It never fails to amaze me how nice the whole process is. Basically one can tell by the color of the fluid ( bright orange) and then the powder almost a coppery brown. This is going to be a beautiful gold pour.
It’s been so long since the last electrolytic gold video. When you said that at the end I actually yelled out in excitement. The first one I saw of yours was so good and the way it looked like a morel mushroom was awesome. And was the video that introduced me to your channel. Can’t wait for the video.
Another excellent refining👍! My fav part is also precipitating the gold out of solutuin. You had to tease us with the talk of a gold anode cell. I cant wait def going to be watching that video when you releaae it! You the Man Sreetips. Thanks for sharing.
Exciting times. Strange how this content has impacted me. Never imagined feeling like low Karat jewelery scrap is worth more to me than higher Karat jewelery scrap. Nor that losing money was such a great idea. Im on board though. My asparagus froze out for three weeks now, peonies barely greening and just a few budding leaves on the peach trees. I suppose it'll be back to severe drought soon. Thanks for sharing this stuff sreetips - going bonkers here. Dreaming about this gold mine an hour west of Denver, CO, if I can slap 33,000,000 down and carry the other 333,000,000.00 I envite you up ✌️♥️👍
@@sreetips 1,000,000,000.00 in minerals deposits, gold assay is 3.5oz/Ton. Long several hundred foot veins 2-4' feet wide. Truthfully, the landscape and location is priceless. Very sensitive location.
SREETIPS that’s my favorite part as well. Thank you for showing us what happens when you do have to much Nitric Acid and Sodium Metabisulfite is added in another video a short while ago. 👍
Greetings from coastal Georgia, Sreetips! Thanks for another great video! I would really enjoy a video showing us how your clean your glassware. I don't know if you have that planned, or have the time, but I think about that quite a bit. How you clean your flasks, beakers, pipettes - that sort of thing. Whether you make that or not I'll be here for the ride. I find these videos relaxing. Thanks again.
I've been watching your videos for about a year now. I'm glad I did. This process also works really well in purifying copper. I needed pure copper for a project and this allowed me to use junk copper I acquired legally from many different sources. Thanks. This is a lot easier than the other more energy intensive method of melting the copper. Im not even sure if melting it would purify it either because it was alloyed to begin with.
Hey Kevin you should try and making a supersaturated solution of SMB and taking your gold-bearing solution and drip the SMB via a addition funnel one drop at a time and watch to see if it starts coming out of solution all at once or if it actually does a complete flashover and you'd want it to be sitting on a stir bar plate stirring when you're dripping that into the gold
Why is it that gold is so fascinating to look at? I have watched your process loads of times but I still enjoy it every single time. I ended up becoming a soldier even though i was always quite academic 😅 and I have to say , I think I would have enjoyed chemistry
Heya StreeTips been working out at sea...so playing catch-up when I can .. as I look I'm gonna start here .. I remember the conversation about doing this .. I an getting on my feet...saving !! Cuz gold is better than cash any day!! Thanks for all you do to teach us the importance of gold an metals ...thanks !!!✌🏼💗😊
SIR! I simply love it! Interesting and coincidental how just a few hours ago I'd been trying to clear up the issue of excess nitric on the GRF. And most of the stuff you do ; incremental dosages of nitric to avoid the excess and also the evaporation technique you just carried out helped in clearing out the basic understanding of how its done. It almost seems like you read the issue there and felt like doing a video on it to make it easy for your viewers. The seniors on that forum are just great with theoretical knowledge and your videos just sum it all up. THANKYOU VERY MUCH AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL! ❤
A beautiful gold bar, watching the whole process never gets old. I'm looking forward to this gold cell, I wonder if we'll see pretty gold crystals like what the silver cell makes. 👍
I'm starting to see a pattern. You do a single refinement and make some pimple bar or button. Then you say you will send it into the big refiner. You sleep on it, and then you refine them again making them into delicious golden bars. I as a viewer appreciate this content!
I feel like the guy in your last video that said “not your best work” wasn’t anticipating the follow up, regardless of that you definitely have a very awesome attention to detail. Seeing a further refining on a BEAUTIFUL golden button, is always satisfying.
Oh yes!, I can't wait sreetips for the electrolytic gold cell, I was waiting for you to do another video like the old electrolytic gold cell you did, I'm excited for this one!,👍🏻and this video was amazing, thank you for your great video's from Ireland 🇮🇪!!!.
Hey Kev, I followed your instructions and it worked!! Refined 2 ounces of gold that I prospected last couple of years. I have some yellow sludge left over, haven't a clue what it is.
@@arnedalbakk6315 Do you have anything fun planned for the weekend? I'm going to do yard work. Had a thunderstorm last night. Lots of downed tree limbs to cleanup.
@@DavidDavis-OU814 David... I hope the snow here in Trysil in Norway melting, so i can take my Fisher f2, and maybe find some gold and silver😊 Have you planning somthings for the weekend David?
Hi Sreetips, are you planning any of your gold/silver recovery’s from your paper storage/stock pots? I know it’s a bunch of work and a lot of supplies, but would love to see it. Also, would love to see a garage/workshop tour and makeover Reno. I’m a long time fan and just curious, no pressure.
Thanks for another awesome video sreetips! I just can't get enough of your content. I'd love to see a placer gold refining series in an electrolytic gold cell (if that's even possible... Idk)
Working up placer Au wouldn’t be much different than him working up his scrap jewelry. I wonder if you’re talking about working up Au from a hard rock mine. THAT could be a much different thing.
I live close to the base of the Kennecott copper mine and they crush the ore and dump it over an acid resistant layer then spray it with acid to leach the metals out. What acid would they be using?
3:30 lid on a beaker reducing speed of solution evaporation near 4-5 times returning most part of liquid in the form of dripping back condensate 4:45 Evaporate solution up to slightly damp or completely dry crystals of chloroauric acid. And don't waste muriatic acid to rehydrate(redisolve) the crystals, it's better to use distilled water for this purpose.
Gold dissolved in aqua regia shouldn’t be boiled. It should be evaporated slowly to a syrup then rehydrated with HCl. This is how I learned it from professional refiners on the goldrefiningforum.com - the lid on the beaker prevents gold droplets from flying out of the beaker. Of course, the best way to denoxx is to add just the right amount of nitric so there none in the gold solution.
@@sreetips Both methods are correct. i learned my variation from "Francois Pellier" channel. He is private analitic chemist and refiner. He uses dosens of recipes and work with all kinds precious metals bearing materials (ores, scrap elecronics, scrap jewelries, jeweller wastes, old coins, etc.)
Hey sreetips, love your videos. How come you didn’t use sulfamic acid in denoxing the excess nitric? It can be bought at aqua mix at Home Depot for 10$ a pound. Added benefit is you won’t have to add sulfuric acid - it will convert to sulfuric and help precipitate the lead
@@sreetipshave you ever had your post rinsed HCl boil appear to start dissolving the gold back to AuCl3? I had a situation just moments ago where I thought my Mudd was beginning to redissolve in just HCl.. talk about curve ball. Fortunately, it ceased after going back at it with several rinses, and my HCl is clear now.
Very interesting. How do the nitric fumes get out if you put a lid on? Does the HCl evaporate as well and is that why you keep adding more? Also, at what temparature do you boil it?
The fumes get drawn away from my work area by my fume hood. There’s a vent near the beaker to allow fumes to exit the reaction. I set it on medium high.
Hello Mr. Sreetips, have you ever tried to laminate the gold and silver alloy after making the inquartation ? I think that if the alloy is rolled very thin very thin and then goes to the nitric acid, it will save time in boiling with acid and of course it would be faster. Am I right? Thank you for your videos and the excellent dedication with which you do your work, I look forward to your kind response. thanks again
Yes, I tried it. I spent at least a half hour once, trying to roll thin, an ingot of inquarted gold. It turned out to be a lot more work than I suspected. The alloy is much harder than the individual metals are. So I became resigned to just pouring shot to increase surface area, instead of trying to roll it, and let the chemicals do all that work for me.
We got a few gold filled watches. But no karat gold. We’ve seen a steep decline in the amount of karat scrap out there. People are starting to get wise. At some point I believe it will dry up completely. Once gold is allowed to hit its true value. Right now they kill the inflation hedge, with inflation!
@@sreetips unfortunately the gold standard is not on the DNC or GOP's radar, from what I can tell. Only radar it is on is the Libertarian Party's but they are more concerned with eating each other or a National Divorce. Unless it is Dave Smith, I don't see the price correction in the future. It may have died off with Nixon's presidency, the true value.
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. Superb clip sir. Thanks for sharing. Do you and your wife finds some interesting things early that mornings? The clip whit the bug. Have a nice weekend 😊. Arne
We found a few gold filled watches. But the amount of karat gold has dropped off sharply. Maybe folks are starting to wise up about paper currencies losing value and valuations based on mountains of debt.
What if an inert gas such as commonly used in welding was used to purge the oxygen around the mold? IIRC it's heavier than air so one could simply have the mold in some sort of metal container filled a flow of the gas. Though the heat would be difficult to maintain.
I don’t refine gold. I have melted a whole lot of gold. That’s always satisfying. I love watching your videos. Have you ever packed that gold powder into the mold and then melted it? I would love to see a bar done like that.
So i know you add the sulfuric acid to get rid of any precipitate any presence of lead. Is there a way where you could add a bit of lead to your gold refining to see the presence of lead when you add the sulfuric acid?
Hello ..I am a huge fan of your videos and also I am starting to do some of those experiments... How can I find that standard chloride you use to test gold in solution...thanks, and God bless
I bought stannous chloride crystals on eBay. Pure tin shot also. Here’s my recipe: 1 gram stannous chloride crystals. 1 gram pure tin shot. 25ml distilled water. 30 drops of hydrochloric acid. Combine, shake, use immediately. Lasts for up to three months.
Greetings Kevin. I've been watching your channel for a little while now, and I've begun doing all of this myself. What I've noticed is that after I put the stump out in, my gold always looks gray, even after the muratic bath & boil. I have not does anything with the burner yet or a furnace. I still just have it in the gray form. Am I doing something wrong? Thank you in advance, and I really dig your channel a lot.
How much gold do you loose under the evaporation with the oxy-acetylene torch ? Gold evaporation starts at 1400 °C , the oxy-acetylene torch produces up to 3480°C.
The losses start when I remove stones. Small amounts of gold chip off and get lost. Next during inquartation. Some of the gold sticks to the melt dish. Next loss is during pour off of the silver. Boiling nitric dissolves traces of gold that end up in the silver jar. Plus some crumbs of gold get poured off. When dissolving the gold, some of it leaves the beaker as tiny droplets and go up the stack. When filtering the gold some of it gets splashed out and gets lost. Some sticks to the filter papers. And the inside of the filter funnel concraks some gold and it probably goes down the drain. That’s one way that gold ends up in the ocean. When transferring the gold solution some gets splashed out. And, the torch (oxy/acetylene is up around 6000f) so there are losses all along the way. Minimizing them will depend on the skill and technique used by the refiner.
something else that pulled off trash, is the borax used in the melting. maybe if you used more borax when enquorting, you could remove more trash early on?
I love watching your videos, but it is so much. Do you have an ebook, or a playlist of all the materials your need from start to finish? I would be cool to see a flow chart of the steps you take. separating out Jewelry into base metals, then each process Then walking it into a store and selling it.. If it was a playlist you would get multiple views per episode from start to finish of people taking notes. Hell even just a video showing all the supplies you need to get started Even for someone who doesn't understand chemistry like this, it is mesmerizing. I see a video of yours every few months and watch a bunch of them at once. thanks for the entertainment.
I’ve included as much detail as possible in my videos. When I first started refining, I would have been delighted to find videos, like mine, for free on TH-cam. Back then 2010, there were bits and pieces and critical details were left out. Then you’d be directed to a site and solicited for payment to receive the details. That’s when I decided to share my knowledge and withhold nothing. I believe that it’s part of the reason that I have success with my channel. Because you can watch my videos, take notes, and repeat what I’ve done, even though that’s not what the videos are intended for.
I live close to the base of the Kennecott copper mine and they crush the ore and dump it over an acid resistant layer then spray it with acid to leach the metals out. What acid would they be using?
Have you considered making monoatomic gold for sale? It has some amazing properties. I think it speeds up the nervous system, better conductors means less resistance, faster signals, reduces stress. It's kinda like gold terminals on high end electronics, there would be lower oxidative stress better reception. If our telemers were gold infused our life spans would increase. Noah told us to burn the golden calf and eat it! There is another biblical passage that warns of overconsumption but I forget where. Consume too much and we might activate our light body and fly away.
I’ve tried to research it. Wikipedia refers to it as pseudo-science. There’s no data other than anecdotal accounts of it’s amazing properties. I wouldn’t know how to do it.
New subscriber here from the Mountain State. Hey, what's the etymology of your channel name and what part of the country are you in? At first, I misread it as Street Tips as in the folks who comb through and refine city sidewalk sweepings. 🙂
I was mortified at how much you were letting go to waste by pouring off so much "waste", I would've guessed it wild be more efficient to just use a vacuum filter that way NOTHING gets poured off. I guess Nile spoiled me 😂
The “waste” isn’t wasted. If any gets poured off with the waste solution it doesn’t go to waste. It accumulates in my waste container for recovery later. I just Nile is converting some of that paper currency into real money, real wealth: GOLD!
LOL after hearing you three different times say man that sure looks good I still look at it and the first thing that comes to my mind is my cat vomited in his bowl again which is kind of an acquired perspective I would say much like the one I have when I smell a skunk and my brain says boy that smells good while all the non-smokers look at me like I'm crazy hahaha
I wonder if you could speed up the initial dissolve by flattening out the gold first to increase surface area. Maybe with that roller machine from the platinum video
I loved when you said the gold bar looked "delicious"! I had a good laugh because it looks like some sort of Willy Wonka chocolate bar wrapped in pure gold. It DOES look delicious! Awesome news on your upcoming gold cell, can't wait. One question: i watch other channels where guys that are mining gold smelt their own gold buttons from ore. I'm curious how pure their resultant gold is as compared to your chemical ways. There are so many other elements in the ore that it would seem to me a more 'crude' method than yours, not nearly so pure.
I thought the same thing. I think and I’m no expert but the metallurgy can get 95%+ but to get the 999 fine it needs chemistry. Correct me if I’m wrong.
How do I go about getting the excess nitric out (small batch so only 10ml or so was even added) so that the gold drops out with SMB. I have added SMB and it is still too acidic. My thought was adding more gold and just recovering it with the batch. Or I may try this method here unless it won't work with the SMB being added. Thank you for the great videos as always! You are the reason I got into doing this in the first place!
@sreetips i started with gold foils. My stannous test says yes. I think there is too much residual nitric that is redisolving the gold as it precipitates. But could be wrong. This is only my 6th time through the process. The liquid dropped some but is still yellow.
I’ve waited forever for a new electrolytic gold cell!! Awesome.
Me too, I'm gonna love this already I know it lol.
Yeah can't wait for it. Going to be very interesting!
Same here ❤
To think that’s a $4k gold bar he just made
Announcement of a gold cell is very exciting to hear! Can't wait to see how that turns out. Great vid as always!!
It never fails to amaze me how nice the whole process is. Basically one can tell by the color of the fluid ( bright orange) and then the powder almost a coppery brown. This is going to be a beautiful gold pour.
Literally alchemy. And you would still be imprisoned in Europe for it.
It’s been so long since the last electrolytic gold video. When you said that at the end I actually yelled out in excitement. The first one I saw of yours was so good and the way it looked like a morel mushroom was awesome. And was the video that introduced me to your channel. Can’t wait for the video.
I remember. It’s been a long time ago.
Another excellent refining👍! My fav part is also precipitating the gold out of solutuin. You had to tease us with the talk of a gold anode cell. I cant wait def going to be watching that video when you releaae it! You the Man Sreetips. Thanks for sharing.
The silver cell videos are my favourites though I’m sure an electrolytic gold cell will fascinate me just as much, if not more. Can’t wait!
That was a very smooth pour you did, it clearly takes some skill.
I can't wait to see the gold cell! It's going to be absolutely beautiful when it plates out on the sides!
Sulfuric acid just before the filter process! been waiting for this! lol
Fascinating out come!!
Your volume level is on a very even plain now, thank very much👍
Excellent, I bumped it up just a touch. Thanks for the feedback.
Exciting times.
Strange how this content has impacted me. Never imagined feeling like low Karat jewelery scrap is worth more to me than higher Karat jewelery scrap. Nor that losing money was such a great idea. Im on board though. My asparagus froze out for three weeks now, peonies barely greening and just a few budding leaves on the peach trees. I suppose it'll be back to severe drought soon.
Thanks for sharing this stuff sreetips - going bonkers here. Dreaming about this gold mine an hour west of Denver, CO, if I can slap 33,000,000 down and carry the other 333,000,000.00 I envite you up ✌️♥️👍
Mining!
@@sreetips 1,000,000,000.00 in minerals deposits, gold assay is 3.5oz/Ton. Long several hundred foot veins 2-4' feet wide. Truthfully, the landscape and location is priceless. Very sensitive location.
@@anthonyrstrawbridge That's a dream claim! Colorado gold is very crystalized too! Specimens must look amazing! (hello from California)
SREETIPS that’s my favorite part as well. Thank you for showing us what happens when you do have to much Nitric Acid and Sodium Metabisulfite is added in another video a short while ago. 👍
"never ceases to amaze me, this metal", "looks delicious"...
my man, have you ever considered you might be a DRAGON?
But I am, I am.
Been waiting for the gold cell again Kev!
I am looking forward to seeing your Gold cell as your Silver one is churning out the goods... 👍👍
Amazing job on the purification… I admire the minimal loss and constant yield
Greetings from coastal Georgia, Sreetips! Thanks for another great video! I would really enjoy a video showing us how your clean your glassware. I don't know if you have that planned, or have the time, but I think about that quite a bit. How you clean your flasks, beakers, pipettes - that sort of thing. Whether you make that or not I'll be here for the ride. I find these videos relaxing. Thanks again.
Stoked to see the Gold Cell. I would very much love to see it and learn to create one, just like the Silver Cell.
Your videos are very entertaining to me, keep it up sir.
I've been watching your videos for about a year now. I'm glad I did. This process also works really well in purifying copper. I needed pure copper for a project and this allowed me to use junk copper I acquired legally from many different sources. Thanks. This is a lot easier than the other more energy intensive method of melting the copper. Im not even sure if melting it would purify it either because it was alloyed to begin with.
Hey Kevin you should try and making a supersaturated solution of SMB and taking your gold-bearing solution and drip the SMB via a addition funnel one drop at a time and watch to see if it starts coming out of solution all at once or if it actually does a complete flashover and you'd want it to be sitting on a stir bar plate stirring when you're dripping that into the gold
Why is it that gold is so fascinating to look at? I have watched your process loads of times but I still enjoy it every single time. I ended up becoming a soldier even though i was always quite academic 😅 and I have to say , I think I would have enjoyed chemistry
Beautiful bar sreetips one of these days. You're gonna have to show us your stack. great video as always
Heya StreeTips been working out at sea...so playing catch-up when I can .. as I look I'm gonna start here .. I remember the conversation about doing this .. I an getting on my feet...saving !! Cuz gold is better than cash any day!! Thanks for all you do to teach us the importance of gold an metals ...thanks !!!✌🏼💗😊
Out to sea!? That’s what I used to do. I was always glad to get back home.
I’ve watched a couple other refiners videos recently, and I must say, Sreetips just makes the best looking gold bars ever.
SIR!
I simply love it! Interesting and coincidental how just a few hours ago I'd been trying to clear up the issue of excess nitric on the GRF. And most of the stuff you do ; incremental dosages of nitric to avoid the excess and also the evaporation technique you just carried out helped in clearing out the basic understanding of how its done. It almost seems like you read the issue there and felt like doing a video on it to make it easy for your viewers.
The seniors on that forum are just great with theoretical knowledge and your videos just sum it all up.
THANKYOU VERY MUCH AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL! ❤
Excellent, thank you!
I love to watch your videos , you are such a great Mentor and Teacher . Absolutely Amazing at what you do , Bravo , sreetips
A beautiful gold bar, watching the whole process never gets old. I'm looking forward to this gold cell, I wonder if we'll see pretty gold crystals like what the silver cell makes. 👍
Beautiful bar once again and I'm in great anticipation for the gold cell.
I'm starting to see a pattern. You do a single refinement and make some pimple bar or button. Then you say you will send it into the big refiner. You sleep on it, and then you refine them again making them into delicious golden bars. I as a viewer appreciate this content!
I can’t resist the urge to purify the gold because it’s so easy to do.
Lol with you there
Now I feel better, now that you realy refined that gold. Was feeling a little out of it when you stopped last time
Someone said, “not your best work.” That floored me.
Yahoo! You deliver again. I will be glued to the gold cell. When?
I hate making promises because something always happens to interrupt.
@@sreetips No problem, we will wait for it. Way to up your game!
I’m glad I’ve found your channel lol I’m amazed and learn a lot thanks man 🤜🏼🤛🏻
I feel like the guy in your last video that said “not your best work” wasn’t anticipating the follow up, regardless of that you definitely have a very awesome attention to detail. Seeing a further refining on a BEAUTIFUL golden button, is always satisfying.
Oh yes!, I can't wait sreetips for the electrolytic gold cell, I was waiting for you to do another video like the old electrolytic gold cell you did, I'm excited for this one!,👍🏻and this video was amazing, thank you for your great video's from Ireland 🇮🇪!!!.
Skukum little bar! Really looking forward to the gold cell video too. 👍
Love these videos. I can't get enough.
Hey Kev, I followed your instructions and it worked!! Refined 2 ounces of gold that I prospected last couple of years.
I have some yellow sludge left over, haven't a clue what it is.
Beautiful. I can't wait for the gold cell vids.
It never ceases to amaze me how much more gold or silver appears when dry versus after it melts
Gooood morning from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great day!
Goooood morning!
Hello David. I whis you a great weekend 😊. Arne
@@arnedalbakk6315 Do you have anything fun planned for the weekend? I'm going to do yard work. Had a thunderstorm last night. Lots of downed tree limbs to cleanup.
@@DavidDavis-OU814 David... I hope the snow here in Trysil in Norway melting, so i can take my Fisher f2, and maybe find some gold and silver😊
Have you planning somthings for the weekend
David?
Offcourse had to clean up after the storm. God bless you David🙏
that color on the solution is so beautiful !
Hi Sreetips, are you planning any of your gold/silver recovery’s from your paper storage/stock pots? I know it’s a bunch of work and a lot of supplies, but would love to see it. Also, would love to see a garage/workshop tour and makeover Reno. I’m a long time fan and just curious, no pressure.
It’s getting close to another stock pot refining. I have a couple videos on my shop tour posted.
Ausome bar. Looking forward to the upcoming fun! Thank you Sir. 👍👍🤟
Thanks for another awesome video sreetips! I just can't get enough of your content. I'd love to see a placer gold refining series in an electrolytic gold cell (if that's even possible... Idk)
I think he did a video on placer gold.
@Paul Brown I know, it was a chemical refining though.
Working up placer Au wouldn’t be much different than him working up his scrap jewelry.
I wonder if you’re talking about working up Au from a hard rock mine. THAT could be a much different thing.
I live close to the base of the Kennecott copper mine and they crush the ore and dump it over an acid resistant layer then spray it with acid to leach the metals out. What acid would they be using?
@@lvstofly it’s not acid. It’s sodium cyanide.
3:30 lid on a beaker reducing speed of solution evaporation near 4-5 times returning most part of liquid in the form of dripping back condensate
4:45 Evaporate solution up to slightly damp or completely dry crystals of chloroauric acid. And don't waste muriatic acid to rehydrate(redisolve) the crystals, it's better to use distilled water for this purpose.
Gold dissolved in aqua regia shouldn’t be boiled. It should be evaporated slowly to a syrup then rehydrated with HCl. This is how I learned it from professional refiners on the goldrefiningforum.com - the lid on the beaker prevents gold droplets from flying out of the beaker. Of course, the best way to denoxx is to add just the right amount of nitric so there none in the gold solution.
@@sreetips Both methods are correct. i learned my variation from "Francois Pellier" channel. He is private analitic chemist and refiner. He uses dosens of recipes and work with all kinds precious metals bearing materials (ores, scrap elecronics, scrap jewelries, jeweller wastes, old coins, etc.)
Sreetips when you said " Anode for an electrolytic gold cell " my jaw dropped! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT!!
A gold cell?
That should be an awesome video
Looking forward to it
Just mesmerizing watching the process. The end result is nearly hypnotic I can imagine how it would be in person!! :D
Great presentation. Thank you.
Wow! Didn’t think we’d see another one of those, great news!!
Yay for the electrolytic gold cell! Can't wait to see those gold crystals! 🤤🥇
I am so excited to see a gold cell! I’ll count this as my belated birthday (27Apr) gift.
Can't wait to see the gold cathode put together and working.
Hey sreetips, love your videos. How come you didn’t use sulfamic acid in denoxing the excess nitric? It can be bought at aqua mix at Home Depot for 10$ a pound. Added benefit is you won’t have to add sulfuric acid - it will convert to sulfuric and help precipitate the lead
Wanted to show the evaporation method this time.
@@sreetipshave you ever had your post rinsed HCl boil appear to start dissolving the gold back to AuCl3? I had a situation just moments ago where I thought my Mudd was beginning to redissolve in just HCl.. talk about curve ball. Fortunately, it ceased after going back at it with several rinses, and my HCl is clear now.
I love watching you work and listening to you talk about this work you clearly love doing.
stay safe brother. Yashuah is the way ❤️
Jesus!
@@sreetips indeed
Very interesting. How do the nitric fumes get out if you put a lid on? Does the HCl evaporate as well and is that why you keep adding more? Also, at what temparature do you boil it?
The fumes get drawn away from my work area by my fume hood. There’s a vent near the beaker to allow fumes to exit the reaction. I set it on medium high.
Hello Mr. Sreetips, have you ever tried to laminate the gold and silver alloy after making the inquartation ? I think that if the alloy is rolled very thin very thin and then goes to the nitric acid, it will save time in boiling with acid and of course it would be faster. Am I right? Thank you for your videos and the excellent dedication with which you do your work, I look forward to your kind response. thanks again
Yes, I tried it. I spent at least a half hour once, trying to roll thin, an ingot of inquarted gold. It turned out to be a lot more work than I suspected. The alloy is much harder than the individual metals are. So I became resigned to just pouring shot to increase surface area, instead of trying to roll it, and let the chemicals do all that work for me.
The gotomeeting melt dish. I'm dead 😂
Very cool! Can't wait to see how much our "steam explosion" invention speeds things up!
Love your pic! It's my favorite album.
Did you all have any luck at the estate sale or wherever you all were heading too the other day?
We got a few gold filled watches. But no karat gold. We’ve seen a steep decline in the amount of karat scrap out there. People are starting to get wise. At some point I believe it will dry up completely. Once gold is allowed to hit its true value. Right now they kill the inflation hedge, with inflation!
@@sreetips unfortunately the gold standard is not on the DNC or GOP's radar, from what I can tell. Only radar it is on is the Libertarian Party's but they are more concerned with eating each other or a National Divorce. Unless it is Dave Smith, I don't see the price correction in the future. It may have died off with Nixon's presidency, the true value.
This is when a roller mill or hammer comes in extremely handy
solid pour good job. You don't boil in so4 after to clean of borax if it carried over
Love the show.
Would it be possible to set you volume settings higher. Hard of hearing. Hope you're all good
I just cranked them about 5% the other day during this video. I’ll bump it up a little more. Thank you.
You’re one of two insta-clicks when I see your notification pop up.
Hope you’re looking forward to a nice weekend!
Thank you, the best to you also.
Good job 👏🏻, i have a question please, to dissolved the gold in aqua regia without heating how many hours it takes ?
It could take days.
@@sreetips thanks 🤍
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. Superb clip sir. Thanks for sharing.
Do you and your wife finds some interesting things early that mornings? The clip whit the bug. Have a nice weekend 😊. Arne
We found a few gold filled watches. But the amount of karat gold has dropped off sharply. Maybe folks are starting to wise up about paper currencies losing value and valuations based on mountains of debt.
@@sreetips I think you are right Sir. It was not long ago where a big bank hade to give up.
Banks are failing here too
Is it evening in that part of us you live Mr sreetips?
Here in Trysil Norway the clock is 04:50 in yeh morning. Saterday
It’s 11pm here right now. Just turning in for the evening. Good night friend!
Lush so chilling to watch ❤️
Oooh! Complete ignoramus here - I feel like I fell into a different, magic kingdom!
What if an inert gas such as commonly used in welding was used to purge the oxygen around the mold? IIRC it's heavier than air so one could simply have the mold in some sort of metal container filled a flow of the gas. Though the heat would be difficult to maintain.
It’s easier to use a reducing flame.
That pour was amazing what a gorgeous bar...
I don’t refine gold. I have melted a whole lot of gold. That’s always satisfying. I love watching your videos. Have you ever packed that gold powder into the mold and then melted it? I would love to see a bar done like that.
Looking forward to the next one...
Electrowinning isn't it or something real similar to that?
Wohlwill process to refine four nines gold. The big refiners use it. But I can duplicate it on a small scale.
So i know you add the sulfuric acid to get rid of any precipitate any presence of lead. Is there a way where you could add a bit of lead to your gold refining to see the presence of lead when you add the sulfuric acid?
Yes
@@sreetips sweet man. I know you add it every time, but would be interesting to actually see it happen in action.
I’ll make a video
Superb!
Hello ..I am a huge fan of your videos and also I am starting to do some of those experiments... How can I find that standard chloride you use to test gold in solution...thanks, and God bless
I believe it is homemade.
I bought stannous chloride crystals on eBay. Pure tin shot also. Here’s my recipe: 1 gram stannous chloride crystals. 1 gram pure tin shot. 25ml distilled water. 30 drops of hydrochloric acid. Combine, shake, use immediately. Lasts for up to three months.
@@sreetips thanks for your response 👍 🙏
It would be cool to see you buying at the place where you were going to get the metal. The whole process I mean.
Thats gold crystal will be veeeeery interesting sir😊. Good luck Mr sreetips. Arne
Can the gold solution in the liquid state before adding the SMB, can it be used as an electroplating solution?
I don’t know. I’ve never done any electroplating.
Forbidden Alka-Seltzer; Plop Plop Fizz Fizz oh what Aqua Regia is!
Gold crystals would be pretty neat
Greetings Kevin. I've been watching your channel for a little while now, and I've begun doing all of this myself. What I've noticed is that after I put the stump out in, my gold always looks gray, even after the muratic bath & boil. I have not does anything with the burner yet or a furnace. I still just have it in the gray form. Am I doing something wrong? Thank you in advance, and I really dig your channel a lot.
I’ve never seen my gold turn gray. That’s baffling.
How much gold do you loose under the evaporation with the oxy-acetylene torch ? Gold evaporation starts at 1400 °C , the oxy-acetylene torch produces up to 3480°C.
The losses start when I remove stones. Small amounts of gold chip off and get lost. Next during inquartation. Some of the gold sticks to the melt dish. Next loss is during pour off of the silver. Boiling nitric dissolves traces of gold that end up in the silver jar. Plus some crumbs of gold get poured off. When dissolving the gold, some of it leaves the beaker as tiny droplets and go up the stack. When filtering the gold some of it gets splashed out and gets lost. Some sticks to the filter papers. And the inside of the filter funnel concraks some gold and it probably goes down the drain. That’s one way that gold ends up in the ocean. When transferring the gold solution some gets splashed out. And, the torch (oxy/acetylene is up around 6000f) so there are losses all along the way. Minimizing them will depend on the skill and technique used by the refiner.
@@sreetips Thank you for the answer !
Love your bars
something else that pulled off trash, is the borax used in the melting. maybe if you used more borax when enquorting, you could remove more trash early on?
Possibly.
Looking forward to seeing that video excellent content thank you for sharing this six stars
I love watching your videos, but it is so much. Do you have an ebook, or a playlist of all the materials your need from start to finish? I would be cool to see a flow chart of the steps you take. separating out Jewelry into base metals, then each process Then walking it into a store and selling it.. If it was a playlist you would get multiple views per episode from start to finish of people taking notes. Hell even just a video showing all the supplies you need to get started
Even for someone who doesn't understand chemistry like this, it is mesmerizing. I see a video of yours every few months and watch a bunch of them at once. thanks for the entertainment.
I’ve included as much detail as possible in my videos. When I first started refining, I would have been delighted to find videos, like mine, for free on TH-cam. Back then 2010, there were bits and pieces and critical details were left out. Then you’d be directed to a site and solicited for payment to receive the details. That’s when I decided to share my knowledge and withhold nothing. I believe that it’s part of the reason that I have success with my channel. Because you can watch my videos, take notes, and repeat what I’ve done, even though that’s not what the videos are intended for.
@@sreetips Intentionally doing that says a lot about our character. Thank you sir. I will go to the bottom of the list and start there.
Super excited for the next video!!
Is the potential boil over the only reason for boiling off or neutralizing the excess nitric acid?
Other metals, if present, will precipitate with the gold and contaminate it. This is more likely to happen if excess nitric is present.
I live close to the base of the Kennecott copper mine and they crush the ore and dump it over an acid resistant layer then spray it with acid to leach the metals out. What acid would they be using?
Have you considered making monoatomic gold for sale? It has some amazing properties. I think it speeds up the nervous system, better conductors means less resistance, faster signals, reduces stress. It's kinda like gold terminals on high end electronics, there would be lower oxidative stress better reception. If our telemers were gold infused our life spans would increase. Noah told us to burn the golden calf and eat it! There is another biblical passage that warns of overconsumption but I forget where. Consume too much and we might activate our light body and fly away.
I don’t know.
I’ve tried to research it. Wikipedia refers to it as pseudo-science. There’s no data other than anecdotal accounts of it’s amazing properties. I wouldn’t know how to do it.
How cool would it be to see a heist film where they just use this technique to smuggle gold
When you have gold or silver shot, can you melt that directly in the graphite mold to avoid any problems in the pour over from a crucible?
I’ve never tried it. But I will say that melting metal in a graphite crucible erodes the graphite away. I think it would ruin the graphite mold.
New subscriber here from the Mountain State. Hey, what's the etymology of your channel name and what part of the country are you in? At first, I misread it as Street Tips as in the folks who comb through and refine city sidewalk sweepings. 🙂
It’s a meaningless word, like Kodak. Welcome to my channel!
I was mortified at how much you were letting go to waste by pouring off so much "waste", I would've guessed it wild be more efficient to just use a vacuum filter that way NOTHING gets poured off. I guess Nile spoiled me 😂
The “waste” isn’t wasted. If any gets poured off with the waste solution it doesn’t go to waste. It accumulates in my waste container for recovery later. I just Nile is converting some of that paper currency into real money, real wealth: GOLD!
LOL after hearing you three different times say man that sure looks good I still look at it and the first thing that comes to my mind is my cat vomited in his bowl again which is kind of an acquired perspective I would say much like the one I have when I smell a skunk and my brain says boy that smells good while all the non-smokers look at me like I'm crazy hahaha
Relativity
Is there a reason to leave the glass on top when reducing the gold solution? I'd think you'd want to leave it off to get it done faster.
I leave it on to keep junk from falling in.
I wonder if you could speed up the initial dissolve by flattening out the gold first to increase surface area. Maybe with that roller machine from the platinum video
Yes that would help. But I’d rather watch a video or do something else and let the chemicals do all that work for me.
I loved when you said the gold bar looked "delicious"! I had a good laugh because it looks like some sort of Willy Wonka chocolate bar wrapped in pure gold. It DOES look delicious! Awesome news on your upcoming gold cell, can't wait. One question: i watch other channels where guys that are mining gold smelt their own gold buttons from ore. I'm curious how pure their resultant gold is as compared to your chemical ways. There are so many other elements in the ore that it would seem to me a more 'crude' method than yours, not nearly so pure.
I thought the same thing. I think and I’m no expert but the metallurgy can get 95%+ but to get the 999 fine it needs chemistry.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
Smelting, rendering gold from ore, produces impure gold that must be refined.
You are correct, as far as I know.
Have You ever thought about using NevRdull to polish out those stains on the metal? Would that even work?
They kind of disappear on their own after a day or so.
How do I go about getting the excess nitric out (small batch so only 10ml or so was even added) so that the gold drops out with SMB. I have added SMB and it is still too acidic. My thought was adding more gold and just recovering it with the batch. Or I may try this method here unless it won't work with the SMB being added. Thank you for the great videos as always! You are the reason I got into doing this in the first place!
If you add SMB and no gold comes down then it’s safe to conclude that there’s no gold in the solution. This is a common beginner mistake.
@sreetips i started with gold foils. My stannous test says yes. I think there is too much residual nitric that is redisolving the gold as it precipitates. But could be wrong. This is only my 6th time through the process. The liquid dropped some but is still yellow.