I cant even tell you how many questions you just answered with this video!!! I love watching this process and you explain things so well! I learn something new everytime you process a batch of gold. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
I have subscribed as you know to help support the channel. I have always been fascinated with the building blocks of life and how things are done. I love your precision and care.
Well after collecting 8 out of ten of the chemicals needed thought I would start at the very beginning. Cheers streetips awesome educational videos especially like the warnings and the setup.
I've been following Mr. Sreetips for over 3 years, and dedicated to learning from him for 2 whole years now. There are 3 points that became canon for me when recycling Au and PGMs: (1) Stannous testing (2) With what I paid to lab version of SMB I can buy 20 *TWENTY* unities of Stomp out (3) Always begin with expectation setting (a.k.a. yield estimating) On top of my learning videos I have the SIM card, the computer board "fingers", and the eWaste videos Mr. Sreetips shared a while back. I pay attention to the volume of raw (source) material he is processing and final yield. The major problem is exactly the expectation vs actual yield. My brain was contaminated very early with the gold fever. It takes a very large volume of eWaste for example to yield a gram of gold. In the generic example Mr. Sreetips mention in the video, using myself as reality, I learned the hard way that it is not that SMB does not drop. At the end, I have micrograms of gold, it is like you can count the grains individually. It is easier to not even see whatever dropped. The I changed my mindset to micro-refining. Literally using those mini 50 or 100mL beakers is more than enough. I reduce the source (whatever it is, early Jan I had like 10 depopulated motherboards, I completely incinerated them and the result was a handful of grains). I do not have access to large quantity of eWaste. Maximum I manage to have like 20 SMB microprocessors. While recovering, you can see "a lot" of gold wire mesh, A LOT. However it is less than a gram.
Alright I'm happy to see you posting agan . Hope you enjoyed the holidays and all the wonderful things you and The misses prepared you gave me quite the list of goodies but I thought it would be cool to see your baking paralysis and which is the true master of concoctions you or MS Sreetips (it would be fun) .
Yay ! Sreetips Teaching again ! Lov'in your videos best when you Pass the Knowledge on. Tin (II) Chloride can be made using Tin metal + Hydrochloric acid, but it takes a Long time, like a month, depending on temperature. Upsides would be cost, then use an excess of metal, so no need for adding extra Tin, downside is the Long Time to make it.
There are many different recipes. Many ask for concentrated HCl. I just use solder (99.3% tin with 0.7% copper) and snip bits off into conc HCl to dissolve. I make sure that there are bits of free metal left. Works fine for many months. I regularly test with about 100mg/l gold solution.
Will that work just recipe that you explain work on silver and will it work on the other three metals that sreettips tested. Thanks if anyone can answer this
It’s crazy how well stannous chloride can detect precious metals even at such minuscule concentrations. That platinum was what, 1mg per ml? That just blows my mind how well it works.
Can you crossverify the detection limit (ng/L or ug/L) with other available sepectroscopic techniques? It would be good to know if traces remain or not.
ive done that with an instant conversion to black on the test. still no drop with SMB but was able to drop with copper, i used micro dosing with nitric so i shouldn't of had exes nitric, however im going to get urea to redo the process and see if it does better. love the vids. keep them coming
This video will keep a lot of people from wasting time and chemicals. Thank you! Would the solution in a lead paint test work for testing refining batches? Maybe it's superfluous if adding H2SO4 doesn't hurt anything. I looked at the 3M data sheet and all I saw was tartaric acid about 1-3% (apparently OSHA let's you smudge this number a bit if it's a trade secret).
Have you possibly thought of a follow up video to show others what a stannous test would look like with other metal contaminates still in the solution? Maybe also if there is more than 1 PM in the solution? I know the old saying of stannous test every step, but it seems that that can be confusing for some on the test outcome.
Hello Mr Master Sreetips. With all due respect I say that. I was wondering have you made or can you make a video that can get someone who wants to follow your footsteps what to do and how to get starter kit on inventory and everything needed to do what you do? Sure would appreciate it take care
Thank you for this! I found out the hard way that zinc oxide is no good for gold recovery. I cut the top off a tin can. So far so good! P.S. how long will it last?
Great video thanks. Do you know what the effect of other metal contaminants in the Au solution will have on the test results? My gold solution likely contains Fe and/ or Cu.. and perhaps Au?? Cheers
Interesting video, I would like to know exactly how much tin chloride and metallic tin are used. How many milliliters of hydrochloric acid is exactly? If you could answer that question, I would be very grateful for your collaboration. thank you
One last question master, I have a ore which contains Iron, Copper, Nickel and possibly has gold or platinum, my question is the following. Can iron and nickel interfere with the gold test? I await your response, thank you very much
@@sreetips Most ores have iron, especially pyrite, which is iron sulfide and sometimes comes with other elements. Thanks for the information, I have a sample that I think has platinum, but I can't identify it because it has a lot of iron in its content. I will let you know how the process is going later. Thanks for replying
Great content as always. But for the reasonably well practiced refiner who processes only karat gold, Is stannous chloride really necessary? The white foam thing seems to work well giving expected yields and if all waste solutions are reprocessed anyway, I personally don't feel compelled to add another process to my set up. My lack of vacuum filtration however... now THATS a pain in the ass!
@@sreetips I am curious of course yes. But i see them more as a potential bonus from waste processing. I'm new to this and have barely 1.5 litres in my stockpot and just a dozen or so used filters!
A quick questions. Most people on TH-cam just dissolve tin in HCl. It’s pretty much the same right? What are the advantages of using the salts vs dissolving tin?
Adding the stannous chloride crystals keeps the testing solution potent for up to three months. That way I don’t have to stop and dissolve some tin when I need to do a stannous test.
Out of curiosity, I looked a bit deeper. As far as I can tell, if the solution isn't well sealed, it'll will slowly react with oxygen in the air, changing the oxidation state of the tin in solution, rendering it less reactive.
It seems to me, and I could be wrong…that when trying to get the gold from escrap that wether you’re doing fingers, pins, chips…there comes a time when you have gold or yellow liquid and you are ready to precipitate. My question is: if you are dealing with small amounts could you combine all the yellow liquids collected from various items so that when you precipitate it is actually an amount worth doing?
@@sreetips Thank you, also I have heard mention of a book on refining that seems to be the top book for me to read. Any Ideas on what book I possibly heard? There are plenty on Amazon but prefer to have the holy grail, so to speak, if there is one. And thank you for your time. I know it is precious.
When mixing hydrochloric and nitric to make Aqua Regia, that solution will turn yellow and look like there’s gold in solution all by itself when there’s none present.
Awesome! Curious why the extra tin though? Does it keep longer or maybe just make it a more potent solution? Thank you. Love your videos. (Underground Editor)
Love you videos, and, I have a question. I have the same issue you mentioned, the gold dissolved, making a beautiful yellow solution, but when I test it, there is no gold. My question, where did the gold go?
@@sreetips I started out with 10 grams of foils, from memory sticks, I guess they must have been much thinner than I had at first assumed. I'll give it another try, and thank you so much for responding.
@@sreetips that's me! Lol I'm still trying to figure it out. I just made stannaus and tested and confirmed it. Nothing in solution. Definitely a live and learn scenario. I ordered tin shot and it took a while to get here so I was impatient and rushed it. Pretty sure I lost it all. 🙃 but it was a awesome learning experience! It truly was.
I followed this recipe and nothing happened. The stannous chloride dissolved but the shot did not. The solution is clear after sitting over night. I ordered the tin shot from Amazon. Any suggestions? Thanks!!!
@@sreetips Really my test was wrong .. very little genius palladium in solution. that's why I can't reach the color you see in your examples .. I made a new palladium solution in aqua regia and it worked ... thank you very much for answering! regards
I've run into this , but I'm wornering where the gold went if it;s not in solution. It's like it disappeared into thin air. Can you tell me where it went and or how I can get it back if possible?
The gold bearing solution was rinse from flasks that contained gold in solution. The other solution was waste from ferrous sulfate that contained no gold. Ferrous sulfate, dissolve in solution, looks just like a solution that contains gold. In fact, aqua regia, if allowed to sit, will form a yellow to orange color, all by itself with no gold in it at all. This has probably fooled many to think gold was present, just because the solution turned the color of gold in solution - fools liquid gold!
I made the solution per the recipe, but I’ve also noticed that it’s remained clear and the tin balls are not dissolving. Is this normal that I do something wrong?
I’m in the UK and the company I’m looking at for buying it list it as Tin (II) Chloride dihydrate ACS (Stannous Chloride) is this the crystals you refer to?
Mr Sreetips, I am using your recipe for the first time. Mine does not get milkish. I am using distilled water plus HCl, Tin shots, and Stannous grains all from The Science Company. I made it to compare to the other 2 recipes I have. Shouldn't your recipe just get milky? Any recommendation on my case? Thank you.
It will be relatively clear for a day or two then it will turn for you. I’ve used my stannous solution well past three months by adding a few drop of HCl to reinvigorate it.
@@sreetips i took 9.5gr of gold leached it in AR . All disolved nice. The i tested liquid with the fresh made stanuos solution /was made the same way as per y video/ and no results no color change when i put a drop if it on filter paoer with rich solution what i did wrong???
I must have messed something up. I thought I followed your directions exactly. My gold test solution is 5 grains of 24k (Pampa bullion) dissolved in 100 ml AR then diluted with 100 ml distilled water. When I use the stanus chloride on filter paper with the gold solution I get no change in color. Any thoughts? I am very new.
Rex, I don’t know what you’re trying to do. I can answer simple questions. There are too many variables to consider. I don’t offer training or tutoring.
@@sreetips I would to make a gold solution similar to what you have in your Wheaton drip bottle. Did you use aqua regia and then dilute with distilled? Thank you sir.
Just dissolved my gold, used the stannous chloride solution and nothing!? Is my aqua solution still reacting? Maybe I got a bad product to test with? I haven’t removed any liquid at all so this seems impossible
@@sreetips Figured it out. After doing some research, that 3:1 ratio of Hydrochloric Acid to Nitric Acid isnt exactly the best advice. I over saturated the solution with Nitric Acid. Went ahead and boiled it down to about 150ml, added more HA to consume the nitric acid and filtered it all. Adding the SMB seemed to take way better this time but its a waiting game to see if it precipitates. Let me know if any of my process is wrong. All was easy up until refinement!
@@sreetips ah, well then I'll stop worrying lol. I just saw the solution you poured out and didn't see any. I suppose with the brown bottle I couldn't tell. I'll get to test my stanous cloride soon. About to finish the nitric boils on 350g gold filled. Thanks for all the info! Said 700g at first. Forgot half the weight was the clips that I removed.
Dear Sreetips If I boil hydrochloric acid and tin to the stannous acid, but the tin is (Sn63a) 63% and there is lead, will it work? or can a process be done before to remove and leave only tin? Thank you
These Tests are very good but when your working with Complexed Ores they are of no help whatsoever as they contain Tin Zinc and other Base Metals which prohibit Precious Metals from going into True Solution
@@sreetips Ores contain Tin Zinc and other Base Metals which prohibit Precious Metals from going into True Solution? When this happens the Tests fail to work! This is what I am Experiencing over the years
So cool making the Stannous Chloride and showing it in action, learn something new every day :-) . Thanks Sreetips very much appreciated.
I cant even tell you how many questions you just answered with this video!!! I love watching this process and you explain things so well! I learn something new everytime you process a batch of gold. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
I have subscribed as you know to help support the channel. I have always been fascinated with the building blocks of life and how things are done. I love your precision and care.
Thank you!
Well after collecting 8 out of ten of the chemicals needed thought I would start at the very beginning. Cheers streetips awesome educational videos especially like the warnings and the setup.
Thank you with a thousand times... That was killing me for a while.
You can still drop the gold with iron, copper or zinc but the purity will not be high.
A very good instructional video. Well thought out, organized, and presented. You do good work Chief.
I've been following Mr. Sreetips for over 3 years, and dedicated to learning from him for 2 whole years now.
There are 3 points that became canon for me when recycling Au and PGMs:
(1) Stannous testing
(2) With what I paid to lab version of SMB I can buy 20 *TWENTY* unities of Stomp out
(3) Always begin with expectation setting (a.k.a. yield estimating)
On top of my learning videos I have the SIM card, the computer board "fingers", and the eWaste videos Mr. Sreetips shared a while back. I pay attention to the volume of raw (source) material he is processing and final yield.
The major problem is exactly the expectation vs actual yield. My brain was contaminated very early with the gold fever. It takes a very large volume of eWaste for example to yield a gram of gold.
In the generic example Mr. Sreetips mention in the video, using myself as reality, I learned the hard way that it is not that SMB does not drop. At the end, I have micrograms of gold, it is like you can count the grains individually. It is easier to not even see whatever dropped.
The I changed my mindset to micro-refining. Literally using those mini 50 or 100mL beakers is more than enough. I reduce the source (whatever it is, early Jan I had like 10 depopulated motherboards, I completely incinerated them and the result was a handful of grains).
I do not have access to large quantity of eWaste. Maximum I manage to have like 20 SMB microprocessors. While recovering, you can see "a lot" of gold wire mesh, A LOT. However it is less than a gram.
Well said
I had no idea this is why I love watching you
Alright I'm happy to see you posting agan . Hope you enjoyed the holidays and all the wonderful things you and The misses prepared you gave me quite the list of goodies but I thought it would be cool to see your baking paralysis and which is the true master of concoctions you or MS Sreetips (it would be fun) .
Love your honest, straight up content🇦🇺👍👌
Yay ! Sreetips Teaching again !
Lov'in your videos best when you Pass the Knowledge on.
Tin (II) Chloride can be made using Tin metal + Hydrochloric acid, but it takes a Long time, like a month, depending on temperature.
Upsides would be cost, then use an excess of metal, so no need for adding extra Tin, downside is the Long Time to make it.
There are many different recipes. Many ask for concentrated HCl. I just use solder (99.3% tin with 0.7% copper) and snip bits off into conc HCl to dissolve. I make sure that there are bits of free metal left. Works fine for many months. I regularly test with about 100mg/l gold solution.
Will that work just recipe that you explain work on silver and will it work on the other three metals that sreettips tested. Thanks if anyone can answer this
I just use soft solder in HCL. You can tell when it goes bad because it turns yellow, add more solder, it turns crystal clear and your ready to go.
Good to know, thank you
@@sreetips No problem
It’s crazy how well stannous chloride can detect precious metals even at such minuscule concentrations. That platinum was what, 1mg per ml? That just blows my mind how well it works.
Very sensitive
Can you crossverify the detection limit (ng/L or ug/L) with other available sepectroscopic techniques? It would be good to know if traces remain or not.
Thank you for making this video, this was very helpful information for me!
ive done that with an instant conversion to black on the test. still no drop with SMB but was able to drop with copper, i used micro dosing with nitric so i shouldn't of had exes nitric, however im going to get urea to redo the process and see if it does better. love the vids. keep them coming
sometimes if the pH is wrong the smb won't drop it. Ferrous sulfate or zinc can be used, or try adding a little HCl to lower the pH.
Awesome information. Thank you for sharing your wisdom sir.
Another lesson learned, taught by the man himself.😎👍
Always very educational. Thanks.
This video will keep a lot of people from wasting time and chemicals. Thank you! Would the solution in a lead paint test work for testing refining batches? Maybe it's superfluous if adding H2SO4 doesn't hurt anything. I looked at the 3M data sheet and all I saw was tartaric acid about 1-3% (apparently OSHA let's you smudge this number a bit if it's a trade secret).
I love you sir , thank you for the knowledge you're giving us , my whole family thanks you .
Have you possibly thought of a follow up video to show others what a stannous test would look like with other metal contaminates still in the solution? Maybe also if there is more than 1 PM in the solution? I know the old saying of stannous test every step, but it seems that that can be confusing for some on the test outcome.
Hello Mr Master Sreetips. With all due respect I say that. I was wondering have you made or can you make a video that can get someone who wants to follow your footsteps what to do and how to get starter kit on inventory and everything needed to do what you do? Sure would appreciate it take care
Thank you for this! I found out the hard way that zinc oxide is no good for gold recovery. I cut the top off a tin can. So far so good!
P.S. how long will it last?
Very informative! Thank you.
Very informative. Thank you.
Thank you for testing solution genius my friend
Great video thanks. Do you know what the effect of other metal contaminants in the Au solution will have on the test results? My gold solution likely contains Fe and/ or Cu.. and perhaps Au?? Cheers
With those metals i would use ferrous sulfate. Then redissolve and drop with SO2 gas for best results.
Excellent video 👍 i have been wondering if anyone had a good video up for SC solution.
Thank you 👍
Filter paper strips! Love it.
Easy enough!
Have a Great Day My Friend!!
Interesting video, I would like to know exactly how much tin chloride and metallic tin are used. How many milliliters of hydrochloric acid is exactly? If you could answer that question, I would be very grateful for your collaboration.
thank you
It’s not in the video? A gram of SnCl crystals. A gram of pure tin metal. 25ml distilled water. Thirty drops of HCl. Shake it up. Ready for use.
@@sreetips Thanks very much
One last question master, I have a ore which contains Iron, Copper, Nickel and possibly has gold or platinum, my question is the following. Can iron and nickel interfere with the gold test?
I await your response, thank you very much
I don’t think so. But I’ve never worked with that combination of ore.
@@sreetips Most ores have iron, especially pyrite, which is iron sulfide and sometimes comes with other elements. Thanks for the information, I have a sample that I think has platinum, but I can't identify it because it has a lot of iron in its content.
I will let you know how the process is going later. Thanks for replying
My stannous solution is still good after 18 months. I keep it fresh with tin beads. Only use a few drops to test waste solutions, so it lasts.
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Thank you!
Great content as always. But for the reasonably well practiced refiner who processes only karat gold, Is stannous chloride really necessary? The white foam thing seems to work well giving expected yields and if all waste solutions are reprocessed anyway, I personally don't feel compelled to add another process to my set up. My lack of vacuum filtration however... now THATS a pain in the ass!
Toby, for just gold refining, but aren’t you curious about platinum group metals? The best way to detect them is with stannous.
@@sreetips I am curious of course yes. But i see them more as a potential bonus from waste processing. I'm new to this and have barely 1.5 litres in my stockpot and just a dozen or so used filters!
Great video.
Does this test for all platinum group metals in solution? If so, does it have different colors for each or is platinum and palladium the only two?
I’m only familiar with platinum and palladium
A quick questions. Most people on TH-cam just dissolve tin in HCl. It’s pretty much the same right? What are the advantages of using the salts vs dissolving tin?
Adding the stannous chloride crystals keeps the testing solution potent for up to three months. That way I don’t have to stop and dissolve some tin when I need to do a stannous test.
Much appreciated.
Important information 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Why does the Stannous Chloride go bad?
Entropy
Out of curiosity, I looked a bit deeper. As far as I can tell, if the solution isn't well sealed, it'll will slowly react with oxygen in the air, changing the oxidation state of the tin in solution, rendering it less reactive.
Keep the dropper bottle well sealed and it lasts for many months.
But always when you open it, you insert a bit of oxygen. Properly sealed it will indeed last very long
It seems to me, and I could be wrong…that when trying to get the gold from escrap that wether you’re doing fingers, pins, chips…there comes a time when you have gold or yellow liquid and you are ready to precipitate.
My question is: if you are dealing with small amounts could you combine all the yellow liquids collected from various items so that when you precipitate it is actually an amount worth doing?
Absolutely, you should be able to place on the heat and evaporate off the liquid to concentrate the gold in solution.
@@sreetips Thank you, also I have heard mention of a book on refining that seems to be the top book for me to read. Any Ideas on what book I possibly heard? There are plenty on Amazon but prefer to have the holy grail, so to speak, if there is one.
And thank you for your time. I know it is precious.
“Refining Precious Metal Wastes” by C.M. Hoke. Available as free PDF download all over the internet.
sir i have found it so educational how to make and test stanus chloride.. ❤
Why would it look like the gold was in solution and there be none in there?
When mixing hydrochloric and nitric to make Aqua Regia, that solution will turn yellow and look like there’s gold in solution all by itself when there’s none present.
Awesome! Curious why the extra tin though? Does it keep longer or maybe just make it a more potent solution? Thank you. Love your videos. (Underground Editor)
I’ve used it past 3 months by adding a little mire HCl
@@sreetips nice! Thank you.
Nice. Any suggestion on dealing with the waste solution. Thanks
Waste treatment
Very cool stuff brother,, I need to get some Gold into Solution one of these days so I can try this,,!
have you ever done a video on cleaning your fume hood? there's has to be some traces of gold and platinum group metals in there.
If you have all 3 metals in the same ore, I all ready hae them in acid haw do I separate them,can i
Not sure about that
Love you videos, and, I have a question. I have the same issue you mentioned, the gold dissolved, making a beautiful yellow solution, but when I test it, there is no gold. My question, where did the gold go?
1) there so little gold that it’s not detectable. 2) there’s no gold at all in your solution
@@sreetips I started out with 10 grams of foils, from memory sticks, I guess they must have been much thinner than I had at first assumed. I'll give it another try, and thank you so much for responding.
Always good content !!!
Thanks Shannon!
@@sreetips Does the yellow color or orange tint color of the liquid need to be a pH 5 before performing a stannous Chloride test ? Thxs
The audio quality was impressive on this one. Did you use a lavalier mic?
Yes!
Where would the gold go? If it's not showing in solution where did it go ?
Some beginners may think they have gold in solution when in fact they do not.
@@sreetips that's me! Lol I'm still trying to figure it out. I just made stannaus and tested and confirmed it. Nothing in solution. Definitely a live and learn scenario. I ordered tin shot and it took a while to get here so I was impatient and rushed it. Pretty sure I lost it all. 🙃 but it was a awesome learning experience! It truly was.
Is the title of the books by hoax that you talk about and where can I find it thank you
Refining Precious Metal Wastes by C.M. Hoke
Great vid sreetips thanks when do you think the pt refining vid is going to be up and did you see my email response to you ? Keep up the great work 👍
I answered the email. I’ve got the Pt sitting there. Haven’t forgotten about it. I need to clear my work bench of backed up work.
@@sreetips ok thanks
weird... same receip and no reaction. is the température is a factor?
No
Very informative video. Thanks sreetips. See ya in the next one.
Where can I get bigger amounts of hci from without rasing suspicion or have to pay a fortune. I mean ebay yes 1 L but prices are really high.
I buy hydrochloric acid at Ace Hardware
I followed this recipe and nothing happened. The stannous chloride dissolved but the shot did not. The solution is clear after sitting over night. I ordered the tin shot from Amazon. Any suggestions? Thanks!!!
That’s exactly how mine does.
@@sreetips Ok…I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks for the rapid reply!! I’m obsessed with your channel!! Keep ‘em coming!!!
Hello how are you doing? prepare the detector but it does not mark clearly .. can you advise me? add more hydrochloric acid or more tin?
If you made like I did and it doesn’t work then I’m just as baffled as you are.
@@sreetips Really my test was wrong .. very little genius palladium in solution. that's why I can't reach the color you see in your examples .. I made a new palladium solution in aqua regia and it worked ... thank you very much for answering! regards
Great video. Thanks for sharing
How do I shop at your store or communicate with you? I need platinum for a catalyst for chemistry. Perhaps a small ingot. Please touch back, thanks
I’ve bought pure platinum coin 1/10 ounce on eBay - all day long
I've run into this , but I'm wornering where the gold went if it;s not in solution. It's like it disappeared into thin air. Can you tell me where it went and or how I can get it back if possible?
Too many variables to consider.
@@sreetips Thanks. I get it. It would be cool if we could have Q an A period with you. I love your videos. Thanks for answering my questions!
Interesting 🤔👍✨
Thank you this is really helpful
My stannous never gets milky / stays clear .
Have not use any oquarega yet , just peroxide , hydrochloric acid ?
Thanks again
How does the waste solution not have gold but the rinse of the waste does?
The gold bearing solution was rinse from flasks that contained gold in solution. The other solution was waste from ferrous sulfate that contained no gold. Ferrous sulfate, dissolve in solution, looks just like a solution that contains gold. In fact, aqua regia, if allowed to sit, will form a yellow to orange color, all by itself with no gold in it at all. This has probably fooled many to think gold was present, just because the solution turned the color of gold in solution - fools liquid gold!
@@sreetips interesting!
I made the solution per the recipe, but I’ve also noticed that it’s remained clear and the tin balls are not dissolving. Is this normal that I do something wrong?
That’s how mine does. It will turn as it ages.
Thank you
I’m in the UK and the company I’m looking at for buying it list it as Tin (II) Chloride dihydrate ACS (Stannous Chloride) is this the crystals you refer to?
Yes
@@sreetips thank you for the information and videos
Thankyou 👍
Mr Sreetips, I am using your recipe for the first time. Mine does not get milkish. I am using distilled water plus HCl, Tin shots, and Stannous grains all from The Science Company. I made it to compare to the other 2 recipes I have.
Shouldn't your recipe just get milky? Any recommendation on my case? Thank you.
It will be relatively clear for a day or two then it will turn for you. I’ve used my stannous solution well past three months by adding a few drop of HCl to reinvigorate it.
@@sreetips THANK YOU!!!!!!
Nice just curious if stanous cloride works for cyanide rich liquor?
Don’t have any experience with cyanide, I don’t know.
@@sreetips thanks
@@sreetips i took 9.5gr of gold leached it in AR . All disolved nice. The i tested liquid with the fresh made stanuos solution /was made the same way as per y video/ and no results no color change when i put a drop if it on filter paoer with rich solution what i did wrong???
That’s very strange. I’m just as baffled as you are.
Ok fixed it made another solution and it work
Is it stanous chloride very senstive to "very very low gold concentration"
Yes
Can I use "Tin(II)-chloride dihydrate" to make the testing solution? Should work, right?
I bought stannous chloride crystals on eBay about 10 years ago and still have a quarter bottle left. Not sure if it’s the same.
I must have messed something up. I thought I followed your directions exactly. My gold test solution is 5 grains of 24k (Pampa bullion) dissolved in 100 ml AR then diluted with 100 ml distilled water. When I use the stanus chloride on filter paper with the gold solution I get no change in color. Any thoughts? I am very new.
I dissolved 1/10 of a gram in minimal nitric then added distilled water to 100ml volume. This gives a concentration of 1 gram per liter
@@sreetips I have 1/10 gram 999.9 gold - please confirm - minimal nitric into HCl? Thank you sir.
Rex, I don’t know what you’re trying to do. I can answer simple questions. There are too many variables to consider. I don’t offer training or tutoring.
@@sreetips I would to make a gold solution similar to what you have in your Wheaton drip bottle. Did you use aqua regia and then dilute with distilled? Thank you sir.
Yes, dissolve using minimal nitric. Add distilled water to 100ml
I use sncl2 and the result is brown color ...is it gold or another metal? Thank you
I’ve seen gold turn brown, then fade to purple. I’ve seen palladium turn brown, then fade to green.
@@sreetips thank you
Why not to use just stanous chloride powder and hcl?
This is the way I learned it
when making this, does it need to be in a brown bottle? thanks for the update
No, mine just happens to be brown
It lasts longer when not exposed to light , air, and heat.
Sir please make a video for silver testing .
What about copper and silver? Do those test positive?
No, test for copper in solution with ammonia will turn blue. Test for silver in solution add HCl to get a white silver chloride precipitate
Just dissolved my gold, used the stannous chloride solution and nothing!? Is my aqua solution still reacting? Maybe I got a bad product to test with? I haven’t removed any liquid at all so this seems impossible
Is it stuck in my cotton ball filter?
That’s baffling, I don’t know what you have there.
@@sreetips Figured it out. After doing some research, that 3:1 ratio of Hydrochloric Acid to Nitric Acid isnt exactly the best advice. I over saturated the solution with Nitric Acid.
Went ahead and boiled it down to about 150ml, added more HA to consume the nitric acid and filtered it all. Adding the SMB seemed to take way better this time but its a waiting game to see if it precipitates. Let me know if any of my process is wrong. All was easy up until refinement!
Classic evaporation works good, takes a while, but worth the wait.
Can u just buy something like that to test the gold liquid
I don’t know
@@sreetips so all that gold what you get out off them strap computer is real gold and do you sell them and get cash back
@@sreetips I love your channel
sir can we use silver soldering rod to make stanous chloride?
No
thanx for your reply sir..
And if i get a intense white precipitation?
Probably the HCl reacting with silver in solution, forming insoluble silver chloride.
Sometimes the gold won't drop because to much nitric acid still in solution
What's the molarity or concentration of the HCl acid?
The HCl bottle says 31.45%
thanks
How long should it take for the tim balls to dissolve? Mine are at 30min and haven't dissolved yet
Mine don’t dissolve. They stay whole all the time
@@sreetips ah, well then I'll stop worrying lol. I just saw the solution you poured out and didn't see any. I suppose with the brown bottle I couldn't tell. I'll get to test my stanous cloride soon. About to finish the nitric boils on 350g gold filled. Thanks for all the info!
Said 700g at first. Forgot half the weight was the clips that I removed.
What strength hydrochloric acid ?
Bottle says 31.45%
@@sreetips Thanks missed that .
Please Tell Me About (Red Copper 8 Sulfide).????
Sorry, I don’t know anything about it
Dear Sreetips
If I boil hydrochloric acid and tin to the stannous acid, but the tin is (Sn63a) 63% and there is lead, will it work?
or can a process be done before to remove and leave only tin?
Thank you
I’ve only used pure tin shot that bought on eBay.
@@sreetips Yes I understand, but from your experience it should work as well
?
I don’t think lead is a good idea. But you can try it and see. I’ve never used lead in my stannous test solution.
@@sreetips I'll just buy the right one 😊🙏
Is it neccessary to heat aqua regia before test???
Hot aqua regia dissolves faster
What about rhoudium??!!
Rhodium is an enigma to me.
I mixed my first batch and noticed the tin did not disolve. Is that expected?
Mine does the same thing
What is the persent of HCl in testing solution
31.45% on the label
Will it affect on the reflecting property of sncl2 if platinum is added to it??
Sorry, I don’t know because I’ve never tried that
These Tests are very good but when your working with Complexed Ores they are of no help whatsoever as they contain Tin Zinc and other Base Metals which prohibit Precious Metals from going into True Solution
I’ve never worked with ore. Only gold that’s already above the ground
@@sreetips Ores contain Tin Zinc and other Base Metals which prohibit Precious Metals from going into True Solution? When this happens the Tests fail to work! This is what I am Experiencing over the years
Your awesome screetips
Can i send you some dry extractions of gold to refine?
Sorry, I only work on material that my wife and I find at local sales. This is my hobby.
Ahh bummer. Thank you anyways and love the videos. :)
Does the tin dissolve? Mine does not
Not sure
@@sreetips so there's whole tin shot in the bottom of the dropper bottle? I wouldn't think so but im only Army...lol
Oh, that. The tin shot in my stannous does not dissolve completely
Thank you sir
Thanks again
What exactly is tin?
A metallic element