Gold Filled Scrap Recovery and Refining Part1

[@EndlessInfinity1]

I love it. I watch you for the chemical side of refining and bigstackd for the large physical breakdowns and smelts. So much fun watching you skilled folk enjoying your hobbies! You're awesome!

[@kriskemp4952]

Agree 100%

[@PLafreniere76]

Same, both channels are awesome

[@amyrose9311]

Love your videos and the demonstrations. Did you know BigStackD referenced your channel in one of his recent videos? He mentioned watching your channel to learn how to melt and extract silver from some parts he has stored…I was pleasantly surprised he watched your videos too 😊

[@sreetips]

Big stack is awesome.

[@bfd1565]

Always a pleasure watching your videos Sreetips. I'm looking forward in seeing a silver cell update.

[@jaredfrost6086]

How’re the silver cells lookin?

[@sreetips]

Packed

[@shaneyork300]

Been looking forward to seeing G.F. Scrap recovery and refining!

[@anthonyrstrawbridge]

Deducing from what I've observed watching these sreetips episodes the AU recovery should be as estimated. And the royal blue nitric rich waste solution will be processed using scrap iron to part the copper. What then? im at a loss. Grudgingly, this waste solution probably has silver and gold and of course PGM's, that said it could be boiled down to reduce nitric, then rehydrated with dilute muriatic then the impure AU could be dropped out using SMB, Bonide Stump Out Green Label, which could go straight back to either gold refining or tbe silver cell, ..Yet, I know im messing up here so I casually watch and enjoy. Going back and viewing sreetips past videos would be ideal; the details are there.

[@scotthultin7769]

First 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 🤗

[@Fambamm-ib6pw]

Been watching for years and theses videos never get old ❤

[@theallseeingmaster]

Even the old ones don't get old.

[@DavidDavis-fishing]

Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Hello David🌷🌷 Have a lovely day my good friend 🌷

[@DavidDavis-fishing]

@@arnedalbakk6315 Hello Arne! Have a wonderful weekend buddy!

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Thank you my friend 🎸 I see forward to Sreetips will start the clips with guitar 🙏

[@sreetips]

Goooood evening!

[@shmekishmeki8815]

hello from kosovo and very nice video 👍👍👍👍

[@ArielleViking]

It always amazes me how these foils retain their shape and form after all the base metals are dissolved out. Fascinating viewing. 👍🏻

[@aaddll3775]

Thx so much Sir I learn a lot of chemistry from ur videos! I love learning new things everyday!

[@josephcormier5974]

Thank you sir for sharing this enjoyable and informative video with us six stars sir

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips 🌷🌷 A nice way to start this day whit a refining clip from you Sreetips 🙃🌷 God bless you🌷🌷

[@hotpinguingamer4134]

As a person with a laborstorium back ground i did love to do this stuff again. Only am not sure wether this is a profitable hoby or not. Or even ilegal.

[@JamesAnderson-nz1ro]

Thanks for sharing another video Sreetips.. I am a diehard fan never miss a video of yours .👌

[@sreetips]

Thank you!

[@GraceTV08]

Brulliant clear presentation. Deserves view. So entertaining. Thank u

[@bobbyagee3796]

Metals smiths and blade smiths use that tray to normalize their blades. They may know where or how to replace your broken one.

[@DaveGum]

I have a pretty good size tub of Sterling silver. Complete sets if you'd be interested.

[@TheRobq7]

I have 3Kg of clean goldfilled scrap I'm about to ship out. If you need it for making videos let me know

[@kimberlynolz5725]

He beat yall! Lol

[@thedudeabides1445]

Cheers ¦-)

[@bobbyagee3796]

Oh okay, i get it know. The 3 is part of your ratio of silver to one part gold.

[@jamisontaylor878]

I run my material through a coffee plastic filter first and then fight the rest lol 😊

[@SHADOW1982]

Thank you sir, it's starting to look like it's dissolving

[@stormdrifter7904]

Sweet

[@looweeg4229]

Wonder if there's a way to melt the those scraps into shots in order to avoid the painful filtering process. It seems the gold/base metal ratio is really bad with scraps. 3-4% I think you said. So it's too much base metal vs gold for enquarting. would there be a way to add almost pure gold (like 95% pure) to correct the ratio 3:1 base metal to gold ratio? I really hate the eternal paper filter process with so much junk in solution. I feel like avoiding this step would save so much time and effort.

[@sreetips]

Sometimes it takes time. I don’t care for it much either. The alternative is to settle completely then siphone off the clear solution.

[@shanemcguire170]

I love watching you work. I do have a question for you. What 8s your actual length of time in process? A few days, a week? Just curious.

[@sreetips]

I can complete a recovery and refining in about 2 days, one if I start very early and work until about 10pm.

[@Ken.Kaniff.From.Conn.]

Have you ever processed vintage gold filled shirt pins with the colored enamel words/logos? I often find them, but they seem heavy, which means more base metal to deal with. Thanks

[@sreetips]

Yes, they run just like any other gold filled material.

[@arte9855]

Can you ballpark what you spent on the gold filled? Or a ballpark number for the 500 grams of separated gold filled material?

[@sreetips]

We find it in junk jewelry. It gets overlooked. People think it’s worthless because it’s not solid gold. I have no idea what was paid for the scrap. I find it, I set it aside, when I have enough, I do a refining.

[@lukerichardson3253]

Could you please speak a little bit more about the differences between gold plated and gold filled? Why doesn’t it work for gold plated? Can you tell by looking at the scrap jewelry? Love your channel!!

[@sreetips]

Gold filled is a thick coating of gold. Whereas gold plated is just a few microns.

[@Emu0181]

I've been watching Jason's (@mbmmllc) series on hard rock gold mining and have been hoping for a collab between the two of you. Any chance of this?

[@sreetips]

I’d love to work with Jason. But he’s a miner and I’m a refiner. Maybe I could refine his gold that he gets out of the ground.

[@gordonburns8731]

You'd never get away with the term 'gold filled' in the UK.Here, it's Rolled Gold... Base metal, coated with carat Gold.

[@sreetips]

I’m just going by what’s stamped on the piece “GOLD FILLED”

[@robertmarkosian6868]

Sreetips, 2:30 when your burning the combustible material with the torch prior to the first acid wash, you are burning away a small layer of the gold plate which will reduce your overall gold recovery. I would recommend not doing that.

[@sreetips]

No

[@TrumpedUp888]

I see you tube is up to their old tricks again. They had me unsubscribed. It's like they have nothing better to do than to meddle around with my favorite channels.😡 See ya in the next video, sir.

[@sreetips]

For some reason they have been turning off the comments for my videos recently. I turn them on, an hour or so later, they turn em back off.

[@ejradrenalin]

Do you think that mechanically removing the gold first in a controlled environment could be a faster and economical way of processing gold filled material before using nitric to purify any base metal that was removed with the gold?

[@sreetips]

I’d rather let the chemicals do all that work.

[@silvaorgold]

Great video brother love watching you work with chemicals.I have a question though I can't remember.The non-acid way for dissolving silver using no nitric.Or sulfuric gassett.I sure would love some help.

[@sreetips]

There’s no way to dissolve silver without acids except; the electrolytic silver cell. It uses electricity to dissolve the silver. HOWEVER, you must use nitric to dissolve the pure silver for the electrolyte for the silver cell. UNLESS, you use silver nitrate crystals dissolved in distilled water for your electrolyte. But silver nitrate is very pricey.

[@GaiasPupil]

Good day Sreetips. I have a ton of research to do this weekend. I have a piece of refined gold containing palladium 13% and Rhodium 11%. I've never tried dealing with Rhodium yet, would I go after that or the palladium first? I'll be re watching your pgm vids yet again, but a point in the right direction would be awesome. Thank you and I hope you have a great day.

[@sreetips]

Rhodium is an enigma to me. I don’t even know how to detect it.

[@larrykester8593]

whats the amount of nitric acid to refine 430 grams of GF material? 0.9ml per gram or 3ml per gram?

[@sreetips]

I’d say 3ml nitric per gram would f GF material

[@gavinwright184]

That little pocket watch has been a trooper!

[@AshtonVernon]

I would like to talk to you about how I could send you some gold filled jewelry I had 500 grams and tried to refine it and messed it up but I’m a trash man it took me a long time to find all of it but I’ve already found a bunch more and I don’t want to just waste it again

[@sreetips]

I’d like to help but unfortunately I don’t do any toll refining

[@frankiewhopper]

If i may ask... what specifically are you using to protect against the deadly fumes?

[@sreetips]

Fume hood,

[@SHADOW1982]

Sreetips what happens if you run out of nitric acid in the middle of removing base metals???

[@sreetips]

I put a lid on it, order some more nitric, and continue when it comes in.

[@PhillipHarris-hf6nv]

U said this will not work for gold plated material so what is the difference between scrap and gold plated

[@sreetips]

Karat scrap, gold filled scrap, gold plated scrap, each requires a totally different process to recover the pure gold.

[@petrosstefanis6234]

Oh No! You cracked your beaker at 2.45 minutes I hope I'm wrong.

[@joshkelly4682]

I'm pretty sure that was just a piece of jewelry

[@LeonardGreenpaw]

Whats the difference between gold filled and gold plated, despite the names, I was told they were essentially the same thing. Why does this not work with gold plated?

[@sreetips]

Gold plated has about 5 micros of gold over junk metal. Gold filled is about a hundred times thicker.

[@mattybeans2322]

Like if you’re here in the year 3000 watching this guy destroy priceless ancient artifacts.

[@sreetips]

In 3000 years, long after Amazon, Apple, the dollar, and bitcoin, are gone and forgotten, GOLD will still be here. And it will still be valuable.

[@Bloodmoneybullion]

Sree, do you use an air scrubber or any kind of filter for those fumes? Building a home lab and I come across a lot of information not all of it agrees

[@sreetips]

I dont have a filter, mine vents the dangerous fumes away from my work area.

[@panteleon1]

instead of cremating them why don't you melt them in gold melting temp so they separate from steel and then use a bucket to make granules of the melted gold and copper and then put them in acid?

[@sreetips]

Because then it would be more difficult to recover the gold.

[@scottbailey8158]

Gold filled,gold plated 10 k 14 k 18k 24k hey its all gold gold gold , when it comes to the gold plated stuff ill wait till I have about a 30 gal trash can of it then do some gold recovery lol Thanka for your informative videos I'm hooked😊

[@berto6063]

You haven't made a video in a long time showing how you clean and prepare the jewelry. That would be interesting!

[@johnwilliams8818]

Gotta be honest... I rather enjoy these videos where old gets transformed to new. There's just something to watching the recovery process, seeing the old pin or watch, get turned into something else.

[@PrometheusZandski]

I watched an amazing video on gold filled material production. They clad a copper bar with a thin sheet of gold, heat the whole thing up and then progressively roll it until it's completely flat. I never would have guessed that.

[@behindthescenes3394]

Hello. Love the videos. What is that called? The valve for agitatating with nitric. It looks as though you made most of it, but the valve part that you turn. Where can i get one of those?? Help would be greatly appreciated... Mike

[@sreetips]

It’s a separatory funnel

[@daniellaforge2447]

You use a lot of different methods for doing your refining. What is the most time/cost effective method?

[@sreetips]

Depends on what I’m refining.

[@Antonowskyfly]

You are welcome. It was my pleasure to hangout in the lab for a few minutes. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟

[@RobinSoto-i9n]

Hi, omg super conductor= -200 freezing rocks = rocks in space not heated = the black parts of space have alot of super conductors in the black nothingness of space =? Is the black nothingness holding the universe together with magnetism? I wonder how the sun has gravity. Is gravity magnetic?

[@sreetips]

Science has no clue what gravity is. Best explanation; a mysterious force that holds everything together.

[@RobinSoto-i9n]

@@sreetips oh yeah forgot about that

[@stevemoore445]

Question. Beings nitric won’t touch gold, how does it get through to the base?

[@sreetips]

It finds worn spots, it alway finds a way to penetrate.

[@Thisisnolongerajoke]

Can't wait for morning

[@taunusrunner3767]

:-) great infos

[@Lancelot.666]

Always a pleasure watching your work Mr sreetips. ..😊

[@christopherahler4674]

Love your videos! Can you tell us again what gold buyer you work with when you want to sell your refined gold? Seems like they were in Texas somewhere. Thank you!!

[@sreetips]

Aragold.com

[@christopherahler4674]

@@sreetips thank you!!!!

[@michaelfreeman4239]

Love watching your videos and seeing your finished products. Any way you could tell me where I could take my scraps to get them processed down into bars

[@sreetips]

Unfortunately, I don’t refine other peoples material. And I no longer give recommendations. Too many problems associated with both.

[@michaelfreeman4239]

OK thank you still love watching your videos though

[@timsmith9645]

Awesome video can't wait to see the gold thanks for sharing sreetips

[@jonasgeez2140]

Lol i wish i wasent jealous of all your videos but i tottaly am they are so great and i absolutley love watching you melt down gold and that beautiful silver crystal and making bars i think its everyones little dream to have gold and silver bars lol and your living it.... Also i wonder where you learned how to do all of this because i feel like you are an old chemistry teacher of some kind or something mabey im wrong but thats the feeling i get mabey because i feel like your so very informative with everything you do and show us

[@sreetips]

I got a D in the chemistry class I ever took in high school fifty years ago.

[@jonasgeez2140]

@@sreetips hahaha no way .. well they would be proud of you now

[@shannonlbaker]

Awesome !!

[@sreetips]

Thanks Shannon!

[@antejl7925]

The Copper Nitrate produced has such a lovely colour.

[@mrbikeman]

The .999 finest, refining videos on KZbin...

[@logananderon9693]

Banks are buying gold like crazy.

[@thomasoliver1376]

thank you

[@scott2296]

"Gold Filled Crap" is what I thought the title said at first, I thought, sounds interesting, lol

[@sreetips]

That’s what the sellers think it is.

[@scott2296]

One man's trash.......@@sreetips

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Same to you David🎸 You are truly a good friend in here.

[@antoniobalmorac3761]

Good job

[@rubencanas4230]

First

[@richardpittman5291]

Is there no need to incourt GF jewelry?

[@sreetips]

Inquart - root word is quart or quarter. No, gold filled items have only about 2.5% pure gold by weight. Adding more silver, or copper, would make recovery of the gold more difficult with gold filled material.

[@PhillipHarris-hf6nv]

This is my first time see ur channel ty

[@sreetips]

Welcome to my channel!

[@tj8244]

Rest? There is no rest for the wicked. LOL More vids we need em.. Just kidding Sreetips great vid and I will be looking for the next. Have a good night.

[@sreetips]

the phrase “no rest for the wicked” is not actually in the Bible. Isaiah 57:21 instead of “rest” states that there is no “peace” for the wicked. HOWEVER, about twenty years ago a band called “Cage The Elephant” published a song called “Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked” it’s good song. You should listen if you haven’t heard it.

[@Ilovegold]

Can you recover gold from 14k-resin jewelry? It has a thick layer of 14k gold over resin

[@sreetips]

Yes

[@Ilovegold]

@@sreetipsI assume break into pieces then incineration after that?

[@sreetips]

I’d peel off the gold,

[@Ilovegold]

@@sreetips👍

[@thelugarknin1396]

How do I extract the gold I find in the rivers? I have seen some use mercury to get amalgam, but mercury is dangerous. Is there another way? I'm beginner. Thank you for your reply and warm regards from a small country name Croatia, EU. 🙏

[@sreetips]

I’ve refined placer gold using inquartation, parting with nitric, then refine with aqua regia.

[@thelugarknin1396]

@@sreetips thaaaanks man. 🤗

[@antejl7925]

Ironically there is lot of Cinnabar Mercuric Sulphide Croatia and Slovena in the karst dinnaric alps. Yugoslavia was a top producer in the 60s and 70s

[@thelugarknin1396]

@@antejl7925 yep, truth. In my area, near the Dinara mountain (Northern Dalmatia), there is a lot of high-quality bauxite for aluminum. Also gypsum deposits.

[@swoops212]

Are there any values worth chasing in the base metal solution that went through the filter. IE silver, etc...?

[@sreetips]

There’s a little silver in there.

[@hugohecht5997]

what is the best source for silver ?

[@sreetips]

We buy sterling silver at estate sales.

[@leemccarthy570]

When filtering large amounts of liquid and filter gets semi clogged would it not be way faster to drain the filter and replace it with a new one? You will process all of it afterwards

[@sreetips]

Yes

[@jakesmerth1919]

Either he's robbed some old ladies or he's goin to some estate sales 👀🤔😁

[@sreetips]

I buy gold from many places. People foolishly trade their gold to me for paper dollars, that are declining in value. They believe, incorrectly, that paper money is more valuable than gold. It still amazes me that folks will slave at a job for, and get paid in, paper dollars that can be printed “without limit” out of thin air. I get paid in gold and silver. If I receive any paper as payment, I quickly convert it to metal.

[@jakesmerth1919]

@@sreetips I understand. I'd probably do the same if I had the tools and location for it.

[@mr.g-sez]

hello mr. sreetips, its been a while since i last visited. very glad you still at it! theres still enough to learn from you. i hope you and the mrs. sreetips are well...

[@sreetips]

We are doing well, thank you.

[@rafaelstauffer1]

Muito bom! Queremos ver a parte 2😊👏🏻

[@mcjdubpower]

Gud vid as always 😍💯💥👍😀😃💪

[@ExtractingMetals]

I might try using a gold leaching method on Gold filled scrap. It’s not economical to recover with nitric. Maybe Goldex leach would make sense. I’ll try an experiment and see what happens.

[@sreetips]

This is the best way to do it. Sometimes it takes time.

[@ExtractingMetals]

@@sreetips agreed. Nitric is always the way to go for dissolving base metals. I just like to experiment with alternative techniques some times to see if I can refine my refining process.

[@dlplow]

Your slacking man where the 45 min videos at?

[@1784st]

Do it yourself if it is that easy 😂😅

[@sreetips]

I used to stay up all night to complete a video. But I’m pushing seventy now, and I’m slowing down.

[@dlplow]

@@sreetips your still the man even at 70! Got to keep those KZbin checks coming in though! Hope this rain is t killing you man ! -Dave from Philly -

[@sreetips]

It feels like I’ve turned my wonderful hobby into my work.

[@asaffrige2073]

Can you please share a link for the filter you use?

[@sreetips]

I buy all my filters on eBay.

[@asaffrige2073]

@@sreetips what type of filter should I use?

[@sreetips]

I use “Whatman” number two medium flow filters.

[@vkotzath]

Why don't you melt the gold filled stuff first?

[@sreetips]

Because that’s not the way it’s done.

[@antejl7925]

Melting wouldn't dissolve out the copper, silver, and sometimes lead and tin - the base metals. The Gold is resistant to nitric acid all the others turn into water soluble nirates.

[@vkotzath]

@@antejl7925 Yes, but wouldn't it be like incortation?

[@sreetips]

No, dissolving the base metals with nitric, leaving the gold foils intact, is the easiest way to recover the gold.

[@mikolajone]

here we go

[@kimberlynolz5725]

First

[@richardchayer6597]

Hello

[@dwarvenaled]

🍒