You are TRULY a one of a kind character Sreetips! Hardly ANYONE else would care enough to help give others such great advice, hints, and tips (not to mention the detailed INSTRUCTIONS) on how to do so much better in such a lucrative endeavor! And your wife sounds like one of the greatest "treasures" of all! I truly wish you all the best sir,, and hope you catch every dream you ever chase!! 👍
I love the videos you produce! I'm in the process of refining gold myself as a hobby that will keep me busy and I must admit there are 2 great pleasures I find in life now. #1...Watching your videos as you so intricately and in great detail dive through the painstaking refining process with us and #2...SHOPPING FOR GOLD AND SILVER!!! So, Soon will come #3 which is having a great refining outcome after learning this fun and exciting hobby Thanks to you, Sreetips and your awesome wife, Mrs. Sreetips! Please keep the great content coming as I am forever a fan! Thank you! ;)
I agree. Sreetips, you should get your lovely wife a little go pro, and send it on a shopping trip with her. Ive gone to many thrift stores, and i think ive found maybe a few silver spoons, and zero gold so far. But i have had a little success going to yard sales.
This video answered alot of the questions I had asked in the last video I watched on Oct. 15th 2018! I scrolled down a bit and seen the title to this and it was AWESOME!!! THANK YOU SREETIPS!!!!!
I like how your not messing around. This is to make a profit. I got kind of obsessed with watching gold mining and panning videos because I like the idea of someone actually getting gold from nothing. But the reality is on one ever gets enough to count for anything. You on the other had just get gold and make it more valuable. Brilliant
The vid is 4yrs old but new to me and I love watching them. My comments are usually short and more of a way to let you know I'm watchin via notifications. I have learned a bunch and appreciate you making all these vids. I also have to say, I have made more comments on your channel in the past 3-week than my top four normal channels in 3-years...that means a lot.
TH-cam seriously needs to give Sreetips one of those awards for being one of the best educational channels. Sreetips is by far the best at explaining the processes involved in all of this stuff
Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺! You sir are an absolute legend, I love all of your videos, the depth and detail you provide is absolutely outstanding and has taught me so much! In fact it has inspired me to get into the game so thank you! I look forward to sharing my progress with you and the community when I get going! Thanks again mate, much love and appreciation!
I’ve been getting E material from tvs for free and preparing to enter this incredible journey . I do appreciate how honest your are telling your viewers where and how to do .
Just in case I haven’t told you already, I really enjoy watching your videos. They are interesting and informative, and also at times very relaxing. Thank you sir.
@@sreetips is it possible to reverse electroplate black sand?? So i put them in a copper mesh like you did... put it in sulfuric acid and reverse electroplate Would it work with black sand?
Hello sir ! Why not make a video on setting up a little lab with all the tools needed to refine gold and silver? I'm currently watching your videos and this is very interesting and informative. It makes me want to try it !! Hope to hear from you ! Have a nice day!
Sreetips, you hit the nail on the head with e-scrap and all the other urban mining trends out there to get precious metals. After you factor in the costs of getting enough material+ equipment+acids+ dealing with the waste (and your time) you'd be further ahead by doing nothing if you were doing it for profit. Its fun and interesting to be able to recover gold from everyday items and a good starting point for a hobbyist to build their experience but it definitely isn't profitable. If you were into it for the money you'd be better off buying gold at a pawn shop and sitting on it till the price goes up. I'm glad to see you sell your good condition finds on ebay and refine the rest yourself but would like to add that buying gold scrap off ebay (from other sellers) in any form such as scrap lots, escrap paydirt etc is almost ALWAYS a rip off. Sellers tend to list 10k+14k scrap with other bulk lots and hope that uninformed buyers will snatch it up not realizing that it is probably a lot with 1 damaged piece of 10k and another small piece of 14k and the rest is gold plated costume crap. The sellers know what they are putting in the bag.... buyer doesn't, there is no way a seller is going to take a chance at loosing money. The only way to make it pay off is like you and you wife are doing it by knowing what to look for, where to look and how much to pay. Great video btw
Don't know how I got here but I'm glad I did. I will never do anything in your videos but I truly love seeing how other people are so blessed to earn their living while enjoying their life. GOD bless you.
Sreetips is my hero. Got me binge watching his videos. I bought my smelting furnace, ordered my beekers and flasks. Still need to get some chemicals. I also got my ventilation system. Now I guess I should start buying some gold and silver lol
I like watching a ton of your videos as they're very interesting. It amazes me that Iron make copper, copper makes silver, and silver helps to refine gold. This type of interchanging of metals makes me think that there might be a cycle of interchanging of metals.
Ryan, it’s out there, but you got to get up early and be there first or else the metal is gone. My wife finds most of the metals that I get to refine. And your plans must include a fume hood. No way to safely do reactions without one.
I work in pharmaceutical industry for the last 36 years as a chemical techichian only with organic chemistry. Now i'm retired. Its nice to see how anorganic chemistry works. Thanks for your videos.
I agree as a rule you have to be very careful with what you buy on eBay in general. Thank you for this video. I often wonder if gold refiner channels make any money. When you pull that gold out of the water it is truly mesmerizing.
@@sreetips I'm a retired stockbroker that has turned into an Antique furniture dealer. Both french and English especially. I watch the store and I've had several customers who for either jewelry or sterling to melt down. One auction house sold $6000 of a family's sterling that was to be melted down. I'm just wondering.
We process eWaste in Pompano Beach Florida. You are correct. The material has to be obtained in large amounts, at low cost. But, it can be. It is better to think of eWaste as a very high quality Gold ore. The Gold concentration is orders of magnitude higher than what comes out of the ground. Yet, even at that, it is still a small percentage by weight.
I have watched this once before. I have a lot of confidence in spotting/identifying silver. It has a much lower risk as well. With gold, the best I have done is to acquire GF under spot. I cannot get my hands on karat gold under spot. Our local main thrift store, the DI never seems to have gold in their valuables, and the silver is always plated. Your wife has the skill, confidence, and knowledge that I wished I had.
It's not as easy as it sounds. She spends much time traveling around (driving is dangerous) looking for the metals that she finds. She is a very hard working person with only two speed settings; wide open and off. I am a very lucky man to have a woman like her in my life for over forty years.
I agree 100% ! I tried with the E-waste but it’s just not enough!! And people wanna charge out the AZZ for it but it’s Not worth it in the end, you’ll spend $300 on E-waste then $100 or more on Nitric, and come out with $40 or $50 in gold when your all done with allot of waste!! But the GF scrap is where the money is at!!
How much gold can you recover on average from lets say a 14k solid gold pocket watch that weighs 31.5g with the movement compared lets say to a 14k gf one?
Safe budget? I pay 80% of spot. If I'm looking at $100 worth of pure gold then I pay $80. If I'm looking at $2000 worth of pure gold then I pay $1600. If someone has $8000 worth of gold I would pay $6400 and so on.
@@sreetips So if you pay 80% of spot for 24 carat gold, would you then pay 80%, of 58% of spot value for 14 carat and so on with other purities? I'm just getting into your videos, a response would be much appreciated!
Hello Mr sreetips. Thank you for sharing this.. My brother was a sale manager for many years, and i could take what i like. Broken laptop, Pc, and many things. But thats was before i now, wat i now today. I regreat sometimes, but thats lifes😊
You are a great guy!! Thank You for making these videos out of all the gold recovery on you tube you are by far the greatest!!!! Please make more videos and thanks for the info. you gave me before. :)
Very good! With so many itens of joalhery , the video looked like an old movie about the treasures of King Solomon. rsrs It was a good you show that recovering precious metals from scrap is a very expensive thing, and if you can not get for free, you make very little profit. Thanks for the video.
I wouldn't know anything about the makers. My experience with silver is that it usually goes for the silver content value only. I haven't gotten that far into checking values based on who made the piece.
You are a true gentleman giving your wife most if not all the credit for finding the valuable stuff. I agree it takes a keen eye to find the real gold among the dross. Apparently your wife is very proficient at this :) Personally, I would probably rather refurbish, repair or clean up those things and, sell most of it "as is". But then, I agree refining the gold and silver and other precious metals is also part of the fun. The only thing I wonder about, is how much true waste you produce, refining. If you're to dispose of the waste safely and in a nature-friendly way, that too costs money. I do believe you're a responsible person, and you don't dispose of any waste through the drain or in a hole in the ground. In other words, I think some profit can also be made by avoiding unnecessary costs, don't you agree? I mean, optimizing refinement to such a degree you spend the least possible amount in tools and chemicals to help you with the process of refining. In any case, I'm very curious what and how much you will extract from your waste bucket (or "stockpot" as you call it) and how much of it will be true "waste". Thanks for sharing your insights and video :)
Not all that shines is gold :) Once a famous cathedral's dome was refurbished in our capital, and it shone like gold, for six months or so. Then, it turned green. It turned out church authorities had been fooled by the contractor, who had used a lot of polished yellow copper to restore the dome, letting them think it had been gold-plated with gold foil... not! *grin* Like I said, it takes a keen eye to see what's real gold and what's not :)
Yes! If you noticed I only have about 2 quarts of waste, and it still had precious metals in it. I spend about 10% of my time at the shop processing waste - especially the escrap waste - so much of it. When I do my stock pot video I'll have a bunch in there about waste treatment because the stock pot is the first place that my waste gets processed.
Wow, I just cant help but wince, when I see some of that jewelry being scrapped. The antique costume jewelry like the art deco, art Nuvo period pieces are worth quite a bit of money. I am pretty sure that your wife would know about the pieces that are worth, literally thousands of dollars just the way they are. Thank you for sharing!
How is the gold purity determined (14k,18k, etc) if the gold has been melted down like you did in the video? Also what happens to the chemicals after your done processing with them? Do you pay for disposal or is it treated to render it no longer a dangerous waste? Yes sir you are a very lucky man Mrs. Sreetips is a rare catch. Great video as always.
Great video! Exactly what I was looking for. My question is do the refineries pay more for a .999 to .9999? If not, when you sell it online, does the high purity mean you can get closer to stock price or more? Just curious on if there are enough benefits to doing a high purity refinement
You continue to inspire and I really do appreciate everything you share. The way I became a successful distiller, and won awards with my spirits, was through learning from people like yourself.
Dude, I appreciate you!!! I presently I’m looking into up scaling my scrapping skills , told it like it was and to the point!! Thank you and I mean that!!!!could your wife do a segment on “how when we’re what to look for when she goes out to harvest the scrap?
That’s one amazing wife you got. You can tell it makes her happy to impress you. Makes me happy to see such awesome relationships. Much love and respect buddy. I have been buying storage units for years and have found lots of gold over the years. Thanks for sharing. I also end up with tons of escrap and computer scrap for free. What should I do with all that stuff? Is it worth my time to break it all down or should I just scrap it for what I can get in the state it’s in? Most of the time it’s complete computer towers or busted cell tower phones. I got about a full truck bed load of e scrap right now
I got very lucky almost 42 years ago when I first met her. If I had the escrap I'd probably break it down and process it myself just so that I could make videos. But in your case probably better to sell it on eBay.
sreetips clean it up and sell it on eBay? Get it broke down where it’s only the parts that contain gold and list it on eBay or just take it to a escrap buyer in the condition it’s in. You are a huge inspiration to me. Would love to get into refining but not setup for it and don’t really have the time either. These storage units and flea markets keep me very busy. I hope my marriage will last that long. I’ve been with my wife about 12 years. Exactly which parts sell good on eBay?
Are you interested? If you could pay my gas there and back and link my channel in your description and feature me on the video I would bring you all of my escrap and give it to you? Let me know if you are interested? I completely understand if not.
If you dissolve say 75g of sterling alone do you think it would take roughly the same amount of nitric as 75g 925/25g kt gold? Or is the silver in the kt gold requiring a substantial amount more nitric? ...I'm just wondering if a small time guy could get away with less nitric waste by enquarting with a bit more sterling on the high kt gold
We used to toll refining precious metals here in the UK, electronic scrap we used to spot sample and assay, give on account payment, only pay the customer the balance on outturn of processing by incineration and process to an homogeneous state either after smelting or crush, seive and blend batches then assay.
I would not like doing that. The customer having unrealistic expectations. Then blaming me for the yield being off because I was the last one to handle their material. And that’s why I don’t do toll refining.
awe i thanku you for taking your time to share your knowledge....your both precious humans, best part is when she came in from shopping, g lol otta love her.
@14:45 -- around here, those are not called 'catches'. They're called 'clasps'. Clasp (noun): ``a device with interlocking parts used for fastening things together.`` eg. "a handbag with a golden clasp"
Karat gold is an alloy of gold, silver, copper and zinc. Gold plated is a micro thin layer of gold over brass or copper. Gold filled is a very thick layer of gold over brass or copper. Of the three, karat gold yields the highest - up over 50% by weight
Awesome finds, your wife is incredible! Do you sell your silver crystals from your electrolytic refining cell to a refiner? Or do something else with it since it's so pure?
@sreetips I love your videos! Would you consider putting the measurements of the scrap, chemicals and anything else you use in the video descriptions please, sort of like how a cooking video shows the recipe ingredients :)? I would also love to know what type of ventilation system you have and what some of the tools and things you use are and where they can be purchased, as well as the name of a good refinery to use, like the one you use. Thanks for the great videos!
It's all included in the video. I sell my gold to Elemetal Direct. They require that you have a business. I documented the fume hood install on the goldrefiningforum.com with photos.
I know this video was some time ago, but you said at 10:06 that the estimated value is around $8000. How much would you estimate it's worth after expenses (cost to refine it, etc)?
I picked up 3 silver spoons none matched . I looked them up and each spoon was sold on ebay for 5- 15 dollars .Always recearch your silver .You may have a true treasure
I'm sorry if you've been asked this question before but I can't see it - how do you tell what karat your gold is? As you can tell, total newbie here but finding your channel incredible!
Most karat gold is "hall marked" or stamped with the karat right on the piece. For those pieces not marked I use test needles with known samples of karat gold scratched on a touch stone next to the unknown sample then apply acid and watch what happens.
Adding silver to the karat gold to achieve a 25% gold alloy is a refining technique called "inquarting" 1/4 pure gold alloyed with 3/4 silver and base metals. Reducing the gold content allows the nitric acid to completely penetrate, forming a honeycomb structure inside the pieces as it goes, and remove nearly all the added silver and base metals. It works so well that the resulting gold is nearly 999 fine after the nitric treatments alone.
@@sreetips I saw another video after I asked this where they did this technique using copper instead of silver. Is there any reason to choose one over the other?
Yes! Copper is actually a better choice because then there's less silver chloride to deal with. Silver chloride will get into the gold solution and tend to follow the gold because it's so fine that it will pass through a filter and it's slightly soluble in these solutions. However, I refine silver also so it's beneficial for me to use silver instead of copper because the first step in refining silver is to dissolve it in nitric. So, by using silver to inquart the gold I can kill two birds with one stone, refining both the gold and silver at the same time.
It's true. The 🥕 gold and silver is where the best profit is. However, most of the profit in e-waste is base metals and semi-precious metals. Scrappers don't buy e-waste, they find a way to get it for free, or even get paid a small fee to pick it up from the customer.
All that Silver has a Rhodium Plating on them if your not doing Rhodium it's being wasted I make $100-$2000 per hour Cleaning up Raw Gold, or I Drive Trucks good Job keep up the good work.
What about spreading it all out and taking some ultra high res photos and letting it sit for a month on an online antiques listing to see if someone spots something special, just in case, and then do the refining? Love your vids
Is crazy how people don't recognise the value of their jewellery and just sell it for nothing. Although, I understand that your process is what adds the value. Would love to start doing something similar myself in the uk.
They (our friends in high places) are doing an excellent job of keeping interest in gold down. We can take advantage of this. Because people incorrectly believe that paper currency is more valuable than gold, we can buy it very cheap. But when it turns and it gets away from them, then we won’t be able to find it anywhere. Ninety percent of what I do to get the metal, is 50% mental. Crazy.
Nice hustle bonus having a wife that helps like she does ... Just to add I make a nice living doing refines of various materials.... E-waste, gold filled, karet scrap ...etc. I have a nice clientele base and work for several recyclers..... 25% of recovered metals I do gold and silver mainly and just poking into pgms as it's a completely different set of challenges.... Thanks for the video always inspiring thanks Kevin....
sreetips it started as a hobby for me... But expensive hobby as eBay was a main source ...after night and day hustling, networking, searching local it grew beyond my expectations...so i still process and love the hobby but now I'm getting a decent living also win win I'm only 42 not quite old enough to retire ...but I feel like it just living the dream..
I never bother with e-waste and rarely process gold-filled. It takes far too much in the way of chemicals to get the small percentage of gold they contain. For example, 1/20 12kt GF has only 2.5% pure gold, assuming you get 100% recovery. So if you have 10 Toz of the plated material, it only contains 0.25 Toz of gold. I just sell the stuff to my favorite local coin shop, who will only buy it if I have 50 Toz or more to sell at one time. That is because his refiner will not accept lots smaller than that and also charges an assay fee.
Great video! I have been into the ewaste for awhile now and never thought of karat scrap. Makes me want to dive right in, but a little intimidating. Ewaste is found for free mostly, karat scrap has out of pocket costs for the scrap and I frankly do not have the exp to know how much to pay. Sreetips, could you give a basic breakdown, without giving up too many of your private details, on what a good purchase price range would be for buying the different karat scrap like in your video. For instance the average 14K ring you would pay what for? Things like that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. You have brought my goals to a whole new level. Your processes and lab are what I aim for. Do you offer more tailored education to people, like one on one?
I pay 80% of spot for the karat gold that I buy. My wife pays pennies on the dollar, because she knows where to look. The idea is to pay the least amount possible to maximize profit. But it's hard to do, especially if your buyer knows what they have. Just yesterday my wife handed me about 15 grams of karat gold that she paid $15 for. The seller told her to pick out what she wanted from the jewelry pile, "it's all costume anyway." This person did not know what she had but my wife could tell that it was karat scrap. This may seem deceptive, but it's the way to make a healthy profit from the scrap.
@@sreetips brilliant combo of scientist and hustler. I’ve been eyeing this type of work because I like to buy things of people who are trying to get rid of it a.k.a don’t know what they have. Now that I’ve watched your videos I’ve decided to dive into the refining process. Your wife and you make a awesome combo I imagine I’ll never beat you guys in this business because you guys split the work up to become so efficient
Quick question ...when refining computer parts such as boards and CPU’s and such why wouldn’t you start out with a hydrofluoric acid first to strip away everything but the gold ??? Seems a lot easier then some of the methods I’ve seen you use previously ??
The biggest issue is safety - very hard to handle HF safely on the hobby scale. Other mineral acids are bad enough, but they at least aren't toxic besides their high corrosiveness. It doesn't take much HF spilled on the skin to kill because it penetrates rapidly and initially painlessly, gets into the bloodstream, and drops out the calcium as insoluble calcium fluoride. If enough calcium comes out of the blood faster than the body can replenish it, you go into cardiac arrest and die. Also, the fumes rapidly destroy the corneas, and most materials including glass are incompatible with it. Hydrofluoric acid really shouldn't be dealt with outside a well-equipped chemistry lab.
Amazing your wife finds all those metals. But I think it costs a ton of money to accumulate so much gold and silver pieces. Need to start small and then go bigger every time I guess. And refining costs acids and a fume hood. But when I am able I would love the hobby! I will upload some nice gold and silver pieces soon. Keep tuned to my channel for it. Love your work!👏👏👏
The hardest part is finding the gold and silver scrap at reasonable prices. You don't need to refine it. If you get it at a good enough price, you can resell it to a buyer - preferably a refinery (if you can find a refinery that buys from the public). The worst place to sell it is to a pawn shop - they will only give you 40%-50% of the spot price. Businesses specializing in buying gold/silver will pay a bit more - except for the rip-off traveling outfits that set up in a motel/hotel - they are as bad (or worse) than pawn shops. Coin shops that buy gold/silver are probably your best bet outside a refinery. What they will pay depends on a number of factors, including how much you have, how often you sell to them, the percentage they get from their refiner and the quality of your previous sales to them. They seem to pay around 80% of spot, although the local shop I have been dealing with pays me 90%.
1) sort according to karat. 2) calculate how much silver to add to create 25% gold alloy. 3) alloy the silver and pour into water to form granules of 6k gold. 4) part out the silver and base metals with hot dilute nitric. 5) refine the recovered gold from the nitric boils with Aqua Regia. I have many videos with much detail. Please watch and take notes. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million.
Coins have a known quantity of silver, minted by the government, and should held as-is. As soon as you “melt em down” their value becomes questionable.
@@sreetips, local or national? I am seriously thinking about getting into the buying & selling if gold. I have some local refiners where I live. But I don't know if they are the best option or not. What has been your experience on this issue? Thanks for your help!
Brian, I don't know anything about them because I've never used one. But all of the professional refiners that I know and confer with say that they are junk. When ever I try an "easy" method or try to take a short cut, it usually ends up costing me more time and money. In refining, there are no short cuts.
Hello,I'm having trouble precipitating my solution, failed twice already.using SMB and not a single dot of dust is showing. What can I do to fix this problem..gold is from fingers
That's really awesome. think you've out done your self again. nice work, nice insight, thank for the help and ideas on people's next adventures an your wife rocks!!!! God bless you guys! good luck an i can't wait for the Sterling silver segment
Hihi... You are bless to have a wife Who coming home whit gold, Silver and stones😂. In a regular juvelry store here in Norway, they sell most 14 carat. Thanks fore this clip. You have your hands full sir😊 Take care, and. God bless you and your "gold wife"
“You ever see a woman who can bring you home gold or silver - you better hang on to her.” One of the best quotes I’ve ever heard.
Lol like a crow. See shiny. take shiny...
That's funny about 30 seconds before he said that i said out loud i need a wife like her! 😂 lucky man!
You are TRULY a one of a kind character Sreetips! Hardly ANYONE else would care enough to help give others such great advice, hints, and tips (not to mention the detailed INSTRUCTIONS) on how to do so much better in such a lucrative endeavor! And your wife sounds like one of the greatest "treasures" of all! I truly wish you all the best sir,, and hope you catch every dream you ever chase!! 👍
Thank you!
@@sreetips You're so welcome sir! 👍
I really like how wholesome this format is.
I love the videos you produce! I'm in the process of refining gold myself as a hobby that will keep me busy and I must admit there are 2 great pleasures I find in life now. #1...Watching your videos as you so intricately and in great detail dive through the painstaking refining process with us and #2...SHOPPING FOR GOLD AND SILVER!!! So, Soon will come #3 which is having a great refining outcome after learning this fun and exciting hobby Thanks to you, Sreetips and your awesome wife, Mrs. Sreetips! Please keep the great content coming as I am forever a fan! Thank you! ;)
Well said.
Your Buyer, (Mrs. Sreetips), is obviously an Ace at that job.
i would love to see a video of your wife shopping!!
Rachael Gallatin I second that!
I agree. Sreetips, you should get your lovely wife a little go pro, and send it on a shopping trip with her. Ive gone to many thrift stores, and i think ive found maybe a few silver spoons, and zero gold so far. But i have had a little success going to yard sales.
I would also like to see this. I’m courteous as to how much se pats per item!
She must be a blast get on that shopping video
Hide her identity because when thrift store/flea mkt people see her coming, they're gonna up their prices.
Howdy, Scott from Alaska. Thanks for making the video.
Might I suggest you get your wife to do a video on how to buy it. LOL
I doubt you'll ever see that video. A magician doesn't give up his secrets..
We been watching & enjoying your videos since the days of the "silent films". You are awesome. Thank you for all your hard work.
This video answered alot of the questions I had asked in the last video I watched on Oct. 15th 2018! I scrolled down a bit and seen the title to this and it was AWESOME!!!
THANK YOU SREETIPS!!!!!
Your videos are great thank you also i like how you give appreciation to your wife 👍
Your wife does what I call, urban mining.
I like how your not messing around. This is to make a profit. I got kind of obsessed with watching gold mining and panning videos because I like the idea of someone actually getting gold from nothing. But the reality is on one ever gets enough to count for anything. You on the other had just get gold and make it more valuable. Brilliant
The vid is 4yrs old but new to me and I love watching them. My comments are usually short and more of a way to let you know I'm watchin via notifications. I have learned a bunch and appreciate you making all these vids. I also have to say, I have made more comments on your channel in the past 3-week than my top four normal channels in 3-years...that means a lot.
Thank you!
TH-cam seriously needs to give Sreetips one of those awards for being one of the best educational channels. Sreetips is by far the best at explaining the processes involved in all of this stuff
Wow thats an amazing stash!It'll be a blast to see what you can refine out of all of this!
I'd love to see the results!!
Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺!
You sir are an absolute legend, I love all of your videos, the depth and detail you provide is absolutely outstanding and has taught me so much! In fact it has inspired me to get into the game so thank you! I look forward to sharing my progress with you and the community when I get going! Thanks again mate, much love and appreciation!
I’ve been getting E material from tvs for free and preparing to enter this incredible journey . I do appreciate how honest your are telling your viewers where and how to do .
What parts are recommended? Thank you
Just in case I haven’t told you already, I really enjoy watching your videos. They are interesting and informative, and also at times very relaxing. Thank you sir.
Excellent, thank you.
@@sreetips is it possible to reverse electroplate black sand??
So i put them in a copper mesh like you did... put it in sulfuric acid and reverse electroplate
Would it work with black sand?
I don’t know. If I had specs of gold in black sand then I’d try a chlorine leach to extract the gold - as an experiment. Or just boil in aqua regia.
Hello sir ! Why not make a video on setting up a little lab with all the tools needed to refine gold and silver? I'm currently watching your videos and this is very interesting and informative. It makes me want to try it !! Hope to hear from you ! Have a nice day!
Sreetips, you hit the nail on the head with e-scrap and all the other urban mining trends out there to get precious metals. After you factor in the costs of getting enough material+ equipment+acids+ dealing with the waste (and your time) you'd be further ahead by doing nothing if you were doing it for profit. Its fun and interesting to be able to recover gold from everyday items and a good starting point for a hobbyist to build their experience but it definitely isn't profitable. If you were into it for the money you'd be better off buying gold at a pawn shop and sitting on it till the price goes up.
I'm glad to see you sell your good condition finds on ebay and refine the rest yourself but would like to add that buying gold scrap off ebay (from other sellers) in any form such as scrap lots, escrap paydirt etc is almost ALWAYS a rip off. Sellers tend to list 10k+14k scrap with other bulk lots and hope that uninformed buyers will snatch it up not realizing that it is probably a lot with 1 damaged piece of 10k and another small piece of 14k and the rest is gold plated costume crap. The sellers know what they are putting in the bag.... buyer doesn't, there is no way a seller is going to take a chance at loosing money.
The only way to make it pay off is like you and you wife are doing it by knowing what to look for, where to look and how much to pay.
Great video btw
Don't know how I got here but I'm glad I did. I will never do anything in your videos but I truly love seeing how other people are so blessed to earn their living while enjoying their life. GOD bless you.
Sreetips is my hero. Got me binge watching his videos. I bought my smelting furnace, ordered my beekers and flasks. Still need to get some chemicals. I also got my ventilation system. Now I guess I should start buying some gold and silver lol
You are a honest and bless man, a lot of people today would never do the things you’re doing. Prosperity will always over take you.God bless!!!!
I like watching a ton of your videos as they're very interesting. It amazes me that Iron make copper, copper makes silver, and silver helps to refine gold. This type of interchanging of metals makes me think that there might be a cycle of interchanging of metals.
Stick around and watch some more no doubt you'll have a much better understanding than you do now a few months down the road
Liked and subscribed. This is one of the best videos that I have ever seen. Taking notes and making plans. Thanks Sreetips
Ryan, it’s out there, but you got to get up early and be there first or else the metal is gone. My wife finds most of the metals that I get to refine. And your plans must include a fume hood. No way to safely do reactions without one.
I work in pharmaceutical industry for the last 36 years as a chemical techichian only with organic chemistry. Now i'm retired. Its nice to see how anorganic chemistry works. Thanks for your videos.
Thanks for making this video...Its worth its weight in gold..
i love that his "scree tips" sorta lab coat, is so clearly new/not worn that it's got the fold lines from the packaging it came int.
My daughter and son-in-law bought those for me. I wear it to honor them.
You are my long sought after chemistry course! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with me.
Your welcome!
@Sreetips you are a great help. Continue making your videos. I enjoy watching them and they are extremely helpful
Thank you
I agree as a rule you have to be very careful with what you buy on eBay in general. Thank you for this video. I often wonder if gold refiner channels make any money. When you pull that gold out of the water it is truly mesmerizing.
You're the first video on this subject that I watched and I'm very intrigued. I will watch more of yours...thank you.
Thank you Ray. I try to read and answer all comments if I can.
@@sreetips I'm a retired stockbroker that has turned into an Antique furniture dealer. Both french and English especially. I watch the store and I've had several customers who for either jewelry or sterling to melt down. One auction house sold $6000 of a family's sterling that was to be melted down. I'm just wondering.
Ray, you can hold sterling just like it is. It will track right on up with the bullion price. No need refine it.
We process eWaste in Pompano Beach Florida. You are correct. The material has to be obtained in large amounts, at low cost. But, it can be. It is better to think of eWaste as a very high quality Gold ore. The Gold concentration is orders of magnitude higher than what comes out of the ground. Yet, even at that, it is still a small percentage by weight.
I have watched this once before. I have a lot of confidence in spotting/identifying silver. It has a much lower risk as well. With gold, the best I have done is to acquire GF under spot. I cannot get my hands on karat gold under spot. Our local main thrift store, the DI never seems to have gold in their valuables, and the silver is always plated.
Your wife has the skill, confidence, and knowledge that I wished I had.
It's not as easy as it sounds. She spends much time traveling around (driving is dangerous) looking for the metals that she finds. She is a very hard working person with only two speed settings; wide open and off. I am a very lucky man to have a woman like her in my life for over forty years.
Thank you a million times for sharing your wisdom I've learned so much from you just in the past couple months. God bless you.
Who'da thunk toxic brown smoke could be so satisfying. Thanks for doing some laymansplaining. Holy moley swag! Awesome job, Mrs. Sreetips!
Hi , Your video's are always great . I have learned a lot from them . Can you recommend a good refiner to send my gold to ? Thanks
I agree 100% ! I tried with the E-waste but it’s just not enough!! And people wanna charge out the AZZ for it but it’s Not worth it in the end, you’ll spend $300 on E-waste then $100 or more on Nitric, and come out with $40 or $50 in gold when your all done with allot of waste!! But the GF scrap is where the money is at!!
Mr Sreetips: Thank you so very much. You are the best. Well I am the best but you are the 99.9999% best
However I like all of your videos I consider this one as simply best one. Thank you.
That was beutifull. god bless you both .i watch all your videos and have learned a hell of allot. Tim from AUSTRALIA.
How much gold can you recover on average from lets say a 14k solid gold pocket watch that weighs 31.5g with the movement compared lets say to a 14k gf one?
What would you consider a safe budget for spending on scrap?
Safe budget? I pay 80% of spot. If I'm looking at $100 worth of pure gold then I pay $80. If I'm looking at $2000 worth of pure gold then I pay $1600. If someone has $8000 worth of gold I would pay $6400 and so on.
@@sreetips So if you pay 80% of spot for 24 carat gold, would you then pay 80%, of 58% of spot value for 14 carat and so on with other purities? I'm just getting into your videos, a response would be much appreciated!
Hello Mr sreetips. Thank you for sharing this.. My brother was a sale manager for many years, and i could take what i like. Broken laptop, Pc, and many things. But thats was before i now, wat i now today.
I regreat sometimes, but thats lifes😊
You are a great guy!! Thank You for making these videos out of all the gold recovery on you tube you are by far the greatest!!!! Please make more videos and thanks for the info. you gave me before. :)
Man oh man! You are so Blessed, Sir. You truly do have a wonderful wife and soulmate. I wish you both continued blessings and great times together.
She’s the best thing that ever happened to me.
@@sreetips
Yes sir. NC country girls are priceless like gold. 😎
Very good! With so many itens of joalhery , the video looked like an old movie about the treasures of King Solomon.
rsrs
It was a good you show that recovering precious metals from scrap is a very expensive thing, and if you can not get for free, you make very little profit.
Thanks for the video.
Some of those silver vases are worth more for what they are, depending on maker, rather than scrap value!
I wouldn't know anything about the makers. My experience with silver is that it usually goes for the silver content value only. I haven't gotten that far into checking values based on who made the piece.
@@sreetips would love to see the video showing how you scrap the silver candle holders and other bigger silver stuff ?
Se my silver refining videos to watch it happen
You are a true gentleman giving your wife most if not all the credit for finding the valuable stuff. I agree it takes a keen eye to find the real gold among the dross. Apparently your wife is very proficient at this :)
Personally, I would probably rather refurbish, repair or clean up those things and, sell most of it "as is". But then, I agree refining the gold and silver and other precious metals is also part of the fun.
The only thing I wonder about, is how much true waste you produce, refining. If you're to dispose of the waste safely and in a nature-friendly way, that too costs money. I do believe you're a responsible person, and you don't dispose of any waste through the drain or in a hole in the ground.
In other words, I think some profit can also be made by avoiding unnecessary costs, don't you agree?
I mean, optimizing refinement to such a degree you spend the least possible amount in tools and chemicals to help you with the process of refining.
In any case, I'm very curious what and how much you will extract from your waste bucket (or "stockpot" as you call it) and how much of it will be true "waste".
Thanks for sharing your insights and video :)
TechneMoira I agree. Lol My fiance can spot a bargain from miles away but no gold or silver
Not all that shines is gold :) Once a famous cathedral's dome was refurbished in our capital, and it shone like gold, for six months or so. Then, it turned green. It turned out church authorities had been fooled by the contractor, who had used a lot of polished yellow copper to restore the dome, letting them think it had been gold-plated with gold foil... not! *grin* Like I said, it takes a keen eye to see what's real gold and what's not :)
Yes! If you noticed I only have about 2 quarts of waste, and it still had precious metals in it. I spend about 10% of my time at the shop processing waste - especially the escrap waste - so much of it. When I do my stock pot video I'll have a bunch in there about waste treatment because the stock pot is the first place that my waste gets processed.
Looking forward to the waste treatment!
And too he didn't ask 4 money 4 nothing on "patreon" like most youtubers do
How do you know how much hcl to add to the gold before you add the nitric acid please let me know thanks
I can dissolve a troy ounce of gold powder in as little as 150ml hydrochloric acid.
SHE CAME IN LIKE A TORNADO I LAUGHED SO HARD
Wow, I just cant help but wince, when I see some of that jewelry being scrapped. The antique costume jewelry like the art deco, art Nuvo period pieces are worth quite a bit of money. I am pretty sure that your wife would know about the pieces that are worth, literally thousands of dollars just the way they are. Thank you for sharing!
The antique pieces are usually pretty obvious. You will note that he stated he holds out the good stuff for selling, rather than refining.
How is the gold purity determined (14k,18k, etc) if the gold has been melted down like you did in the video? Also what happens to the chemicals after your done processing with them? Do you pay for disposal or is it treated to render it no longer a dangerous waste? Yes sir you are a very lucky man Mrs. Sreetips is a rare catch. Great video as always.
Your are an Angel. I have learned so much from you.
Great video! Exactly what I was looking for. My question is do the refineries pay more for a .999 to .9999? If not, when you sell it online, does the high purity mean you can get closer to stock price or more? Just curious on if there are enough benefits to doing a high purity refinement
You don’t need to refine it. Karat gold can be held just like it is. So long as you don’t try to “melt it down” and ruin the markings.
Such a joy to watch you channel mate. Keep us interested and we will keep glued to the screen.
Sreetips, thanks once again man for yet another wonderful, fact filled video!
You continue to inspire and I really do appreciate everything you share. The way I became a successful distiller, and won awards with my spirits, was through learning from people like yourself.
Excellent Jake, thanks
Dude, I appreciate you!!! I presently I’m looking into up scaling my scrapping skills , told it like it was and to the point!! Thank you and I mean that!!!!could your wife do a segment on “how when we’re what to look for when she goes out to harvest the scrap?
That’s one amazing wife you got. You can tell it makes her happy to impress you. Makes me happy to see such awesome relationships. Much love and respect buddy. I have been buying storage units for years and have found lots of gold over the years. Thanks for sharing. I also end up with tons of escrap and computer scrap for free. What should I do with all that stuff? Is it worth my time to break it all down or should I just scrap it for what I can get in the state it’s in? Most of the time it’s complete computer towers or busted cell tower phones. I got about a full truck bed load of e scrap right now
I got very lucky almost 42 years ago when I first met her. If I had the escrap I'd probably break it down and process it myself just so that I could make videos. But in your case probably better to sell it on eBay.
sreetips clean it up and sell it on eBay? Get it broke down where it’s only the parts that contain gold and list it on eBay or just take it to a escrap buyer in the condition it’s in. You are a huge inspiration to me. Would love to get into refining but not setup for it and don’t really have the time either. These storage units and flea markets keep me very busy. I hope my marriage will last that long. I’ve been with my wife about 12 years. Exactly which parts sell good on eBay?
Are you interested? If you could pay my gas there and back and link my channel in your description and feature me on the video I would bring you all of my escrap and give it to you? Let me know if you are interested? I completely understand if not.
If you dissolve say 75g of sterling alone do you think it would take roughly the same amount of nitric as 75g 925/25g kt gold? Or is the silver in the kt gold requiring a substantial amount more nitric? ...I'm just wondering if a small time guy could get away with less nitric waste by enquarting with a bit more sterling on the high kt gold
There silver and copper in the karat gold, so it will take a little more nitric.
@@sreetips thanks!
We used to toll refining precious metals here in the UK, electronic scrap we used to spot sample and assay, give on account payment, only pay the customer the balance on outturn of processing by incineration and process to an homogeneous state either after smelting or crush, seive and blend batches then assay.
I would not like doing that. The customer having unrealistic expectations. Then blaming me for the yield being off because I was the last one to handle their material. And that’s why I don’t do toll refining.
awe i thanku you for taking your time to share your knowledge....your both precious humans, best part is when she came in from shopping, g lol otta love her.
Hi 😎 I wanting to separate 50/50 Silver/copper and keep the Silver of course... But also want to keep the copper. Is there a way? Pls help
@14:45 -- around here, those are not called 'catches'. They're called 'clasps'.
Clasp (noun):
``a device with interlocking parts used for fastening things together.``
eg. "a handbag with a golden clasp"
Always fun to watch, thank you! Can you share what the percentages of silver per percentage of gold are when you encort please?
I add enough silver to create an alloy of about 27% pure gold with 73% silver and base metals.
Great videos Sir!! Love your accent! “Don’t make me come over der tough guy! Why I oughta!!”😂😂😂
Might I ask what karat scrap is? I'm a bit lost.
14, 10, 18, 9 karat gold scrap is karat scrap. Old jewelry is karat scrap. It's broken, out of style, missing stones, etc. Refine it to pure.
Karat gold is an alloy of gold, silver, copper and zinc.
Gold plated is a micro thin layer of gold over brass or copper.
Gold filled is a very thick layer of gold over brass or copper.
Of the three, karat gold yields the highest - up over 50% by weight
Thank you to both of you, it has been very helpful.
thanks sreetips for videos! You're the best
Great wife great life. Out of this batch of acid that you saved. How much silver would you expect to recover?
Awesome finds, your wife is incredible! Do you sell your silver crystals from your electrolytic refining cell to a refiner? Or do something else with it since it's so pure?
I believe he has mentioned offhand that he uses it for refining methods. He also sells some of the larger silver crystals on his ebay store.
You make this look sooo easy! and your wife is adorable! :)
@sreetips I love your videos! Would you consider putting the measurements of the scrap, chemicals and anything else you use in the video descriptions please, sort of like how a cooking video shows the recipe ingredients :)? I would also love to know what type of ventilation system you have and what some of the tools and things you use are and where they can be purchased, as well as the name of a good refinery to use, like the one you use. Thanks for the great videos!
It's all included in the video. I sell my gold to Elemetal Direct. They require that you have a business. I documented the fume hood install on the goldrefiningforum.com with photos.
I know this video was some time ago, but you said at 10:06 that the estimated value is around $8000. How much would you estimate it's worth after expenses (cost to refine it, etc)?
The cost is just the acid he uses really. Unless you need to buy beakers and flasks and what not for the first time
I have a question. Can you please mention the refiner you send the gold to? Tyvm dad.
Elemetal direct
I picked up 3 silver spoons none matched . I looked them up and each spoon was sold on ebay for 5- 15 dollars .Always recearch your silver .You may have a true treasure
I'm sorry if you've been asked this question before but I can't see it - how do you tell what karat your gold is? As you can tell, total newbie here but finding your channel incredible!
Most karat gold is "hall marked" or stamped with the karat right on the piece. For those pieces not marked I use test needles with known samples of karat gold scratched on a touch stone next to the unknown sample then apply acid and watch what happens.
What can you do about the silver that are in those gold pieces that break down in that solution. Is it gone or do you have a way of saving it.
I recover all the silver out of those solutions.
16:59 What does it mean to "accord" gold with silver, and why is this done?
Adding silver to the karat gold to achieve a 25% gold alloy is a refining technique called "inquarting" 1/4 pure gold alloyed with 3/4 silver and base metals. Reducing the gold content allows the nitric acid to completely penetrate, forming a honeycomb structure inside the pieces as it goes, and remove nearly all the added silver and base metals. It works so well that the resulting gold is nearly 999 fine after the nitric treatments alone.
@@sreetips I saw another video after I asked this where they did this technique using copper instead of silver. Is there any reason to choose one over the other?
Yes! Copper is actually a better choice because then there's less silver chloride to deal with. Silver chloride will get into the gold solution and tend to follow the gold because it's so fine that it will pass through a filter and it's slightly soluble in these solutions. However, I refine silver also so it's beneficial for me to use silver instead of copper because the first step in refining silver is to dissolve it in nitric. So, by using silver to inquart the gold I can kill two birds with one stone, refining both the gold and silver at the same time.
@@sreetips Thanks for the reply
Wow what a difference 2 years can make. I can see now how you keep improving your process. Great job!
It's true. The 🥕 gold and silver is where the best profit is. However, most of the profit in e-waste is base metals and semi-precious metals. Scrappers don't buy e-waste, they find a way to get it for free, or even get paid a small fee to pick it up from the customer.
All that Silver has a Rhodium Plating on them if your not doing Rhodium it's being wasted I make $100-$2000 per hour Cleaning up Raw Gold, or I Drive Trucks good Job keep up the good work.
Nevermind lol i just had to wait untill the end of video for ebay store thanks again for making these videos they are great
What about spreading it all out and taking some ultra high res photos and letting it sit for a month on an online antiques listing to see if someone spots something special, just in case, and then do the refining? Love your vids
Is crazy how people don't recognise the value of their jewellery and just sell it for nothing. Although, I understand that your process is what adds the value. Would love to start doing something similar myself in the uk.
They (our friends in high places) are doing an excellent job of keeping interest in gold down. We can take advantage of this. Because people incorrectly believe that paper currency is more valuable than gold, we can buy it very cheap. But when it turns and it gets away from them, then we won’t be able to find it anywhere. Ninety percent of what I do to get the metal, is 50% mental. Crazy.
Nice hustle bonus having a wife that helps like she does ... Just to add I make a nice living doing refines of various materials....
E-waste, gold filled, karet scrap ...etc. I have a nice clientele base and work for several recyclers..... 25% of recovered metals I do gold and silver mainly and just poking into pgms as it's a completely different set of challenges.... Thanks for the video always inspiring thanks Kevin....
Sounds good Sonny. I only refine my own material. Having someone else's material in my shop would make my hobby seem like work.
sreetips it started as a hobby for me... But expensive hobby as eBay was a main source ...after night and day hustling, networking, searching local it grew beyond my expectations...so i still process and love the hobby but now I'm getting a decent living also win win I'm only 42 not quite old enough to retire ...but I feel like it just living the dream..
That sounds great, it's nice to have found something you love to do.
I never bother with e-waste and rarely process gold-filled. It takes far too much in the way of chemicals to get the small percentage of gold they contain.
For example, 1/20 12kt GF has only 2.5% pure gold, assuming you get 100% recovery. So if you have 10 Toz of the plated material, it only contains 0.25 Toz of gold. I just sell the stuff to my favorite local coin shop, who will only buy it if I have 50 Toz or more to sell at one time. That is because his refiner will not accept lots smaller than that and also charges an assay fee.
Great video! I have been into the ewaste for awhile now and never thought of karat scrap. Makes me want to dive right in, but a little intimidating. Ewaste is found for free mostly, karat scrap has out of pocket costs for the scrap and I frankly do not have the exp to know how much to pay. Sreetips, could you give a basic breakdown, without giving up too many of your private details, on what a good purchase price range would be for buying the different karat scrap like in your video. For instance the average 14K ring you would pay what for? Things like that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. You have brought my goals to a whole new level. Your processes and lab are what I aim for. Do you offer more tailored education to people, like one on one?
I pay 80% of spot for the karat gold that I buy. My wife pays pennies on the dollar, because she knows where to look. The idea is to pay the least amount possible to maximize profit. But it's hard to do, especially if your buyer knows what they have. Just yesterday my wife handed me about 15 grams of karat gold that she paid $15 for. The seller told her to pick out what she wanted from the jewelry pile, "it's all costume anyway." This person did not know what she had but my wife could tell that it was karat scrap. This may seem deceptive, but it's the way to make a healthy profit from the scrap.
@@sreetips brilliant combo of scientist and hustler. I’ve been eyeing this type of work because I like to buy things of people who are trying to get rid of it a.k.a don’t know what they have. Now that I’ve watched your videos I’ve decided to dive into the refining process. Your wife and you make a awesome combo I imagine I’ll never beat you guys in this business because you guys split the work up to become so efficient
Love your videos! They have been very helpful. Can you recommend a refinery or two? Thank you!
Eric, I've used Elemetal Direct for the last six or seven years. Another one is a ARA in Dallas TX. Elemetal has better customer service.
Thank you very much! Really appreciate!
@@sreetips Thank you! Please e-mail me, ericbrandall@gmail.com, re opportunity.
Super like, Gold Doctor 👍
Quick question ...when refining computer parts such as boards and CPU’s and such why wouldn’t you start out with a hydrofluoric acid first to strip away everything but the gold ??? Seems a lot easier then some of the methods I’ve seen you use previously ??
The biggest issue is safety - very hard to handle HF safely on the hobby scale. Other mineral acids are bad enough, but they at least aren't toxic besides their high corrosiveness. It doesn't take much HF spilled on the skin to kill because it penetrates rapidly and initially painlessly, gets into the bloodstream, and drops out the calcium as insoluble calcium fluoride. If enough calcium comes out of the blood faster than the body can replenish it, you go into cardiac arrest and die. Also, the fumes rapidly destroy the corneas, and most materials including glass are incompatible with it. Hydrofluoric acid really shouldn't be dealt with outside a well-equipped chemistry lab.
Amazing your wife finds all those metals. But I think it costs a ton of money to accumulate so much gold and silver pieces. Need to start small and then go bigger every time I guess. And refining costs acids and a fume hood. But when I am able I would love the hobby! I will upload some nice gold and silver pieces soon. Keep tuned to my channel for it.
Love your work!👏👏👏
The hardest part is finding the gold and silver scrap at reasonable prices.
You don't need to refine it. If you get it at a good enough price, you can resell it to a buyer - preferably a refinery (if you can find a refinery that buys from the public). The worst place to sell it is to a pawn shop - they will only give you 40%-50% of the spot price. Businesses specializing in buying gold/silver will pay a bit more - except for the rip-off traveling outfits that set up in a motel/hotel - they are as bad (or worse) than pawn shops.
Coin shops that buy gold/silver are probably your best bet outside a refinery. What they will pay depends on a number of factors, including how much you have, how often you sell to them, the percentage they get from their refiner and the quality of your previous sales to them. They seem to pay around 80% of spot, although the local shop I have been dealing with pays me 90%.
I have a question do you just put it in nitric acid and melt it or is it more complicated
It’s a little more complicated
@@sreetips can you explain it step by step or do you have a tutorial without editing it
1) sort according to karat. 2) calculate how much silver to add to create 25% gold alloy. 3) alloy the silver and pour into water to form granules of 6k gold. 4) part out the silver and base metals with hot dilute nitric. 5) refine the recovered gold from the nitric boils with Aqua Regia. I have many videos with much detail. Please watch and take notes. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million.
Not seeing coins. Is it price, scarcity, worth more in numismatic value or legal issues?
Coins have a known quantity of silver, minted by the government, and should held as-is. As soon as you “melt em down” their value becomes questionable.
Other than eBay, is there another place that gold bars can be sold? I don't see too many hand poured bars on sale in eBay.
I sell some to select big refiners that I trust
@@sreetips, local or national? I am seriously thinking about getting into the buying & selling if gold. I have some local refiners where I live. But I don't know if they are the best option or not. What has been your experience on this issue? Thanks for your help!
I use aragold in Dallas TX, aragold.com talk to JC to open an account.
@@sreetips, thank you very much! I am in Texas, so this will be great!
Thank you for the refiner name I refined 11 about a year ago and I didn't get paid what I was expecting through another gold dealer boo
With the amount you are doing could you not use one of the Shor International gold and platinum refining system?
Brian, I don't know anything about them because I've never used one. But all of the professional refiners that I know and confer with say that they are junk. When ever I try an "easy" method or try to take a short cut, it usually ends up costing me more time and money. In refining, there are no short cuts.
Hello,I'm having trouble precipitating my solution, failed twice already.using SMB and not a single dot of dust is showing. What can I do to fix this problem..gold is from fingers
You probably had so little gold that it won’t be anything to yield. Common beginner mistake
Amazing. Enjoyed this immensely. This certainly looks profitable, and fun.
I am new to this and I love your videos and look forward to seeing more
That's really awesome. think you've out done your self again. nice work, nice insight, thank for the help and ideas on people's next adventures an your wife rocks!!!! God bless you guys! good luck an i can't wait for the Sterling silver segment
I have a nice stash of 40% Kennedy halves but nobody wants it because they say its too hard to refine. Do you know how to do 40% silver
I’d keep them as-is because they contain a known quantity of silver.
Hihi... You are bless to have a wife Who coming home whit gold, Silver and stones😂. In a regular juvelry store here in Norway, they sell most 14 carat. Thanks fore this clip. You have your hands full sir😊
Take care, and. God bless you and your "gold wife"
May I assume, there's plenty of scrap gold to go around for others to do the same?
Yes you may, but only if you're willing to get out and pound the pavement. It won't just fall in your lap.