I’m not sure what’s more impressive, your refining skills or the fact you’ve captured my entire attention for a 41.41 minute video! Either way top notch content. Thanks for sharing.
I agree...not only can i easily sit and watch him so easily, i think I am memorizing the process.. 😂. I am so intrigued, im battling with myself about taking some of my placer gold and trying it.
as carl sagan used to say, we are made of star stuff literally it seems that the entire solar system is made of the remnants of a supernova, and left alot of material that forms asteroids filled with gold, platinum and palladium between other elements, that is one of the things elon musk and bezos wants to go and grab, because is literally there, to grab it
Not that easy. We can’t even keep humans safe in our polar regions here on earth. Exploring outer space with chemical rockets is akin to exploring the ocean with a life preserver. Science has no clue what gravity is. Solve the gravity problem THEN we can go harvest the stars.
@@sreetips You strike me as a bit of polymath, perhaps. I did always wonder where the heavier elements came from, guess I never got around to figuring it out, or forgot. Thnx for the info and the vids; I've enjoyed quite a few of them lately. As I was watching, I thought it might be neat if you had a camera on the camera arrangement. It might be neat to get a few shots of you doing your thing at the fume hood with the fume hood cam. Anywho, cheers.
According to the more detailed explanation, our solar system is the result of a supernova of a star (or multiple stars) which were formed from the remnants of a prior generation of stars that had gone supernova. The elements generated in the first round of supernovae are required in order for the second generation of supernovae to synthesize gold.
People are willing to pay a premium to have it in the natural form. It's just interesting to look at and pretty cool that it comes from the earth. I don't think anybody buying this thinks they're getting $1800 worth of 24 karat gold when they buy.
@@bigidiot123 The thing is, with placer you can sell it for the full 24k gold value even though it isn't 24k (that's where the premium price comes from you mentioned) So you get your full monies worth at least for "weight in gold" even if not pure.
they all try it, a guy is better off finding a good placer mine and making a deal with the miners, they just want live value for their work, mot people see "gold value" is $1800 an ounce and they don't have a clue that's for pure .999 24k gold. and that NO GOLD comes out of the earth is 24k, highest you might see is 20k average is like 18k and it can go as low as 16k, hale maybe lower if it has a lot of quarts and iron mixed in gotta look at it, not just the top of a bag or container whatever, spread it out, most agencies have average purity for said region its extracted from, if its 18k, that's what you offer the miner, he usually takes it cuz you save him a ride into town to deal with the crooks and he he isn't purifying it if he does that, some do, some don't.. most know purifying it brings the honest dollar .. gold is already expensive enough, more than enough money in it they don't need to be jacking folks 20-60% cuz they are crooks and their plant is running lean, hale I didn't do the testing of your claim buddy, I've give you what its worth, no more .. .
You made a really fine end product, I would say it was 99.9 fine gold. Very, very clean gold, I will have to watch it again. No one else makes refining video's this clean and precise.
Watching both too... also Vo-Gus prospecting and many others... So I became a hobby goldwasher (some miligrams), preparing for refining elecronic gold scrap... Gold is just amazing... :-)
i used to watch dan hurd until he began asking people for donations, when he was doing videos where he found gemstones, gold and other things worth tens of thousands of dollars, alot of people left the channel because he is a mix of smart and fake guy, left alot of people with mixed feelings about his work, and is a shame, sometimes he can find great things in the rivers he visit
Thanks for another interesting video. I had read about Placer gold and you just confirmed what I read! If you had paid #1,303.21 for the 31.2 grams then you would have broken even. In fact, you paid 30% above the spot price for October 30. I realize this is your hobby but clearly, this seller is asking too much! Keep up the good and interesting work.
I love Placer gold!!! I have a extensive Placer nugget collection that I love to admire every day! I've been prospecting, panning, and everything gold for years. That is why I'm on this new adventure of gold refining. Thank you so much for all the knowledge! Oh, Just a little information, I just ordered online 1 liter of Nitric acid delivered to my door $32.00 no hazmat fee!
@@helives2630 Not sure why my comments aren't going through. I guess RU-vid doesn't like the instructions. From what I'm reading they are considering it spam or something. So I should stop before I get put in youtube jail. It's there though. Sorry
I bought a little electronic gold tester for under 300 bucks. It seems to do a good job of karat testing. Love that color when the solution gets so rich that it gets a little redish. Thanks for the video. Good stuff.
Its a rare RU-vid moment that I can sit down and watch a 40+ minute video in its entirety, great work, wish you would ship to the UK, I would like to own some Sreetip merchandise.
What a cool hobby you have perfected brother,, The chemistry involved to take these Elements from metal, to liquid, precipitate into a powder, and then it takes intense Fire heat to turn back into metal form is amazing. I can follow along your different processes by heart,, Great job,!
Wow, that explanation about the origin of gold is something I have never heard as far as the scientific chemistry part of it. That is awesome i'm glad I know that now.
I’m glad that I reduced the amount of silver added. Too much silver would cause the gold to crumble to a powder making separation of the silver solution from the gold difficult.
Absolutely beautiful bar!!! I believe your incremental nitric dosing is the best route. I don't care for the excess nitric problem during the precipitation attempt.
Thanks so much, Sr. I never hesitate to watch any of your videos. Never a dull moment watching chemical magic. The problem stars have with iron fusion is that it takes as much energy to contain as it produces which isn't sustainable. The "weight" of the star overcomes the "blast" of the fusion and the star collapses/implodes. It's fascinating and sometimes such things make me wonder if astrophysics was better for me than geophysics. 😁 Gold is a loving metal. It wraps its arms around the copper, etc. that is alloyed with it and won't let go. I have a reaction to wearing copper. I can have a sterling silver ring or chain on for an hour and I have green skin from it. I cannot wear sterling silver. Karat gold, even with a lot higher copper content, never does that. Not even 10k. It would be interesting to experiment with some of that 6k inquarted gold to see if the copper messes with me. BTW, I've seen 21k Alaskan gold.
Thank you for all your videos. I actually reclaimed gold from silicon wafers and you taught me the stump out trick. Thank you for that. :) I have some or should I say alot of silicon wafers that may contain RH and or PD, and PT. If you are interested in trying some samples off line I can send them. We both can make a profit. Kind Regards, Steve
Loved the explanation of where gold comes from! Great science lesson! Also everything above iron comes from supernova. So we are all made of star dust!
@@sreetips Btw, there is a new theory that there are too little heavy elements observed in the Universe compared to the number of supernovae. A new theory suggests that the heavy elements, like gold, might not be forming in supernovae but in neutron star collisions. Those are very rare.
@@bormisha I was just going to comment about this, thanks for pointing it out. In a way gold can be thought of as the byproduct of the creation of some black holes, with gravitational waves traveling the universe singing the song of gold's creation.
This is way better than “How it’s made”. That show is awesome but it should be called “How it’s assembled” more then “How it’s made”. I like seeing all the steps of a process which is what you get when watching Sreetips’ videos. I know “How it’s made” has constraints that prevent them from being able to show everything about how a product is made, but sometimes the videos they put out just miss the mark imo. Still neat though.
Great 👍 video thx for sharing, every time I watch your videos makes me wish I would have stayed in chemistry class when I was in high school way back when lol thx again always enjoy your videos
@@sreetips oh damn it is truly amazing how you do the refining that you do and I hope to someday be in a place that my wife and I could try but you have to have a place to be able to store the chemicals that you have to in a safe place or I would be trying it myself
Incredible video sreetips! I also like to follow some of the prospectors out there (Vo-Gus, Dan Hurd and PioneerPauly - I thought they were saying "plaster gold" LOL). I always thought a collaboration with those guys would be really cool, but this is a great alternative. That final bar you created is really amazing looking - prefect! It would really be interesting to see a contrast and comparison of the "cupellation method" (mbmmllc uses this) to the chemical refining approach you use.
@@sreetips Yeah, I wasn't completely sure why @mbmmllc uses it - but I think it must be more relevant to mining where your first order of business is just to remove all the base metals and stone and hope you have something left. After that he has a little measurement device that gives him a reading of the precious metal content. Maybe cupellation is the way to go when your have a very small amount of precious metal in a large amount of material? He did demonstrate using it to extract platinum from catalytic converters.
Cupel Is used by miners. I am a refiner. He gets his metal from the ground. I get the metal that I work with from above the ground in the form of scrap jewelry and such. Two different worlds but closely related because we are both after precious metals.
You're amazing. Where did you learn to do this? Mr Alchemy strikes again. I hope to try this some day with my own gold that I plan on finding in my yard.
Thank you once again Sreetips! Excellent video. Funny I also about flunked chemistry way back in high school, but have gone on to gain so much knowledge and understanding since then. School might be helpful, but nothing is more important than actually wanting to know something and applying ones self to get there. Beautifully executed processes. You clearly have become Very masterful at refining.
Very cool. I watch some shows where they sluice for placer gold and the most I've ever seen any of them do is smelt refine it. That's probably fine since they are just going to sell it to a bullion dealer
Sreetips, you nailed it with the "where does gold come from" question. This answer is good for all elements heavier than iron. Question: why didn't you just dump the material as it was into H2SO4? You would have removed lesser metal impurities and saved a lot of energy.
purely esthetically spoken this bar is the prettiest so far I've seen you pour mr Sreetips :) By the way, I was wondering whether you could try to extract any lead from your silver waste solution jar... We see you use sulfuric acid to precipitate it, but it would be interesting to see how much lead can be effectively extracted from those solutions
I cement my silver solutions on copper. Lead, being higher up in the reactivity series, won’t cement on the copper. It stays in solution and meats it’s end as metallic lead in the waste treatment bucket cementing out on iron
Seeing the first second or two when you start the initial melt and you see a few tiny flecks fly off made me wonder. You've a series on the jeweler's sweeps, are you going to ever do a Sreetips sweeps series? Also, thanks for doing that stannous check on the used nitric. You've made that comment about gold going into solution during the boil before, so it was interesting to see the results.
I sweep the table into a “sweeps container” and then add a spoon of the sweeps to cement silver as I’m melting it into granules for the silver cell. It gets trapped in the silver cell filters and I recover any gold or PGMs from from the silver cell filter slimes.
I have thought about refining some of my fines from California. Some of the hard rock gold is around 23kt and looks amazing in a button, but not the 24kt look!
I was wondering what you thought about using a tumbler and ceramic abrasive stones to remove gold from gold pins. I have approximately 6lbs to process and was wondering what you thought about it. I was hoping to limit the amount of nitric acid I had to use . Thanks and love watching your videos.
I’ve never tried that nor heard of it. But that doesn’t mean it won’t work. I’d be concerned about recovering the foils from the ceramic. Acid peroxide is a good method and uses no nitric. And a sulfuric acid stripping cell. But which ever you chose, do a small sample first, say, 200 grams as an experiment before going all in with the entire 6 pounds.
I love watching your videos. I have a question about gold inquartation with silver; can you use .999 fine silver or is sterling silver good enough and lastly if you can use either would the calculation of how much to use change depending on the purity of the silver used?
Three nines silver could be used, but that’s counter productive - going the wrong way if pure metal is what we’re after. Sterling is best for me because I refine silver also and the first step in refining sterling is to dissolve it in nitric. So why not kill two birds with one stone and use the sterling for inquartation. Essentially refining both metals simultaneously. Sterling will take more nitric than pure silver because sterling has copper in it. But I’ve found that using pure copper seems to work the best for inquartation. Much less silver chloride to deal with in refining the gold.
Thank you for your amazing videos. Looks like financially doesnt make much sense to buy this type of gold for refining. Today's spot price was 59 and change per gram so definitely losing money on this refining. Do you find that buying gold at yard/estate sales is the only way to make refining profitable?
Hold on, I didn’t lose money. I traded failing paper dollars for highly valuable GOLD. It would be a loss only if I sold it at today’s artificially suppressed price. None of the numbers that are being issued are correct - everything is out of wack. I’m not selling, I’m buying!
