Palladium Recovery From Silver Cell Slimes Pt3

[@PrometheusZandski]

For a self taught guy, you do some amazing chemistry. You seem to have an innate understanding of chemical processes and when you arrive at unexpected results (hexachloroplatinate formation) you are cautious and do tests to validate your hypothesis. Really impressive. Thank you for the education.

[@misoman]

Thank you for taking us with you on your learning adventure. I can tell you're frazzled, but you're doing well! Thank you again for doing this with us!

[@sreetips]

I finally feel confident enough to do my stock pot and the automotive catalytic converter videos now. Watch for these to come out soon. Thanks

[@solace6717]

Every second of this two part video was fascinating, I can now see why Palladium is so expensive, what a process!

[@TR19]

Palladium looks like it is more trouble than it is worth. Great job explaining everything. Learning a lot from the master.

[@fulkthered]

At $2400 per troy oz it's worth it.

[@TR19]

But $150 dollars of acids and supplies and a whole days time for around 250 worth of palladium would not be worth it to me to do on a production scale. Neat for a project though

[@fulkthered]

@@TR19 Starting from scratch no it wouldn't be worth it.

[@dylandownright8844]

Definitely makes me appreciate the people in our group that help eachother with their processes.

[@wadebert4458]

It's an AWESOME feeling, when you see the metal form beads under the torch! Truly enjoyable! Wade

[@whiskeytangofoxtrot5057]

i know this was 4 years ago but i still love watching all your videos over and over again lol

[@rockosgaminglogic]

49:00 heat decomposition should mean that sample has to be dehydrated first. I would use a large ziplock bag and a small beaker half-full of NaOH as a dessicant. Put the dish in the bag next to the beaker and seal the bag for a couple of days.

[@MichaelPhillipsatGreyOwlStudio]

Wow! The amout of work this requires is amazing! But I love it. So many colors too-orange, red, green, blue, yellow. You travel through the rainbow as you process it. I really wish I'd bought some palladium back in 2016 when it was only around $500 an ounce. I knew it was going to go up in value but I couldn't quite pull the trigger on it.

[@kenhtonghop1911]

I have metal paladium pure quantity 44 kgkzbin.info/www/bejne/r5u1h2OBp9eZpck

[@aliciar4274]

Great video, and you're honestly such a genuinely nice kind person it makes me have some faith restored in humanity :)

[@IVANWILLKILL]

Most serial killers seem nice and kind

[@IrlandesLatino]

@@IVANWILLKILL Just like you eh? 🤫

[@TrillShatner]

Like watching bob ross paint. Great work friend.

[@drubradley8821]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!! I was on the edge of my chair..... I think I smoked like 3 cigars during this show.... Fine job, Sir.

[@ut000bs]

Great video. I think I yelled, too, when the palladium precipitated and I agree with you: How awesome is that? Congratulations! I don't know what the spot price for palladium was 2 years ago but right now that 3.6 gr button is worth $291.50 at spot. That's awesome. BTW, folks. If it was 3.6 gr of pure gold it would only be worth $182. 😉✌️

[@kenhtonghop1911]

I have metal paladium pure quantity 44 kg in vietnam 🇻🇳kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5u1h2OBp9eZpck

[@alisoliman8993]

Omg 🎉what a beauty ❤enjoying and enjoyed every minute thanks streetips tips you never let anyone down with your videos I can’t wait until you hit one million subscribers because you deserve it thank again god bless cheers

[@kieranodea771]

Stuff like this is why I watch these videos. I don't wan't to see the perfect textbook example of these processes. Its the unexpected things, the common mistakes that i'm likely to make that I wan't to see.

[@donnakawana]

Wow amazing just amazing.. You are my favorite person to listen to an learn from . When it comes to matters like many hours spent to get this beautiful button of palladium... Thanks for all you do ✌🏼💗😊

[@gossman75]

When you had the peatre dish full of ashes. I thought for a moment that you weren't going to have results. But you showed a button of Palladium. Awesome!

[@sreetips]

The palladium sponge looks like ashes

[@shaneyork300]

Very nice button!! That would've been very hard for me to sell the first palladium button I ever made! I definitely understand the need of funds to cover cost! By the way, I wanted to tell you I'm sorry! I read the comment I made, from part 1 of this palladium refine. That was when I first started to watch your videos. I was a skeptic at first because I watched the ewaste videos first and I was very defensive (regarding ewaste). Now that I've watched almost all of your videos I have a whole new respect for you!!! You are an incredible teacher & an amazing self taught chemist!! You have really inspired me on so many levels!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!

[@sreetips]

Thanks Shane, I think that you are my biggest fan.

[@shaneyork300]

@@sreetips You make it easy!!

[@noway8233]

Nice Apollogy , yuo dont see that in this days

[@shaneyork300]

@@noway8233 Thank you!

[@tinydancer7426]

Shane, your first palladium button would be a cool thing to have on an old fashion watch fob.

[@mike-tg8dw]

I saw the smoke as you were torching the filter paper and all I could think was, SREETIPS has just elected a new Pope. LOL

[@aga5897]

AWESOME ! Superb work Kev ! Inspiring !

[@MostlyIC]

Wow, I felt excitement just watching the button finally appear after all that hard work !!!

[@shaneyork300]

Palladium refining is a very cool process!! I can only imagine what the palladium looked like when it was precipitated out!! Looked beautiful from this side!! Have a GREAT Day Sreetips!!!

[@area46241]

Sreetips you're miles ahead of me on this subject. I precipitated a solution of pyrites that had sperrylite crystals that were sluiced from a creek here in Indiana and got those same beautiful colors. Ultimately I got a black metal mostly iron... I need that book Congradulations on Palladium!!! That WAS cool.

[@sreetips]

Are you talking sluiced gold? And you got black metal? That don't sound right.

[@area46241]

there's a spot I like to go to that has fine gold and alot of pyrite. When I found sperrylite in the heavies I thought I would attempt to leach a batch of them and precipitate the metal. I got an orange precipitate and tan/purple stanous tests. My attempt was a failure but worth the experience. Since then I've purchased several chemistry items hopefully for success in the future.

[@dylandownright8844]

area46241 you can hokes book online, should be able to download it for free. It is a great help when starting out. I'd kill to be able to pull some gold from a river. Sounds fun

[@kenny2644]

What if I clean and break down all my electronics scrap that has good stuff in it and once I get a good large amount I’ll send it to you free of charge and you refine it and sell it? Then we can split the money? I collect and clean up all the precious metal bearing scrap send it to ya and then you refine it? We split the money equally? Would that work?

[@SURFEAMORETERNO]

You've been courageous when mixing beker 2 solution directly into the main solution. I watched the video for the second time, but I did not lose the emotion. Cool!

[@cooltroops8182]

Fantastic job really enjoyed your joy well done man

[@ottolehikoinen6193]

Palladium is quite hard to process. Good job!

[@sreetips]

I’m chomping at the bit to do a bromate hydrolysis with platinum

[@santababy1952]

It seems like you have gone from solution to principate to solution to principate about 40 times! I'm so lost. I am so glad that you are still excited about what you are doing.

[@sreetips]

Next time I'll make an outline and include it in the video

[@santababy1952]

@@sreetips Oh that's not necessary. You are busy enough as it is. It is just super refining from what I can tell.

[@GQSmooth00]

Congratulations Sreetips, that was one heck of a journey.

[@manhnguyen8338]

A good man.Clearly.

[@hutchgamer87]

I have learned so much watching more than I thought I would

[@rickycollard9715]

You know for a long time I always wondered why all these abandoned gold mines had tons of chemical by waste products in these big ponds that were so hazardous and watching you do refining of gold and silver and such I now know why they were there and how hazardous they actually are lots of copper

[@sreetips]

Glad I don’t have to deal with anything like that.

[@nostalgiaarcadefuture]

You vaporized more palladium than ill ever own..... :( very informative video though, You've made me knowledgeable enough to confidently refine all the precious metals now.... great valuable videos.

[@MrWylis]

I felt the same joy as you when the palladium melted.

[@sreetips]

I remember yelling!

[@markbatten5178]

Stupendous effort sir! Many thanks!

[@davidmarshall9160]

SREETIPS, YOU ARE A GODSEND , GOLD AND SILVER ARE MY FUTURE, NOT THESE HIGHER REFINING PRECIOUS METALS, PMG,'S. THANKS.

[@jhyland87]

40:45 "Better not overshoot the HCL or well start putting stuff back into solution", I've run into this problem a few times.. "There it is!... wait... where the hell did it go?!" lol. I believe the term is *amphoteric* or *amphoterism* - _In chemistry, an amphoteric compound is a molecule or ion that can react both as an acid and as a base._

[@brianhbinesh]

Very nice. Watched again 3 years later. It would be cool to show what different karate of gold mixed with platinum or palladium looks like. Like half 24k gold and half platinum. To show what the different alloys look like.

[@Armored86]

Sreetips, I truly appreciate your videos. Very detailed and easy to follow. Im going to start with some simple gold refining myself after I get a small system set up to work with safely. I have only three simple questions. Is there a general book that can be bought with details for refining PM’s? Where would you suggest buying supplies such as beakers and non-OTC chemicals or substances needed for projects? And have you ever attempted refining rhodium? Thanks and keep putting out the videos!

[@sreetips]

No to rhodium. I buy chemicals on eBay and at ace hardware. dudadiesel.com is another source. Glassware on eBay. Free PDF download: Refining Precious Metal Wastes by C.M. Hoke all over the internet. I learned on the goldrefiningforum.com my user name there is “kadriver” you can view my rookie posts way back to 2010 when I first started refining.

[@ricoviselli]

No guts No glory. It's fun being a fly on your wall.

[@richardmccann4815]

19:00 you scared me when you were about to charger the gas generator with hcl and the valve was wide open! Whew!!

[@sreetips]

I’ve done it before, left the value open.

[@bitnertinkers]

That was awesome when the pladium salt came out!

[@MichSignMan]

Good job.... I bet your bummed you sold it (if you did) , as it's up to $1410 an oz now, up $500 bucks since last August.... Thanks again for the Sat night entertainment

[@sreetips]

It burns me up every time I think about it. Not really. If someone made out on the metal that I sold them then I say, good on them.

[@johannesdesloper8434]

Awesome Sreetips... I never seen Paladium metal. Loved the boil over. Currently percipitating Silver myself... Keyboard mylars and electrical contacts. Hope I have enough to mint a coin of it.

[@johannesdesloper8434]

Oh and I changed my youtube name from Jan Behang...didn't wanted to be associated with a wallpaper seller. Johannes de Sloper is Dutch for something like John the Scraptist.

[@sreetips]

Good luck with your silver recovery. We can learn from our mistakes (boil overs).

[@johannesdesloper8434]

And the funny thing is... as you know I can do the numbers and the masses but the real thing still depends on expierience with the processing.

[@buggsy5]

You mentioned a concern about the concentrated ammonia damaging your fume hood blower. I would also be concerned about what the acid vapors and nitrous oxide gases are doing to it. You might be avoid this problem by reworking your hood air extraction system. The idea is to keep the contaminated air from blowing through the motor/fan at all. Think about the concept of the venturi jet pump - one application of which is to use a water jet to create a vacuum. If you use the blower to form an air jet, you can use the same principle to form a vacuum that will suck the air out of the hood without any of that contaminated air passing through the blower. There probably are designs available on the web for such an extraction hood design. My major concern would be efficiency of such a system. The airflow necessary to create a sufficient draft in the hood might be unacceptable.

[@TheAyhan76]

Uauu very beautiful process 👍👍👍

[@francispalmer9737]

Nice job Streetips (for your first go) Thanks from a UK watcher.

[@sreetips]

Cheers!

[@njanderson4342]

I like it when you used your super powers to crush the chloride tablets.

[@sreetips]

That part made my chuckle every time I see it.

[@golder70]

Again an excellent video (both parts), thank you! I love watching your Clips, its like watching a tv series, wondering whats next...;-)I understand that you as an excellent refiner felt challenged by the PGM, especially your stockpot and catalytic converters in mind.But as you could see, handling with PGMs is a mess, there is always a loss of them to the waste material (filters, solutions, both has to be reworked some day, I bet, you will get another 2grams of Pd at least and some Pt) and the toxic-allergic hazard is always lurking. I recommend to always have an Epi-Pen or some similar epinephrine-delivering device in reach when handling with salts of PGMs (especially platinum). A heavy to severe anaphylactic reaction could (not will) occur suddenly after coming in contact with them on different occasions (e.g. inhalative, skin contact). This could happen within seconds to a minute. All symptoms which exceed skin reaction (e.g. bronchospasm with dyspnea, swelling of lips, tongue or pharolaryngeal, dizziness, intestinal symptoms with nausea, vomiting and/ or cramps and more) should lead to the immediate application of epinephrine 0.3-0.5mg parenterally (i.m.) and calling emergency services.Protection comes first, protect airways, eyes and skin (especially wearing gloves that reach up to the middle of the forearm).Thats why I keep it simple with PGMs. Holding them as solids in the stockpot as long as possible, when the day comes, drop the residual values with zinc (after the Gold drop), redissolve in AR and drop again with pure copper powder, repetitive washes in HCl (goes to stockpot) and then repetitive boils in distilled water. Collect as PGM-mix for hard times or nothing else to do. Thanks again for your really great work!

[@sreetips]

I've got some catalytic converters that I want to do so I can make a video. Also some catalytic beads. Plus the stock pot. Then I'll probably leave the PGMs alone.

[@Pamela777Carlita]

Hello Sreetips! Thank you so much for such a great video! May I ask you when are you going to make the catalytic converter video? Thank you :-)

[@kenhtonghop1911]

I have metal paladium pure quantity 44kg in vietnam 🇻🇳kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5ecaml7bLtgrqs

[@greenmedina5255]

Amazing journey, thank you sreetips!

[@EarlN2010]

Suggested reading "Refining precious metal wastes by C.M.Hoke" spicifically page 148 refining Palladium using Sodium Chlorate (not to be confused with Sodium Chloride (Salt)) . Also check repurification of Palladium with Amonium Hydroxide if you want to achieve pure palladuim

[@sreetips]

He Hoked me!

[@ramilparedes9930]

Great.Very informative

[@nwliving]

loved this series. even the oops

[@jokotriono5052]

Good job bos,thank you very much

[@kenny2644]

You are a genius. Love your videos. Very educational. Great to see what’s involved and helps me make decisions on what is worth messing with and what may be to dangerous or to hard. Thanks for the education. Would you be interested in purchasing my electronic precious metal bearing scrap in bulk for a fair for both of us price? I’d give you a good deal

[@kenhtonghop1911]

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[@flixbyyogi3850]

This man has the world’s strongest kitchenware.

[@PoorMiners321]

I love sreetips video,i learn a lot from him,thank you sreetips you are genuine precious metal refiner, to support sreetips, watch fully advertisement tell the end, do not escape, to earn sreetips..😘

[@oswald.v.m.france8171]

Grate work Bob, i would like to see u work on extracting palladium from black sands, i am trying to put together a project, with 154.81 million cubic yard alluvial river gravel of gold, palladium 2.83 grams and platinum 0.25 grams, like to see you work on black sands

[@nikolajwinther5955]

Platinum, Palladium and Gold (little bit of silver?) in your stock pot probably. But what about the other platinum group metals? You think there's some iridium or Rhodium in there? The reason I ask is because you were surprised to find platinum in your palladium. As I understand it, it's not unusual to find traces of other (platinum group) metals in, say, silver, so there is a chance that some of that stuff is another PG-metal.

[@sreetips]

The stock pot will probably have some Iridium and rhodium. If I find either I'll just send those on to Lou at Auris Nobel in Ohio. After platinum and palladium, the other four PGMs seem very distant. Rhodium is close to $2000 per Troy ounce. I see it frequently as plating on silver and gold jewelry.

[@ivsongold322]

hello friend one doubt you ground the paladio at the beginning of the process was that and added the pure hydrochloric acid

[@ourodolixo-e]

😲Very nice 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍😄😃

[@nevilledraper2321]

What a trilogy!

[@kevinmichaelbergman8276]

Your getting good at this using Chlorine Gas to precipitate a metal Palladium? Nice job on the Chlorine Gas Generator first time I've heard of that process vs Other ways.

[@scott2296]

Ok maybe this is a dumb question but......... Instead of precipitating using the bubbling gas, could the crushed pool tab and hydrochloric simply be added to the palladium solution, and when the addition of either one no longer produces any precipitate, then do a stannous test?

[@themyceliumnetwork]

I think i've watched this series 6 or 7 times :)

[@Enjoymentboy]

I'm thoroughly enjoying your videos. I do have to wonder what your monthly HCL budget is though. :)

[@none.892]

Same!

[@kenny2644]

Could you make me a master list of everything that has precious metal in it that’s worth keeping? I’ll start keeping my eye out for everything on the list and stockpile it for you. I’ll build it up and clean it up for you and then you refine it for us and make videos about it and we split the money after it’s sold?

[@uncle_thulhu]

I'm a little confused - why didn't you wash all that red salt out of the beaker into the filter? Is that not the stuff we wanted?

[@sreetips]

I can’t remember, maybe due to some solubility issues.

[@andrescareaga9592]

Very nice work. I loved your "command decision" making! I looked for you on ebay but couldn't find anything, btw.

[@sreetips]

I think that one sold a long time ago

[@andrescareaga9592]

@@sreetips Mostly I was just checking to see if there was anything else up there

[@newmexicogold2234]

Wutz up it s Joe Garcia with New Mexico Gold.....I'm trying to figure out which of the 8 noble metals how to determine what is what.. by maybe the atomic weight......not sure ...I could really use some insight.....do you know about these metals

[@sreetips]

Download free PDF copy of “Refining Precious Metal Wastes” by C.M. Hoke and do the acquaintance tests found in her book.

[@sreetips]

Site: scribd.com type “hoke” in search block

[@newmexicogold2234]

Gonna order one of those toeches

[@mikeconnery4652]

Excellent video

[@Smeg120]

Not bad Kevin, problem is that work patially !. The day you start refining some Kilos of a mixture of 3 sister metals. Even 6 gr / kilo of Rhodium present w'll be a pain in da A.. . You'll then experience the Pd[2] rose color pain , coz it drops all "dirt" with it + problems of combination of Pd-Pt salts, transparent rich solution. That day you'll realize the gap between theory and practice, simple knowledge and skills. That day you'll also find your self with 100's of liters of "stock pot" that you hould treat fastly for your client and also the load of filter papers....Oh, and you can't imagine the time it take if you should start from a bloc of metal that look like nothing for a beginner ...but take's weeks to treat. That day i pray for you to have invested in a spectro and very big buchner funnels... BEFORE starting anything.

[@sreetips]

Sound complex. I don't have any clients. I only do my own material. This is just a hobby for me. Someone once said that if you turn your hobby into your work then it becomes just that; work.

[@douglasstewart2957]

Very cool video!! I wish I could

[@chasingdemons7231]

You are amazing man keep it up

[@aunghtaynaing6877]

very very good sir...

[@dylandownright8844]

Awesome process, but I think I'll definitely try to avoid refining palladium.

[@jhyland87]

What?! It looks like so much fun! lol.

[@USedtobefree]

Good videos! I'm learning a lot from you

[@eddieodwyer3727]

If i put a bunch of computer boards on a barrel and add hydrocloric acid , how would i precipitate the iron/ steel that is in the solution? Thanks brother . watching all your videos and learning as we go.

[@sreetips]

Eddie, I don’t know. I suppose zinc would precipitate the iron. I’ve never tried it.

[@juanserrat6806]

Thank you for the good video. Next time for the final step try to use ashless filter it will help you a lot.

[@Edgar-tt3lf]

Y se puede precipitar con Yoduro de potasio....?

[@kevinmichaelbergman8276]

Nice job, Hydrogen gets hotter than Accedline

[@wahidnazari3678]

Nice, well done. 👍

[@richardbeee]

Great job!

[@anisahemad6968]

I like video very wonderful awesome sir

[@ОлегТанго-ь4т]

You are a divine chemist)

[@michael00761]

Are you doing this at home? If so, what must I do to be legally able to accomplish this at home. What equipment must I acquire? Please advise?

[@sreetips]

Fume hood is a must

[@tinydancer7426]

Just had an idea. Crayola should issue a new set of crayons with all of the colors being those of the metal salts and solutions we have seen on sreetips videos. Palladium Yellow just for a start

[@Greengate777]

Try putting the quartz dish on top of the funnel, and then turn them both upside-down with one movement.

[@anstykarkada]

this was such a joy to watch. i am used to watching your refining process which is more on the teaching side. but this one was different with you also learning something new. what a joy it was to watch. Btw i just noticed that this video was published on my birthday the 19th of april hehe. Please make more videos like this. and i will sure take a look at your ebay site. I would love to buy some of the stuff you make, but thing is i am from india, Mumbai. Dunno if you ship there. Please let me know.Thankyou

[@sreetips]

Excellent, glad you enjoyed it. I only ship to USA locations and that's why you don't find my eBay store. Sorry about that.

[@anstykarkada]

ohh too bad. your videos will have to suffice for now i guess. hopefully in the future then. all the best and keep making quality stuff :)

[@propercopper5100]

Epic ! Thanks for the video man😎👍

[@erbalumkan369]

Hi Sreetips. I'm really enjoying your vids. I was wondering if you are using a scrubber to filter the fumes exiting your fume hood, or are the toxic gases just blown out into the air?

[@sreetips]

There are no scrubbers, it goes straight out the exhaust stack.

[@daljitslabdsr3185]

Sir ,is this process possible without magnatic stirrer

[@kevinmichaelbergman8276]

When are you going to try Rohdium it's so much fun I enjoy Rohdium work.

[@عاشقالديرة-ت3ي]

great work🌹

[@bianchimatt6746]

Bravo sir. What a battle

[@planasrallyteam]

Dear Sir: Will this full process work on natural rock powder that contains palladium Thanks

[@spongebob001001]

I can help by buying from your shop, but Ebay won't let me find you. It just says user not found? I love your videos, and would like to help

[@sreetips]

I changed it to “sreetips”

[@nickd5943]

Streetips I have a question for you. It’s unrelated to refining. I’m using muriatic/hydrochloric acid 31.45 percent concentration. I’m using it to remove mill scale from steel. I have bought it from two different places. One is a pool chemical store and the other is a hardware store ( hardware store is almost a dollar cheeper per gallon). The acid from the pool store is or has a yellow tint, doesn’t foam up as quick when dripped on the concrete, and the fumes as soon as I open a new jug takes my breath away. The acid from the hardware store is clear, reacts instantly and vigorously when it drips on the concrete, and it has almost no smell when pouring. My question is did I buy some old crap from the pool store? Is this normal reaction with old acid? This might be a good video about the chemicals you use and how to know if they are any good.

[@sreetips]

Nick, if both acids are labeled 31.45% then there is really no difference. The yellow tint comes from the manufacturing process of the acid. I've gotten some bottles that are slightly tinted. But if the hardware store acid is cheaper then it's a no brainer.

[@neworldictator144]

Have you been able to have your palladium button analysed? Like with an XRF gun? I'm curious because i read that acetylene bonds to platinum and to avoid it in smelting. Thought that since palladium has similar qualities to platinum, that maybe it did something similar. AWESOME VIDEOS! Thanks!!

[@sreetips]

I turned one in to the big refiner, it assayed with XRF at 992

[@neworldictator144]

@@sreetips Oh excellent! Can't complain with that!!

[@kevinmichaelbergman8276]

I got my Platinum to hot burning off the Ammonia Cloride and it took off burned and went up in Redish Metallic Smoke could not stop the reaction once it started lost half a pound of Platinum.