Chris (GSP) gave me this formula. For 1 troy oz of silver or 42 grams of silver chloride it takes..... 20 grams of sodium hydroxide, 13 grams of sugar, and 133 ml water.
I'm glad I found your videos you have some of the most detailed extraction videos I have found on RU-vid. I work in the computer field so I have tons of scrap laying around and been thinking about trying to do an extraction thank you for the great information
Sreetips, you are the man! Enjoy the heck out of your videos. I watch a wide range of PM refining videos, and yours are hands down the most informative, and entertaining. I've tried to find you on ebay several times, and haven't had any luck. Have you ever considered doing some one on one zume training? Really appreciate all your efforts in recording these processes.
Don't try to rinse the copper out of the silver in the filter. rinse the silver in the beaker and only pour off the water. When your done rinsing, then wash the silver into the filter-funnel.
Once I watch the Videos over and Over a few times it becomes easier to understand. Terminology is the key I restore Muscle or Classic Cars I am forever paying to have all my restored parts Zinc plated that gets expensive.
Sr Chief. If you don't mind I have two questions. 1. Do you ever get silver or gold assayed to confirm your estimates of purity? 2. Have you ever tried to make your own nitric acid or any other somewhat expensive chemical. Fair winds and following seas my man.
Nice job, i learned something i was not doing it right i used electricity and urea, and baking soda to get my precipate . My ore was dissolved with muriatic acid and bleach to get dissolution, then rinsed, filtered , not nearly as good as your method. Thanks for the tips
Thank you for keeping the shows going always happy to see the notification that you posted something new. i was just thinking about the battery problem im abit forgetful when im baking (my job) so i always hook up my phone to a powerbank one of the small cheap ones that i can have in my pocket so im sure that i dont run out of charge mid work. that might work for your reciver to the headset mic so it has an extra source of energy so you dont need to check battery power and keep focus on the work you do instead :)
When you add lye to silver chloride, the result should be NaCl and silver oxide - and pH neutral. As long as there is unconverted silver chloride, the lye should react with it. If the pH drops down to around neutral, then I would think that more lye is needed. I have not tested this, but it might allow an easier determination of when conversion is complete.
Hey Nice to see the Lady Wife mate Pleased you both keeping well i did notice that both poweders are a distiked diffrent Colour to each other thats interesting thanks great Vlog
Oh the sodium hydroxide generates so much waste in comparison to cementing with copper. I'm really interested to see the resulting yield from the different processes.
I totally enjoy watching your videos thank you do you have a video that converts the copper waist back to a solid metal i would like to watch how that is done
Wish I had half your Smarts. I always liked Chemistry however I majored in Electronic Engineering and Geology. Had some Lab Work but really was cheated after watching your Education at work!
Glad of the new sound quality from the new Mic, but missing the sounds of the hood and lab that were picked up before, any way to Mic the lab for those ambient sounds I'm missing with the new lav mic? Loving the videos of the process and all the interesting refining methods
Hi i just started watching you and I see that some of your processes could be simplified or another step could be used 2 help refine but I'm not a chemist as a matter of fact back in high school my chemistry teacher didn't like the questions I was asking and kick me out I never had chemistry class again. I know you have a lot more experience than I do I'm just saying I see a lot of wasted steps and some neutralization could have been used instead of rinsing just my opinion like I said I'm not a chemist but I sure do like the silver crystals and your silver cell
Pure Silver and Gold my two favorite metals. I have bought coins since 2000! I sell some Gold and Silver when it goes up recently I made 2k profit off 1/10 ounce American Eagles I purchased @120 a coin. Now they sell for around $215 per 1/10 ounce coin. The Acid looks as it could be expensive?
I understand the Videos the problem is do you have to be Licsence d for any of these Products used. And understanding test strips is a little confusing as when to use them?
Awesome video as always! I am wondering if you could use a weak acid, maybe citric acid to kill the rest of the NaOH when you are having a hard time rinsing the silver so you don't have to blend it into suspension.
Another great video. I’ve heard you can melt silver chloride. I was wondering if you could do a test of both ways and see if there is a difference in yield? It might save a lot of steps.
Silver chloride can be melted. It must be done with plenty of sodium carbonate flux. It releases nasty gases. This is what I’ve been told. I’ve never tried it myself
Is there a reason you rinsed one batch of cement silver with multiple rinses and rinsed the other one in the funnel? It seems you wouldn't have to worry about ripped filters if they were both rinsed with with multiple rinses. Is it a waste thing?
I got a question.. Why use Muriatic Acid to get the silver chloride instead of non iodized table salt? I have always used hot salt water because it's stupid cheap. Is there a better yield or something?
I've never seen you pour copper bars. Given that you can pour .9999 copper, is it worth putting on eBay? I'm seeing some prices that look pretty good, but I dunno what your costs are. :)
@Power 2 Weight Sure, but people are paying a premium on eBay for high purity bars. I mean he doesn't sell his high purity silver bars to scrap buyers either. :)
@@sreetips cool. I suggest installing a 1/2” barbed 3-way ball valve on the flask end of your vacuum tube. This will allow you to divert the vacuum from the flask and make it easier (and perhaps safer) when disconnecting the hose from the flask.
Could you use the funnel and filter method to rinse the copper solution off the Silver Chloride? Could you also rinse the Lye/sugar with the funnel and filter?
Sreetips, with your set up, I don't see the advantage to the lye/sugar method. I'm sure you explained and I missed it, but what happens to the pgms with this method?
I’m not all that familiar. But I believe that the PGMs can be precipitated out with DMG before converting the silver nitrate to silver chloride. That way we can get the PGMs before we get the silver. This technique avoids the silver cell all together. We get the PGMs “up front” and high purity, three nines silver, from the silver chloride conversion with lye and sugar. Some swear by this method, but I’ve always liked the silver cell so I go with cementing everything on copper. To each his own.
It would try to dissolve the fused silica melt dish and created some ugly junk that sticks to the silver. But I don’t think that is reacts chemically with the silver - I could be wrong though.
While the two powders were on low heat, was it the moisture content that created the shaded difference or is 3 nines silver powder that much lighter than polluted silver..
Hello Sir. can you tell me the chemicals needed to refine gold inside a 1kg metal which compose of iron, copper, palladium, rhodium, silver and gold. Please also include the estimated price and purity of chemicals needed. I would be really thankful.
I’ve never seen such an alloy. You’d be better off finding a professional refiner who gives credit for rhodium (most refiners do not). Trying to separate these metals is very difficult and nearly impossible for a beginner. Not a good place to start.
@@sreetips ok sir thank you but for me i'm just interested in getting the Gold and Palladium. Thank you for your help. I will get in touch with Auris Noble. I'm from Philippines by the way. God bless.
I was wondering, just for interest... would it be possible to recover all the copper from the waste solution, form it into strips and use it to recover your next silver batch?
Yes, you can recover it, No you can’t use to cement silver, because it is heavily contaminated with Iron, ,, now if you want to take the time to wash it and dry it, you can melt it into bars or whatever and most scrap yards will buy it as ( Irony Copper) which pays less than #2
i need help with a silver problem. ive been sitting on a ton of silver waste that is a byproduct of making mirrors . its a muddy water which i ended up evaporated all the water now is just a brown dirt. i cant figure out how to turn it to a metal
Many silver compounds turn brown/black with exposure to light. Silver will also blacken over time as it oxidizes. That brown dirt may be the same stuff as Sreetips had after using the lye/sugar conversion process.
The waste will get treated before disposal. The tap water contains chlorine. And it does create a problem when we dissolve the silver powder. The liquid silver nitrate solution remains clear. But it turns cloudy when distilled water is added. To remedy the powder must be melted, then redissolve to get the solution to clear up.