14:46 It's crazy how much them fumes are destroying that watch!! Just shows how insanely dangerous these acids are, your warning at the start of the videos is VERY accurate!! 😮
Glad to see you post again, was a bit worried with all the illness going around. Kept thinking you and Mrs. Sreetips could be on a well deserved vacation. Either way, hope you both are healthy and I'm happy to enjoy another informative video.
Good to see you back. I hope you had a great vacation. After you are done adding the FeS04 to precipitate the gold, will you add SMB to the waste solution to precipitate the Pd? I doubt there is very much in there, maybe just easier to chuck it in the waste bucket for later.
A great video! Glad that you are back! You should write a book about all the techniques you have developed, since there would be a lot of people around the world who would buy it I assume.
15:48 never really payed attention to how buoyant the ice cubes are in the chloroauric acid…really shows how dense that liquid is, especially at that concentration
You actually got me inspired to try melting and refining precious metals at home - since gold still needs a lot of investment, I focused on silver and learned that a lot of electric connectors contain high purity silver. I used a compound called "chome liquid", which is a silver testing liquid (nr. 8) and found out, tram electric components contain not only high purity silver connectors, but most of the parts are made from a 500 purity silver (Sterling and jewellery are made from 925 purity silver). I got quite a haul and now, I'm wondering how to refine it without chocking on toxic fumes. I think cupelation could be the anwser. Also, poured my first silver bar (12,1 g) made out of 925 purity silver made from scrap.
I am curios about the history of refining. Have you ever or would you make a video using ancient refining techniques? I am curios how did the ancient Egyptians or the Chinese refine gold thousands of years ago and what did their finished product looked like and what would the purity have been. When did these acids and chemicals start being used? Your video's are always relaxing. Thank you.
Ancient refining techniques. Not much information available. I don know about the ancients, but modern refiners are not quick to reveal their refining secrets. Especially when it comes to platinum group metals. Most refiners would rather take their secrets to the grave rather than sharing them with the masses. This lack of forthcoming in the refining community is what enables me to have a successful RU-vid channel. I openly share everything I’ve learned. Including the mistakes.
wow, a dripped in swirling gold precipitation , the density difference needed during the precipitation? Surface tension? Coriolis force? either way incredible!!
Everybody needs a break SREETIPS hope you went fishing lolol God bless love the flakes from the refining makes me curious about how gold moves through the quartz veins in mining it's very fascinating
ferric sulphate could also be used to etch Sreetips onto base metals and steel . or used as a cheaper way to strip the base metals from gold filled scrap
Have you done, and if not can you do, a video showing your equipment and lab setup? I have been watching for a while contemplating giving it a try but the equipment/chemical costs look kind of staggering. I'm wondering what the money side looks like. Thanks.
Saw lots of bright molten splatter when pouring your shot. Was that coming from torch and crucible, or was it hitting water, and splashing out? Couldn't tell.
Sometimes I’ll get the molten metal too hot and it explodes when it hits the water. It scares me and make me jump when it happens. The gold forms tiny beads when this happens. They look like fine sand.
Are you anywhere near Aztalan, Wisconsin? Mound complexes there and all down the Mississippi and tributaries, millions upon millions of acres, would likely attract lightning strike. Farmers have long known of the fertilizing aspect of struck areas. Nitrogen will fix to nitrate salts. I wonder what it would do to some of that native copper up there? 14 ka and older I suspect. Electricity is pretty cool.
Industry standard for pure gold is three nines fine (999 parts per thousand). Three nines is considered high purity gold. No need for four nines gold (9999 parts per ten thousand). Unless it’s needed for some specific purpose such as a test standard.
These bits are definitely a curiosity. They post pleasant praise, which is not a bad thing, and they’re seemingly not trying to persuade readers to make contact via various means. At a glance it seems they might be toning down the clearly inappropriate pictures…at least. Thank you for tidying up the place!
Don't you hate when the filter papers pop a hole? I just tried my new Buckner Funnel that is cut Borisciliate glass, that fits into a cut Borisciliate glass side arm beaker. I like it; but, the filter in the Funnel is a very tight Borisciliate glass sponge, that holds the filter paper....... That glass sponge is incredibly difficult to get clean after using it, especially when the filter paper fails! The Funnel is currently soaking in distilled water, HCL and HNO3! A bad design from my perspective!
SREETIPS please help me understand. if the total yield of the pure gold is 114 g and you multiply that times three it should be about 342 g of silver to make it a 25% mixture of pure gold. Your formula yields a different result. Could you please explain this
The karats of gold are not pure gold. They contain an alloy of gold, silver, copper and zinc. So I must compensate for those metals that are already alloyed with the gold.
I've literally been stalking your channel. It has affected my masculinity. When I saw you weren't posting, I got emotional. Am I gay, or am I jonesing for some alchemy? 😂🤣
Is it that high? I don’t look at it unless I’m buying some scrap gold. Even then I just enter the amount in grams that I’m buying and the app spits out an offer price for me. I keep it set to 80% and ignore the spot price since I’m not concerned with selling. I’m buying, not selling.
@sreetips When I posted my comment, gold was at $2544/oz. It's currently at $2512/oz. Hopefully, it goes to the moon! I'm not selling either, but it's edifying to watch investments accrue value during these normie squeezes.
I don’t consider gold as an investment. It’s real money, real wealth. Paper dollars are a money substitute. The more they print, the less valuable they become. And this loss of value will be reflected in an apparent rise in the gold price. Gold is stable. It doesn’t change. What’s changing is the value of the dollar, going down. In 1990s gold was $250. Then it went to $1948. We are in even worse shape now. So just add a zero to each. Gold at $2500, rising to $19480. It’s a mathematical certainty.
I was getting some fine gold powder suspension during the nitric boils. It concerned me so I cut them short and went to Aqua Regia. There was very little particulate, nor silver chloride, visible in the chloroauric acid solution. Until I added the ice. Then it became very cloudy as the solution cooled from the ice, pushing the AgCl out of solution.
Silver chloride is slightly soluble, even more so in hot acid. But as it cools (from the ice) it “crashed out” of solution and can then be filtered out.
@@sreetips no I mean prior to HCl addition. Silver not fully dissolved despite the presence of excess HNO3. Hypothesis based on immediate evolution of NO2 on addition of HCl. Water in HCl solution caused that, not the HCl itself. HNO3 strongly reacted with silver instantly.
Iv done some gold prospecting this year. My wife now buys jewelry and maybe,one day she will actually buy me some 😂 so I v been prospecting mainly for meteors ☄️ Doing really good at it too Sreetips. Rare minerals. As valuable as gold. I have 31 meteors. All different kinds. I did good this year. I drive 6-7 hours for 1-2 hours of prospecting ⛏️ Universities will buy them. Im keeping 4 of them. The rest are for sale. Im hoping its nice out tomorrow and I can pan some material here at my house for gold. I fill large totes and bring it home to run🦅⛏️
