Extracting gold from large gold plated pins. Part 1. 🧪🙂

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In this video I will extract some gold from gold plated pins.
If anyone wants to repeat the entire process, please use personal protective equipment.
I will be very grateful to you if you support my video with a like, of course, if you liked the video. If you have any questions, I will be glad to answer.
Thank you.

[@albertr3876]

You are not often shooting the videos. Every yours new video just great! Your gold looks awesome 👌

[@akgoldbear7669]

Thanks for the kind words 🙂 Cheers 🍺🍺

[@Dean_F]

New content from AK means its going to be a great day! Thank you for yet again another awesome video! 😊

[@akgoldbear7669]

My pleasure! Thank you for still watching my channel. Thanks for the comment 🙂🖐

[@julianalcorso5703]

Great stuff Bear!! You are becoming quite the expert. Well done you.

[@akgoldbear7669]

I try my best 🙂 Thank you.

[@bencapobianco2045]

Love the channel!! I too had an explosion during a melt it was my torch popped and sent about 2.5 grams of gold into outer space lol. Keep up the great work!!!

[@akgoldbear7669]

Thank you! I wish you good holidays. Cheers! 🍺🍺🙂

[@grzlbr]

Wow nice load of mystery pins.

[@akgoldbear7669]

Yes, good pins 🙂👌

[@Alexis-im9om]

Great video. As usual. Your gold looks fantastic 🤩

[@akgoldbear7669]

Thank you! 🙂 Thank you for visiting my channel sometimes and leaving a comment 🍓

[@juanradreges1903]

Wow! Awesome video. Possibly a graphite mold made of clay. I think the clay was coated with graphite. Like 100 from me )

[@akgoldbear7669]

Thanks a lot! Yes, I think so too, it’s just that the graphite mold is of very poor quality. The graphite is probably not pure, maybe with clay, maybe with goat poop 😅 cheers 🍺🍺

[@NOFX0890]

Great job AK

[@akgoldbear7669]

Thank you. I think so too 😉✌

[@andrxox.]

Главное чтоб водичка под рукой была👌👍😅

[@akgoldbear7669]

🙂✌

[@firefox2716]

Hello , I want to ask what name brand is your Hot Plate ? Great Show 👍

[@akgoldbear7669]

Thanks for the comment. I bought the oven at Walmart. This is Oster jh-001a 🙂

[@oculusangelicus8978]

You might want to add a couple of mL of Sulfuric acid to your Aqua regia boils to pull out any lead or tin that might be in solution especially when both of those metals are prevalent in electronic circuitry. The explosion in your other graphite mold was likely due to some water present in the graphite, although I have never seen gold stick to the mold like that, so I'm not 100% sure it was entirely water. A good wat to store your molds in upside down so that very little can get into the mold where your pour molten metal. A rack for cooling after use is also a good idea until back to "room temperature."

[@akgoldbear7669]

If I added a little sulfuric acid, the tin or lead chlorides would stay liquid. And when I began to precipitate gold from the solution with iron sulfate, these chlorides could get into the gold powder. Since I did not use sulfuric acid I was able to collect all these chlorides on the filter 12:19 and get a pure gold solution without tin or lead chlorides. About the graphite mold, I don't think there was any water in there since I heat up the mold 20:24 before pouring the gold into it. You can see this in the video. I think it's just a very cheap, poor quality mold. Thanks for your comment and for your time 🙂🖐

[@TIMMIELUND]

Great learning channel AK.

[@akgoldbear7669]

Thank you for spending some of your time on my channel 😉

[@nelsonmedia5756]

Good.

[@akgoldbear7669]

I think so too 😊

[@scrapping4shiba]

Can you do a video showing the platinum or palladium out of what they are calling the fat metal polyfilm capacitors. My understanding is they are just rolled up aluminum foil, but some people state they contain precious metals.

[@akgoldbear7669]

Hello. They do not contain palladium or platinum. There's only aluminum. Many on KZbin claim that MLCC capacitors contain palladium and silver, but this is also not true. Everyone just repeats each other like parrots. There are so many people on eBay selling MLCC capacitors for palladium and silver extraction, and again everyone just parrots each other. Before 1980, all MLCC capacitor manufacturers used palladium and silver, but after 1980 many manufacturers switched to nickel and copper. After 2000, all MLCC capacitor manufacturers stopped using palladium and silver, since nickel and copper are good substitutes for palladium and silver. And nickel and copper are much much cheaper. Now extracting silver and palladium from MLCC capacitors is a lottery. Currently, palladium and silver are used in MLCC capacitors only on a custom basis. For example, for very important electronics for space or medical equipment. I've already recycled these capacitors twice and haven't found any palladium or silver at all. 🙂

[@scrapping4shiba]

At 2:13 you show the red capacitors, what we typically call poly metal foil capacitors, it's rolled up aluminum. You state they contain silver and palladium. At 2:24 you state blue/green poly metal foil capacitors contain silver, but I thought they were just rolled up aluminum. Perhaps you could make a video on just these big fat poly capacitors, and you could show it.

[@akgoldbear7669]

Now I understand what you are talking about. I was talking about completely different capacitors. It is in the capacitors that I showed in the video that there is palladium and silver. I'm planning to make a video about them, but I don't have enough material right now. I want to gain at least five kilograms and then shoot a video. Now I have a little over a kilogram. I don't want to waste time on half a gram of palladium and a gram of silver. 🙂

[@scrapping4shiba]

@@akgoldbear7669 ok, that makes sense. I always thought those were metal polyfilm capacitors. I'll start saving them now.

[@walteravitor]

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[@akgoldbear7669]

Thank you 🖐

[@johnross8939]

Very nice yield. Were you able to extract the gold stuck in your graphite mold?

[@akgoldbear7669]

No, I haven’t pulled the stuck gold out of the mold yet. I have no free time right now. I collected 574 milligrams of gold from the floor 🙂

[@garrettmillsap]

I have a very similar setup at my home for refining lol

[@akgoldbear7669]

I don't know what to say lol Congratulations 🙂✌

[@garrettmillsap]

@@akgoldbear7669 that works just fine! Lol

[@MalcolmHyland-lb6ej]

One question, how long did it take for the first 300 grams of pins? I am using you method with sulphic acid and nitric acid, and have been boiling the solution for four hours. Only doing 232 grams of computer pins.

[@akgoldbear7669]

Hello. 6:27 It takes me 4 hours to dissolve base metals from 300 grams of material. Everything can be dissolved much faster; everything can be dissolved in two hours. But then you need to use more acids. I use less acids to save money and because of this I spend more time. The solution doesn’t even need to be heated if you pour twice as much acid 😉

[@MalcolmHyland-lb6ej]

@@akgoldbear7669 for some reason I didn't recover gold but I seen the small flakes. I still have solution and have filtered the solution again. I am hoping the black residue is the gold.

[@akgoldbear7669]

I don't quite understand you. If you repeated everything as in my video, then all the gold should remain in the form of flakes. All other metals, base metals must dissolve. If you have something black in the solution, not gold flakes, then it is not gold. By dissolving the base metals, the gold should remain in the form of gold flakes 🙂

[@MalcolmHyland-lb6ej]

@@akgoldbear7669 I'm sorry, I put gold in aqua regia and used smb but gold did not drop. So I put aqua regia in a clear jug. There was residue at the bottom that I assume is gold that settles. The 232 grams of mid grade pins and I also did some low grade pins before from computer boards. I kept all filters as well as liquids. The aqua regia I filtered again to collect the sediment from the jugs I used. I had to order more nitric some I kept cotton which I used to filter and the sediment in a glass of water. I even did some junk jewelry but the same as solution was dirty. I used agua regia on that with sulfuric acid. Some of the item was magnetic. I watch your videos as well as sreetips. Thank you for you time and responding back. I'm just trying to see where I'm going wrong with the pins or is the gold very small to recover. I did order me the C.M Hokes book for refining precious metals.

[@prospectorpete]

You have to really heat your moulds before pouring the gold. I get mine red hot

[@akgoldbear7669]

Hello 🖐For what purpose? I light a very small flame right in the center of the mold and the mold gets so hot that I can't touch it. I do this all the time and the mold has never cracked. I need to heat the mold, not the air around me 🙂

[@prospectorpete]

@@akgoldbear7669 heating the mould removes moisture to prevent a steam explosion which is what happened when you poured the gold

[@akgoldbear7669]

@@prospectorpete Ok. The explosion that happened in my video was because of very poor quality of the graphite mold. Graphite is mixed with clay.

[@prospectorpete]

@@akgoldbear7669 ok

[@davidjohns4223]

Where did you get the pins? How many appliances did it take to get all those pins?

[@akgoldbear7669]

A lot 😎

[@malikfromskg9696]

Which percent of HCl and HNO3 use for silver and gold recovery

[@Alexis-im9om]

acids must be concentrated

[@malikfromskg9696]

@@Alexis-im9om I use acid but nothing is recover

[@akgoldbear7669]

Hello. I prefer to work with concentrated acids. I have 31% HCI, 98% H₂SO₄ and 67% HNO₃. 🙂

[@malikfromskg9696]

@@akgoldbear7669 thanks 👍 bro

[@MalcolmHyland-lb6ej]

@@malikfromskg9696 I have only done that twice because I didn't have nitric or sulphiric acid. The first time was with computer ic chips, and the other time was with bga chips. Maybe there is no enough gold for recovery unless you have tones of them.

[@user-do7lp9fl8i]

Explosion happened probably because you didn't heat up You're crucible

[@akgoldbear7669]

Hello. I heat up the mold before pouring the gold into it. You can see this in the video 20:22 I think it's just a very cheap, poor quality mold 🙂

[@user-do7lp9fl8i]

@@akgoldbear7669 You're probably right. There's a lot of cheap garbage on the market these days.

[@ultimatedouchebag6760]

all that work for $700....i rather work at McDonald making $20hrs. all your set up cost a ton of money plus its dangerous to be around.

[@akgoldbear7669]

Hello. I also work, I work at the Hotel. I extracting gold from old electronics in my free time. This is my hobby. $700 during free time 🙂 Yes, you're right, it's dangerous.