I'd never ask but I like to think Sreetips has a guest bedroom in his house full of tupperware containers filled with silver crystal stacked to the ceiling. Hahaha...
True. Even though I have absolutely no intention of actually doing this stuff myself, it remains fascinating for reasons that are...well, I don't know what they are.
When you finish a nice, high purity gold bar pour I'm always dazzled by the result. But man - when those silver crystals are fully formed at the end of a refining they are nothing short of spectacular. 👍👍👍
Sir you and I have spoken a few times. And I really need some help and or advice I took a mess load of silver items and melted and refined it down. But I made too many mistakes in my process. Now I am stuck with about 800 grams of silver of unknown quality. If I was to send it all to you can you refine it down for me. I also have quite a few other silver items I want to have added into the deal too.
Ive been watching your videos for years now and I gotta say: I really love your videos. They are educational, interesting and you always maintain a very calm and captivating voice while explaining everything. Your videos always give me some enlightening peace during those difficult times. Thank you sreetips!
I never tire from watching Sreetips videos . You inspire me to one day try my hand at precious metals refining . Thanks much , from one veteran to another . Peace my Brother .
You’re welcome! Again, it was my pleasure to watch. Very concise and informative. A couple few years ago, my friend in Guerrero introduced me to his silversmithing method and as I watched him liquify about two oz in a melt dish then remove the flame I noticed a shape in the mobile surface slag that looked like a map of russia. At that same moment he said “continents form” and I watched intently as the sub-continent of India plowed into the larger mass…simply fascinating.
Amazing Mr Reetips! Besides the video anyone who wants to learn how AA perfect Silver refine process should be, you also answered all questions I had in my mind over all these years In follow you.
Even thou ive seen you do this a few times now I still Love to see it and the End Result is so cool as the Silver Crystals look so Good thank you Great Vlog
Thanks for the video. I thought it might have been an old one but when I saw the new rig you use to refine the sliver .I hope to see more new videos and always enjoy reviewing older ones. I do believe I could do this sort of work if ever the opportunity presented itself.
The silver "popcorn" has a certain visual appeal at least through video. Of course pure silver crystal is very appealing, visually and financially. Great video and great explanation!
Nice job, not sure when you changed the connection to the bowl, I must have missed that one. Looks like a nice solid connection now. Thanks for sharing, love watching the silver cell series.
Yay thanks for all the content lately! The silver is my favorite. I'm not much of a gold guy anyways I prefer silver esthetically. But the crystalline structure of the silver in the silver cell is so amazing too!
I’ve noticed that most people prefer the look of the silver over the gold, even though gold is worth 80 times more than gold. Eighty times? That total rubbish. Silver should be at $200 for a 20 to 1 ratio. But I’d rather hold an asset that’s being artificially suppressed than one that is being artificially inflated.
Awesome video. I am really into the journey, from start to waste treatment. Hiccups, experiments and lessons learned. And oddly, the whine of the fume hood.
Yay more silver cell! I was just about to go to bed, saw the notification and hit the 'fridge for another beer. Can't wait to watch. Thank you for doing what you do. Edit: What happened to that little furnace you had which enabled you to melt larger quantities of cement silver at once?
I also refined gold using this technique more than 15 years ago ,a suggestion you could try like I did for metal preparation: I poured the metal into the bar then I rolled the bar as thin as I could (0.9 mm) then I used a rolling mill for corrugation, after which I cut the sheet to the desired size, then put into acid, or other method try drilling the crucible like a sieve near the end of the stream, but i think you need another type of deeper crucible. The thinner the metal, the better the final quality and timing.Good luck!
Cement silver seems like a very safe way to store it. Who's going to look twice at a big bag of "cement" in your workshop? Just need to be absolutely sure you use the right bag next time you're doing construction :)
So are you for hire...lol.. have sulfide, platinum, chromium....yes Gold...Need help... Got $$$ I want to learn how to do this safety. I'm so tired of paying for assays...😬
it will be nice to get some confirmation of your pure silver with XRF gun... maybe some youtuber can help? there are few youtubers that have such device... great video as always, keep them comming
I had a sample analyzed last year. Came back greater than four nines. That’s 99.99% or better. They document actually listed hundreds of possible contaminants. Said they were not detectable during their analysis. Guardian Laboratories in the U.K. Did it for me.
Great as always. Amazing to see how copper contaminates your silver even after you rinsing it numerous times. The green flame from melting as well as the copper color on the shot. It is curious to see that even though it is a very low concentration of copper in the shot, the copper color is more predominant than the silver color.
@@sreetips wow I learned something today! Of course I see why you wouldn't do that considering it's going right into the silver cell basket. Still a really neat thing.
I've never seen anything like this; it's amazing. There is this stretch of highway the million dollar or route 66 or something like that at Silverton Colorado. My God man the gash there is horrific, they went gonzo on silver ore. I always had to stop and just look at that gash in utter amazement. Cheers
I love these videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Where does the impurities go? The silver deposits on the bowl but where does the copper or other metals deposit?
It’s even got a rubberized coating on the outer bottom to keep it from slipping. Nine dollars I think it was about ten years ago. But with the value of dollars melting away faster than a snowball in July due to money printing by our friends in high places, it is probably about twenty dollars these days. It hadn’t gone up in value, the currency used to buy it has lost that much value. I had surgery on my hand today and still a little loopy. Good luck!
Great content thanks very much. keep them coming please 👍🏻. I have a question what is the electrode bar made from and did you make it???... thanks again, Cheers. 👏🏻
Nice! Love the vid. Question,, would an induction melter with a black cruseble not be more efficient to melt lager amounts of silver. Or the gas furnace
You often refer to some books that you’ve read that have the procedures and measurements, etc that you follow. Can you do a video of those books and which ones you use for which processes?
We're do you source your concentrated nitric acid? Do you extract the copper from the solution after the cementing? If so can the nitric acid be reused again? It seems you are forever cycling what you have and gaining beautiful silver crystals every harvest. So intriguing. I'm glad I ran onto your channel!
Nitric from dudadiesel.com I extract the copper in my waste treatment buck on angle iron. I do not recover nitric because it’s time consuming and the yield is low.
@@malclaire you can't grow a copper sulfate crystal in a metal container because the metal will contaminate the crystal, especially with stainless steel, the copper will cement out onto the steel instead of on the crystal
Another great video Sreetips! I have a question; Is there a way to refine silver to pure silver by other means like the chemical refining you do for gold with aqua rega and precipitating? Would love to see other ways you would come up with to get your cement silver to pure silver, as an experiment of course.
@@sreetips Cool, I just googled "silver chloride conversion with lye and sugar" and one of your videos from 2016 popped up and I just watched it. Nice use of a power drill lol (not sarcasm, I think it's great ingenuity). I see why you prefer the silver cell.
Man. If someone placed me in a facility with equipment to do things like this, I would work for free. Why do I enjoy this so much? Is this chemistry or alchemy?
Hey @sreetips. So I understand the precision in quality you get from chemically purifying things. One thing I've always wondered is why you only melt metals in a dish with a torch blasting on it for long periods? Would one of those electric forge/foundry's not be better for the quantities you go through?
Love your videos :) One question. Is there a specific reason you are using the small melt dish? As in a slightly bigger one would fit more silver at a time I guess :)
Great video. To be honest, I don’t know what you are doing. I subscribed to you a while back and not sure why I quit watching, but I saw this notification and watched. I need to watch the start of the process and follow through to the end so I can figure it out. I travel a lot for work, so I do not have the time to do this but some day I will retire and have time to do this. I can save materials in the time being to begin the cycle. What video starts from the beginning?
Watch my video titled waste treatment. In it I draw a block diagram of the processes that I use. It’s basic and just an overview but it’s a good place to start to see the big picture of what I’m trying to do.
Hey Sree love your videos keep'em coming. I've learned a ton from your videos. Where were you when I needed a good science teacher. Haha. Was just curious do you use distilled water in the pan when you pour silver shot or when you enquart gold with your silver or do you just use the distilled when you rinse? I'm guessing its fine to just rinse with the distilled rather than have a big pan of it when you're making shot. I wasnt sure if the chemicals in the tap water would make a difference when you poured shot. Also where do you get your Acids from. I know you get some from Ace Hardware but wasnt sure where you got your Nitric, sulfuric, etc..from and if there is a certain brand that's better than others.
Distilled water only when working with silver in solution. All other times, tap water is ok. Sulfuric from ace hardware. Nitric from any chemical supply.
I searched for those dacron bags since they looked like they would make a washable cover for the regular vacuum filter. Amazon says customers who bought it also bought crucible and beakers... Looks like sreetips shops on Amazon 🤣
I just keep learning which leads to questions, like; until I get an acetylene torch will a MAP Gas torch do the job for melting silver and gold? I know they're not as hot, but until I can get the latter, I wonder if it will do the job.
I'd really like to know how you dispose of the terminal liquids... Do you get rid of them in some recycling facility specialized into chemical wastes ?
Really enjoying your silver cell video's, thanks for sharing. I was wondering why you don't want nitric acid in your electrolyte? Is that because your would otherwise pull other metals from the shot as well?
High nitric concentration could dissolve palladium from the anode filter and then it could get into the electrolyte and begin co-depositing with the silver. Bad news because palladium is 100 times more valuable than silver.
Just curious, have you thought about a cement cupel in furnace to drive off copper to extend electrolyte life before making shot. Would be an interesting cost/benefit analysis.
Excellent video! A question I couldn't find anywhere in this video - is the electrode bar you insert on top of the silver shot itself made of silver? If so do you just cast a section of copper wire into a small ingot mold of molten silver?
I suspend a 10 gauge copper wire into the mold cavity and heat, then I melt some pure silver crystal (about 2.5 Troy ounces) and pour it in. The molten silver instantly welds to the hot copper wire. I’ll make another and do a video on it.
I ask could you speed up the process by replacing the electrolyte in the steel cathode bowl every so often? If not is there any way to speed it up? Maybe increase the voltage or amps?
Voltage set is critical at 3.3 to 3.7 VDC. Increase the voltage and the crystals will grow much faster. You can actually watch them grow. But the problem is: the crystals are long and needle-like and their rapid growth rate will cause them to make contact with the anode filter bag, burn a hole in it and ruin the pure silver batch
