Dissolving Gold In Hot Aqua Regia

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[@BobbyJHeupel]

I’ve waited forever for a new electrolytic gold cell!! Awesome.

[@PaulBrown-uj5le]

Me too, I'm gonna love this already I know it lol.

[@AeRoSpaceman-1]

Yeah can't wait for it. Going to be very interesting!

[@andrejohnson6731]

Same here ❤

[@Lennydontcare]

To think that’s a $4k gold bar he just made

[@SaltyMeatHook]

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!

[@sreetips]

I can’t resist the urge to purify the gold because it’s so easy to do.

[@mikeconnery4652]

Lol with you there

[@mikeconnery4652]

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.

[@naughtiusmaximus830]

Literally alchemy. And you would still be imprisoned in Europe for it.

[@johnfarrow5873]

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

[@johnhawley4595]

Announcement of a gold cell is very exciting to hear! Can't wait to see how that turns out. Great vid as always!!

[@shieldwolffalcontrainer9040]

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.

[@JamesSkellington-xj8nn]

I love to watch your videos , you are such a great Mentor and Teacher . Absolutely Amazing at what you do , Bravo , sreetips

[@bgexy5457]

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.

[@sreetips]

I remember. It’s been a long time ago.

[@Lancelot.666]

I am looking forward to seeing your Gold cell as your Silver one is churning out the goods... 👍👍

[@kennyarmer4092]

Your videos are very entertaining to me, keep it up sir.

[@ulrichenevoldsen8371]

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

[@timhooper1557]

Sulfuric acid just before the filter process! been waiting for this! lol

[@VendettaProspecting]

Been waiting for the gold cell again Kev!

[@anthonyrstrawbridge]

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]

Mining!

[@anthonyrstrawbridge]

@@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.

[@GOLD_FEVER]

@@anthonyrstrawbridge That's a dream claim! Colorado gold is very crystalized too! Specimens must look amazing! (hello from California)

[@Stopbeingnosyffs]

Lush so chilling to watch ❤️

[@thegoodlookinorange1986]

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. 👍

[@bobross5580]

That was a very smooth pour you did, it clearly takes some skill.

[@johnmccormick650]

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!

[@patrickc.allenlive4373]

Great presentation. Thank you.

[@user-Sleepy]

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.

[@sreetips]

It’s getting close to another stock pot refining. I have a couple videos on my shop tour posted.

[@DavidDavis-OU814]

Gooood morning from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great day!

[@sreetips]

Goooood morning!

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Hello David. I whis you a great weekend 😊. Arne

[@DavidDavis-OU814]

@@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.

[@arnedalbakk6315]

@@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?

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Offcourse had to clean up after the storm. God bless you David🙏

[@infernalchaos1066]

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.

[@eh1702]

Oooh! Complete ignoramus here - I feel like I fell into a different, magic kingdom!

[@linn1934]

It would be cool to see you buying at the place where you were going to get the metal. The whole process I mean.

[@sixgunstrumpet3274]

Forbidden Alka-Seltzer; Plop Plop Fizz Fizz oh what Aqua Regia is!

[@busbey61]

Did you all have any luck at the estate sale or wherever you all were heading too the other day?

[@sreetips]

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!

[@busbey61]

​@@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.

[@DobleWhiteAndStabley]

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.

[@Frostyfarmer420]

Beautiful bar sreetips one of these days. You're gonna have to show us your stack. great video as always

[@ArielleViking]

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. 👍

[@TroubledOnePaydirt]

I’ve watched a couple other refiners videos recently, and I must say, Sreetips just makes the best looking gold bars ever.

[@iceman2184]

The gotomeeting melt dish. I'm dead 😂

[@scotthultin7769]

First 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing

[@emeraldkind]

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.

[@gratshor]

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.

[@sreetips]

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.

[@gratshor]

@@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.)

[@seropserop]

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

[@sreetips]

Wanted to show the evaporation method this time.

[@WilXliFY]

​@@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.

[@PaulBrown-uj5le]

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 🇮🇪!!!.

[@newtronix]

Superb!

[@xmchonkyx]

Gold crystals would be pretty neat

[@RJ-zm3tr]

I can't wait to see the gold cell! It's going to be absolutely beautiful when it plates out on the sides!

[@FLmetalhead]

Love your bars

[@D_A86]

That's a shiny loaf 🥹🤌

[@MrClownCrusher]

Yes! First one here 😊

[@arnedalbakk6315]

You lucky you😊. Have a nice weekend. Arne

[@OwlTech333]

This is when a roller mill or hammer comes in extremely handy

[@tryptaminenurse9851]

Love these videos. I can't get enough.

[@redakroma1]

Stoked to see the Gold Cell. I would very much love to see it and learn to create one, just like the Silver Cell.

[@AircreteHarry]

Can the gold solution in the liquid state before adding the SMB, can it be used as an electroplating solution?

[@sreetips]

I don’t know. I’ve never done any electroplating.

[@shepardsinsequence]

Amazing job on the purification… I admire the minimal loss and constant yield

[@markdittbenner9949]

You can gold plate a double headed tool for the lady's

[@sreetips]

I’ve never tried gold plating. It’s a different process from this, but not by much.

[@GOLD_FEVER]

And if you put some soft material in that metal container when you drop it in like 21:23 ... then you wouldn't have that GORGEOUS 24k surface scratched and dented like 21:44 (not trying to be mean whatsoever. just nitpicking... as we tend to do !)

[@sksuppressor756]

I always wondered where "sreetips" came from?

[@sreetips]

It’s a meaningless word, like Kodak. plucked from thin air

[@nickroy3293]

You should take a moment and show us the safety protocols you have in place. For instance, do you have a baking soda bath or the like. I only ask because many of us are careful, but could always benefit from a more informed bank of knowledge

[@michaelbyrnes1822]

10K views in 14hr 😎 every body remember how much the algorithm tilts for a quick comment

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Thats gold crystal will be veeeeery interesting sir😊. Good luck Mr sreetips. Arne

[@JoelHirtle]

The final comment about the gold cell is as exciting as waiting for the post credit scene at the movies haha I enjoy this stuff, can you tell?😅

[@Sugarkraft]

This is getting really good. Let’s grow some pure gold crystal. 👍👍🥰🥰

[@PrometheusZandski]

Yahoo! You deliver again. I will be glued to the gold cell. When?

[@sreetips]

I hate making promises because something always happens to interrupt.

[@PrometheusZandski]

@@sreetips No problem, we will wait for it. Way to up your game!

[@EchoJulez]

I am so excited to see a gold cell! I’ll count this as my belated birthday (27Apr) gift.

[@BobbyJHeupel]

You’re one of two insta-clicks when I see your notification pop up. Hope you’re looking forward to a nice weekend!

[@sreetips]

Thank you, the best to you also.

[@josephcormier5974]

Looking forward to seeing that video excellent content thank you for sharing this six stars

[@MrBoggles]

A gold cell? That should be an awesome video Looking forward to it

[@mickg6480]

Skukum little bar! Really looking forward to the gold cell video too. 👍

[@kaylabridgetrobinson5150]

Absolutely beautiful gold bar sreetips amazing shine to i love it ❤

[@dutchsplan]

How cool would it be to see a heist film where they just use this technique to smuggle gold

[@douglasjeffrey8384]

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.

[@rosstaylor3927]

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.

[@sreetips]

Smelting, rendering gold from ore, produces impure gold that must be refined.

[@sreetips]

You are correct, as far as I know.

[@teddyabearo1066]

Who else hits the thumbs up, THEN hits play? 👏🏾 🤟🏽🐻

[@jlemieu1]

solid pour good job. You don't boil in so4 after to clean of borax if it carried over

[@arnedalbakk6315]

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

[@sreetips]

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.

[@arnedalbakk6315]

@@sreetips I think you are right Sir. It was not long ago where a big bank hade to give up.

[@sreetips]

Banks are failing here too

[@arnedalbakk6315]

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

[@sreetips]

It’s 11pm here right now. Just turning in for the evening. Good night friend!

[@bigguix]

you need to melt all these small bars into a mega big bar someday !@ :)

[@MrRavipalsingh]

Very nice video about gold refining ❤️

[@MarkDonerSD]

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

[@sreetips]

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.

[@Richmart1955]

Looking forward to the gold crystal ❤

[@ANCIENTASTRONAUT411]

I got one question sir will potasuim nitrate and hydrocloric dissolve 24k gold i got some dirty gold powder i tried to dissolve it with potassium nitrate regia i couldnt for the life of me im thinking the gold i got is 24k with your experience my friend is a regia with potassium nitrate and hydrocloric strong enough to do it i even put it on the heat high heat too and it still stayed mudd but it did turn it light brown from black mudd

[@sreetips]

I’ve never tried that. I don’t know if it will work.

[@hanaashaheen4907]

ارجوا ترجمه بالغة العربية على الفيديو وشكرا جذيلااااا👍

[@SourBogBubble]

😎🤙🦅🤌

[@stanleybennett8879]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌✌🌏🌏🌏🌎🌎🌎🌍🌍🌍

[@donnakawana]

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 !!!✌🏼💗😊

[@sreetips]

Out to sea!? That’s what I used to do. I was always glad to get back home.

[@ANCIENTASTRONAUT411]

I don't think i ever seen any of your videos use potassuim nitrate regia right another gold guy told me to try it instead of nitric acid i may go back to nitric acid but maybe im not mixing the formula right or potassium nitrate is just good to extract gold only

[@sreetips]

I’ve never tried poor-man’s aqua regia.

[@matheuspamplona1850]

"never ceases to amaze me, this metal", "looks delicious"... my man, have you ever considered you might be a DRAGON?

[@sreetips]

But I am, I am.

[@Seeker_of_sense]

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?

[@sreetips]

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.

[@myleftthumb2294]

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. 🙂

[@sreetips]

It’s a meaningless word, like Kodak. Welcome to my channel!

[@ezgd2287]

Isa 48:9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. Isa 48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isa 48:11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

[@sreetips]

Ecl 7:14, when times are good, be glad. But when times are bad, one must consider, that God has made the one as well as the other. Amos ch3, when disaster comes to a city, is not the LORD the one who caused it. Unknown (can’t remember the book or verse) I create light and I bring darkness. I create good and I create evil. I, the LORD, do these things.

[@2212db]

Ooh, would love to see a gold cell in operation

[@mamagulayvlog]

58.1 so it's now 999.9 from 59.3 🙂

[@zutai1]

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?

[@sreetips]

Possibly.

[@bigguix]

could you explain the effect of aqua regia on gold ? and why the acids on their own can't dissolve gold but together they can ?

[@sreetips]

I’ve never figured it out. I must ask my chemist friend to have lunch with me and get these equations down for future reference. I’m not a chemist.

[@theonewhowas7709]

why are you wearing those gloves and messing with nitric acid.... a real bozo and inexperienced thing to do

[@sreetips]

68% nitric + nitrile gloves = no problem.

[@kyzercube]

Sreetips when you said " Anode for an electrolytic gold cell " my jaw dropped! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT!!

[@cracklingice]

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.

[@sreetips]

It’s easier to use a reducing flame.

[@monza5240]

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.

[@Antonowskyfly]

Ausome bar. Looking forward to the upcoming fun! Thank you Sir. 👍👍🤟

[@sharif7475]

Few days ago, due to my carelessness I spilled golden water (Royal water) on the ( cement ) floor around 36 gm I lost and the floor has been swallowed, is there any way to retrieve it?

[@sreetips]

Not that I know of.

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

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

[@sreetips]

Relativity

[@timlorlor6888]

Love the show. Would it be possible to set you volume settings higher. Hard of hearing. Hope you're all good

[@sreetips]

I just cranked them about 5% the other day during this video. I’ll bump it up a little more. Thank you.

[@ulrichenevoldsen8371]

Please tell us we can buy some gold crystals 😮

[@danomite1980]

Just mesmerizing watching the process. The end result is nearly hypnotic I can imagine how it would be in person!! :D

[@looweeg4229]

at 4:30, this liquid must be so dense!

[@jimwednt1229]

What exactly is happening to the gold when it's dissolved in the nitric acid, and what is taking place when the gold is precipitated out of solution ?

[@sreetips]

Chemistry. But I don’t know the formulas.

[@leewhite1969]

Is the potential boil over the only reason for boiling off or neutralizing the excess nitric acid?

[@sreetips]

Other metals, if present, will precipitate with the gold and contaminate it. This is more likely to happen if excess nitric is present.

[@pergel-szilard]

Dear Sreetips, will we get 99.99% gold in the end? Or, do we have to repeat what we saw in the video to further refine the gold?

[@sreetips]

Three nines is industry standard for gold. I can get four nines using an electrolytic gold refining cell. But that extra nine isn’t necessary. A double refining using aqua regia and SMB will get 999 gold.

[@hippyhebrewhomestead8593]

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.