Electrolytic Gold Refining Cell sreetips

[@johnwiggington9830]

I've seen this process on an industrial scale when I worked in a Copper and Gold mine in AZ. They pumped in a slurry from the leaching pads at the ore pit into giant vats with titanium sheets in them for transfer. Then you'd see big rigs hauling out stacks of them on trailers.

[@adws5696]

Shorts updates like this are great !!!

[@geramie15]

I'm interested on learning this, all thanks too you bro cheers to!

[@5272paul]

Thats where mums casserole dish’s went!

[@sreetips]

I get those at yard sales for a couple bucks each

[@patbluetree4636]

Impressive as always, nice work.

[@Lailioro]

❤

[@StefanShorko]

I rarely write stuff like this, but I'm your 69th like.

[@sreetips]

Thank you!

[@josephpecoul6532]

Very nice

[@darrenHokage4842]

Modern day Alchemy 🤟

[@jamesgreenler8225]

Ohhh 👏👏👏 I would love to see a macro pic of the gold , looking for crystal structures

[@cwb4280]

How’s it going my USS Semmes Shipmate? Hope you are doing well my friend. Love your videos.

[@sreetips]

I made Chief on Semmes.

[@phi1688]

This is cool! We’ve been learning about this in chemistry and seeing it in my feed at the same time is a nice coincidence

[@WJHDetroit]

Super cool! Nice job hammering the gold to make your wire btw! I wanted to let you use my rod mold and wire roller!!!

[@sreetips]

I’ve got a roller, didn’t think to use it.

[@ut000bs]

@@sreetips it's more fun hammering it out in my opinion.

[@ArielleViking]

Very nice 👍🏻

[@kimberlynolz5725]

Im about to set up an run another gold cell

[@jimirk6226]

Very nice $$

[@Mike-METALS]

That's what the RCM does

[@Tim-Kaa]

Love this!

[@alquimiavsmetalica5250]

You just have to take into account the voltage of 1.5V to 1.9 and amperes of 9.a to 11.a plus the pH, if it is too acidic, the gold does not crystallize.

[@BODYGUARDAXI1G]

Petey boy🎉🎉🎉

[@dannomight1980]

So this process can be done with gold/silver/copper albeit with some variations right? Also are 11 amps necessary or would less amperage even be effective at all? I have a dc power source that's 120v3a. I got it for anodizing titanium parts for my motorcycle via distilled water, baking soda and a titanium plate then using a titanium wire when dipping the part. I got it for the 120v as voltage will determine the color and is way more accurate than torching it. If you don't like the color you can either sand/wire brush the color off or a quick dip in hydrofluoric acid works instantly but will dull the part as well. Between 50-70v turns it gold before going to purple.

[@sreetips]

The book calls for 1.5 volts dc. Amps fall where they may.

[@CothranMike]

Using high enough dc volt to get purple with variegations of many shades can be done with a frequency chopper if memory serves me today. You might look into that for laughs, DannoMight1980. You can also get a splatter effect, a splinter look, and several other waveforms with another bit of equipment who's name escapes me presently. I think the hardest effect was a rolling shade with dark shadows as you tune it or sweep with a frequency filter or something like that. It was a long time ago and I was impressed by the technical efforts put into it all by the pros. Now a days it might all be controllable with a Microcomputer or even just a PLC hooked to an Arduino!

[@dannomight1980]

@@sreetips Thank you!! I've learned so much from your videos and have another awesome hobby that's beneficial in several ways plus my son is into it as well

[@Bugsie2020]

I didn’t know Former President Trump was doing KZbin videos😂

[@KeepItReal33]

Beautiful!

[@RuneChaosMarine]

Could a pure 9999.9 cathode be created and used? Preventing removing from the titanium, step. ?

[@sreetips]

Yes

[@CarlosGarcia-no2fs]

Congratulations very nice, I have one question, What is the solution made of?

[@sreetips]

Chloroauric acid solution (100g of pure gold dissolved in one liter of solution)

[@misterindependent7994]

Are you using aqua regia?

[@sreetips]

No, HCl and hydrogen peroxide.

[@jasong8377]

so I've seen some people do this to clean up copper that has pgm and gold in it why doesn't the others just go over as well why do they drop out as sludge and here the gold is plating and contamination falling what is the defining factor the heavy concentration in the electrolyte

[@sreetips]

As in the silver cell, as long as parameters are correctly maintained then only the gold will deposit on the cathode. Insoluble impurities such as silver chloride and PGMs will fall as sludge to the bottom of the cell. Soluble impurities won’t plate out but will remain in solution in the electrolyte.

[@williamfoote2888]

S is refining Au from a gold chloride solution with HCl. Refining raw copper is done by sawing the raw Cu into sheets, making it the anode and plating pure Cu onto the pure Cu cathode sheets, in a CuSO4/H2SO4 electrolytic bath. The Au and PGM is recovered as slimes for refining elsewhere. It’s done like that because mines Cu is generally rich enough in Au, especially, to make that slime recovery very worthwhile. When I was working at Newmont, one of the geologists told me that the recovered Au paid for the entire Cu mining and recovery operation. Any PGMs in that Cu is pretty incidental. Much/many PGM are a sideline from Ni mining.

[@ericridgeway3834]

Bro all your ceramics are 70's shit and on eBay go for a small fortune. LMAO anyways thanks for metal detecting the gold powder. I'm really interested in make gold. I think it's possible with the proper ingredients temperature and pressure.

[@dpenn5983]

Why

[@sreetips]

Why not?

[@sreetips]

For the show, mostly

[@JamesAnderson-nz1ro]

Very cool process Sreetips 👍👍

[@henryisnotafraid]

Sreetips is posting shorts now I love it!!

[@zafarazmi7599]

I m always for you ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@stevethomas1638]

Delicious!

[@frankmccain4359]

What will you do with the 4 9s fine gold im really looking forward to this

[@sreetips]

Probably just end up keeping it

[@frankmccain4359]

@sreetips all good I understand

[@frankmccain4359]

@@sreetips thank you

[@jakesmerth1919]

Could you do a similar gold set up to your silver cells?

[@sreetips]

Not very efficiently.

[@johansmith4764]

I can´t wait until part 2...

[@sreetips]

Coming soon

[@johansmith4764]

@@sreetips

[@narbra9678]

what are sreetips?

[@sreetips]

A meaningless word like Kodak.

[@adws5696]

Sreetips is a religion

[@sreetips]

That’s a little steep.

[@EricBynog-zd4rd]

I saw video title said making growing gold well I hate to say your just refining gold you can’t just pull gold out of thin air so please clear that up

[@sreetips]

I never said that I was “pulling gold out of thin air” - you did.

[@EricBynog-zd4rd]

@@sreetips well in reading title it sounds like you just make gold and a lot people don’t understand your putting in the gold you getting out just refining the purity

[@Ghost-pk5rl]

I don't see the purpose to coat the titanium piece.? Does it make it more valuable..? 🤔🧐

[@sreetips]

Industry standard for pure gold is 999 parts per thousand. Anything beyond that is totally unnecessary unless it’s needed for some specific purpose such as a test standard. I did it mostly for the show, to gain a new and highly valuable video for my channel.

[@Ghost-pk5rl]

@@sreetips I love what you do and thank you for your service ✝️🇺🇸🫡. I figured it was a test or for show lol, I'm studying to become a Mechanical Engineer and Design. Lots of hands on.

[@sreetips]

Good luck and all the best to you in your studies.

[@youtubesucks2575]

Never saw this on Mr Wizard

[@sreetips]

He probably wasn’t a refiner.

[@youtubesucks2575]

@@sreetips you’re right he was a B-24 pilot during WWII. Love watching your channel better than anything on that tv Sir,