Smelting 10kg high grade GOLD scrap

[@leftybickel9877]

Thank you so much Owltech for your videos, you have provided me with valuable information and new approaches to this craft, not the same cookie cutter recovery and refining on KZbin. For the first time my assay came back .9999 and that was when London Spot was at it's highest. 👍

[@OwlTech333]

Thank you and congratulations! I don't know who is happier - you or me!

[@stepanmanukyan8138]

Jj&hh

[@bartj.wilbanks2154]

To you

[@rustymotor]

Love the informative videos, quite a process to recover the Gold. I have a lot of 70’s era tech in my shed, several boxes of Hewlett Packard circuit boards with Gold plated circuit tracks and ceramic chips with Gold plated lead in pins and covers. I am sure there is a lot of potential Gold to be recovered but I do not have the resources to make it possible, hopefully I will be able to give the stuff away to someone who can have fun with it.

[@nicktoofar3514]

Still have those circuit cards

[@marinoceccotti9155]

Do you recycle the lead after the cupellation step? The cupellation turns the lead to lead oxide (PbO) which is highly toxic.

[@OwlTech333]

@@marinoceccotti9155 yes

[@rikas7970]

Thank you very much for posting again, we love you 🙂👍

[@OwlTech333]

More to come!

[@rikas7970]

@@OwlTech333 thank you

[@mr.g-sez]

your videos are great! i learn a lot from you. but just tell me what music is this?

[@OwlTech333]

soundcloud.com/owl-tech

[@robs1176]

What's PGM mean?? ... it'd be nice if some these terms or acronyms were defined cuz not everyone is as experienced but is trying to learn stuff too

[@OwlTech333]

The platinum group metals (PGM) comprise six precious transition metals-ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium and platinum.

[@EvolvedApe]

That's worth about $6000 today. So was it worth it? How much scrap did you start with, how long did it take you, and how much did you spend on processing?

[@MANOJ-fz4ku]

Sir, how much lead you used in this full process?

[@OwlTech333]

about 5kg

[@nicktoofar3514]

That's the best E scrap I've ever seen.

[@OwlTech333]

@@nicktoofar3514 oh not by a long shot

[@cditzler6313]

apparently my 2nd watch in your opinion which way would you have preferred 1 gold stripper 2 this way for this amount of product

[@OwlTech333]

This method

[@kayhantunal5999]

Thanks for your video.. Great👏👏.. today i try your lead bath method and i get 5.5 grams gold.. first i started 3 kg lead and 330 grams silver.. but and of the cupel lead i get only 200 grams silver dore..After i dissolve the silver dore in nitric acid result is 194 grams silver and 5.5 grams gold.. but i don’t understand why i lost 130 grams silver.. can you help me (explain me please ) please for this ..

[@OwlTech333]

what was the material?

[@kayhantunal5999]

@@OwlTech333 it was from rru . Gold plated ceramic parts.. tomorrow when i’m go to my workshop i take a pic.. thanks for your interest..

[@OwlTech333]

@@kayhantunal5999 what's a rru?

[@kayhantunal5999]

@@OwlTech333 telecom remote radio unit (rru)

[@ayhamhafez285]

Nice video, how did you recover silver from the nitrate solution, it should be full of lead nitrate and separating silver chloride from lead nitrate with hot water is very hard and took much time, did you cement the silver using Copper? I always have issue with cupellation, I work on medium scale,so I cupel 20 to 25 kg lead-copper alloy which has about 60% lead and the rest is copper and other E-waste metals, but the issue is when cupelling all the lead oxidized besides all the copper so I just get oxidized metals slag, I don't know what the issue, tried more than ten times only two times I got copper alloy at the end, I use Portland cement for cupellation,what do you think the issue. Recently I tried using wood rather than lpg for cupellation but I got same results, I tried to use both oxidizing and reducing flame.

[@OwlTech333]

Copper is the problem

[@ayhamhafez285]

@@OwlTech333 any solutions? As you know E-waste alloy most of it Copper

[@OwlTech333]

@@ayhamhafez285 google scorification , copper content shouldn’t exceed 5% of the lead’s mass

[@ayhamhafez285]

@@OwlTech333 now I understand, many thanks

[@adundeladundaz9022]

Im wondering how large meltingfunace/ cupeling i need if i have 500 kg of cpu and how much Lead and silver in kg i need

[@OwlTech333]

Depends on how quickly you want it done

[@Detalius]

Хороший способ очистки золота.Лайк!

[@OwlTech333]

Спасибо!

[@abyhebat610]

success always sir ask, the ratio of silver added for smelting to what%

[@iifmansyur2588]

Video best of the best..toop..sy dari jakarta/ indonesia menyimak tutorial pengolahan emas dgn baik..Owltech the best

[@OwlTech333]

Wow! Thank you!

[@pierpaolourbano9150]

Hi there, how do you buy them in bags ?

[@OwlTech333]

with money :)

[@ramaaisyah7053]

to remove excess nitric acid, do you think sulfamic acid or urea is better. Thanks owltech

[@OwlTech333]

Sulphamic acid converts nitric to sulphuric acid, which precipitates any lead that may be left as lead sulphate. I use sulphamic acid

[@ramaaisyah7053]

@@OwlTech333 thank you very much

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Hello. A stunning great metod to refining gold. Thank you🌹

[@OwlTech333]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@goldscrapurbanmining]

I'm doing something similar to you. I'm always watching your video. Is the most valuable of the three now the USSR ic?

[@OwlTech333]

Yes about 18g Au/kg

[@goldscrapurbanmining]

@@OwlTech333 thank you

[@المستشار-غ5ج]

@@goldscrapurbanmining please where can I get this scrap?

[@scrappydoo7887]

@@المستشار-غ5ج you can't.

[@المستشار-غ5ج]

@@scrappydoo7887 why?

[@salihakdag6371]

Mükemmel 10 kg'dan 125 gram çok güzel müthiş.Tebrikler.

[@tehnologtehnolog3941]

Great video. Next time try Parkes process. Before cupelling, melt lead with PM and add zinc. Melt on 400 C with stiring. Silver and gold will attach on zinc and form zinc-PM alloy that will float on lead. After that, roast that alloy on 500 C and zinc will evaporate. You will get min 95% pure PM. Best regards

[@OwlTech333]

Great suggestion!

[@tinsoffish1810]

@@OwlTech333 beware zinc fumes😱

[@ameerabdalrahman2308]

Dear OwlTech I watched a group of your videos, they are really interesting, but there is something I could not understand, which is what is the benefit of adding lead and silver when smelting, if you can clarify that? Thank you very much

[@OwlTech333]

They're used as collector metals

[@ameerabdalrahman2308]

Thank you so much 💓 💗 💛

[@666samsu]

Hello OwlTech, can you tell me what material you used under the lead bath? I want to know if this is coal or another material. Thanks for the informational video!

[@OwlTech333]

Coke

[@asdwee4444]

Thank You very much for this long..long ...but very precious video. For the first time I saw a new precipitation method with KOH and oxalic. How much you increase the PH value before addin oxalic powder ? At what temperature do you keep the solution ? Why you not use SMB to precipitate gold? Thank's OwlTech

[@OwlTech333]

You are most welcome! pH 3-4, boiling, I didn't use SMB in case there are any PGMs present, which SMB tends to drag down with the gold.

[@asdwee4444]

@@OwlTech333 Thank You for response and for illumination

[@wilsonjefferies294]

How do you deal with all those lead fumes? Good ventilation?

[@svenp6504]

Very cool. Have you ever tested the slag you drag off the lead bath for gold content? Seems like some could get trapped.

[@OwlTech333]

yes, the gold content of the slag is negligible yet recoverable

[@williamleandro5300]

Hello, I would like to buy these components online, but I'm afraid, do you recommend your supplier?

[@OwlTech333]

No, if there was anything reliable out there I would have exploited it already

[@bobbarker4418]

What's the music in background? I like it a lot. I wanna play it while I smelt too.

[@OwlTech333]

m.soundcloud.com/owl-tech/tracks

[@Juanma_Breda]

Is that in the end 6,125 euros?

[@OwlTech333]

give or take :)

[@degral58]

Hi, somebody can tell whete to Buy those? Thanks

[@AgetronchikNeAntonchik]

Можно узнать из какого металла сделана ванна для плавления?

[@OwlTech333]

нержавейка

[@williams5635]

Where did the silver go?

[@OwlTech333]

it was recovered later

[@57-4-w1m]

Хорошая работа! Не пойму,как свинец добирается внутрь транзистора? И куда девается железо,никель?

[@OwlTech333]

срезаны крышки транзисторов, железо и никель не растворяются

[@57-4-w1m]

@@OwlTech333 спасибо

[@edwardcoleman8745]

This will work with ceramic pieces??

[@OwlTech333]

Yes it has worked for me

[@edwardcoleman8745]

@@OwlTech333 looking like ancient Egyptian work,??

[@edwardcoleman8745]

Thanks,,

[@OwlTech333]

@@edwardcoleman8745 yes ancient Greeks, Romans, Thracians too

[@edwardcoleman8745]

@@OwlTech333 I have to sleep now,, I will learn more from you,, God bless you for trying to teach others,,,

[@edwardcoleman8745]

Do you have a book or pamphlet describing your methods​,,,

[@OwlTech333]

not for this method

[@scrapman502]

How does this process get to the gold bonding wires INSIDE the IC's? and Transistors?

[@OwlTech333]

The same way aqua regia does

[@scrapman502]

@@OwlTech333 With Aqua Regia, you usually break open the chips before putting them into the acid. You are throwing them in whole.

[@donaldbuchan4387]

Is the exercise still worth it after paying for the box of items because you probably aren't getting that for free.

[@OwlTech333]

I'll guess so because the owner of the scrap pays 30% of the extracted gold for the services and hasn't stopped supplying

[@gsmgsa]

Jesus! Where did u get all that gold from? :)

[@OwlTech333]

Stole it from a leprechaun ;)

[@kenjett2434]

@@OwlTech333 lol that was a good answer almost fell out of my chair.

[@АндрейОрловский-ч6к]

Доброе утро забыл спросить куда денется никель и серебро только чистое или можно немагитное из автоматов

[@СергейПупышев-щ9ю]

Благодарю за познавательное видео. Вам удается поддерживать нужную температу для разогрева свинцовой ванны только на угле? Или Вы используете газ для разогрева свинца и поддержания нужной температуры?

[@OwlTech333]

только на коксе

[@СергейПупышев-щ9ю]

@@OwlTech333 Спасибо!

[@Max-fz4gg]

Здравствуй. Давно смотрю, хочу твой способ попробовать, только вот кокса у меня не достать. Из этого и хотел спросить, - а обычный каменный уголь подойдёт? Или от него меньше темпра и процесс выплавки не получится? И кстати очень удобный метод для работы, - древняя полиметаллургия и минимум химии. Класс!

[@Max-fz4gg]

И ещё один вопрос, пропорции добавки серебра и свинца по отношению к материалу?

[@OwlTech333]

@@Max-fz4gg подойдёт

[@nickyaero]

Good job What’s the flux added in between and amount of lead required sir ?

[@OwlTech333]

sodium hydroxide

[@المستشار-غ5ج]

Welcome back how can I get this scrap please?

[@occ6929]

If you serch "gold scrap" on allibaba.com you will find supplyers of KG to TONN of e-waste

[@ameerabdalrahman2308]

Hello, how are you? I often watch your videos, because they are without compliments, interesting and useful, but there is something I did not understand, which is what do you mean by PGMs? Thank you for these videos and I hope you will continue because your break is very long

[@OwlTech333]

platinum group metals -Pt,Pd,Rh,Ru,Ir and Os

[@Дмитрий-ю1с7ы]

Для чего в расплав металлов добавляете гидроксид натрия? Какую функцию он выполняет?

[@kanedytham4597]

have you ever done tantalum recovery from tantalum capacitors if so have you done any vids or if not could you do a vid plaese

[@inglbrute]

Pretty good haul. Nice.

[@OwlTech333]

Thanks!

[@krsulock]

Do you cupel the remaining lead alloy to recover the gold in it? I wonder how much you’d recover?

[@OwlTech333]

which remaining lead alloy?

[@ФахитРыжков]

Лайк!!!! Нормальный метод!!! Надо пробовать.

[@OwlTech333]

Спасибо!

[@emadfarag6517]

Hi sir How much gold inside 1 kg of prosessor pantum pro

[@OwlTech333]

kzbin.info/aero/PLLm8aBXzLPMMsJRYqxLdBK81JsF84J9kJ

[@emadfarag6517]

@@OwlTech333 Thanks dear ♥ ♥ ♥

[@المستشار-غ5ج]

@@emadfarag6517 عماد فرج هل يوجد لديك معالجات او تعرف من فين ممكن احصل عليها رجاءًا

[@emadfarag6517]

@@المستشار-غ5ج نعم اخي يوجد

[@emadfarag6517]

أين إنت متواجد

[@АртёмБусыгин-б4б]

А сотовые можно таким методом переработать.

[@OwlTech333]

думаю не подходит

[@ИванИванов-ш2т9р]

можно это индийский метод (( поэтому там все и засрано((

[@aukebij3193]

if you immediately cool the button in an acidic solution, you will immediately lose the borax and you do not have to boil it again

[@OwlTech333]

Thanks for the tip!

[@ourodolixo-e]

Very nice, golden gold 👏👏👏

[@cditzler6313]

for giggles what did you pay for 10kg

[@OwlTech333]

nothing, I got paid percentage of the recovered gold.

[@edwardcoleman8745]

Is that a Stainless steel pan you are smelting in??

[@OwlTech333]

Yes

[@edwardcoleman8745]

@@OwlTech333 thanks,,I'm trying to do it with out so many chemicals,,,I like the ancient Egyptian methods,,I live in the country and have a Big fireplace to work with,,,

[@КириллБатурин-у1ш]

Здравствуйте я ваш поклонник можно узнать где вы приобрели материалы

[@rudivr4683]

Oxalic acid or smb ? Newbie

[@OwlTech333]

oxalic acid

[@seropserop]

I wish you would explain things more

[@bradleyshimels3253]

Could you pick some different music please ?

[@OwlTech333]

yes

[@helli0n824]

hauptsache, die kombizangen habn tüv/GS zeichen dran... german tools ? =)

[@Bartollo24]

2,5 часа... однако! На самом деле наверно сутки или двое занимался?

[@КириллБатурин-у1ш]

Однозначно

[@OwlTech333]

все было сделано за один день

[@Sergey-Master-LOMaster]

Бартоло привет, этот метод меньше потерь чем через обжиги, химию... Хотя химия здесь все же есть... При выдувании золота из свинцового раствора, можно вообще без химии обойтись...

[@Max-fz4gg]

@@Sergey-Master-LOMaster Как? Если можно, подробнее

[@Sergey-Master-LOMaster]

@@Max-fz4gg так смотри его видео и поймешь, их много, субтитры включи.... kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnvIZohmobSZn6c

[@КириллБатурин-у1ш]

Подскажите пожалуйста где можно приобрести такой товар?? С уважением Кирилл

[@OwlTech333]

это было дано мне на переработку

[@КириллБатурин-у1ш]

Благодарю за внимание

[@КириллБатурин-у1ш]

Ты можешь подсказать где можно приобрести такой материал.

[@КириллБатурин-у1ш]

@@OwlTech333 можно с тобой в личку пообщаемся

[@КириллБатурин-у1ш]

@@OwlTech333 моя почта [e-mail]

[@erdalinci5942]

olmuyor ben yapamadım sürekli bir malzeme eksik kaldı boş veriyorum

[@Andleika]

А при такой способе мне кажется большие потери будут?

[@OwlTech333]

Нету, поетому и так делаю

[@Andleika]

@@OwlTech333 Понятно. Удачи вам.🤝

[@OwlTech333]

yes, and respirators

[@24kKarl]

Awesome video. $7500 USD chunk of gold! Thank Google for Google Translate! Many good questions in Russian! Some were questions I had.

[@OwlTech333]

I''ll be happy to answer if you have any questions yourself.

[@24kKarl]

@@OwlTech333 How many hours did this process take you to complete?

[@24kKarl]

@@OwlTech333 I've seen others crush up ICs, separate out the metal from the ceramic, then melt. Why do you choose to melt it all?

[@OwlTech333]

@@24kKarl 8

[@OwlTech333]

@@24kKarl I didn't actually melt them just stripping of the prescious metals leaving most of the base metals behind

[@trashedmechanic1987]

It was time to clean out the stash. Probably taken a while to collect that much of those components

[@Sergey-Master-LOMaster]

Super job...

[@OwlTech333]

Спасибо!

[@bradleyshimels3253]

I have seen this technique used before on KZbin in India!

[@OwlTech333]

Me too

[@kayhantunal5999]

Tomorrow or wednesday i try to recover gold from mobile phone boards with lead bath method.. i will let you know the result

[@kayhantunal5999]

Today i make 2,6 kg mixed ic chip , 300 gr mixed cpu , 350 gr mixed gold plated pins, about 300 grams mobile phone touch button gold plated plastics..I started 3 kg lead and 307 grams silver for lead bath . After fine cupelling i get 646 grams dore..tomorrow i dissolve the dore in nitric acid.. but i live in an island Cyprus.. just i find %92 nitric acid and %16 fosforic acid mixed in a bottle .. is it problem if i use this acid for dissolve the precious metal dore? Thank you

[@OnsloVest]

So so good! Thanks for the vid, great work, much appreciated!

[@OwlTech333]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@СашкаК-о2ф]

Красиво получилось 😉👍

[@OwlTech333]

Спасибо!

[@alligator8811]

Приветствую! Вы могли бы сделать электролиз этого золота? Электро раффинирование. Очень интересно!

[@OwlTech333]

почему? золото уже 9999

[@alligator8811]

@@OwlTech333интересен ваш метод процесс электролиза

[@SilverSergeant]

10K is "high grade"? It's only 41% pure.

[@OwlTech333]

10 kilograms of scrap not karats

[@romanpankin5412]

Сова лайк как всегда! Ты король пирометалургии на ютубе! А зачем перед растворением в азотке ты квартовал с серебром?

[@OwlTech333]

Спасибо Рома! Серебра, которое я положил вначале, не хватило на квартовке, поэтому я добавил еще.

[@Zx_Wizard]

Отличная работа! Из чего корыто правильное, если не секрет? Не облуживется и не окисляется!? Палец вверх и подписка! С уважением!

[@OwlTech333]

Спасибо! Из нержавейка

[@Zx_Wizard]

Благодарю за ответ!

[@kevinwhitaker119]

The guy who is the narrator sounds like he's a ENGLISH MAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 but he doesn't know kings English.....ie... He says adding more lead...( Leed)..??? NO BUDDY IT'S LEAD ( METAL)....leed...???🥴☹️ Apart from that an excellent video upload and well informative 🍺😊✌️ 🇮🇪🇮🇪🍀☮️☯️🌍🏴🏴🅰️🏴🏴🇺🇦🇺🇦☮️🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@OwlTech333]

Yeah, it took me quite some time to teach him how to pronounce it :) "LED! NOT LEED, YOU DIPSTICK!" :) I think he finally got his head around it... judging by the new videos ...

[@edwardcoleman8745]

The Winter time would be a good time to do this,, enjoy the heat and recover some gold at the same time,,,

[@brandonheyward8635]

i don't know whats going on but this looks nuts

[@andrxox.]

Не плохое количество 👍

[@janepeacock-baillie3380]

Ok now you just gotta send it to me lmao

[@ejazhussain7184]

25 old PC gold recovery please

[@teseogorbaran6387]

You could have made more money selling the equipment that you destroyed by removing those components than you earned with the gold.

[@OwlTech333]

Not in a lifetime

[@ewaste-jd-preciousmetals3723]

​@@OwlTech333it's easy for them to say sell it, if it's old and know one is interested to buy it or maybe we can sell it to them for them to sell as they say so. Keep up the good work ma friend.

[@robertbenadiba383]

Avec votre chalumeau au bout de 5 minutes le métal n'est toujours pas fondu alors à la place de l'oxygène et acetylene essayer les pets de moucheS en bouteille

[@OwlTech333]

Ok

[@michaelmorrow8282]

Like the video, but you need better background music. That song gets Annoying! Lol...

[@OwlTech333]

Thanks! I have to find time to make another one

[@BohumilGraman]

Yes, Loooong :-) But nice ;-)

[@OwlTech333]

Thanks! :)

[@varlov5523]

Отличный работа.

[@OwlTech333]

Спасибо!

[@zafarazmi7599]

Hardworking good working love working 🙏

[@OwlTech333]

Yes, thanks

[@ivsongold322]

Aí sim em 👏👏👌

[@Totaldestructionboys]

Is that real gold 🤣🤣🤣

[@OwlTech333]

Does it look fake?

[@Totaldestructionboys]

@@OwlTech333 I know it is real but how much you have to pay for the matarial (raw)

[@OwlTech333]

I didn’t pay anything for it was a toll refining

[@kouroshmardokh2501]

بابت زحمتی که کشیدی

[@بافيلأورلوف]

Здравствуйте скажите пожалуйста сколько потрачено свенца на 10 кг материал

[@OwlTech333]

5kg

[@بافيلأورلوف]

@@OwlTech333 спасибо

[@MiguelSierra]

Excelente.

[@johnkelfy7256]

Nice chunk of gold lol

[@OwlTech333]

Yes it was

[@Lichnyy-opyt]

Круть!

[@57-4-w1m]

С этим методом явно меньше работы,чем с выщелачиванием...

[@OwlTech333]

так точно

[@57-4-w1m]

@@OwlTech333 я пока не готов его практиковать... Опыта очень мало...

[@jackcalixt4019]

2:24:19 this job conditioning should be prohibited 😁😆🤪

[@yuryandy861]

Приветствую, все супер!

[@OwlTech333]

Спасибо!

[@yuryandy861]

@@OwlTech333 подскажи пожалуйста ещё после сульфаминовой добавлял KOH понизить кислотность, я правильно понял?

[@OwlTech333]

@@yuryandy861 так точно

[@gusdeeks8801]

Looks like a lot of impurities left. The solution didn't look clear enough. Good Video though, but you should really do more purification..

[@OwlTech333]

You are joking right?

[@OwlTech333]

Less than 0.01% impurities

[@gusdeeks8801]

@@OwlTech333 No, I'm not joking.. You should know that to get .999 fine then you would have to purify between 2 - 3 times... Plus you did a recovery for gold, which you wrote in the description *Dirty Gold*... And that is usually between 10k / 14k. But I wish you had cleaned it up to show how much You ended up with..

[@OwlTech333]

@@gusdeeks8801 you are commenting under different video than the one with the dirty gold this is 4N gold

[@matiasromero6737]

hola que tal un gusto al ver visto tus videos, me resulta muy interesante. tengo una consulta a ver si puedes ayudarme, primeramente soy de ARGENTINA, mi nombre es MATIAS y mi consulta es de donde podria comprar materiales como *PENTIUM PRO* en varios kilos y traerlos para argentina sin tener ningun problema ya que aqui en mi pais por lo que eh averiguado no se permite esas clases de materiales. tienes alguna empresa confiable que me puedan vender a buen precio y enviarmelo a mi direccion sin ningun problema? desde ya MUCHAS GRACIAS, SALUDOS TOTALES.