Refining 24k GOLD at home !!! 

"Sreetips" is the RU-vid guy you want to watch if you want to learn how to refine gold. He shows how to inquart, mix acids and dissolve gold. He also shows you how to precipitate the gold in solution back into gold metal. He's very thorough.

always add acid to water that way any splash will be much less dangerous

I would suggest corn flaking the gold/silver amalgam to increase surface area. All you do is pour it in water when it's molten. also you can add water as it boils to keep it hydrated. You don't want to add much water at a time.

Those cobbles have sprung the wizard to come out huh 😅

Truly a wizard,... Mr. Wizard. Now all ya gotta do is make Mrs. Wizard pure gold jewelry. Fantastic job explaining steps in the process. Thanks for the video.

Been a sub for a couple months now. So basically, you're a PBR drinking gold prospecting mad scientist. Oh, hell yes, I'm in. EDIT: and I'm sure at only 2 months there's a "But wait, there's more" moment coming down the pike. Thanks Bro.

Place a 'Flow Indicator', also called a piece of string or ribbon, on the front of your "Fume Hood"... XD ...to make sure you always have air flow.

Brings me back to my start of mining dropping gold in and out of solution

Jason I really like these winter weather videos. It’s a nice change. Because dang it’s cold out ,Cobbles!! (Are the best)

Jason the mason now a golden chemist . Something like mixing PBRs and pickled eggs to make a flame thrower ?🤣🤣🤣

cool hood you made !!!!!!!

Thus begins the transformation from Jason the Mason, to Jason the Mad Chemist..👍😁 Cool vid, bub! Hope you and Mrs Wizard are enjoying the bowls.

Chemistry is so much fun!! I’ve been playing with the refining of silver and gold from electronics. I normally use old corningware for catch basins. Also, pour acid into water!!! If that nitric acid was hot, it would have had a bad reaction!

If you "cornflaked" your enquartered gold first and used nitric acid to break down the silver first you would then pour off green coloured liquid which You should be able to get your silver back also Jason then use your hydrocloric and hydrogen peroxide to just melt the gold the ln precipitate the gold mud into pure gold then you would do a bit better I think great effort for first time though

Next time you should try to cornflake your gold silver mix. Melt the gold/silver mixture and pure it into water so the metal becomes flakes as they fit the cold water.

You got a regular Breaking Bad operation going down lol. I love that you are getting into the refining of gold! Very fun and educating to watch.

pretty cool now your a backyard chemist lol get that shinny & cool little vent box

Love This channel, Miller prospecting is the King of reviews!! That is why I am a Patreon for this channel!

Hey Jason! Good job! I've got two things to add: 3:50 First rule: Never pour water into acid! Especially for sulfuric acid. Pour the acid into the water. ALWAYS! If you pour water into concentrated sulfuric acid, the first drops may boil and cause a steam blowout (especially in tall vessels). The water of the water-nitric acid mix is for dissolving the silver nitrate. 14:00 The gold should look like crumbs of chocolate powder. Your alloy wasn't mixed properly. All the best!

Another great video. Am glad to see you are branching out into other aspects of AU processing. Heavy Pans

Hot damn, Jason. I am very impressed. I love watching this. You are becoming quite the mad scientist. You know what they say about guys with really big hands, they have really big gloves.

ALWAYS add water to acid, not acid to water. Do it wrong and you get a steam explosion that blows acid all over, put a pan under the burner to catch spills. one the size of your hood would be good... gives a big work surface little corn starch shaken in the glove will help it slide on, plus it absorbs sweat

Loved the video, Jason. I'm so damned color blind I've never tried when people start spouting out colors to look for, lol. The only thing I heard that made sense was crystal clear, haha.

Oh, have you been watching Mount Baker Mining and Metals? He has a LOT of videos on smelting. Good for him, bad for you, he has one of those awesome tiny super hot smelting oven things now.

That's awesome Jason! I am intrigued by precious metal extracting. Would love to see you bring home your catch and cook it up sometime. COBBLES 🍻 AFNB...🍺🍻🍺

The reaction would have gone more quickly if you had poured the molten gold/silver mixture into a pan of water to flake it and increase the surface area. That way the acid has more area to attack. Hope the gloves are nitrile. That is what you want for working with strong acids. Nice job on your first chemical refinement! Always love your videos!

First , no beer ! Second , handle bar mustache with a lot of maniacal laughter maybe an over coat! You could put a hump on a your shoulder and call yourself Igor for the day !😊 Every time you say flower gold wizards the horses can whinny in the background! 😊

Now you need to build a Silver cell to refine the silver back to pure.... 😂

Well you didn’t burn down the Shop so successful effort 😂👍🍻🍺🍺✅

Fascinating, just fascinating Btw Beaker was my favorite Muppet Like you he cracks me up too

Well thst was very interesting. Look forward to the next installment of purifying gold Great job and thanks for sharing PPO out 😎

I think maybe if you made "shot" instead of a large piece it would dissolve alot easier. Shot is made by pouring the molten metal into water :)

If you ever get any of that silver nitrate on your hands, you can wash it off immediately. Unfortunately, after your hands get in sunlight the UV light will react with it and turn the area you spilt it on a blackish purple color. It wares off eventually after a week or two so don’t be alarmed when it happens.

Never thought I'd be a beaker guy myself, yet here we both are..😂

You will get your time down with each time you do this I’m sure. Great job!

Another good show Jason. Love your new ideas.! Cobbles🍻🍻

Nice shiny button you made there. Really cool. Bill Ney the science guy has nothing on you. Nice work. Cool video Jason, cobbles to ya. 🍻

Hello, Jason. One thing only. When working with acid, especially when mixing with water, FIRST WATER, man, then add acid. Otherwise shit happens.

Jason, next time cool those puppies down in a little bit of cold PBR. That way they are "authentic" Flour Gold Wizard beads😅😂

Looked like a fun day in the shop

1:22 where do you find "diluted water"🤣 Always great videos. Keep up the entertainment.

well that was fun a learning curve so to speak. thank you for sharing the adventure and information.

Good for you using metric and imperial, Celsius instead of Fahrenheit .

for the gloves slide right in use baking flour on hands or any material like that shake your hands and bam

Great to see your first leap into science madness! Very entertaining (cringeful) with a lot of learning opportunities. Git'm tiger!

Great video Jason... Please keep your videos coming. I learn alot from you. 🔥💯🇺🇲⚒️✌️🙂🔥

Pouring the enquarted gold into shot will increase the surface area and make the reaction happen much faster I believe. 👍

Those fumes will slowly eat away at any metal they come in contact with. Might wanna stretch that hose a little further away from your corrugated metal roof panels. Just in case… you’re a full fledged scientist now my man! Hell yeah! 💪💪

Great Jerry Rig Set Up JASON 👍

Thanks for the class.

Great video. Thanks for sharing Jason👍

now take the ' waste solution and add @ a 6inch copper pipe to pull the silver out of solution, Rinse, boil in water, rinse, rinse and of course rinse. dry out the powder then melt it back to solid silver with a higher percentage

Hell yea Jason awesome stuff thanks for sharing heavy pans brother

And if you want to neutralize your acid..Use baking soda..

Flour gold wizard being a mad scientist 😂😂😂😂😂, I know that you have to keep yourself busy. Stay safe and have a PBR, you earned it. See you on the next video.

been watching your videos for a couple of years. a couple of tips you should add acid to water not water to acid. much safer that way. also add nitric in smaller amounts rather than all at once. also try to make shot from the gold to make it easier for the acid to attack the gold. @sreetips has some good videos on this method. good luck in the future. man love your videos.

Good call on the ventilation system. That stuff is terrible to breath but also it will rust anything and everything metal in your garage.

I just realized you’re saying “give it a WEIGH”. I thought you was saying “give it AWAY” And I was like OOH A GIVEAWAY! 🤦‍♂️😂😂😂

Awesome video like always. Suggestion- add acid to water instead of water to acid(splash splash acid bath) Beakers🍺🍺

How many times do i have to say smash the like NOT your fingers! :P looking good its going to make a great looking coin! thanks for the share! stay awesome Jason!

Your neighbors probably think you have a meth lab in your garage😂

As part of the Oak Island (Nova Scotia) treasure, there is said Templar (et al) trade with Mayans and Aztecs ... and the possible blue clays on the island being exploited as a trade item ... that the Mayans/Aztecs worshipped for body and building paint - much like the Hopi worship blue corn. The Mayans and Aztecs then paid back in "tumbaga gold" which were gold/silver/copper like small garlic bread-sized bars. With this, you can easily smelt out the copper, silver, and gold, and any other contaminants as slag with great ease. But, this isn't putting silver into a gold matrix to somehow pull out contaminants, or use a nitric acid process (which would pull out any other possible (----- metal) nitrites and nitrates from the original gold source. So the modern version of only using (contaminated) gold, or processing gold with nitric acid alone are 2 different processes, and not putting in any other precious (or rare) metals back into the source. Silver (1763F) would come out easy. Silver (and copper) doesn't pull out any contaminants, so putting it in doesn't make any sense. Borax and other 1800s, 1900s slag compounds like limestone and marble chips (calcium carbonate, offgassing), and/or least-so gypsum (calcium sulfate) would be other smelting and slagging processes of the 1849ers-1900s California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska Gold and Silver Rush silver and goldsmiths getting a true value of the mined and panned gold. Their processes (i.e, borax or other industrial metal tin or zinc - pulling out copper (1984F) as brass (copper-zinc) or bronze (copper-tin) (or copper nitrite/nitrate acid process) would make sense. Gold (1948F) processes differently than black sands iron (2800F) and iron-manganese (2275F) or iron-titanium (3034F), and would flow freely away from these metals and solidify into their own constituent globules. Any suspected iron and nitric acid could pull iron contamination as a ferric or ferrous nitrite or nitrates. Then whacking the gold of any other slag would knock off any other component contamination. Lead (622F) and mercury (red 500F and black 727F) contamination would also flow out before gold. Tin (450F) and zinc (787F) would also follow lead and mercury along with flow metal and their toxic vapors. So best to use the conventional, least costly, and least bug-a-boo technique for gold smelting, especially with the very clean source of material you are getting from the Wisconsin and Ontario Lake Superior orogenies.

If you have any copper you can toss it in the waste nitrate water and recover the silver.

This is the man with the plan

Jason this is a great video, thanks for sharing.

Nice first run! Pretty soon, you're gonna have a smelting oven set up... 😂

Melt it down and pour it into water, then take the small beads in the acid more surface area to attack

Heck yeah brother that was awesome 💯🤘⛏️🇺🇲

Nice little bead! Ultra shiny lol

First back after the vid…not bad at all for your first time well done thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏼👊🏼

Impressive

Great work Jas!

Beautiful! Aqua Donkey Prospecting approved!!!

That's pretty darn cool!! 👍🍀⛏️⛏️

Finally got compooter up but no sound yet🥺 loved the video 👍😎Anyway

I was thinking use those cheap aluminum pie tins for your pan.

Instead of a button, once in quarter, pour Liquid Metal into a pot of water to creat “shot”. It dissolves faster

Thank you again. Love all your videos brother. Just want to add that maybe you should buy some thicker gloves for those huge hands! 😂 Hug the pups for me and you and the family have a great day! 🇺🇸🤠🇺🇸

Great improvised ventilation system, you can use it when drying out your gold before weighing.

LOVE WATCHING YOU!

PBR stands for Professional Bull Riding over here 😜👀🤩🤠

Very interesting love the refining experiment 🧪 👍🏼✌🏼🍻

You’re like a mad scientist now😊Ilove it. Thanks Jason😊

Dude that's awsome. I love the ventilation systom you built. . I smelted my button and it tested at 75 percent pure. I was too intimidated to try the science stuff.. . Awsome stuff man . Tell rigbone and the other critters I said howdy

Cool stuff. Cobbles 🍻

Love the science experiment! Definitely be careful with the acids! I haven't seen gold refined with only nitric acid before, always with aqua-regia. 🤔 Interesting! 😎🍻

Nice shiny brother

Wrong kind of gloves..Be careful with that acid. I work with acids daily at work..You can put the beaker or graduated cylinder on the hot plate..It can handle the temp.

You are now officially welcomed into the mad scientist club. Thanks for showing us new and exciting things. Looking forward to seeing that shiny coin 👍

Excellent man! You might want to try to pour the molten alloy into shot to create as much surface area as possible. It will help disolve the silver faster out of the shot. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

My friend love the video. Please stop that . The acid builds up so fast. Every drop of water you wash with every thing in that 5 gallon bucket is acid that has to be dealt with. I did this for 10 years. I still have to get rid of my chemistry build up. My friend worked in Nevada at a gold plant. Yes fun was had . But now I've got to get rid of it all what dumb it on the ground. HECK no. Please don't. As a want to be friend and fan . Yes evaporate as much as you can still an acid. Bro love to you and family dogs the most . If this gets in your pond all dead. Love bro. Blessings

The shiny is looking good. It is always fun to try something new.

Nice build looks like fun

Got to love the DIY fume hood 👍 I’ll bet it works for when you consume to much PBR and beans as well Sreetips has wonderful vids on refining

Right on, that was awesome Jason. That looks like fun.

Jason you're a beast! Going out next weekend is not on my list of things to do here in Illinois. It's gonna be cold bud. Good for cobbles not so much for people. Be safe out there! I truly enjoy learning along with you. I can't wait until spring to start putting everything I've learned so far to use and hopefully finding my first ever little gold strike.

Awesome!!! Good stuff man!

Very shiny results! 🍻

Fun stuff!!! Enjoy new things always a good watch.

Very interesting science project 😊