Turning a BLOB into PURE GOLD! 

As a chemist, seeing 96% yield of 99% purity from a process by someone who calls themself a non-chemist is mind-boggling. Smithing is definitely chemistry imo, and I have some serious respect for you for doing something like this so flawlessly. 10/10.

I am 100% sure that if children at school watched this video in a chemistry class there would be a huge increase in interest in that subject, good job on the process and on filming it well (y)

The craziest part to me is knowing the generations of Alchemists who tried to create gold which also lead to the discovery of so many interesting reactions in chemistry.

How captivating, that was an amazing outcome, well worth the time you invested in it, I can’t wait to see what you do next. Thanks for the upload.

These are the kind of science experiments i wished they conducted in high school. Never thought of watching someone turn a piece of blob into pure Gold. You sir are definitely the Modern Goldsmith.

The thought of how people figured this all out is just amazing. Theres so many steps that need to be done in an exact certain way that i can only wonder the frustrations people had in the past to figure this all out.

My 2nd time around watching this. Still very well done and still satisfying to watch. Your well written script helps, and to film while doing all the multiple acid dissolving, my head is spinning. Congrats! 😀

This is much fun watching! Thank you.

PART 2: SILVER REFINING: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b76SJfgiZIM.html WOW. The comments! I'm happy so many of you enjoyed this video. Makes all the hours worth it. Please subscribe and tell 50 of your closest family and friends. haha. As mentioned in my video description, I owe a debt of gratitude to NileRed and Sreetips for their videos, which helped me tremendously.

This is easily one of the best, well documented videos I've ever seen on RU-vid. Amazing watch. Totally captivated the entire time.

I've seen chemists do this sort of thing, but your perspective definitely makes it seem way cooler and more interesting to watch

Your passion shines through in every video! 💖

I recently just bought my first gold bar that is only 1 gram and it was pretty expensive. The fact that this turned out to be 213 grams is pretty wild. To put that in perspective, that blob of gold is worth $14K+ right now.

A regular chemist wouldn't struggle with the chemical-related part, but would struggle with the actual goldsmith-related part, so seeing a goldsmith who didn't struggle with the gold smithing part, but with the chemical part, is truly an interesting change in roles. Also *3:29* RIP blob 2023-2023. He will be missed ;~;

That was so fascinating. What a process! Thank you for sharing.

WOW!!! I am so impressed with what you did. Great job!

Given that even that little disc of gold is worth almost $13,000 (U.S.) as of the day I'm writing this, the amount of work invested into this process is absolutely worth a goldsmith's time. As for me, I was just completely mesmerized by the chemistry. Great video!

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how much work he put into this gold?

Loved it great of you to show the proyect!

Wow that's the first time I have seen smelting done like this, looks like a lot of work but the purity is the reward..

First time I watched this process was NileRed refining a viewers gold. It’s cool to see a gold smith do it just using some research. The yield was very high I was surprised. In the original block there was a huge section of dirt and other metals and I thought that would bring the yield down a lot from the initial estimate. Great video!

That was so satisfying to watch! Glad you had the patience to go through the whole process!🎉

With unlimited resources and unlimited time, this is the kind of thing I would love to mess around with. Refining things not out of necessity or greed, but out of sheer joy of the process of creation.

I remember coming across this gem of a video back in the beginning of this 2023 year when you first uploaded it. Now, it's less than a week until Thanksgiving as of this writing, and I'm STILL amazed by the whole gold refining process you blessed us with! Keep up the greatness!

As a metal detectorist, many years ago, I found a similar yet much smaller blob. It had silver and gold melted together. A local historian (Southern Missouri) showed me photos of recovered items from local bandits. Among the items were 'cobs' that were the stolen booty that the bandits had melted and then distributed to the gang. Apparently this practice was commonplace during and after the civil war for that region. (Quantrill raiders)

I love this video Not only is it fun to see a non-chemist try something like this - and for it to succeed so well (seriously your yield is astonishing) This video also has story to it, *The Blob* is a lovely little character and im happy to see him looking purer and healthier than he's ever been Thank you for this

A good tip to deal with black crud like you had at the start is to add some hydrogen peroxide. Most likely the black stuff is carbon, which isn't water soluble. Hydrogen peroxide will break it down and give off simple carbon dioxide. It's also quite safe to use really.

Wow! super cool! I really enjoyed .Thank you! I didn’t know gold could look like this during the procedure…

This is definitely not your average jeweller channel 😍 i’ve always loved your videos, and this turn you’ve taken makes you even more awesome

I’m a chemist and work with aqua regia frequently- you did a fantastic job, but I am wondering how you handled the aqua regia waste. If left unneutralized in a plastic waste container, it can eat at the plastic and spill everywhere! love you channel and have been watching for a while :)

That was one of the most enjoyable and fascinating videos I’ve ever watched on RU-vid. Great job.

I really enjoyed the video. The gold blob looks really good! Thanks for posting.

Very good and well described video. I am a retired metallurgist who worked for many years in the gold mining industry in Western Australia. I managed laboratories where we not only conducted our own assays on bullion by traditional fire assay methods - we also produced our own 99.9% "proof" gold to use as standards in the fire assaying processes. Our method of producing "proof" gold was very similar to what you have shown here, except that after the aqua regia digestion, we filtered out any remaining solids (silver chloride) and took the solution up in hydrochloric acid / reduced over heat and re-filtered a couple of times before finally taking up in distilled water giving us about 5 litres of a very clear, but still acidic solution containing the gold. We then slowly added caustic soda to this clear solution while gently stirring - the metallic gold precipitating out of the solution looked like "gold rain" falling to the bottom of the beaker. Precipitate was then washed in distilled water a number of times before drying. We then weighed out one gram lots of this dry precipitate into small china / porcelain crucibles and put into a dedicated furnace to melt down / anneal into small gold buttons or "prills". These were then put through manual "bullion rolls"and rolled out into long strips, which were stored and cut up when required to make "proof" standards to compare routine assay results against. You could also purchase certified "proof" gold ribbon and solutions from the Perth Mint for use in making your own "standards" but these were very expensive. As a result, we only very rarely purchased these standards and used them to confirm / validate our own site-produced standards - usually when conducting assays for other clients / joint venture partners etc.

Probably the last subject I expected to be watching but certainly a pleasantly surprising process for this layman. This could have been a boring process but your production made this quite interesting. Well done! Thanks for sharing.

WOW The PROCESS WAS SO SATISFYING

I really enjoyed the process for the gold refinement. It helps me understand all of the gold miners excitements of finding flakes of gold.

Wow this was absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing this amazing process.

This was very enjoyable to watch. I loved it

I hope you make more explorative videos on your channel because I'm sure I'm not the only one who found this fascinating! Love your channel!

Excellent job for a first time! As others said, with lower purity gold it’s much easier to use hot nitric acid to remove impurities. Luckily, gold chemistry tends to be pretty much quantitative because it’s so easy to precipitate it and test the solution for gold. It also makes such a bright yellow solution that it’s easy to see when you’ve washed it off of filter papers and glassware.

This is so satisfying to watch! Thats a nearly $13k blob of 24k Gold! Fantastic video!

Ive watched Cody's lab do stuff like this before, but its nice to see someone do this for the first time.

This is seriously one of the best videos I’ve seen in at least the last year or two! Outstanding work and your diligence is impressive! Thanks for doing this!

So satisfying! Thank you for taking the time to share this. I have always been super curious how gold goes from those earth chunks to the pure stuff. :D This was discovery channel worthy content.

im sure all my chemistry teacher in school are crying watching this video! really a great job!

It was a great work. Thanks for your time and effort

Awesome! Thx for walking us through what must’ve been a painstaking (but rewarding) process. Glad I didn’t have to do the dishes afterward!

This is awesome!! It’s so cool to see people appreciate chemistry as it applies to their fields. As a chemist, I have one tip: add a very small amount of sulfuric acid (like a few drops worth) to your reaction before adding the sodium metabisulfite. This will keep lead in solution as the gold precipitates. That should ensure purity for jewelry making because even small amounts of lead will ruin the gold’s malleability. If you really want to get extremely pure, you can run it several times. Then, eventually precipitate the gold with oxalic acid instead of sodium metabisulfite (but this might require you to adjust the pH in order to precipitate the gold).

Great job, Very impressed. I can tell you watched a lot of sreetips. Do more like this. 😊

Wow you more than doubled subs since this video. Congratulations and I’m happy to find you as your videos are relaxing

The patience you showed is commendable, great job.

This was byfar one of the best videos I have ever seen. You didn't go too heavily into the chemistry and kept it at a low high school level that was easy to understand. I can't wait to see you do the same for turning silver back into the pure ore. When you make the rings or whatever out of these blobs, please make it a bit of a retrospective of the whole process.

This a spectacular instructional. Thank you so much!

Wow! Master of the craft, really enjoyed each second of the video. Thanks for the chemistry class

Man, just watching you went trough the entire process was fascinating, great job and keep up the good work!

As a chemist, it hurts so much seeing you use the Erlenmeyer flask with the Buchner filter, and the vacuum flask as an Erlenmeyer. For anyone wondering, the Buchner goes with the vacuum flask joined with a rubber seal, and u connect vacuum on that tube on the side so it filters faster. The erlenmeyer flask has that shape (that kinda cone form) so it reduces the fumes of the solution you have inside. But I honestly have to admit, you did an excellent job!

This is my fifth year after retirement. I've been following the 4% rule thing, but this isn't really how hard I expected things to be. I still have about $460k outside funds in my IRA to invest in stocks. Pls how do I take advantage of the market turnaround?

When the paper test came back clear and the dropper showed no reaction I actually gasped. I figured an 'amateur' would struggle to dissolve it entirely. But chemistry is consistent and if you follow the procedure diligently, it stands to reason you'd achieve your goal! So cool! Thanks for the video.

It’s clear from other chemist videos, people love watching broken up old jewelry, or in this case dirty hunks of impure gold, being turned into pure clean 23-24 karat gold, so I would definitely consider continuing to make videos like this. Who knows your videos could be worth their weight (or more) in GOLD!

By far the best video I've seen on this in every way. The blob face had me cracking up and you simplified the entire process as much as it could be while maintaining a high standard. I've been making handmade jewelry on the side for a couple years now and end up with a lot of scraps of gold and silver. I've been watching chemistry and smelting videos all over YT off and on and it's a daunting time/money investment. Especially the chemistry part. Guess I can say I already started the time investment. If I wasn't doing so many other things I could just focus on this.

This was awesome to watch I am always shocked at how far we have come in the word of alchemy/chemistry

Great video, you explained things very well. Much appreciated!

That’s an incredibly impressive yield. Good job on the chemistry and the video.

11:58 imagine you're doing this, but then your brother comes in, mistakes that for orange juice and drinks your gold

cool thanks, that was fun to watch

this video was pure gold

Really enjoyed seeing all your hard work. Great job at filming, editing, and the audio sounded great. Liked and subscribed 🙂 I didn’t know how much work goes into refining gold. I got a real education here. Thank you 👍🙂

It's amazing to witness the transformation of raw materials into something so valuable and precious. Your dedication and hard work have truly paid off!

It would have been cool to hear how you informed yourself on the steps you took(eg. Googled, asked a friend, some knowledge from previous projects, etc.).

i cant wait to try this at home. thanks.

when you said you werent a chemist and have never done gold refinery like that before i was skeptical but u did a very thorough job and turned out a great yield well done, that gold looks amazing, never gets old looking at that shiny 24k blob

beautiful work !! really enjoyed watching your experience !! thanks for sharing

Wow! That was an awesome video. Thanks for taking us along on your learning journey😊

Wow, what an amazing video, I don't think I blinked.

Freaking kick ass man that was awesome ! one of the best videos I've seen on RU-vid! I'll be watching the rest of your videos. 👍

Hats off to your patience bro ❤️ loved the video loved the process. More power to you!

This was extremely cool!!! I really love your channel because you, unlike other channels aren't a 'ultra luxe' channel showing off but you're actually interested in gold and your skills as a smith and in teaching us. ❤️ Will you do something with silver or titanium next?

The 18 minutes of this video are pure gold, literally!

Wow. Came out beautifully

14:55 - I absolutely love the 'clumpy yellowish brown dirt' look.

The gold blob is much more beautiful than the initial bar-shaped casting. Good call.

I watched with pleasure and I admire you for what you do

Thanks for the great video , so good to see something on the tube that is so interesting .

Jordan this is crazy! Your talent and passion go so much further than surface level jewelry. Your depth of appreciation for your craft is one of the reasons I cherish my engagement ring (other than the man who gave it to me of course haha). It is an honor to have had something handmade by someone who truly is a master at the craft

For a non-chemist, you did a really good job. I'm super impressed!

I have managed a metallurgical refiner for years and I am dumbfounded that you got that level of extraction. Well done!

The yield you reached was extremely maximized. Such dedication 💪

that whole process looked beautiful. the colors, the emotions when dealing with this stuff.. that’s why i became a lab technician / chemist

Excellent video. Thanks. I’m goldsmith myself and I recently started gold recovery from electronics. I had lot of problems separating other metals in the filtering process. Now I’m better at it but really enjoyed this video.

Loved your process! Now I'll go look at traditional process videos

Watching this made me intrigued to possibly doing something like this. Great video and work bro

There’s about $13,200 at 23k and almost $14,000 at 24k. What a beautiful process. I love chemistry and always wanted to get into it. Such valuable information to learn. Thanks for taking the time to make the video it was really well made. 👍👍👍

I must say this is your best video yet simply because you showcased how cool chemistry can be 😊 Keep up the good work Jordan ✨💕

Great info and great video on gold refining and chemistry🏆

Nilred as your chemistry reference was perfect

I’ve never watched a single video of yours until I saw this one. What a wonderfully displayed craft. 99/100 would recommend

I love love love your videos so much! Your personality and humor really shine through, and the whole video is so calming and cinematic!

Love your show dude!!! Good stuff right there...

8:38 it feels like im watching a life lesson video, u have a nice voice to listen to.

Seen a million vids of this but it never gets old and you presented it in a super fun & enjoyable way. Diving into the silver extraction vid now, cheers!