I'm not sure if this video is related to the comment I made 2 weeks ago about using pure silver instead of sterling, but in any case thank you for taking the time to educate us once again. First, this inquarted gold looked stunning. Pretiest shots on this channel i saw so far. I understand better why you prefer sterling even if it looked a bit less dirty after only one refining. Yes it's cleaner, but by using sterling you can do a double refining (gold + silver) and it's also easier to see when the nitric boils are over. The good thing is that you can recycle the silver indefintly if for some reason you run out of sterling. Crazy pretty ingot at the end as well. Also remember you left some crumble at the first filtration. That missing gram is probably there. Well done!
Hey man, as a subscriber on this channel I usually never comment. But I always hit like. But tonight I have to say, that's the nicest bar I've seen you melt on this channel ever. Very nice. Thanks for posting.🖒
as you was poring that molting gold into the mold i thought wow i think that was the best por i have seen you do it came perfect! i really enjoy watching you do this, and i really have learned a lot as well.
Nothing changed just need to refresh the page. Only thing that changed is people started using the algorithm instead of being preyed on by the algorithm
Might be your best bar to date. That was the smoothest I've ever seen you pour and I've watched you for years. Outstanding content, brother. God bless.
Oh my, what an insanely beautiful bar! The gold froze with such a pleasing pattern and even the underside looked good. I wouldn't be able to part with this one, I'd be tempted to make it my pocket piece. I'm an advocate for cast bars, but if all poured bars looked like this, I might just change my mind. Congrats on a seriously beautiful pour!
I love the timelapses, that first melt using the pure silver crystals was absolutely stunning. A really beautiful gold bar at the finish. I'd find it hard to part with that one, it's just so pretty. 👍❤️
Sreetips! Thank you. We appreciate your hard work! You have inspired me to try this for myself. The thought of having a hobby that pays for itself is very appealing. The chemistry part is easy, as well as the acquisition of scrap to refine, but I would love to see a complete soup to nuts series on waste treatment. I have a strict rule on the farm here where I live and run my heavy equipment repair business. We don't allow anything toxic to go down the drain or hit the ground out here where we also garden and raise chickens. My grandkids drink from our deep well and eat the food we produce and we are sticklers about waste management.
Review his video library. He’s done a waste treatment video. His waste streams are iron sludges and various salts (chloride, sulfate, nitrate). By keeping things like lead and mercury out of his process, the iron sludges can be sent to the dump and the salt solutions can go to the city sewer, especially at these low volumes. He generates a pure copper mud that is probably scrappable. To my mind, obtaining the raw materials is the only thing from keeping me from jumping into this on a hobby scale.
I've seen most of your videos. this is the best one showing all the steps in order without in depth analysis of all the whys and calculations. they are important but it's nice just to see an overview of the steps. nice.
I was watching your workshop tour from 2015 when this vid popped up. I can’t remember seeing an update, but it would be cool to see all the additions now.
This looks like something you did just for me!!! Based on what I see here, as long as you are not going really high-carat gold, you don't lose your color indicator.
Love all of your videos! I always thought it would be neat to see a stir plate/hotplate with a built in scale just to see the weight change throughout the process. So cool you added the silver cell crystals! Nice bar!
Thank you so much for trying your silver cell output to inquart the gold. I asked you a few videos ago why you don't do this, and understanding it causes double work for that silver content, seems perhaps like it has a place. Very nice result!
I'm glad to see you use the crystal, I've often wondered why now you say because of the color and I get that. However it looked to me that the incourtation process worked out better, judging from the color of the shot.
It made some very clean looking inquarted gold. That’s because there’s less copper. The main problem, as stated in the video, once it’s dissolved out with nitric, it must be cemented and run back through the silver cell. Using pure silver to inquart gold is like taking a step backwards.
@sreetips yes it is like taking a step backwards, and that's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is you don't have to buy any more sterling silver. And this might be dumb but you could use the silver shot to.
I’m buying all the sterling I can get my hands on. It’s grossly undervalued. I have a hundred pounds of cement silver waiting to run through the silver cells. I want a thousand!
When i asked you earlier in the year you said it was a step backwards. Being as it is all i have i am very excited that you chose to make a video doing this. Thank you very much.
Well, it's a bit of a shame to waste nitric acid to put the same silver into solution twice and to have to clean it in the silver cell twice. If you don't have any junk silver cutlery to use for inquartation, I'd take it as my motivator to find some for cheap and increase the size of my silver stack in the process.
@@sreetips I hope that it was clear that I was replying to @shieldwolffalcontrainer9040, because you're the last person I'd worry about not having cheap junk silver cutlery on hand at all times to inquart some gold. ;) Videos where you try something new as an experiment so that we can all learn something new together are some of my favorites. I spoke about cheap nitric acid the other day, I still hope that we'll see you refine some gold with cheap weak 40%-53% nitric acid someday to see if it creates issues or if it can be economical to do so.
the little creases in the sides and bottom of the ingots always makes them look like they could be a wrapped chocolate bar, also the sponge looked like some kind of baking mix, like a mixture of cocoa powder cinnamon and brown sugar or something
look like red dirt but it wasn't turn in to 83.5g $5,000+ bar just wow happy to see you fix the burn out also makes me wonder if red dirt has more gold deposits
I often wondered why you were using scrap sterling to inquart when you have such an abundance of pure silver to work with. :) Results turned out fabulously :)
His pure Ag is a production goal. Just the same as his pure Au production. It defeats the purpose of the whole operation to return you won and refined products back to the headworks.
I’ve been meaning to suggest / comment a similar video request: Would you consider making pure 6K and pouring into bars or shot and selling on your store? That would be from pure silver crystal & pure gold, 3:1, which would avoid all the impurities, but yet give that iridescent looking 6K product? I just suggest because it would allow you to split up one Ozt of gold into like 4 pieces that you could sell, possibly increasing the amount of people who can buy a Sreetips unique creation, and maybe increasing your own profits? Anyways, great vid as usual, thanks!
Got it. Sellers use the undervalued spot gold and silver to determine their ask price. Buyers do too. And that’s why selling metals is a bad idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thank you for this experiment. How about another one? After precipitating the gold, you boiled it in hydrochloric acid. What would happen if you used dilute nitric acid instead? When the gold is in the form of a fine powder, nitric acid is more likely to remove residual unwanted metals than when the gold is in the form of granules. Maybe next time, after the first refining, rinse the gold thoroughly and boil it in dilute nitric acid, and after the second refining, boil it in hydrochloric acid. This should remove a broad spectrum of contaminants. Use sterling silver for inquartation to prove this idea. You can store the used nitric acid for further processes.
Thank you for sharing your methods with all of us. They are enjoyable and educational to watch. I do have a question though, where do you source your glassware/supplies from?
Hello Sreetips - if it isn't difficult for you - could you in future also provide viewers a quick tutorial/graphic on the chemical transformations? I am particularly interested in the SMB transformations (or So2) and where the catalysts actually end up. TY!
It's funny because the other day I was watching some other dude on RUclips doing the same process (basically) and it seemed so sloppy. Lol. I was like "no, dude!" It's a testament to how clean and precise you work that I ( who literally know squat) was judging the crap out of his effort. Ha ha. By the way, that was the cleanest bar yet.
I could tell when you melted that gold it was super high purity. There was absolutely nothing floating on it. I wouldn't be surprised if that were to test out at four 9s. It may be a pain to re-refine the silver, but I think reducing the amount of base metals in the alloy makes for a better final result as far as the gold goes.
I can get it just as pure using sterling silver. Pure copper actually seems to work better than silver. But I refine silver. The first step in refining silver is to dissolve it in nitric acid. So for me it makes more sense to use sterling silver for inquartation.
that was probably your best bar ever aint nobody going to complain of fisheyes and all that other crap they had going before! imo that shouldnt even get stamped it should be cased like hockey/baseball/magic cards to see how far your pouring skill have gone/become. dont know how to use the last word right not a native speaker but i hope you understand. Keep up this excelent work. Best regards from sweden
Hello sreetips! Thank you for the calming videos! You help me tremendously! Did you forget the sulphoric acid for lead in this video? Edit: See, I was too fast with the keyboard! :D Have a wonderful day!^^ 2nd Edit: I think the timer clock is an excellent addition!
I sometimes miss seeing a large inquarted puck being nitric acid digested instead of the granulated 6K gold. I understand the reasoning behind granulating it in water but the pucks are kind of fun to see
I think most of those 0.9 g difference between the expected and realized results is in those undissolved pieces that went directly into the waste container.
Sreetips, what would happen if you cemented silver onto scrap copper that has soldered joints? (I.e. plumbers scrap) Would the lead and other minerals mess with the silver cell refining?
The solder, by itself, won’t cement any Ag out. What might/will happen is that, as the copper dissolved into the solution, you’ll wind up with Ag mud and left behind solder in the mud. You can probably pull the big hunks of solder out of the mud, but you’d be adding Pb and Sn to the mud for the stuff you don’t remove. Can you? Yes. Should you? Probably not.
I can see why you don't use pure silver for recovery I was wondering if you did could you use the waist for the silver cell but as you proceeded it became clear that no it was not. Thank you for sharing this with us six stars sir
Seen some videos of others using Copper instead of Silver. Could you do a video possibly of the advantages or disadvantages of using Copper. I really enjoy watching and I am always quite amazed at your results.
She got up at 3:30am this morning and left the house at 5:30am - she’s still hitting garage sales right now, and will be to well into the afternoon. Saturdays are prime time for her to find gold and silver. People don’t understand gold. They think that paper dollars are more valuable. You got to get up early and be there first, when they open the garage door. If you sleep late and go looking at ten o’clock, then all the gold will be long gone. I’m not into it. I like to refine. She hates refining, but loves finding good deals at sales. We are the perfect match.
Sreetips, might be the cleanest bar yet !, also look at how clean the melt dish is after pouring !, I wonder if it would be a good idea to keep the inquartation melt dishes separate from the gold pouring melt dishes ?, last question: maybe the last nitric boils could use straight nitric as there isn't much silver/copper left so might not need extra water to hold those nitrates in solution and more concentrated nitric might do a better job ?
I’ll use that melt dish for clean high purity gold only. Until it gets dirtied up. Then retire it to inquartation. Straight nitric would be like using straight liquid dish soap to wash your hands. The water increases the nitric’s efficiency.
The time-lapse stuff is just Superb ! A thing that slightly bothers me - you use a finer grade filter paper for the Second refining right ? Just that any junk that came through the first refining made it through the First filter paper's grade.
@@sreetips Well, there's no need to rely on junk remaining 'stuck' in the microscopic hole in the filter paper (it might not). You could just switch to a filter paper with a Guaranteed smaller pore size. That's why there are a ton of filter paper Grades (Pore sizes) e.g. Whatman 1,2,3,4,5 etc. Probably be quicker too.
Seems like if you're still pulling silver on the 4th and 5th boils, then those boils should be allowed to run longer before dumping and replacing the acid. Each subsequent boil leaves stronger acid at the end, no? Just don't want to see acid going to waste.
The longer it boils, the weaker the acid becomes. That why I do many small acid boils rather than fewer large-volume acid boils. Adding fresh acid, even if the previous one is still producing some red fumes, speeds the process. Plus, I keep plenty of sterling silver in the silver jar so that all available free nitric acid gets consumed.
Ppl remember you have to denox the nitric acid before using smb. Which is something you will never see done in these amazing video he does. As always great work sir🎉🎉🎉
If I add just the right amount of nitric, to just dissolve the gold, then there’s no reason to denoxx because there won’t be any excess nitric to get rid of.
They did contact me and wanted to know if I could handle their overload customers and process gold filled for them. I respectfully declined. If I’d have taken that then my beautiful hobby would become work.
Zinc, possibly, but the gold would probably crumble to a fine powder and make separation difficult. Tin is a no-go. It forms metastannic acid (tin paste) with nitric. It would be like trying to filter Elmer’s glue. Aluminum forms compounds that make the refining difficult. Sterling silver is the best candidate.
The texture, shape & color of the gold after the nitric boils has got to be the prettiest I've ever seen!!!
The look of the inquarted gold looks amazing.
I'm not sure if this video is related to the comment I made 2 weeks ago about using pure silver instead of sterling, but in any case thank you for taking the time to educate us once again.
First, this inquarted gold looked stunning. Pretiest shots on this channel i saw so far. I understand better why you prefer sterling even if it looked a bit less dirty after only one refining. Yes it's cleaner, but by using sterling you can do a double refining (gold + silver) and it's also easier to see when the nitric boils are over. The good thing is that you can recycle the silver indefintly if for some reason you run out of sterling. Crazy pretty ingot at the end as well. Also remember you left some crumble at the first filtration. That missing gram is probably there. Well done!
i did this comment also 2 years ago my question was to inquart gold with either pure silver or cemented silver from the bucket
@@panteleon1 I guess cemented silver could make some sense as well.
Using cement silver causes palladium to build up in the silver and creates problems in the silver cell.
@@sreetips Interesting so a silver cell is the only way to really clean up silver I guess. Is there such a thing as a cell for each PMG?
Pgm cell, I don’t know, but probably so. I can get three nines silver via the silver chloride conversion with lye and sugar. No silver cell required.
As soon as you poured the liquid Gold into that Ingot it had a great roundness to the top. Thats one of the best looking bars I've ever seen, Bravo 👌
Thank you
Hey man, as a subscriber on this channel I usually never comment. But I always hit like. But tonight I have to say, that's the nicest bar I've seen you melt on this channel ever. Very nice. Thanks for posting.🖒
Excellent, thank you!
as you was poring that molting gold into the mold i thought wow i think that was the best por i have seen you do it came perfect! i really enjoy watching you do this, and i really have learned a lot as well.
Watching the view count climb is kinda neat. Never seen that before.
You didn't notice RUclips just completely changed with this last update?
@@glenquagmire4340 yeah, but the view counter didn’t change. It just said “no views” when I first clicked on the video.
Thanks for saying that. That is awesome as well as the little timer.
Nothing changed just need to refresh the page.
Only thing that changed is people started using the algorithm instead of being preyed on by the algorithm
Might be your best bar to date. That was the smoothest I've ever seen you pour and I've watched you for years. Outstanding content, brother. God bless.
That 1st precipitation was really cool, how it roiled around the bottom of the solution.
Oh my, what an insanely beautiful bar! The gold froze with such a pleasing pattern and even the underside looked good. I wouldn't be able to part with this one, I'd be tempted to make it my pocket piece. I'm an advocate for cast bars, but if all poured bars looked like this, I might just change my mind. Congrats on a seriously beautiful pour!
One of your best pours. What a fine looking bar Sreetips. Nice work.
Now that is just beautiful, seeing that gold bar at the end put a big smile on all of our faces. Thanks for all you do!
What a great thing to watch while settling down for the night, thanks sir. Outstanding!
I love the timelapses, that first melt using the pure silver crystals was absolutely stunning. A really beautiful gold bar at the finish. I'd find it hard to part with that one, it's just so pretty. 👍❤️
It never gets old seeing the gold in solution... awesome video as usual. Chemistry and precious metals, 2 of my favorite things
You have outdone yourself Mr. 'tips! A joy to see as always. So zen.
That one poured out really pretty. It has the perfect muffin top and lines radiating out from pour center. Wonderful job.
Sreetips!
Thank you. We appreciate your hard work!
You have inspired me to try this for myself. The thought of having a hobby that pays for itself is very appealing.
The chemistry part is easy, as well as the acquisition of scrap to refine, but I would love to see a complete soup to nuts series on waste treatment. I have a strict rule on the farm here where I live and run my heavy equipment repair business. We don't allow anything toxic to go down the drain or hit the ground out here where we also garden and raise chickens. My grandkids drink from our deep well and eat the food we produce and we are sticklers about waste management.
Good policy
Review his video library. He’s done a waste treatment video.
His waste streams are iron sludges and various salts (chloride, sulfate, nitrate).
By keeping things like lead and mercury out of his process, the iron sludges can be sent to the dump and the salt solutions can go to the city sewer, especially at these low volumes.
He generates a pure copper mud that is probably scrappable.
To my mind, obtaining the raw materials is the only thing from keeping me from jumping into this on a hobby scale.
@@williamfoote2888
Thank you.
I will do that. I've spent many evenings learning from Sreetips videos, but have not come across those videos yet.
This video answered more questions than I even knew to ask. Thank you for being such a great teacher!
Oh my gentle Jesus! Senior Chief, watching your "alchemy" never gets old!
I've seen most of your videos. this is the best one showing all the steps in order without in depth analysis of all the whys and calculations. they are important but it's nice just to see an overview of the steps. nice.
That is the most beautiful bar that you've ever poured
That is a beautiful bar. Jealous, you’re doing what I have wanted to do for years. Thank you so much for sharing this, very good stuff.
I was watching your workshop tour from 2015 when this vid popped up. I can’t remember seeing an update, but it would be cool to see all the additions now.
Your bar pouring skills are superb. That is gorgeous! I'd have a hard time not keeping that one.....
Another awesome video!!! That time lapse of the moisture evaporating from the gold powder had me in awe. Great work buddy 👍
This looks like something you did just for me!!! Based on what I see here, as long as you are not going really high-carat gold, you don't lose your color indicator.
That's one beautiful bar. Excellent work!
Love all of your videos! I always thought it would be neat to see a stir plate/hotplate with a built in scale just to see the weight change throughout the process. So cool you added the silver cell crystals! Nice bar!
Thank you so much for trying your silver cell output to inquart the gold. I asked you a few videos ago why you don't do this, and understanding it causes double work for that silver content, seems perhaps like it has a place. Very nice result!
It looks like you could make some cool sculptures from a pile of partially melted silver crystals.
Wow! That was a perfect pour. I think one of the best I’ve seen.
Gorgeous bar sreetips!
The inquarted gold was unusually beautiful at the bottom of the cooling pot
Always nice to hear you explain the "method to the madness."
Another great show. That bar is a beauty.
CHIEF! Sir, thanks for making the video I suggested. Love learning from you. 👍🤙❤️
I'm glad to see you use the crystal, I've often wondered why now you say because of the color and I get that. However it looked to me that the incourtation process worked out better, judging from the color of the shot.
It made some very clean looking inquarted gold. That’s because there’s less copper. The main problem, as stated in the video, once it’s dissolved out with nitric, it must be cemented and run back through the silver cell. Using pure silver to inquart gold is like taking a step backwards.
@sreetips yes it is like taking a step backwards, and that's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is you don't have to buy any more sterling silver. And this might be dumb but you could use the silver shot to.
I’m buying all the sterling I can get my hands on. It’s grossly undervalued. I have a hundred pounds of cement silver waiting to run through the silver cells. I want a thousand!
Holy cow unbelievable how nice that bar is. Heck of a job sreetips
I love your videos. Wish I was younger as I would have pursued this as a hobby.
I was waiting for this episode with the silver crystal. I be wasn’t disappointed.
Fascinating. I really enjoy these videos.
Nice pour! You just keep getting better at this--bravo...
When i asked you earlier in the year you said it was a step backwards. Being as it is all i have i am very excited that you chose to make a video doing this. Thank you very much.
Well, it's a bit of a shame to waste nitric acid to put the same silver into solution twice and to have to clean it in the silver cell twice. If you don't have any junk silver cutlery to use for inquartation, I'd take it as my motivator to find some for cheap and increase the size of my silver stack in the process.
I did it for the demonstration. It’s not something I’d do regularly.
@@sreetips I hope that it was clear that I was replying to @shieldwolffalcontrainer9040, because you're the last person I'd worry about not having cheap junk silver cutlery on hand at all times to inquart some gold. ;)
Videos where you try something new as an experiment so that we can all learn something new together are some of my favorites.
I spoke about cheap nitric acid the other day, I still hope that we'll see you refine some gold with cheap weak 40%-53% nitric acid someday to see if it creates issues or if it can be economical to do so.
I use 50/50 (70% nitric)/(distilled water) for my nitric boils.
I been binging old Sreetips videos. A new one is a treat! 💪👍👍
You make the most beautiful bars of gold I have ever seen. Right on
Nice bar & great work! Thanks for sharing another one.
the little creases in the sides and bottom of the ingots always makes them look like they could be a wrapped chocolate bar, also the sponge looked like some kind of baking mix, like a mixture of cocoa powder cinnamon and brown sugar or something
Great idea to hide your stash in plain sight 😀
Thnx for keeping uploading videos. Helped me alot true hard time true the years.
look like red dirt but it wasn't turn in to 83.5g $5,000+ bar just wow happy to see you fix the burn out also makes me wonder if red dirt has more gold deposits
Perfect pour. Beautiful technique you have. True master of the craft.
you absolutely nailed the pour man !! 🎯 Epic !
It's Great that you're doing it different each time !
Great job fixing that problem 👍🏻
I often wondered why you were using scrap sterling to inquart when you have such an abundance of pure silver to work with. :) Results turned out fabulously :)
His pure Ag is a production goal. Just the same as his pure Au production.
It defeats the purpose of the whole operation to return you won and refined products back to the headworks.
I’ve been meaning to suggest / comment a similar video request: Would you consider making pure 6K and pouring into bars or shot and selling on your store?
That would be from pure silver crystal & pure gold, 3:1, which would avoid all the impurities, but yet give that iridescent looking 6K product?
I just suggest because it would allow you to split up one Ozt of gold into like 4 pieces that you could sell, possibly increasing the amount of people who can buy a Sreetips unique creation, and maybe increasing your own profits?
Anyways, great vid as usual, thanks!
Hmm, I like this idea. Not sure if Sreetips would be down for it though lol.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any gold (or silver) that I want to sell. I’m buying, not selling.
Both gold and silver are grossly and artificially undervalued. Selling either, at these prices, would be a big mistake.
@@sreetips I completely agree. I just was referring to the occasional time that you do make a piece for sale, perhaps an idea. Thanks for the reply!
Got it. Sellers use the undervalued spot gold and silver to determine their ask price. Buyers do too. And that’s why selling metals is a bad idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
I knew by the golden glow when you first started heating it that it was going to turn out Buetiful very vibrant.
My wife said the molten gold, just before the pour. looked like an egg yolk in the melt dish.
I would say this method is by far cleaner, faster and precise. Overall this was perfect.
Mr. Sreetips, I like the light you’re using, it’s makes a nice shine on the boiling water and gives some Alleluia feeling, bright idea
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Goooood evening!
Nice change up, love it!
Thank you for this experiment. How about another one?
After precipitating the gold, you boiled it in hydrochloric acid. What would happen if you used dilute nitric acid instead? When the gold is in the form of a fine powder, nitric acid is more likely to remove residual unwanted metals than when the gold is in the form of granules. Maybe next time, after the first refining, rinse the gold thoroughly and boil it in dilute nitric acid, and after the second refining, boil it in hydrochloric acid. This should remove a broad spectrum of contaminants. Use sterling silver for inquartation to prove this idea. You can store the used nitric acid for further processes.
Thank you for sharing your methods with all of us. They are enjoyable and educational to watch. I do have a question though, where do you source your glassware/supplies from?
I bought just about everything on eBay.
Hello Sreetips - if it isn't difficult for you - could you in future also provide viewers a quick tutorial/graphic on the chemical transformations? I am particularly interested in the SMB transformations (or So2) and where the catalysts actually end up. TY!
I’d like to oblige you, but I don’t know how that’s done. I don’t have any formal chemistry training.
That is one of ur best lookn bars sreetips jus gorgous!
That enquarted material was beautiful.
It's funny because the other day I was watching some other dude on RUclips doing the same process (basically) and it seemed so sloppy. Lol. I was like "no, dude!" It's a testament to how clean and precise you work that I ( who literally know squat) was judging the crap out of his effort. Ha ha. By the way, that was the cleanest bar yet.
Perfect pour! 👍🏼 Professional.
Wow!!! Looks gorgeous.
By far one of your best pours ever
I could tell when you melted that gold it was super high purity. There was absolutely nothing floating on it. I wouldn't be surprised if that were to test out at four 9s. It may be a pain to re-refine the silver, but I think reducing the amount of base metals in the alloy makes for a better final result as far as the gold goes.
I can get it just as pure using sterling silver. Pure copper actually seems to work better than silver. But I refine silver. The first step in refining silver is to dissolve it in nitric acid. So for me it makes more sense to use sterling silver for inquartation.
that was probably your best bar ever aint nobody going to complain of fisheyes and all that other crap they had going before! imo that shouldnt even get stamped it should be cased like hockey/baseball/magic cards to see how far your pouring skill have gone/become. dont know how to use the last word right not a native speaker but i hope you understand.
Keep up this excelent work. Best regards from sweden
Hello sreetips! Thank you for the calming videos! You help me tremendously!
Did you forget the sulphoric acid for lead in this video?
Edit: See, I was too fast with the keyboard! :D
Have a wonderful day!^^
2nd Edit: I think the timer clock is an excellent addition!
Some of your best work ❤
I sometimes miss seeing a large inquarted puck being nitric acid digested instead of the granulated 6K gold. I understand the reasoning behind granulating it in water but the pucks are kind of fun to see
I think most of those 0.9 g difference between the expected and realized results is in those undissolved pieces that went directly into the waste container.
That is a spectacular bar of gold mr Sreetips :) Great job and a pleasure to watch you do it... pure gold alchemy
The most satisfying sound of the process occurs when the gold bar hits the bottom of the water pot.
If we drop the molten metal in water bowl while spinning the bowl, it will give even finer chunks of metal. What do you think? Just sharing the idea.
Possibly.
Set it on a rotating carousel.
Have a couple hundred grams I wish you could process for me. I’ve been wanting a sreetips bar for years!
Unfortunately I don’t refine other peoples material. Only stuff that my wife and I find at local sales.
Sreetips, what would happen if you cemented silver onto scrap copper that has soldered joints? (I.e. plumbers scrap) Would the lead and other minerals mess with the silver cell refining?
The solder, by itself, won’t cement any Ag out.
What might/will happen is that, as the copper dissolved into the solution, you’ll wind up with Ag mud and left behind solder in the mud.
You can probably pull the big hunks of solder out of the mud, but you’d be adding Pb and Sn to the mud for the stuff you don’t remove.
Can you? Yes. Should you? Probably not.
I like efficiency and lack of fumes from peroxide rather than nitric. Im assuming its only a good idea after inquarting with pure silver crystal.
I can see why you don't use pure silver for recovery I was wondering if you did could you use the waist for the silver cell but as you proceeded it became clear that no it was not. Thank you for sharing this with us six stars sir
Excellent Work and information 👍 Thank You. God Bless 🙏
Alright, Mr. Tips. We gotta do a huge gold refining! Those are the best. Like 20 oz bar!
Hi Streetips another great video...
Best ingot yet mr tips
Seen some videos of others using Copper instead of Silver. Could you do a video possibly of the advantages or disadvantages of using Copper. I really enjoy watching and I am always quite amazed at your results.
I have a video using copper posted a few months ago. Takes a little more acid, but much less silver chloride to deal with.
@@sreetips I’ll look for it thanks must have missed that one
Love what u do learn so much fantastic..
Still amazes me Mrs. sreetips finds so much gold items at estate sales.
She got up at 3:30am this morning and left the house at 5:30am - she’s still hitting garage sales right now, and will be to well into the afternoon. Saturdays are prime time for her to find gold and silver. People don’t understand gold. They think that paper dollars are more valuable. You got to get up early and be there first, when they open the garage door. If you sleep late and go looking at ten o’clock, then all the gold will be long gone. I’m not into it. I like to refine. She hates refining, but loves finding good deals at sales. We are the perfect match.
@@sreetips thank you to both of you.
Beautiful!!!
after a hard long week waking up on saturday with a relaxing sreetips video is first thing in the morning is the best
That was a perfect 10 pour
Sreetips, might be the cleanest bar yet !, also look at how clean the melt dish is after pouring !, I wonder if it would be a good idea to keep the inquartation melt dishes separate from the gold pouring melt dishes ?, last question: maybe the last nitric boils could use straight nitric as there isn't much silver/copper left so might not need extra water to hold those nitrates in solution and more concentrated nitric might do a better job ?
I’ll use that melt dish for clean high purity gold only. Until it gets dirtied up. Then retire it to inquartation. Straight nitric would be like using straight liquid dish soap to wash your hands. The water increases the nitric’s efficiency.
That did make some real nice looken gold though with that silver crystal thats for sure almost like a white gold
The time-lapse stuff is just Superb !
A thing that slightly bothers me - you use a finer grade filter paper for the Second refining right ?
Just that any junk that came through the first refining made it through the First filter paper's grade.
Agree, that’s the one that took two passes through the same filter paper.
@@sreetips Well, there's no need to rely on junk remaining 'stuck' in the microscopic hole in the filter paper (it might not). You could just switch to a filter paper with a Guaranteed smaller pore size.
That's why there are a ton of filter paper Grades (Pore sizes) e.g. Whatman 1,2,3,4,5 etc.
Probably be quicker too.
Amazing, I am looking forward to a video for inquarting with pure copper
I did that a few months back
You might have lost the blue/liquid indicator. but the color of the gold has changed during the cooking proces.
You can do pure silver again, just add copper to the melt. Throw in some copper wiring into the inquartation.
Seems like if you're still pulling silver on the 4th and 5th boils, then those boils should be allowed to run longer before dumping and replacing the acid. Each subsequent boil leaves stronger acid at the end, no? Just don't want to see acid going to waste.
The longer it boils, the weaker the acid becomes. That why I do many small acid boils rather than fewer large-volume acid boils. Adding fresh acid, even if the previous one is still producing some red fumes, speeds the process. Plus, I keep plenty of sterling silver in the silver jar so that all available free nitric acid gets consumed.
Ppl remember you have to denox the nitric acid before using smb. Which is something you will never see done in these amazing video he does. As always great work sir🎉🎉🎉
If I add just the right amount of nitric, to just dissolve the gold, then there’s no reason to denoxx because there won’t be any excess nitric to get rid of.
Masterpiece bar there. Chunky. Maybe the refiner you deal with will ask you for a few tips on how to do a professional job 😄
They did contact me and wanted to know if I could handle their overload customers and process gold filled for them. I respectfully declined. If I’d have taken that then my beautiful hobby would become work.
I find it very interesting when Mr.Sreetips does things outside the box. I wonder if zinc, tin or aluminum could be used instead.
Zinc, possibly, but the gold would probably crumble to a fine powder and make separation difficult. Tin is a no-go. It forms metastannic acid (tin paste) with nitric. It would be like trying to filter Elmer’s glue. Aluminum forms compounds that make the refining difficult. Sterling silver is the best candidate.