Silver Smelting & Refining From Film With Ancient Techniques
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- Smelting and cupelling silver using the same methods the Romans used over 2000 years ago.
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Thank you for this video. I'm studying silver refining in the Bible so this a great visual. I imagine this is how it was done or similar to the process mentioned in the Scriptures. Other videos are available with modern methods but this is much better for my lesson.
I’m watching for the same reason!
Same here😊
I’m watching for the same reason!!!
what a coincidence me too ❤😂
Same 😂
Thank you for this video!!! I looked it up to help me understand Psalm 12!! Wow! Powerful!!
It's always fun to watch you melt stuff. Thanks for sharing.
This was one of my favorite video’s you’ve made so far.
Nice silver pyramid at the end!
I love what you are doing! Keep it up, I'm learning so much about smelting, it's fascinating!
I appreciate your videos so much, they are entertaining and educational.
That one shot of your propane/air setup told me more about how to build a propane furnace than the thousands of "DIY furnace" builds here on youtube that either show them using an expensive premade propane nozzle or a convoluted complex process to build their own.
Thank you.
Among the most educational and fascinating video series I have seen ,, thank you for saving my rear a cupel of times .
thank you for the science expeirment this morning, it was cool to see!
I believe that film is now considered an ancient technology, too.
Really do enjoy this channel great recovery
That is such a beautiful piece!
This is absolutely beautiful to watch. Thank you, and bless you. 🌻
NICE JOB CLEARLY EXPLAINED, THANKS FOR THE GREAT VIDEO.
Thanks for all the smelting tips like how recover the lead would love to see a video on that if you ever get time
Try heating the muriatic acid to boiling to make it more effective to get the iron out better its a refining technique used by chemical refiners.
My exact thought!
Why waste the time with HCl when you can use HNO3 (Nitric acid) it will disolve the Silver and other impurities which you can the use the reaction series to reduce the silvdr as a nice .999 silver.
@@matthiaskidd439 because he wants to get the iron out in as few steps as possible and nitric will also dissolve the iron meaning another step to get the silver out.
Not to mention that Nitric costs about 4 times as much and is harder to source than going down to the local hardware store.
@@ProfaneGod if you use copper to reduce the silver from a Silver Nitrate Solution you wont need to worry about the Iron. It will stay in the Solution because of the Reaction Series, you can then use Iron to reduce out the Copper should you wish to do that and then it's easier to refine the Nitric acid Solution to be able to re-use it again
I like your show! You speak well and you keep things interesting.
Great video definitely liked watching the melt and the end products. Also your explanations.
Thanks for spending the time an money to inform your viewers.
awesome video thank you for sharing your reclaiming procedure look forward to your next video
Thank you Jason as always very interesting
That was definitely worth it. Thanks for the video
that was cool fam. loads of great info. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!
Awesome video !! Thanks for sharing!
Nice!! Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Thank you Jason for your effort and videos . Huge fan of your mining method ,Here in East Africa Somaliland .
Always good to watch! Hopefully fairly pure silver at this point.
I saw those small silver beads and I saw them coming together making bigger silver beads nice
This is some great information thanks for the demonstration
Awesome video!
I enjoy your knowledge and your videos. Thanks.
Howdy from Seattle!
It figures the PNW would be a hot-bed for prospecting; all the geological 'fun' the area has...
Every day I look out at the Olympics, the Cascades and think about the processes that made all that.
I love living on top of a subduction zone!
I really enjoy your videos. Thank you for taking the time to explain things so clearly and for not being afraid to experiment with different techniques.
Very simple yet effective! Love the video, great visuals!
cool stuff thanks for sharing
Jason ...... spot on.
Just wow!!!
Great video!
Very interesting , My Pastor preached about refining like silver , and cupelling, and I was curious to see it for myself. Thankyou
18:00 just go and watch that! Coolest practice I have ever seen!! New sub!!
Having several hundred pounds of those silver ion exchangers left by my dad. He never quite solved the proses of getting the silver out of them without burning up the crucibles. He burned quite a few up. Going to give your proses a try and hope to get enough to buy more crucibles to get all the silver out of them. Hope to get over 1000oz. Now if I can find a easy way to clean up the bleach fixer silver bars we have....
You are my first subscribed channel. Thanks for the information.
Very interesting, really liked this. What about dissolving and then precipitation? With iron and lead in the silver Im not sure how, I am only familiar with silver and copper. Curious though
New to your channel new sub.. crazy process!! Ill be watching more! Thanks for sharing with us!
@13:40 That was very satisfying to watch. Thank you for that.
Been enjoying the vids for quite some time then realized I wasn't subbed, I am now.
Hi Jason i need to ask a very important question.
When you Cupel for Gold extraction with Lead collector metal, most of the base metals are oxidised into the cupel. Does this process get rid of tin also.
Merry Christmas from the uk
Might it be an idea to add more clean silver before the cupelling to lower the ratio of iron vs silver?
How was that metallic cone mold made, welding?
this is simple. i like this video
Great video
Good vid. I would have out the raw material in warm HCL first to remove the Iron.
Just an observation from an armchair physicist. If you had a spent/cracked #20 crucible sawn off at 6/7 inches from bottom as a mold for cement, would it make recovery more efficient for larger items?
In a few months I'm going to be moving to Tennessee, in fact the eastern part of Tennessee. This is where the gold belt is in I am going to begin a hobby and gold prospecting. I will be using a great number of your video examples to refine gold and such. Jason oh, thank you very very much for doing all the experiments that you do. Unfortunately as far as the equipment goes, I will be building my own jaw Crusher and other equipment. I'm an inventor to begin with oh, and I love the challenge of building my own stuff. I've never used a MIG welder before oh, so that's going to be fun and a little challenging to operate for the first time. The Jason I think that you are a wonderful individual and you certainly do care about showing people how to do certain things and that to me is just wonderful
Vdc Flux Welder is a great way to start. Even the Harbor Freight model does a good job with name brand wire.
hey there, I have been looking at a ton of videos related to gold and other metals, is there a way to work for a prospector like yourself as a miner, panner, etc... I would like to try
So any idea what that metallic iron was from yet
8:40 looks like plate tectonics in a time-lapse of 2bn years.
and it even creates quite similar shapes of continents.
What is the pyramid that you use to pour the smelt into called? I can't find this anywhere. Please help.
Can u do some kind of smeltng on rhodium
I have a mineral claim with a lot of silver in with the free mill gold how do I recover the silver ?
We me and brother always enjoy your videos, we do smelting as a backyard hobbyists. We find that cupellation is a challenge for us because we are unable to vaporize the lead totally, someone advice us to do cupelle on lime we did but not succeed
Can you please advice us or your best video link
Have you tried potassium permanganate as an oxidizer?
How long was the crucible in the furnace?
Jason, just curious why add iron to your process? I have seen this done a lot and I don't understand. Because then you have to remove the iron.?
Hello thank you for your super video .what sort of cement you use . Its a normal cement or what . Please explain to me
Just plane old Portland cement
And how much would you charge to make one of those smaller cone molds and ship it over?
I was inspired. want to know how long it takes to make metal melt and at what temperature comrades
I love the science behind the reactions of metal, carbon and portland cement that you take the time to explain, and then the fact that you TAKE the time to explain it. I have smelted aluminum to use in a lost wax process item that I wanted to cast but like a Neanderthal banging to rocks together and making fire by accident, I accidently made a nice finished aluminum piece. The science I understand and the videos are well narrated, your narration is well toned and perfectly informative. Thank you for the time and effort the videography and editing take and sharing your passion for smelting and recovery of precious metals.
How do you know how much lead to add for cupellation?
Could you leach the lead out of gold filled items using the Portland cement cupel?
Witch meathead is safer to use, what is the difference in cost and storage?
Question could one of those heating bowls be made with a magnet 🧲 on one side within the bowl? I wonder what would happen.
How is the purity of silver determined? I have some silver that is not marked. How can I test it?
How long do you keep it at melting point after it has been melted?
About how long was the process all together?
Interesting steps. I would prefer Nitric acid after silver shot with heat. Yes Nitric costs but you can easily make your own. Thing is after all metals are dissolved you just precipitate with copper and the Silver nitrate and copper trade places and your left with near pure elemental silver powder while copper is in solution. But I do love your process you just showed as well. Great job👍
You are about the only refiner on TH-cam who is not chew your arm off tedious
you could use a soray bottle with water and mist the outside if the cement bowl to make it harden a bit incase the flames want to blow the cement everywhere
How many long did you melt that
Is it true you can use sulfur to refine gold and silver and remove impurities with it?
Do you have a direct contact? I want to learn this process as I am working with similar materials...
What is the cost for refining services?
ever try using soda ash along with the borax?
What quantities of precious metals can be obtained from "Diesel Particulate Matter" (soot)?
If you would use an iron rod to remove sulfides, would sulfides work on the remaining iron?
Nice video
Curious if you have ever tried to recover silver out of copper and retain the copper also?
3 quarters of a kilo! Not bad!!
Have a Great Day!!!
Great video Jason! I was surprised how well the borax reduced the melting point of the silver. That cement cupel was very interesting as well. I want to try and smelt some Pentlandite nickel ore, any ideas how I could reach 1455 C to melt the nickel with propane and then remove the iron? You thoughts would be much appreciated!
You can easily reach that with a propane torch you just need to get some kaywool like his in the video and put a lid on it like his and there you go
My lead buttons oxidize but the precious metal button keeps sticking to the cupel, and ideas what im doing wrong?
Nice
Suggestion I know it's way late but silver bonds to Zn something like 300x more to Zn lead then Floats to surface like slag. Then remelt and separate the Zn floating on top the molten siver
try adding niter to oxidize the iron then use some silica and soda ash with the borax to form an iron rich slag and to protect your crucible from corrosion.
Didn’t do an XRF scan to check the silver? I’m wondering how much iron was left in it
@@reverendtfg6802 That's fewer irons than I expected
What is the percent of that silver? Is there a way to test how much silver it is? Like the purity
Desolving and crashing out of solution is the way to go. Check out the reactivity series of metals.
Was wondering. How many melts do you get off a 25 pound bottle of propane? Probably have said. But guess I missed that one.
have you tried testing with magnet
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I watch another channel about smelting and they put a piece of cardboard between the crucible and brick to prevent them from sticking together.
Dude flashback!!!!! My first job was at a company that processed medical imagery for silver. Old xrays. I was 14.
Local propane dealers love him, find out why!
Haha!
Like Hank Hill at Strickland Propane
50 bucks of silver and 5 dollars of borax for 30 dollars of silver SMH🤣
Ya I think the Basel three or something calls for new laws or revaluation of gold and is going to force the paper gold market to change. It’s good cause now gold is consider tier one money again.
He had like 750 grams of silver at the end. That’s way more then 50 or 30 bucks. You have to convert grams to ounces and then times it by the price of the metal.
Good job
Can we have bigger cuppels instead of Portland cement
Portland cement is cheaper.