why boil it in ammonia? I did look , it seems nobody asked that question. I'm thinking to remove any traces of silver chloride. Yes, No
Correct, it's to really scrub out any traces of the remaining solution.
How would one go about sending you gold to refine?
Feel free to email me at lithicmetals@gmail.com 🙂
Iron is an easy guess as to what caused the HCl-aq yellow, although it could have been chlorine from tap water after you rinsed your breaker.
Got all this black sand with gold on it that is coating a lot of the artifacts. The stuff is just falling off, so I’m starting to bag it up. I have no idea how to turn all that gold dust into something sellable.
Very nice product and interesting video, thanks for sharing! Cheers
Found you off of tik tok love the content
Thanks for joining me here too Brandon! 😁
If I wanted to refine my own nuggets. Where do I find the acids needed?
If you want to learn how, start by reading CM Hoke's book.
@@LithicMetals thank you. I just got a copy of it. Do need a business license to get the products?
I love your camera work and thorough explanations. I would suggest when working under the fume hood, replacing the audio in post with a voice over and adding royalty free music when you cut all audio. Keep up the great work
All great tips! I appreciate the input!!
What percentage of raw gold is actually pure how much other metal is in with unrefined gold percentage wise?
Pure gold isn't found in nature, as far as I've ever heard of. Generally, raw gold is apx 70% - 90% Au, pending on the location of the source
@@LithicMetals yes trough research that’s what I see also
Where do you find a collector that would want raw nuggets? I have a amazing specimens from Oregon and idaho. I was just going to start melting some down for travel money
Best place would be a well established precious metals community. Like a fb group. There are several that are great.
How do you refine monster nuggets like 500kgs or a 900kgs chunk?
Honestly, I don't think anyone would. It be a collector's piece.
great video , they sure were some nice nuggets
Thanks! They really were. But all nuggets are amazing! Do you hunt for nuggets in your area? I'd like to plan a trip in your direction one of these years!
@@LithicMetals yeah I have 20k worth of detectors. Including the best on the market. I plan to go detecting soon but health probs have stopped me so far. I've been panning many times but only found flour gold near where I live
The richest Goldfields in the world are 6 hours drive away . Ill get there some day
hello i also buy gold nuggets, what is the best way and most accurate way to test them, and knowing that there is more gold than the other earthly minerals.
Hey Isaac! I'm not an expert on nuggets, but some up the things I would focus on is where they came from, the color, and accessing the visible gold. A specific gravity test may be useful as well at determining the actual gold content.
Thatwasreallyhelpful your awesome thats aloof ward work you guys have a awesome life in precious metals what a good time
Is it posible that the owner of the nuggets cleaned them with nitric
I think it was unlikely
Does gold weigh the same when its dispensed in the liquid as it does when its solid?
Yes indeed. The mass doesn't change. Whether suspended in a solution, or dropped into a liquid as a solid... the weight doesn't change. 🙂
@@LithicMetals that's amazing. And must be some heavy liquid!
@Water Melon it's very trippy to pick up a beaker that has gold in solution, your brain has troubles believing what it's seeing lol
Hey Jeff great video, what’s your refining fees
Thanks! For gold karat scrap it's 10% of the final yield. 90%+ Ag is 35%
Great vid, thanks for the effort
It's my pleasure Glyn! Thanks!
What was the materials cost vs end value of the gold? Was it worth it?
If you wanted pure gold vs nuggets... it was def cost effective. 🙂
May I inquire as to when to inquart gold for refinement and when not to. Thank you, Utah Kid.......
P.S. You kick ass.
I would say, anytime you're dealing with gold that is less than 98% pure and is suspected of containing silver... it's a good idea to inquart. But say you have 22k gold, which is apx 91.7% gold... and you know for a fact the only other contaminate is copper... you can go right to AR and not have any issues.
Don't you normally melt the nuggets first and add silver to take the gold to 25% and make your shot? The do nitric boils until clear, the make aqua regia and get your gold from there? Any silver or platinum in the used nitric can be cemented out on copper in another bucket.
Inquarting the gold as you mentioned is the typical way I would refine karat scrap, but for this experiment I chose to go straight to AR. I was hoping that the minimal amount of silver in these nuggets wouldn't create havoc for me... however it did actually cause a bit of trouble, but nothing I couldn't handle 😁
What’s the purpose of ammonia rinse?
It neutralizes the traces of acid that remain. Helping to "scrub" away the remaining trace metals still clinging on.
Never seen ammonia wash before, what's that do?
Amazing what a good search engine can do. Apparently, ammonia wash can dissolve traces of both copper and silver chloride.
It really gets it squeaky clean!
Awesome video!
Appreciate it!! 😁
Close up shots of raw nugs would be helpful
Did you see the cover image?
So, those nuggets then were an alloy called electrum. Interesting.
I thought your videos would be good to sleep to.. calming, nothing too jarring or explosive…. Turns out it’s far too interesting and I’ve just been binging for the last 3 hours instead of sleeping 😂
what does the amonia wash do for the process.
It does a great job at rinsing the old solution off of the gold. Carrying away the trace elements it holds within. Basically it scrubs the gold clean better than HCL alone.
Amazing video very very good work
Thanks Awais! I appreciate you watching!!
Low carat gold in just hydrochloric acid will dissolve don't need nitric with low carat gold it takes longer but it will dissolve the gold without a heavy oxidizer of the nitric acid
I'm not too certain of that Daniel. That definitely contradicts my experiences.
@@LithicMetals did you figure out what it was? I just red it in a book and heard it in conversation same as zinc powder drops 99-100% of gold out of solution, SMB drops 90-95% from what I read
It's small but soo pretty. 😍
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Its like watching the bob ross of gold
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nice job on the video.
Thanks! Appreciate you watching!!
Yellow fluid looks like iron chloride, likely from iron sulfides which tend to carry along.
100% agree! Good call. 😁
There’s probably iron in it which is why it turned yellow immediately
Most all natural nuggets are 18k so 75% you got like 78-79% don't know what your complaint is?
i thought in the beginning the customer wanted 2 rings out of that?
Two rings? Not sure where you got that. Unfortunately when it comes to jewelry... my skill level is set at zero lol
@@LithicMetals im sorry 😞 my mind wonders off sometimes 😹😂
9:41 maybe it’s traces of pyrite? 🤔
So what is the yield out of these Raw Gold Nuggets x 7 totalling 13 grams? Sorry you don't mention the weight of your endproduct nugget. The point here is to get an estimate of how pure is native gold. Thanks for any data you share!
V.good work bro
سلام استاد
استاد درصد دو اسید نیتریک وکلرید ریک اکولوژیا را لطف میکنید متشکرم
اللون الاصفر الذي ظهر معك في بداية الفيديو هذا صدأ الحديد يتفاعل مع HCL و يعطي اللون الاصفر
سلام استاد
استاد دو اسید نیتریک وکلریدریک اکولوژیا رالطف میکنید وایا د رصد دو بار اسید نیتریک قبل از اکولوژیا همان درصد نیتریک اکولوژیاست خیلی متشکرم .
I would love to turn some Alabama Gold nuggets into pure gold like that and have my wife a ring made.
That would be a fun project! 😀
Thanks 👍
Never mind i guess i should watch the whole video before i comment
Great video! Meticulous as always, love the process!! Thanks for sharing Jeff👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻
Dude! Thanks Derek! Glad you enjoyed it!!!
@@LithicMetals so how many grams was the final gold button??
@@FirstLast-tx3yj I believe it was 10.23g if I remember correctly
@@LithicMetals so 13.13 gave 10.23g of 24karat!!
Thats pretty good yield
And do the raw stones stick to a strong metal??
I know the refined gold doesnt but wondering if the raw stones do
My fat ass thought this was fried chicken from the thumbnail 😅 anyway good work 👍
Great... now I'm hungry 😁
hold on there buddy, you just had some brown muck now it turned into gold sponge hahaha this guy is a clown
Lol as funny as your comments are... it's probably best to not pretend to know something that you clearly don't understand. But thanks for watching the vid, and thanks for the laughs 😅
Hey I want to get an oz how much would you charge me ?
A 1oz bar would end up being just under 1k with shipping and insurance. 🙂
You should consider doing voice-over work.
I wouldn't know where to start lol
Boiling ammonia is a terrifying substance. Dear god… 😳😬
Dude this is the S**t!! I know nothing about anything so my opinion doesn't matter but I want to find gold like a prospector, tent & pick n hoe in tow. I thoroughly enjoyed the session, beers to ya! 🍻
Get out there! Give it a shot!! 😁
That could be quartz deposits dissolving.
This is the guy you want melting and making your gooddies. Lunatic in a nice way :)
Thanks mate! That made me smile!!
Killed the premium on nuggets
Yup, everyday.