Morning S.T. Love everything you put out! I actually have your videos running, as I repeat your processes. Hugely informative! I finally got the Refactory cement lid onto the Kiln I made. Slight miscalculation. 2 bags of 94#s of Type I, Portland Cement, 4 bags of Silica Sand, 10 bags of Peralite and all the steel reinforcement? The lid is HEAVY! Titanium shoulder's do not lend themselves to moving that much weight! Getting it in place and firing up the Kiln, for the first time, was extremely gratifying. The exhaust port in the cent of the lid, looked like the exhaust of an F-18, with the afterburners lit! Now I can properly melt.... well, ANYTHING! I am having some huge fun, thanks to your incredibly generous videos! Feels like I almost have a partner, working together with me. This is an incredible activity. You have truly made these my, "GOLDEN YEARS"! Thank you again S.T.! You are a ROCK STAR! Wade
Stock pot refining is probably my favorite series of his to watch. You know there will be a mystery at some point and we get the platinum cloud form in the last few steps.
My nephew still like to watch that reaction. So you reached one kid that is now studying hard in math and science. Now I hope that this message makes your day.
This little fact helps to strengthen my faith and hope for the future generations. I hope one day your nephew will maybe start an educational/tutorial channel like this and help to spread the knowledge. Kudos to you and anyone else involved who has encouraged this youngin to use his brain to the fullest extent. 👍
I'll never get tired watching these reactions. Glad you're doing another stockpot video it's even more interesting to me to see what you recover from the waste.
Thanks for putting that pitcher out of it's misery. My OCD was going crazy the entire video seeing that thing half dead back there. LOL. Thanks again, and i can't wait for the stock pot video.
I can't wait to see how much gold you can stack in that bottle. I'd like to see the size of bar this produces, and the current value. Once again Sreetips, good job!
CONGRATS SREETIPS!!! By the time I'm done watching this video you'll probably have hit 100k subs!! The next 100k will probably take about a year or less!! I'm guessing that you'll hit a quarter million in 2021!!!! Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
Thanks again for the great vid(s), Sreetips! Your hard work is valued to your audience and I'm sure a lot of those following in your footsteps are learning a great deal. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited for another stockpot refining series. ;) -- Keep up the great work, and keep building up that reserve!
Just caught your channel I guess through gem digging. I am HOOKED❣️ You now have another subscriber😘 Love what ya do...even the mistakes 😁 It keeps it REAL😉🤣
I love your videos. The are mesmerizing. I look forward to the stock pot vids as well as any refining vids. Man... Just keep doing what you do, really.... I am loving every minute of it.
Awesome PT II. I really would like to do this but i live in Thailand and just think it would be difficult. Though people do have a lot of gold jewelry here.
Sreetips as always excellent methodical content thanks. 1 question though if the beaker wasn't hooked up to a vacuum pump could the disk filters still be used effectively? Thx
I would love it if you still refined precious metals no matter how many times I see it it's still awesome and yes finally the stock pot returns we know you don't want to do it from what happened last time but we would really like to see it i think this time it will be way better
I enjoy each of your videos , and although they are somewhat redundant , I nevertheless learn something new from every video. The redundancy is what reinforces the procedure . QUESTION: What number respirator filter do you use ? The 3M site has several referencing Various chemicals . Somewhat confusing , and too important to make a wrong choice . Thanks ,
It must be fun watching that silver dissolve especially something as large as that picture... lol.. I have a small tabletop kiln I melt down little stuff but would like experiment with chemicals but it always makes me nervous..
I watch every video to the last seconds, nice that you said that about the silver! Even when you sing, cook and the other videos I watch it all !!! :) I know I'M looking forward to the stock pot videos! Also, I'm not wanting to send you gold to refine and I hope I'm not annoying you with this question, what if you split up the karat gold that people want you to refine and PUT A MINIMUM on the weight, like 2oz. or more or something like that? I don't know, I just had that idea come to me and thought I'd share. It could do more for you income wise, 1. You have someone supplying the gold (no money out of pocket) 2. It would be something new for your channel and would get you to sub count that could easily hit a million subs! I can only imagine if someone or let's say I sent you some for discussion purposes. I would have my whole family and friends watch those vids, so you could take one sub and turn it into 20 easy and take 1 view and turn one into 30, I say 30 because I would watch it many times as well a couple of family members. The RUclips checks could more than triple with a another direction like that!! Just some thoughts that came to me! If you already thought of all that and I just wasted a minute or two of your time, I'm truly sorry!!! You're great no matter what and you'll be known for 100 years to come as THE GOLD RECOVERY MAN!!! No doubt about it!!!
"…I know there's gonna be people squawking about…" C'mon, Sr. You know you wanted to do it. 😉🖖 Thank you for taking us with you again. We always seem to be waiting on the edge of our seats to see you refine and melt pretty metals. You may be a bit monotonous now and then but you get your point across and we all come away understanding not only what but why you're doing what you're doing. A mark of a good teacher. You get ribbed sometimes about it but wear that like a medal. One question, though. What about things people would want to send you just to refine? Junk flatwear, junk karat gold, beat up platinum rings, etc. Just to help make a video?
Wish you would do a part three and show process of claiming platinum group elements. Are they processed out one at a time or are the three mixed together and then melted as so.
So how many ounces was the picture and at normal time how long did it take to get in solution? After in solution how many liters to hold the whole thing? Was pretty neat seeing it shrink down in time laps! Small pieces might be easier to find but that large one was very interesting to watch. If you find another large piece maybe do a video from start to finish just with the one to see one outcome through the whole process!
Great Vlog sreetips don't be so hard on your self mistakes happen and when you have all the juggling cams ect to do im amazed you do so well as chemistry is complicated by its self thank you love your vlogs always
I assume that you use the sterling for inquarting because it's available. Would the cemented silver be good for that if there weren't any sterling on-hand?
With regards to your forge endeavour you could use it to melt the copper you get from you're waste bucket form into bars then heat them up and flatten them out to use for cementing out silver so you don't have to buy copper sheets but i would suggest buying you're forge rather than run the risk of you're forge not being good enough for its intended purpose
He has said before he doesn't have time to muck around with copper, it would take time away from the much more profitable refining. He will just buy a big lot of it cheap and use it.
@@ic_trab well ok just thought it might be better to get use to forging with a cheaper material like copper rather than risk messing up with more precious metals imo
I got a bit confused on the silver cell. Cemented silver goes in the anode on top, the electrolyte in the stainless bowl is silver nitrate.. so, do you redissolve some of the cemented silver, or do you copper precipitate with some, and silver cell the rest?
How do you dispose of copper nitrate solution after you cement the silver? is it safe to flush down the drain? I vaguely remember you mentioning something about cementing copper with iron. is iron nitrate safe to dispose in a drain?
Could you use a water filter to clean the water, before making the ice? Would a water filter remove chlorine, etc. ? Thanks for the videos! They are relaxing.
Just out of curiosity, at what price point do you have to typically have to purchase the 14k gold at to break even with this process? It was cool to see the pitcher melt away at the end! Your videos are very interesting! I always loved Chemistry in high school and college.
I’ve never taken the time to figure it. My wife does most of the buying. She gets gold and silver for pennies. Sometimes for free. The other day she bought a group of jewelry items for $50. The group had 150g sterling silver, two grams 14k gold and a 50g 1/20 12k gold filled necklace. I can recover about 1.2g of pure gold from the gold filled necklace. So that will cover the cost of the entire group of jewelry. Which means that she got 150g sterling and the 2g 14k - FOR FREE. She does this all the time. This, and the donations that I receive, are what enable me to continue to make my refining videos.
It’s 6:30 am and she left a half hour ago looking for metal. That’s secret. That’s the key. It won’t just fall in your lap. I hate digging though people’s stuff to find trinkets. She loves doing it. We are a perfect match
What is the benefit of turning the cement silver/silver shot into silver crystal? It is mainly that an additional process (silver cell) creates a purer final product or is silver more valuable in it's crystalline form over cement/shot?
You gotta put borax liberally on that wet gold powder!! You're losing gold between wet and melting!! It may not be a lot, but it's pure gold. There isn't much of a more expensive loss out there
I would love to see an experiment where one ADDS a calculated amount of LEAD to the gold, and then pull the lead back out and weigh it again. However, I have never seen anyone filter out the lead sulfate and convert back to a base metal.
I thought you would take the silver pitcher out since you had consumed the excess nitric. the coffee pot still needed more silver since it was reacting to the copper strip. Can you use the cement silver to inquart the gold? You always seem to have a lot of that on hand.
@ sreetips at 32:30 a little speck of something falls onto your bowls rim. i don't know if it is gold or borax , but it sticks to it pretty good. can i have it?
Makes my hobby feel like work. Plus people tend to have high expectations. When the yields fall short, I have only myself to deal with. Plus Mrs sreetips keeps me flooded with material to refine. I’m so far behind right now that I couldn’t even imagine fielding calls from angry customers demanding their values.
I am still a bit confused i think. Between the 14k and 10k you had a total of 126.8g of solid material. After refinement you have 65.4g. So, 48% of the "solid karat" is other metals inquarted with the original peices of jewlery?
Question regarding the contaminants in water: Would it make much of a difference if ice cubes made with distilled water was used instead of ice made with tap water?
Wouldn't that omega have been the spot to use that "used" nitric? I was wondering why you poured it off the gold into the "used" bottle instead of using it to finish the pitcher when you did that. Seemed to me that would have been the best use. I expected that to be the first step on this one when the last video ended.
Curious as to how much money was spent to recover 500+ grams between the karat gold, acids, lab equipment, time and effort (I know it’s a hobby)..... I am a subscriber and love your videos and you have definitely reached and inspired me, but I am curious as to how much I would have to spend out of pocket in order to make a few dollars profit
Profit is made when you buy. I don’t track expenses for each batch. It’s my wife who finds the stuff that I refine. She gets it for pennies on the dollar. I made a video about a recent haul that she found for me. She paid $50 for one lot. Had 150 grams of silver, a gold tooth and a couple grams of karat gold. One chain was gold filled weighed fifty grams. The gold filled chain was worth $50. So that means she got all the other stuff for free. She does this all the time. I made the video but she made me take it down. Says it will make it more difficult for her to find good deals. She’s right.
sreetips Thank you for replying and all of your information!! I am like a kid in a candy store when I see a new video from you. So thank you for all of your efforts and hopefully I will learn the art of finding deals like Mrs sreetips!! I certainly understand why she wouldn’t want those videos up. I imagine it makes it very difficult at the next yard sale.
How do you get rid of the excess of Sodium metabisulfite ? Would you please try to dissolve gold in distilled water using chlorine gas, HCl+kmno4 as Cl2 generator. Thanks in advance wishing you a great day and best of work!
I know you may never see this, Sreetips, but I wonder how much gold you can recover from the P trap under your sink. I swear there was a flake of gold on the rim of that bowl and you rinsed it down the drain.
Alchemy at it's finest @ 4:40! If anyone can turn base metal to gold it's Sreetips. I won't be surprised when I see a video is titled "Turning lead to 99.99 pure gold" April 1st 2021 suggested date!
I usually always cement everything on copper because any other precious metals will get cemented out as well. Silver chloride conversion makes nice pure silver, but I run it through the silver cell just to be sure.
@@sreetips I am 58 years old, I've done the math on goldfield since I was 14, never knew how to do it so I sent it to a smelter three times, three times came back like one percent one and a half, and some of it was 1/5 1/10 1/20, and clean, in other words no steel or anything I can get out with tools. I even tried computers on time and cut the boards up into little pieces, and I know I get taken on that one too. It was funny now cuz I've worked for days and days and days on that. Do you know a reputable refiner, that will be honest? I watched several of your videos I'm trying to do the math, I know each batch is different, but it's still way off from what I got paid on my batches. And I'm talking about a 100 oz Plus. Thanks for the videos.
Where do you get your nitric acid? Some sites vary so much in price and then shipping is usually a killer. I don't have any local distributors I can turn to. However, I've noticed eBay has some listings for nitric. Would anyone recommend the eBay route or is it scam.
what is the name of this chemical reaction that allow silver to go out from the solution and being replaced by copper in a nitric acid solution? Is this an oxydation-reduction reaction? Ag+ being reduced by copper?
Reactivity series of metals. Any metal lower and less reactive in the series will be rendered out of solution by any other metal higher and more reactive in the series in an acidic solution. It has something to do with an exchange of electrons.
@@sreetips Oh Yes, I remember this oxidation-reduction property now! I had a chemistry engineering diploma 25 years ago and I kinda forget lots of this stuff :) Thanks a lot
The nitric will dissolve lead. The sulfuric reacts with the lead forming solid lead sulfate. It can then be filtered out of the gold solution to remove 100% of the lead from the gold. I add it whether I suspect lead or not. Hurts nothing. Provides a big benefit.
Morning S.T. Love everything you put out! I actually have your videos running, as I repeat your processes. Hugely informative!
I finally got the Refactory cement lid onto the Kiln I made.
Slight miscalculation. 2 bags of 94#s of Type I, Portland Cement, 4 bags of Silica Sand, 10 bags of Peralite and all the steel reinforcement? The lid is HEAVY!
Titanium shoulder's do not lend themselves to moving that much weight! Getting it in place and firing up the Kiln, for the first time, was extremely gratifying. The exhaust port in the cent of the lid, looked like the exhaust of an F-18, with the afterburners lit!
Now I can properly melt.... well, ANYTHING! I am having some huge fun, thanks to your incredibly generous videos! Feels like I almost have a partner, working together with me. This is an incredible activity. You have truly made these my, "GOLDEN YEARS"! Thank you again S.T.! You are a ROCK STAR!
Wade
Thanks Wade. My propane furnace scares me. It’s loud, hot and dangerous. But it will melt much larger charge of metal.
Sreetips: “I gotta do another stockpot” Me: “Yay!” :)
Stock pot refining is probably my favorite series of his to watch. You know there will be a mystery at some point and we get the platinum cloud form in the last few steps.
I just wanted to ask that question. And I am really looking forward to that series again.
But please without the problems/spilling from last time.
Looking forward to those precious moments of precious metal refining!! I hope you start the stockpot series soon!!
@@christophpoll784 I was devastated lol so much time put into the series
My nephew still like to watch that reaction. So you reached one kid that is now studying hard in math and science. Now I hope that this message makes your day.
Bravo!
This little fact helps to strengthen my faith and hope for the future generations. I hope one day your nephew will maybe start an educational/tutorial channel like this and help to spread the knowledge. Kudos to you and anyone else involved who has encouraged this youngin to use his brain to the fullest extent. 👍
I'll never get tired watching these reactions. Glad you're doing another stockpot video it's even more interesting to me to see what you recover from the waste.
Suggestion for a video: Model the protective gear you wear when refining metals. Especially discuss respirators.
Enlighten the masses.
i never tired of watching refining metals
You are Hilarious- I watch every one of your videos all the way to the end. Another stock pot video? time to bring it on, brother!!!!
Ha! thanks for throwing in the rest of the melting of the silver pitcher, that was awesome!
Thanks for putting that pitcher out of it's misery. My OCD was going crazy the entire video seeing that thing half dead back there. LOL. Thanks again, and i can't wait for the stock pot video.
I can't wait to see how much gold you can stack in that bottle. I'd like to see the size of bar this produces, and the current value. Once again Sreetips, good job!
Current value is $29,131.86
@@gregschaust4298 Thanks! Really cool!
very nice and shiny gold in a bottle. also the vase/pot dissolving was entertaining. thank you sir.
Love how every time you show the silver crystal, it just wrecks RUclips's compression algorithm!
I'm allways impresed of the look of the refined gold. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Stay safe!
Best regards from Germany.
I love your stock pot refining videos. Fun stuff !!!
Woooowwwwww the gold in the corning dish was beautiful!!!!!!!
CONGRATS SREETIPS!!!
By the time I'm done watching this video you'll probably have hit 100k subs!!
The next 100k will probably take about a year or less!!
I'm guessing that you'll hit a quarter million in 2021!!!!
Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
So dang cool. Ty for being the only one doing this! The less noble metal gives electrons to the more noble
Thanks again for the great vid(s), Sreetips! Your hard work is valued to your audience and I'm sure a lot of those following in your footsteps are learning a great deal. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited for another stockpot refining series. ;) -- Keep up the great work, and keep building up that reserve!
Just caught your channel I guess through gem digging. I am HOOKED❣️ You now have another subscriber😘 Love what ya do...even the mistakes 😁 It keeps it REAL😉🤣
Your videos are great. I really enjoy them.
Thank you
I love your videos. The are mesmerizing. I look forward to the stock pot vids as well as any refining vids. Man... Just keep doing what you do, really.... I am loving every minute of it.
I love making these videos
Watching that pitcher dissolve at the end was satisfying lol also, I like the big stock pot refining videos. As long as you don’t drop it.
Excellent video as usual Sreetips. Can’t wait for the new stock pot refining
Thanks again. Great video. I took notes finally.
Always amazing content, very informative. Plus everyone loves Gold 👍
perfect rainy afternoon entertainment. Thank you sir
17 troy ounces....impressive.
Awesome PT II. I really would like to do this but i live in Thailand and just think it would be difficult. Though people do have a lot of gold jewelry here.
Oh yeah! That was awesome.....I watched the very end, reminds me of the wicked witch of the west being melted by Dorothy 😆😆
Iiiiiiiim mellllllllllting.....aaggghhhhhhhhhh😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😉
Sreetips as always excellent methodical content thanks. 1 question though if the beaker wasn't hooked up to a vacuum pump could the disk filters still be used effectively? Thx
They have a tendency to float
I would love it if you still refined precious metals no matter how many times I see it it's still awesome and yes finally the stock pot returns we know you don't want to do it from what happened last time but we would really like to see it i think this time it will be way better
Watching the pitcher go. Over 0.5 kg of gold, wow!
I enjoy each of your videos , and although they are somewhat redundant , I nevertheless learn something new from every video.
The redundancy is what reinforces the procedure . QUESTION: What number respirator filter do you use ? The 3M site has several referencing Various chemicals . Somewhat confusing , and too important to make a wrong choice . Thanks ,
Hooyah brother, I see the hat. USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN 71 here. Go Navy!
Nuke Carrier - hooyah!
Damn near 40 grand in Canadian sitting right there, super proud and happy for you
It must be fun watching that silver dissolve especially something as large as that picture... lol..
I have a small tabletop kiln I melt down little stuff but would like experiment with chemicals but it always makes me nervous..
I watch every video to the last seconds, nice that you said that about the silver! Even when you sing, cook and the other videos I watch it all !!! :)
I know I'M looking forward to the stock pot videos!
Also, I'm not wanting to send you gold to refine and I hope I'm not annoying you with this question, what if you split up the karat gold that people want you to refine and PUT A MINIMUM on the weight, like 2oz. or more or something like that? I don't know, I just had that idea come to me and thought I'd share.
It could do more for you income wise, 1. You have someone supplying the gold (no money out of pocket) 2. It would be something new for your channel and would get you to sub count that could easily hit a million subs! I can only imagine if someone or let's say I sent you some for discussion purposes. I would have my whole family and friends watch those vids, so you could take one sub and turn it into 20 easy and take 1 view and turn one into 30, I say 30 because I would watch it many times as well a couple of family members. The RUclips checks could more than triple with a another direction like that!! Just some thoughts that came to me! If you already thought of all that and I just wasted a minute or two of your time, I'm truly sorry!!!
You're great no matter what and you'll be known for 100 years to come as THE GOLD RECOVERY MAN!!! No doubt about it!!!
nice work looks beautifull
Love the videos. Keep up the good work!
"…I know there's gonna be people squawking about…"
C'mon, Sr. You know you wanted to do it. 😉🖖
Thank you for taking us with you again. We always seem to be waiting on the edge of our seats to see you refine and melt pretty metals. You may be a bit monotonous now and then but you get your point across and we all come away understanding not only what but why you're doing what you're doing. A mark of a good teacher. You get ribbed sometimes about it but wear that like a medal.
One question, though. What about things people would want to send you just to refine? Junk flatwear, junk karat gold, beat up platinum rings, etc. Just to help make a video?
I’ve taken stuff before. But then it makes my hobby feel like a job.
@@sreetips understood.
Wish you would do a part three and show process of claiming platinum group elements. Are they processed out one at a time or are the three mixed together and then melted as so.
Really useful! Thank you very much!!!
So how many ounces was the picture and at normal time how long did it take to get in solution? After in solution how many liters to hold the whole thing? Was pretty neat seeing it shrink down in time laps! Small pieces might be easier to find but that large one was very interesting to watch. If you find another large piece maybe do a video from start to finish just with the one to see one outcome through the whole process!
Great Vlog sreetips don't be so hard on your self mistakes happen and when you have all the juggling cams ect to do im amazed you do so well as chemistry is complicated by its self thank you love your vlogs always
I assume that you use the sterling for inquarting because it's available. Would the cemented silver be good for that if there weren't any sterling on-hand?
The gold turned out beautiful. But really what got my attention was your omega.. lol
Yeah, had to look it up, about an $8k watch. Not a watch person, but it is a very nice and classy watch.
With regards to your forge endeavour you could use it to melt the copper you get from you're waste bucket form into bars then heat them up and flatten them out to use for cementing out silver so you don't have to buy copper sheets but i would suggest buying you're forge rather than run the risk of you're forge not being good enough for its intended purpose
He has said before he doesn't have time to muck around with copper, it would take time away from the much more profitable refining. He will just buy a big lot of it cheap and use it.
@@ic_trab well ok just thought it might be better to get use to forging with a cheaper material like copper rather than risk messing up with more precious metals imo
I got a bit confused on the silver cell. Cemented silver goes in the anode on top, the electrolyte in the stainless bowl is silver nitrate.. so, do you redissolve some of the cemented silver, or do you copper precipitate with some, and silver cell the rest?
Is there any reason why you always add ice before precipitation? Is it better than just wait to let it cool down, or put it in the fridge?
I look forward to the stock pot video.
That is great entertainment. Thank you.
How do you dispose of copper nitrate solution after you cement the silver? is it safe to flush down the drain? I vaguely remember you mentioning something about cementing copper with iron. is iron nitrate safe to dispose in a drain?
Could you use a water filter to clean the water, before making the ice? Would a water filter remove chlorine, etc. ?
Thanks for the videos! They are relaxing.
I’ve never used one. I’d like to get a demineralizer so I could just open the tap and get de-ionized water on tap.
Could you not make that a business expense?
Which process do you prefer for silver recovery: cementing onto copper, or via precipitation as chloride?
I never squak at your videos sreetips lol.😂
👏 Very good
Just out of curiosity, at what price point do you have to typically have to purchase the 14k gold at to break even with this process? It was cool to see the pitcher melt away at the end! Your videos are very interesting! I always loved Chemistry in high school and college.
I’ve never taken the time to figure it. My wife does most of the buying. She gets gold and silver for pennies. Sometimes for free. The other day she bought a group of jewelry items for $50. The group had 150g sterling silver, two grams 14k gold and a 50g 1/20 12k gold filled necklace. I can recover about 1.2g of pure gold from the gold filled necklace. So that will cover the cost of the entire group of jewelry. Which means that she got 150g sterling and the 2g 14k - FOR FREE. She does this all the time. This, and the donations that I receive, are what enable me to continue to make my refining videos.
@@sreetips , She sounds like a keeper! Thanks again for sharing!
It’s 6:30 am and she left a half hour ago looking for metal. That’s secret. That’s the key. It won’t just fall in your lap. I hate digging though people’s stuff to find trinkets. She loves doing it. We are a perfect match
Besides cost. What benefit does not having to denox solution have?
What is the benefit of turning the cement silver/silver shot into silver crystal? It is mainly that an additional process (silver cell) creates a purer final product or is silver more valuable in it's crystalline form over cement/shot?
The crystal is high purity
You gotta put borax liberally on that wet gold powder!! You're losing gold between wet and melting!! It may not be a lot, but it's pure gold. There isn't much of a more expensive loss out there
There are loses through the entire process.
Wait. Did you add any sulfuric to drop the lead? That bottle of gold has a lot of toy value.
I would love to see an experiment where one ADDS a calculated amount of LEAD to the gold, and then pull the lead back out and weigh it again. However, I have never seen anyone filter out the lead sulfate and convert back to a base metal.
I thought you would take the silver pitcher out since you had consumed the excess nitric. the coffee pot still needed more silver since it was reacting to the copper strip. Can you use the cement silver to inquart the gold? You always seem to have a lot of that on hand.
No cement silver for inquarting. Instead I use more sterling. Putting cement silver back in solution is not a good idea.
Cheers mate
So the full beaker of gold is gonna be your 100K subscriber GAW prize? 😜😁
@ sreetips at 32:30 a little speck of something falls onto your bowls rim. i don't know if it is gold or borax , but it sticks to it pretty good. can i have it?
As someone who is just about ready to start refining PMs, what are the considerations for why you'd rather not refine other people's PMs?
Makes my hobby feel like work. Plus people tend to have high expectations. When the yields fall short, I have only myself to deal with. Plus Mrs sreetips keeps me flooded with material to refine. I’m so far behind right now that I couldn’t even imagine fielding calls from angry customers demanding their values.
@@sreetips Gotcha. Thanks for the quick reply.
Man i bet the cat who figured out that trick was like WTF ! Amazing !
I've watched till end...
Why didn't you put the pure gold into the mold sir ? Thanks.
Because I can divide it up easier in this form
@@sreetips Thanks a lot...
Guy's you have change my life
I am still a bit confused i think.
Between the 14k and 10k you had a total of 126.8g of solid material.
After refinement you have 65.4g.
So, 48% of the "solid karat" is other metals inquarted with the original peices of jewlery?
Correct
Do you ever sell your silver? If so, I love to buy some to melt and pour into homemade bars.
Hi I didn't get a chance to see part 1 before you took it down is it going to be available? Thanks : )
Part 1 is posted available for viewing
What is a realistic amount of money to start doing this ?
nice Constellation Omega :)
Question regarding the contaminants in water: Would it make much of a difference if ice cubes made with distilled water was used instead of ice made with tap water?
Not enough to report in an assay
@@sreetips In other words, not worth the effort. Got it! 😺
Tap water contaminants measured in parts per million
CAN Pure Silver Crystals Be used For Medical Purposes? Please Reply
I don’t know. I don’t have any experience to share on that.
Wouldn't that omega have been the spot to use that "used" nitric? I was wondering why you poured it off the gold into the "used" bottle instead of using it to finish the pitcher when you did that. Seemed to me that would have been the best use. I expected that to be the first step on this one when the last video ended.
Exactly right.
Curious as to how much money was spent to recover 500+ grams between the karat gold, acids, lab equipment, time and effort (I know it’s a hobby)..... I am a subscriber and love your videos and you have definitely reached and inspired me, but I am curious as to how much I would have to spend out of pocket in order to make a few dollars profit
Profit is made when you buy. I don’t track expenses for each batch. It’s my wife who finds the stuff that I refine. She gets it for pennies on the dollar. I made a video about a recent haul that she found for me. She paid $50 for one lot. Had 150 grams of silver, a gold tooth and a couple grams of karat gold. One chain was gold filled weighed fifty grams. The gold filled chain was worth $50. So that means she got all the other stuff for free. She does this all the time. I made the video but she made me take it down. Says it will make it more difficult for her to find good deals. She’s right.
sreetips Thank you for replying and all of your information!! I am like a kid in a candy store when I see a new video from you. So thank you for all of your efforts and hopefully I will learn the art of finding deals like Mrs sreetips!! I certainly understand why she wouldn’t want those videos up. I imagine it makes it very difficult at the next yard sale.
Lol I was waiting until the end to say something but I don't have to
I wanna see some complete stock pot processing action
Would there be a difference in speed using the copper in dust form instead of the strip?
Absolutely. Dust form equals more surface area. More surface area equals faster reaction.
How do you get rid of the excess of Sodium metabisulfite ?
Would you please try to dissolve gold in distilled water using chlorine gas, HCl+kmno4 as Cl2 generator. Thanks in advance wishing you a great day and best of work!
I’ve already done this experiment.
@@sreetips do you have a video link? Thanks
Gold precipitation with chlorine gas.
Title is “Gold Bar Necklace 0002” at about 45 minute mark
@@sreetips thank you!
So cool to see the pitcher disappear
I know you may never see this, Sreetips, but I wonder how much gold you can recover from the P trap under your sink. I swear there was a flake of gold on the rim of that bowl and you rinsed it down the drain.
I’ll look one of these days
Do you have any way I can contact you? I’ve got a mound of gold I’m needing help with separating.. greatly appreciated and love your page.
Alchemy at it's finest @ 4:40! If anyone can turn base metal to gold it's Sreetips. I won't be surprised when I see a video is titled "Turning lead to 99.99 pure gold"
April 1st 2021 suggested date!
Excellent suggestion!
Was the ice distilled water?
Tap water
With those silver solutions. How do you decide whether to cement it out or to instead precipitate it out as silver chloride?
I usually always cement everything on copper because any other precious metals will get cemented out as well. Silver chloride conversion makes nice pure silver, but I run it through the silver cell just to be sure.
@@sreetips , do you do this for a living, in other words would you refine for someone?
This is my hobby. I only work on stuff that my wife and I find at local sales.
@@sreetips I am 58 years old, I've done the math on goldfield since I was 14, never knew how to do it so I sent it to a smelter three times, three times came back like one percent one and a half, and some of it was 1/5 1/10 1/20, and clean, in other words no steel or anything I can get out with tools. I even tried computers on time and cut the boards up into little pieces, and I know I get taken on that one too. It was funny now cuz I've worked for days and days and days on that. Do you know a reputable refiner, that will be honest? I watched several of your videos I'm trying to do the math, I know each batch is different, but it's still way off from what I got paid on my batches. And I'm talking about a 100 oz Plus. Thanks for the videos.
Where do you get your nitric acid? Some sites vary so much in price and then shipping is usually a killer. I don't have any local distributors I can turn to. However, I've noticed eBay has some listings for nitric. Would anyone recommend the eBay route or is it scam.
GFS chemicals - no residential deliveries. Sells to business only
what is the name of this chemical reaction that allow silver to go out from the solution and being replaced by copper in a nitric acid solution? Is this an oxydation-reduction reaction? Ag+ being reduced by copper?
But how can we be sure other ions, such as Pd2+ are not also reduced by copper and so, pollute the Ag metal with Pd?
Reactivity series of metals. Any metal lower and less reactive in the series will be rendered out of solution by any other metal higher and more reactive in the series in an acidic solution. It has something to do with an exchange of electrons.
@@sreetips Oh Yes, I remember this oxidation-reduction property now! I had a chemistry engineering diploma 25 years ago and I kinda forget lots of this stuff :) Thanks a lot
I got asked. How can you justify $1,250 an ounce for silver? Cause it was made by Sreetips.
how much pure silver crystal do you have stacked in your collection, I'd love to see what your entire silver crystal stack looks like
I don’t keep track. My silver cell runs 24/7 and I just don’t know
any raiders fans here? His voice reminds me of Jon Gruden
$29K in pure gold! Yay
lol love the end lol
Why do you stack your gold as shot instead of bars or buttons?
It’s easier to measure out small quantities if I want to sell some of it
Does the precipitated lead if any stay precipitated after adding nitric?
The nitric will dissolve lead. The sulfuric reacts with the lead forming solid lead sulfate. It can then be filtered out of the gold solution to remove 100% of the lead from the gold. I add it whether I suspect lead or not. Hurts nothing. Provides a big benefit.
65.4g at $50 per gram equals $3270. Not bad for a couple day's work.
Love it Sreetips! I am like number 666.