Electrolytic Silver Cell Cranks Out 100 Ounces
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ต.ค. 2023
- In this video I harvest the pure silver crystal from two runs of my electrolytic silver cell. One run produced 1.7 kilos of pure silver. The second produced 1.5 kilos of pure silver. Combined, they produced a total of 3.2 kilos of investment grade, high purity, three nines plus, pure elemental silver metal. That’s over one hundred Troy ounces of high purity silver.
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Always a pleasure to watch a modern day alchemist at his craft, i hope that you are inspiring future refiners.
Alchemist?
He has inspired me!🏆
@@PetraKann yeah... the term should be chemist. there's extra aluminium in there (AL chemist... get it? lLOL).
I’m getting there. Starting my fume hood build out soon. Safety first! 😉👍
Most definitely =)
As a metallurgist, your silver cell is a thing of beauty :)
All that dendritic silver looks like coral :)
Interesting how coral belongs to a small, but important group of organic gemstones.
it looks so awesome
They know, They don't want people to do this. Thats why we see? The silver compounds like AgCl etc that are abundantly found, are priced as near to the cost of pure silver.
The cement silver Timelapse is always one of my favorites
Those silver crystals are always stunning and that timelapse of the silver cementing out of the electrolyte was brilliant. Very nice. 👍
It was so beautiful watching the time lapse showing the silver growing on the copper cylinder. I'm glad you got a great yield too. Those silver crystals were stunning.
I havent been around much, Mr. Sreetips, but I'm glad to see you're doing well
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Goooood evening!
Man I love the time laps, it is so cool to watch
I tell everyone about you! You do such great work and always make sure things are perfect! Im really looking forward to creating my own silver cell so i can make stuff for my family for Christmas! Everyone gets a silver coin!
God Bless you sir & I hope you have a Great day!🙏🌞🌞🌞
Enjoyed every second of this. Pretty awesome and educational.
Every time I watch you do this, I just think "it's so pretty!"
It's amazing to me how much silver comes out of the electrolyte solution. Even more so since you just said that you dilute the solution before cementing it out!
These are the coolest videos!!
Looking at that silver after it's been cleaned and dried is incredible, I could stare at it for hours.
I am always amazed at your chemistry skills. Merlin and Leonardo davinci were both alchemists. I think you are beyond them. Fantastic video. Love your work. ❤keep them coming my friend
Da Vinci was never an alchemist. Indeed he denounced Alchemy which is a false science. Alchemy relates to transformation of one element to another which is impossible for normal precious metals.
Sreetips is just using simple chemistry to refine or concentrate existing metals, removing the impurities.
Alchemy and refining chemistry should not be compared or even mentioned in the same sentence.
Love the videos. I’d really love to see a closeup of the silver crystals, when the electrolyte is drained, but it’s still in the stainless steel container. The natural formations would be sick to see really zoomed in
Wow look at those long strands of silver! I have a jar of sterling silver scrap from my silver work I think I’m going to give it a try! Like always great work I really enjoy your experiments!
Cool to watch. Thanks for sharing.
This looks like such a satisfying way to stack silver. I'd probably be obsessed with finding the perfect box that could fit exactly 1 kilogram of crystals perfectly. Either that or smaller boxes that could each hold 20 troy ounces. Then I'd be compelled to buy more boxes than I could ever possibly need just to make sure that I'd never run out, even though that would be a good problem to have, just like running out of space in your safe.
Knowing that you refined the silver in your stack yourself must be incredibly satisfying as well. I like my coin tubes full of American Silver Eagles and old French silver and gold coins, but you're stacking on a completely different level.
Really cool, man.
Hello Sir, hope you're well. Love the video and great harvest there! I would also like to see you demonstrate silver chloride to metal using the sulfuric acid and iron technique some day :)
Silver has got to be the most fun in refining. I like tinkering and I see this as a great hobby.
The cementation time lapse, never gets old.
Sweet it's always a awesome thing to see how much silver that you get from the silver cell thanks for sharing this six stars brother
Awesome silver man!👍...
Get more silver yeah!🎉
What magnificent return on the by product of your gold refining..🎉
Honest money in an easy to weigh and divide form! Silver cells for everybody! Thanks for helping us learn how to set one up.
If only everyone on Earth knew this!
Super cool. Might try this some day for grins.
nice job sir🖤
Thank you for sharing with us. Nice Work 👍 Alchemist
Awesome video brother. Nearly finished building the brick and mortar building to house all the lab ware. Fume hood going in next. Looks like setting up the silver cell should be the first priority as I have over 10 kilos of dirty silver. Brother you kicked stated my lazy arse. Not going back to work for a while so I am just going to concentrate on getting it right safely. Regards from England brother stay safe see you in the next episode. Thank you for sharing the knowledge safely
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. I have see you harvest the silver crystals' many times,but i never get bored to see you doing it.
God bless you Sir🔥
it's so satisfying to watch the silver cement out onto the copper and fall off and build up in the bottom of the beaker
Those crystals are just amazing!
They really scream purity! Best way to show people that silver is a white metal and not a grey metal. :)
Sir that was another excellent batch of silver crystals. Thanks again for the last video as well. ?’s for you. In the last vid, how far up the beaker did the runaway reaction get to at around 16mins? Also, was it because you had to refill the sepratory flask and had a faster flow? Ty once again Chief for getting back to us. 👍🤙❤️
It got about 2/3 up. It’s because I increased the flow of peroxide, too fast. Came back down as soon as I slowed the flow.
You’re welcome. A great, short(er), video that fits my budget. I held a 100ozt .999 bar the other day, strangely, considering where I am, the bar is from a foundry in Canada and was purchased there for substantially less than where my friend is from (and we currently are). Its purpose is for smithing. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
Beautifull! Now pour a huge silver bar 😍
great slow Mo nice silver crystals
Only word is beautiful good sir. Just beautiful.
Always good to see the payday you work so hard for!
I love the new scale. 🤓🙃🐕🐶
Ten bucks at the flea market.
Congratulations on your excellent work, another possible test to see if there is copper, nickel and cobalt left in the rinses with hot distilled water is to add excess ammonia solution to a sample. If there are any of these 3 cations, the ammonia solution should take on a slight color. blue or greenish.
Yes, I’ve used that test to detect copper. It’s very sensitive.
Sreetips, @ 1:28 That has to be a truly satisfying sound scraping those pure silver crystals off the bowl 😄
Your silver 3/999 fine looks fantastic and gorgeous so so beautiful to c amazing 👏.
Great video. Still hoping for you to crank a 100oz silver bar in that furnace.
Yeah. I really want to see that too.
Great video as always, sreetips!
I must have missed this, but at around 9:20 why do you store the silver crystals in diluted water before they're ready to dry off? Can they not be left exposed to the air to dry off?
It’s best to keep them covered in air tight container dry, or else they may discolor and start to turn a golden color from the air.
Thanks for the video
You make it look so easy sreetips
Never have enough silver to keep mine rollin lol
Maybe a packed column of Ag crystal can be rinsed with a continuous flow of hot distilled water. I think you'd generate less rinse water to achieve clean Ag crystal.
WOW so clean
First, im curious what you do with all of the silver you harvest? Do you sell it? Second, I want to scrape the silver crystal from the stainless bowl. Looks so satisfying. ❤
1) Put it away and forget about it. I offer an ounce of crystal for sale on my eBay site. 2) it feels like scraping ice off of a wind shield.
There’s something so satisfying about watching him scrape the insides of the silver cell. 😩
Hi Sreetips! Curious if you ever test the rinse water for copper. I know it is so hard to get copper to rinse out well.
No
You should use those silver crystals to inquart gold. When you did the inquarting from your previous video. The gold came out beautiful.
I save the silver crystals and use sterling for inquarting.
Some of those larger crystals and cold shot would make really nice pendants. Have you ever thought about selling just them as they are?
Yes
Thank you for sharing the video. I'm curious as to why some silver bars seem shinier than others, despite all being made from elemental pure silver. I distinctly recall a silver bar refined with 'Lye' and 'Surge' that looked outstanding; it even surpassed the standard Electrolytic Silver bar in appearance. Could you shed some light on this?
I don’t know why
It has to do with the way the bars/coins are pressed.
Could it be that some of them are cast and thus smoother (leading to shinier surfaces) than their poured counterparts?
Possibly
ohh really but I want watch more!! hahah it just getting good see all that silver crystal
using it to dilute is smart. I was just thinking - I wonder if he boils down the waste waters to make processing it require less space.
@sreetips QUESTION: Why do you use melted/granulated silver instead of the raw cemented silver in your electrolytic basket? The cemented silver "powder" would give you more surface area for electrical conduction.
It clogs the filter
Mooor vidéos pliiiiiiz don't stop watching you
This is on topic… If you make a hopper to keep the reservoir filled with silver shot via gravity feed {fancy word for a funnel} you could optimize efficiency and not worry about refilling during runs. I’d love to see this modification:
That’s ingenious, excellent suggestion.
@@sreetips so can you actually make jewelry out of that? excuse me for my lack of knowledge in this field, but could you actually melt that down and make a silver chain or is it normally mixed with something else another type of metal per se?
Excellent
First of all thank you for your time and your videos, I think you are awesome at what you do...im just starting to learn about refining and extracting and you are a great source of knowledge and information, I was testing my aqua regia solution today using stannus chloride, and the color went from yellow gold to transparent...can u tell me why? Also how can I entreated the acidity of my solution? Is the color yellow always an indication of the present of gold in solution? I'm using quartz ore but I'm not sure if there is gold in it
No experience with quartz ore. Aqua regia will turn yellow whether is has gold in it or not. The best way to determine if it has gold is with stannous chloride test. I don’t know how to entreat a solution. Don’t know what that means.
Sorry I meant increase.. how do I increase the acidity of the solution?
Add more hydrochloric acid to increase acidity.
Thank you
I never knew that’s how miniature golf course water was made
Impressive yield! why not cementing the silver on iron or something less expensive than coppen? I have my little idea, but I was wondering what's your reason.
Because the copper would also cement out on the iron.
@@sreetips That's not what I had in mind buit it's an excellent reason 🤣
How much does it cost to build a silver cell along with all the tools/ chemicals? Im really considering doing it. And how do you obtain the impure silver you run through the cell? I know that part of it is a byproduct of your gold processing, but im wondering whats the cheapest/most available way i can obtain silver to run?
I buy sterling silver at estate sales. The sellers use the grossly undervalued spot price to determine the price to sell it to you. So I just pay they’re ask price, because it’s grossly undervalued. Then run it through the silver cell, put it away, and forget about it.
i have seen the video of the small scale gold eltro but i wonder if you could do a larger set up like you have for th silver just in gold
They are both the same principle, but different configuration. I plan to try another larger gold cell. It’s fairly easy to set up.
@@sreetips looking forward to that video
Question...i just put together my first silver cell and ran a small batch of silver through. I ran all of the silver shot i had and the elecrolyte is still crystal clear and lots of room in the cell. Question is how long can i pause running the cell while i gather more impure silver and turn it into shot? The crystal in the electrolyte and and the electrolyte should be fine to sit a spell, yes?
I don’t know, I’ve never tried that. In my experience with other reactions, its not like fine wine. Some weird things can happen when allowed to sit idle.
Right hand dominant?
Love seeing the silver cement off the copper thanks for showing
Reuse the waste is necessary and smart
Such a cool process! SCIENCE! 😂
Oddly satisfying watching the crystals get scraped off
This is off topic for the current video but what happens if you over-inquart gold prior to refining. Like taking it down to 4 or 3 K. Does it cause any issues other than the gold particles being very small?
Yes! I’ll make a video. Instead of holding together so I can just pour off the blue silver solution, the gold will crumble into a very fine powder making separation of the silver solution from the gold powder difficult. Or worse, it will form colloidal gold. Which is very beautiful to look at, but impossible to separate. It goes right on through the tightest filter paper.
@@sreetips sounds like a cool video! Cant wait to see it!
Im just waiting for you to get a stainless steel bathtub to use as your cathode lol, itll last all year before you need to empty it!
Do you have a stock pot for your silver refining? What happens to the silver chloride test you made?
Yes, I have three different wastes to deal with. Gold refining waste goes into one of two gold refining stock pots, kept full of copper, gold refining waste only. No silver. Next is my silver refining stock pot, a five gallon bucket that’s also kept full of copper. Only silver refining waste goes in there. Last is my silver chloride jar. I keep it under my sink out of the light because silver chloride is light sensitive. Any silver chloride waste (including the silver rinse water testes) go in the silver chloride jar. I’ll show it in a future video.
Is there much difference in the purity of cemented silver versus electrolyzed /// apart from the obvious process and chemistry differences, what other reasons & considerations are there to use one process or the other?
Silver chloride conversion with lye and sugar will yield high purity silver without having to run it through the silver cell.
Is this a hobby or your job? If you do this for a living how do you source materials to extract?
I’d hate to have to do this as my job. Although making videos has become somewhat like work, my “job.” But the actual refining is my hobby. I don’t refine other peoples material. Only stuff that my wife and I find at local sales.
When setting up a refining area. The area running the silver cell doesn't need a fume hood, correct? But when cementing silver from the used electrolyte does require being under the hood?
You only really need a flow hood when fumes are giving off but not when you run the silver cell
Sounds right.
NICE STUFF THAT SILVER IS.
IT PRETTY KOOL WATCHING IT CEMENT OUT ON THE COPPER
When do you know that there is no more SILVER in the solution. Does the blue color go away? Or does it stop collecting on the copper.??
The copper stays a pink color and no more silver comes out of solution.
How do you know when each batch is done? Is it when the amps get down to near zero. I apologize if you answered this question once before in another video.
The amps decline. But a new filter can be installed to keep the cell going. However, the limiting factor is when the pure silver crystal starts to get close to the anode filter. If it makes contact, then it will burn a hole in the filter, release slimes into the cell, and ruin the batch of pure silver. To remedy, I can run the contaminated pure silver back through the cell with fresh electrolyte.
@@sreetips I see, thank you for the explanation. I appreciate it
Do you ever reserve a portion of this pure silver for future inquaration?
No, but I reserve some to make the electrolyte for the silver cell.
are we getting a cementsilver shot relod video soon. was a long time ago i saw that video you must be running low with winter coming
Correct.
Very cool great job be safe everyone
It's occured to me several times watching your videos that you could use some stainless steel sivs(SP?). There are various sizes that are sold in most housewares departments meant for grease splatter (covering skillets when frying). But YOU could repurpose them for pouring waste liquids through without loosing ANY solids......and they're cheap.
sieves
His rinsing method seems perfectly adequate. It would be hard to hold all that weight on one of those grease splatter shields and you would probably still have minuscule crystals (they're fragile and can break apart into very tiny fragments) that make it through the mesh. The loss would be minimal and symbolic of course, but every fragment of gold or silver that goes down the drain is a tragedy. ;)
Sieves....got it....thanks. On Amazon they're called "grease splatter guards". You could just lay it flat on top of the beaker you're pouring into and that would ensure that if a tragic "landslide" of solids were to happen when pouring off waste liquid it would prevent an awkward (and possibly dangerous) juggle AND/OR loosing precious solids into the waste container........maybe I'm just being obsessive but every time you pour off waste I grit my teeth getting ready for the inevitable disaster.....😜
I’m always curious on what the roi is after the chemicals and what not.
Return on investment. I traded paper for silver. My return is the silver. I’m not going back to paper. I’m keeping the metal.
@ sreetips I just cannot wait until you smelt all that silver.
Also make us some sreetip contest momentum coins for thee winners of a donate cash for a contest?
1.5 k of pure silver is worth about $1,119.81 in the U S
I come up with $922 for 1.5 kilo at current spot of 23.29
I got 100 Troy Oz @ 23.10 is $2310.00 US dollars as of today.
I love how you have it down to the cent and say "about". 😂😂😂❤
And I know why by the way.😊
@@Michael-rg7mx Yeah. That's about right.
@@thisisbeyondajoke6748 you got me
I would to have bag of those silver bars/sticks or strands or whatever ya would call it, in that batch of silvercell.
AS SUGESTED YOU CAN USE THIS TO REPLACE THE EQUATATION 🤗
I'm going to ask a possibly pointless question because I think I know the answer but there is nothing equivalent to being absolutely sure.
My question is, can this be done with Copper to grow copper crystal trees?
Also would seeding with a piece of the metal that you want to grow in crystal form be optimal or in your experienced opinion be a waste of time and effort
Pure copper is refined electrolytically just like silver. Copper wire and pipe are both high purity copper or else the copper wire couldn’t be drawn if there were impurities. Same with pipe. It wouldn’t extrude properly.
No need to seed the cathode bowl. It does that by itself. The silver grown is not really true crystals. They are called dendrites.
have you ever thought about selling some of the nicer formed silver crystals as indivisual specimens on ebay or other sites? there is a market for them.. the first micro mineral i ever bought was a natural formed silver crystal. just a thought perhaps!
Yes
do you already do this? haha if so link me please!@@sreetips
I have some silver crystal listed on my eBay site.
So, i am a little confused. Is there a difference between your pure elemental silver, and sterling silver? Could you just melt your silver down into bars or would you have to add copper to the silver?
Pure elemental silver doesn’t have any copper in it. Sterling silver is an alloy of 92.5% high purity silver. And 7.5% high purity copper, alloyed together for durability.
He worked hard to take the copper out of the silver, it would be quite frustrating if he had to put copper back in afterwards. ;) Silver bars are always made from pure silver exclusively. The only sterling silver bars that exist on the market are made by amateurs who just have a torch and melted a bunch of sterling silver cutlery together. They might as well keep the sterling silver in its cutlery form if they're not going to refine it, at least it's marked as being sterling silver.
@@Alsacien agree. Ruin the sterling mark and it’s value becomes questionable.
Another question I have is do you have make the crystals into bars to sell it or will people buy it as is?
I’ve melted into bars and sold them. They sold very well right up there with big brand minted pure silver bars. I’ve sold the crystal as-is. The crystal is much easier, the bars are a lot of work. But right now, with spot silver so grossly and artificially undervalued, I’m not selling any of my silver. I’m buying, while it’s still on sale!
@@sreetips ahhhh investing. Smart I saw that the silver price is supposed to go way up within the next few years so good idea to hold onto it.
Thank you for the tips sir
Silver is not an investment. It’s money. Paper dollars is a money substitute. I’m converting my paper to metal as fast as I can, before people start to realize that paper dollars are falling in value faster than a snowball melting in July.
Can you grow gold crystal in similar fashion?
Yes, but gold isn’t exactly like silver crystals. It’s more nodular looking and dull. But very high purity none the less.
I've watched all the videos I was just curious about it growing crystal like the silver
wow.. any idea still of what you spend making the silver? cmon man.. per gallon or whatver
No idea. I just bought a sterling flatware set at an estate sale on Saturday. I use the sterling to refine gold. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. I recover the silver and run it through my silver cell. Then I put it away and forget about it. Gold refining is my hobby. So I don’t track expenses for each batch. Besides, when I buy sterling at sales like that, it’s not an expense. I’m trading paper dollars, that are declining in value and purchasing power, for silver, that’s rising in value. Food, gasoline, clothes, rent, those are all expenses and you’ll never see another nickel. Not so when “buying” precious metals. My goal is one thousand pounds of pure silver. For retirement. And to pass on to my kids. So I have no clue how much I spent. Because it really doesn’t matter. Unless I wanted to immediately resell the silver for a “profit”. And I ain’t selling any of my silver.
Those 3 liter beakers aint cheap !!!
Two beakers both alike in dignity in fair laboratory lay. One containing a copper pipe the other a heavy load of liquid. One wonders a the purpose of hoisting the latter high to pour vice dropping the former thence to.
So how much silver does it take to end up with 100oz of silver?
101 Troy ounces of impure silver goes in. 100 Troy ounces of pure silver gets harvested.