That ingot was in the top 10 ingots I've watched you pour, super lovely! The nice surprise at the end with the unexpected extra gold made it all the more cooler! And the gold solution was beautiful to boot after two passes through the filter! I don't know if that would stay true if I worked as a refiner, but those videos showing a basic refining are a real treat, they genuinely put me in a good mood. Thank you, Kevin!
I never get tired of watching your videos you are such an inspiration . It seems like when I see period when you don't post I get concerned for your welfare ❤
@@sreetips, that is not believable, I am sure Mrs. Sreetips has a firm hand on the tiller. It is also that time of year to go to yard sales, for some reason I would bet she enjoys going to them... She is probably in her element at yard sales and estate sales!
wow... never ceases to surprise me that EVERY bar is never alike... looked at an earlier video of the ending to compare the bar pour rings, they never seem to appear in the same places, as if they've all got their own fingerprint of sorts, so unique. keep doing what you do sreetips, it has motivated me to start going around to any yard sales to gather up my own stash of gold scrap. heck I even wanna go panning for the gold.
Just a tip, I saw a video in which this guy poured the inquartated gold into a nugget instead of pouring it into the water to make small granules. He then flattened that nugget using those rollers which jewellers use. He flattened the nugget as thin as a paper and then cut that gold paper with scissors to give it nitric boil. He was done with the separation of pure gold in just one nitric boil because the gold was paper thin. You should also try it imo.
It is kinda hard to tell by the video , but it looks as if your flame has intermittent orange and yellow streaks . That would indicate your torch torch tip is dirty . If that is so , you may want to clean your tip or it possibly could put impurities in your gold . Love your videos .
@@elizabethphelps4392 You might be able to produce tiny globules along an edge which is indeed "melting" the gold, but a bigger chunk, no, and you wouldn't get any kind of good results pouring say an ounce into a mold. Even MAPP gas which burns 5300 F, much much hotter than propane or butane, is kind of a pain in the butt. You don't want to keep the torch on the work for 20+ minutes.
Try pouring the inquarted gold/sterling from higher up. You’re so close to the water and it’s so shallow that it’s still molten when it hits the bottom of the pan. A higher pour will give the molten metal time to “come apart” from a stream to individual drops that should stay separate from each other by the time they hit the bottom of the pan.
No, a good April Fools joke would be if he labeled this as a e-waste recovery and refining and just smelted some bars... E-waste is my fave! But I don't think Sreetips cares for it too much.
Hey Sreetips, love your videos. I was interested in what you said about holding silver because of its value against the $. I was wondering why you often sell the gold you refine? Is that to reinvest more into scrap? Is there a point you'll become content with the conversion of $ to metal assets? Thanks.
Wow! I am totally impressed! I would love to get all my gold melted down into a bar like that. Hopefully my new gold mining hobby, will someday enable me to do just that. Also, you most definitely know what you are doing. I would surely knock something over and end up like the Hulk or something! Thanks for giving me something more to learn about!
why aren't you using the waterboard you made ? I love watching your videos it feels like you finally are making the video you wanted to make all that time, I know the process by hearth at this point but every new video manages to bring more clarity to the whole process. Bravo Sreetips, much love to yall and have a great day !
Thinkin if you used a big cake pan full of water and ran a bead from one side to the other and stagger em you'd have a lot less clumping. If that makes any difference. Sweet pour.
@@sreetips yes. But is yust a number Sir. You and your wife seems pretty good shape. But i now what you means. I am 55,and feel muth older. I have a surgery for 5 years ago, who lead to constent pain, but i try to think positive, and use my detector to find stuff. But whe have Jesus🙏. Thats give peace🌹
How do you know when one of the Nitric acid reactions has stopped? I thought it would be when the brown fumes stop forming, but sometimes, like in this video, there is still a thick brown cloud of fumes in the beaker when you say that the reaction has completed and it's time to pour it off.
I think he just knows from experience and how long it's been boiling in the acid for, I like to try this but I'm in Ireland and it's very difficult to get nitric acid and just as hard to get hcl.
@@sreetips Okay, thanks. So, it IS about the fumes, then? I understand needing to speed things along. Those processes take a lot of your time and you need to keep the ball rolling.
Great video as always. I have noticed from your earlier content that you spend much more time trying to rinse off chemicals like the sodium metabisulfate, and as a result you are not needing to triple refine gold to get the same result.
If the gold is going to be sold to an individual, I refine it twice - minimum. If it’s going to the big refiner I sell to then a single refine is sufficient.
Very cool! How do you know when each nitric acid boil is complete? Looks like you still have nitric in solution when you pour off solution into silver jar.
@@sreetips I understand and respect not wanting to bother with it, but the algorithm rewards plaque videos. You might consider doing it because it might mean more subscribers and more ad revenue.
I've noticed that the melt dishes often have specks of gold stuck to the glaze from previous melts. Do you process them to recover that material once you retire the dishes?
i'll admit to a bit of trying to learn some specifics of refining processes from your and other videos. if i'm understanding things right, the nitric acid and water mix will dissolve down the silver, and then you said you add copper. is this like, a powder form of copper, or like, the kind of copper pieces you can get out of an electrical cable and just cutting it into small pieces? very curious about this sort of stuff, when i can build a proper fume hood and forge workspace i would love to experiment with this kind of stuff, even just for a bit of recovery here and there. really love precious metals for the shine and just the wonder of what you can recover from all sorts of stuff ^^ but.....safety always first. especially with these kind of reactions
I pull the silver with hot dilute nitric acid. Then the silver bearing solution is filtered and clean copper added to cement out the silver (and other precious metals).
I don't think it could be, I reckon it's junk metal, the lead if any would be way too small to see, it would just make the liquid look cloudy, but I'm not 100% sure.
Lead dissolves in acids. The sulfuric reacts with the lead to form lead sulfate that can then be filtered out completely. I add sulfuric whether I suspect lead or not.
I'd be interested to know what the production cost of that one bar is. At 2.6 troy ounce that bar is worth $5200. What is the outlay of acids, electricity, consumables and initial jewelery to get that one bar?
Not counting the scrap gold, less than a hundred bucks all in. The scrap gold we buy at yard sales, resale stores, consignment stores, and estate sales.
I leave them. No way to make fake pure silver crystal. But I’ve poured some bars in the past. I used to harvest the crystal, pour and stamp bars, and sell it all immediately. But not any more.
There is a “Goldie Locks” range from about “7 karat up to 9 karat” lower than that and the gold crumbles to a powder. Higher than that and it takes much longer in the nitric and some silver will remain causing problems when it’s dissolved in aqua regia.
I curled the end, suspended it in the graphite mold, heated with a propane torch, then poured molten silver in the cavity to cast the copper wire right into the silver.
I want to get into refining gold & silver and other precious metals from electronic scraps do you have an email or website I can visit that demonstrates the process or even a book?
I assume that maceration might be effective but may result in a measurable loss. Would it be useful to explore this or just a waste of time. I am curious if a known mass of either 10 or 14 karat scrap, hammered, crushed, rolled or macerated would liberate the base and other metals during a dilute Nitric acid boil. And if the macerated Karat scrap would fully divide / finely seperate into the Aqua Regia. If so, I'd like to observe / compare the final mass to an estimate of the original known mass base and other metals estimate.
High karat gold shields the base metals and silver that are alloyed with it. Inquarting (creating an alloy that is 1/4 gold and 3/4 base metals and silver) is the easier route. It’s simple and the least amount of work.
No, that was the first jug like that. Like everything else, quality, service and quantities are all declining while the price goes up. Probably couldn’t get a worker to run the machine that makes it. So a novice gave it a go and created a blunder. Businesses don’t even answer their phones any more. I got a bad feeling.
I think he meant the cold ice would precipitate silver chloride because it's a salt I believe, if he used tap water it would probably wouldn't be that big of a difference but I'm just guessing.
Hi Sreetips, thanks for the video! What would be the downside to skipping the initial nitric boils and jumping straight to aqua regia? The first couple passes would be pretty dirty, but it seems like overall it might save a lot of time and nitric acid, no? Thanks
Mate I need your help... i collected a total of 25kg of Goldscrap over the last months, already scrapped down, so probably 5-15g of gold... it's my first time I got around 8l of deluted acid, disolved all the gold in 5-6 attempts - there is no gold left on the Boards and CPUs. I now took one liter of that acid and put after filtration around 75g of iron sulfat in, no gold powder came out, than 20g of bisulat, no gold came out... did I do something wrong? Thanks bro
I think if I crank the voltage then the crystals will be long and shiny like the silver. But I’m not sure. I’ve seen gold crystals (search “gold” on Wikipedia) but I’m not sure how they got them to form that way.
just curious on 2 things, what would happen if you would use more silver in the inquartation than what is needed and what would happen if one of those pure silver crystals would grow enough to reach the bottom of the filter basket
