Dissolving Gold in Poor Man's Aqua Regia

The whole proccess of dissolving gold in poor man's aqua regia and futher precipitation with SMB

[@StezeeRider]

Thoroughly enjoyed the simplicity and presentation..

[@MRBOOCH526]

The video about proper methods of gold precipitation was just as entertaining as it was informative. Also I would love to see a video demonstrating fractional distillation. Thanks!

[@sreetips]

Useful video, thank you.

[@hithereart]

Great helpful video!!!! Thank you very much!!!

[@MRBOOCH526]

I really enjoy your videos. This one was also quite good.

[@borispetrov6575]

+Everett Beatty Thanks I really apreciate you like my videos

[@sniffinjoe7140]

Very well explained great video thank you.

[@ivsongold322]

very good my friend, great work, success, we, your projects

[@wngchnKid]

i will be looking forward to that! thanks a lot.

[@mohmadborhan4388]

hi , really all your videos are great and full of knowledge .

[@phuongthach1290]

Cong thuc khong ro trong hoa hoc

[@daljitslabdsr3185]

Ur channel is so interesting i like ur all concept

[@saraancell4636]

Thank you for your video making this proscess easier, however can you please talk about how to extract gold from gold filled and heavy plated jewelry the easiest way possible?

[@ryanatkinson2978]

Thank you!

[@tomstirniman3370]

I've gotten some good info from your videos. You explain things well and you go at a nice pace for taking notes. I was excited to try this poor Man's AR method on some concentrates that I have. But I had to laugh at myself when I realized I was just going to end up with a beaker full of white mushy salts. Hopefully you can give me a couple tips and I can try again. First, I washed my cons in some HCl thinking this would be a good way to get rid of some base metals - then filter and wash Second, I added a couple teaspoons of Sodium Nitrate (Hi-Yield 16-0-0) with about 100ml of HCL - had to heat a bit after an hour because it didn't look like much was happening - then started getting bubbles Let sit overnight Third, filter into beaker and slowly add Sulfamic to de-NOX - very visible roiling on surface and lots of white gas released. This goes on for a long time.....every time I add another 1/2 teaspoon it takes off again. Finally it calms down and no heavy reaction. It does change color from that deep golden to more of a pale yellow. Pale Yellow salts collecting in the bottom of beaker. Fourth, I filter, let set and slowly add SMB. Big reaction with lots of bubbling and fumes. Keeps getting lighter and lighter in color. I think I could keep adding SMB all day. The only thing collecting on the bottom of beakers is light, white fluffy stuff. I am going to keep experimenting with different combinations and steps but wanted to ask a knowledgeable person what the obvious mistake is that I'm making.

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[@Muaaand]

i got the same behavior ... white mushy salts seperating to the bottom...maybe this caused by Tap Water? Did you manage to purify your Gold and how you did it?

[@Tigeristiger]

A few years late, but that plastic you have on your table, I pulled the same one out of a monitor. Just wild I was able to notice that.

[@AquaRegia-419]

Likewise. As well the other sheets are great for random projects/art.

[@wngchnKid]

thank you for sharing your knowledge. i learned a lot. hope in the future, you could share your knowledge in gold leaching process using safe chemicals like iodine.

[@borispetrov6575]

+wngchnKid Yes I can make such a video one day provided I will have enough gold bearing material suitable for iodine leaching

[@1hardman161]

My cons have sulfur, prevents SMB from working. Will this process work? Cons in AR warm, increments nitric and HCl till no reaction, filter rinse, back in pot hot to denox add HCl twice then water, stir in zinc filter precip rinse, dry then take precip put in hot HCl 24 hrs, filter rinse real good, then put precip into nitric/water hot 24 hrs filter and melt with oxy/acet torch. Not worried about silver loss, I am after the gold and pgm's. Zinc drops all metals, then HCl soak and Nitric soak to remove all junk metals, but gold and pgm's. Is this process correct?

[@alllove1754]

Nice, and I've been wasting my nitrates trying to make nitric acid and only getting a weak solution... Good to know!

[@jakebaldwin1308]

Angel All Love sulfuric acid, nitrate salt, copper, bubbled through either water or hydrogen peroxide - gotta love nurdrage!

[@Butterfly-fb3jk]

Do you have any idea how high must be pH level before adding SMB? Is it 5 pH? I´m having a panic now. I lost my gold in aqua regia, just dissolving it with water + I added hydrazine hydrate 98% solution a bit after all. First occured brownish snot in it what dissolved after 15 min. I tested my AR with SnCl2 after "accident "any sign of gold... What do you think, should I correct pH level first (water/HCl) and repeat it again with Hydrazine hydrate 60% or I can use sulfamic acid and try SMB in my AR? It has nice color , clear dark yellow.

[@prospectorpete]

please tell me how to use iron sulfate , i bought some and i dont know how much to use

[@tjsonic11]

one of the best video I have seen thank you. If you can be bothered I would love one on refining Catalytic converters and possibly using peroxide. I like in Australian and alot of the chemicals and hard to buy. cheers Tj

[@borispetrov6575]

+tjsonic11 Thanks I really apreciate you liked my video. Unfurtunatelly I will not make any video about automotive catalytic converters. At least not any soon. The trouble with aoutomotive cats they may contain ZERO Platinum Group Metals. I'm not saying all of them are worhtless, but quite many. So unless somebody is willing to donate me some ammount of automotive cats I will not be bothered with them, becaue I'm afraid I just waste my money (I would have to buy them, since I do not own scrapyard)

[@AwakeningEnthusiast]

So can I take all the placer gold that I have panned and refine it to a pure state this way?

[@rodneysrepurposingrecyclin3821]

I have been waiting for new videos. Have you been doing well my friend?

[@Milkman12114]

The water bottle that you put the glove fingers. Can you add some baking soda to help dilute any aqua regia residue? Or is it not needed.

[@MrCcfly]

nice video..can u write what chemicals u use in process ?? what is s m b on end ? ,what salt u use on beginning ? magnesium chloride ? thanks

[@SomervilleBob]

Any chance of making a fizzer cell video for gold? Thanks.

[@BullProspecting]

Can you use sodium nitrate? Instead of magnesium nitrate?

[@TacticalPeace]

So I can melt down gold 10k-18k jewelry turn into cornflakes and use this method to purify it?

[@adilmehafoos.c3993]

Can I convert the aqua Regis color into a clear as water with glycerine

[@sponyz]

after adding smb my solution turned dark red then light green after 10 minutes. yours turned black. i was wondering if my solution had any problem, why it turned dark red? i made test on some rocks to check if they have gold.

[@healthbeauty7853]

i dissolved gold laptop ram connectors in acid peroxide, and its now liquid gold in acid peroxide. how do i get it out of acid peroxide, do i use smb.

[@FollowMe2aMillion]

Boris, here I am watching your old videos again. Would love to see what you are working on these days old friend.

[@larryshively1790]

Yes hi so I have ran about 6 batches of gold on circuit board s so I have 6 jars of green solution now I know there's gold in the solution now do I put the sodium metabisulfite and how much do I use and do I use hot water please get back to me thank you

[@belchev77]

Hi,where are you from, i very much hope you are bulgarian.I need help, I live in London, and the materials are not easy to find here.

[@joshwallace2183]

Does it turn green at the beginning because it is dissolving base metals?

[@Auroral_Anomaly]

I didn’t know you could use other nitrates.

[@dalalbanijaber3893]

Hello my friend I work as an amateur in collecting scrap you beyond the mistakes of leaving my solutions containing all the minerals and deposits all contain recycled What is the best way to re-repeating the process successfully and easy ways uncomplicated and thank you for your wonderful videos and information

[@seannyc88]

hey sir what did mean watch out for carbon? i think thats my situation i cant precipitate gold out

[@marcoapimentel8096]

Thenks l marco and l think is the perfc tu cualiri ilike wather regia ?wat is the daste watcany youset

[@justdejv2946]

can i use 31% hydrochloric acid?

[@everydaynews33]

Thank's for video's. My question is: can I use caustic soda to neutralize nitric acid? And can I use kalium meta bi sulfate to precipitate gold? Thank you for your answer.

[@uxleumas]

yes, but it's easy to over-shoot the ph with naoh and that might turn some of the gold salt into gold hydroxide.

[@gilfrd]

Hi Boris. I tried your instructions, very good video. After the initial reaction the contents turned very dark green, almost black not tea colored. I have not de-nitrified it yet and it's been 3 days. Did I do anything wrong or should I just continue the process? I used HCl 35% and potassium nitrate. Please help.

[@94981745]

It's probably dissolved a lot of copper as well as gold.... Thats where the green colour comes from...... Notice at the end of the video the gold has settled at the bottom and the liquid solution is blue?? It''s blue because of the copper left in the solution. It shouldn't affect you too much... Keep going.

[@1hardman161]

@@94981745 Hopefully you get back to me soon. I have ore thats very heavy in sulfur. I first done AR then zinc, then remove the zinc and got 1 gram of gold from 5 lbs of cons. I was told to do AR, filter, then add copper to the liquid leave sit and the precious metals will precipitate, then take this and go back to AR. I have a white sticking to the pipe looks like calcium. I cant find any help on this and am in the middle of doing this. I understand I need to do this to get the metals away from the sulfur first. Will this way of process work? Thanks

[@numatechprototypes222]

What about potassium nitrate?

[@nativeflight7079]

What is the material you’re using as table top?

[@crazykitchenswatijais6563]

In 100 ml HCl how much kno3 will be good

[@david2ljdavid2lj56]

If you have a nitrate salt then why wouldn't you just synthesize nitric acid with it?

[@philrant2408]

Very interesting, can I use this to recover gold from terminals? I have a lot from my blood test monitor.

[@roywhipple7340]

If doing terminals from blood test its easier to use actual nitric acid/ muriatic acid combinations and watch sreetips youtube videos on refining circuit board fingers. Been nerding out on this stuff for months,

[@nickhouck4309]

Now I'm confused because I have watched bunch of refining videos and they all use nitric acid to dissolve copper and base metal. So wouldn't this still be a mixture of whatever it was to begin with? They use hydrochloric and claim the hydrochloric will only dissolve the gold and not copper..

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

I wonder if you could do a video on how to make (karat) gold electroplating solution in the neighborhood of 10k-18k but without potassium cyanide or any form of cyanide preferably. I need to do some electroplating but I definitely don't want to do it in 24k and it would be awesome if it could be done without leveraging an impregnated solution as much as using donor gold as soluble anode because I have the donor gold (and it could become an anode in less than 10 minutes). I could make a donation to your Channel or something like that for incentive or be eternally grateful as I'm unemployed and on a very tight budget but I can easily handle a 10 or 20 dollar donation if need be.

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

I'm curious why you characterized it as "the most elegant way to do it" was to use sulfamic acid?

[@seannyc88]

how do you avoid carbon issue

[@jessewenger1004]

Silver nitrate or copper nitrate with the hydrochloric

[@kevinauld4367]

Like your style except when you are adding , 1to 1 or 1 to 3 is that bye wate or by vallum . I know you have not made a video for a few years 🤔

[@excelyousef8968]

Hi Boris, great vodeos, hoping you can help. I managed to dissolve the gold in poor mans ar with magnesium nitrate. Looked good. I then tried sodium matabisulPHATE, which reacted but did not precipitate anything. I tried other amounts, no good. I then tried with sodium metabisulPHITE, but there is no reaction at all. Should I try again with sulphate or sulphite and do something different?

[@toomuchdebt5669]

When all else fails add copper or zinc and stat all over again.

[@hillbilly4998]

Nice video if you had no idea how much gold to expect could you add smb a little at a time and keep doing stannous test in solution thanks for the video

[@malcolmcliff-du8qp]

I'd also like to know this, I'd prefer SMB rather... Only reason I haven't done my gold refining is cause I don't know how much is in my small raw bar.

[@eyupgoker5169]

Hallo habe eine frage mit was haben Sie es gemischt denn Sulfamic acid mit heißem wasser danke

[@borispetrov6575]

+Eyüp Göker Sprichst du Deutsch? :)

[@mrgreenswelding2853]

Ammonium nitrate can go boooom!

[@garethbaus5471]

Good reason to not use it unless you absolutely have to.

[@AceBullion]

How do you get any silver out of solution if its there?

[@joshuarhodes338]

jonrms use ammonia

[@jamesburriss1086]

Add copper and aerate and it cement out of the solution onto the copper

[@abrahamlincoln6102]

> has gold >cant afford aqua regia

[@AlexEiken24]

I like the video. Very informative. Thank you for the information. You said any type of nitrate would work? What about Potassium Nitrate? Same concept?

[@borispetrov6575]

Potassium and Sodium nitrates are among the best ones. So yes, it will work like charm

[@AlexEiken24]

+Boris Petrov You're awesome. Thank you. I really enjoy processing, purifying, dissolving and refining precious metals.

[@Micro-Miner]

And what is with ammonium nitrate will it work to ?

[@gilfrd]

Boris Petrov

[@scrappydoo7887]

So is poor man's nitric the same as poor man's aqua regia?

[@scottadams3586]

what is SMB and where do I purchase it?????????????????????

[@jamesburriss1086]

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[@ponkiebonk]

It would be zinc

[@allenhammer7923]

SMB?

Boris, what is SMB?

Voice despair

[@AwakeningEnthusiast]

Can somebody please give me a list of things that I could get at local stores to do this? I have so much gold and all of it is different. He's I have 10K 14k 18K 24K. But I would like to make it all as close to the same and highest Purity possible. And then I have an idea for a mold I would like to make my own gold plaque with our family name on it and frame it. I have about 10 oz totaled. I am okay with losing some of the weight in refining this but I cannot seem to find any clear videos that tell me exactly what I need and where I can get it. Once I find out I might even make a video so that there is a clear video out there on this so other people can find it easier. Thank you in advance

[@nurettingencturk1124]

I couldn't understand anything because there is no subtitles in the video you made.ıam so sorry

[@ainschuntayleuhn1147]

Hello... Thank you very much for producing what appears to be the most practical and economically methods in the fine art of Gold Recovery. Question I have is: May I use Baking Soda to Neutralize this acid solution?

[@kieranodea771]

If you mean neutralize extra nitric acid before precipitating the gold then no. This will cause base metals to fall out of solution in the form of carbonates and hydroxides and would contaminate your gold. You could try to filter these out then precipitate the gold but this is not advised. If you mean to neutralize the waste solution after any precious metals have been recovered then sure. I usually a good idea to removed all dissolved metals before dumping out any waste solution.

[@kieranodea771]

Also to precipitate gold with sodium metabisulfite you need HCL in the solution. SMB reacts with hydrochloric acid to make SO2 gas, this gas is what then causes gold to precipitate out. As baking soda will neutralize both hydrochloric acid and nitric acid it can't be used to neutralize extra nitric acid present before dropping out gold.

[@Hossak]

You can dissolve it with glycine.

[@naughtiusmaximus830]

Boris is Dutch?

[@YoRichh]

Weneed to talk

[@jamestruax9716]

is there anything you can replace for the salfamic acid

[@sreetips]

Evaporate to syrup and rehydrate with hydrochloric acid will rid the solution of excess nitric acid. Or you can just add extra sodium metabisulfite (SMB) until all the gold comes down and stays down.

[@theterribleanimator1793]

@@sreetips just a question, would bubbling so2 work?

[@shrikamakshi5984]

Pl.precscribe contents

[@rameshchaursiya2102]

main Indian ho UP ka rahane wala hun aapka English language samajh mein Nahin aata hai kripya Karke Hindi language mein bataen kaun kaun liquid Dal kar taiyar Kiya jata hai gold

[@gcrecords1731]

this guy is speak very whell english

[@markvietti]

I dont think your freak

[@isaacclark9825]

Silver dissolves just fine in aqua regia. In fact, it will dissolve in just nitric acid. You need to rethink what you are doing here.

[@rkb6783]

60 seconds of info... 15:30 of ME ME ME ME ME ME... NO THANKS ! I NEED information !

[@jonross377]

you are wrong. I can easily buy nitric acid here in the states. shit is expensive though. 60 bucks a liter. it is much cheaper to make your own.

[@RLScheurman]

jeez, for fucks sake dude, neoprene gloves

[@allenhammer7923]

2.05 into it I don't know what you said at all. You have an accent, you can not just make a sound that has no resemblance to a word and expect me to know what you said. You got to try harder. MIstakes in Chemistry can kill you, I need to know the word?