Having been watching on and off for a few years it’s great to watch the techniques and skill improve over time. It’s the same video over and over but the process is constantly evolving and getting better. No many creators could pull this off but sreetips gets me every time
I came across a a Chinese company that makes electrolytic Copper refining machines. The anodes are cast ingots, and the cathodes are Stainless Steel plates. In their literature they mention that the way they overcome passivation on the anodes is to periodically reverse the voltage for random amounts of time, and at random intervals. Apparently this breaks off the passive layer that accumulates. Nice trick.
Now you have been holding out on us, you are a talented musician as well, nice touch! It really worked out well, nice addition. Thanks again for everything you do!
I would love to see you have a bar analyzed before and again after aqua regia to see how much of what gets filtered out. Might be a cool series for you in the future!
Interesting video, don't think I've seen you make a lesser quality gold bar to send to a refinary before. Nice tune also, had a bit of a Blind Melon vibe I thought, the never ending talents of Mr. Sree 👍
I have melted gold directly after the nitric boils in the past. It’s good enough like it is if it’s going to the big refiner. He will just throw it in with his next batch and re-refine it anyway.
Excellent work, Sir! Thank you for explaining the basics to us so patiently and so thoroughly. I TRULY appreciate your kind, calm demeanor, even when accidents or mistakes happen. No needless cursing when the graphite mold fell (like i almost certainly would have done, to my own shame) no outward anger, simply "cool, calm, and collected". You are an excellent teacher 💪
Never boring for me. This channel is my jam. I have been trying to study your methods professor and have bought already some the necessary equipments and jewelries to use. The chemicals not yet, but will get to that later. Need to save up more money.
Yeah I’ve watched your videos on and off for at least a couple of years now, if not more, you’re a beautiful refiner. At the same time, the dragon in me, sees that sterling, and thinks to myself, why even melt down such a beautiful piece of metal when you could just lay in a bath of sterling, and low - mid karat stuff, as I also enjoy the gold 😅 again, your refining skills are always enjoyable and satisfying to watch, and I entirely understand refining this junk to something that could be used again. Not many people look at junk and see treasure
Working on my first cell so I don't have to guess how many 9s to mark my metal with and it's way simpler/more efficient than running both nitric pathways. Thank you sir . Starting with the $5 Thrift shop computer power source. Thank you again. I found my local ace do not carry the dacron pre filters but ugh.. I found them on Amazon . Besides the filter I need the fuse. As I'm about to ask how long it might run and why ypu eventually stepped up to dedicated unit when your video got to the part, your unit is burned out😂. For folks out there. My set up costs ..the acid is probably the biggest expense. Scrap silver is everywhere for cheap if ypu have time to look. But even counting the silver it's less than 200 usd if you are resourceful to set up
@@sreetips it's a classical walk back in real time and a reality check. I was rinsing a large batch of cement as your video played in background. It got clear then kept getting a green mud. Eventually I found several chunks of blue crust.. looking like I'm closer to coin silver than the sterling I started with and tap water in the mix 😂😂😂😂
Madness. It's just interesting chemistry. Helps that you see what's going on along the way. I definitely wasn't totally following where you got the blue silver cell liquid but now I do. You really have to wonder who and how people first came to discover these reactions.
I was just thinking the only video I ever remember of you pouring a bar after inquartation/before refining was when you sent some off to the refiner. I wondered if you were sending this one. It's still pretty as that girl down the street and hard to not look at her. 😉 Thank you, Sr. and BZ once again.
Sreetips if RU-vid isn't paying you for these videos they should be. This is one of the most useful educational channels on RU-vid. Thank you so much for all this knowledge you're passing on
Have you ever considered instead of making a second silver cell, to just make the current one with a gigantic stainless steel bowl (2 gallon pot) and two impure silver anode baskets??? You can use the same power supply and just use two wires ??? I’ve seen it done and the results are the same except so much more silver crystal production in a much shorter period of time … just my two cents worth… regardless, I absolutely love the channel and you’re making me want to get into the refining biz !!! It will be a great retirement hobby for sure !!!
As a former Navy nuke guy and an engineer, when I see your silver cell videos I find myself considering how silver metal moves through the entire process. You start out with cemented silver and run it through the silver cell which of course requires silver nitrate electrolyte to operate. So part of the pure silver output gets diverted into making the necessary electrolyte. Finally, you have three output silver streams. Some impure silver remains in the silver basket, some silver remains in the electrolyte to be recovered as cement silver, and of course the purified silver crystal. Eventually, the former two streams are collected to be purified. Have you ever done estimates of the amounts that end up in each of the three output streams?
I have not. The only reason I do this is because the silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The sterling silver can be held as-is, no need to refine it. So long as you don’t try to melt it and ruin the markings.
Hey buddy. I usually interact with your channel on my other name D3MONIC VIBES, this one tho I do outdoors and project videos, just posted my cell! Just a 40 second peek lol
2 things. 1. Looking like you're used dilute nitric flask is collecting a bit of gold. Before too long you can probably get a gram or two out of it. 2. Love the music. Another Sreetips hidden talent.
If you used the water board to make smaller granules of the inquarted gold melt, wouldn't you likely need far less nitric to penetrate and break down the inquarted gold?
I have two separate stock pots, one for gold refining waste solutions. And another separate stock pot for my silver waste solutions. I keep silver out of my gold refining waste, and gold refining waste out of my silver stock pot.
@@sreetips I tried to do that but most of my stuff is low grade computer parts.. I used my battery jumper on the cell. It looks like melted wax coming from the bottom of the dish.. Hopefully I get something. The big silver chunk i used was eatin up within 6 hours.
I want to make one of these so dang bad but i dont really have a place to set it up nor one of those power supplys or a good collection of silver to feed it.... Hopefully one day in the future I'll be able to make one
Well, luckily the deers ran away, you won't be able to refine them. 🙃Just kidding. You and Mrs. Sreetips are an extremely harmonious and cute couple. Great videos. I was thinking if it wouldn't be better to drill small holes in the container with silver shot a few millimeters higher than the bottom, so that the fine sediment cannot in any case sink into the larger container.?
Mr. Sreetips, I was thinking, during the dilute nitric acid boils have you ever tried using wafer thin sheets of inquarted gold instead of the shot? I wonder if this would increase the surface area and hopefully make the process more efficient? You could pour thin bars of the inquarted gold then use a rolling mill to make thin sheets. I would love to see what would happen! Thanks for the great videos!
I tried it once. I spent a half an hour trying to roll an inquarted gold bar. Then I gave up and poured it into shot. Sounds like it would probably work. But it adds another step to an already lengthy process.
Wonder how much it would produce if ya ran a taller bowl use a nice stew pot maybe I know they make a good stainless one I have one them ud just have to make a bigger basket ya hold the silver in and make it a hair longer maybe that way u could use the entire filter instead of cutting off half of it then u could make 2x as much silver
There’s a critical distance of 4 to 4.5 inches that must be maintained between the anode basket and the cathode. I did get a larger stainless bowl to experiment with.
I watch these miners extract gold from rock \ soil and I often wonder if some kind of process that sreetips uses could be easier. Because after they get done most of the time its not pure gold and they guess around 60-80% based on the color As always, thank you
Yes, 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.
I was shocked that you said you were sending that into the refiner. Even at its current purity you would get more for it selling it on EBay compared to a refiner. What % of spot does the big refiners give you? Is it better to take the lower refiner price compared to paying the eBay fee?
Have u ever taken the gold field or plated stuff and melted it down into shot and then tried to do the recovery off that or is the other metal in it make it nor easy to do or something of tbat nature I'm just curious on that part
“Can’t you see? Can’t you see? What that woman has been doing to me.” I saw the “toad” in the melt dish you were talking about lol. How did you first start out doing this @sreetips? I’m curious because I’ve been searching for sterling silver sets and they are really expensive!! I have 3 or 4 bags of your silver cell crystals that I could use but barely any gold. I want to try this stuff out but I don’t have the money for all of the things you use. Like beakers and flasks or vacuum lines etc. Any suggestions?
Check you local craigslist. Glassware comes up from time to time. I’ve had folks tell me that the tune I was playing g sounds like “can’t find my way home” I buy sterling silver at local sales, never online.
Have you tried to use the silver shot to refine gold? It is basically sterling silver, if memory serves your have tried to use cement silver for gold refining ?
Using cement silver to inquart gold is not recommended because platinum group metals follow the silver and build up in it. This could cause problems in the silver cell.
Would it be possible to inquart using the cemented silver from the last gold refining and keep circling the same silver? I seem to remember you saying this impure silver is still more pure than Sterling.
Yes, but it’s not recommended. Gold contains platinum group metals, especially white gold. Using cement silver, over and over, would cause PGMs to build up in the cement silver because the PGMs tend to follow the silver. So that when you tried to run it through the silver cell, those PGMs (especially palladium) could get into the electrolyte and cause problems.
Hey Sreetips hope you and your wife doing well. My question is, is there any difference of growing silver christals in different temperatures? Not the surrounding temps in the room rather the temperature of the liquid in the bowl. I ask my self if you can hold the temperature at a specific level during the whole process, will it grow chrystals slower or faster? For an example - water at a temperature of 5°C can hold 12,8 mg / l oxygen. With the increasing temperature up to 25°C water holds only 8,3 mg / l oxygen. So maybe the liquefied silver needs to deliquefied faster cause of the changing liquid properties in correlation to the temperature. Love your videos. Have a good one and god bless you both. Greetings from Germany (Alex) 🙏
