Thank you for having taught me enough so far that I know what inquartation is for. It seems at first counter-productive until you understand the next chemical steps.
I love watching u refine gold and silver because you r the biggest and best channel to do refining, we all learn so much from watching u because it's amazing to watch.
My favorite part is when you first start melting in the dish. That first layer of crust as it melts looks awesome and beautiful all at the same time! Thanks again for continuing your videos, Mr Sreetip!
Tell me why everytime i see you post a new video i zone out and watch it like a little kid watching cartoons. Ive got a collection of scrap gold and boxes full of silver coins/cups/flatware of all types.i hope to learn enough from your videos to figure out how yo rifine my heavy metals to its purest form...and then...well i guess start collecting and do it all over again lol
Coins are almost always better as the coin than as scrap. They will follow there metal content without refinnning, often beating it for the collector value.
Been out of the Navy since '97. Never got the oil lab experience I needed to help with exams. Been a long time since I've heard/said/logged "clear and bright"
I've been working my a$$ off and missed your production...Im sitting here with some Pistachios (Chili) and a cold beer after work, and need to say I really appreciate the new lighting arrangement you used to show how cool it looks when you precipitate your gold into solution. And really cool when you added the SMB and it looked like angel hair 😇 as you precipitated your gold out of solution. That was awesome 👌 Thank you for a great video, as always 😬
I've been really getting itno your videos lately, and nothing quite as informative on youtube for this stuff. Well done to you. I would love to see a breakdown of what it costs you to break down this scrap to pure gold and silver. Mabe, including how you got the scrap jewelery, cost of it, cost of chemicals, and what it's worth after refining. I think that is something a lot of us would find great interest in. It would definitely be a great part 2 to this video
Sounds like a lot of work. I don’t really track expenses for each batch. And when it’s done, i think it would be foolish to convert the highly valuable gold back into paper dollars that are going down. I’d guess a refining of this size would cost less than a hundred bucks. Not counting the metals.
I used to milk cows when I was a kid at my father's dairy back in Mexico, everyday when I get to the farm I would put my dad's old shirts over my school uniform to start milking cows kind of like a coveralls for kids and the one that last me the longest was green with white squares on it!! My mom being American brought here when I 16. I didn't even know what gold was back then..anyway, I grew up. And learned about gold. you are the G.O.A.T. as we call them in sports, that precipitation was absolutely the greatest thank you!!
I think..That first reaction was so great, because you cleaned everything so well. You said you went overboard with the nitric boils/cleaning. That first SMB reaction says maybe, you didn't.😁
So amazing, when you do that first aqua regia and you don’t get the “forbidden orange juice” after adding the ice, but instead just get more dilute chloroauric acid.
Oh man. Looooong day at work, needed some relaxation. Nothing better than some fresh sreetips to soothe the soul. I studied a bit of chemistry back in the day and I loved nothing more than practical time in the lab. It was always so rewarding to watch what you know in theory actually happen. I know it’s cumbersome to record and to maintain some degree of safety, but your vids really scratch that old chemistry lab itch for me! We really appreciate you sharing this. Thank you sir!
One time when you are melting the gold powder down you should stop half way. It always looks like a cool sculpture. If it remained as 1 piece I am sure it would look epic!
Great video , I’m going to keep stockpiling all gold containing components of everything I strip down until I have around 50kg then get it refined for the gold
Adding the SMB was so pretty! Allowing the Brownian motion and convection currents in the vessel mix the chemicals. Looks like something from a sci fi movie! Like golden clouds floating around. Stunning! You can use 2 filter papers at once if you think the paper might break. Can use the same size twice or use a finer one and a more coarse one, with the coarse one on top of the finer one. EG use a 40 on top and a 44 underneath. Have you ever swept the floor, the inside of your hood etc and seen what may have deposited on the surfaces etc from splashes/fumes? Maybe worth checking the filter of your hood to see what precious metals may have evaporated in gaseous form? Have you ever tried to extract gold from sand/soil/tailings from maybe a gold prospector? Could be fun!
So if the gold is .999 fine after the silver and base metals are pulled out why keep refining it if you can alrea get top dollar from the buyer ? Unless it's just for the video
I think we are about to find out how much nitric it takes to dissolve the striped shirt! I thought it was a goner for a while there. That Walmart time lapse watch is still going strong too. Not as shiny though. 😊
If you were either get a melt dish with holes under the lip or drill say four holes ( you could determine the size of the pellets of metal by altering the hole size ) you might get a finer product to add to the acid .
Wow mr Sreetips this is an awesome ✨️goldbar ....you proces of doing this is great....miss Sreetips is going to be very happy😂🎉greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱✨️👍
I agree with all the comments it never gets old. You are the master. Everything is so seamless and precise. Ive done four refines now and two of them i boiled over lol questions for you ..Is it still fun for you? What is you favorite part? How long have you been into noble metals? Without getting too personal and if you care to share what did you do before this is it full time for you? Sorry for all the questions out of the channels i follow you are the only one i am curious to know..
This was begun as my hobby. Then I posted a short video for kicks. A year later I seen my video on a search engine. Logged in to my RU-vid and the video had 92k views and 1600 subscribers. But lately, it’s become more of a chore to create new content. Someone once said that if you turn your hobby into your work, then it becomes just that, work. My favorite part is precipitation - that never gets old.
@sreetips the chore part being recording itself or just trying to come up with different ways and techniques? Because imo it's never gets old you could do the same thing over and over again. Thankyou for your replies.
Sreetips thanks for all the knowledge and entertainment that you have given us over the years. I have one question! What is the average per ounce that it costs to refine gold? Thank you so much if you can answer this and feel free to do so privately.
You're work kicks ass man! Thank you :) Re: Land of Chem, Palace of the Goldsmith site visit Ep.? This off Nile structure has seven chambers with massive door jambs, chemical staining, and vent holes at the top. Sounds more like a Palace of the Gold Refiner to me.
Septic means sevenfold, septic sludge looks like refined gold sludge, seven rings to bind them in a cycle of heavy metal extraction and refinement. Mordor was real.
The inquarted Au stuck together because it was still 1000 deg + when it hit the water. It couldn’t dump the heat of fusion fast enough because there was too much hot mass in that volume. You poured too fast. There isn’t enough cooling you could do, in that small volume, to prevent it. No harm. No foul. Fun watch. Good work
@sreetips At 35:53 I see you still have pieces of gold powder on left dish and some on the right dish. Also a bit of gold powder on the edge of melt dish. That bit will be dropped on the floor at 36:06. You are very careful with all that rinses and boils to not loose a drop of gold solution but here quite a lot of material is potentially wasted. On your melting table and gold bar jig I can see many small round droplets of pure gold and possibly silver. Maybe it is time to collect and process those tiny bits 🙂
that is worth £9254.35p in the uk today mr sreetips nice one as always good cook twice over here a question sorry if sounds stupid ok you wash the gold twice to be more pure so if you where to do it a 100 times over what would be the result oh ye gold master sorry for my ignorance ????
That first SMB round was like watching storms on Jupiter, or the most expensive coffee ever poured. But I've got to say, Sir, that time-lapse of the reduction after the second aqua regia round gave me some instant anxiety 😂 Not that you could actually damage the gold, but seeing it reduce down to tar like that made me think the video was going south from there!
I've been watching since around 2013-2014, so you could say I'm a long time fan! What part of the navy were you in? I'm currently enlisted as a nuclear machinist mate
I see you putting the small amounts of nitric to aqua regia just enough to pull all gold into solution. Then you don't have Nitric fighting the SMB smart idea
bbc tech show click just showed a new method for refining gold. it's called aurogel, a sponge made from whey (cheese making). sounds far fetched but they used it to reclaim 22c gold from ground up computer chips
Clear and bright were lube oil and fuel oil. We switched to cophos (coordinated phosphate) boiler water chemistry analysis. But now, all the steam powered ships no longer exist. They’ve all gone to gas turbines (airplane jet engines).
I love your channel sir... I wanted to ask you how did you get started in chemistry I noticed you were Navy. Thank you for your Service I'm new to the channel but you have a regular subscriber now!!
Excellent, thank you. I used to just resell all the scrap gold. Then I began to wonder what they did with it after buying the gold from me. The rest is history.
Have you noticed any of the gold on your omega watch being removed from your years of refining? Doesn’t seem likely given your example with your wedding ring but I’m just curious. You rock Sreetips!
Love your setup. Been watching for years and just decided a month ago to put it to practice myself. Just still confused over filter papers. Seems everyone has a preferred paper but can't get an answer to what is best for each situation. Was wondering what you recommend. And also any suggestions on Nitric, Hydrochloric, and sulfuric sources best bang for the buck??
Is it possible that the gold which came out of the solution at 23:50 was especially pure? Whether it is or it isn't, just a hair under $12k for the bar and the baby.
