It always amazes me when you melt the beautiful pure silver crystals and it changes form to its equally beautiful silver liquid form and then to its solid form which reflects the light like a mirror. Our natural elements on this planet are a real gift.
Some of our elements are stunningly beautiful, for sure. Then of course, there's the really dangerous ones, and the really ethereal ones. All are amazing in their own way, I think.
Planet? 😂 that's not even worth mentioning when looking at the universe. Not even grain of sand on the planet scale. But I do understand what you meant. An consideration that most ever metal is asteroid meteorite etc long after the outer mantle cooled. It's gifts from space❤
@@philindeblanc even then many don't exist naturally especially really heavy ones. Existing only for milliseconds before deterioration. Only knowing they Existing because the formula math requires it
@@TheAzrai For me pouring was the unexpectedly difficult step in the process. Sreetips does it so matter of fact like, and makes it look effortless, but I assure you it is far from it. Once you do it a few times and know what to do it's not hard just detail oriented.
2 observations I have made watching sreetips videos: one, you never “waste” anything. Even though you might be justified in throwing some by-product out because of the small amount of recoverable metal, you don’t. Used filters come to mind. Two, you always slavishly follow protocols. For example, taking the silver bars out of the anode basket, you always use the forceps, instead of using your fingers. Good discipline!
I've been watching his videos for a long time, I have learned a lot, I think I'm almost ready to start a refinement of gold from jewelry, which will give the the opportunity to start a silver cell, getting nitric acid is a bit tough it seems, not many if any places cary it on hand
@@damiansullivan9728yes, this does seem to be an issue. i havent had much luck prepping myself. what I might have to do is make some via other means. i cant justify buying a couple gallons if i don't end up getting into the hobby.
I too have been bitten by the silver bug. I absolutely blame Sreetips and a couple other RU-vidrs. It's a good affliction to have though. I am starting small just experimenting for now and not trying to refine any huge quantities. I am dealing with only silver for now, I don't feel comfortable playing around with gold and possibly making a very expensive mistake. As far as nitric acid, I just started out by buying 10 one ounce bottles from Amazon. They also offer larger bottles at better prices. It's more expensive than quantity yes, but like I said, I'm starting small. You can also get quartz stir rods, beakers, ceramic wool, basically everything you need from there. I'm sure there are many other places as well. I hope to have a cell up and running by the end of June. Good luck to you if you have a go at it, and stay safe.
I watched a jeweler coat their silver and gold melt dish with liquid borax and build a glazed layer that hardens when dry. Do this to separate dishes. She also explained to let silver get watery looking like a mirror 🪞
Seeing this reminds me of how Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, used to extract silver from photography solutions thrown out after developing the film. Got it free & made money off the silver.
This has to be one of the most satisfying channels on youtube, you waste nothing, everything is a closed loop. That is one big honking bar of silver, it's gorgeous!
Also if you watch any of his previous videos you can easily get the backstory of what his whole gig is. I've found it to be very informative & interesting
torching smaller amounts at a time would actually save you a lot of time and fuel. if you run the torch and just add a touch of silver at a time, itll melt within seconds and just sprinkle new on slowly while torching and youll hit a rate thats almost an instant melt
Sreetips, have you ever considered using coin molds? Just the idea of buying some small wooden chest and adding some pirate décor and casting pure silver coins would be freaking awesome!
Wow. To get those blue crystals in the face of the ingot, I bet that only has 30-40 ppm of impurities (99.997 - 99.996%). That's a credit to your precise technique and determination.
I have studied Sreetips videos watching hours upon hours and absorbing what he teaches. As a testament to his videos, my very first attempt building and running a silver cell was a resounding success. The dense silver crystals that came out of my cell look a lot like these just smaller and are a beautiful pure white. My hat's off to him.
You know, if you used a sifting bowl for your silver and a big enough catcher bowl you can make it much easier to rinse off the electrolyte Just be sure to use your industry coffee filters. What a beautiful harvest you have.
love your videos man, started my own silver and gold cells in the garage a couple weeks ago, so far i've measured the difference between the weight of the gold and silver and the solutions they're "growing" in and so far i have 10 lbs of silver and 7 lbs of gold growing. no i dont have a fume hood but i did utilize my welding extractor to great effect
@@icedragon1000 i got my impure gold and silver from old jewellery and computer hardware bought from pawn shops and junk stores, all together i have about $600 invested
@@JmmanuelKondo i didnt get all 7 lbs of it with the $600, i also was given a bunch of old computer parts by friends and family and was buying electronic pieces from scrapyards for rock bottom prices (about 50 cents a board)
That time lapse was near the end of the run with the filter clogged and current flow, and therefore silver consumption, was slow. I’ll do another from the very start with a clean filter and it should much faster and more dramatic.
I was wondering if you used a fine mesh collender or sive to wash the electrolite off the silver. Kinda set it up over an empty beaker or pail and just rinse the liquid right through the mesh?? Maybe worth a shot anyway to make the cumbersome task of washing easier. Just a thought
That would definitely make some unique jewellery! Epoxy would have hard time to get to all nooks and crannies of the crystal, but the bubbles left might produce some nice effects on them. Ultrasound might break up the finest branches, but not sure.
@@LexYeen It might break the crystal, though. Trial and error will tell us. At some point, someone's going to stop commenting on here and just get up and DO it. When they do, I hope they tell the rest of us how it went.
This was great. Ive only melted metals with a TV lense from the sun. The sun method might be worth the time, but it will never be acurate like this as it requires the weather to be clear.
What I love about this video is just like what it says in the thumbnail, sreetips tells you how to get free silver. I've used the techniques in this video to make a billion tons of free silver and I'm now I'm very wealthy. Thanks, sreetips!
Try to make a 4-point connection (crosswise) to the stainless steel vessel, I'm thinking, if you put abrasive cloth on the inside of the stainless steel bowl I think silver adheres better
Well, don’t get your hopes up, it’s not as easy as it looks. I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. The impure silver is added to the anode basket. The anode basket is suspended in the silver nitrate electrolyte. I pass an electric current through the impure silver. The impure silver dissolves, passes through the Dacron filter, travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte, and deposits (grows) on the inside of the stainless steel bowl (the cathode) as high purity elemental silver. The bowl is connected to the negative pole of the power supply. The process only deposits pure silver on the cathode. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
OK, this is all fine and dandy, but you fail to mention, where do you get the material, and just what "IS" the material? And where do you get the processing materials, and equipment? That sort of info would be nice. Other wise it is just an interesting video.
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. The impure silver is added to the anode basket. The anode basket is suspended in the silver nitrate electrolyte. I pass an electric current through the impure silver. The silver dissolves, passes through the Dacron filter, travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte, and deposits (grows) on the inside of the stainless steel bowl (the cathode). The bowl is connected to the negative pole of the power supply. The process only deposits pure silver on the cathode. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
Great Video, sparks a number of questions; Seams like you've used almost as much silver in the process of making 4.5 kilos, as you netted, I realize you get silver cement as a byproduct of your gold refinement, what would you say is the general cost to refine a 15 day 6 liter cell which nets you 4.5 kilos? As I have many questions I'll try to keep them to one every now and then as to not become a burden. Thanks
I don’t know the cost, but it doesn’t matter to me. I have lots of cement silver that must be run through the cell. I use sterling silver to refine gold. I recover the silver from that. Its purity, and therefore its value, are questionable. So I run it thru the cell. Then its value is easy to determine.
This was pried at fifty bucks per ounce (as per Mrs sreetips decree) and it sold almost immediately. This means that the ask price was too low, or the “market price” is grossly undervalued, or both.
i was a chef and would make bone stock. iwere talking about 100 pounds of beef bones, the besst way to seperate all the stuff is with a ladel, and or a fine mesh strainer.
I gave up my claim because it took 3 buckets of mine dirt to get that much silver - too much hassle especially with the cat knocking over the cell twice and all. My gold claim was 4 times worse, it took 12 buckets.
I am totally a novice, but I wonder why your electrolytic cell techniques could not be applied to tall vertical/cylindrical electrodes in selected electrolyte mixes to centrally/radially elute gold and silver off of properly supported ion exchange resins, in your Dacron liners? For gold, a titanium cylindrical bowl, as the anode, and a titanium central electrode cathode, with the e path radially out through the bead column, and for the silver, a central silver rod electrode suspended vertically inside the ion exchange bead "column", suspended, wetted in the electrolyte, within your Dacron sleeve? Of course, there is no plastic retainer shell as in a routine IOX column, or one shell has been modified with cutouts to allow circumferential wetting of the Dacron sleeve full of IOX. Custom configurations of outer removable shell, perforated shell, Dacron liners, central anode -- bead column units could be constructed to make them plug and play in counter-current flow lixiviant leach streams to saturate the columns, in the stepwise loading fashion to max load the beads. Remember that current IOX gold and silver commonly burns the loaded IOX for only one use. Then, your system should reverse the redox: Au+2CS(NH2)2 =Au[CS(NH2)2] +e for the gold-thiourea case, plate the gold on the titanium anode (as in your other brilliant video) or plate the silver on a stainless steel cylinder outer anode. The advantages: 1)Regeneration of the IOX in one step, solving the problem of eluting the column, 2) plating a high purity product, maybe 99.9 or 99.0+ gold or silver in ONE step, (allowing further replating/electro purification as you have beautifully demonstrated) 3) Saving time, energy and money in all these steps, and allowing the IOX to be used 5-6 times. Just my mumblings. Thank you for nudging my brain awake. Comment?
look i understand, that you started at some point with that amount of solid material, and basically just re-formulated that material. but you didnt really go into that. and explain your machine, or what was happening in the cup, and where that material was going, etc..
Ok, here you go: I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. The impure silver is added to the anode basket. The anode basket is suspended in the silver nitrate electrolyte. I pass an electric current through the impure silver. The silver dissolves, passes through the Dacron filter, travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte, and deposits (grows) on the inside of the stainless steel bowl (the cathode). The bowl is connected to the negative pole of the power supply. The process only deposits pure silver on the cathode. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
Can you tell me how much precious metal in the basket you began with? Or specifically, what is the cost of the metal that you began with compared to the end result of silver you “grew”?
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. The impure silver is added to the anode basket. The anode basket is suspended in the silver nitrate electrolyte. I pass an electric current through the impure silver. The silver dissolves, passes through the Dacron filter, travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte, and deposits (grows) on the inside of the stainless steel bowl (the cathode). The bowl is connected to the negative pole of the power supply. The process only deposits pure silver on the cathode. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
I don’t worry about the cost. Silver is grossly undervalued. So I’m buying all I can while it’s still cheap. And I don’t have to be concerned with reselling it because I’m not selling any of my silver.
Stainless steel mesh strainers are stupid expensive. I wouldn't even bother I'd just pass it back and forth like an idiot till I got most of it out.... 😐
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver, not creating silver out of thin air. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
Except your clickbait thumbnail says "why pay for silver when you can grow it" so I guess the estate sales just give you the silver when you buy the gold?
No, I buy the silver - pay them nearly full price. Because it doesn’t matter. Silver is so grossly undervalued, and I don’t have to worry about trying to resell it. I’m keeping all my silver.
I just dissolve copper into a solution, dilute that, drop the copper using iron, decant and collect the powdery copper, then cement out my silver using the fine powdery copper. I estimate til I feel it’s close, then I put some of the copper into a filter and let it steep like a teabag so that last bit gets dropped without ending up with an excess of copper as a contaminant
It’s not pretty crystals though. However it IS silver and I have only one thing I use it for. . . And I won’t tell anyone because I am patenting the idea. It’s going to get make me Sreetips wealthy.
If you pre heat your molds in an oven or on top of a furnace to about 300 deg. the sides of the bar will turn out much better and the cooling of the bar will go slower and the top will look better also. great video , love the new cell. Thanks
That was my take too. All that work to grow and process it. It must become a part of you at some point. I've done business with JMB for a few years now. 😇🤑🤣
My friend, it seems to me it has become time to start thinking about some production streamlining. a collection, wash and and straining station would be relatively simple and would make your life easier along with decreasing waste. Also a smelting forge large enough that the crucible could hold 5 pounds of your elemental silver would make things so much more efficient. Cheers!
For Sreetips Try a pasta sauce ladel/scoop combined with the scraper to move silver across from the stainless steel bowl to beaker until it gets a little lighter. Don’t want to get sore wrists and or risk dropping kg of silver everywhere!
@@danger3_255 That's a great idea! Hey @sreetips ! Got any way to cast some high purity silver bullets? I bet they'd go over REALLY well at the eBay store
The cell is a monster! Been waiting on this video for a few days now. Spectacular result! The deposits at the bottom of the cell were thicker than anything I could have imagined! Great looking bar as well! Well done sir, very well done!
First of all I'm glad you followed the idea to drain the cell with a tube instead of lifting the whole thing. Second, a small good quality plastic shovel (IE sand toys) could pick up most of the metal without the bowl being in the air. Also I'm sure we can find a better way to rinse the silver. I'm thinking to start by puting the silver in a fine mesh seive rincing with tap water, first then when it's somewhat clean, using distilled water like you usually do. A serious foundry setup would melt this amount of silver in less than 10 minutes. Could be great for impure silver shots as well. What a fantastic harvest that was. That melting silver looked incredible.
Many overlook the true purpose of silver. It's safe around humans, it's natural antibacterial, it's the top dog of electric current conductivity. You have more than you realize sir.
I'd sure trade you my problem of not having enough silver for your problem of having too much silver 😂 Wonder if a guy could use a screened colander to strain off the excess electrolyte from your silver beaker. Love this step in the process. Thanks for sharing 👍
$3500 for $2000 worth of silver? I would just assume go buy 2 kilo bars from hero or monument, they have very low premiums on those size bars they also come with a serial number and a stamp from a reputable refinery so they are easy to resell. I'd be interested and I know you have a lot of time but $50 per oz is way to much, it could be a very long time before we ever see that money back, silver is finally just starting to come to life again after years and really it ain't much especially if you consider it's supposed to follow gold and gold is on fire.
Here’s what’s missing: I really didn’t want to sell it because I know when silver gets to a hundred bucks then that bar will be twice as valuable. So, if I do make a sale, then I’m not going to let it go for the grossly undervalued thirty bucks (with premium). If I can’t get fifty, I’ll just keep it. Time is on my side. Hope this helps.
I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. The impure silver is added to the anode basket. The anode basket is suspended in the silver nitrate electrolyte. I pass an electric current through the impure silver. The silver dissolves, passes through the Dacron filter, travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte, and deposits on the stainless steel bowl (the cathode). The bowl is connected to the negative pole of the power supply. The process only deposits pure silver on the cathode. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.
Tapping the Oxy/Acetylene head against the table usually clears that fouling , so you don’t have to stop while pouring Really nice bar . I’m moving up to 250g bars next . Always enjoy your channel
50 U$ Dollar for an OZT? The official price is between 25 and 30 currently. It's much cheaper to buy one in a store. Where ist the additional value coming from?
That wasn’t a bad haul , you sold a 64+ ounce bar of un-verified .999 pure silver for over a $1;000 + profit $3,000 dollars for $1,900+ dollars in silver .
I guess these people in the comments weren't around when you first started selling PMs on eBay. I remember several pieces that went for under spot. I happy as a clam that now Sreetips silver draws a premium price, you deserve it.
theres nothing better than the finger prints of a poured bar. its a beautiful thing. melting silver is such a satisfying chore. i always want to melt my silver down just to melt it but it would be pretty inefficient to just melt silver bars into silver bars for no reason lmao
I found a beautiful sterling spoon in my travels hunting for silver to refine. I use it to fill the vials and fill the anode basket, for smaller tasks. It's like a half sized spoon, about 12 grams, and a fairly basic design, but it's in amazing condition. I have grown rather fond of it, and I don't have the heart to send it to the nitric bath.
