After all your meticulous attention to detail, you are left with a REETIPS bar. Now you can sell it a mint error and charge 10X the price :) Love your process. It never fails to calm my nerves.
Thanks once more for a great video. As someone with a background in formal chemistry, I find your comments about difficulty dissolving the last of the gold with hydrogen peroxide really interesting. There are a few competing reactions when you add hydrogen peroxide to a mixture of gold and hydrochloric acid. The hydrogen peroxide will be oxidising chloride ions to free chlorine and this chlorine in turn, will be oxidising the gold. The less the gold in the mixture, the longer this process will take. However the hydrogen peroxide will also be decomposing to oxygen gas and water. This process is quite rapid as can be seen by the foaming of the mixture. When there is very little solid gold left, the hydrogen peroxide will largely decompose before there is enough free chlorine to react with the gold.
Love seeing the 'maintenance' involved in precious metal refining, get a good idea of the entire journey from scrap PM to the final waste/recovery portion. As always great work, thanks Sreetips
Laying around watching tv is ok for a while, but it gets old fast. I’ll probably work until the day I die. Retirement? There’s no such thing as retirement. It’s a tradition, invented by man.
Thank you for another great video, Sreetips. Though I will likely never refine any precious metals, I have really learned a lot from your excellent channel. I really enjoy your methodical approach to the lab work, the clear and informative narration, and your attention to safety. I also really appreciate the time you put into making and editing your videos, including on-screen text for clarification and the many time-lapse shots. Thanks again Sreetips!
Man amazing how far over spot your stuff can go for! I was thinking “hmm this one’s small enough maybe I can actually try to buy it” nope already $70 over spot with 13 hours to go! I am not complaining in any way I think it is Really cool that it makes these videos worth your time, and awesome that your brand has truly created value. It’s win for everyone involved! It is easy to have trust when we see every step in the process.
i think some of that junk could be from the ice cubes, i learned from videos about making clear ice that the air bubbles in the ice cube are created as the cube freezes from outside in, the ice on the outside of the cube is clear because its pure, but as the cube freezes it forces impurities into the center of the cube, creating the bubbles
I'm "Double Dipping" here, but understanding the REFINER is to watch the process HERE,... GOD is STILL "WORKING".....the process isn't finished YET. Must be waiting on some GOLD to drop out of solution lol. Sorry SREETIPS, no tool gets wasted, YOU are AWESOME! (Edited to show GRATITUDE to SREETIPS for tolerance of my posts)
Damn those were crystal clear solutions. Seeing how your Ferrous Sulphate is reagent grade, it would be interesting to see a precipitation with the granules, without making a saturated solution. I have seen it done with wet crystals and the visuals were amazing. Great vid Sreetips, thanks for sharing.
Awesome recovery from those gold waste containers - it would be really interesting to know how much gold you refined to create the waste and calculate something like the loss rate per gram of refined gold. I imagine it's quite low. Great video! 👍
I usually pour off gold during the rinses. I could minimize this by waiting for the gold to settle between each rinse before pouring it off. But this would greatly increase the amount of time.
@@sreetips I suspect your loss is really low though. For example, if you refined something like 40 toz, your loss would be well under 1% and you eventually recovered it anyway.
41:39 I have a set of footwear that I only use once a week, which I call my "Sunday-go-to-meeting sneakers". It's nice to hear someone else use the expression.
I'm feeling like a kid.... Moooooom.. when is Sreetips time??? Keep watching the older one... Love the Way he talks and How he does Chemistry 🧪 Very useful. My son J.J loves it too. He asked me lately..( quote ) "Daddy... Why's Sreetips written on everything possible?" Could not answer him that...🤣🤣🤣 Keep up with Your great content.. Greetings from Switzerland...
The final waste will always be a concern for me. Once all the copper has cemented, I guess all is left is an iron compound like iron sulfite (?) most certainly contaminated with other metals (lead, zinc, tin, nickel, rhodium, manganese, tungsten, etc.). How do you dispose of it?
All the metals in your list (except magnesium and zinc) are below iron in the reactivity series. They will cement out as metals along with the copper. The acidic iron solution is dropped with sodium hydroxide. The dehydrated metal hydroxides are thrown away. The caustic liquid is adjusted to pH 7 with swim pool decreaser and added to the normal waste stream. Nothing acidic or toxic gets poured down the drain.
Would it be possible to soak the test strips in the stannis solution, and have them dried and used later. Would they still turn black if dipped in a gold bearing solution? Just a thought. Edit: I guess it could contaminate the gold bearing solution, so maybe not such a good idea.
Thats a really cool idea. It does expire, but it would be very interesting to see if it worked immediately after drying. Edit... Maybe dropping the solution onto the test strip, rather than a dip.
Interesting idea, but not possible. The stannous chloride solution is made up from stannous chloride crystals, water, HCI, and tin (as a preservative). That solution dried out wouldn't have the same reaction.
A serious one today. I see that first pour off of the waste solution after precipitation often looks like it has particles floating on the surface tension. Is that how some of the precipitated gold gets into the waste collection? If so, I see the prospecting guys use detergent for this problem for flour-gold. Would that mess with your chemistry at that stage?
great video. My first time seeing the H2O2 dissolution so thanks for that alone! fascinating how it doesn't dissolve it all. Thank you too for showing us the cascade of your waste streams from gold refining waste to the stock pot to the iron bucket. I'm curious about what you do with the final bucket though. You've got "contaminated copper" and iron in solution. Is that safe for general disposal in public sewerage and landfill, or do you have to do something else to it still? Thanks again for the video and well done on what feels like your shiniest bar!
No matter the size - those high purity bars are absolutely stunning Kevin. 👍👍👌👌I was wondering - have you tallied up the weight of the AU pours you did in 2022 ??
Little off topic the watch you wear has historical significance pie pan" dial with a history of setting precision records at the Geneva Observatory. That model set the standard for testing. Beautiful piece with a rich history.
what you do with your copper sreet? id wash it and keep it as a powder for when prices go up which they will copper is gonna be needed as much as silver to go green
Could you melt the copper and then use it again for cementing other precious metals vs. throwing away and buying new? Or would that process take too much effort? I guess you would have to roll it flat or somehow pour it into sheets, and the contamination would be a factor.
Hi Sreetips. Usually i see you add a few ml of sulfuric acid to precipitate any traces of lead. I know in some gold solder there is cadmium. Will the sulfuric acid precipitate that as well? What about tin?
Is there a problem with Lead building up over time? If every thing ends up in the stockpot and then that is processed and the East from that ends up in the next stockpot.. over time won’t it build up?
Only lead in the gold. It gets filtered out and the filter gets added to my paper storage. That’s lead sulfate. Any lead that dissolves in the nitric boils follows the copper into the waste treatment bucket and gets cemented out as metallic lead on the iron in that bucket.
I have a crazy question? Stannis chloride is tin chloride I think. In the presence of gold it turns black. Find a long time ago that if you rub a gold ring across a woman's face who's wearing makeup you'll get a black line. I wonder if foundation or the base makeup women use has tin chloride in it?
I prepare ferrous sulfate by putting steel wool in battery acid. I've read somewhere that iron precipitates palladium and platinum. But I don't know if this information is correct.
@@sreetips thank you for reply. I have some cell phone pins and springs, and I intend to dissolve everything in aqua regia, and then add sulfuric acid to try to precipitate the gold. If it works, I try to treat the precipitate with a solution of oxalic acid, to eliminate the iron. I don't know if it will work, but it will be interesting to do. A big hug.
@@SURFEAMORETERNO You sound exactly like me when I tired to refine my first batch. Here’s what the pros told me: “please let me save you the trouble. If you dissolve everything in aqua regia, then you’ll just end up with a big toxic mess and no gold.” I don’t have any experience with cell phone pins and springs. But I do know that sulfuric acid won’t precipitate gold.
@@sreetips Thank you for your collaboration. I always find people who help me, maybe because I help people too. I have little ferrous plated stuff, and I would do it just to see the result, after watching your video. I was believing that sulfuric acid could form ferrous sulfate, with the iron present in aqua regia. I don't know how to recover gold from this kind of scrap metal. Perhaps mercury would be an alternative? I dont know,and due to toxicity is needed to have a distiller. So it's best to keep raking it in for now. Thanks buddy.
Copper is $3.80 per pound. I can buy clean copper for refining at yard sales. Its cheap and plentiful. Gold is $28k per pound. Silver is $345 per pound. And these prices are grossly and artificially under valued. There’s no good reason to waste time on copper. Especially since I’m backed up to my ears in silver. I’ll never get it all refined.
@@sreetips maybe you could make unrefined coins or bars of copper to sell on ebay for your fans. Not everyone has a chunk of change to buy gold and silver, and maybe it'd make you a little on the side.
It probably has tiny invisible air bubbles that causes it to float. Gold is about 19 times heavier than water so it should not be able to float on water.
I've been waiting for the waste refining video 🤗 This is going to be good 👍 I am excited to find out how much you lost and now got back 😁 Edit: Not a bad recovery. Great Job 👍
What would happen if you added a few drops of Jet Dry to get that gold floating on the surface after precipitating to drop? the guys panning for gold will use it to break the surface tension.
When youre doing a small refinement like this do you ever just set the gold sponge aside and combine it with later refinements to pour a bigger bar? I have no idea the level of effort involved in the melting/pouring process, but just wondering if it would save some effort to do that 1 time vs, say 3 or 4 or or 5 or whatever.
I’m sorry about that. eBay won’t cover shipments of precious metals going overseas. If the buyer decides to dispute delivery I could be forced to refund and end up with no payment and no gold. Not imply that you’d do that. But there are those who would.
@@sreetips No need to be sorry you need to be covered in all ways. Hopefully in few years postage will change and we can all buy 🤞🏻 love the channel never thought I’d be into this stuff but you’ve got me addicted 😁
I still think, its just from waste. I can remember doing some testing for a sewer system for an industrial waste water permit for a college, I was finding huge amounts of copper. The funny thing the building that was causing it was not the labs or the filter system for the dental training area, no it was the HVAC drain units and all the copper drainpipes that were reacting to the condensate that they drained away.
All the copper pipes in my house eroded over thirty years and began leaking so I had them replaced with pvc. Copper does get in the drinking water from copper pipes.
@@sreetips The pipes had accelerated corrosion from draining into mop sinks, and one floor drain. If they drained into the plumbing system, they would not have had as much corrosion due to the air getting in. Now the labs had glass drains to the treatment system that a few years later failed spectacularly or blew up. One of two times I ever got into a Class A protection. Yellow bubble suit with O2 tank. The other was an abandoned Crome plating operation and some of the waste chemicals in plastic barrels had reactions producing gas since they were not cleaned out of the previous chemical before filling.
How did you fix the non-working hot plate? Also, is there a difference between the hydrochloric in the little glass bottle and the stuff in the plastic jug (transchem muriatic)?
I turned the knobs repeatedly to get those contacts to make hood connections. It’s the thermal regulator contacts that corrode in the acid fume environment. They normally only last about 6 or 8 months.
Two “out of curiosity” questions. 1. Has the results of that button of unknown metal come back? 2. Was there a reason you didn’t just put both solutions together in the beginning?
1. Waiting to send it in. Thanks for the reminder. 2. The best way to get it all is to dissolve it in the bottom of container. So I left them separate for that part.
Yes, I have a video of it posted from about two years ago. I think I melted into a button. Tested with acid, about 18k right out of the ground, if my memory is correct. Inquarted with silver, parted with hot dilute nitric boils, refined with aqua regia.
Ola amigo, parabéns pelos seus conteúdos, seus videos tem me ajudado muito no refino do ouro. poderia fazer um video de como recuperar/ precipitar o mercúrio dissolvido no acido?
Nobody wants it. It’s literally just trash. There are those who might take it. But when they see the difficulty in trying to get it clean, they’d just end up doing what I do with it - throw it away.
I NEED HELP, I messed up bad. I tried a small amount of tech scrap with perasidic acid and it didn’t do right. Now I have a bowl of mixed tech scrap with gold. I don’t know what to neutralize it with. Help help help please
OKI was wondering one more thing why do you keep the heat on the Mold as you are pouring I understand why You heat the mold up . But once the moisture has been driven off the moldYou shouldn't need to continue heating the mold up as you pour . I know it may be silly but it's just something that I was thinking about. By the way nice bar nice recovery
I noticed that your ice is cloudy. It it’s pure water there shouldn’t be any cloudiness as there’s nothing to make it. Your fume hood is so much quieter than previously. Now it’s just air movement instead of 60hz humm. 👍
I wish I was closer to where you live. I'm sure you're nowhere near Southwest Washington anyways. At the farm I used to work at we had a copper sulfate additive for the water. We had buckets of 16 ounce packets of "acidified copper sulfate". It's copper sulfate mixed with citric acid. I do copper and aluminum bronze casting. So I put some of that copper sulfate in some buckets of water and threw some pieces of iron in there. Melted down the copper and used it for casting. If we were close to each other I'd be more than happy to pay you forty bucks for that scrap copper. Your trash is my treasure in this case haha.
Keith, my insanity got the best of me. I’ll probably never shoot another video about the copper in my waste bucket ever again. Seems to get folks riled up when I admit to tossing the nasty, dirty copper that’s in it.
@@sreetips I wasn't trying to gripe. Just suggesting it might be useful to somebody in your local area that does artistic metal casting. I always enjoy watching your videos amd appreciate the effort it takes.
Anyone else struggle with the decision of watching as soon as a new SREETIPS uploads or saving it till bed time because its almost meditative? 🤔😅
I've found that if I wake up a bit early, it's nice to watch a video with my morning coffee. Of course, it is always a rerun at that point.
I've been trying to hold off until I have some nitric but it's hard to stay away!
It's my ASMR "THING"
I do this every time now
I’m anxious to see his recovery video in may from that waste bucket
After all your meticulous attention to detail, you are left with a REETIPS bar. Now you can sell it a mint error and charge 10X the price :)
Love your process. It never fails to calm my nerves.
That “gold refining waste container” is the coolest piggy bank I’ve ever seen. Lol… 👍💪💪
I really enjoy the part when the gold precipitates out of solution. And always the big reveal at the end. Thanks again for the great content
Agree.. The best refiner on TH-cam. Great canal😊.
Have a nice day. Arne
Thanks once more for a great video.
As someone with a background in formal chemistry, I find your comments about difficulty dissolving the last of the gold with hydrogen peroxide really interesting. There are a few competing reactions when you add hydrogen peroxide to a mixture of gold and hydrochloric acid. The hydrogen peroxide will be oxidising chloride ions to free chlorine and this chlorine in turn, will be oxidising the gold. The less the gold in the mixture, the longer this process will take. However the hydrogen peroxide will also be decomposing to oxygen gas and water. This process is quite rapid as can be seen by the foaming of the mixture. When there is very little solid gold left, the hydrogen peroxide will largely decompose before there is enough free chlorine to react with the gold.
What you describe sounds like exactly what’s happening.
i always wonder how many kids get inspired go into science or engineering after watching these videos :)
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Goooood evening!
Always mesmerizing to watch a skilled alchemist at work! I love this stuff. Keep up the good work!
I enjoy the gold refining waste container content. It's interesting to see what could be lost if one isn't as careful as you are. Thank you.
Great video. All sorts of different techniques and a double melt to boot!
Nice recovery and refine from "waste", wish my waste had hidden gold.
Love seeing the 'maintenance' involved in precious metal refining, get a good idea of the entire journey from scrap PM to the final waste/recovery portion. As always great work, thanks Sreetips
That bar looked as soft as butter, beautiful work.
Man, you are one busy bee! Gotta love it. My wife says I'm "restless". It's not restless, it's hustle and hustle puts food on the table 😂
Laying around watching tv is ok for a while, but it gets old fast. I’ll probably work until the day I die. Retirement? There’s no such thing as retirement. It’s a tradition, invented by man.
😂
Fascinating to see the peroxide and acid refining. Beautiful shine on that waste container gold bar. 👍
Not into chemistry. Have no interest in actually doing any of this.
But man is it educational and fascinating to watch.
Thank you for another great video, Sreetips. Though I will likely never refine any precious metals, I have really learned a lot from your excellent channel. I really enjoy your methodical approach to the lab work, the clear and informative narration, and your attention to safety. I also really appreciate the time you put into making and editing your videos, including on-screen text for clarification and the many time-lapse shots. Thanks again Sreetips!
Man amazing how far over spot your stuff can go for! I was thinking “hmm this one’s small enough maybe I can actually try to buy it” nope already $70 over spot with 13 hours to go! I am not complaining in any way I think it is Really cool that it makes these videos worth your time, and awesome that your brand has truly created value. It’s win for everyone involved! It is easy to have trust when we see every step in the process.
Where are you able to see his sale prices?
i think some of that junk could be from the ice cubes, i learned from videos about making clear ice that the air bubbles in the ice cube are created as the cube freezes from outside in, the ice on the outside of the cube is clear because its pure, but as the cube freezes it forces impurities into the center of the cube, creating the bubbles
I think he makes distilled water ice cubes but I could be wrong
Lots of uploads lately! Thank you!
I can’t wait for your uploads, Sreetips!
Lovley whit lot of clip😊
Have a nice day. Arne
Great video and job. Beautiful little bar.
I'm "Double Dipping" here, but understanding the REFINER is to watch the process HERE,... GOD is STILL "WORKING".....the process isn't finished YET.
Must be waiting on some GOLD to drop out of solution lol.
Sorry SREETIPS, no tool gets wasted, YOU are AWESOME!
(Edited to show GRATITUDE to SREETIPS for tolerance of my posts)
This is my favorite series
Very good video of the refining process, bravo.....
Damn those were crystal clear solutions.
Seeing how your Ferrous Sulphate is reagent grade, it would be interesting to see a precipitation with the granules, without making a saturated solution.
I have seen it done with wet crystals and the visuals were amazing.
Great vid Sreetips, thanks for sharing.
I may have to give that a try
@@sreetips
Trinity Gold Recovery.
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Awesome recovery from those gold waste containers - it would be really interesting to know how much gold you refined to create the waste and calculate something like the loss rate per gram of refined gold. I imagine it's quite low. Great video! 👍
I usually pour off gold during the rinses. I could minimize this by waiting for the gold to settle between each rinse before pouring it off. But this would greatly increase the amount of time.
@@sreetips I suspect your loss is really low though. For example, if you refined something like 40 toz, your loss would be well under 1% and you eventually recovered it anyway.
Awesome return for your waist container six stars
41:39 I have a set of footwear that I only use once a week, which I call my "Sunday-go-to-meeting sneakers". It's nice to hear someone else use the expression.
Now I gotta stay up and watch!
Nice little, shinny bar.
Beautiful shiny gold awesome video.
So cute still more gold than I have lol well done you.
I'm feeling like a kid.... Moooooom.. when is Sreetips time??? Keep watching the older one... Love the Way he talks and How he does Chemistry 🧪 Very useful. My son J.J loves it too. He asked me lately..( quote ) "Daddy... Why's Sreetips written on everything possible?" Could not answer him that...🤣🤣🤣 Keep up with Your great content.. Greetings from Switzerland...
Please tell your son it’s branding to prevent thieves from re-uploading my videos as their own creation.
The final waste will always be a concern for me. Once all the copper has cemented, I guess all is left is an iron compound like iron sulfite (?) most certainly contaminated with other metals (lead, zinc, tin, nickel, rhodium, manganese, tungsten, etc.). How do you dispose of it?
Check out his early waste bucket treatment videos, he shows the process to bring the wastewater to a neutral and disposable state 🤙🏼
All the metals in your list (except magnesium and zinc) are below iron in the reactivity series. They will cement out as metals along with the copper. The acidic iron solution is dropped with sodium hydroxide. The dehydrated metal hydroxides are thrown away. The caustic liquid is adjusted to pH 7 with swim pool decreaser and added to the normal waste stream. Nothing acidic or toxic gets poured down the drain.
Hi ya & best wishes. Tnx for work. Be Happy. Sevastopol/Crimea.
Would it be possible to soak the test strips in the stannis solution, and have them dried and used later. Would they still turn black if dipped in a gold bearing solution? Just a thought. Edit: I guess it could contaminate the gold bearing solution, so maybe not such a good idea.
Thats a really cool idea.
It does expire, but it would be very interesting to see if it worked immediately after drying.
Edit...
Maybe dropping the solution onto the test strip, rather than a dip.
Interesting idea, but not possible. The stannous chloride solution is made up from stannous chloride crystals, water, HCI, and tin (as a preservative). That solution dried out wouldn't have the same reaction.
Exactly... 😀
I know its not profitable to go after the Copper, but it sure would be Interesting. Maybe u could sell stamped copper bars as Merch 😁
Yes! Nice little Copper ingots with "SREETIPS 999" stamped into them. I would buy one. Wish I could buy the 8.6 gram Goldie in this video.
Spoiling us with videos this week! 😃
Sreetips, any chance of a stanous test on the second settled stockpot before it goes into the iron bucket? For curiosity’s sake
It’s probably not a bad idea.
A serious one today. I see that first pour off of the waste solution after precipitation often looks like it has particles floating on the surface tension. Is that how some of the precipitated gold gets into the waste collection?
If so, I see the prospecting guys use detergent for this problem for flour-gold. Would that mess with your chemistry at that stage?
Yes and yes.
I so look forward to all your awesome content
Love your channel you and mrs. Street tips behind the scenes
The best artisinal gold refiner on youtube!
A big yes😊
Have a nice day. Arne
great video. My first time seeing the H2O2 dissolution so thanks for that alone! fascinating how it doesn't dissolve it all. Thank you too for showing us the cascade of your waste streams from gold refining waste to the stock pot to the iron bucket. I'm curious about what you do with the final bucket though. You've got "contaminated copper" and iron in solution. Is that safe for general disposal in public sewerage and landfill, or do you have to do something else to it still? Thanks again for the video and well done on what feels like your shiniest bar!
Good job, man. Love the new video...
Hermoso oro, muy buenos vídeos señor he aprendido mucho con usted espero llegar a su nivel algún día saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱🪙
Greetings!
@@sreetips ojalá pudieras poner traducción al español tus vídeos ✅
No matter the size - those high purity bars are absolutely stunning Kevin. 👍👍👌👌I was wondering - have you tallied up the weight of the AU pours you did in 2022 ??
I have not.
Nothing better than eating lunch and watching sreetips
Agree. Have a nice day😊
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Much LOVE!!!!
“All glory is fleeting.”
20 bucks is 20 bucks. Ty for taking us along
Interesting as always! Excellent result!
Little off topic the watch you wear has historical significance pie pan" dial with a history of
setting precision records at the Geneva
Observatory. That model set the standard for testing. Beautiful piece with a rich history.
Mrs sreetips got it for me at an estate sale.
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. Exelent clip, like always. Nice to have waste gold to woork whit. God bless you, and have a nice day😊. Arne
what you do with your copper sreet? id wash it and keep it as a powder for when prices go up which they will copper is gonna be needed as much as silver to go green
He mentioned before that he throws it in the trash
@@Alrik. nutter amount of copper he must throw away a year id not chuck it awa watch the pennies mang
@@unlockeduk tell me about it... 🤷♂️
Thank you so much for doing these!
Could you melt the copper and then use it again for cementing other precious metals vs. throwing away and buying new? Or would that process take too much effort? I guess you would have to roll it flat or somehow pour it into sheets, and the contamination would be a factor.
Correct
Hi Sreetips. Usually i see you add a few ml of sulfuric acid to precipitate any traces of lead. I know in some gold solder there is cadmium. Will the sulfuric acid precipitate that as well? What about tin?
Not sure about those.
Is there a problem with Lead building up over time? If every thing ends up in the stockpot and then that is processed and the East from that ends up in the next stockpot.. over time won’t it build up?
No, lead won’t cement out on copper.
@@sreetips Besides that, you are filtering it out as led sulphate every time.
Only lead in the gold. It gets filtered out and the filter gets added to my paper storage. That’s lead sulfate. Any lead that dissolves in the nitric boils follows the copper into the waste treatment bucket and gets cemented out as metallic lead on the iron in that bucket.
I have a crazy question? Stannis chloride is tin chloride I think. In the presence of gold it turns black. Find a long time ago that if you rub a gold ring across a woman's face who's wearing makeup you'll get a black line. I wonder if foundation or the base makeup women use has tin chloride in it?
I prepare ferrous sulfate by putting steel wool in battery acid.
I've read somewhere that iron precipitates palladium and platinum. But I don't know if this information is correct.
Yes, iron will cement everything below it in the reactivity series.
@@sreetips thank you for reply.
I have some cell phone pins and springs, and I intend to dissolve everything in aqua regia, and then add sulfuric acid to try to precipitate the gold.
If it works, I try to treat the precipitate with a solution of oxalic acid, to eliminate the iron.
I don't know if it will work, but it will be interesting to do. A big hug.
@@SURFEAMORETERNO You sound exactly like me when I tired to refine my first batch. Here’s what the pros told me: “please let me save you the trouble. If you dissolve everything in aqua regia, then you’ll just end up with a big toxic mess and no gold.” I don’t have any experience with cell phone pins and springs. But I do know that sulfuric acid won’t precipitate gold.
@@sreetips Thank you for your collaboration. I always find people who help me, maybe because I help people too.
I have little ferrous plated stuff, and I would do it just to see the result, after watching your video. I was believing that sulfuric acid could form ferrous sulfate, with the iron present in aqua regia.
I don't know how to recover gold from this kind of scrap metal. Perhaps mercury would be an alternative? I dont know,and due to toxicity is needed to have a distiller. So it's best to keep raking it in for now.
Thanks buddy.
Also, that platinum processing was actually quite scary… even for someone 17 thousand Kms away from where Sreetips was doing it.. :)
It's tempting especially with the price of Pt/ Pd but that video convinced me that the risk is too high with my basic setup.
Do you reuse the copper? If not, why not use it?
I agree! It only makes good economical sense and you are recycling too. You have more money than most of us if you can throw $40 in the garbage.
I think he just throws it out
Copper is $3.80 per pound. I can buy clean copper for refining at yard sales. Its cheap and plentiful. Gold is $28k per pound. Silver is $345 per pound. And these prices are grossly and artificially under valued. There’s no good reason to waste time on copper. Especially since I’m backed up to my ears in silver. I’ll never get it all refined.
@@sreetips maybe you could make unrefined coins or bars of copper to sell on ebay for your fans. Not everyone has a chunk of change to buy gold and silver, and maybe it'd make you a little on the side.
😁
Would it be possible to recover the nitric acid? May be distillation
?
Possibly
Excellent job and great video thank you 😊 🙏
So, do you just take the copper to the scrap yard when you accumulate enough?
No, they won’t touch it because it’s contaminated with other metals.
What amazes me is gold can be so dense, yet it floats on top of the solution
It probably has tiny invisible air bubbles that causes it to float. Gold is about 19 times heavier than water so it should not be able to float on water.
At the start I expected you to use nitric first to get rid of other metals than Au and maybe Pt.
Very good videos, thank You Sreetips 👍🤗👍
I've been waiting for the waste refining video 🤗 This is going to be good 👍 I am excited to find out how much you lost and now got back 😁
Edit: Not a bad recovery. Great Job 👍
Why do you take the trouble to cement out the copper onto the iron? If both the liquid and cemented copper are both waste?
Because copper in solution is toxic. Metallic copper is not.
@@sreetips Ah - thanks Sreetips.
Awesome video as always 👌 👏 👍 ❤️ 🙌
What would happen if you added a few drops of Jet Dry to get that gold floating on the surface after precipitating to drop? the guys panning for gold will use it to break the surface tension.
It would probably break the surface tension.
When youre doing a small refinement like this do you ever just set the gold sponge aside and combine it with later refinements to pour a bigger bar? I have no idea the level of effort involved in the melting/pouring process, but just wondering if it would save some effort to do that 1 time vs, say 3 or 4 or or 5 or whatever.
I have some pure gold sponge (powder) set aside to sell in 1 gram units. The rest of the gold I pour into ingots because they are easier to handle.
When you posted "triple refined" it made me think of "triple distilled" which means purity and quality.
Love the little ones Appeal more to me shame we can’t buy in uk
You can't buy gold in the UK or you can't buy SREETIPS gold in the UK?
@@JohnSmith-ol2qu Yes can buy gold but when Ive put his items in basket it say seller does not ship to Europe. America only
I’m sorry about that. eBay won’t cover shipments of precious metals going overseas. If the buyer decides to dispute delivery I could be forced to refund and end up with no payment and no gold. Not imply that you’d do that. But there are those who would.
@@sreetips No need to be sorry you need to be covered in all ways. Hopefully in few years postage will change and we can all buy 🤞🏻 love the channel never thought I’d be into this stuff but you’ve got me addicted 😁
I still think, its just from waste. I can remember doing some testing for a sewer system for an industrial waste water permit for a college, I was finding huge amounts of copper. The funny thing the building that was causing it was not the labs or the filter system for the dental training area, no it was the HVAC drain units and all the copper drainpipes that were reacting to the condensate that they drained away.
All the copper pipes in my house eroded over thirty years and began leaking so I had them replaced with pvc. Copper does get in the drinking water from copper pipes.
@@sreetips The pipes had accelerated corrosion from draining into mop sinks, and one floor drain. If they drained into the plumbing system, they would not have had as much corrosion due to the air getting in. Now the labs had glass drains to the treatment system that a few years later failed spectacularly or blew up. One of two times I ever got into a Class A protection. Yellow bubble suit with O2 tank. The other was an abandoned Crome plating operation and some of the waste chemicals in plastic barrels had reactions producing gas since they were not cleaned out of the previous chemical before filling.
Weird question. Why doesn’t the gold powder look more like gold?
It’s the way it reflects the like makes it appear brown
How long would you say it took to gather that much waist?
Ross, the last time I did the waste containers was back in June 2022. So this was about 7 months worth of accumulation.
@sreetips I’m curious what the process would be to make the waste copper sellable. I’m more interested in a cost perspective.
I’m sorry but I don’t know.
Great video, as always.
Du bist eht gut bei jeden Video lerne ich was neues wie wenn ich uni bin..❤
How did you fix the non-working hot plate? Also, is there a difference between the hydrochloric in the little glass bottle and the stuff in the plastic jug (transchem muriatic)?
I turned the knobs repeatedly to get those contacts to make hood connections. It’s the thermal regulator contacts that corrode in the acid fume environment. They normally only last about 6 or 8 months.
مرحبا في حال ترسيب الذهب بنحاس من المرق كيف يتم ترسيب جربت ولم انجح رائيتك تضخ فقاعت الهواء في المحلول المرق لماذا ممكن توضح لي ❤❤❤❤❤ شكرن لك
Sodium metabisulfite will precipitate only the gold.
Does urea have unwanted issues?
I don’t know. The pros that I learned from taught me not to use it. Don’t need it if you dissolve the gold correctly with incremental nitric dosing.
Two “out of curiosity” questions. 1. Has the results of that button of unknown metal come back? 2. Was there a reason you didn’t just put both solutions together in the beginning?
1. Waiting to send it in. Thanks for the reminder. 2. The best way to get it all is to dissolve it in the bottom of container. So I left them separate for that part.
Mister sreetips may I ask where you buy your nitric acid from I certainly do enjoy watching your program
Gfs chemicals.
You might have hit ten nines fine with this one
It probably attracts other gold now.....
I have a question, have you ever purified Placer gold Mr. STREETIPS. If not how would you refine it.
Yes, I have a video of it posted from about two years ago. I think I melted into a button. Tested with acid, about 18k right out of the ground, if my memory is correct. Inquarted with silver, parted with hot dilute nitric boils, refined with aqua regia.
This video is like that wee super shiny gold. It's that special "reetips"three nines fine,So super pure... The S just slid off!!! ✌🏼💗😊
Good one!
Can you do an electrolysis refining video, i saw a mint doing that once, apparrently its 4 nines fine.
Love the education you provide.
👍🇦🇺
Type “wohlwill” into the search block on my channel. I already have video of electrolytic gold refining posted.
Ola amigo, parabéns pelos seus conteúdos, seus videos tem me ajudado muito no refino do ouro. poderia fazer um video de como recuperar/ precipitar o mercúrio dissolvido no acido?
I’ve never tried that. I don’t know how.
Lots of russian students should learn English chemical language from your videos.
@3:50 I hope, that you give that copper to some people to smelt it instead of throwing it out as waste.
Nobody wants it. It’s literally just trash. There are those who might take it. But when they see the difficulty in trying to get it clean, they’d just end up doing what I do with it - throw it away.
I NEED HELP, I messed up bad. I tried a small amount of tech scrap with perasidic acid and it didn’t do right. Now I have a bowl of mixed tech scrap with gold. I don’t know what to neutralize it with. Help help help please
Sorry, I don’t have any experience with perasidic acid.
If it’s not worth recovering the copper from the waste solution, why do you cement it out?
Because metallic copper is not toxic. Copper nitrate is.
Thanks for the response!
OKI was wondering one more thing why do you keep the heat on the Mold as you are pouring I understand why You heat the mold up . But once the moisture has been driven off the moldYou shouldn't need to continue heating the mold up as you pour . I know it may be silly but it's just something that I was thinking about. By the way nice bar nice recovery
It’s called a reducing flame. So that the molten gold never comes in contact with the air until after it freezes.
Do you keep your stanous test paper after testing?
Is it possible to recover the gold after doing a stanous test?
Shane, I toss em.
I noticed that your ice is cloudy. It it’s pure water there shouldn’t be any cloudiness as there’s nothing to make it.
Your fume hood is so much quieter than previously. Now it’s just air movement instead of 60hz humm. 👍
I wish I was closer to where you live. I'm sure you're nowhere near Southwest Washington anyways.
At the farm I used to work at we had a copper sulfate additive for the water. We had buckets of 16 ounce packets of "acidified copper sulfate". It's copper sulfate mixed with citric acid.
I do copper and aluminum bronze casting. So I put some of that copper sulfate in some buckets of water and threw some pieces of iron in there. Melted down the copper and used it for casting. If we were close to each other I'd be more than happy to pay you forty bucks for that scrap copper. Your trash is my treasure in this case haha.
Keith, my insanity got the best of me. I’ll probably never shoot another video about the copper in my waste bucket ever again. Seems to get folks riled up when I admit to tossing the nasty, dirty copper that’s in it.
@@sreetips I wasn't trying to gripe. Just suggesting it might be useful to somebody in your local area that does artistic metal casting. I always enjoy watching your videos amd appreciate the effort it takes.
are your ice cubes made from distilled water as well?
Yes