@@elizabethphelps4392 You might be able to produce tiny globules along an edge which is indeed "melting" the gold, but a bigger chunk, no, and you wouldn't get any kind of good results pouring say an ounce into a mold. Even MAPP gas which burns 5300 F, much much hotter than propane or butane, is kind of a pain in the butt. You don't want to keep the torch on the work for 20+ minutes.
That ingot was in the top 10 ingots I've watched you pour, super lovely! The nice surprise at the end with the unexpected extra gold made it all the more cooler! And the gold solution was beautiful to boot after two passes through the filter! I don't know if that would stay true if I worked as a refiner, but those videos showing a basic refining are a real treat, they genuinely put me in a good mood. Thank you, Kevin!
I never get tired of watching your videos you are such an inspiration . It seems like when I see period when you don't post I get concerned for your welfare ❤
@@sreetips, that is not believable, I am sure Mrs. Sreetips has a firm hand on the tiller. It is also that time of year to go to yard sales, for some reason I would bet she enjoys going to them... She is probably in her element at yard sales and estate sales!
Excellent production! Your skill and knowledge on refining plus the editing is perfect. Takes a lot of time to produce that man. Thank you for another great learning experience.
wow... never ceases to surprise me that EVERY bar is never alike... looked at an earlier video of the ending to compare the bar pour rings, they never seem to appear in the same places, as if they've all got their own fingerprint of sorts, so unique. keep doing what you do sreetips, it has motivated me to start going around to any yard sales to gather up my own stash of gold scrap. heck I even wanna go panning for the gold.
This is fascinating! I caught one of your videos randomly and I'm hooked. Makes me want to get the equipment and learn how to do it myself! Thanks for sharing what you do.
It is kinda hard to tell by the video , but it looks as if your flame has intermittent orange and yellow streaks . That would indicate your torch torch tip is dirty . If that is so , you may want to clean your tip or it possibly could put impurities in your gold . Love your videos .
Just a tip, I saw a video in which this guy poured the inquartated gold into a nugget instead of pouring it into the water to make small granules. He then flattened that nugget using those rollers which jewellers use. He flattened the nugget as thin as a paper and then cut that gold paper with scissors to give it nitric boil. He was done with the separation of pure gold in just one nitric boil because the gold was paper thin. You should also try it imo.
Wow! I am totally impressed! I would love to get all my gold melted down into a bar like that. Hopefully my new gold mining hobby, will someday enable me to do just that. Also, you most definitely know what you are doing. I would surely knock something over and end up like the Hulk or something! Thanks for giving me something more to learn about!
Try pouring the inquarted gold/sterling from higher up. You’re so close to the water and it’s so shallow that it’s still molten when it hits the bottom of the pan. A higher pour will give the molten metal time to “come apart” from a stream to individual drops that should stay separate from each other by the time they hit the bottom of the pan.
Another great video, and I am always thinking that when you get junk in your filter papers, some of it might be the lead, that you're trying to precipitate out, with the Sulphuric acid.
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. Exelent clip as always. I on of the days i will melt a sterling bar whit lot of caracter. Have a nice easter. God bless you man🙏 Arne
@@sreetips, I just clicked on the bell and selected All from the list. That’s what I always do when I like a channel enough to subscribe to it. I don’t know how or why it was changed. I didn’t change it. But it wouldn’t surprise me if you got shadow banned for speaking the truth about precious metals vs fiat currency.
Sweet looking gold bar Sreetips. I like the switch up on rising the filter in a separate flask. Nothing worse then flushing containments back into your double filtered solution. I hate when that happens.... Ugh !!!
Love watching your gold refining videos. I noticed you don’t use the map gas torch to pre-melt the pure gold anymore, you go straight to the oxy acetylene. Was the map gas causing the unexplained skin on your pure gold bars a few months back? Also noticed the skin on the re-melt of some pure silver bars too. It was baffling me because it was just a remelt, you didn’t introduce anything new to the silver before melting it.
I leave them. No way to make fake pure silver crystal. But I’ve poured some bars in the past. I used to harvest the crystal, pour and stamp bars, and sell it all immediately. But not any more.
Someday I really want to do some of this refining stuff on my own, but currently I don't have a place I can do it. I definitely plan on hitting up garage sales and stuff to find cheap karat gold if I can, that way I can prepare for the day when I refine it into pure!
You can hold the karat gold without refining it. It will track right on up with the price of gold. The only reason I do it is because it’s my hobby, I love it, I can’t not do it. Plus it helps my channel grow.
@@sreetips That’s one of the astounding things ABOUT your work: the volume of gold you deal in. I keep my eyes peeled for estate and yard sales, thrift shops etc and it’s unusual to find anything. Forget the workups. Sniffing out the volume you do is pretty amazing.
Quick question -how many melts do you get from one cylinder of map gas? Im sure it depends on volume of a melt and different alloys as well. Just a ballpark answer would work . Love the videos , entertaining , informative and well made. Thank you and keep up the good work sir.
The poured bars are looking much nicer since you began boiling the precipitated gold in HCl before rinsing it. About $5160 at today's spot price. That should be good for a mortgage payment or two.
Hi Sreetips! I wanted to know why you have to melt the gold before adding the sterling silver? Is it just personal preference or does this actually matter? Thanks! I love watching your videos.
Hey Sreetips, love your videos. I was interested in what you said about holding silver because of its value against the $. I was wondering why you often sell the gold you refine? Is that to reinvest more into scrap? Is there a point you'll become content with the conversion of $ to metal assets? Thanks.
I know electronic scrap is popular. But it’s messy, the amount of waste is high. And the yields are low. And to get enough scrap to make it worth while is getting more difficult.
Great video as always. I have noticed from your earlier content that you spend much more time trying to rinse off chemicals like the sodium metabisulfate, and as a result you are not needing to triple refine gold to get the same result.
If the gold is going to be sold to an individual, I refine it twice - minimum. If it’s going to the big refiner I sell to then a single refine is sufficient.
Very cool! How do you know when each nitric acid boil is complete? Looks like you still have nitric in solution when you pour off solution into silver jar.
Hey Sreetips! I love watching your videos and have learned so much. Thank you! Something I was wondering is why you inquart the karat scrap to 75% silver / 25% gold and dissolve in nitric acid first to remove the silver, rather than inquarting to 25% silver / 75% gold and dissolving in aqua regia first to get the gold into solution and leave the silver behind. Is it simply because silver is more affordable than gold? Thanks!
Several reasons. 1) I have much silver that must be dissolved so why not use it to inquart? 2) there’s going to be a ton of silver chloride by going 75% gold and 25% silver/base metals.
why aren't you using the waterboard you made ? I love watching your videos it feels like you finally are making the video you wanted to make all that time, I know the process by hearth at this point but every new video manages to bring more clarity to the whole process. Bravo Sreetips, much love to yall and have a great day !
Chief that was another great vid. What happened to running your shot in the wooden plank and water pump set up? Would you need less nitric boils if the shot was more the size of a bb? Ty for always answering my questions sir. Hooah!
No, a good April Fools joke would be if he labeled this as a e-waste recovery and refining and just smelted some bars... E-waste is my fave! But I don't think Sreetips cares for it too much.
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I swear it never gets old watching you refine anything! 🎉
I'm the same Dawn lol, I love watching his vids.
never does, to be sure. i love seeing the finished bars.
can i melt 22 karat gold with a hand held butane torch
@@elizabethphelps4392 You might be able to produce tiny globules along an edge which is indeed "melting" the gold, but a bigger chunk, no, and you wouldn't get any kind of good results pouring say an ounce into a mold. Even MAPP gas which burns 5300 F, much much hotter than propane or butane, is kind of a pain in the butt. You don't want to keep the torch on the work for 20+ minutes.
I don’t think that it will get hot enough. MAP gas from the hardware store will (yellow tank).
That ingot was in the top 10 ingots I've watched you pour, super lovely! The nice surprise at the end with the unexpected extra gold made it all the more cooler! And the gold solution was beautiful to boot after two passes through the filter! I don't know if that would stay true if I worked as a refiner, but those videos showing a basic refining are a real treat, they genuinely put me in a good mood. Thank you, Kevin!
yeah, it was one of the best
I never get tired of watching your videos you are such an inspiration . It seems like when I see period when you don't post I get concerned for your welfare ❤
Entropy, is crawling all over me.
@@sreetips, that is not believable, I am sure Mrs. Sreetips has a firm hand on the tiller.
It is also that time of year to go to yard sales, for some reason I would bet she enjoys going to them... She is probably in her element at yard sales and estate sales!
She’s the best thing that ever happened to me.
When you started heating up that big mold I knew it was going to be a glorious slab. I was not disappointed. Awesome.
The best video my friend ,, Very inspiring. Goodluck,,Greetings from a traditional Indonesian gold miner 🇮🇩⛏️🌸💪👍👍
Excellent production! Your skill and knowledge on refining plus the editing is perfect. Takes a lot of time to produce that man. Thank you for another great learning experience.
The bigger bars are always the best looking..
And that one was probably one of the best yet that I’ve seen you do..
These videos are like meditation to me now please keep them coming
Brother, these videos are fascinating. The skill and knowledge of this refining technique you ave definitely perfected. Great job.!
Thanks Boats!
Another gorgeous pour! You have steadily improved over the years on those pours - good job man!
What a stunning bar! Great video as always!
We appreciate your videos my friend I have learned so much it's crazy I never thought I would be able to refine silver until your channel
One of my favorite parts is the dropping of ice into the gold solution. The sound is relaxing to me.
Love the channel! You have a great voice for this! Very soothing audio tone 😁
Thanks for the enjoyment of watching your content 🙌🏻
That was an awesome video. Your silver harvest looks quite beautiful. I didn't know it looked like that. Thank you for passing on your experience!
wow... never ceases to surprise me that EVERY bar is never alike... looked at an earlier video of the ending to compare the bar pour rings, they never seem to appear in the same places, as if they've all got their own fingerprint of sorts, so unique.
keep doing what you do sreetips, it has motivated me to start going around to any yard sales to gather up my own stash of gold scrap.
heck I even wanna go panning for the gold.
Each bar is like a finger print.
School has gotten less busy and I have returned to watch your soothing videos.
Welcome back!
The silence in the last segment was fitting! What a breathtaking high purity gold ingot.
This is fascinating! I caught one of your videos randomly and I'm hooked. Makes me want to get the equipment and learn how to do it myself! Thanks for sharing what you do.
Welcome! Caution, it can become habit forming.
Man I love watching you refine the metal's I'm saving to refine my own from now on to me you are PROFESSOR SREETIPS GREAT CONTENT
almost 10g more than expected! What a pleasant surprise. Great video as usual Mr. Sreetips.
Excellent production! I actually understand the whole process... You are a master, thank you so much.
I know absolutely nothing about this subject, but it’s so interesting I can’t stop watching!
What a nice surprise at the end. 👍
What a beautiful poured bar that is. Thank you for this video!
One of my favorite channels. Thank you Sreetips
i love work, i can watch you do it all day.
Another beautiful bar nice work!!
Excellent video thank you!!! Bonus grams my favorite part 🎉😊
The King of Inquartation. Thank you for another great show.
That pour was beautiful!
Such a lovely bar. As always, a masterpiece.
It is kinda hard to tell by the video , but it looks as if your flame has intermittent orange and yellow streaks . That would indicate your torch torch tip is dirty . If that is so , you may want to clean your tip or it possibly could put impurities in your gold . Love your videos .
The gold is nice and the silver cell looks amazing.
Very interesting videos. Looking forward to the next video.
Happy easter from Norway😊
That was such a great episode I shared it with my friends so they understand what I been talking about.... 😊😊😊
Excellent April fool's episode!
Just a tip, I saw a video in which this guy poured the inquartated gold into a nugget instead of pouring it into the water to make small granules. He then flattened that nugget using those rollers which jewellers use. He flattened the nugget as thin as a paper and then cut that gold paper with scissors to give it nitric boil. He was done with the separation of pure gold in just one nitric boil because the gold was paper thin. You should also try it imo.
Without the second nitric boil....Flying blind. #2 long Nitric boil doesn't have silver in solution ✅
Sounds interesting. But I’d rather let the chemicals do all that work.
Wow! I am totally impressed! I would love to get all my gold melted down into a bar like that. Hopefully my new gold mining hobby, will someday enable me to do just that. Also, you most definitely know what you are doing. I would surely knock something over and end up like the Hulk or something! Thanks for giving me something more to learn about!
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Goooood evening!
Wow. The crystal structure and pour lines are just perfection. What a beauty.
Great pour. It’s beautiful!
these silver crystals are so beautiful
another great episode,thanks mr sreetips,rob
Amazing, sucked me in. I couldn’t stop watching it was so fascinating!
BZ chief. Your videos never fail to educate and entertain.
1.25 playback speed for the win. Thanks for all the great content sreetips!
cool how the color of the flame heating the mold changed color as you took the oxygen with the torch melting the gold.😊
Love it keep sharing
Excellent sir as always six stars
you are absolutely the best at this.
cheers 🍻
YOUR THE BEST SCREETIPS BY FAR
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Awesome video sreetips! Can’t wait to get some of your silver cell crystals I just ordered!
Beautiful bar.
It's highly infomative & a nice video. Stay Blessed.
Senior chief, ❤love the video.
From your favorite Gunny
Thanks Gunny!
Wow that was a perfect pour sir!!🎉
Man o’ man! I would love to see your stack. All those beautiful sreetips bars!
Try pouring the inquarted gold/sterling from higher up. You’re so close to the water and it’s so shallow that it’s still molten when it hits the bottom of the pan. A higher pour will give the molten metal time to “come apart” from a stream to individual drops that should stay separate from each other by the time they hit the bottom of the pan.
This gold bar was amazing!
Such a beautiful bar of gold and really nice to get so much extra gold over what expected. 👍
Another great video, and I am always thinking that when you get junk in your filter papers, some of it might be the lead, that you're trying to precipitate out, with the Sulphuric acid.
Yes, it could be.
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. Exelent clip as always. I on of the days i will melt a sterling bar whit lot of caracter. Have a nice easter. God bless you man🙏 Arne
Happy Easter
Thank you for your video.
Nice surprise... Your pouring technique is better and better as time goes...
Back to the basics, I love it✌️
When all else fails, a good old-fashioned gold refining works wonders to restore confidence.
I think that is the best I have seen from a single refining
A testament to how effective inquarting with silver then parting with nitric really is.
Nice 😮I enjoyed watching
another great video, sreetips... outstanding work
The gold bar at the end was sweet looking.
Excellent.
Best looking bar EVER!!!!
Thank you for the video my friend
I got my notification this time. Excellent video, as always. 😊
Good, glad to hear it’s been resolved. What did you change to get the notification?
@@sreetips, I just clicked on the bell and selected All from the list. That’s what I always do when I like a channel enough to subscribe to it. I don’t know how or why it was changed. I didn’t change it. But it wouldn’t surprise me if you got shadow banned for speaking the truth about precious metals vs fiat currency.
GOLD ART IS WHAT THIS CHANNEL IS AND THATS NO APRIL FOOLS
Always good when it weighs more
Sweet looking gold bar Sreetips. I like the switch up on rising the filter in a separate flask. Nothing worse then flushing containments back into your double filtered solution. I hate when that happens.... Ugh !!!
You know it!
You pour some of the nicest bars I have ever seen. 9999 fine
Love watching your gold refining videos. I noticed you don’t use the map gas torch to pre-melt the pure gold anymore, you go straight to the oxy acetylene. Was the map gas causing the unexplained skin on your pure gold bars a few months back? Also noticed the skin on the re-melt of some pure silver bars too. It was baffling me because it was just a remelt, you didn’t introduce anything new to the silver before melting it.
I’m constantly refining my refining and melting processes.
Awesome job again , what a cracking bar of gold, beautiful pour. Do you leave the silver as crystals or melt that too?
I leave them. No way to make fake pure silver crystal. But I’ve poured some bars in the past. I used to harvest the crystal, pour and stamp bars, and sell it all immediately. But not any more.
Someday I really want to do some of this refining stuff on my own, but currently I don't have a place I can do it. I definitely plan on hitting up garage sales and stuff to find cheap karat gold if I can, that way I can prepare for the day when I refine it into pure!
You can hold the karat gold without refining it. It will track right on up with the price of gold. The only reason I do it is because it’s my hobby, I love it, I can’t not do it. Plus it helps my channel grow.
@@sreetips That’s one of the astounding things ABOUT your work: the volume of gold you deal in. I keep my eyes peeled for estate and yard sales, thrift shops etc and it’s unusual to find anything.
Forget the workups. Sniffing out the volume you do is pretty amazing.
She found a nice batch on Friday. I’ve enough for another ounce of pure gold.
"Look at that beautiful, gold powder... I'm gonna melt you." hahhahaha awesome
Quick question -how many melts do you get from one cylinder of map gas? Im sure it depends on volume of a melt and different alloys as well. Just a ballpark answer would work .
Love the videos , entertaining , informative and well made. Thank you and keep up the good work sir.
Probably eight or ten, pure guess because I don’t really keep track.
The poured bars are looking much nicer since you began boiling the precipitated gold in HCl before rinsing it. About $5160 at today's spot price. That should be good for a mortgage payment or two.
Nice bar!!
Hi Sreetips!
I wanted to know why you have to melt the gold before adding the sterling silver? Is it just personal preference or does this actually matter?
Thanks! I love watching your videos.
No, the metals can be mixed together then melted. I have a small melt dish and all the unmelted metal may not fit until after it’s melted.
Hey Sreetips, love your videos. I was interested in what you said about holding silver because of its value against the $. I was wondering why you often sell the gold you refine? Is that to reinvest more into scrap? Is there a point you'll become content with the conversion of $ to metal assets? Thanks.
I only sell to pay my debts.
@@sreetipshow much do all those reagents cost you? You're never stingy with e.g.the HCl rinses even though that stuff ain't free
Less than a hundred bucks all in.
That was a nice little $600 surprise, not to be sniffed at 👍 congrats
Everytime i see your vids i am thinking about buying al those stuff lol
Nice. Would love to see another gold fingers /electronic components video again. Not see one of those in a few years
I know electronic scrap is popular. But it’s messy, the amount of waste is high. And the yields are low. And to get enough scrap to make it worth while is getting more difficult.
@@sreetips I can appreciate that. Thank you for the reply
Great video as always. I have noticed from your earlier content that you spend much more time trying to rinse off chemicals like the sodium metabisulfate, and as a result you are not needing to triple refine gold to get the same result.
If the gold is going to be sold to an individual, I refine it twice - minimum. If it’s going to the big refiner I sell to then a single refine is sufficient.
Very cool! How do you know when each nitric acid boil is complete? Looks like you still have nitric in solution when you pour off solution into silver jar.
There was, but it was weakened. Pouring it off and adding fresh acid speeds things up.
Hey Sreetips! I love watching your videos and have learned so much. Thank you! Something I was wondering is why you inquart the karat scrap to 75% silver / 25% gold and dissolve in nitric acid first to remove the silver, rather than inquarting to 25% silver / 75% gold and dissolving in aqua regia first to get the gold into solution and leave the silver behind. Is it simply because silver is more affordable than gold? Thanks!
Several reasons. 1) I have much silver that must be dissolved so why not use it to inquart? 2) there’s going to be a ton of silver chloride by going 75% gold and 25% silver/base metals.
@@sreetips Thanks for answering my question!
why aren't you using the waterboard you made ? I love watching your videos it feels like you finally are making the video you wanted to make all that time, I know the process by hearth at this point but every new video manages to bring more clarity to the whole process. Bravo Sreetips, much love to yall and have a great day !
It takes too much time to set up and tear down
Chief that was another great vid. What happened to running your shot in the wooden plank and water pump set up? Would you need less nitric boils if the shot was more the size of a bb? Ty for always answering my questions sir. Hooah!
It probably would, but it takes longer to set it up and tear it down.
@@sreetips True sir. The old KISS keep it simple soldier. Thanks again.
What a clever man
That bar was impressive. No frosting or anything. I bet you got it 4 9s in the single refining!
It came looking exceptionally well
What no April Fools Gold??? haha
No, a good April Fools joke would be if he labeled this as a e-waste recovery and refining and just smelted some bars... E-waste is my fave! But I don't think Sreetips cares for it too much.
81,5 grams! What a good surprise nice job
I used to assay antimony. I miss playing with nitric.