Refining My Filter Papers for Pure Gold 

I love seeing thoughtful gifts like this. Paul really lifted the spirits of not only street tips and the channel. It lifts our spirits as the viewers of the content. It's generosity like this seen here that makes me think there is hope for the world.

Very cool Paul Ashman! Thanks on behalf of the subscriber community!

That's not too bad of a yield for just refining some filter papers, considering you're also going to get silver and PGMs as well. Who am I kidding, that's a damn good yield for this type of refining. Nice job!

I'm constantly amazed at how much PMs will hide in the filters. Every time I do a batch of filters I am always left pleasantly surprised.

Love your work. Burning the plastic was a nice touch.

That’s sweet, most people would have thrown the filters out, who would have thought ! Sweeeeeeeeeeeet. Very nice of Paul to donate to you.

Very nice device Mr Steetips. Wow, what a fantastic contribution from Paul. So many years I follow you, you always mentioned the GRForum and several senior guys there like Butcher. In my case, I mention you as my grand master. After time watching plus 2 years I started with the hobby, more or less 1 year studying and some prentice level practice, and now one more year of hands on, I consider myself relatively successful. With Silver I am about to graduate, have got myself a nice 4 Oz collection (unfortunately I dont know where to find silver anymore, the plated I user to get a lot got price out of control). What I am most proud of is to have mastered a handful of different processes for gold for different scenarios. I learned to estimate, sort, process, recover and refine. My measure of success is that huge amount of ewaste that actually yields a couple of grams, and I am doing that. Sensation like no other: you have that considerable volume of junk, you understand you have like 2-3 grams of gold there, and successfully drop 3 grams at the end. I am about to melt my beads together to make my very own bar. Thank you for all learning opportunity you provided!

Wow your awesome Paul

Thanks Paul. I love watching the filter refining videos. So interesting to work your way through the elements to retrieve them. You didn't want to do the Oxalic Acid Solution treatment for the 2nd drop? I don't blame you... Fun stuff

Loved the test batch overflow. Chemistry is always exciting!

I love these videos. Much better than learning from someone who knows too much

I think this may be your best overall video just showing how much you have to decide on the fly as you discover bit by bit what all metals you've got in concentration. It's a great demonstration of the knowledge and effort it takes to refine precious metals as well as just how much you can lose to filters in all your other refining projects. I wonder how many people would've just thrown those filters away and lost multiple grams of gold.

I guessed 7 grams and you got 6.3 grams. That's a good amount of gold in them filters. Awesome sreetips.

Thx Paul.Very nice of you.🔥👍

What a great donation! Thanks Paul.

Great video!! And what a beautiful vintage Omega constellation!

You could also try retrieving that with hot piranha solution, it dissolves almost everything organic including paper and plastic.

51 Minutes long .. *Sits back in the chair.

Great video - really like seeing what you could get out of your filter papers!

I'm just watching this a year later and chuckling about you burning the plastic bags. I have friends that completely spaz out whenever they see me burn plastic. Too Funny.

This is one of the best gifts I learned in a while

I have been waiting to see you refine your filters and here I sit on this beautiful Saturday afternoon on the beautiful st, johns river with my best friend Lugnut {my dog} chillaxing and watching this much anticipated video

That right there is why I watch your channel I learn what is involved with doing this stuff thank you so much for sharing your knowledge two thumbs

You are always interesting to watch. Thanks for the content.

Great video 👍, nice button of gold just from your filters, fun to watch.

This is the chemist equivalent of saving up all their roaches, breaking them open and rolling them into a big blunt 😆

No need to give instructions watch enough videos and you start to understand how this works and also the dangers along with it, no way this is for some one who need instructions how to do this it is way to dangerous!!! Respect to this man who is making the videos for us to watch

Holy makeral, this man is burning plasic bags on a fire, someone call greta! This is fantastic wake and bake watching with my morning coffee, regards from Wales UK ♥

Thank you for your great videos. I am learning a lot watching you.

He only refines the metal to liberate the beaker. Hilarious. Truly "pound smart and penny foolish". He doesn't waste anything, his wife finds all the good deals and he is a truly knowledgeable chemist. It would break my heart if the beaker burst on the high heat after three years of inactivity.

Good one, it’s nice to see things not go 100% to plan and how to work around them. Amazing result for filers, I would have like to see how much Silver you recovered. Thanks for sharing

Watching you pipette the water out before you tried to melt was soothing for my anxiety lol I was like please get some of that excess water out first so it don’t splatter ha ha

I learned everything I know from watching your channel and I’ve made a lot of gold and silver thanks so much

Solid move Paul Ashman

I've been looking forward to this one.

Wow when I saw the footage of you incinerating all the filters together I knew it would be a interesting one. I keep each type of process filter separate from each other, makes it easier to recover the metals

chatGPT told me that you should do selective for platinum first by using Ammonium chloride then filtering it for platinum afterthat you will go after Palladium by using dimethylglyoxime and then fillter out any solid in the solution. (you should get palladium dimethylglyoxime) lastly you should filter it for gold by using sodium metabisulfite the reason is sodium metabisulfite is not very good at selective precipitation, therefore we must reduce other first

Paul Ashman... You rock! 🤘💥🤘 Sreetips... I think you may have 1/4 - 1/2 troy ounce of powdered gold precipitate in that big flask. It has contamination now, though, but could provide some more content when you get to it. I love the long video. Luckily, I already had snacks and drinks on hand. 😁

Paul Ashman - you made sreetips happy, but you made us all happy because he deserves some quality lab gear for his excellent content.. That's a very nice addition!

Was waiting for that a long time. That huge sink makes me nervous everytime. How about a video about your biggest mishaps?

Love your work . I learning so much here in Australia. It's keeping me sane with all these covid lock downs.

Not too bad for something you had just laying around for 3 years! Have a Great Day My Friend!!

Look at all the different colors coming off of the filter paper burn. Cool

This really makes me think that if you could go back 400 or 500 and watch alchemists at work this is exactly what you would see.

This was very fun to watch.

Big up Paul Ashman

Hey Sreetips, do you also save the stannous test papers you use to refine eventually as well? Love the videos.

I could never do what you do I'm too scared of chems. But I can't stop watching hehe

Give the man some soiled filters and he comes out smiling. Great video

I was really waiting for this one!

Cool little button you should keep it like it is. Thanks for the video

*I did gold recovery too its* *was fun and awesome* *btw nice work* 👍👍

I'm wondering if a Dutch oven with a lid might reduce the possibility of metal dust carried away in the expanding combustion gasses. The method I have in mind is similar to making charcoal.

@42:45 Was amazing! I love Sreetips reaction when the reaction hit!

Have you considered lye / sulfuric to dissolve the paper instead of fire? I would guess some loss from the turbulent flames and air flow

If you were a gold prospector and found a nugget that size, you would be excited for a month! Maybe a full year.

Amazing 🤩 thumbs up 👍 keep up the great work

41:00 Of course, Murphy has a hand in everything.

Thanks to sreetips and Paul for the donation.

Just want to say Paul Ashman you a champ.

I low-key want that gold button!

Hello sreetips 👋 love your videos When incinerating for example IC-chips, it’s important to burn all the carbon out of the material. Basically burning it until it’s white. Otherwise the (black) carbon will trap some of the gold in the recovery state. I wonder if it’s the same with the filter papers? 🤔

You can use same process in dust of polish from jewelry

Damn thats a 400$ stir hotplate. Very nice subscriber!

Your stir bar kindly held on to the magnetics.

"Main contaminant probably palladium" One of those cases where the contamination would probably make it MORE valuable :D

it just gets better. 🇬🇧

You should send Paul a small bar of silver from your silver refinery to say thanks for the hot plate/stirring plate. 💙 your videos there very interesting and I learn alot from your vids, keep thm coming and ill keep watching thm 👌👍💯🔥

in 1 of your videos you showed how to make a silver cell out of a desk top power supply which one was that sreetips

Jeez you need a steady hand to cope with all those scary chemicals - so that's me out. I'm an accident waiting to happen !!!

btw, did you get the platinum out of your concrete?

Out of the ashes of old you should raise a phoenix

Looking at the flame changing color do you have a sense of how much precious metal(s) you may have lost when ashing?

Tin will cement palladium and use copper to silver next easier way less filter paper and time but everyone does it different I guess and if you need heat use sulfuric and hydrochloric don't need not hot plates but every one does it diffrent

almost an hour of Sreetips, yay!

Osmium soluble as well in nitric

A great thanks goes to sreetips for sharing this video with us. I love watching these kinds of videos 👍👍

Always epic. Very nice button Sree 👌🏼👌🏼🤘🏼

Remove each metal in solution one at a time. First silver make silver chloride filter the solution off then add smb to solution drop the gold.. filter it off then add whatever chemicals you put in to drop platinum and palladium.

This is cool I like watching this

That was way cool of paul.

Holy Cow! Should have taken more than one year of Chemistry class!!!!!?😉

Hi from Australia 👋, question, When refining silver plate, how do you know when solution is saturated with metals? ie- knowing when to add more water ? Thanks 👍 ps- I’ve learned so much from your vid’s 🙏

I have lots of gold filled gold and outer crap . But I don’t know when to start

What's going to catch the liquid if the beaker breaks on the heat wouldn't it be safer to have it in one of the CorningWare dishes

Yeah bring gold down first then filter then amonium for platium palladium with sodium hydroxide mix with smb get the platinum metals out and get distilled water and wash gold not hydrochloric cause it's laced with nitro it go back to solution you will be redoing redoing over and over same hope I helped you out 🤜🤛

glad i'm not your next door neighbor

Does a percent of the gold vaporize while you combust the filter papers?

I do wonder tho. With a good lab PSU could you not maybe do sequential electroplating?

so after subtracting the cost of chemicals/consumables and lab hours... what is the net return?...

Did you put them in a plastic bag then burn them so all the ashes stay together for a while what was the point of the plastic bag? Thank you

Need an updated video Kevin...your current papers or your waste slimes! 2018 is so....old!

Hey Sreetips, where do you think that blue flames from the 'filter paper' (2:16 - 2:46) bag come from? I'm assuming it's not just sulfur.

26:27 - 26:30 "There is no SOP" I Refer to Sreetip channel for probably the best precious metals refining information.......🤪

I am just curious , when I cast bullets out of lead , if i get the lead to hot it will get frosty as I call it .Will gold get frosty if you pour it to hot like lead will

Imagine a drinking game where you take a shot every time sreetips says "concentrated nitric acid".

Does that pgm contamination means. We should be extra carefull while working in fear of platinosis?

What's the blue on the copper in the silver pot in the back of the fume hood?

That is one of the most unique buttons I have ever seen! If there something up with the lighting or does it look strangley glossy on the top in contrast to sides and bottom?

49:18 I could just picture it going down the drain