I learned today because of you that copper and gold both melt around 1950° and silver Below that at 1700° I always was under the Impression golds melting point was the lowest.
🤔🥺 słyszałam że mężczyznę są platkarzami ale by aż do stopnia pisania bajek 😉 🤷 Spoko - jak chcesz kamienia z zawartością pirytu i złota to mogę oddać za symboliczną cenę bo za darmo🤔 to mój pies może plotkara zjeść 🤷 🤣
Gold (79), Silver (47) and Copper (29) are all transition metals in the same group on the Periodic table. All three metals share the same valency property of 1. (Gold also has a second valency of 3, and copper an additional valency of 2) Copper is a lighter element than silver but can be used to inquart Gold
Just beautiful as always. I also love it when you drizzle the pure gold into cold water off the wet board, those sparkling gold nuggies are just awesome.😊
Totally answered one of my biggest questions on the reasoning behind and science behind inquarting the gold and not just straight to pulling metals out as the gold sits! Awesome video again!
Always add Borax to the final smelt Sreetips to slag out any minute metal oxidations in the glaze. Then Dremel the melt dish back to base and re-borax glaze!
Absolutely fantastic refining, Mr. Sreetips! That's a superb looking gold bar! And from just 1 refining! Now we're talking! Proper execution of base metal removal and gold rinsing prior to aqua regia really are the key to high purity gold. Thank you for sharing!
Might be interesting if you start with a fresh jar of gold refining waste and track how many grams "shy" you are with each batch, then recover the gold from the waste jar and compare numbers. Did you miscalculate? Did you lose some somewhere? Or did it just get poured off into the gold refining waste jar and not make it to the melt dish.
Yeah I don't know why he doesn't attribute that to his jar, he has already said it is his "savings" jar, or I guess when refining the jewellers trimmings (Sree)"Tips" jar 🙂
@@sreetips Beware of tin. It forms stannous chloride and steals gold in the form of gold stannate. I suspect that many hobby refiners are not aware of the risk.
Your content is top notch. I have watched a lot of your videos multiple times and in all of them, you drop so much knowledge it feels like a college level chem course. Keep up the good work! Plz drop more videos on your refining setup, and how to best set one up.
Haven't watched for aaaages. So therapeutic watching you. Thanx darl for sharing your brilliance,, big kiss and huuuge hug to Mrs Sreetips.... she hunts allll the goodies for you to purify
Człowieku czego chcesz od tej pani ? Posiada wiedzę bo czyta i ma fart bo wie gdzie szukać minerały a kamienia z zawartością pirytu i złota też możesz koło różnych źródeł rzek znaleźć, powodzenia i szanuj innych bo jejzior 🤔 odpadnie 🤪panu🤣
I can only imagine the collection Mrs. Sreetips has that she doesn't hand over for purification. A little reward for every now again on a great looking piece for all the getting up early to go to wherever it she goes to find all this material.
I’ve watched quite a few of your videos like this one and it still blows me away. The way you can (in dum dum terms) boil up silver and gold and refine it to such a purity is super cool. I wish I had your talent, knowledge, and tools to do this myself. Would definitely make stacking precious metals way more fulfilling than just buying a silver round here or a gold gram there. To be able to point to it and say “I did that” would be a wonderful feeling
Liked this slick speedier video. I have to say this feels to me like it was your best pour at the end. beautifully symmetrical and shiny as anything. A very pretty ingot. Well done, and good luck out in the wild to the hunter gatherer that is Mrs. Sreetips!
Wow, that is a stunning bar of gold. You are one of the few youtubers that listens to your subscribers, and I know you are a silver refiner, Thank you so much for this video, you are one in a million well done Kevin I love your work.
Omg Mr.StreetTips, your amazing at your specialized skill! Been watching you for a number of years now. Seeing the refining progression through those years, hand been quite a pleasure!! Because back in the early days, things have 100% changed and the refinement process has gotten so much cleaner.. love the skilled work. Thank you. One day some day, I will work at your professional level? 😊😊
Although it is, as Mrs. Sreetips says, very competitive out there, the two of you are a truly scary-smart team that no doubt has the competition staring at the walls and muttering at the thought of getting out there and trying to do what you do. It's a genuine pleasure to watch and learn. This old black-shoe salutes you!
Just a beautiful job as always. I do have a comment on the copper part of this video. I noticed a steam explosion as you were pouring the inquartated metal, that yielded "sand" in your water pot. If this is not something you want, (I hate that pop) warming the water will greatly reduce that kind of event. Just mentioned it because I have made a lot of copper shot like that in the last few years. I finally found out how to avoid it. Just passing that along.
That was a beautiful gold bar... interesting you can use copper as an alloy metal... but I guess you're right it makes more sense to use silver in your case since it's a double whammy from your perspective, extracting gold AND silver at the same time, which is indeed a bit more efficient
Awesome timelapse, the copper inquarted gold sure gave an angrier looking reaction. Third pass thru the filter really did wonders. Another spectacular gold bar. 👍🏻
I've been thinking about your video from a couple day's ago with the rose bud torch. Sometimes the line pressure could be too low/ high, causing a backfire. A dirty tip or a loose torch can do the same . I was a welders helper in my teens 30 years ago. Hope my foggy memories can help
Maybe cheaply made , talk to a couple of welders when you refill your tanks. Ask them their opinion about it. Have fun and thanks for your videos are very entertaining .
Funny, I took my girlfriend to an estate sale last weekend and we followed the get there early rule that you always remind us of. As I was looking at something near the entrance of the living room, she zoomed in on the corner of the dining room, on the other side of the house, where the "gold" was. Ok so we just about cleaned them out of gold and the silver set, I have 6 nieces that would just love to have more jewelry. After getting home I put the fly making light with magnifying glass on the table and we were reading and separating out the different pieces and calculating just how much gold we got. The look on her face when I said the weights and total monetary worth between the plated, gold filed, and karat gold was price less. Most of the jewelry was in bags as costume jewelry for 5 buck. Then I started to think about what you said about a woman that can spot gold like that. Still that date ranks up there with the raspberry picking and jam making date.
Nice! It’s still out there. But as the dollar keeps declining (as reflected in the gold price) the gold will become increasingly more difficult to find.
I bought four ounces when it was $286 then sold it at $400. That didn’t make any sense. Why convert the highly valuable metal back into paper dollars. Finally I realized that gold is not an investment to be bought low and sold high. It’s a store of value that will protect and preserve my hard earned savings from being plundered by the money printers.
The biggest difference that I found is that copper takes over three times the amount of nitric acid to dissolve than silver. It’s worthwhile if you don’t have silver, but if you have silver to inquart it’s a much more efficient use of resources. The silver is recovered. Nitric is consumed.
Sreetips, you wife is awesome!!! I totally understand the secrecy but what about how does she value the items? Does she use a scale, also, is there a price she won't go over per K value? Thanks for providing the awesome content!!!! Happy Easter
Isn't science spectacular? It was amazing to see a pile of scrap gold and other metals turn to a watery liquid. The yellow liquid then turned into a powder and then right back into a solid gold ingot 🤯😎 Thank you for that excellent presentation❣️
Great video Sreetips! As long as I've watched your videos I don't recall you ever using copper. I was going to ask why in the comment but glad I waited to watch the entire video. Yeah it really does make sense if you're already a silver refiner. It would be wasteful spending.
I used an oxy/acetylene cutting hard to inquart the scrap with copper. I used a map gas torch and oxy/acetylene with a brazing tip to melt the pure gold powder.
Hello dear Mr. Sreetips, this is a wonderful looking bar. I have a suggestion regarding to the stamping. The upper side is so beautiful that it would be very unfortunate to have stamps on that side, I would stamp the bottom.
Wow! That was quick and sweet inquarting low Karat gold with copper. With your 26:21 acids and stuff getting over $5,700.00 USD ($4,900.00 USD a year ago) now in gold is great. Gold going higher is going to reward your time and efforts now.
Not to be contrarian, but gold has not gone higher. Gold doesn’t change, it’s stable. It only appears to have gone up in value. But what’s really happened is the currency that gold is priced in (US dollars) has declined by so much that it takes a lot more of it to equal a single ounce of gold. It’s the value of the currency declining that makes gold look like it’s going up in value. Gold is the same as it’s always been and doesn’t change. Once you understand this concept then you’ll be able to understand why it’s important to hold hard earned savings in gold, rather than holding savings in paper currency that can be printed “without limit” out of thin air. The currency number assigned to gold is a good measuring stick for us to see how much value the currency has actually lost.
1st thanks for being so generous with your time and knowledge. I saw in your past videos where you would use tapwater ice cubes to cool your aqua Regis solution before filtering. You then moved to distilled water ice cubes because of the chlorine. I’m just getting my feet wet and had a question about this. I have a well and a water softener that we Iron Out in . Would either of those necessitate me needing to use distilled water for my gold recovery projects? I can bypass the water filter by getting water from my outdoor spicket as well. I’m in Central Indiana and are well. water is known for a high iron content. Thanks!
This one was very interesting but I think I like inqurting with silver better but ether way the drop is awesome thank you for sharing this wonderful video with us six stars sir
hey Mr. SreeTips have you tried preheating your mold with the oxy/ast torch to see it it affects the finish of the bars it forms?.... seems like it should likely make a cleaner surface finish on the bars if the casting apparatus was at a closer temp to the metals themselves being poured into them
Have you ever considered doing the boiling immediately before pouring off the gold refining liquid? I know gold is really good at "cold welding". I wonder if a mildly hot boil would help merge the colloidal gold so it settles.
Boiling helps settle the gold. Only thing to watch out for is: if there’s the tiniest bit of residual nitric acid, at some point, suddenly and without warning, the gold will hit a certain temp and that excess nitric will instantly begin to de-dissolve the boiling gold, and it will erupt out of the beaker creating a big mess.
The point of inquaurtation is to keep the gold from being able to form base metal inclusions and protecting those inclusions from the dissolving agents. I have been using a sodium chloride brine electrolysis cell to isolate tin from plated phosphor bronze granules base metal. The result is a very fine grained mud that is very easy to wash in dilute sulphuric acid and dissolve just the tin out of the process. The remaining tin free mud is then processed in a copper sulphate electrolysis parting cell. I'm not sure how silver would react in the sodium chloride brine electrolysis, but I don't think it would passivate. Gold forms gold chloride, for just an instant before the sodium snatches the chloride ions back, same with copper and every other constituent metal in the alloy. I then use a 3 gallon beer brewing funnel as a seperatory settling tank that collects the mud in a mason jar at the bottom. This method uses no harse chemicals in reducing the metal to fine powder, and generates very little in the way of fumes, though there is some hydrogen given off. The brine is eventually converted into sodium hypochlorite, but a little H2O2 converts it back to brine, and an excess of salt crystals maintains the concentration. If another idea works out, ill be able to separate the gold from the copper without chemicals as well.
@@sreetips I'm attempting to set up an apparatus for separation of gold from copper using the differences in density and magnetic susceptibility by allowing the "muddy water" from the brine electrolysis to drift down into, and along, a slanted magnetic field. The copper should be affected much more than the gold, allowing each to collect at different locations at the bottom of the separator. At the very least this should sharply reduce the amount of refining chemicals required.
I’m not getting rich, I’m protecting and preserving the purchasing power of my savings. Gold doesn’t change. It’s the currency declining that makes gold appearing to be going higher.
@@sreetips ... Then we were lied to in government statistics that inflation over the same period was under 10 percent (time period where gold went to average up to $1800 to 1850/oz to $2208/oz a bullion coin buyer pays today). Speculators are making people holding 1 oz of gold in 2023 rich now vs inflation numbers ... Or reporting inflation is not true being under 5 percent Joe Biden says. Speculation must have alternatively kept gold subdued to today's correction (not matching 2021 to 2024 loss of wealth) or there are speculation profiting now going on where banks and individuals are buying more up because of future loss in wealth speculating. !?
Fact; a large paper futures market exists that can be used to easily and conveniently control the price, and therefore the demand, for physical gold and silver. Both metals are grossly undervalued. Here’s what I’m doing, ignore the talking heads, we tend to only pay attention to the ones who say what we want to hear. Understand that gold is NOT an investment to be bought low and sold high. Gold (and silver) are money. Their value does not change. They are constant. Currency, that can be printed out of thin air, without limit is what changes. I insist on getting paid in real money, gold and silver. My savings are in gold and silver. If I get paid in paper dollars I immediately convert them to real money; GOLD and silver. Paper dollars are for buying and selling and investing. Gold and silver are for storing wealth and saving. I’m not giving financial advice here. I’m merely explaining how I conduct my affairs,
Well..... hello again, Gunny! It's been a few minutes! I kind of dropped off the world for a bit. Chemo, Radiation and Light therapy. Knocked the wind out of my sails; but, it actually worked! Yay? The question mark is irony. During the treatment, I wasn't sure if the therapy was actually worse then the ailment. Needless to say, now that I am on the happy side of things, yes, worth it. Everything in my life got put on hold, ( I was thinking, permanently; but, God had other plans). At any rate. I'm getting my strength back and, I am back in the Lab. During the whole ordeal, my son replaced my cellphone; and, unfortunately, the contact information you gave me was lost. Possibly, if you are of a mind too, you might send me updated information, I have more questions. Again, and as always, you are an incredible teacher! I always enjoy watching your videos! They are incredible! My best to you and Mrs. SREETIPS! Wade Bert
@sreetips Thanks Buddy! Touch and go for a bit. Had me really wondering 🤔! The body's an amazing thing! So too, the new therapies! 10 years ago? I don't think I'd be here to write you! Love the copper inquartation! I don't feel so bad, melting copper. Always made my stomach churn, melting silver. This was really instructive! I've got allot of catching up to do! Thank heaven you're still doing what you do!
Just out of curiosity, why not use the pure silver crystal that you already have on hand to inquart with the karat gold, because since you already have the silver crystal there would be no additional purchases of sterling silver needed for inquartation, thus drastically increasing your profit margin with the final gold recovery… just my two cents worth…
1. Hi sreetips~ How do you configure the proportion of aqua regia? How to calculate the ratio of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid? Looking forward to your answer. Thank you.😊 2. Also, you used to use hydrochloric acid for rehydration. Why do you use ice cubes now? What is the difference between using ice cubes and using hydrochloric acid?
1. In my experience, I can dissolve an ounce of gold in 150ml hydrochloric acid and 15ml to 18ml nitric acid. Roughly ten to one, hydrochloric to nitric. The old 3:1 or 4:1 HCl/nitric is antiquated. That would be way too much nitric, wasting chemicals, and guarantees problems during precipitation. 2. The only reason I used water instead of HCl this time was because I used ice to cool the solution and dilute it. I don’t think it matters whether HCl or water is used. The main reason for dehydrating is to drive off excess nitric.
