That's a very complicated process. I was quite amazed to see the result appear as a pile of sludge in a dish, which was then melted to form a beautiful .999 shiny gold bar. Very interesting, and quite captivating.
When you precipitate the gold from the aqua regia solution it looks to be black dust. Although it may look very far from clean gold but heating takes care of any carbon left from the solution.
To that comment (B B ) Touche....LOL .don't come looking for me I have no gold although I spent quite a bit of money to REEfine the 10 14 18 24 karat gold for them lol, with a splash of ACID....
I'm pausing the video at not-quite two-minutes in, and wow am I intrigued!! I once saw a step-by-step article breaking down this process that I since haven't been able to find again. You are doing a much larger scale version of what I learned about but didn't internalize as personal knowledge of my own. Maybe now, after studying this, I can get this stuff down and scrap a large broken flat-screen tv I have in my shed.
Well he said at the end he borrowed the money to get the materials and stuff to do this, so selling the bar at the end was necessary to pay back those debts. So you just need a large fortune, OR a large pile of debt. It's nice to have options.
L.P.L. I've watched his channel, & I think 🤔 There's no one else, I'd rather turn Loose on any LOCK, than him. Hey, I'd not only hold his Beer, I'd give him my Drink cooler 😎😋, Cause, he's just a very cool guy.!! LOLOLOL Hey, if we can't Make a few jokes about [ Life in general ] Then we're WAY - TO - UPTIGHT,...
Hey Sree, long time viewer here. Really glad to see how much more efficient you've become with some excellent lab additions for your refining process. I've never refined any metal and really don't have any intention to, but watching your videos has always been a blast.
@@chrissinger101 He does get his silver back. Sreetips adding silver to his gold is a method called inquartation. Sreetips adds enough silver to his gold to get around 6-7 karat gold pieces. Then he puts nitric acid on to it until all silver and base metals are taken out of the gold thanks to the nitric acid. All the silver, copper, and the other base metals are in liquid form in the blue/green liquid you see in his videos. There's other videos he's posted showing him taking the silver out of the liquid form and refining it as well. Sreetips explains the whole refining process much better than I did, just watch the videos and you learn over time how it works, as I did.
39:19 If you go frame by frame ( keys) you can see a tiny bit on the spoon coming back from the crucible and then he knocks it on the pyrex dish. D'oh!
This. About the first things you learn in school chemistry class is to always wear protective gear (the labcoat is not just for show), always keep your workstation clean and *never* pour towards yourself. Sketchy af.
WOW!.. that was some meal of a video, I can hardly digest everything,, "however" the way you explained it left me intrigued. I have the highest respect in great interest and what you do. I never thought that you can change solid gold into liquid Gold, dried it out into a sandy gold dirt color, and then burn it back to solid Gold.. absolutely amazing!
Thought you might be interested watching this video on 5/11/20 that the bar of gold you had is now worth 32,927.62 I thought you might find that interesting :)))
@@ojotabe3 currency is a product, that's precisely how it works, it has supply and demand like everything else, now go see what's happening, they are increasing the supply of dollar like crazy. I don't think the supply of gold changed that much, the demand is going even higher, but not higher than the supply of dollar, there's an excess of dollar, and a lack of gold, yes, the gold is valued more, but the dollar is value way, way less now, I just converted 30% of liquidity to gold to survive the oncoming crash. And if I'm wrong so what, gold will always be gold.
Sir, You've done this once or twice before, I don't think I could do this myself, I mean all the acids, distilled water, etc. You got a lot of Super-cells in your brain to do this kind of stuff, really enjoy watching you do this stuff. Thank You Sir.
This is a really challenging and perilous work. It's clear for me now why gold is one of the most appreciated materials in the world and how it has a high cost even in natural resources like water and energy to be refined.
37:57 "now were gonna move over here to the melt table." As the camera pans over two gasoline cans, a propane tank, and a slew of chemicals and aerosols in the near background.
My wife has literally text me 3 times while im smoking in the garage, which im supposed to be quitting because shes pregnant again, and im watching this. Thats not all, i watched a 20 minute video of how to hunt half dollar coins at your bank before this. Idk why i do this shit lol. Oh well
I'm 30 minutes in and was skimming the comments because I thought I heard heavy breathing from Cody's lab. I didn't check how long the video was and was surprised you saying it was a 48 minute video. :D
As far as the acids go, granted they are at room temp, any splashing can be rinsed off and little to no damage will happen. Possibly some yellowing from nitric, and some blackinging with silver nitrate. Hot acid is different and I've never seen him pouring hot acid in his direction.
For the molten metal, he absolutely never pours it in his direction. And it's not like it would pour in any crazy direction, he's got gravity on his side
Gold is so beautiful when it's refined and pure like that...especially at the end after he sweated the bits off into water to melt into a bar...but all that small chunky pieces of it he had, just wow!
Quite literally, liquid gold. Interesting. Never figured that precious metals would be taken to this level of processing. But there you go, learned something new today.
I love watching you refine Gold i always love the reaction of SMB with the Gold solution and the sheer beauty of when the Gold powder slowly melts into Gold metal keep doing these vids they are works of art and i hope you are able to make that chess set you were hoping to make and might i suggest having the chess board made from a light white colour wood and a rich dark wood to add that extra touch of beauty to the set
I don't read all the comments, but I'll add that your videos are quite captivating and educational. I have thoroughly enjoyed spending my time watching them and learning. Thanks! Oh and thank you for your service to this great country! PS, I subscribed today.
And later on the pure gold looked like a giant pile of diarrhea, then cocoa powder. Finally it started to actually look like gold when he melted the powder.
Amazing Job!! My heart stopped when you were spooning the gold cake into the dish, I thought for sure the spoon was going catch a soft spot and flick gold cake everywhere.... Excellent video, thanks for posting. Liked and subbed. Look forward to your future posts.
Maybe this is a dumb question, since i know zero about refining, but why not leave that pure piece out until the end, just mix those scrap pieces with silver, refine it, then melt the new refined piece together with the previous piece? Wouldnt that use a whole lot less silver?
How do you know it was above his head? I don't and I watched the same video as you. Presumptuous assclowns such as your self do nothing to improve anything... or teach anything. All you can do is criticize!
ken jay he does have a point tho dude works in a VERY in un-orthodox way, and does pour towards himself. I think the pouring above his head thing could go either way.
Assclown? Loool cool ya chops bigboi, someone just got triggered for no reason at all... How many fume cupboards have you used with the top of the hood not above head height? Are are you presuming this amateur chemist is going on 7ft? Even with the hood at 5ft you should not be pouring that shit even AT head height. It's not an unreasonable comment at all...
@@watcher_1960 Exactly Ken Jay, there looking at the camera view like it's his eye's. No one knows what actually between him and all of the solutions and what level of PPE he had used?! All of you whinners, go and actually do something with your lives...
Probably not , as gold and silver is only profitable as an investment and if the price of gold increases it's hard to sell it at the exact value if that makes sense ?
@@keiran5170 I got ya, it would need to be a short for him to even cover let alone gain money. Most jewelry is over priced at the very minimum it needs to be product cost, then labor shipping marketing etc.
After buying the non pure gold, supplies like all the acids, factoring in power usage (electric and gas)...not to mention your time; at the end of the day, is it worth doing this?
Very impressive!What kind of eye protection dò you use while doing hot work?I have been a welder/ Fitter for about 35 years.I have been lampworking borosilicate for many years also.Have you Didymium lampworking glases for your melt.There is unparalleled clarity with Didymium compared to a #3 or #5 green lens.They come in different shades.Just make sure you get the ones for boro.The rose colored are generally for soft glass.
For anyone curious, although inquarting is usually done with silver to lower the gold percentage to 25% or lower, you can actually go the other direction and raise the gold percentage to 75% or higher. Inquarting will work for both scenarios as long as the concentration of gold is between 0-25% or 75-100%. The only difference is with the 75%or higher method, you use aqua Regia directly. It will still form silver chloride, but the silver is so dilute in the 75%+ alloy that it does not passivate or block gold atoms from being dissolved. You end up with silver chloride in chloroauric acid solution rather than gold metal in silver nitrate that you get in the more classic 25% or less method.
Just a question, I understand using the process for the lower purity gold pieces. But why do it for the puck of gold that was already 24 karat? Any reason for this?
What a nice chunky bar. It's very interesting to compare this older video to your newer refinements and see how your process (and workspace) has improved over the years; though I suspect that is the same scale.
Wow, I shoulda took chemestry class. I just watched this man make solid metal into liquid gold iced tea with chemicals, then pour the absolute nicest home made bar iv seen. I'm convinced this man can pull off the humonculus. This man has an amazing skill set. Pouring deady acids and 30 thousand dollar liquids like nothin. Pro carefulness. Damn. Props.
he definitely was paying attention in chemistry class (likely college courses too). :P The real protip for making a great looking bar/ingot, regardless of metal is to heat the mold. It's astonishing seeing so many TH-camrs spending many days on a project to skip such a basic (and obvious) step - if the mold solidifies your metal before you've finished pouring, it will never look good.
My favorite part of this whole amazing process: the lawnmower sitting on the floor nearby. Is it not advisable to use a teflon coated tray for warm-drying the gold dust? I mean, for easier removal from there and into the melt dish ...
This guy has NEVER sold gold to a refinery. An honest post would the results of the refinery's melt assay. Or at least mention the $200-$300 cost od said assay
@@sreetips it's an investment & spendable with legislation in different States & having a K-exchange. I sent you my link about some from my Federal international gold bullion bar Bank
Why are you inquarting the 990 gold? Why not just dissolve it with aqua regia and then use a filter to remove the leftover base metals? My understanding of inquartation was that it was only needed with gold alloys between 25-75% purity.
@@jtothep1416 : all the raw Gold here in Maximov Ro Siberia is between .990 & .750 , and 100% nitric acid is Expensive to buy & make. th-cam.com/video/c2y5yi2a5nw/w-d-xo.html
I needs the silver(copper works as well) for the aqua regia to penetrate deep in to the gold. As the silver dissolves, cavity's form in the gold creating a sponge. Without this the process would take too long as the aqua regia would only remove surface layers at a time and no be able to penetrate inside the gold.
I can melt my gold bars far easier, just leave em in the sun! They're chocolate! Never knew it was such a long process to refine gold! Thank you for the video!
I just found this channel. I love learning about this stuff! I've learned so much watching this process. I've always wondered if you're able to get all of the gold out of the containers when you're pouring it. I'd think that some would stay. Great channel!! Subscribed!
My Wife: Honey where is my hotplate, casserole dish, and grandma's jewelry? Me: Leave me alone while I am mixing hydrachloric acid and distilled water!
Why do you need to inquart 24K gold? Can’t you just melt it with the rest of your product (10K, 14K, 18K…) after inquarting and dissolving the silver (and refining)? Or is it to further purify the 24K you have?
Usually when they just say "Don't try this at home", I say "Ha! That looks awesome." But when they say things like "acids" and "deadly fumes" I'm more like, 'Nope.'
Agree. I don't see how this can be done without a fume hood. No matter how good at holding your breath, the fumes still get in your hair clothes and eyes. Even after you walk away ten paces you can still smell the fumes on you. I don't see how it can be done safely without a fume hood.
Please don’t say that loud, Man,..., right now, they will put you on the back of a Hospital bed, for a Covid 19, 🦠.,.,.,. And then after oxygen,. Right back to a Cremation places,.... no more gold Man.,., 😂keep doing gold, have some 🍬 candies.,..👍 and have fun.,..👍
Inquarting gold, adding enough silver (or copper) to achieve a 25% gold alloy then removing the silver and base metals with nitric acid, is one of the most valuable refinng techniques that I've ever learned.
In Layman's terms, you dilute the gold to 25% purity. This makes it possible to then extract every metal BUT the gold by adding strong acid. Because normal acid won't do squat to pure gold, and the gold purity is only 25% the gold atoms are spaced far enough apart in the metal compound that the acid can neatly get around them and get to every other metal, leaving nothing but pure gold atoms which then is treated with aqua regis to dissolve it into liquid, then precipitated back to fine gold powder (that's that spicy caramel colored dirt) and melted into a bar. SCIENCE!
After boiling with nitric acid it's 999 pure gold. Why not just melt it? What is the reason for dissolving it in aqua regia? At the end he says it's 999 pure so nothing has changed?
@sreetips I'm 40 years old and your videos made me remember my love for chemistry that I had in high school. Now I'm thinking in take a technical degree in chemistry lab thanks to you
Sorry, kind of a newbie here but shouldn't the puck already be pure gold? Why can't he incorporate it after all the other lots of gold have been refined?
Something about me watching liquid gold at 3:00 am .... You know i aint up to no good ..lol This man put up his own money so he could run an experiment wherewith one misstep he could lose it all. Pretty Impressive!
I'm not feeling so bad now having to pay for the final finish in a gold bar or a coin either. So much work, I almost fell asleep watching... thanks foe the demo
That was totally amazing I won't be rushing out to procure the equipment to try this at home but it was sure worth the view to say the least this video is Platinum no pun intended because we know it's gold dyammmm well done !
Dear Sreetips, I was able to boil 43g in Aqua Regia but I poured off the golden yellow too soon. I did not wait until the red fuming was completely gone, so I have too much Nitric in 1 cup of beautiful yellow gold filled solution. How can I neutralize the Nitric? In a small 20ml test adding the MSB did not drop the gold out of solution. I love your videos and have spent 100s of hours watching them to learn. Thank you.
If you have excess nitric then you can get rid of it by evaporating the solution down to a syrup. Then rehydrate with hydrochloric acid. I’ve done it many times. Or, put the solution in a very large beaker (to avoid a boil over) and add ice (tap water ice ok). The just keep adding small amounts of SMB until all the nitric gets consumed. Add more ice as needed. Use a BIG beaker. If you have 43g in 500ml if solution then use at least a 2 liter beaker. Four liter would be better. Keep adding SMB until no more fines evolve and the gold stays precipitated. I’ve used both methods to completely eliminate excess nitric.
Now I realize my high school Chemistry classes were missing some important chapters.
Distilled wuter
Paul Miller they didn’t teach you how to do this because people would steal the gold you know how kids are
Chriscraftpro 324 you are correct. The beakers of Bakelite we made were not traded after class for smokes.
Paul Miller I have not done that with the Bakelite either maby who knows but it wasn’t me miss teacher lady
nah they didn't teach it cause they don't want you to be independent
That's a very complicated process. I was quite amazed to see the result appear as a pile of sludge in a dish, which was then melted to form a beautiful .999 shiny gold bar. Very interesting, and quite captivating.
th-cam.com/users/AymanHamadaGoldExtractor
When you precipitate the gold from the aqua regia solution it looks to be black dust. Although it may look very far from clean gold but heating takes care of any carbon left from the solution.
You made it clear that neither the gold nor the money can be found at your place. And for good reason.
The age we live in.
To that comment (B B ) Touche....LOL .don't come looking for me I have no gold although I spent quite a bit of money to REEfine the 10 14 18 24 karat gold for them lol, with a splash of ACID....
John Frank the splash of ACID cracked me up 😂😂😂
lol what age were men not robbing and killing for gold?
I'll wait.
@@OddThoughtz back in my day
@@travv88 LIES! LIES I TELL YOU!
I'm pausing the video at not-quite two-minutes in, and wow am I intrigued!! I once saw a step-by-step article breaking down this process that I since haven't been able to find again.
You are doing a much larger scale version of what I learned about but didn't internalize as personal knowledge of my own. Maybe now, after studying this, I can get this stuff down and scrap a large broken flat-screen tv I have in my shed.
This is like breaking bad but without the meth.
walt really should have diversified his portfolio instead of stashing his cash...
I was just thinking he's the Heisenberg of Gold. 😁😂
LOL WATCH THE DELETED SCENES
breaking good
he also does everything as haphazardly as season 1 jesse pinkman
This video was sponsored by: Distilled Water.
specifically Food Lion brand distilled water
You sure? I thought it was sponsored by Concentrated Nitric Acid...
was the ice distilled or tap?
@@Twizter68 Concentrated hot nitric acid :D
WATER
How to make a small fortune refining gold
1: Start with a large fortune
(old joke, but still relevant).
An oldie in auto racing too.
'It's an old Joke, sir, but it checks out."
Well he said at the end he borrowed the money to get the materials and stuff to do this, so selling the bar at the end was necessary to pay back those debts.
So you just need a large fortune, OR a large pile of debt. It's nice to have options.
As the saying goes, "It takes money, to make money"
AHAAHHHHAHAHHAHHHHHHH so TRUE!
"I'll just lock up my shop for the night, and sell the gold tomorrow."
Lock Picking Lawyer: "Hold my beer."
yep and if they try to sue then he’ll use his lawyer skills
L.P.L. I've watched his channel, & I think 🤔 There's no one else, I'd rather turn Loose on any LOCK, than him. Hey, I'd not only hold his Beer, I'd give him my
Drink cooler 😎😋, Cause, he's just a very cool guy.!! LOLOLOL Hey, if we can't
Make a few jokes about [ Life in general ]
Then we're WAY - TO - UPTIGHT,...
🤣🤣😂
@@Slavicplayer251 Skills ? Who are you Napoleon Dynamite?
@@mikedice3880 ?
This guy should write his name on his gear in case he loses it.
Probably has it written on his schlong, the cat, his ham sandwich for lunch, etc.
@@douganderson7002 he'll probably still lose
Maybe to also keep anyone from stealing his video and calling it thiers.
@richard mccann Exactly! Even more precise it's called BRANDING.
Lol
Hey Sree, long time viewer here. Really glad to see how much more efficient you've become with some excellent lab additions for your refining process. I've never refined any metal and really don't have any intention to, but watching your videos has always been a blast.
One of your coolest/most stressful videos ever... Thank you so much!
😂. Agreed.
@North End Productions You dont need to have a clue on how to skydive, you just jump out.
I find myself rewatching this video often. Lots of fun seeing that much gold refined and poured at once.
so does he get his silver back why does he need to put silver to get pure gold!
@@chrissinger101 He does get his silver back. Sreetips adding silver to his gold is a method called inquartation. Sreetips adds enough silver to his gold to get around 6-7 karat gold pieces. Then he puts nitric acid on to it until all silver and base metals are taken out of the gold thanks to the nitric acid. All the silver, copper, and the other base metals are in liquid form in the blue/green liquid you see in his videos. There's other videos he's posted showing him taking the silver out of the liquid form and refining it as well. Sreetips explains the whole refining process much better than I did, just watch the videos and you learn over time how it works, as I did.
dude my anxiety when hes using the spoon to take out the gold i feel like hes gonna flick all the gold across the room lmao. 38:09
I had the same thought when he was trying to dig it out of the Pyrex dish.
39:19
If you go frame by frame ( keys) you can see a tiny bit on the spoon coming back from the crucible and then he knocks it on the pyrex dish. D'oh!
@@fossil98 ikr dudes got 25k worth of gold and doesnt seem to give a shit lmao
Holy crap bro me too haha😂😂. I was just waiting for him to let out a huge sneeze and watch it all blow away!
hope you all never get into heroin if you think that's stressful.
Take a shot every time he says “concentrated nitric acid”
By the way, did anyone catch what kind of acid he was using? With all the shots, I kinda missed that part.
Raymond Duenas half way through I'm on my second bottle
I was playing the Distilled Water game. I'll try this next time.
Take a shot every time he says distilled water? Or take a shot of distilled water? Just don’t try it with sulfuric acid.
This concentrated nitric acid tastes good
The amount of anxiety I get every time he pours the acid towards himself / the camera... oh god. Also, pouring concentrated nitric acid up above.
This! Sketchy af.
This guy is sketchy and I came here for this comment lol.
This. About the first things you learn in school chemistry class is to always wear protective gear (the labcoat is not just for show), always keep your workstation clean and *never* pour towards yourself. Sketchy af.
Same
I died inside watching that pour.
WOW!.. that was some meal of a video, I can hardly digest everything,, "however" the way you explained it left me intrigued. I have the highest respect in great interest and what you do. I never thought that you can change solid gold into liquid Gold, dried it out into a sandy gold dirt color, and then burn it back to solid Gold.. absolutely amazing!
Thought you might be interested watching this video on 5/11/20 that the bar of gold you had is now worth 32,927.62 I thought you might find that interesting :)))
33746.382 06/02/2020
its worth the same it was worth before, its dollar that's worth less and less, that's why gold is the only real currency and money
that's not how currency works bro
@@ojotabe3 currency is a product, that's precisely how it works, it has supply and demand like everything else, now go see what's happening, they are increasing the supply of dollar like crazy.
I don't think the supply of gold changed that much, the demand is going even higher, but not higher than the supply of dollar, there's an excess of dollar, and a lack of gold, yes, the gold is valued more, but the dollar is value way, way less now, I just converted 30% of liquidity to gold to survive the oncoming crash.
And if I'm wrong so what, gold will always be gold.
@@monad_tcp i don't know if you know this, but gold is also a product
and it's still being mined today
TH-cam: Yo! you want to watch some guy refining a gold bar?
ME: Well, Yeah! why not? 😂
Are you me? Lol
@@Tony-ff9ue No, Me are you...
wait..! what!?
Me: I need some nitric acid, I want to start refining gold
My fiance: .... No.
@@AnselGaddy me: fine then ill make it myself
@@AnselGaddy HA i just got the exact opposite reply!!! =D
I found this to be far more interesting than I ever would have imagined! I couldn't stop watching.
same here
Sir, You've done this once or twice before, I don't think I could do this myself, I mean all the acids, distilled water, etc. You got a lot of Super-cells in your brain to do this kind of stuff, really enjoy watching you do this stuff. Thank You Sir.
This is a really challenging and perilous work. It's clear for me now why gold is one of the most appreciated materials in the world and how it has a high cost even in natural resources like water and energy to be refined.
th-cam.com/users/AymanHamadaGoldExtractor
Was I the only one who thought, "Don't drop that beaker, that's a lot of gold that would just be gone"
Gold does not go away. It would still be there, although possibly difficult or not cost effective to recover.
@@buggsy5 Try refining carpet
I thought: don´t drop that beaker. thats a lot of acids and toxic waste that could just be in your face and your eyes and your mouth.
@@neinzukorruption9321 same
No you were NOT! Also, how would he had paid back the $ he borrowed to film this??? eeeeek!
37:57 "now were gonna move over here to the melt table." As the camera pans over two gasoline cans, a propane tank, and a slew of chemicals and aerosols in the near background.
Lmao I thought he was in some nice lab or shop or something lol. But nope in is garbage with a lawnmower lol
Proof he know how to handle the process, he did not blow anything up.
@@tlbx57 You never are 100% in control, shit happens. Whatever can happen will happen.
Murphy's law.
yeah....about that...
Hey, at least he’s being constructive and not being some shitbag meth cooker! Process on, I love this shit!
Best video I’ve seen on TH-cam. Huge process but so cool to watch. Well done mate👍
Really should be getting to bed right now..let’s just watch this 45 min vid on how this person makes a gold bar first
lilceazy87 haha couldn’t be more right with that
Lol, exactly what happened to me...couldn't stop watching...enjoyed it very much and now.
Zzzzzzzzz
Scrolling comments, 5 minutes in. You've just saved me a lot of time
My wife has literally text me 3 times while im smoking in the garage, which im supposed to be quitting because shes pregnant again, and im watching this. Thats not all, i watched a 20 minute video of how to hunt half dollar coins at your bank before this. Idk why i do this shit lol. Oh well
I thought you made gold bars from smelting gold ore in the furnace
Me starting this video: I’m not gonna watch a 48 minute video!
Me finishing the whole thing: what just happened!?
I watch these videos when I'm excercising. The time flys by.
I'm 30 minutes in and was skimming the comments because I thought I heard heavy breathing from Cody's lab. I didn't check how long the video was and was surprised you saying it was a 48 minute video. :D
@@zabnat hahahaha i just did the same
@@sreetips
I'll buy that bar of gold from you!
I think he borrowed $27,000 to buy gold to refine, then sell it back to the refinery for $27,000.
My anxiety every time he pours that towards himself... 😨
Nothing but denim between that 600 degree metal and his leg meat.
@@BrianKelsay silver smelts at 962 and gold at 1064 celcius
As far as the acids go, granted they are at room temp, any splashing can be rinsed off and little to no damage will happen. Possibly some yellowing from nitric, and some blackinging with silver nitrate. Hot acid is different and I've never seen him pouring hot acid in his direction.
For the molten metal, he absolutely never pours it in his direction. And it's not like it would pour in any crazy direction, he's got gravity on his side
Well ok, when he's corn flaking... But idk, it's not like 4kgs it's small controllable amounts
37:00 I might have been shitting refined gold my entire life without knowing
Gold is so beautiful when it's refined and pure like that...especially at the end after he sweated the bits off into water to melt into a bar...but all that small chunky pieces of it he had, just wow!
Quite literally, liquid gold. Interesting. Never figured that precious metals would be taken to this level of processing. But there you go, learned something new today.
I love watching you refine Gold i always love the reaction of SMB with the Gold solution and the sheer beauty of when the Gold powder slowly melts into Gold metal keep doing these vids they are works of art and i hope you are able to make that chess set you were hoping to make and might i suggest having the chess board made from a light white colour wood and a rich dark wood to add that extra touch of beauty to the set
I don't read all the comments, but I'll add that your videos are quite captivating and educational. I have thoroughly enjoyed spending my time watching them and learning. Thanks! Oh and thank you for your service to this great country! PS, I subscribed today.
Thank you, welcome!
By far one of the best videos on this subject I have ever seen. Liked and Subbed
J& K agreed.
@@HodgepodgewithAngela Same
One minute he’s got shitloads of gold and silver, then he’s got
jars of shitty water. No wonder I’m going to see this vid through!
And later on the pure gold looked like a giant pile of diarrhea, then cocoa powder. Finally it started to actually look like gold when he melted the powder.
Reverse alchemy lol
37:37
Most expensive pot of brownies you'll ever see.
I was thinking the same thing.
Now I see y it’s so many places that says “we buy gold”
what a big efford with filming editing etc...while doing that huge process- well done!
"This is the grittiest, crunchiest carrot cake I've EVER tasted!"
Amazing Job!! My heart stopped when you were spooning the gold cake into the dish, I thought for sure the spoon was going catch a soft spot and flick gold cake everywhere.... Excellent video, thanks for posting. Liked and subbed. Look forward to your future posts.
It was nerve wracking.
Maybe this is a dumb question, since i know zero about refining, but why not leave that pure piece out until the end, just mix those scrap pieces with silver, refine it, then melt the new refined piece together with the previous piece? Wouldnt that use a whole lot less silver?
Not a dumb question. I included it for the show.
Filling conc. nitric acid above head height, then pours towards himself - this guy is a fkn health and safety nightmare.
so very true of many people . How they get away with it - have no idea
How do you know it was above his head? I don't and I watched the same video as you. Presumptuous assclowns such as your self do nothing to improve anything... or teach anything. All you can do is criticize!
ken jay he does have a point tho dude works in a VERY in un-orthodox way, and does pour towards himself. I think the pouring above his head thing could go either way.
Assclown? Loool cool ya chops bigboi, someone just got triggered for no reason at all... How many fume cupboards have you used with the top of the hood not above head height? Are are you presuming this amateur chemist is going on 7ft? Even with the hood at 5ft you should not be pouring that shit even AT head height. It's not an unreasonable comment at all...
@@watcher_1960 Exactly Ken Jay, there looking at the camera view like it's his eye's. No one knows what actually between him and all of the solutions and what level of PPE he had used?! All of you whinners, go and actually do something with your lives...
The real question after paying back all the loan sharks and chemical and propane costs did you actually make any money for yourself?
Probably not , as gold and silver is only profitable as an investment and if the price of gold increases it's hard to sell it at the exact value if that makes sense ?
@@keiran5170 I got ya, it would need to be a short for him to even cover let alone gain money. Most jewelry is over priced at the very minimum it needs to be product cost, then labor shipping marketing etc.
He buys jewelry for way less than the gold value
After buying the non pure gold, supplies like all the acids, factoring in power usage (electric and gas)...not to mention your time; at the end of the day, is it worth doing this?
We think alike..and the long range health issues? I will do something else maybe magnet fishing line in rivers look for.( Jimmy?)
He probably does it for fun
yes its worth it. the more you compound that gold the greater profits you will have in the long run.
Said he profited about 5200 off just that. Plus the left over silver. So probably 6 or 7 thousand.
Yes has to be hundreds of dollars worth of acids and equipment to get it 0.5 to 0.9 more pure. I reckon it was fun to do though.
Very impressive!What kind of eye protection dò you use while doing hot work?I have been a welder/ Fitter for about 35 years.I have been lampworking borosilicate for many years also.Have you Didymium lampworking glases for your melt.There is unparalleled clarity with Didymium compared to a #3 or #5 green lens.They come in different shades.Just make sure you get the ones for boro.The rose colored are generally for soft glass.
I wear a face shield with a low-level shading. I’ll check these out. Thanks for the tip.
I think I experienced gold fever when you were picking up handfuls of gold in the water pot!
Cool, but I was looking forward to seeing you recover the silver too.
I'll briefly show how that's done in my new video coming out as soon as I get the time to get it finished.
sreetips - I would love to see this and how it’s value compared to recovery costs
@@theRhinsRanger it's a hobby not a paycheck.
Imagine having 30k of gold dissolved in liquid in an open container and just picking it up and moving it... terrifying
that solution was worth over $6 (close to 7) per milliliter... dayum.
If I spilt that I'd probably break up the foundation getting all the gold back
Now imagine that was 30k that you borrowed and have to pay back....... even if you spilled it all
@@CwazyWabbits *spilt.
Turn on spell correct bro
@@Freeknickers24 spilled and spilt are interchangeable and both correct.
For anyone curious, although inquarting is usually done with silver to lower the gold percentage to 25% or lower, you can actually go the other direction and raise the gold percentage to 75% or higher. Inquarting will work for both scenarios as long as the concentration of gold is between 0-25% or 75-100%. The only difference is with the 75%or higher method, you use aqua Regia directly. It will still form silver chloride, but the silver is so dilute in the 75%+ alloy that it does not passivate or block gold atoms from being dissolved. You end up with silver chloride in chloroauric acid solution rather than gold metal in silver nitrate that you get in the more classic 25% or less method.
Just a question, I understand using the process for the lower purity gold pieces. But why do it for the puck of gold that was already 24 karat? Any reason for this?
Just for the show
@georgeorwell8681 keep it.
"I'm going to add this to my stock pot" gonna be some hella good soup
That's what I kept thinking hah
Ya where’s this pot and where are all those missing kids? Also, lawnmower.
this kept showing up in my recommendations, i decided to give it a shot and i'm not disappointed
How inspiring: Even pure refined gold looks like shit before it goes through the fire.
When I read your comment I thought it can't look that bad... It looked worse
😂
i was laughing when he show for the first time the pure gold, someone without context would thought probably is shit
Former Things that’s me, I’m pure refined gold
What a nice chunky bar. It's very interesting to compare this older video to your newer refinements and see how your process (and workspace) has improved over the years; though I suspect that is the same scale.
I bet your neighbors love that flume exhaust. Great results
Wow, I shoulda took chemestry class. I just watched this man make solid metal into liquid gold iced tea with chemicals, then pour the absolute nicest home made bar iv seen. I'm convinced this man can pull off the humonculus. This man has an amazing skill set. Pouring deady acids and 30 thousand dollar liquids like nothin. Pro carefulness. Damn. Props.
he definitely was paying attention in chemistry class (likely college courses too). :P
The real protip for making a great looking bar/ingot, regardless of metal is to heat the mold. It's astonishing seeing so many TH-camrs spending many days on a project to skip such a basic (and obvious) step - if the mold solidifies your metal before you've finished pouring, it will never look good.
I have a sense you have found your Walter White...
I got to say I've learned a lot from you. I enjoy your videos and have implement serval of your techniques.. thank you, and keep up the good work..
My favorite part of this whole amazing process: the lawnmower sitting on the floor nearby.
Is it not advisable to use a teflon coated tray for warm-drying the gold dust? I mean, for easier removal from there and into the melt dish ...
I’ve never used a Teflon coated tray
Lol all that and at the very end “now I ship it off to the refinery”.
LOL. What happened to trust these days...
Good point. What the hell.
This guy has NEVER sold gold to a refinery. An honest post would the results of the refinery's melt assay. Or at least mention the $200-$300 cost od said assay
Keith Shaughnessy : that’s what he says at the end of the video… off to the refinery
That bar is worth about $33,642.00 today
I am so glad l discovered your channel! You are a freaking mad scientist and a joy to watch at work!
The question I'm asking is why are you adding silver to something that's already 24 karats unless it's not 24 karats 99.9% gold?
Yeah I’m confused to
I did it for the show
@@sreetips it's an investment & spendable with legislation in different States & having a K-exchange. I sent you my link about some from my Federal international gold bullion bar Bank
@@sreetips Ah that makes sense. Great work on piquing engagement and curiousity
Concentrated what?
Does he appraise the jewelry beforehand to make sure the jewelry isn't worth more as is? I mean what if you accidentally melt a Tiffany or something?
I screen signed pieces out
Why are you inquarting the 990 gold? Why not just dissolve it with aqua regia and then use a filter to remove the leftover base metals? My understanding of inquartation was that it was only needed with gold alloys between 25-75% purity.
I agree, it is unnecessary to inquart gold when it's above 75~85% purity. Would have saved some acid there
@@IsettasRock inquartation is not necessary period ...100% nitric acid chemically burns off ALL base metals except lead.
to each their own i guess?
@@jtothep1416 : all the raw Gold here in Maximov Ro Siberia is between .990 & .750 , and 100% nitric acid is Expensive to buy & make. th-cam.com/video/c2y5yi2a5nw/w-d-xo.html
I needs the silver(copper works as well) for the aqua regia to penetrate deep in to the gold. As the silver dissolves, cavity's form in the gold creating a sponge.
Without this the process would take too long as the aqua regia would only remove surface layers at a time and no be able to penetrate inside the gold.
I love how gold even sounds beautiful.
I can melt my gold bars far easier, just leave em in the sun! They're chocolate! Never knew it was such a long process to refine gold! Thank you for the video!
I just found this channel. I love learning about this stuff! I've learned so much watching this process. I've always wondered if you're able to get all of the gold out of the containers when you're pouring it. I'd think that some would stay. Great channel!! Subscribed!
Welcome!
Sitting here watching the most random vvideo I've ever seen...completely hooked...
Imagine dropping that flask of dissolved gold 😭😭😭😭 I'd be so upset.
you'd burn the carpet and recover the gold from the ashes. If not carpet than whatever it was spilled on. Good luck if it was concrete though.
@Paradoxical Nightmare too bad that didn't know it kills you
My Wife: Honey where is my hotplate, casserole dish, and grandma's jewelry?
Me: Leave me alone while I am mixing hydrachloric acid and distilled water!
Did you use tap water ice cube or distilled water ice cubes. Tap water has impurities in it
LMFAO!!!!
@@letsbeyummy5080 At that point, the silver is all gone, so chlorine in the was water is immaterial.
It’s funny, in the uk the standard low caray is 9 carat, not ten.
nobody:
sreetips: let's add some more of that n i t r i c a c i d
Concentrated
next video needs to be on how you get back all that silver now! this was awesome my man!
He has videos on that subject.
"I'll be doing my work inside a fume hood to vent the deadly gases away from me, and into my neighbors yard"....
These infrequent emissions are nothing compared to your car exhaust. Even your lawn mower is worse.
sreetips I’m just bustin ya. And I drive an electric car and don’t have a mower
Cool. My point is this; anyone who operates a gasoline powered machine does much more harm to the air than my occasional chemistry experiments.
@@sreetips my point is; "deadly gases" was your words.
@@billnipp2309... nipp... hahaha, that is all.
Why do you need to inquart 24K gold? Can’t you just melt it with the rest of your product (10K, 14K, 18K…) after inquarting and dissolving the silver (and refining)? Or is it to further purify the 24K you have?
For the show
Usually when they just say "Don't try this at home", I say "Ha! That looks awesome." But when they say things like "acids" and "deadly fumes" I'm more like, 'Nope.'
take a drink everytime Concentrated Nitric Acid is said
Absolute rookie mistake! He forgot to grease the pan...
You mean borax?
@@ltskywalker1838 nope.
@@brentlsturgeon oh. Like "grease"..grease?
@@ltskywalker1838 no sir. Twas a joke. Because he was scraping gold from cooking ware
@@brentlsturgeon but it adds crunch to every bite!
Cool video! Curious, where does all the acid go? Vaporized? Reusable?
Waste treatment
This is like watching Homer Simpsons trying to do something dangerous in his garage
With beakers he borrowed from work .lol
Having a sore throat gets a whole different meaning when you're in this line of work.
Agree. I don't see how this can be done without a fume hood. No matter how good at holding your breath, the fumes still get in your hair clothes and eyes. Even after you walk away ten paces you can still smell the fumes on you. I don't see how it can be done safely without a fume hood.
@@sreetips You are a beast!!! Love the videos!!
@@sreetips a hazmat suit perhaps?
Please don’t say that loud, Man,..., right now, they will put you on the back of a Hospital bed, for a Covid 19, 🦠.,.,.,. And then after oxygen,. Right back to a Cremation places,.... no more gold Man.,., 😂keep doing gold, have some 🍬 candies.,..👍 and have fun.,..👍
I just realized I actually sat here and watched a 45 minute video about gold
That's fascinating!! How do you recover the silver, or is that a loss?
The definition of "inquarting" came 8 minutes and 23 usages of the word too late
Inquarting gold, adding enough silver (or copper) to achieve a 25% gold alloy then removing the silver and base metals with nitric acid, is one of the most valuable refinng techniques that I've ever learned.
@@sreetips he meant it was talked about too long before it was really discussed in the the video, not the comment section.
In Layman's terms, you dilute the gold to 25% purity. This makes it possible to then extract every metal BUT the gold by adding strong acid. Because normal acid won't do squat to pure gold, and the gold purity is only 25% the gold atoms are spaced far enough apart in the metal compound that the acid can neatly get around them and get to every other metal, leaving nothing but pure gold atoms which then is treated with aqua regis to dissolve it into liquid, then precipitated back to fine gold powder (that's that spicy caramel colored dirt) and melted into a bar. SCIENCE!
@@sreetips but you can’t immediately see with aqua regia why do double work then can you raise gold from the remnants?
After boiling with nitric acid it's 999 pure gold. Why not just melt it? What is the reason for dissolving it in aqua regia? At the end he says it's 999 pure so nothing has changed?
@7:55 Graphrite RODDDD lol love when he says that...but doesn't he look like he could be Superman? The Christopher Reeve one?
@sreetips I'm 40 years old and your videos made me remember my love for chemistry that I had in high school. Now I'm thinking in take a technical degree in chemistry lab thanks to you
Cool! I have zero formal chemistry training.
@@sreetips double kudos then!
Sorry, kind of a newbie here but shouldn't the puck already be pure gold? Why can't he incorporate it after all the other lots of gold have been refined?
I incorporated it for the show
Something about me watching liquid gold at 3:00 am .... You know i aint up to no good ..lol
This man put up his own money so he could run an experiment wherewith one misstep he could lose it all. Pretty Impressive!
If you want to hide your gold...just make it look like dried-up clay.
PỺO's MƎᴻTɐʟ MƎʟTdowɴs The next time I see a tub of sand looking stuff in somebody’s house I gonna think twice
The fish was actually really cool-I'm sad to see that melted.
I'm not feeling so bad now having to pay for the final finish in a gold bar or a coin either. So much work, I almost fell asleep watching... thanks foe the demo
36:30 looks like the day after mexican food.
I'll try refining that into a gold bar next time, instead of flushing it down.
It works and the like button also works.
@@humanhumer702 hey yea, the like button does work!
SMH!!!
“don’t try this at home”
me, an intellectual, dicking around with piles of old jewelry and nitric acid on the beach like a crazy person
That was totally amazing I won't be rushing out to procure the equipment to try this at home but it was sure worth the view to say the least this video is Platinum no pun intended because we know it's gold dyammmm well done !
so does he get his silver back why does he need to put silver to get pure gold!
@@chrissinger101 I wondered that very same thing lol 😆 🤣 😂 😄
What do you do with your stock pot, how do you treat the excess chemicals, and how do you dispose of it when finished?
I get the precious metals then process the waste for disposal.
Awesome knowledge. I really enjoyed watching. Best wishes brother.
Man....I have never seen a person with a skill-set as valuable as yours...this is amazing.. Something tells me you have a seriously nice safe..
It all comes together so beautifully! Just found your channel. Thinking about how and why we learn this stuff. My mind🤯😤💨life
Thank you for sharing with us. God Bless 🙏 I can't wait to set up my own refing equipment. You make it look easy Sreetips
i love how that gold forms from hot to solid in the water :D
Im rather impressed. Now how do you dispose of all that crazy hazmat.
He puts it in his stock pot and makes a lovely beef stew with it :-)
Dude sound like he could be Steve-O's brother! lmao
Dear Sreetips, I was able to boil 43g in Aqua Regia but I poured off the golden yellow too soon. I did not wait until the red fuming was completely gone, so I have too much Nitric in 1 cup of beautiful yellow gold filled solution. How can I neutralize the Nitric? In a small 20ml test adding the MSB did not drop the gold out of solution. I love your videos and have spent 100s of hours watching them to learn. Thank you.
If you have excess nitric then you can get rid of it by evaporating the solution down to a syrup. Then rehydrate with hydrochloric acid. I’ve done it many times. Or, put the solution in a very large beaker (to avoid a boil over) and add ice (tap water ice ok). The just keep adding small amounts of SMB until all the nitric gets consumed. Add more ice as needed. Use a BIG beaker. If you have 43g in 500ml if solution then use at least a 2 liter beaker. Four liter would be better. Keep adding SMB until no more fines evolve and the gold stays precipitated. I’ve used both methods to completely eliminate excess nitric.