14:46 It's crazy how much them fumes are destroying that watch!! Just shows how insanely dangerous these acids are, your warning at the start of the videos is VERY accurate!! 😮
Glad to see you post again, was a bit worried with all the illness going around. Kept thinking you and Mrs. Sreetips could be on a well deserved vacation. Either way, hope you both are healthy and I'm happy to enjoy another informative video.
Good to see you back. I hope you had a great vacation. After you are done adding the FeS04 to precipitate the gold, will you add SMB to the waste solution to precipitate the Pd? I doubt there is very much in there, maybe just easier to chuck it in the waste bucket for later.
15:48 never really payed attention to how buoyant the ice cubes are in the chloroauric acid…really shows how dense that liquid is, especially at that concentration
You actually got me inspired to try melting and refining precious metals at home - since gold still needs a lot of investment, I focused on silver and learned that a lot of electric connectors contain high purity silver. I used a compound called "chome liquid", which is a silver testing liquid (nr. 8) and found out, tram electric components contain not only high purity silver connectors, but most of the parts are made from a 500 purity silver (Sterling and jewellery are made from 925 purity silver). I got quite a haul and now, I'm wondering how to refine it without chocking on toxic fumes. I think cupelation could be the anwser. Also, poured my first silver bar (12,1 g) made out of 925 purity silver made from scrap.
A great video! Glad that you are back! You should write a book about all the techniques you have developed, since there would be a lot of people around the world who would buy it I assume.
These bits are definitely a curiosity. They post pleasant praise, which is not a bad thing, and they’re seemingly not trying to persuade readers to make contact via various means. At a glance it seems they might be toning down the clearly inappropriate pictures…at least. Thank you for tidying up the place!
wow, a dripped in swirling gold precipitation , the density difference needed during the precipitation? Surface tension? Coriolis force? either way incredible!!
I am curios about the history of refining. Have you ever or would you make a video using ancient refining techniques? I am curios how did the ancient Egyptians or the Chinese refine gold thousands of years ago and what did their finished product looked like and what would the purity have been. When did these acids and chemicals start being used? Your video's are always relaxing. Thank you.
Ancient refining techniques. Not much information available. I don know about the ancients, but modern refiners are not quick to reveal their refining secrets. Especially when it comes to platinum group metals. Most refiners would rather take their secrets to the grave rather than sharing them with the masses. This lack of forthcoming in the refining community is what enables me to have a successful TH-cam channel. I openly share everything I’ve learned. Including the mistakes.
Everybody needs a break SREETIPS hope you went fishing lolol God bless love the flakes from the refining makes me curious about how gold moves through the quartz veins in mining it's very fascinating
ferric sulphate could also be used to etch Sreetips onto base metals and steel . or used as a cheaper way to strip the base metals from gold filled scrap
Are you anywhere near Aztalan, Wisconsin? Mound complexes there and all down the Mississippi and tributaries, millions upon millions of acres, would likely attract lightning strike. Farmers have long known of the fertilizing aspect of struck areas. Nitrogen will fix to nitrate salts. I wonder what it would do to some of that native copper up there? 14 ka and older I suspect. Electricity is pretty cool.
Don't you hate when the filter papers pop a hole? I just tried my new Buckner Funnel that is cut Borisciliate glass, that fits into a cut Borisciliate glass side arm beaker. I like it; but, the filter in the Funnel is a very tight Borisciliate glass sponge, that holds the filter paper....... That glass sponge is incredibly difficult to get clean after using it, especially when the filter paper fails! The Funnel is currently soaking in distilled water, HCL and HNO3! A bad design from my perspective!
Have you done, and if not can you do, a video showing your equipment and lab setup? I have been watching for a while contemplating giving it a try but the equipment/chemical costs look kind of staggering. I'm wondering what the money side looks like. Thanks.
Industry standard for pure gold is three nines fine (999 parts per thousand). Three nines is considered high purity gold. No need for four nines gold (9999 parts per ten thousand). Unless it’s needed for some specific purpose such as a test standard.
SREETIPS please help me understand. if the total yield of the pure gold is 114 g and you multiply that times three it should be about 342 g of silver to make it a 25% mixture of pure gold. Your formula yields a different result. Could you please explain this
The karats of gold are not pure gold. They contain an alloy of gold, silver, copper and zinc. So I must compensate for those metals that are already alloyed with the gold.
Saw lots of bright molten splatter when pouring your shot. Was that coming from torch and crucible, or was it hitting water, and splashing out? Couldn't tell.
Sometimes I’ll get the molten metal too hot and it explodes when it hits the water. It scares me and make me jump when it happens. The gold forms tiny beads when this happens. They look like fine sand.
I was getting some fine gold powder suspension during the nitric boils. It concerned me so I cut them short and went to Aqua Regia. There was very little particulate, nor silver chloride, visible in the chloroauric acid solution. Until I added the ice. Then it became very cloudy as the solution cooled from the ice, pushing the AgCl out of solution.
Silver chloride is slightly soluble, even more so in hot acid. But as it cools (from the ice) it “crashed out” of solution and can then be filtered out.
@@sreetips no I mean prior to HCl addition. Silver not fully dissolved despite the presence of excess HNO3. Hypothesis based on immediate evolution of NO2 on addition of HCl. Water in HCl solution caused that, not the HCl itself. HNO3 strongly reacted with silver instantly.
Iv done some gold prospecting this year. My wife now buys jewelry and maybe,one day she will actually buy me some 😂 so I v been prospecting mainly for meteors ☄️ Doing really good at it too Sreetips. Rare minerals. As valuable as gold. I have 31 meteors. All different kinds. I did good this year. I drive 6-7 hours for 1-2 hours of prospecting ⛏️ Universities will buy them. Im keeping 4 of them. The rest are for sale. Im hoping its nice out tomorrow and I can pan some material here at my house for gold. I fill large totes and bring it home to run🦅⛏️
Is it that high? I don’t look at it unless I’m buying some scrap gold. Even then I just enter the amount in grams that I’m buying and the app spits out an offer price for me. I keep it set to 80% and ignore the spot price since I’m not concerned with selling. I’m buying, not selling.
@sreetips When I posted my comment, gold was at $2544/oz. It's currently at $2512/oz. Hopefully, it goes to the moon! I'm not selling either, but it's edifying to watch investments accrue value during these normie squeezes.
I don’t consider gold as an investment. It’s real money, real wealth. Paper dollars are a money substitute. The more they print, the less valuable they become. And this loss of value will be reflected in an apparent rise in the gold price. Gold is stable. It doesn’t change. What’s changing is the value of the dollar, going down. In 1990s gold was $250. Then it went to $1948. We are in even worse shape now. So just add a zero to each. Gold at $2500, rising to $19480. It’s a mathematical certainty.
I've literally been stalking your channel. It has affected my masculinity. When I saw you weren't posting, I got emotional. Am I gay, or am I jonesing for some alchemy? 😂🤣
Even the King of Inquartation needs a break every now and then. Good to see you back.....
I was wondering where you've been...glad you're back
14:46 It's crazy how much them fumes are destroying that watch!! Just shows how insanely dangerous these acids are, your warning at the start of the videos is VERY accurate!! 😮
Honestly, it’s not a bad advertising tool to show that this watch can essentially survive on the surface of Venus for a little while…
I am glad you were able to take a break from TH-cam. Thank you for the great content!
I smile everytime you post, thanks!
Nice to see you back Sreetips .... I hope you and your family stayed safe throughout the hurricane
Tree fell on my house from soggy ground. But no damage. Lots of rain and flooding. But not much wind.
Dude, your wife is a bloodhound for finding gold and silver. 😮
She is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Absolutely outstanding! I was throughly surprised and pleased to see the new video. Great as always. Thanks
We missed you!!! Thanks for the amazing videos!!!
Glad to see you post again, was a bit worried with all the illness going around. Kept thinking you and Mrs. Sreetips could be on a well deserved vacation.
Either way, hope you both are healthy and I'm happy to enjoy another informative video.
I never get tired of watching this.
Thanks sir, yours every session lesson is very useful for every person, who attached same field, ❤
Thank you Mr Sreetips.
Next time you can't remember a constant just multiple the weight of that Karat, 18, and then divide by 24.
I still like the formula that sreetips originally used.
What lol?
Excellent video it's always a pleasure watching you get the gold and silver back thank you for sharing this with us six stars sir
You are my ASMR sreetips... thank you for your videos.
Sreetips Certainly has a vary calming voice. His speech pattern is pretty on point too. 👍
Hey, glad you're back, friend! Hope all is well, and you're feeling great.
Another great video! Hope you and family are healthy and in good spirits!
Doing well, thank you.
Great, I love this channel...Rob
Thanks Rob
Good to see you back. I hope you had a great vacation.
After you are done adding the FeS04 to precipitate the gold, will you add SMB to the waste solution to precipitate the Pd? I doubt there is very much in there, maybe just easier to chuck it in the waste bucket for later.
Probably just a trace. Best to add it to my stock pot and accumulate it there.
Finally we hear from ya
15:48 never really payed attention to how buoyant the ice cubes are in the chloroauric acid…really shows how dense that liquid is, especially at that concentration
You actually got me inspired to try melting and refining precious metals at home - since gold still needs a lot of investment, I focused on silver and learned that a lot of electric connectors contain high purity silver.
I used a compound called "chome liquid", which is a silver testing liquid (nr. 8) and found out, tram electric components contain not only high purity silver connectors, but most of the parts are made from a 500 purity silver (Sterling and jewellery are made from 925 purity silver). I got quite a haul and now, I'm wondering how to refine it without chocking on toxic fumes. I think cupelation could be the anwser.
Also, poured my first silver bar (12,1 g) made out of 925 purity silver made from scrap.
A great video! Glad that you are back!
You should write a book about all the techniques you have developed, since there would be a lot of people around the world who would buy it I assume.
That’s not a bad idea. But I’m just not that sophisticated.
Thank you for your knowledge...
Wow! What is going on with the comments? These ladies love you! Good to see you again Sir! 👍👍🤟
Only the best spam bots on youtube. 😬🤣🤣
Those are bots. I try to delete them right away, but sometimes I forget.
These bits are definitely a curiosity. They post pleasant praise, which is not a bad thing, and they’re seemingly not trying to persuade readers to make contact via various means. At a glance it seems they might be toning down the clearly inappropriate pictures…at least. Thank you for tidying up the place!
I’m not sure what they’re after. Probably looking to get something for nothing. It’s very annoying.
😊yes please more!
Welcome back brother, I'm glad you're back
Awesome video thank you 😊 hope your vacation was great 😊
Yay another video! I'm a happy boy!
Glad you're back! Love to watch the chemical transitions!
These meltdowns for inquarting gold are always beautiful to see. I love watching the whole process 👍🏻
wow, a dripped in swirling gold precipitation , the density difference needed during the precipitation? Surface tension? Coriolis force? either way incredible!!
Love watching u work with gold and silver it's amazing 👏
11:09 the watch tells the story of trace acids in the atmosphere of the fume hood over time.
Yayyyyyy finally some new sreetips t.v., i was searching your channell 2 days agao thinking i some how became unsubscribed but wasnt.
Been a while!
I am curios about the history of refining. Have you ever or would you make a video using ancient refining techniques? I am curios how did the ancient Egyptians or the Chinese refine gold thousands of years ago and what did their finished product looked like and what would the purity have been. When did these acids and chemicals start being used?
Your video's are always relaxing. Thank you.
Ancient refining techniques. Not much information available. I don know about the ancients, but modern refiners are not quick to reveal their refining secrets. Especially when it comes to platinum group metals. Most refiners would rather take their secrets to the grave rather than sharing them with the masses. This lack of forthcoming in the refining community is what enables me to have a successful TH-cam channel. I openly share everything I’ve learned. Including the mistakes.
I enjoyed watching!
Glad to see a video from you knowing that things are ok. :)
I was just saying I needed my sreetips fix.
G Drumm hypothesizes Newgrange, Ireland is a ferrous sulfate reactor.
Gold refining nitric acid incremental dosing sounds like a good replacement for supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
great video!!!!
Everybody needs a break SREETIPS hope you went fishing lolol God bless love the flakes from the refining makes me curious about how gold moves through the quartz veins in mining it's very fascinating
Awesome
Good to see you posting again! Have you ever tried using two filters? id assume less chance for failure, maybe more effective initial filtering?
Yes, the second filter always ends up floating
ferric sulphate could also be used to etch Sreetips onto base metals and steel . or used as a cheaper way to strip the base metals from gold filled scrap
I’ve never worked with ferric sulfate.
no rest for the wicked.. we need several vids a day... LOL.. JK get some rest
nice work
very nice video
We missed your videos bro, it looks like fun❤
Sad to report, my wonderful hobby has become like work.
@@sreetips ♥️
Hopefully had a nice vacation, nothing going wrong in life.
Nothing major.
Good Morning Sreetips 🤠⛏️🦅 Good to hear from you.
Good morning.
Are you anywhere near Aztalan, Wisconsin? Mound complexes there and all down the Mississippi and tributaries, millions upon millions of acres, would likely attract lightning strike. Farmers have long known of the fertilizing aspect of struck areas. Nitrogen will fix to nitrate salts. I wonder what it would do to some of that native copper up there? 14 ka and older I suspect. Electricity is pretty cool.
Don't you hate when the filter papers pop a hole? I just tried my new Buckner Funnel that is cut Borisciliate glass, that fits into a cut Borisciliate glass side arm beaker. I like it; but, the filter in the Funnel is a very tight Borisciliate glass sponge, that holds the filter paper....... That glass sponge is incredibly difficult to get clean after using it, especially when the filter paper fails! The Funnel is currently soaking in distilled water, HCL and HNO3! A bad design from my perspective!
I agree. Those fritted filters are not very convenient to use.
Why did you filter the ferrous sulphite? Are there contaminates in it? Just curious 🤔.......
Wade
Yes, some will contain tiny bits of iron.
I am always curious what the junk in the filter is at @20:13
Who knows what junk lurks in the alloys of men?!
Interesting.
Have you done, and if not can you do, a video showing your equipment and lab setup? I have been watching for a while contemplating giving it a try but the equipment/chemical costs look kind of staggering. I'm wondering what the money side looks like. Thanks.
I have a “shop tour” video posted n my channel
3:08
What's the actual difference between "pure gold" and "high purity"?
Industry standard for pure gold is three nines fine (999 parts per thousand). Three nines is considered high purity gold. No need for four nines gold (9999 parts per ten thousand). Unless it’s needed for some specific purpose such as a test standard.
@@sreetips Cheers
Good vids
SREETIPS please help me understand. if the total yield of the pure gold is 114 g and you multiply that times three it should be about 342 g of silver to make it a 25% mixture of pure gold. Your formula yields a different result. Could you please explain this
The karats of gold are not pure gold. They contain an alloy of gold, silver, copper and zinc. So I must compensate for those metals that are already alloyed with the gold.
The pure gold 24k buttons that I added had no other metals in them, so I simply multiply by three to determine the amount of silver to add.
@@sreetipsthanks for taking the time to answer. Love your channel
Saw lots of bright molten splatter when pouring your shot. Was that coming from torch and crucible, or was it hitting water, and splashing out? Couldn't tell.
Those were drops of water splashing and reflecting the brightness of the torch flame.
@@sreetips whew, kinda worried about you getting splashed molten metal.
Sometimes I’ll get the molten metal too hot and it explodes when it hits the water. It scares me and make me jump when it happens. The gold forms tiny beads when this happens. They look like fine sand.
Is Ferrous Sulfate Heptahydrate the same as Ferrous Sulfate? Can I use Ferrous Sulfate Heptahydrate?
Looked it up, Heptahydrate means; a compound with seven molecules of water. The answer to your question is yes.
Any system that allows jewellers to declare their own purity is wrong! That's why we have assay offices in the UK.
Looks like a fun hobby, how do you deal with the acid fumes?
Fume hood to draw the fumes away from me.
Man i missed you. I was worried something might've happened to you.
It did! I became three weeks older.
@@sreetips older and wiser
Some extra AgCl in the filter this time sree, not enough initial nitric
I was getting some fine gold powder suspension during the nitric boils. It concerned me so I cut them short and went to Aqua Regia. There was very little particulate, nor silver chloride, visible in the chloroauric acid solution. Until I added the ice. Then it became very cloudy as the solution cooled from the ice, pushing the AgCl out of solution.
@@sreetips nitric acid may have been too concentrated?
Silver chloride is slightly soluble, even more so in hot acid. But as it cools (from the ice) it “crashed out” of solution and can then be filtered out.
@@sreetips no I mean prior to HCl addition. Silver not fully dissolved despite the presence of excess HNO3.
Hypothesis based on immediate evolution of NO2 on addition of HCl. Water in HCl solution caused that, not the HCl itself. HNO3 strongly reacted with silver instantly.
Yes, that’s probably what happened.
Iv done some gold prospecting this year. My wife now buys jewelry and maybe,one day she will actually buy me some 😂 so I v been prospecting mainly for meteors ☄️ Doing really good at it too Sreetips. Rare minerals. As valuable as gold. I have 31 meteors. All different kinds. I did good this year. I drive 6-7 hours for 1-2 hours of prospecting ⛏️ Universities will buy them. Im keeping 4 of them. The rest are for sale. Im hoping its nice out tomorrow and I can pan some material here at my house for gold. I fill large totes and bring it home to run🦅⛏️
That’s awesome. Like good old-fashioned prospecting. I envy you. My beautiful hobby has become work.
Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips.
Thank you for this clip who so many of us love🔥
Have a nice weekend Sir 🌺
Hello Arne. Hope all is well. I can’t believe we’re starting another cold season soon. Time flys. May the LORD bless you!
Just when i started to ask myself what happened to sreetips 🙌🏻
Some glimmers (stone gems?) in the filter at 20:13
Small diamonds
New steetips video: 👁️ 👄 👁️
When I saw gold hit $2500/oz I just knew there would be a new sreetips video coming soon!
Is it that high? I don’t look at it unless I’m buying some scrap gold. Even then I just enter the amount in grams that I’m buying and the app spits out an offer price for me. I keep it set to 80% and ignore the spot price since I’m not concerned with selling. I’m buying, not selling.
@sreetips When I posted my comment, gold was at $2544/oz. It's currently at $2512/oz. Hopefully, it goes to the moon! I'm not selling either, but it's edifying to watch investments accrue value during these normie squeezes.
I don’t consider gold as an investment. It’s real money, real wealth. Paper dollars are a money substitute. The more they print, the less valuable they become. And this loss of value will be reflected in an apparent rise in the gold price. Gold is stable. It doesn’t change. What’s changing is the value of the dollar, going down. In 1990s gold was $250. Then it went to $1948. We are in even worse shape now. So just add a zero to each. Gold at $2500, rising to $19480. It’s a mathematical certainty.
I've literally been stalking your channel. It has affected my masculinity. When I saw you weren't posting, I got emotional. Am I gay, or am I jonesing for some alchemy? 😂🤣
@@sreetips I'm happy to see you posting again, my friend.
Thank you
🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕Ten carrot scrap
have you ever used "Quadratic Gold Precipitant" for precipitation of gold from solution?
No, sounds like a proprietary name for SMB.
new very tall beaker, nice
👍
Sulfuric acid. I need to get some. Science company, Denver.
I buy Rooto Profession Drain Opener at Ace Hardware 93% sulfuric acid.