To be honest: I always thought that miss Streetips being the source of your Gold was a cover story to hid your real sources. Haha, very amused to see she really IS a precious metal hunter.
hahah, kind of funny it's worth more as a block of gold than it is a piece of jewelry that took a lot of time to manufacture, I kind of agree jewelry is meaningless
The gold waste water container has a nice powder to liquid ratio! It's amusing how you're less careful about letting powder through with your rinses today than you were in your earliest videos from many years ago. It just shows how streamlined your whole operation has become. You know that you're getting it all back anyway, so you don't sweat the small stuff anymore. It was really nice to get to witness that evolution.
@@MikeS-wk8sw those are some of the best videos! Those and the silver cell slimes. Palladium seems to be about 75 % the price of gold, thereabouts, at least today. Watching all that palladium was like WOWWW. But hey, Rhodium has GOT to get into the mix. 500 a gram... whew
Mrs. Sreetips has an excellent eye, and combined with your absolute domain and technique, produce this authentic close to 4 nines gold bar. My respects to both of you, and I sincerely hope you keep achieving this level of success.
21:58 This low angle of the reaction was mesmerizing, especially with the lighting. Very well done, sir! And thank you to Mrs. Sreetips for sharing the thrill of the hunt! Excellent video as always.
Beautiful bar! 💜💜💜 Awesome to see Mrs Sreetips again! 💙💙💙 You’ve been working in the yard too much with those big ole calluses on your hands! 🤣 thank you for the great instruction!
I've been a Chemistry teacher for 30 years, and am impressed with your old school lab technique! Curious what the costs are on your consumables. Would wager the money is made when you (or Mrs. Sreetips) BUYS the raw material! BTW, beautiful wife you have there! She seems like a go-getter, and was first in line! Never seen such a line at an estate sale! Thanks for the content!
Your first sentence has piqued my interest! Do you have examples of some of the techniques Sreetips uses that are done differently in today's labs? Aside from a couple of things I'd to slightly differently, his procedures for refining gold seem as optimized as possible. He looks like he could do it with his eyes closed. Working in a longer fume hood that's not as deep so that there's no risk of knocking down glassware in the front while you work in the back would help. So would using a spreadsheet to calculate automatically how much silver is needed for inquartation. And lastly, I prefer using an electric kiln and melt powder or granules directly into the mold instead of using torches in a crucible and having to pour the ingots, but that's just personal preference.
@@Alsacien The old school guys know how to get good results with a basic equipment and a minimal amount of technology. Take that away from a lot of the younger generation, and they're lost. Many rely on apps/programs to do their calculations, and have lost the ability to do much of it on their own. Many younger guys don't have the innate 'feel' for the lab work. Technology CAN be good for making things more idiot proof, but it also has a way of breeding better idiots. lol The less they rely on themselves and the more they rely on technology, the less in tune they become with hands-on work.
@@n2omike Thank you for expanding on your original comment! I'm not exactly young anymore at 40, but I'm a big proponent of spreadsheets, with the caveat that people should build them themselves to demonstrate that they understand how everything is calculated. It's such a powerful tool. I'm with you on Sreetips' technique! The man operates his wash bottles with the fluidity and precision of a ballet dancer. And I haven't seen him break glassware, spill something or even have a runaway reaction in forever.
I enjoy all of your videos! I'm so fascinated by your work on recovering gold and silver . Thank you for sharing your knowledge so people like me can see and understand the ways of refining in a safe ( as possible) atmosphere. Your backup carrier should be in a podcast. You have clear and awesome voice for it ! Stay safe and keep your videos coming! Robert from Colorado.
Many thanks to Mrs. Sreetips for taking us on her journey. Does Mrs. Sreetips do anything else to help out with the process? Ordering/collecting consumables or glassware, filming or editing, maintaining the silver cells, etc. You two seem to make a great team.
No, her passion is finding a good deal at a local sale. She’s obsessed with it. But she hates refining. I have a passion for refining Precious metals. I can’t not do it. But I’m not to fond of digging through peoples stuff to find a bargain. We are the perfect match - opposites attract!
I guess a good analogy for how the inquarted gold reacts with the acid to free up the pure gold is like a chocolate chip cookie dropped into milk. The cookie (silver) dissolves in the milk (nitric acid) and the chocolate (gold) is left behind.
Nice! Did really well on scrap cost, around $500. Final gold value was approximately $1500, after subtracting out the 4.2 gram 24k button from earlier video.
If you look, you’ll see the seller hand me a bag with unidentified metal in it. It was not marked. He asked me to take it home and check it for him. I did that and it turned out to over 16 grams of 14k gold. I sent him another check for five hundred more.
@@sreetips I would love to see a video where you break down the finances. Most of that equipment looks relatively inexpensive but it all adds up and the chemicals as well. I suspect the chemicals are mostly cheap but the last time I bought muriatic acid I was shocked at the price of drain cleaner. Also, where do you sell the finished gold and do they take you to the cleaners with commissions and claims that your gold isn't pure or stuff like that.
I watch all of your videos, I sure wish I could do that because it's just so interesting, and ending up with pure gold and silver is just an added treat after carrying out the interesting steps.
When you guys go to an estate sale like that is there any bargaining involved when it comes to the prices marked or if you buy a lot they give you a break? Or are they usually firm on the marked price?
Thank you Mrs. Sreetips! It was great seeing you in action. Finding those treasures. You definitely are amazing at finding them. I hope to see more of you in the future videos. 😊
We’ve tried to sell as antique pieces. But they just sit there until the price is lowered to down around their gold content. This has been our experience.
This liquid dropper seems much sturdier than that fragile glass thing you used before. I used to hold my breath when you placed that fixture at an angle in your fume hood! Thanks for another interesting video.
I love watching your wife get right into the action. She definitely has a good eye. Well done to you both. And thankyou as always to a great show. Paddy down under 🇦🇺👍🙏
Hi Sreetips, I really like your “new” way of precipitating gold with the gas flow! It is mixing it up a bit! But is there benefit in doing it this way besides that it looks way cooler? Greetings Stephan
I haven't started this video yet, but I bet this is Mrs. Sreetips in her element! Like a kid in a candy store! Like a 40 year old female at a New Kids on The Block concert!
Fantastic Mr and Mrs Streetips love your videos and Mrs streetips is a fab gold hunter you make an exellent partnership keep up the good work 👏 best wishes from Andy 🇬🇧
When u had fun in science class but never want further because of a learning disability ( written tests ) and watch you do a lot of cool things makes me wish my teacher took a little bit more time to see my interest in chemistry and try to work with me a bit more then some others in class. Some teachers can read kids and help them a bit more hands on and some just don't have the interest in seeing someone trying to succeed at something that just don't come naturally to then and they move on .iv been watching you about 3 years now and find it fascinating to watch and learn from u Sir . Thank you for what u do .
Thanks. I had been using sulphuric acid and adding sodium nitrate and was wondering why it was taking so long and not completely. Inquartation to 25% (6k).
I'm disabled and cannot work, but I have a gift. I can spot Gold when it's mixed in with costume jewellery. Not sure how the gift works, the Gold just seems to glow somehow. So for the last 20 years I've gone out on my scooter, using buses and trains, to visit every fare, every bric-a-brac shop, every charity shop I can find. Everytime I got to 200gm of mixed purity Gold I'd put it in my deposit box at the bank. I can't get out as much as I once could, but seeing you on this channel, has given me the idea of purifying my Gold. I have a back ground in chemistry so I have the lab skills. It going to keep me busy I have alot of bags to work through. Thank you so much for the education, entertainment and inspiration you've given to everyone who views your channel.
We’ve learned to spot karat gold just by looking also. After seeing tens of thousands of pieces over the last two decades, it’s easy to spot. You don’t need to refine the karat gold. It will track right on up with the bullion. So long as you don’t try your melt it and ruin the markings. Then it’s value becomes questionable. If you do decide to refine then make sure and get a fume hood first. No way to safely do these reactions without one. I ignored this when I first started and now I have impaired lung function and blurry vision from the fumes getting in my eyes.
@sreetips oh for sure I need a fume hood + a lot of other PPE too. I think I'd like a gas monitor outside the fume hood just to be sure, NO2 is seriously toxic. I think the Germans considered it a possible chemical weapon in WW1. The HNO3, HCl, H2SO4 and high strength H2O2 are all bad actors when it comes to your health. But I think the one's that people overlook are the metal salts. Mercury, chromium and cadmium being the worst. Thank you for your advice and inspiration, I hope you both have a great day.
As a different procedure would it be possible to dissolve the carat gold in Aqua Regia as a first step. Then precipitate out the metals in the usual way. Then do the Nitric boils on the precipitate to remove the unwanted metals.
Nice one Sreetips. You guys were like circling vultures/sharks at the estate sale. Funny. But I was thinking, while you inqaurted and poured the molten metal out at 4:40, I recalled reading several times in very old metallurgy books about pouring the metal through a wet broom to make grains. I've not tried it yet. I assume the broom would have ben made of straw or wooden sticks in those days. If it makes super tiny grains, well worth trying.
As far as the nitric acid boils go I always thought of the karat gold as bricks that the acid can't penetrate to get the silver, etc. out of the gold. When you inquart gold with sterling silver (or copper) You turn that 14k gold into 5-6k gold and that solid, impenetrable brick becomes a loose, open sponge that the acid can get all the way into and do its work. The sterling becomes the "air pockets" of the "sponge" if you see what I mean. The ring got very tiny pits from what base metals were present on the surface. The nitric ate that away and took the shine off the gold. "That will buff right out." lol Mrs. Sreetips is good to us and she has fun doing it. It's nice when someone not only enjoying their hobby but at least making a little money doing it. 🙂🖖
Do you ever use Sulfamic Acid during your Aqua Regia step--to neutralize the HNO3--and to generate H2SO4 to precipitate lead and silver? I recently stumbled across several forum members who have been using that instead of the boiling step to clear their solution of excess nitric acid.
I like evaporation because nothing gets added. Adding sulfamic could introduce contaminants. Sulfamic is faster. But you got to do it while it’s hot. And adding it too quickly could boil over.
great video again, what acid did you put into your sodium metabisulphate gas bubbler. also what did it cost the boss to buy the gold at the sale? what sort of profit margin did you make 👍
Sulfuric acid. I don’t know the profit margin until I sell it. And I’m not selling my gold if I don’t have too. So for now, my profit is in gold. Plus, I converted failing paper dollars into highly valuable GOLD.
SHE BRINGS HOME THE BACON AND YOU FRY IT UP IN THE PAN. You 2 have a good thing going. I've got about 60 gm 14k 15gm 18k all scrap gold and was wondering if any companies sell a small starter kit. I would like to try doing that without having to spend a lot of money. I would be keeping the gold for retirement investment.
I guess finding gold is not much of an effort for her - one look in the mirror is all it takes :) She seems to be the engine of your success! Great teamwork!
Hey Sree! I have not commented in a while. I have been thinking about giving my testimony to congress about UAP's... however, I think you nailed a shtick with content showing your estate sale and what the outcome is with your recovery. Looking forward to your future videos! Mrs. Sreetips seems like a sweet woman. Lucky man! Take care, and I look forward to years of videos to come!
@sreetips Well shipmate, I'm not going to jerk you around. I don't know the true depth of the phenomenon and how our government morally did this to their citizens. It is 100% real.
Great video! Ive been watching your videos for years and have always wondered if a beaker with gold in solution is so much heavier than a regular beaker with water if it is jarring when you go to pick it up because of how dense it was. This happened to me on a subconscious level the first time i picked up a silver bar or gold coin so i wonder if it happens when the denser metal is in solution?
I like ur videos. U should do a video with rams chips with sulphuric acid then process the gold. I bet it would do well because its a popular topic in ewaste
Thank you for this beautiful and informative insight of how you find the raw material for your refining! In my country it's pretty hard to find some gold under spot value because nowadays pretty much every shop is acid-testing every piece they handle. But today was my lucky day, first I found 6 silver medals stamped 999 fine (185 grams in total) for 61€ ($ 67) and later on I got a 1915 Danish 20 Kroner gold coin containing 8 grams of fine gold for 31€ ($ 34). This is the first time in over 10 years of coin collecting, that I found a genuine gold coin for less than spot value. About the 999 fine silver medals - would you keep them as they are or refine them even further? (There is no numismatic value to them) Best regards!
It’s out there. Most people have been conditioned to believe that paper is more valuable than gold. They will sell you their gold, at a discount. I’d keep any minted coins that contain a known quantity of gold. And truthfully, you can keep karat gold just like it is. It value will track right on up with bullion. So long as you don’t try to “melt it down” and ruin the markings. No need to refine it. I only do it because I love it.
