Hey Sreetips, dont ever worry about time on your videos. I could sit here for two hours if need be, and still enjoy every minute from beginning to end.
Don't worry about the length of the videos. I'm learning and taking notes :) Keep up the great work. I am ready to try my luck with gold and silver recovery.
Have been watching different methods and recovery videos for about a year now in addition to reading, learning more and more. Definitely my favorite channel! The long-form videos and explanations of processes are an amazing wealth of knowledge. Hoping to be ready to start refining soon and feel pretty confident that I can maximize my yields using the vital tips added into these. Thanks Sreetips!
This man knows how to disolve your body in a very fun way, and safely use up the remaining acids. Thanks, Sreetips! We obviously love your work, or we wouldn't watch!
See, you fuckin up & know it but now hoping some jokes will save you. You're lucky a certain 3 letter agency keeps him on a short leash in exchange to use his Michael Myers/Walter White psychotic super traumatic background in teaching asshole teens otherwise he'd be extracting your semen through your nose using a chemical reaction involving your own fart.
I know this video is a year old. But I found your channel about two weeks ago, and I’ve been hooked since. I never knew how much work goes into breaking down and purifying gold.. love the content.. keep up the great video’s
@@sreetips smart move. Some might find it dull or annoying but most find it important. I never mind a longer video if it is actually teaching me something.
Absolutely. Include the footage. We have a button to skip forward if we don’t find a segment needful. But there is no button to add segments that aren’t included! Never know what little bit may be meaningful to someone. Thanks for what you do Sreetips!
I can only imagine what happened that left all these colourful splashes on the walls of the boiling room. 🤔😂😂😂 Fantastic video, very professional. Thank you
Hey Sreetips. I LOVE your channel. For those of us who want to get into what you're doing, could you break down all the equipment you use, how much you go through, approximate cost and where to get it? Thanks
Hi Sreetips. For your next batch please consider to try the eco goldex surface gold stripping and recovery system. It seems so much easy to recover the gold that way for gold filled scrap. No acids, no need to burning anything, It doesn't matter what base metal you have. I'd like to hear your comments on that option and better yet to watch you demonstrate that option.
Those videos getting better to great is so much I learn from you I can said are better than go to eny school to learn this quimetry art thank you so much
Thank you for your advice about hitting items with the torch it saved me from a mess. I found what i thought to be a set of 2. 14kt g.f . channel 5 pens but turned out to be plastic over aluminum. If i threw that in my aqua regia the aluminum would probably have dropped out my gold. Torching will be a new mandatory step for me( every time) thank you sir.
My collection of GF and GR is growing to the point I am getting worried about the refinement! Thanks for the update on the acid boil to remove the lead. I cut my bracelets, but not full on destroyed them to check for that....back to the cleaning table!!!
Love the videos! I’ve leaned a great deal. Thank you. I wander why no one uses a screen material under the filter. Keeping the filter off those holes would make your surface area exponentially larger.
Hey Sreetips, if I had a large amount of absolute junk with gold in amongst it, could i place them 1st in a hot HCl bath, rinse with clean water, then a hot nitric acid bath, then rinse, then lift it with an aqua regis bath, filter, then drop and melt? Would that be a moderately efficient way of obtaining gold from say, various electronic junk?
This is a really bad idea. It will create a large amount of hazardous waste starting at the first step. I would recommend you do a little research at the gold refining forum. There are plenty of posts on how to properly process this type of material.
With the gold contend reduced by inquartation, the nitric can then penetrate to the core of each piece, forming a honeycomb structure as is goes, to successfully remove all the silver and base metals. The process is so effective that the gold is very near three nines after the nitric boils. But the only way to be sure is to refine it with aqua regia.
so its safe to assume this scrap gf is roughly 2.5% gold by weight? so if i buy a batch form ebay I can roughly calculate what yield to expect to determine how much i should spend on the batch?
I’d put it in a container. Soak it in hot tap water. Then add some soap, shake it to loosen dirt. Pour out the dirty liquid and repeat. For the last treatment: rinse with hot tap water until all the soap is off. Dry with a heat gun. Then proceed with incineration and recovery in hot nitric in a fume hood.
question with gold filled, so after hot nitric treatment and filtered foils do you put that old solution right in your stockpot or do you add copper or hydrochloric acid to get silver out filter silver then put it liquid in waste container or do you put it in stockpot?? I’m assuming the only thing you add to your stockpot is after you precipitate the aqua Regia and filter out the gold that old aqua regia goes in your stockpot correct?? Ty for all your help in the past!!!
No silver solutions go in my stock pot - ever. After I remove the silver, either cemented on copper or silver chloride conversion, the waste copper goes into a bucket with copper in it and sits for several days. Then I transfer the copper solution to my waste treatment bucket.
I enjoy the length and details! ;) Would it be reasonable to melt down all this stuff into shot? Just like inquarted gold? And dissolve that? It seems like it would save significant time and effort cleaning.
this guy is amazing...i want him to know he has a big black following... we like his style , like his game, and learn from him..and appreciate him.... and respect him...i like to point it out ...as it helps build bridges.
Hello, I wounder if you use once cyanide or like me you find it too dangerous? In this case what do you think about some mixture chemical like ecogoldex.
No experience with ecogoldex I don’t know what it is. My friend the jeweler used to use cyanide. He said the draft blew some of the gas back I into the room he was working in. His tongue and lips immediately began to swell and tingle and he watched a fly drop dead out of mid flight before he could run out to get away from the gas. I’ve never used cyanide or mercury in any of my processes.
What is your opinion on just melting and pouring GF into shot? I have done this and it basically “inquarts” it. Then rip it in dilute nitric and Black powder was all that remained… I then dissolved it in AR. Saves the roasting/cleaning step. Of course I previously carefully tested and separated steel springs, bands etc. So instead of just the recovery phase it actually becomes the first refining stage potentially saving chems and definitely time.
8:20 Im assuming this material is primarily PbCl2, which is very insoluble in solution and would form if the solder was indeed lead based as stated earlier
Is it possible to selectively dissolve just the gold and leave the base metals, maybe with hcl acid and bleach or something that only attacks the gold?
Sorry, read it wrong. Selectively dissolving just the gold don’t work. Best to dissolve the base metals out first. Then refine the left over gold pieces.
This process won’t work on “plated” gold. This is for gold filled material only. Gold plated material must be run through a sulfuric acid stripping cell. Please see my video on how to build and operate one.
Whats the cost efectiveness of doing this i feel like with the amount of chemicals used you would only be making money on this by doing very large batches of gold recovery
@steetips absolutely love this video, length irrelevant, over the past few years studied this process in depth, sourced information and safety precautions, however I seem to find I have a block on identifying all equipment to build a safe environment to conduct this, I've sourced some of the beakers but without knowing the correct name for the different apparatuses and tools I can't find them, would you be so kind to elaborate on your inventory of tools and apparatus, I would greatly appreciate it.
@@sreetips I totally agree, I did a small version of this few years back and immediately killed the reaction when I noticed the fumes, ive built a fume hood since with a ventilation chimney just over 3m high getting those fumes up and away when I do it again, I was referring to different types of flasks and drip feeders you were using, what are their technical names please
I don't get boiling the lead off the bracelet with the acid and scraping it off. Lead has a melting point of 622 degrees F. Couldn't you just melt it off?
As the metal heated, the lead would melt, flow over the entire piece and create a thin coating of lead solder that’s nearly impossible to remove. Leads not so bad. Easily removed with a little sulfuric acid. But most soft solder contains tin. Tin reacts with nitric acid to form metastatic acid or tin paste. Tin paste is the consistency of Elmers Glue. It will ruin a refiners day because it clogs the filter and makes filtering nearly impossible. Boiling in HCl then scraping off the solder is the easier softer way.
Smelt is a term used to describe the extraction of metals from ore. I’ve never done any smelting. But if you mean “melting” the metals, then I can say, “don’t do it.” The amount of gold relative to the amount of base metals, is very low at around 2.5% by weight. Melting everything together will cause the coating of karat gold foils to alloy with the base metals. Then the acids will dissolve the base metals and leave the gold as a very fine powder, or worse, colloidal gold. This fine powdered gold is so tiny that it can pass right through a filter. This makes separation of the silver and base metal solution from the finely divided gold powder very time consuming and difficult and could result in loss of metal with lower yields. Hot nitric boils to remove base metals, followed by incineration of the foils then processing with hot aqua regia is the way to go, especially for a new refiner. It’s the easier softer way.
Did you serve on an Adam's Class Destroyer during Operation Desert Shield? Thank you for your Service. I was working with the USS Henry B Wilson, DDG-7.
Hey Sreetips, dont ever worry about time on your videos. I could sit here for two hours if need be, and still enjoy every minute from beginning to end.
TH-camrs like shorter videos because they get more views per minute of footage that way.
Yes. These videos are filled with good sense, unlike some of the other stuff on TH-cam... 😏
👍 agreed
I agree with you. This is just about the most interesting stuff on TH-cam.
Don't worry about the length of the videos. I'm learning and taking notes :)
Keep up the great work. I am ready to try my luck with gold and silver recovery.
I could watch hour long videos of this. Its an a.s.m.r. Metal to liquid to powder to metal. I will never get tired of seeing these reactions.
Have been watching different methods and recovery videos for about a year now in addition to reading, learning more and more.
Definitely my favorite channel! The long-form videos and explanations of processes are an amazing wealth of knowledge. Hoping to be ready to start refining soon and feel pretty confident that I can maximize my yields using the vital tips added into these. Thanks Sreetips!
This man knows how to disolve your body in a very fun way, and safely use up the remaining acids. Thanks, Sreetips! We obviously love your work, or we wouldn't watch!
See, you fuckin up & know it but now hoping some jokes will save you. You're lucky a certain 3 letter agency keeps him on a short leash in exchange to use his Michael Myers/Walter White psychotic super traumatic background in teaching asshole teens otherwise he'd be extracting your semen through your nose using a chemical reaction involving your own fart.
@@dougboyatt2927 you don't think a joke can save a life? Can I spank you with some news?
I know this video is a year old. But I found your channel about two weeks ago, and I’ve been hooked since. I never knew how much work goes into breaking down and purifying gold.. love the content.. keep up the great video’s
Welcome! And thank you
I find your videos fascinating! Don't fret about the length of them, I could watch for hours.
What a wonderful recap of chemistry and metal alchemy!
I love that you write your channel name all over everything. Screw free booters
The jimmy diresta method.
I wondered why his name was all over everything
Just wanted to let you know that I love your long videos .
As long as you have the data, make the video as long as you can! I love listening to all the science, its strongly calming and im unsure why.
I’ve been tempted to skip footage and shorten it up. But I always reason; you shot it so just go ahead and include it
@@sreetips smart move. Some might find it dull or annoying but most find it important. I never mind a longer video if it is actually teaching me something.
Absolutely. Include the footage. We have a button to skip forward if we don’t find a segment needful. But there is no button to add segments that aren’t included! Never know what little bit may be meaningful to someone. Thanks for what you do Sreetips!
Very happy to have a new video from Sreetips thanks man.
Don't worry about the length of your videos i was spell bound from start to finish, and subbed. cheers mike
Okay Chief let's go . Don't worry about the length, we are loving it.
yes. more data is better.
That’s what she said
Ill just wait till episode 1136 when he pours the bar
I always skip to the end because my millennial brain is already dissolved in the nitric acid that is online streaming. But it's nice to see the result
Great video! You're a real pro and a pleasure to watch. Note to self: do NOT ever attempt this at home.
You back 🙂Nice to see u again
Man I absolutely love these videos. Thank you brother.
I can only imagine what happened that left all these colourful splashes on the walls of the boiling room. 🤔😂😂😂
Fantastic video, very professional. Thank you
Really liking these videos. Thanks for making them they are very informative and interesting.
Such amazing information. Never been so fascinated in my life, I'm hooked.
Excellent - welcome aboard!
He`s back boys! put the coffee on and time to relax again :D
Phew. Glad you put that warning in the beginning. I almost forgot to put on my mask before watching the video.
😂
Stupid comemt
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Hey Sreetips. I LOVE your channel. For those of us who want to get into what you're doing, could you break down all the equipment you use, how much you go through, approximate cost and where to get it? Thanks
Love all your videos
No worries about time on your videos enjoying every minute of it and ready for part 2
Coming tomorrow
You're 5 liter beakers which company can I get them from the one that you're using
Hi Sreetips. For your next batch please consider to try the eco goldex surface gold stripping and recovery system. It seems so much easy to recover the gold that way for gold filled scrap. No acids, no need to burning anything, It doesn't matter what base metal you have. I'd like to hear your comments on that option and better yet to watch you demonstrate that option.
Getting pure gold, from any source, is never quick and easy.
Hey brother,, Happy New Year,, great video.. that is going to make a nice pure bar..! All the best to you guys
Happy new year Boats!
Those videos getting better to great is so much I learn from you I can said are better than go to eny school to learn this quimetry art thank you so much
Happy New Year @Sreetips, I hope 2021 treats you well
Thank you for your advice about hitting items with the torch it saved me from a mess.
I found what i thought to be a set of 2. 14kt g.f . channel 5 pens but turned out to be plastic over aluminum. If i threw that in my aqua regia the aluminum would probably have dropped out my gold. Torching will be a new mandatory step for me( every time) thank you sir.
Harold_V (one of my mentors) used to say, “the three most important things about refining are, incineration, incineration, and incineration”
Yes sir. Wish i could use incineration to recover silver from my 77lbs of used x-ray films. But my neighbors and wife would have a fit ...lol
Amazing
I'll be waiting for the second parts
Getting started on part 2
My collection of GF and GR is growing to the point I am getting worried about the refinement!
Thanks for the update on the acid boil to remove the lead. I cut my bracelets, but not full on destroyed them to check for that....back to the cleaning table!!!
Hi,
What does it mean when you melt gold jewellery down and it all turns black rather than molds together?
Not enough heat. Or, it’s not gold.
It's Friday AND a new series from sreetips! Today is a good day
Love the videos! I’ve leaned a great deal. Thank you. I wander why no one uses a screen material under the filter. Keeping the filter off those holes would make your surface area exponentially larger.
Those filters become very weak after they get wet. A screen under the filter would probably cause the filter to fail.
@@sreetips well now that makes good sense. Thanks for the reply.
I actually enjoy the longer 30-45mins videos.
Some folks like the longer videos. Others just want to see the metal.
What happened to the copper. Does the nitric acid dissolve it?
Yes
Hey Sreetips, if I had a large amount of absolute junk with gold in amongst it, could i place them 1st in a hot HCl bath, rinse with clean water, then a hot nitric acid bath, then rinse, then lift it with an aqua regis bath, filter, then drop and melt?
Would that be a moderately efficient way of obtaining gold from say, various electronic junk?
This is a really bad idea. It will create a large amount of hazardous waste starting at the first step. I would recommend you do a little research at the gold refining forum. There are plenty of posts on how to properly process this type of material.
This is an amazing process fascinating to watch!
It has been a bit chief! Love it
Hello mr.sreetips , I enjoy your video very much. You are a very good teacher. Just wondering if can do a video for refining ruthenium. Thanks Thien
I can get platinum and palladium. The other four in the platinum group are a complete enigma to me: Rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, osmium.
nice apparatus for adding nitric slowly. You are getting better over time!
Gold filled scrap makes for a great video!!
Have a Great Day My Friend!!!
Happy new year Shane
@@sreetips Happy New Year to you too!! I hope it's a great one!!!
If the nitric doesn’t dissolve the gold but does the base metals. How does the acid access the base metals?
With the gold contend reduced by inquartation, the nitric can then penetrate to the core of each piece, forming a honeycomb structure as is goes, to successfully remove all the silver and base metals. The process is so effective that the gold is very near three nines after the nitric boils. But the only way to be sure is to refine it with aqua regia.
Man this is amazing!!!! Ill be paying closer attention!! Thank you!!
The way that nitric acid just eats the metal away from the inside of the gold is fascinating. Crazy how well that works.
so its safe to assume this scrap gf is roughly 2.5% gold by weight? so if i buy a batch form ebay I can roughly calculate what yield to expect to determine how much i should spend on the batch?
Why tap water is Ok with sliver chloride but you use distilled water wit gold?
Best to use distilled water. But it cost ten times more than tap water and a pain to haul it in out of my car. So I use tap water when I csn
Showing that gold powder reaction definitely deserves a like 👍 very cool to see
This guys voice and accent is the best. He could be an ASMR Kingpin
Everything is under control and professional 👍🏽
Hi sreetips; love the videos. What's the best way to clean gf, etc. if we don't have an ultrasonic cleaner? Thanks!
I’d put it in a container. Soak it in hot tap water. Then add some soap, shake it to loosen dirt. Pour out the dirty liquid and repeat. For the last treatment: rinse with hot tap water until all the soap is off. Dry with a heat gun. Then proceed with incineration and recovery in hot nitric in a fume hood.
@@sreetips thank you sir. Got it!
in other videos you use sulfuric acid to precipitate lead out of the aqua regia. could you not do the same for that first demonstration?
I was thinking the same.
My all the teachers were just like you.... Finally i became tailor now and stitching dress 😅
Awesome video. Thanks again !
question with gold filled, so after hot nitric treatment and filtered foils do you put that old solution right in your stockpot or do you add copper or hydrochloric acid to get silver out filter silver then put it liquid in waste container or do you put it in stockpot?? I’m assuming the only thing you add to your stockpot is after you precipitate the aqua Regia and filter out the gold that old aqua regia goes in your stockpot correct?? Ty for all your help in the past!!!
No silver solutions go in my stock pot - ever. After I remove the silver, either cemented on copper or silver chloride conversion, the waste copper goes into a bucket with copper in it and sits for several days. Then I transfer the copper solution to my waste treatment bucket.
With the lead content, could you have heated up the material enough just to melt any lead or glues instead of heating in acid?
Steven.
I enjoy the length and details! ;)
Would it be reasonable to melt down all this stuff into shot? Just like inquarted gold? And dissolve that?
It seems like it would save significant time and effort cleaning.
this guy is amazing...i want him to know he has a big black following... we like his style , like his game, and learn from him..and appreciate him....
and respect him...i like to point it out ...as it helps build bridges.
Thank you!
546th! I can’t stop watching your videos! So many steps to refine precious metals. BUT WELL WORTH IT IN THE END! Roger in Pierre South Dakota
Thanks for sharing your knowledge we love Ur videos thanks a lot again
If it has lead and spring steel, would cuppeling it after a chemical process remove it?
I don’t know. I’ve never used cupel
Hello,
I wounder if you use once cyanide or like me you find it too dangerous? In this case what do you think about some mixture chemical like ecogoldex.
No experience with ecogoldex I don’t know what it is. My friend the jeweler used to use cyanide. He said the draft blew some of the gas back I into the room he was working in. His tongue and lips immediately began to swell and tingle and he watched a fly drop dead out of mid flight before he could run out to get away from the gas. I’ve never used cyanide or mercury in any of my processes.
14:20...so what is the yellow vapor thats formed? chlorine gas?
What is your opinion on just melting and pouring GF into shot? I have done this and it basically “inquarts” it. Then rip it in dilute nitric and Black powder was all that remained… I then dissolved it in AR. Saves the roasting/cleaning step. Of course I previously carefully tested and separated steel springs, bands etc. So instead of just the recovery phase it actually becomes the first refining stage potentially saving chems and definitely time.
I’ve done many batches using the technique that I was taught. My opinion, if it works good for you them keep doing it. And that’s what I’ll do.
ok I've got my safety mask on now ready to go when you are boss
8:20 Im assuming this material is primarily PbCl2, which is very insoluble in solution and would form if the solder was indeed lead based as stated earlier
Did you replace your home made incinerator?
I still have the frankenoven but I used the Neycraft muffle furnace because it’s much faster and gets hotter.
@@sreetips
Right on. Can't wait for part 2. Have a good one.
Is it possible to selectively dissolve just the gold and leave the base metals, maybe with hcl acid and bleach or something that only attacks the gold?
Ferrous sulfate will drop the gold, all the gold, and nothing but the gold.
Sorry, read it wrong. Selectively dissolving just the gold don’t work. Best to dissolve the base metals out first. Then refine the left over gold pieces.
Can you “over dissolve” during the recovery step is there a danger of using too much acid
I’ve seen boiling nitric put small amounts of gold in solution. In that sense I guess the answer would be yes.
Is it possible to amalgamate the lead/tin out or would the mercury attack all the metals present?
I’ve never used mercury
I think I saw NileRed or Cody's lab use mercury to remove lead but it has been a few years and I may also just be wrong :)
is it better to make a powder of all metals ? make less process time
Sounds right
At 3:16 did you dump the material to be weighed on the scale into a sterling dish? Just curious
I don’t think so.
Sweet here we go!!!
Noice. Subbed, love your work mate.
you can also use Sodium Hydroxide and Hydrogen Peroxide to dissolve the lead on the gold filled parts. That will also remove the Tin as well.
I wonder if all that happened was the stump pit fell to the bottom of the beaker?
Big fan! How can I buy a bag of plated gold from you?! Very interested in giving this a shot! Thanks buddy
This process won’t work on “plated” gold. This is for gold filled material only. Gold plated material must be run through a sulfuric acid stripping cell. Please see my video on how to build and operate one.
Whats the cost efectiveness of doing this i feel like with the amount of chemicals used you would only be making money on this by doing very large batches of gold recovery
It’s my hobby
@@sreetips its a pretty badass hobby i just found your channel so i wasnt sure if it was a hobby or a job
New viewer here and I love watching. I never took chemistry in school (took anatomy instead). But now I want to. Lol
I had a chemistry set as a kid and a small lab in my basement. This is an extension of that
Wouldn't that HCl on the Pb form a salt of Lead Chloride?
Yes, the white salt might be lead chloride.
@steetips absolutely love this video, length irrelevant, over the past few years studied this process in depth, sourced information and safety precautions, however I seem to find I have a block on identifying all equipment to build a safe environment to conduct this, I've sourced some of the beakers but without knowing the correct name for the different apparatuses and tools I can't find them, would you be so kind to elaborate on your inventory of tools and apparatus, I would greatly appreciate it.
You can’t do this safely without a fume hood
@@sreetips I totally agree, I did a small version of this few years back and immediately killed the reaction when I noticed the fumes, ive built a fume hood since with a ventilation chimney just over 3m high getting those fumes up and away when I do it again, I was referring to different types of flasks and drip feeders you were using, what are their technical names please
Got it. The funnel is a separatory funnel that I am using for the nitric delivery.
I don't get boiling the lead off the bracelet with the acid and scraping it off. Lead has a melting point of 622 degrees F. Couldn't you just melt it off?
Where did you buy these small bottles with lid for the acid, the nitric acid and hydrochloric acid.
I bought all my glassware on ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/274445468525
What kind of air vent do you have to vent out the noxious fumes
It’s a fume hood that draws the dangerous vapors away from me and up through the exhaust to the outside.
I have a couple question, what do you do with the waste material such as copper or other metals that get separated? Do you also refine them?
No, I throw the copper away
Gold also has a melting point 3 times higher than lead so you could just melt it off?
And I'm no chemist but I'm guessing the deposit is lead chloride?
As the metal heated, the lead would melt, flow over the entire piece and create a thin coating of lead solder that’s nearly impossible to remove. Leads not so bad. Easily removed with a little sulfuric acid. But most soft solder contains tin. Tin reacts with nitric acid to form metastatic acid or tin paste. Tin paste is the consistency of Elmers Glue. It will ruin a refiners day because it clogs the filter and makes filtering nearly impossible. Boiling in HCl then scraping off the solder is the easier softer way.
A question that I have is why didn't you melt all the nonmagnetic into a bar, and electrowin the copper away? It would save a lot of nitric.
Sorry, I’m not familiar with that process.
@@sreetips will, then it's new content. 😉
Could you have used a cupel to purify the lead contaminated gold?
Can mercury be extracted from. ...Tuna?....and........eaten?
Yes
What was the name of the book you referenced in the video, Hopes Finding Precious metals?
Refining Precious Metal Wastes by C.M. Hoke available for free on scribd.com type “hoke” in their search block.
Could those crystals be lead chloride? Hoke says they’ll form when the acid cools down.
Why not smelt it? Gold fill and plated? after smelting then do acid dip?
Smelt is a term used to describe the extraction of metals from ore. I’ve never done any smelting. But if you mean “melting” the metals, then I can say, “don’t do it.” The amount of gold relative to the amount of base metals, is very low at around 2.5% by weight. Melting everything together will cause the coating of karat gold foils to alloy with the base metals. Then the acids will dissolve the base metals and leave the gold as a very fine powder, or worse, colloidal gold. This fine powdered gold is so tiny that it can pass right through a filter. This makes separation of the silver and base metal solution from the finely divided gold powder very time consuming and difficult and could result in loss of metal with lower yields. Hot nitric boils to remove base metals, followed by incineration of the foils then processing with hot aqua regia is the way to go, especially for a new refiner. It’s the easier softer way.
How do you identify if something has stainless steel or just steel in it?
I can tell by the way it feels when I put a file to it. The file won’t dig into the metal well, it tends to skate over the metal.
would it not be easier to melt it all pour it in a pyramid shaped mold and have the metals separate by weight?
These metals don’t separate when melted. They alloy together.
@@sreetips i see. this process requires allot of experience. very difficult for a novice to get into. Are you trained in chemistry?
Great Video sreetips Keep Bringing The Video's Dude, Hey when We Going To See Platinum Refining Video Pt3? Just Asking 😁
I’ve still got it, it will be coming soon
@@sreetips yay
@sreetips
You have a lot of followers from Dubai, why not add Arabic translation to your videos?
Thank you
Did you serve on an Adam's Class Destroyer during Operation Desert Shield? Thank you for your Service. I was working with the USS Henry B Wilson, DDG-7.
I was on Semmes DDG18 (Adams Class). But during Desert Storm I was on the Commodores Staff at DESRON Four.
@@sreetips I was in the USAF for Desert Storm. It was lots of hard work. I'm glad that it's over.
Me too.
Love it Sreetips! 😎👍✨
Can I just hit it with torch or do I have to do it without direct heat?
When melting gold, I direct the flame around the inside edge of the melt dish. It never hits the gold directly.
@@sreetips what I mean is that in your video didn't u put the foils into a heater? And incinerated it right? Well can I just torch mine?
How about shredding the scrap? More area for the acid to work
Extra step to an already lengthy process