Refining Scrap Silver with Nitric Acid 

fantastic! Ifmay ask. At what temperature do you keep nitric solution when dissolving the silver?

@@heinzdeboer2250 Thanks for watching Heinz! I hope you enjoyed it. I'm not certain there's a "one temperature suits all" type answer for that one. As I'm sure there's a number of factors that would determine to most efficient temperature to keep the solution during the dissolving process. However, it seemed to me that it was more of a simmer than a boil. Too hot will drive off the distilled water too quickly. My hotplate was set on roughly medium. 2.5-3/5. Hope that helps, all the best!

Good job i wish you could write out exactly what you did i have pounds of silver contacts and all tested heavily with silver I already have all my acid and lab equipment ready I just don’t want to screw it up

Much copper mixed in with your contacts? Ideally removing all copper and just having the silver contacts would be best. I'd start with just a few of your contacts. Make up a small batch of dilute nitric and see how you go. Getting good at refining is a real experimentation process. I'm by no means close to being an expert, but i am getting better at these experiments slowly over time by trial and error. Start small, see how you go!

Thanks mate! Im glad you enjoyed it. 😁 Just remember please, the video only displays my own experiments and is not meant as a tutorial for others. I made many mistakes, and still do 😊

@@TheGoldmansChannel I did the same as you at my home, was very educational and I enjoyed doing it, I to made mistakes but you learn fast 👍

Thank you Jethro. Finally starting to get the hang of it. Just need to find some good gold to show off now 😁

Thanks Boothy! Glad you liked it man, hope some of the refining stuff I've been doing lately makes a bit more sense now. I'm slowly piecing it all together haha

Thank you Mr Huntsman. I'm slowly getting better at the movie making side of things. Audio control is my biggest focus now. Some of my earlier vids were acoustic atrocities haha

Thanks Rick! Much appreciated. I was really happy with the 3rd attempt. I'll pop in and show it to you when I see you next

You need to do a few more steps as well to refine the copper and the cost of materials you will lose money I just save mine in buckets for use in my silver cell as a starter solution

I'm using rain water for that part Frez. Distilled water would be important for anyone who only has access to chlorinated tap water, though. Great question! I didn't event think about it at the time. 👍🏿

Borax is available anywhere and everywhere here in Australia. Used for many different things, like you mentioned in your previous comment. If you struggle to find it, perhaps google different general uses for it and find a product that goes by a different name but is still STB. I'm unsure what the laws are here in Aus for the purchase of Nitric, Muriatic is easily purchased in lots of places but I can't find any info on whether we need permits or something to get Nitric. Mine comes from a friend of a friend, so I've never even had to pay for it. I'm very lucky in that regard. Thanks for watching and dropping comments Mr. Cheerful. 😁

I got my qualification from the University of Deez. 🤣

have you found out what it is? I'm having the same problem

Thanks Pete, I am yes. I'm down in Vic 👍🏿👍🏿

No heat while cementing out the silver with the copper bar. Takes quite a while, just leave it there for a few days to do its thing. 👍🏿👍🏿

Thank you

It's a slow process with my little system, but I just use a Buchner funnel with 100mm qualitative filter paper and slow gravity filter the solution. Ill get a vacuum pump and Buchner flask one day in future also. Once I step up my gold refining game. I only really refine silver for use with inquarting gold, to remove the excess silver from the gold so I can refine it properly without running into dramas with silver chloride. Hope that helps

@@TheGoldmansChannel hmm where can you find those filters?

@@BEMetalMelting Any lab supply companies online will have them if you search "Qualtitive filter papers". They can be folded for use with a standard conical funnel, but a Buchner funnel makes its much easier if you've got the money spare for one.

Sorry, Qualitative is the correct spelling

@@TheGoldmansChannel sweet thank you man, I’m gonna try to purify some silver this weekend that’s really the only thing I’m missing.

A magnetic stirring hotplate would be ideal for this. But you can still do it no issues without one. Just takes a little longer 😁

Got some, building new furnaces with it soon hopefully 🤞

You know what it was meant to say don't you? Some countries don't allow citizens to access it. So we need to be careful about what chemicals I mention. I found out the other day, in some places folks can't even buy borax! What a world we live in.