You are a man with the tech! This is amazing how you make all that work. I've seen your end product , too. Your labor does produce a beautiful looking silver.
That cement silver “waste” accumulates faster than people can imagine. Especially when processing 10K gold. I actually save my cement copper and melt into bars also. I don’t refine it but might as well get a few hundred dollars for my impure copper waste.
Keep it up sir! More impure silver shot means more silver slimes. Refining the slimes are some of my favorite videos!!………Although stock pot refining is also. Maybe I like seeing trash turn to treasure but I know how much of a pain those processes are for you. Keep it up sir!!!!!!
I have a question Kevin. Other than for demonstration purpose of potential contamination, why use commercially produced silver? You did state in a video a little while back, that you have had the pure silver you produce, already been assayed as 99.999% pure consistently. The quantity you are using here to produce electrolyte is a small percentage of the yield you get from the silver cell, I'm just curious as the reason of spending resources buying something you already have.
Yes, same question. I thought you would use your existing silver crystals to make the electrolyte. I notice you and Mrs. Sreetips buy a lot of sterling silver. I would have thought you have plenty of silver crystals to use in your gold refining process. Therefore not needing to buy so much sterling. I will also compliment your thoroughness and attention to detail.
Ummm, quick question. So if your using the silver shot from your cement silver in the electrode. Then where did the pure silver you made into the electrode go? Cause you put a lot in there. Was it a necessary compound needed in order to make everything else work? Or does it also form out into crystals in the end? So there's no silver left in the liquid once it's done?
Ok, the 600g of silver in the electrolyte will slowly become depleted of silver because it plates out on the cathode as the cell operates. After a few days, I’ll add more silver nitrate to augment the silver concentration in the electrolyte. However, most of the silver that deposits on the inside of the cathode (stainless bowl) comes from the impure silver that I feed into the anode filter basket. Tomorrow morning when I go out there, the impure silver in that anode basket will have been digested by the current flow from the power supply through the cell. The current flow dissolves the impure silver in the anode basket, the dissolved silver passes through the filter and travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte and deposits on the stainless bowl. Copper also dissolves and passes through the filter but it won’t begin to deposit with the silver until it reaches about 60g per liter concentration in the electrolyte. That’s why the electrolyte turns blue as the cell operates.
The comments are turned off on the new video. What do you think would happen if you ran it in reverse? If you molded a bowl from the silver shot and stuck a chunk of silver in the basket. Do you think it would grow one big crystal?
The electrolyte’s sole purpose is to provide a path for the silver ions that get dissolved in the anode basket to travel to the cathode, where they deposit as high purity silver
Well the statement about the green electrolyte just answered the question I was just wondering in my head thank you sir as always gold standard of refining
just curious. How much weight in silver shots do you produce when starting off with 968.9 grams? So far it's 30 ounces of silver? But what would your output be?
I’ll only get out in pure silver, what I put into the anode basket as impure silver shot, less impurities. For example, after about ten or twelve days, I’ll have added about 1.4 kilos on impure silver into the anode basket. When I harvest the pure silver crystal, I’ll get out 1.5 to 1.6 kilos of pure silver crystal. The extra silver comes from the 600g of silver in the electrolyte. No silver is being created out of thin air. I only get out what I put into the cell.
Another great Master Class from Mr. Sreetips. Do you feel that you were taken advantage of from the silver supplier, or was the amount of copper within tolerance?
Fantastic!! I really enjoy your videos. I was wondering if you have ever tried refining gold plated china. I have some broken pieces of a set that supposedly have 24 Kt gold on them. Could I send you some and watch you work your magic?
So am I understanding this right? The electrolyte you create from the "pure" silver bars is just to kind of jumpstart the process of purifying the copper-contaminated cement silver you recovered from the gold-refining process? If so, question: the amount of material contained in that little basket definitely does not look like the same amount of silver I've seen you harvest in other videos. Is that because you are constantly adding a little bit more cement silver to the basket as the cement silver is converted to pure silver crystal on the sides of the bowl so over time it adds up? What about the silver from the pure silver bars you used to create the electrolyte? Is that ever recovered?
The sole purpose of the electrolyte is to provide a means for the dissolved silver to travel from the anode basket to the cathode where it deposits (on the cathode) as pure elemental silver. Some of the silver from the electrolyte gets deposited on the cathode as well, causing the electrolyte to become depleted of silver as the cell operates. That’s why I periodically add more silver nitrate. To both increase the physical level of the electrolyte and to replenish the silver concentration in the electrolyte.
Thank you for making these videos Sr. Chief. Yesterday I watched the video where you explained how a silver quarter and buy a gallon and a half of gas. That is incredible. I never would’ve understood the value of metals if you weren’t have explained it that way. Thank you for sharing that knowledge. Can I trouble you with a question? I can’t find the video where at the end you called the gold company in Dallas and showed us how to sell the gold. What was the title of that video? Thank you so much. I ordered an electric gold tester to get me started. I too want to be able to spot a gold piece from ten paces. The tester will help me get qualified in gold recognition.
Thanks again for an informative and entertaining video sir! My question, if I may, is how much copper would it take to make that color change you had when dissolveing those bars? Do you think those bars were true three nine fine silver? Thanks kindly in advance, and keep these great videos coming please!
Something u gotta try on a side project fascinating make purple gold 81.5% gold to 19.5 % aluminum mixed once it hardens up and u have it in bar shape it turns purple
I use a case (six, 2.5 liter bottle) every six to eight months, depending on what I’m working on. For the silver, I use it to refine gold. So I’m killing two birds with one stone.
I say it every time you post a silver video that these are by far my favourites. There something magical about the silver cell, the colours and the way the crystal forms always fascinates me. Thankyou again for sharing your work.
So I’m a little confused. You take pure silver and dissolve it to make your electrolyte in order to pull pure silver from your un-pure Is this so you can later pull the trace gold and Palladium from the slime that’s left in your cathode?
I made this video in response to those who asked what can be used to make electrolyte if you don’t have pure silver crystal. The sole purpose of the electrolyte is to allow a flow path for the electric current through the cell. And to facilitate the transfer of silver ions from the anode to the cathode.
Hi Sreetips! ) I'm sure someone have already asked you this, but quick scan down the comments didn't reveal any answers, so here goes: Why do you melt sterling silver into granules instead of using it 8n its powdered form? It seems that it should be more efficient this way since the surface area of sterling silver in contact with electrolyte is considerably larger if you submerge powder instead of granules..
I don’t feed sterling into the silver cell because it would quickly saturate the electrolyte with copper. Using cement silver powder clogs the filter and causes current flow to drop off rapidly.
@@sreetips Got it, thanks! And I also must say that it has always pleasantly surprised me how often and how thoroughly and to the point you reply to comments - it makes your channel this much more special to me - good luck and keep up the good work! ))
Sree, sir just a few questions, I think I missed....so 1: the solution,and ppm of silver in it, are what you are regrowing, via electrolysis? Or 2: is the solution, the motivation, I mean does it grow more than you put in? I'm really interested in this. As a novice jewelry maker. Thank you, thank you.
I only get out what I put in. The 600g of silver in the electrolyte provides a means for the silver ions to travel from the anode to the cathode. But some of the silver in the electrolyte gets depleted because it deposits out in the cathode as the cell operates.
@17:20 I assume, that the bucket with the silver weighs about 100 kg (minus 20% because it is loose powder -> 80kg). So you never take it from the table (except when almost empty) ?
I have three (a fourth started) of those buckets full of cement silver. I tend to get way behind on my silver and it builds up on me. Each bucket weighs about thirty pounds.
I have had that already when making electrolyte that it turned slightly blue while using older silver bars. Although it did turn clear after nitric was fully consumed. Bullion bars arent really as clean as one might think.
judging from the silver cell anode basket filter recovery videos, there is definitely palladium present in the shot of the cemented out silver, but i'm really not sure where the palladium is coming from originally i guess the answer is probably just the jewelry and jeweler's scrap materials, but i wonder if it might be from the copper material instead
Karat gold, especially white gold, is a known carrier of platinum group metals. When I inquart gold, the PGMs will tend to follow the silver and end up in the anode filter slimes.
Does nitric dissolve copper or silver faster and part two of the question which requires more or less nitric to complete the process thanks as usual a treat to watch yours videos
Does the silver in the silver nitrate also plate out as crystals, or does the resulting blue silver nitrate solution still have 600gm of silver in it when it's finished processing the silver shot?
What is your recourse for the copper tainted AG? I do remember you commenting on a couple of the bars of silver looking odd when they were first starting to dissolve. I wonder if Pouring silver into a mold that had previously been used to make copper bars would have left enough copper residue in the mold to Contaminate the silver . Assuming there's an innocent explanation behind the contaminated silver!
Silver shouldn’t have oils on it. Just keep sulfur bearing compounds away from it to prevent tarnishing. The silver that he dissolved should have been pristine.
Hi Sreetips, I have a question: In the silver cell, why do you have to melt the silver powder? wouldn't it be better to put it in the filter as cement powder? Thanks!
Hi, I tried to leave a comment on your latest video. But no can-do I was going to suggest that it’s time for you to do a new gold plated refining video, mixed things up a little.🎉 anyways, I enjoyed your latest video on the Silver cell and hope to see another video soon on anything lol you have a great weekend🎉
Dawn, I turned comments on. Somehow got turned off. Highly suspicious. Could you try to leave a comment under my latest to see if they are working now? Thank you!
I bought those from a guy about five years ago. I prefer my silver crystal over those bars because my silver is higher purity. They were contaminated with traces of copper. After I run them through my cell then the silver will be free of copper. Plus, I did it to demonstrate that pure silver bars can be used to make electrolyte for the silver cell if you don’t have access to pure silver crystal.
Hey Sreetips. Just curious, the cement silver you get from refining gold is usually about 99% pure already. Is it really worth it for you to spend all that time and effort to turn it into silver crystal? I know I would probably just sell the cement silver by the Kg as 98% or 99% pure silver. You probably want at least some silver crystal because it sells well and it looks a lot better, but wouldn't it be more profitable just to sell the cement silver in bulk?
If sold, the price of the cement silver is indeterminable. Please understand that I’m not trying to make a profit. I’m converting my paper dollars into gold and silver. Not for a big bump in price to make a profit. But rather to protect my savings from the money printers. When they print dollars it dilutes and destroys the value and purchasing power of the paper currency. Therefore, it makes no sense to accumulate dollars, that are declining in value. Makes more sense to store my savings in metals. Because they can’t print more gold and silver. For these reasons, I’m not selling any of my silver, unless I’m forced to sell it.
Sr. Chief, the green liquid from the Nitric Acid boils during the gold filled refining is Silver and Copper, correct? Then I can pour it into my stock bucket and add copper to the solution. It then causes the silver to cement out on the copper and falls to the bottom of the bucket. What is the purity of the cement silver?
Sr. I got to tell you how my first day of exploring went. Yesterday I went to the thrift store by my house. The worker inside said that they have a lady that used to work at a jewelry store come and test the gold they get. I came back when that lady was there so I could pick her brain. Turns out she was a YNSC that used to work at a squadron right next to mine. We were both in the Navy at the same time and now we both are doing the same thing here in Florida. It’s a small Navy. I thought you would get a kick out of that.
That’s a great story. I ran into my old CO in a jewelry store once. And I went to a ships reunion back in June last year. It was very uplifting to see people that I got to serve with. Forty years later.
The copper dissolves and passes through the anode filter and accumulates in the electrolyte turning it blue. It won’t deposit with the silver as long as copper concentration is kept below 60g per liter.
@sreetips yes, it becomes depleted as I see you refresh it to keep the silver levels up, but when you use the impure silver shot, copper slowly replaces the silver in the solution. I had a thought that if you put pure .9999 silver castings in the anode basket that there would be little to no copper to be absorbed into the solution. Therefore, you could reuse the electrolytic solution as long as you rejuvenated it with silver nitrate to keep silver levels up to promote silver crystal growth. I have been slowly getting the materials together and I'm just buying .999 silver castings here and there until I have enough to do this. you could most likely do this yourself as you have a more than ample amount of pure .9999 silver crystals already
I’ve run pure silver crystal back through the cell a second time. Video of it posted on my channel. Since there’s no copper the electrolyte stays clear and colorless. I sent a sample off for ICP analysis. Came back greater than five nines fine pure silver.
@@sreetips I tried to send you a picture, but comments won’t let me. I might try and send you the link to Amazon so you can see what I am referring to.
I looked them up, they look right to me. I buy mine at ace hardware. They went from $7.99 to $14.99 - why? Have they become more valuable? Or more scarce? No, it’s because the value of the money used to purchase them has declined by that much. This is a more accurate indicator of the real rate of inflation. Inflation is an expansion of the money supply (they print money out of thin air with nothing to back its value, and everything appears to go up in price because it takes much more of it to buy the same amount of stuff). Rising prices is the result of inflation (money printing) not its cause. And it’s just getting started.
Hello Sr. I’m looking online at jewelry and I’m getting some mixed messages. Often people say that the items are gold over silver but then they show a picture of the stamped markings that say 14k. If it’s gold filled wouldn’t it say 14kgf? Thanks again
People make mistakes with markings all the time. The piece marked could be added to a plated piece. I’ve seen thieve stamp 14k on gold plated junk. Or maybe they added a 14k clasp and the rest of it is junk. All are to deceive the buyer. I’ve also seen a 10k clasp on a 14k chain. If it don’t look right then I’d pass. You can find much better deals at local resale shops, yard sales, and estate sales. Usually people online either know what they have and want full price. Or they’re trying to get something for nothing.
Am I able to send you pictures Senior Chief? I know you have like 200k subscribers and are probably busy all the time but often I’m interested is your opinion of how I’m doing. Thanks for your time. AM1 Pete
Like anything else, you’ll get better at it the more you do it. No substitute for experience. We’ve done it for so long that I can tell a pieces of plated stuff from karat gold just by looking. I don’t have a way to receive pictures through my channel. Start your own TH-cam channel. Post a video of your stuff. Then I can see it. You never know, it might take off!
Quick question about your silver recovery - what would happen if you used sodium chloride in the electrolyte instead of silver nitrate? Would ALL of the base metals crystallize out, instead of just the silver?
In the cell we have silver as a nitrate. Adding any chloride to the nitrate will instantly convert the silver nitrate to silver chloride. So we want to keep sodium chloride (table salt) far away from our silver cell.
@@sreetips No, I mean using salt water *instead of* silver nitrate solution, not as well as. Like, in normal electrolysis, with tin crystals, for example, they just use tin electrodes and saltwater electrolyte. Tin grows on one end and dissolves off the other (I can never remember which way around they go). Or am I misunderstanding what we're trying to do here?
No, it won’t work. We want to keep table far away from our pure silver. My guess is that if tried, we’d end up with a salty toxic soup of silver chloride.
Traces only. That was about one kilo of 999 silver. So as much as one gram of copper present would still be within limits. The solution would have been darker blue with one gram of copper.
Random question (because I’m tired, my brain isn’t working, and I’m too lazy to test or research myself): Silver cement- can it be detected with a metal detector? What about gold after dropping from auric chloride with SMB?
Do you still operate both silver cells parallel to each other? If so, are you actually reducing your stock of cement silver or do you still produce more cement silver with your precious metal refining operations thann you can / want to refine each month? Also it would be interesting if you could quantify your silver yield in a gold refining video one day. Just to see how much silver is alloyed in a bunch of karat scrap you refine, since the silver in the gold alloys is a way to make some profit, too - you only pay for the gold content of the scrap, all the silver is kind of a bonus
I only have one running right now. I work at my hobby to get paid in metals. My profits are in gold and silver, not paper dollars. There’s silver in karat gold, but not that much. A hundred grams of 14k gold may contain about twenty grams of pure silver.
@@sreetips But aren't you producing a lot of extra cement silver due to the inquarting process (as opposed to just the silver contained in karat gold)? I don't know if this was exactly what OP meant above, but I'm also kind of curious about the rate at which you are recovering all that silver you add for inquarting. Do you have a "backlog" of cement silver or do you generally recover the silver at the same rate that you consume it for gold refining?
I had a small lab set up in my basement in 7th and 8th grade. This is a carry-over from those days. I think I got away from it when I went to high school and discovered parties and girls. I was a terrible student, graduated (by the skin of my teeth) second from last out of about 480 students. I got a D in the only chemistry class I ever took.
Hello sreetips, I have a question if that’s okay. Got over 100lbs of xray film and been doing some test runs. At the stage where you add lye it turns black and add sugar and it stays black. Got it sitting over night to see what settles to the bottom of the beaker. Got any suggestions.
I did that experiment once about five or six years ago. Some X-ray film is thermal activated and contains no silver. I don’t know how to tell. I relied on the seller to make sure it had silver.
@@sreetips ok, that being said, during the rinse it looked just like silver chlorite so guess I’ll look up what thermal activated residual looks like after being exposed to bleach. As always thanks for the info.
That was just a trace, it only takes one gram of copper per thousand to turn it pale blue like that. The silver is still three nines, even though it’s got a little copper.
Silver plates at a certain potential. If you don’t have high dissolved contamination levels, the silver plates out preferentially. Any impurity in the shot silver remains behind as anode sludge in the Dacron bag. That sludge is going to be gold, palladium and copper.
Impurities get trapped n the anode filter. The copper dissolves and passes through the filter but won’t start plating out with the silver until copper concentration reaches about 60g (copper) per liter. That why the electrolytes turns blue as the cell operates.
The crystals are impossible to fake. Bars of brass can be plated with silver and it’s almost impossible to tell, without filing into the metal to reveal the scam.
Just curious, but why buy silver to make your electrolyte when you have pounds and pounds of pure silver Cristal already? Is it something you picked up at estate sale?
The bars are contaminated with copper. After they get processed through my silver cell they will be copper free. Part of the reason I learned to refine silver myself. It’s the only way to be absolutely certain.
I enjoy the science behind it and you explain it better than anyone on TH-cam, very professional and perfectionism, but have a question... How much silver are you actually using thru this process vs final yield? I am estimating a cost break down vs roi. Just a ruff estimate on what I see you used ruffly 38- 40 oz of silver to make a yield of 48.23oz of pure silver ruffly a $200- $250 roi (depending current price) just on this batch. I understand there is silver still in the electrolyte solution that can be recovered and reused for another batch. I guess my point is, is there a positive roi when you use all the silver electrolyte, and all unclean silver in the anode basket? I also understand with .9999 pure silver, selling that would bring a higher premium and that's where your profit real is. So, ruff estimating per batch about $250- $300 positive roi per batch based say current price? Again i understand that could be higher based on how much one is willing to pay over spot. My mind is turning and burning here. Sorry if Iam making my question complicated. Thank you in advance
No problem. What you’re wanting to know is: can this be done so that the refined silver can be immediately resold for a profit. And if so, can one make a living doing it? Unfortunately, I don’t know. I buy sterling silver at estate sales. I use it to refine gold. Then I recover the silver, run it through my silver cell, then harvest the pure silver and put it away and forget about it. I’d hate to have to do this for a living. It’s my hobby. But it’s starting to feel like work. I’m not in this for ROI. I’m in it to accumulate silver and gold. Gold and silver are real money, since biblical times. So I’m storing my savings in metal, not paper. If I need paper to pay bills or buy food then I can sell a little of my metal. Must be doing something right. We paid off over $200k debt in two years. And we don’t owe anybody anything. We have been granted some prosperity and we are thankful for that.
I get back every bit of silver that I put in, less impurities. For every 100g of impure silver added (either impure shot or electrolyte) I get back 98g of pure silver. No silver is lost or created.
@@sreetips Yes, I agree and follow the Bible as well. I but silver more than gold, to expensive for me per oz but I do buy a lot of .999 silver bars, rounds, shots etc.. not so much premiums because Iam in it for the weight, not really trading or selling in of it yet. But yes Silver has always throughout history used as real money. Converting dirty silver and refining it would bring in s higher premium like all your estate sale finds, pennis on the dollar. Then, refining that to a higher purity and selling to public or gold processor would make a nice return for your efforts. It's not that you're creating silver or gold but refining dirty metals to a higher premium which returns a higher $$ which you use to pay off debt. I see it. I know you wouldn't be putting all this time and effort in if you're weren't benefitting in some form which also bleeds over to store revenue and TH-cam ad revenue. It's hard to keep a hobbie from feeling like work but God has gifted you the wisdom, knowledge and understanding! I day keep creating that road of gold and city of gold! Its pretty cool what do and how you instow that wisdom to others if they choose! Thank you!
Sterling silver can be held just like it is. Its value will track right on up with the bullion, so long as you don’t ruin the markings by trying to “melt it down” then its value becomes questionable. The only reason I refine the silver is because I use sterling to refine gold. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot and run it through my silver cell. In powder form, the cement silver’s value is questionable. Be hard to get full price for silver powder whose value is indeterminable. After running it through the silver cell, the high purity silver is easy to price out, if you want to sell any of it.
I did dissolve the silver on nitric. Then I recovered it and run it through my silver cell. I’m producing pure silver for my savings account. I’m not going to sell this silver unless I have to. The value of impure silver is questionable. But it’s easy to determine the value of pure silver.
Gold and silver are real money, since biblical times and before. They require no third party validation like fiat does, they stand on their own. They are not investments. Although people try to make them investments. I’m not in precious metals for a big bump in price. I hold them to protect my savings from the money printers. If I need some paper to pay bills then I can always sell a little of my metals.
Yea he said he would expect about 1.5kg from that electrolyte which contains 600g of silver so my guess is the silver in solution re plates on the bowl but whilst it's doing so you can feed impure silver and by the time the electrolyte is exhausted you end up with more silver than you put in.
I’ll only get out what I put in, less any losses due to spills etc. the electrolyte gets depleted because it plates out on the cathode. I’ll get every bit of silver back out, but not more than I put in.
Well since you turned off comments on your new silver cell vid, imma ask here. Just wondering what would happen if you switched the + & - to the silver cell. Im sure nothing good...but again just wondering.
Yes, I’ve done electrolytic gold refining cell. But the gold is more nodular-looking. There’s a way to grow gold crystals that look like these silver crystals. But it’s an arduous process.
It seems logical that some copper nitrate in the electrolyte shouldn't matter much since operating the cell will add copper to the electrolyte over time anyway.
Given that my favourite part of a sreetips video is when the term "pure silver crystal" is said, I'd say this is my favorite sreetips video of all time 😃
I don’t think so. Industry standard for pure silver is 999 parts per thousand. For the amount of silver bars that I had, that means there could have been one gram of copper in there and still been three nines. One gram of copper would be a lot darker blue. Trace amounts of copper only. That’s my opinion.
If your silver is so much purer that the bought bars why would you ever use the bars? I would just keep some of your own silver crystal on the side and feed that forward when in need of more electrolytic solution. I hope you just found them in a drawer somewhere and wanted to get them used up knowing the contamination issue.
I’ve said it before, but it’s nuts the amount of cement silver you have around the place. Always cool to watch these working with silver vids.
It's truly more than the cement I have!
You’re very easy to listen to and understand. As I’m not one that understands this. But sir I sure love your videos.
Silver will be the metal needed most for future projects. Stack, stack, stack. Refine, refine, refine! Great video.
You are a man with the tech! This is amazing how you make all that work. I've seen your end product , too. Your labor does produce a beautiful looking silver.
That cement silver “waste” accumulates faster than people can imagine. Especially when processing 10K gold. I actually save my cement copper and melt into bars also. I don’t refine it but might as well get a few hundred dollars for my impure copper waste.
Is that a simple process? I'd like to get into this in the near future.
Always informative and fascinating! A heartfelt thank you for doing these videos!
Thank you!
Keep it up sir! More impure silver shot means more silver slimes. Refining the slimes are some of my favorite videos!!………Although stock pot refining is also. Maybe I like seeing trash turn to treasure but I know how much of a pain those processes are for you. Keep it up sir!!!!!!
Always so informative and precise, thank you for sharing all your knowledge!
I have a question Kevin.
Other than for demonstration purpose of potential contamination, why use commercially produced silver?
You did state in a video a little while back, that you have had the pure silver you produce, already been assayed as 99.999% pure consistently.
The quantity you are using here to produce electrolyte is a small percentage of the yield you get from the silver cell, I'm just curious as the reason of spending resources buying something you already have.
I was wondering the same thing. Seems like he paid a premium just for silver bars to make a video🤷🏼♂️
Yes, same question. I thought you would use your existing silver crystals to make the electrolyte. I notice you and Mrs. Sreetips buy a lot of sterling silver. I would have thought you have plenty of silver crystals to use in your gold refining process. Therefore not needing to buy so much sterling.
I will also compliment your thoroughness and attention to detail.
So at least we have seen that purchased silver in bars with 999 "purity" is not at all as pure as it is declared.
@@ryanrickey5733He sees silver as an investment and binge buys any silver he can get his hands on. He repeats it in almost all of his videos.
Because he can sell his silver crystals at about 1.5 to 2 times melt.
I can't thank you enough for the knowledge you have shared with me! You are a gentleman and a scholar! #SreetipsForPresident
Ummm, quick question. So if your using the silver shot from your cement silver in the electrode. Then where did the pure silver you made into the electrode go? Cause you put a lot in there. Was it a necessary compound needed in order to make everything else work? Or does it also form out into crystals in the end? So there's no silver left in the liquid once it's done?
Ok, the 600g of silver in the electrolyte will slowly become depleted of silver because it plates out on the cathode as the cell operates. After a few days, I’ll add more silver nitrate to augment the silver concentration in the electrolyte. However, most of the silver that deposits on the inside of the cathode (stainless bowl) comes from the impure silver that I feed into the anode filter basket. Tomorrow morning when I go out there, the impure silver in that anode basket will have been digested by the current flow from the power supply through the cell. The current flow dissolves the impure silver in the anode basket, the dissolved silver passes through the filter and travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte and deposits on the stainless bowl. Copper also dissolves and passes through the filter but it won’t begin to deposit with the silver until it reaches about 60g per liter concentration in the electrolyte. That’s why the electrolyte turns blue as the cell operates.
Its always a pleasure to learn more refining knowledge. Thx for the great content.
This was an excellent description of the workings of the silver cell thank you for sharing this information with us six stars sir
Thanks, this was the one question I had left out of the whole process.
The comments are turned off on the new video. What do you think would happen if you ran it in reverse? If you molded a bowl from the silver shot and stuck a chunk of silver in the basket. Do you think it would grow one big crystal?
I don’t think anything would happen.
Amazing videos. I think I’m missing why you don’t use the pure silver crystals to make electrolyte. Also, what do you harvest in pure silver from?
The electrolyte’s sole purpose is to provide a path for the silver ions that get dissolved in the anode basket to travel to the cathode, where they deposit as high purity silver
I love your work. And the way things are explained. Thank you, sir, for this beautiful topic
Why did you use bars instead of your crystals for all of the proses?
To demonstrate that you can
@@sreetips thanks for the reply, your awesome and I love seeing what you do.
Well the statement about the green electrolyte just answered the question I was just wondering in my head thank you sir as always gold standard of refining
just curious. How much weight in silver shots do you produce when starting off with 968.9 grams? So far it's 30 ounces of silver? But what would your output be?
I’ll only get out in pure silver, what I put into the anode basket as impure silver shot, less impurities. For example, after about ten or twelve days, I’ll have added about 1.4 kilos on impure silver into the anode basket. When I harvest the pure silver crystal, I’ll get out 1.5 to 1.6 kilos of pure silver crystal. The extra silver comes from the 600g of silver in the electrolyte. No silver is being created out of thin air. I only get out what I put into the cell.
Another great Master Class from Mr. Sreetips. Do you feel that you were taken advantage of from the silver supplier, or was the amount of copper within tolerance?
It was just a trace, within limits.
Fantastic!! I really enjoy your videos. I was wondering if you have ever tried refining gold plated china. I have some broken pieces of a set that supposedly have 24 Kt gold on them. Could I send you some and watch you work your magic?
It’s probably actual gold but the amount is so tiny that it’s not worth going after it.
So am I understanding this right? The electrolyte you create from the "pure" silver bars is just to kind of jumpstart the process of purifying the copper-contaminated cement silver you recovered from the gold-refining process? If so, question: the amount of material contained in that little basket definitely does not look like the same amount of silver I've seen you harvest in other videos. Is that because you are constantly adding a little bit more cement silver to the basket as the cement silver is converted to pure silver crystal on the sides of the bowl so over time it adds up? What about the silver from the pure silver bars you used to create the electrolyte? Is that ever recovered?
The sole purpose of the electrolyte is to provide a means for the dissolved silver to travel from the anode basket to the cathode where it deposits (on the cathode) as pure elemental silver. Some of the silver from the electrolyte gets deposited on the cathode as well, causing the electrolyte to become depleted of silver as the cell operates. That’s why I periodically add more silver nitrate. To both increase the physical level of the electrolyte and to replenish the silver concentration in the electrolyte.
Thank you for making these videos Sr. Chief. Yesterday I watched the video where you explained how a silver quarter and buy a gallon and a half of gas. That is incredible. I never would’ve understood the value of metals if you weren’t have explained it that way. Thank you for sharing that knowledge. Can I trouble you with a question? I can’t find the video where at the end you called the gold company in Dallas and showed us how to sell the gold. What was the title of that video? Thank you so much. I ordered an electric gold tester to get me started. I too want to be able to spot a gold piece from ten paces. The tester will help me get qualified in gold recognition.
I think it was selling your gold to a big refiner.
Awesome video nice to see you put your silver cell in operation can't wait to see the results thanks for sharing sreetips
Thanks again for an informative and entertaining video sir! My question, if I may, is how much copper would it take to make that color change you had when dissolveing those bars? Do you think those bars were true three nine fine silver? Thanks kindly in advance, and keep these great videos coming please!
Probably less than a gram to turn it pale blue like that. Yes, I believe it was three nines.
When do we get a time lapse of the silver basket?
Something u gotta try on a side project fascinating make purple gold 81.5% gold to 19.5 % aluminum mixed once it hardens up and u have it in bar shape it turns purple
I’m a refiner. I work hard at separating the metals to get pure gold.
It's really the best TH-cam channel I've seen about refinery. I'm watching every video 👌
Thank you!
Also how much nitric acid do you go through each month? I know reagents aren’t cheap but I’m just wondering about the volume of acid itself.
I use a case (six, 2.5 liter bottle) every six to eight months, depending on what I’m working on. For the silver, I use it to refine gold. So I’m killing two birds with one stone.
I say it every time you post a silver video that these are by far my favourites. There something magical about the silver cell, the colours and the way the crystal forms always fascinates me. Thankyou again for sharing your work.
Thanks Mr. Sreetips, and meh, going to get copper in it anyway. If I may ask was that Chinese silver?
No sure. Bought those from a private individual
So I’m a little confused. You take pure silver and dissolve it to make your electrolyte in order to pull pure silver from your un-pure Is this so you can later pull the trace gold and Palladium from the slime that’s left in your cathode?
I made this video in response to those who asked what can be used to make electrolyte if you don’t have pure silver crystal. The sole purpose of the electrolyte is to allow a flow path for the electric current through the cell. And to facilitate the transfer of silver ions from the anode to the cathode.
Another great video I enjoy learning more about how you do what you do.
Hi Sreetips! ) I'm sure someone have already asked you this, but quick scan down the comments didn't reveal any answers, so here goes: Why do you melt sterling silver into granules instead of using it 8n its powdered form?
It seems that it should be more efficient this way since the surface area of sterling silver in contact with electrolyte is considerably larger if you submerge powder instead of granules..
I don’t feed sterling into the silver cell because it would quickly saturate the electrolyte with copper. Using cement silver powder clogs the filter and causes current flow to drop off rapidly.
@@sreetips Got it, thanks!
And I also must say that it has always pleasantly surprised me how often and how thoroughly and to the point you reply to comments - it makes your channel this much more special to me - good luck and keep up the good work! ))
Sree, sir just a few questions, I think I missed....so
1: the solution,and ppm of silver in it, are what you are regrowing, via electrolysis?
Or 2: is the solution, the motivation, I mean does it grow more than you put in?
I'm really interested in this. As a novice jewelry maker. Thank you, thank you.
I only get out what I put in. The 600g of silver in the electrolyte provides a means for the silver ions to travel from the anode to the cathode. But some of the silver in the electrolyte gets depleted because it deposits out in the cathode as the cell operates.
@17:20 I assume, that the bucket with the silver weighs about 100 kg (minus 20% because it is loose powder -> 80kg). So you never take it from the table (except when almost empty) ?
I have three (a fourth started) of those buckets full of cement silver. I tend to get way behind on my silver and it builds up on me. Each bucket weighs about thirty pounds.
I have had that already when making electrolyte that it turned slightly blue while using older silver bars. Although it did turn clear after nitric was fully consumed. Bullion bars arent really as clean as one might think.
judging from the silver cell anode basket filter recovery videos, there is definitely palladium present in the shot of the cemented out silver, but i'm really not sure where the palladium is coming from originally
i guess the answer is probably just the jewelry and jeweler's scrap materials, but i wonder if it might be from the copper material instead
Karat gold, especially white gold, is a known carrier of platinum group metals. When I inquart gold, the PGMs will tend to follow the silver and end up in the anode filter slimes.
Does nitric dissolve copper or silver faster and part two of the question which requires more or less nitric to complete the process thanks as usual a treat to watch yours videos
Not sure which dissolves faster. But I know it takes a lot more nitric to dissolve copper.
Does the silver in the silver nitrate also plate out as crystals, or does the resulting blue silver nitrate solution still have 600gm of silver in it when it's finished processing the silver shot?
It gets depleted, plates out on the cathode, as the cell operates. I add more silver nitrate as the cell is running.
What is your recourse for the copper tainted AG? I do remember you commenting on a couple of the bars of silver looking odd when they were first starting to dissolve.
I wonder if Pouring silver into a mold that had previously been used to make copper bars would have left enough copper residue in the mold to Contaminate the silver .
Assuming there's an innocent explanation behind the contaminated silver!
It was just a trace. If conditions in the silver cell are not kept within strict limits then copper can deposit with the silver and contaminate it.
@@sreetips , i see. That's interesting. I didn't know that!
Thank you !
Should you have hit those bars with the torch to possibly burn off any oils that might have be used to prevent oxidation Sreetips?
Silver shouldn’t have oils on it. Just keep sulfur bearing compounds away from it to prevent tarnishing.
The silver that he dissolved should have been pristine.
Probably wouldn’t hurt anything. Just add an extra step.
Hi Sreetips,
I have a question:
In the silver cell, why do you have to melt the silver powder? wouldn't it be better to put it in the filter as cement powder?
Thanks!
No, it clogs the filter.
Love watching u work with gold and silver it is so awesome and amazing 👏 😀
Hi, I tried to leave a comment on your latest video. But no can-do I was going to suggest that it’s time for you to do a new gold plated refining video, mixed things up a little.🎉 anyways, I enjoyed your latest video on the Silver cell and hope to see another video soon on anything lol you have a great weekend🎉
Dawn, I turned comments on. Somehow got turned off. Highly suspicious. Could you try to leave a comment under my latest to see if they are working now? Thank you!
Question.... If you already have pure silver laying around, why pay extra to purchase not pure bars from apmex???
I bought those from a guy about five years ago. I prefer my silver crystal over those bars because my silver is higher purity. They were contaminated with traces of copper. After I run them through my cell then the silver will be free of copper. Plus, I did it to demonstrate that pure silver bars can be used to make electrolyte for the silver cell if you don’t have access to pure silver crystal.
Great Saturday morning video thanks
Hey Sreetips. Just curious, the cement silver you get from refining gold is usually about 99% pure already. Is it really worth it for you to spend all that time and effort to turn it into silver crystal? I know I would probably just sell the cement silver by the Kg as 98% or 99% pure silver. You probably want at least some silver crystal because it sells well and it looks a lot better, but wouldn't it be more profitable just to sell the cement silver in bulk?
If sold, the price of the cement silver is indeterminable. Please understand that I’m not trying to make a profit. I’m converting my paper dollars into gold and silver. Not for a big bump in price to make a profit. But rather to protect my savings from the money printers. When they print dollars it dilutes and destroys the value and purchasing power of the paper currency. Therefore, it makes no sense to accumulate dollars, that are declining in value. Makes more sense to store my savings in metals. Because they can’t print more gold and silver. For these reasons, I’m not selling any of my silver, unless I’m forced to sell it.
Just curious why purchase silver? Couldn't you have used the silver from your stash?
I did this to demonstrate that silver bars can be used to make the electrolyte.
What happens to the impurities in the silver, do they stay in the feeder baskets mesh/net?
Yes
Sr. Chief, the green liquid from the Nitric Acid boils during the gold filled refining is Silver and Copper, correct? Then I can pour it into my stock bucket and add copper to the solution. It then causes the silver to cement out on the copper and falls to the bottom of the bucket. What is the purity of the cement silver?
About 98% or so
@@sreetips So it’s good enough to use to feed the Silver Cell?
@@sreetips Oh, and during my nitric acid boils, I would only put my heat up to about medium. Is that good or does it need to go up or down?
Correct
Medium should work fine.
I absolutly love your channel. I live in canada and we can't get nitric acid here. Can the electrolite be made with something else ?
Yes, silver nitrate dissolved in distilled water.
thank you for taking the time to answer my question@@sreetips
How often do you have to change the filter basket?
I put in a new filter for each run after ten or twelve days.
@@sreetips I remember seeing you change one because it was getting clogged. Was that one likely less than 1 run old then?
Yes, if the current flow drops way off because the filter is clogged up with slimes, then I’ll install a new anode filter mid run through a batch.
يمكنك تدوير غاز ثاني اوكسيد النتروجين من خلال شفطه وتمريره على الماء او بيروكسيد الهيدروجين
Ok, thanks for the tip
Sr. I got to tell you how my first day of exploring went. Yesterday I went to the thrift store by my house. The worker inside said that they have a lady that used to work at a jewelry store come and test the gold they get. I came back when that lady was there so I could pick her brain. Turns out she was a YNSC that used to work at a squadron right next to mine. We were both in the Navy at the same time and now we both are doing the same thing here in Florida. It’s a small Navy. I thought you would get a kick out of that.
That’s a great story. I ran into my old CO in a jewelry store once. And I went to a ships reunion back in June last year. It was very uplifting to see people that I got to serve with. Forty years later.
Where does the copper end up? Does it just accumulate in the anode basket?
The copper dissolves and passes through the anode filter and accumulates in the electrolyte turning it blue. It won’t deposit with the silver as long as copper concentration is kept below 60g per liter.
I'm a little confused does the electrolysis take it out of the electrode and deposit on the dish or take it out of the water as well
Most comes from the anode material. But the electrolyte becomes depleted as the cell operates because it gets plated out on the cathode.
how many times can you use the electrolyte if you use .999 silver completely throughout the whole process from start to finish?
I don’t know. The electrolyte becomes depleted of silver as the cell operates. I never use the electrolyte more than two times.
@sreetips yes, it becomes depleted as I see you refresh it to keep the silver levels up, but when you use the impure silver shot, copper slowly replaces the silver in the solution. I had a thought that if you put pure .9999 silver castings in the anode basket that there would be little to no copper to be absorbed into the solution. Therefore, you could reuse the electrolytic solution as long as you rejuvenated it with silver nitrate to keep silver levels up to promote silver crystal growth. I have been slowly getting the materials together and I'm just buying .999 silver castings here and there until I have enough to do this. you could most likely do this yourself as you have a more than ample amount of pure .9999 silver crystals already
I’ve run pure silver crystal back through the cell a second time. Video of it posted on my channel. Since there’s no copper the electrolyte stays clear and colorless. I sent a sample off for ICP analysis. Came back greater than five nines fine pure silver.
Sr. Chief, will Shop-Vac Type EE Dacron filter bags work just as well as the Craftsman filter bags? I found a 2-pack on Amazon for $12.99
I’d have to see them to give you a verdict.
@@sreetips I tried to send you a picture, but comments won’t let me. I might try and send you the link to Amazon so you can see what I am referring to.
I looked them up, they look right to me. I buy mine at ace hardware. They went from $7.99 to $14.99 - why? Have they become more valuable? Or more scarce? No, it’s because the value of the money used to purchase them has declined by that much. This is a more accurate indicator of the real rate of inflation. Inflation is an expansion of the money supply (they print money out of thin air with nothing to back its value, and everything appears to go up in price because it takes much more of it to buy the same amount of stuff). Rising prices is the result of inflation (money printing) not its cause. And it’s just getting started.
Hello Sr. I’m looking online at jewelry and I’m getting some mixed messages. Often people say that the items are gold over silver but then they show a picture of the stamped markings that say 14k. If it’s gold filled wouldn’t it say 14kgf? Thanks again
People make mistakes with markings all the time. The piece marked could be added to a plated piece. I’ve seen thieve stamp 14k on gold plated junk. Or maybe they added a 14k clasp and the rest of it is junk. All are to deceive the buyer. I’ve also seen a 10k clasp on a 14k chain. If it don’t look right then I’d pass. You can find much better deals at local resale shops, yard sales, and estate sales. Usually people online either know what they have and want full price. Or they’re trying to get something for nothing.
@@sreetips thank you. I will definitely do that.
Am I able to send you pictures Senior Chief? I know you have like 200k subscribers and are probably busy all the time but often I’m interested is your opinion of how I’m doing. Thanks for your time.
AM1 Pete
Like anything else, you’ll get better at it the more you do it. No substitute for experience. We’ve done it for so long that I can tell a pieces of plated stuff from karat gold just by looking. I don’t have a way to receive pictures through my channel. Start your own TH-cam channel. Post a video of your stuff. Then I can see it. You never know, it might take off!
@@sreetips wow. I never thought of that. Thanks for the idea. I’ll want to field day shop before I can do that. But I will. Thanks again.
Quick question about your silver recovery - what would happen if you used sodium chloride in the electrolyte instead of silver nitrate? Would ALL of the base metals crystallize out, instead of just the silver?
In the cell we have silver as a nitrate. Adding any chloride to the nitrate will instantly convert the silver nitrate to silver chloride. So we want to keep sodium chloride (table salt) far away from our silver cell.
@@sreetips No, I mean using salt water *instead of* silver nitrate solution, not as well as. Like, in normal electrolysis, with tin crystals, for example, they just use tin electrodes and saltwater electrolyte. Tin grows on one end and dissolves off the other (I can never remember which way around they go).
Or am I misunderstanding what we're trying to do here?
No, it won’t work. We want to keep table far away from our pure silver. My guess is that if tried, we’d end up with a salty toxic soup of silver chloride.
Sorry for a probably dumb question, but where does the copper that was on the silver shot go?
It dissolves, passes through the filter, and accumulates in the electrolyte turning it blue.
So then silver bars were not very clean and pure silver! What percentage of copper do you think was left in them bars??
Traces only. That was about one kilo of 999 silver. So as much as one gram of copper present would still be within limits. The solution would have been darker blue with one gram of copper.
Random question (because I’m tired, my brain isn’t working, and I’m too lazy to test or research myself):
Silver cement- can it be detected with a metal detector? What about gold after dropping from auric chloride with SMB?
Both are metallic powder and should be detectable if sufficient quantities are there.
Woo Hoo! Another sreetips video. You made my weekend.
Do you still operate both silver cells parallel to each other?
If so, are you actually reducing your stock of cement silver or do you still produce more cement silver with your precious metal refining operations thann you can / want to refine each month?
Also it would be interesting if you could quantify your silver yield in a gold refining video one day.
Just to see how much silver is alloyed in a bunch of karat scrap you refine, since the silver in the gold alloys is a way to make some profit, too - you only pay for the gold content of the scrap, all the silver is kind of a bonus
I only have one running right now. I work at my hobby to get paid in metals. My profits are in gold and silver, not paper dollars. There’s silver in karat gold, but not that much. A hundred grams of 14k gold may contain about twenty grams of pure silver.
@@sreetips But aren't you producing a lot of extra cement silver due to the inquarting process (as opposed to just the silver contained in karat gold)? I don't know if this was exactly what OP meant above, but I'm also kind of curious about the rate at which you are recovering all that silver you add for inquarting. Do you have a "backlog" of cement silver or do you generally recover the silver at the same rate that you consume it for gold refining?
This is the kind of "mad" scientist i dreamed of being as a kid. Very cool.
I had a small lab set up in my basement in 7th and 8th grade. This is a carry-over from those days. I think I got away from it when I went to high school and discovered parties and girls. I was a terrible student, graduated (by the skin of my teeth) second from last out of about 480 students. I got a D in the only chemistry class I ever took.
@@sreetips wooooooooooow! I guess the mad science never leaves you. Keep scienc-ing!
Hello sreetips, I have a question if that’s okay. Got over 100lbs of xray film and been doing some test runs. At the stage where you add lye it turns black and add sugar and it stays black. Got it sitting over night to see what settles to the bottom of the beaker. Got any suggestions.
I did that experiment once about five or six years ago. Some X-ray film is thermal activated and contains no silver. I don’t know how to tell. I relied on the seller to make sure it had silver.
@@sreetips ok, that being said, during the rinse it looked just like silver chlorite so guess I’ll look up what thermal activated residual looks like after being exposed to bleach. As always thanks for the info.
Here's a tip boss, fine steel wool. Works just as quick to take off permanent marker off of porcelain and glass and is a lot cheaper than carb spray!
It's not good for the glass, though. In my experience it leads to slow crack development.
Hello Mr Sreetips. Can I use pennies to inquart for gold? Tx.
No
*sreetips* Bravo well done, thank-you sir for taking the time to show us how it's done. GOD Bless.
Thank you for sharing this, I thought my silver bars were pure, now I know better.
That was just a trace, it only takes one gram of copper per thousand to turn it pale blue like that. The silver is still three nines, even though it’s got a little copper.
@@sreetips But your silver is at least 4 nines and probably 5, maybe even better.
Sreetips is the "gold" standard in silver refining 😁
curious, does the solution weigh the same or similar to the weight of the solid materiel plus the weight of the acids?
A solution with silver dissolved in it will be much heavier than the same volume of solution with no silver in it.
I have a question. Why doesn’t the impurities from the shot contaminate the plated out silver in the sides of the bowl?
Silver plates at a certain potential. If you don’t have high dissolved contamination levels, the silver plates out preferentially.
Any impurity in the shot silver remains behind as anode sludge in the Dacron bag.
That sludge is going to be gold, palladium and copper.
@@williamfoote2888 Thank you 👍 I appreciate the explanation. Makes sense.
Impurities get trapped n the anode filter. The copper dissolves and passes through the filter but won’t start plating out with the silver until copper concentration reaches about 60g (copper) per liter. That why the electrolytes turns blue as the cell operates.
@@sreetips I get it. And it explains the blue of the electrolyte. 👍
Is the silver more valuable as crystals or melted into high-purity bars?
The crystals are impossible to fake. Bars of brass can be plated with silver and it’s almost impossible to tell, without filing into the metal to reveal the scam.
In the metal refinement book they suggest to collect precious metals from dental scraps. Have you ever tried that? Thanks
I have some. It will be coming up in a new video soon.
Does it also work if I buy 15% silver nitrate? Or how much stearling silver do I need to desolve in the nitric acid?
I’m not sure about that
Just curious, but why buy silver to make your electrolyte when you have pounds and pounds of pure silver Cristal already? Is it something you picked up at estate sale?
No, my silver crystal has already been through my silver cell. I bought those bars four or five years ago.
The bars are contaminated with copper. After they get processed through my silver cell they will be copper free. Part of the reason I learned to refine silver myself. It’s the only way to be absolutely certain.
I enjoy the science behind it and you explain it better than anyone on TH-cam, very professional and perfectionism, but have a question... How much silver are you actually using thru this process vs final yield? I am estimating a cost break down vs roi.
Just a ruff estimate on what I see you used ruffly 38- 40 oz of silver to make a yield of 48.23oz of pure silver ruffly a $200- $250 roi (depending current price) just on this batch.
I understand there is silver still in the electrolyte solution that can be recovered and reused for another batch. I guess my point is, is there a positive roi when you use all the silver electrolyte, and all unclean silver in the anode basket? I also understand with .9999 pure silver, selling that would bring a higher premium and that's where your profit real is. So, ruff estimating per batch about $250- $300 positive roi per batch based say current price? Again i understand that could be higher based on how much one is willing to pay over spot.
My mind is turning and burning here.
Sorry if Iam making my question complicated.
Thank you in advance
No problem. What you’re wanting to know is: can this be done so that the refined silver can be immediately resold for a profit. And if so, can one make a living doing it? Unfortunately, I don’t know. I buy sterling silver at estate sales. I use it to refine gold. Then I recover the silver, run it through my silver cell, then harvest the pure silver and put it away and forget about it. I’d hate to have to do this for a living. It’s my hobby. But it’s starting to feel like work. I’m not in this for ROI. I’m in it to accumulate silver and gold. Gold and silver are real money, since biblical times. So I’m storing my savings in metal, not paper. If I need paper to pay bills or buy food then I can sell a little of my metal. Must be doing something right. We paid off over $200k debt in two years. And we don’t owe anybody anything. We have been granted some prosperity and we are thankful for that.
I get back every bit of silver that I put in, less impurities. For every 100g of impure silver added (either impure shot or electrolyte) I get back 98g of pure silver. No silver is lost or created.
@@sreetips Yes, I agree and follow the Bible as well. I but silver more than gold, to expensive for me per oz but I do buy a lot of .999 silver bars, rounds, shots etc.. not so much premiums because Iam in it for the weight, not really trading or selling in of it yet. But yes Silver has always throughout history used as real money. Converting dirty silver and refining it would bring in s higher premium like all your estate sale finds, pennis on the dollar. Then, refining that to a higher purity and selling to public or gold processor would make a nice return for your efforts. It's not that you're creating silver or gold but refining dirty metals to a higher premium which returns a higher $$ which you use to pay off debt. I see it. I know you wouldn't be putting all this time and effort in if you're weren't benefitting in some form which also bleeds over to store revenue and TH-cam ad revenue. It's hard to keep a hobbie from feeling like work but God has gifted you the wisdom, knowledge and understanding! I day keep creating that road of gold and city of gold! Its pretty cool what do and how you instow that wisdom to others if they choose! Thank you!
Sterling silver can be held just like it is. Its value will track right on up with the bullion, so long as you don’t ruin the markings by trying to “melt it down” then its value becomes questionable. The only reason I refine the silver is because I use sterling to refine gold. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot and run it through my silver cell. In powder form, the cement silver’s value is questionable. Be hard to get full price for silver powder whose value is indeterminable. After running it through the silver cell, the high purity silver is easy to price out, if you want to sell any of it.
sreetips always cooking up awesome precious brews! Awesome post
Not much of a tint but enough to say what ? Pure Silver ? Ty for taking us along
What is the reason for going this route for silver crystal from impure silver instead of using nitric to dissolve the impure silver? Better result?
I did dissolve the silver on nitric. Then I recovered it and run it through my silver cell. I’m producing pure silver for my savings account. I’m not going to sell this silver unless I have to. The value of impure silver is questionable. But it’s easy to determine the value of pure silver.
@@sreetips Yes as I've seen the market value for pure silver pales to Gold. Silver is a savings account while Gold is an investment.
Gold and silver are real money, since biblical times and before. They require no third party validation like fiat does, they stand on their own. They are not investments. Although people try to make them investments. I’m not in precious metals for a big bump in price. I hold them to protect my savings from the money printers. If I need some paper to pay bills then I can always sell a little of my metals.
Gooood afternoon from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great afternoon!
Goooood afternoon!
? what was the dark bits in it when you were adding your crystals to the solution.
Good question. I’ve seen that before while dissolving pure silver from other refiners.
could it be the oxidizing form the silver coming off I know later on it gets dissolved @@sreetips
Possibly
why you need to make silver electrolyte ? it wont work by using just distil water ?
No
do you have any numbers about the return on investment? buying these bars to make the electrolyte, and the yield of silver in the end?
I don’t track expenses for each batch. I used these silver bars to show that it possible to do so.
@@sreetips oh ok, I see
Yea he said he would expect about 1.5kg from that electrolyte which contains 600g of silver so my guess is the silver in solution re plates on the bowl but whilst it's doing so you can feed impure silver and by the time the electrolyte is exhausted you end up with more silver than you put in.
@@UncalBertExcretes I’m guessing he wouldn’t do it if it didn’t pay more than he put in…
I’ll only get out what I put in, less any losses due to spills etc. the electrolyte gets depleted because it plates out on the cathode. I’ll get every bit of silver back out, but not more than I put in.
Why don’t you use your own processed silver for this?
I did this to demonstrate that pure silver bars can be used to make the silver cell electrolyte.
? If the test showed Blue Green or Black would you dissolve the silver in the Silver Cell?
No
Well since you turned off comments on your new silver cell vid, imma ask here. Just wondering what would happen if you switched the + & - to the silver cell. Im sure nothing good...but again just wondering.
I just checked. Somehow the comments got turned off. Please try another to see if it works.
approx how much distilled water do you go throu in a month?
About twenty gallons.
thanks. very fun video. i know absolutely nothing about this subject. but, i love your videos nonetheless.
First! Love your videos man keep it up please!
If you can grow Silver Crystal, can you do the same for Gold and or Palladium??
Yes, I’ve done electrolytic gold refining cell. But the gold is more nodular-looking. There’s a way to grow gold crystals that look like these silver crystals. But it’s an arduous process.
It seems logical that some copper nitrate in the electrolyte shouldn't matter much since operating the cell will add copper to the electrolyte over time anyway.
Correct
Interesting that the electrolyte will be colorless when all the excess nitric is consumed 👍🏻
Given that my favourite part of a sreetips video is when the term "pure silver crystal" is said, I'd say this is my favorite sreetips video of all time 😃
Does the amount of copper that was in some of those bars constitute fraud on the part of the producer?
I don’t think so. Industry standard for pure silver is 999 parts per thousand. For the amount of silver bars that I had, that means there could have been one gram of copper in there and still been three nines. One gram of copper would be a lot darker blue. Trace amounts of copper only. That’s my opinion.
Sir GD day in gold solution,,I put excess smb but gold never precipitate,,what I gonna do on this,,,,
Test with stannous
If your silver is so much purer that the bought bars why would you ever use the bars? I would just keep some of your own silver crystal on the side and feed that forward when in need of more electrolytic solution. I hope you just found them in a drawer somewhere and wanted to get them used up knowing the contamination issue.
Bought those years ago. I did this to demonstrate that silver bars or rounds can be used for silver cell electrolyte.
I’d love to see you weight a beaker of pure water vs the desolved sliver beaker at equal ML to see how much heavier it is
It’s definitely heavier with silver dissolved in it.
@@sreetips yeah I bet!! Can you determine how much sliver is in it just by the weight??
Probably, but I don’t know how to calculate it.
@@sreetips interesting lol now I got homework I guess 🤣