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!!!!!
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!
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!
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
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 .
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.
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, 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
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
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.
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 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.
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?
I knew you had a bigger operation! lol Nice racket! I've been dealing in the precious metals for a while, and I agree! The best ROI is karat and sterling. 21:26 Looks like Cocoa Crispies! :D Thanx for sharing!
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
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?
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?
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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. :)
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.
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!
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.
How much should I pay for gold? Friends and family want to sell some, but not sure how much is good (for them and for me) to charge, taking as reference the daily price of gold. Thanks in advance.
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.
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
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.
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?
Hey that cartouche did it say Catherine by chance? I had one custom made for my daughter while stationed in the Middle East and it was stolen a few years back! You’ve mentioned your eBay store in a few videos but never link it
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!!
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.
@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.
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😊
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%.
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
@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"
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
Hello Mr Sreetips. I am from South Africa and I have a few questions I would like an answer to if you have the answer to them, I have been trying to refine gold from old PCB using the methods on TH-cam with Nitric acid and Hcl and Peroxide but never manage to refine anything more than the base metals, I don't know if my H2O Nitric concentration is to strong as i don't see any gold flakes in my solution and every thing gets disolved into this mixture, I have been trying to Source Sodium metabisulphoide powder to reconstitute the gold into the blackish powder again but I only managed to get my hands on Food grade Sodium metabisulphide and still I have no luck, Do you perhaps have any alternative to this and also where can i purchase the gold stain solution to see if the solution contains gold or not. I would also like to ask you if the blueish, green slurry water that i kept throughout this entire trial and error experiments have any gold in it and if so is there a process to extract more/lost gold from this waste/slurry solution. Awaiting your response as to continue with my new hobby.. Thanking you in advance. Email: remetals55@gmail.com
I don't have any experience with PCB. Pure tin dissolved in HCl will make gold testing solution stannous chloride. I use food grade sodium metabisulfite to refine my gold.
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.
@sreetips That’s wonderful, you’re eagle eye wife helps, supports and encourages you. 🥂 Cheers to that young lady 👍🏽. Interestingly enough with all of the answers you gave, that only opened a whole new plethora of questions of my own 😄
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.
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
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
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 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.
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..
Your Buyer, (Mrs. Sreetips), is obviously an Ace at that job.
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.
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.
Your wife does what I call, urban mining.
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!!!!!
We been watching & enjoying your videos since the days of the "silent films". You are awesome. Thank you for all your hard work.
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!
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!
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
Your videos are great thank you also i like how you give appreciation to your wife 👍
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
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!
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, 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
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
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.
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.
Such a joy to watch you channel mate. Keep us interested and we will keep glued to the screen.
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
Who'da thunk toxic brown smoke could be so satisfying. Thanks for doing some laymansplaining. Holy moley swag! Awesome job, Mrs. Sreetips!
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!!!!
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.
Sreetips, thanks once again man for yet another wonderful, fact filled video!
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.
I knew you had a bigger operation! lol
Nice racket!
I've been dealing in the precious metals for a while, and I agree!
The best ROI is karat and sterling.
21:26 Looks like Cocoa Crispies! :D
Thanx for sharing!
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 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.
@Sreetips you are a great help. Continue making your videos. I enjoy watching them and they are extremely helpful
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?
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?
Thanks for making this video...Its worth its weight in 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.
You are my long sought after chemistry course! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with me.
Your welcome!
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.
SHE CAME IN LIKE A TORNADO I LAUGHED SO HARD
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
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.
However I like all of your videos I consider this one as simply best one. Thank you.
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.
Nevermind lol i just had to wait untill the end of video for ebay store thanks again for making these videos they are great
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. :)
Mr Sreetips: Thank you so very much. You are the best. Well I am the best but you are the 99.9999% best
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
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
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.
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.
Great videos Sir!! Love your accent! “Don’t make me come over der tough guy! Why I oughta!!”😂😂😂
Great vids especially the refining vids takes me back
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.
And we love you for that and hope many more Vlogs from you Awesome as always thanks
Your are an Angel. I have learned so much from you.
How much should I pay for gold? Friends and family want to sell some, but not sure how much is good (for them and for me) to charge, taking as reference the daily price of gold. Thanks in advance.
And another great video! Thanks so much!
Wow ! Another great and informative video .
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.
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.
Love your videos keep up the excellent content!
Wow. Very very candid and very well done.
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.
Is that 24K even without the 2nd refine?
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!
Great wife great life. Out of this batch of acid that you saved. How much silver would you expect to recover?
You guys compliment each other so much. What a lucky man you are, as well as shes a lucky woman. Love watching your channel!
She’s the best thing that ever happened to me in this life.
@@sreetips thats amazing! Wish to find this type of love one day. ☺️
Thanks so much
I love your videos bro
I’d like to get into this business one day
If I do I’ll use your videos to get me started
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.
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.
Hey that cartouche did it say Catherine by chance? I had one custom made for my daughter while stationed in the Middle East and it was stolen a few years back!
You’ve mentioned your eBay store in a few videos but never link it
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!!
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.
@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.
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😊
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%.
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
@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"
How about extracting the Silver, Platinum and even Copper from the Acid wash?
That will all come out by cementing on to clean copper.
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
Hello Mr Sreetips. I am from South Africa and I have a few questions I would like an answer to if you have the answer to them, I have been trying to refine gold from old PCB using the methods on TH-cam with Nitric acid and Hcl and Peroxide but never manage to refine anything more than the base metals, I don't know if my H2O Nitric concentration is to strong as i don't see any gold flakes in my solution and every thing gets disolved into this mixture, I have been trying to Source Sodium metabisulphoide powder to reconstitute the gold into the blackish powder again but I only managed to get my hands on Food grade Sodium metabisulphide and still I have no luck, Do you perhaps have any alternative to this and also where can i purchase the gold stain solution to see if the solution contains gold or not. I would also like to ask you if the blueish, green slurry water that i kept throughout this entire trial and error experiments have any gold in it and if so is there a process to extract more/lost gold from this waste/slurry solution. Awaiting your response as to continue with my new hobby.. Thanking you in advance. Email: remetals55@gmail.com
I don't have any experience with PCB. Pure tin dissolved in HCl will make gold testing solution stannous chloride. I use food grade sodium metabisulfite to refine my gold.
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.
@sreetips That’s wonderful, you’re eagle eye wife helps, supports and encourages you. 🥂 Cheers to that young lady 👍🏽.
Interestingly enough with all of the answers you gave, that only opened a whole new plethora of questions of my own 😄
New sub! Your videos are mesmerizing
This is awesome! Thank you!
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.
Another Great video rich in valuable info! Thank you sir!
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. 😎
Thank you so much for educating us !
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.
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
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
If I get free e-scrap is it worth my time to refine it or extract the gold
It's too much trouble and the yields are too low. So I don't refine much escrap these days.
I have a question. Can you please mention the refiner you send the gold to? Tyvm dad.
Elemetal direct
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
Excellent video presentation.
Wow what a difference 2 years can make. I can see now how you keep improving your process. Great job!
Is there a website or email where I could get more information from you?