DIY Treasure: Copper Smelting for Fun and Profit
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- Uncover the secrets of backyard copper smelting and turn metal into money. This video will show you how to turn green rocks into valuable bullion with easy-to-follow instructions and expert tips. So if you are looking for a new hobby or a side hustle, smelting copper can be both fun and profitable.
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It's amazing how much Copper you can get from crushing and smelting down a small rock of Malachite ore. If anyone has a better way of doing it, please leave us a comment on how to do that. PLUS - all the Copper we smelted down today we will be giving away ....how do ya like them beans. Next, we will turn that Copper into Gold using the Philosophers stone ....stay tuned .
THERE YOU GO BOSS!! LETS COPPER!!!!!
In a previous life I sold air pollution monitoring systems to a smelter in AZ. They have some of the scariest smokestacks I've ever been up! 🤠
@@motokenzo763 Intresting, I remember as a kid seeing active chimnies but not anymore! Thanks !!
I think if you heat up your molds the bars will come out better.
Could you use electrolysis to remove the copper
Heat the mold red hot before and during the pouring, the shock of heat difference is minimal.
Try skimming some of the slag off before you pour.
Sreetips has a torch aimed into the mould as he pours the metal in it keeps it right up to temperature till the end of the pour.
Copper boils way faster than gold, sreetips melts gold or silver only.
I agree I have better pours and avoid fast cooling I also use a bigger mold it doesn’t have to be filled to the top a 5oz to 10oz molds are nice and they avoid spill over
not really I have been melting and don’t have problems
That’s spelled “Sreetips”
If anyone knows how to cast nice metal bars it will be the Australian guy from the bigstackD Casting YT channel. He made an art out of making metal bars from all sorts of scrap metal. He also shows how he does it, and how he gives the bars a nice finishing polish. I'm sure that if you watch his videos that you can learn from it. And besides that it is a joy to watch his videos.
I agree 100%
I think it’s New Zealand…but Aussie still I guess…
I like it when Jeff pretends his a novice, he explains "see the mistake" I made, so, other words, don't go be a fart smeller and do this here at home kids, thermal shocking, water vaper creating bubbles in the cast. If anything, it's being in a hurry, having stage fright to perform in front of camera lences in a timeous fashion and not the fact that he does not know. OH he knows, OH the humanity...take 6...
Yup, he's good
I asked BigstackD to do a copper ore video a couple of years ago , as far as I know he still hasn’t done it . But I am more than happy to be corrected. Well done Jeff for doing it .
Crushing the ore qill be a faster/better reaction because crushing the ore will increase the surface area exposed to the chemicals/gases during the reaction in the furnace.
Ever hear of an "EDDY DRENCH?"
Over 3,000 feet of mushy, slimy, muddy wet caliche could be drilling easier.
To get a decent looking bar from metal, you should get your mold hot enough that it glows and keep it there until you are finished pouring, this allows the metal to stay liquid for longer so that bubbles rise up and out, and the liquid is able to level off. You'll still likely get some defects from the bar shriveling up in the cold, but it'll shine up very well.
I've seen other people also sprinkle some powdered graphite in their mold when they pour in their smelted metals. Does that make a significant difference?
@@dionh70 If you are using a steel mold or similar, it helps improve the finish and release of the metal, but if you use a graphite mold it's made of the stuff.
The preheating technique is what Sreetips uses on his channel, he usually uses map gas or acetylene
And if you cool the bar slower the wrinkling will be less significant
Only place I can recall having to smell my own farts was camping in the sleeping bag.
Jeff smells his own every day in the mine💩
Very hot mold 👌with a bit of graphite or sawdust to eat the oxygen and stop sticking 👌
They say you learn something new everyday, and today I learnt all about copper. Loved it. Thank you so much Jeff. Years ago I can remember watching my dad melt down lead to make fishing weights. Always fascinated me. But, through dad's work trade, he ended up with severe lead poisoning! So, whenever he melted down lead, he had to drink a pint of full fat milk. This helped to neutralise the lead in his system. He's nearly 83 & having radiotherapy treatment (had 3rd dose today) but he does buy the fishing weights instead now!! Many thanks for all your hard work Jeff. Much appreciated. Take care.
thats great Sue, you betcha and you too
Wtf is great bout what Sue said. You fw
Hey Jeff, that’s awesome, always loved smelting. If you get a chance, look up Steetips on TH-cam. This guy is a genius meticulous garage chemist. He shows precise brake down on gold and silver. I think a smart feller like you will enjoy it. Your copper should be 4.3 Oz
Sreetips you mean? I agree 100% he has a great YT library of high purity refining tech. His bars beautiful.
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Many years ago, I visited a copper smelter in upper Michigan. They poured the copper into molds made of copper. Immediately after the mold was filled, the whole thing was sprayed with water. Shortly after, the ingots were solid enough to be dumped out of the mold into a pool of water. The ingots were quite nice looking, being only slightly discoloured. Possibly a mold of the same material resulted in the ingots being so nice,
Looked a bit of gold in the chunky ✨️ they heat up the molds
There's something you put in molten copper to keep it from absorbing nitrogen. Grant Thompson struggled with that. I know copper is more common and less valuable, but that color has got to be the prettiest and most unique in the periodic table. It all deserves to be cast into cool steampunk-looking machine parts or something.
You can also use a piece of cardboard under the crucible to keep it from sticking. (Tip courtesy of a BigstackD channel subscriber.)
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Addrock and bigstackd use cardboard under the crucible when firing copper to stop sticking must just be that ash that stops the sticking if you need to penny pinch 👌
exactly
Hi Mr. JEFF, (and Slim)
Post bar making you can use tomato paste to clean copper. The acidity of 🍅 🍅 🍅 cleans the bottoms of my copper kitchen pans quite well.
Worth a shot smart feller.
thanks
Heat your bar molds before your pour
You gotta eat the beans first! That’s the secret to a good pour! Thanks for the fun content and the knowledge!
I knew it ....thanks
2 things for a good copper bar: 1: you gotta top it off with flux when you reheat it, and 2, then you reheat it in the mold [typically in a refractory/heat-treating type oven] and let it sit there at the melting point for 2 hours, then really slowly let it cool back to at least the freezing point before letting it completely cool outside of the kiln/oven.
thanks
I don't understand English. Now I use google translate. What I say may be difficult for you to understand. I apologize to you for that. Copper sulfide ore is smelted. Add copper ore and ferrosilicon/limestone to the crucible. The temperature is around 1200. Melting copper is inconvenient. The molten copper does not aggregate. A mixture of slag and copper. Why? Do you need to add more borax/soda ash? Or do you need something?
You can put cardboard under your crucible if you don't have bone ash. It forms a thin layer of ash. Cool!
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Me likes that tiny oven. Great heater to cook the Bush's. Oh and a power goes quicker..................... Nope I was wrong.
Heating your molds up before pouring would help to get rid of any moisture in/on the molds. Steam generated from that moisture would cause bubbles on the surface. A tiny bit of water will expand into a large volume of steam.
He's in the desert how much moisture in the mold can there be ?
@@darrenbrisson4336 If you have oxides on the mold surface and traces of other salts from previous use you have a potential to hydrate those salts with water molecules. This water is not just sitting on the surface but is actually locked tightly into the salt structure. The humidity in the surrounding air might be very low there but it is never zero. These salts can pull water directly right out of the air. That's how those silica gel packets work to bring down humidity. This " water of hydration " is so tightly bound in the salt structure it can only be freed with extremely high temperatures. Molten metals like copper are at a high enough temperature to explosively release the water as steam bubbles in the molten metal.
Haha!! When the rooster crowed on your video, my rooster heard it outside and crowed back!! He is still going. LOL. I have a mess of copper ore to smelt that I got from the mines up in Michigan's UP. Looking for the best way to do it.
We had silver and copper mines here in my region in Slovakia - where mining ended around 1789-179x...
what about finding gold with ultraviolet?
nope
Come on, let's go!!!
Yes pretty good.
You know ive thought about making a bar with depleted uranium in it, to weigh it down, have some other material around it and goldplate it. :P
Im no bar maker, so i dont know what to do. But what i do know is that they make rings and jewelry with brass (a copper alloy). Ive seen guy with fluid 3D printers, and vacuum casting having great results. Like VOG (vegoilguy), and Clearmind Jewelry. Im thinking about doing such a thing, and if i get good results, im going to pour it with silver and gold too...
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Jeff
Nice video bud I go up to copper country quite often... Aka the keweenaw peninsula of Michigan... Going to have to try some of the techniques you use in your videos
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Nice work.. 2578 gr. I was way off. But I do love my Bush Beans.. mmm
I was going to suggest the same heating of the mold. On another note, Can anybody tell me why Jeff went to New York. Jeff said it was posted I didn't hear anything about it other than solve the riddle for the answer. I am a subscriber so I don't think iI could have missed it. Thanks
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I used your Parkes process from a long time ago. It worked perfectly
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How to get copper out of Rock?
Pay attention in science class,
my science teacher was a Stoner. LoL
crush it, wear gloves, get it hot, add some stuff to it, Let it Cool.
Then get Copper.
Malachite, Chrysoprase, Chrysocolla ore, with the matrix cut off and carved to display a good face can sell for a mint. Use the cash to buy more gold mining/slucing gear 😂
First of all, Thanks for all your hard work and great videos. The most likely source for advice for cooking and pouring would be Jason. He uses a cone mold almost all the time. Large enough to hold all the stuff you are pouring. I've seen Dan Hurd, yourself, Brent Underwood and others pour bars with limited success. The one channel where I saw pretty good results pouring bars (silver) was Rob Finds Treasure. Robs copper bars look like bread also. I'd try Jason first. He helped Brent recently with lead and silver. Best wishes...oh yeah!!!
BigStackD is a channel where he smelts all kinds of recovered metals into ingots in his garage. His results vary, but he seems to use a variety of techniques while pouring, so his ingots vary as well.
Lots of folks grind a polish to get a smoother or extreme smooth and shiny finish.
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Warm the mold above 212°F/ 100°C to stop the steam .
I wish I could send a photo of some ore actually working in a Au Cu mine at the moment and I want to make a copper pendant for the visitors open day .
I've run this experiment before, but i convert the sulphate into carbonate. Adding metals to the sulphate to extract copper I feel like would add metal contamination requiring an extra purification step.
My guess,,,,,, Try preheating the bar mold before pouring the melt into it,, :-)
Heat your mold up for your bars. I pour lots of lead there will be a friendly spot where it actually works faster with a hot mold. and yea, your gonna sweat!!! lol.🤪😜
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Why would you want to? We sell that chrysocolla, malachite... for 200 bucks a pound to lapidary folks so why would you wanna turn that into 20 cents worth the copper?
My understanding is copper is electrodeposited. Wheres your high voltage, high amperage set up?
Copper and brass are tough to work with. They are for me anyway. Can't really find any consistency.
Smash it!!!!!
Checkout Sreetips channel for getting perfect bars. He has a bunch of refining info, explains the tech in detail like your vids do.
Try using a blow torch whn u pouring in to the mold thn keep the flame on it for a minute or two. Whn ive watched big industrial smelting plants on tv thay keep a flame on it, as it pours into the mold and after the pour for a minute and there bars come out spot on every time, I guess thats to keep the heat there to help with the flow and its more runny whn hot so it takes shape of the mold. Get the mold hot aswel so it don't start to cool as it hits the mold.💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👊👊👊👊
The first best thing I can tell you to get prettier bars is to heat up your molds. That iron sucks the heat right out of that molten copper and it freezes before it settles in the mold. It seemed you had the copper hot enough so I don't think it's that.
When I say heat up, red hot isn't too hot, SON. 🤭
See you next time, Jeff! 🖖
WIth so much beens you probably heating on methane not propan gas ;) You need a few cans of beans and some pipe no need for an ventilator just add pressure :) hehehehe nice video. Man powered Kiln! Jeff how do we get the gold out of the copper?
I’d assume you need to powder it? I have some of that I found in NV but it appears to have pyrite in it too. Would this process still work?
Try smoking your mold first jeffuse the acyl. Side of your cutting torch to smoke your mold, it helps the metal flow into the corners easier
very interesting episode chunky was my choice. Gold seems to pore better. 🖖🍻
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Smells like beans a cook’n
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You can use cardboard instead of Bone ash to keep crucible from sticking to bottom of furnace I’m using me brain
I'm a fart smeller when it comes to smelting jk I haven't even coated my foundry yet and it has almost been a year .many if I find some green rock it will motivate me. Thanks again for the vids
I must say, my blackberry, apple & elderberry pie looked like that today. Cooked it too long lol!!
that was interesting. but unless you can produce tons of copper, there isn't enough money in it. i'll stick to looking for the good stuff.
can you make a video about how we can get the right flux from natural deposits
The reason your copper bar didn't turn out smooth is you forgot to put a spoon full of baked beans in the crucible with the flux.
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Very interesting video Jeff we really liked this one, so we smashed the flux out of your like button!
Thanks so much
Smashed the flux! Lol! Why did I find that very tongue in cheek? Or is it just my way of thinking 🤔?? 😂 Hope you're both keeping well over there my lovelies & not too hot 🥵 Stay safe.
Now c'mon sonny jim keep the food out the workspace.
Jeff, you gotta heat your bar mold, you can get away without heating the cone one because of the way it cools down, send me some AU 😅
when we were purring molten chocolate in the mold we tap it so that the liquid gets settled all around and the air bubbles go away. dont know about copper but it works with choco 😁
Awesome Jeff!! I know where some is at! Thanks for sharing video, this'll is definitely being saved!! All the best to you and family!!
thanks ...there is a mine full of it called Copper World
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You are so funny! Awesome video to learn what smelting is 😊
Mistake was not preheating crucible.
To make the bars look better just have few more drinks. They always look better after a few.
This is great. This guy is great and heck think i learned something! I gotta see what other videos this guy has!
Now can you turn that copper into gold we got Gold Fever here in Virginia. 👍
Jeff contact bidstackd on TH-cam he melts copper into bar's all the time. He's always telling people to contact him for tips. Just a thought. See you and slim later. As always good luck and God Bless you.
Reheat the copper and mold at the SAME TIME
yeah in the mold
Most logical the powdered type ore will process fastest is my thoughts.
Great video Jeff. i am in process of crushing the copper ore i got from the old mine then gonna smelt it.
Cool! I recently collected a small pile of Malachite I may try this !
I just found your channel! The videos are so interesting! Thank you so much!
You gotta have more subscribers!
Glad you like them! Thanks
Yea I've gotta better way to get copper. !!! Home depot !!! Lololol
chunky melts first :'-D
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Would this be considered 70% pure?
Jeff I remember living in Havasu watching the GPAA channel. Begged my dad to take me. He never did! I’m 38 now, still want to go out and do it. Do you have personal classes? I would love to bring my son out. He loves watching you too!
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Hi, Jeff I would get your mould nice and hot pour at 1200 degrees C and pour at least 1 pound of copper or about 1/2 a kg for perfect bars and should turn out perfect 👍
Thanks for sharing.
PS I poured 5 bars just yesterday about 6 pounds each😃beautiful 👍
Cool, thanks
I can't wait to come out there & hunt for heavy elements.
But can you make a good meat loaf with that rig? Mmmm, gravy.
Jeff. Streetips. He pours consistent bars It's a you tube chanel. Great video makes all those copper wire stripper look foolish. To easy. Melting point of copper is the exact number of George Orwells book on the future oh I wonder. And in the mill it's called the roaster. And rim a margarita. Lol. Now I'm waiting on labs. My journey may soon be over. We all going cannot stop it. But enjoy ourselves and be happy.
yep we watch him a lot ..... sorry to hear that ....keep us posted