That ,right there, is top of the line grade A Merlin style alchemy. I am fascinated by the process you are gracious enough to share with us. Thank you Sir.
Sreetips: "I'm going to put my wedding ring in acid" Mrs. Sreetips runs in: "What do you think you are doing?? I can't leave you alone for 5 minutes!!" 🤣🤣🤣
That was my first reaction, too. He's been doing this long enough, though, that I'm sure she's learned to trust him. BTW, am I the only one that's seen her and thought he's batting out of his league? Lol!
I remember I asked about the silver alloying process a long time ago and sree actually took time out and typed a response to me about it, I was pretty happy about that, I like how he takes time to really show and explain what he is doing and why. I wish we had more science classes like this in either k-12 or even college classes. On a side note, he is one brave man... Imagine if he got the reaction wrong while experimenting with his wedding ring. "I swear honey it got A LOT of views on youtube! Look I made you a pretty pink gold/silver lump..."
You see a difference in the wedding band, and the 6K gold, the low Karat gold turned brown almost as soon as the nitric acid touched it, the band stayed golden yellow. Seen you do this a time or 2 before this. It is still amazing
Sreetips, I remember the first time you used your wedding band as a demonstration for inquartation processes. Your wife is truly an angel and one of great faith. God bless you both. Your videos are such an educational and life lesson experience!
Wow! Just wow! Just when I thought you couldn't amaze me any more. You have got the whole process down to a tee and it is hypnotic how the gold ends up so pure and beautiful, well done again sir!
I think the inquartation has finally sunk in as long as you remember to melt the two metals together first. You said copper can be used as well, I'm going to assume the same 75% as you did with the sterling. Very informative and thank you Sreetips.
One of my favourite channels. Shout out to you sir from myself over in Wales UK and may God bless you and your family for providing us with a decent RU-vid channel.
Seeing that pile of mud in the crucible gave me the idea on how to safely store large amounts of gold. No thief in hell is going to give two craps about a few "mud" filled jars strew across your garage.
My take is that quartering au with ag is ideal. The demonstration between carat au Vs cu in the hno3 solution was amazing. Note: The carat au was unaffected but the cu finely separated into solution. The inquartation of 25% au with 75% ag cast as shot then boiled in the hno3 H20 solution several times resulted in three 9's au. Quite frankly it becomes obvious that low carat au is cast fairly often so it must do well. That said, I'm left wondering if graphite pour cubes shaped like 14 mm chess pieces are available or if you would need to cast using other methods. Probably 24 k kings, 18 k queen's, 14 k knights and bishops, and 10 k rooks would be interesting. Adding gems would be really fun. Cheers,✌️♥️👍 Kudos to the Mrs.'s
That buddist necklace might be worth more on it's own. If it's a legitimate old hand-me-down necklace from an oriental origin, the piece might be an antique! My friend had a very similar thing with a 3D Vishnu on it made of 24k gold that was hundreds of years old, and it was worth like £5-6k, way more than it's weight in gold (about £3k of gold iirc).
That's really neat! Imagine the very first person on earth to have figured out how to do that whole process from start to finish...mind blown. Before the torch when it still looked like sludge I'd never have known there was gold in it. But after that torch hit it, it got really pretty. I have to wonder if that necklace would be worth more in tact. If they bothered putting high quality gold in it maybe it was a designer piece.
Don't feel obligated to answer, I know it's taboo to ask.. but as someone who loves a good bargain I'm dying to know how much Mrs. Sreetips was able to get all this great material for.
To those who ask why the senior chief doesn't start off by dissolving the 14K and 10K gold in aqua regia: Doing so would result in all of the silver turning into silver chloride, which requires a couple of messy reactions to refine back into silver, and the solution will contain base metals in addition to the precious metals. Inquartation, followed by a nitric acid boil, extracts the silver as silver nitrate, the base metals also go into solution, and only the precious metals remain as solids. Recovering the silver metal from the solution is a much less messy procedure.
Hands down best content on yt my add/adhd is totally invested lol currently collecting scrap and karat gold also step dad was a jewler i have sweeps platninum gold many scrap pieces ect cant wait to execute this method of refinement
That was .9999 Pure Gold! Beautiful bar!...Where's mine! Lol 😂...And thanks for the Sulphuric purification after using the SMB twice...That's why that Ingot looked so bloody good...Well done...
I love this! I shared this video with my wife, to reignite her desire to go, "Urban Mining", at Estate Sales! Please don't boil your wedding ring....... again! I cringe every time you do that! 👍 Great and FANTASTIC CONTENT! NEVER GET TIRED OF WATCHING YOUR RU-vid VIDEOS! Wade
Most people don’t understand gold and silver. They believe, incorrectly, that paper dollars are more valuable than the metals. For those that do understand, a world of prosperity awaits.
Hello Mr sreetips. Seems to me that Mrs sreetips has work hard to get gold to your hobby. God truly blessing both of you. It is so nice to see. Hard woork and gods blessing realy pays out🌹🌹. Have a Nice day, and thank you for a nice clip. Arne 🇳🇴
Love the video! I believe we will see gold/silver continue to fall through 2023 and then climb for the next 5 years or so. What do you think? Internet never forgets. So, I may be proven foolish with this post, but I did predict the $50 silver boom and it’s fall. Sadly some fought me on that. I hope they didn’t lose too much.
You demonstrated THAT inquarting works.. but not so much WHY it works. For those still puzzled about why, basically, the silver or copper can only be digested by the nitric acid if the nitric can reach it. At the atomic level, in 14k gold, there are about 11 gold atoms for every 10 silver atoms, so it is possible for silver atoms to be encapsulated by gold atoms, and even those silver atoms on the surface, when digested, make a very small cavity with few adjacent silvers, the nitric can't penetrate effectively. When you inquart to 6k, you're providing 5.5 silver atoms for every gold atom, which eliminates encapsulation of the silver, ensures that each silver atom has many adjacent silver atoms, and their removal creates large fluid channels which enables the nitric to reach and remove all of the silver atoms into solution, so they can be poured/rinsed/filtered off the pure gold. Sreetips.. do you agree? (Your channel, I'll defer if you have a correction..). What I'm curious about.. something I'd consider.. is using SMB for one precip, dropping the gold and (am I right?..) any PMG metals present, and then doing the second precip with oxalic acid which (again, am I right?..) won't drop the PMG, and can't drop anything removed by nitric or left in solution in the SMB precip. Seems to me that alternating between SMB and OA would give even better purity. Finally.. placer mined gold, such as the 88% AU typically found off Nome, AK.. could that be the impure feedstock for a gold electrolysis cell built like your silver cells, or would the placer gold need to be purified with aqua regia first?
Thank you for this as I've collected over 20 oz of electronic parts that nitric does not affect and will do an experiment in inquarting on them. Hoping that adding more silver than necessary will not affect the quality as I have no way of guessing the K content
Excellent video every time I see you use your wedding band for example it's always interesting to think people still don't understand why you use silver outstanding video awesome content thank you for sharing six Stars brother
that was cool to see and helpful. I wouldnt of risked my ring tho lol. Just goes to show you really know what youre doing and trust yourself and skills. I like it other then a little cleaning the ring was fine, did not expect that.
3:14 what you found here isn't just a piece of any costume. Its a "mangalsutra", worn by married hindu women in india. Mangalsutras are symbolic of a woman being married. Almost always these will have gold in them, along with different stones. Because the culture promotes using real gold for auspiciousness. So the next time you get hold of one of these, you are lucky!! Sometimes they may even have a few more precious gemsand other metals in them!! You dont even have to check the purity. I can say that almost every one of those mangalsutras will have a lot of high quality gold in them.
@@sreetips lol he is, if a little crazy sometimes 😁 Thanks for the reply and thank you for your videos. Love your work and spend hours watching and rewatching them 👍
I heard and watched a few videos about urban mining but their definition was to go to high pedestrian traffic areas like Rockefeller Center or Hollywood Blvd and sweep up all the dirt between concrete slabs and crevices then sift and refine it for precious metals.
Hi, I appreciate it would come at a cost of both time and chemicals, but as a one off it would be interesting to see a melt of just the recovered gold after inquartation, and then commence the refining process to show the value in 1st/2nd refinings
Since the wedding band came out discolored - a slightly darker shade - it shows that a little part (silver and copper) of the alloy was dissolved. Weighing the band prior and after the demonstration would show that a tiny amount of the wedding band went in solution. I think that inquarting modifies the structure (more silver interspersed between the pure gold) of an alloy so that the acid has easier/faster access to the soluble metals. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I'd love to see the cost of supplies and energy usage, per bar. I'm sure you get this gold cheap, but I have to wonder if such a process is even remotely feasible for anyone that isn't getting the gold on the cheap. Surely, all the supplies must add up and make the value much less.
The way I understand inquartation, since the gold doesn't dissolve in nitric acid, if you want to get the other dissolvable metals out of the alloy, they have to be able to make contact with the acid. And only with a low enough gold content, will there be enough dissolvable metal within the structure for the acid to penetrate all the way through the surface.
That’s correct. High karat protects the metals from the acid. Reducing the gold in the alloy enables the hot nitric to penetrate, forming a honeycomb structure as it goes, to the very core of each piece. It will remove almost every bit of silver and base metals. The only problem is lead. The only way to get that out is refining with aqua regia.
