How To Sell Your Gold

[@davestark7880]

I appreciate how precise the language you use is. It's a lost art, using the exact amount of words to describe a process without over explaining.

[@steveciarico9824]

I don't care what anyone says... You are hands down, the best. Fantastic video!!!!

[@kristopheryoung9503]

I always enjoy the videos you share! Especially this one! Thank you for the in-depth instructions and why you repeated the process several times! I appreciate all you do! 👍

[@juniorpineda4151]

Id be nervous af sending gold in, id probably have to go take it in person and wont let go of the bar til they give me the money lol

[@mhamma6560]

Reputable businesses aren't going to screw you over -- Trust takes years to establish, you can't even buy trust, it's got to be earned. Screwing around over percentages isn't worth one's reputation. You screw people over and you're google infamous.

[@sreetips]

One of my mentors used to say, “sooner or later, the refiner will end up cheating the customer.”

[@OvechkinRbk9k]

@@sreetips hey sreetips! New in the business at 24 years old and looking to learn where to find scrap silver/copper and learn to have the eye for it. Any insights?

[@sreetips]

Yes - there’s no substitute for experience. Learn how to spot fake stuff, get up early, be first in line cause the metal goes quickly. Estate sales, yard sales, thrift stores, consignment shops. Hope this helps

[@allmyrage1]

@@OvechkinRbk9k yard sales are great place to start for picking up 925 stamped sterling silver I’m new to this (hobby may be a poor choice of word) but everything from computers to phones to random equipment have precious metals but you really need to be careful there are some stamps that look like initials next to the xxkt most of the time it’s actually talking about how and what it was processed and not good for scrap there is a book a lot of smelters/refiners say is the Bible for this I forget what it is hit there is a discord for all this if someone else’s sees this and can help out!

[@grumblekin]

This channel is the best source of free entertainment during a pandemic....and it’s educational as well. Thank you for these!

[@ut000bs]

Here you are still watching it.

[@aucedogg5594]

I love how the top looks when you keep the torch on the pour out

[@Jroctpl]

Watching that SMB cloud roll around at the bottom never gets old streettips

[@nachosargiotto1820]

every time I watch one of your videos, I learn something new. Even if I have already seen the process in a previous video. Thank you very much, I have learned a lot with you

[@macoppy6571]

@Sreetips what a wonderful service to demonstrate the process of dealing with the large refiners! Thank you 😊

[@evanhorn5764]

I love your passion and energy for refining. You have definitely sparked an interest in me and I'm looking to invest in some equipment in the near future close to my retirement. Thank you for all you do, I really do appreciate it!

[@keithstreeter9054]

What a great video! I love watching your instructional videos! I’ve been a nurse for 27 years and I am looking to be able to replicate your process, possibly supplement income and be able to come home some. I joined the gold refining forum and I am going through and watching all of your videos, and taking notes. I’m not only interested in the final product but I’m also interested in the science and complexity of the process (done safely and correctly). I just wanted to tell you thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge. It is so much appreciated! -KStreeter

[@sreetips]

Excellent, thank you for those kind words my friend

[@lets_dig_a_little_deeper]

​@@sreetipshello and greetings. I wanted to let you know that I watch this video the day you put it on KZbin. I have watched countless hours of your content in a effort to learn and study how to refine gold. I am pleased to inform you that because of your knowledge and your willingness to share it I am able refine gold and make decent money doing so. As well as now I can successfully operate my silver cell that's a really cuts down my cost and gold refining has been able to grow my own silver. I saved my tax return from 2021 and 2022 to purchase all the equipment, chemicals, tools to refine gold in the manner that you do. Because your expert knowledge I was able to successfully refine 567 grams of 14k gold into a very profitable 24k gold bar ( my first time refineing gold by the way!!) that was .999 fine that I sold to the refinery you use and suggested in this video. because of you and you're love and passion I was able to get myself out of debt and I am no longer poor. I make a very good living by refining gold that earns me about $12,000 a month.I thank you from the bottom my heart for helping me out of poverty.

[@arielkozak]

I have that same #3 graphite crucible 18:47 It can crack if heated to quickly, so incrementally add heat over 5-10 minutes. I dont want to see that happen when you melt your cemented silver in the future. I recommend buying a salamander crucible they dont need any pre heat

[@slericls8]

Yeah that's awesome how you recorded the call and asked questions for everyone viewing. Thanks man

[@scottbailey8158]

Thank you sir for the info on where to sell gold. Right now I'm gathering gold after that the chemicals and tools for refining . It's going to be fun and as always safety is first. Thanks again

[@ut000bs]

Sterling silver, karat gold, inquarted gold, and last but not least, pure gold. You always have the prettiest colors in your videos. lol Oh! I was forgetting my favorite orange, chloroauric acid! Thanks, Sr. 🙂🙋‍♂️

[@zeus014]

Very informative, and thank you. The shipping is key because having one of these bars go missing would be very bad. I'm assuming one would want to insure the bars for full value if possible. My other concern is shipping internationally. I'm in Alberta, Canada (ie: Texas North, with similar freedom-centric leanings), so shipping to the US (and getting paid in US dollars rather than Canadian "pesos") is important. But that is a secondary concern compared to having either the bars seized by customs or the money frozen in Canadian banking institutions by our rogue government. They've already demonstrated this tendency when they froze the accounts of Canadians suspected of financially supporting the trucker convoys in early 2022. It might be better to open a US-based account to handle funds generated in this manner....

[@kueapel911]

damn, didn't imagine that soy trudeau boy would really have the gut to do that kind of authoritarian bullcrap

[@zeus014]

@@kueapel911 Justin is a coward, but neither guts nor intelligence are required to bark out orders when he firmly believes he's untouchable. All he needs to be a tyrant is the protection and guidance provided by the puppet-masters who control him - and to have just enough narcissism and idiocy to fall in love with his own voice.

[@BushDogScrapper]

I’m from Alberta as well! CheeRs ♻️💪🏻

[@jeffhenley7818]

Really enjoy watching this channel. Makes me want to get into this as a hobby.

[@ninjabothandyman6063]

I've got quite a good deal of rhodium and tantalum so I'm very grateful for your including their information in this video because now I know where/who I now can send that stuff over to !! Thanks bigtime streetips !!!

[@adammonahan687]

Like tantalum capacitors? Tantalum is worth a fortune

[@electronicscrapper4956]

It never gets old watching gold drop out of solution

[@moviezaftermidnight6348]

Precipitated gold is probably the sneakiest way to hide it in your gardening gear...

[@polishpuffer]

@@moviezaftermidnight6348 you know, I think just straight up putting this kind of gold in a flower pot might be a good move

[@BattleChemist]

Fantastic wholistic video here, Sr. Chief! Thank you so much for sharing your personal refiner contact with us out here, I'll likely need it in a year or so. I've started hitting estate/yard sales for deals to collect metals and will eventually be setting up for refining in the future. Currently trying to find the best way to determine whether these unmarked knife handles are plated or not, but thinking I'll have to just take the samples I bought and hit them witn potassium dichromate after filing down or cutting into them, per the video you talk about testing for plating. Already checked for magnetism and they passed that. Those knife handles with stainless blades are a bit of a pain in the butt since they aren't marked sterling like forks and spoons. (Please let me know if you'd prefer I drop the rank in comments... I haven't served in the military, myself, but my father was a SSgt/E-5 when he got out of the USAF in the early 70's and came home from Saigon, so I use it with the utmost respect and want to be sure it's received as such.)

[@ICU2B4UDO]

SSgt= E6...

[@richardbeee]

You're one of the few that add HNO3 a little at a time. I've been refining for years and have always done it this way. Why spend hours of needless "boildowns"? Recently I sold my Rh that I've saved through the years. A lot of jewelers used to plate Rh behind the stones to catch the light. Tho individually in very small amounts, through the years it built up. I even got it to melt using mapp gas fusion that took 3 hrs., 3 seperate melts. What fun. Goes to show ya anybody with a little common sense can do anything he sets his/her mind to do. My daughter follows in my footstep. Great Video. Look forward to catching more.

[@sreetips]

Richard, I know that I have rhodium in my wastes. I’m totally knowledge less about how to test, recover and refine rhodium. I’m running out of time. My daughter is into real estate and just bought some bitcoin. I tried to discourage her. But she’s just like me - stubborn streak a mile long. She won’t buy gold, listens to Dave Ramsey. But she’ll get the kind of expensive education that making unwise decisions brings. Congrats on your daughter following in your footsteps. I can’t complain, my daughter is doing better than I am and for that I’m grateful.

[@richardbeee]

@@sreetips Most of my Rh was plated to the Au just under the diamonds,emeralds,rubies,etc. My refining method on scrap Au is a little but not much different than yours. I usually take the time to seperate the stone settings. Place these in Aqua-regia solution. As the Au dissolves the Rh will float around like your gold filled scrap floating on your HNO3. I retrieve them by filtering and place in a repository, where I'll try not to forget them for another 10 years. Yep, i had placed the marked container when i moved, in the garage. Oops! Any way we all make mistakes. Got 2 ozs. out of it. Something else you might consider is selling your brown powder Au to local jewelers. The ones i dealt with in the past would pay a premium on it. easy to weigh and mix for whatever their alloy. Easier to weigh powder than wire, plus they could make their own colorful alloys. They love it.

[@sreetips]

Rhodium has got ahold of me. Now I’m obsessed with recovering and refining some so I can make a video of it for my channel. Thanks for the info. I can tell when folks know what their talking about - and you’re one of them.

[@richardbeee]

@@sreetips The best book i ever had for learning was the 1948 Chemistry and physics handbook. For some reason that book seems to be the hardest to find. Most of my experience came through the mining industry.Worked at Magma for a few years. Found Pd in Au alloy. People were selling there gold thinking it had Ag alloy. Proved with a paper trail how they were getting ripped-off. 1 ton of rock yeilded 7oz.Au 1oz Pd. Sold both as seperate elements. Most of the Rh i gathered thru the years was from behind the gemstones. It would float on the surface like your gold plate. By the way,a lot of older custume jewelry was plated with the same. Little known secret i just let out of the bag. Work with your refiner,some like it alloyed with Cu. It's rather unique because it depends on what it's alloyed with. Think of the tons of sludge those electrolitic cell produce a day at the big mining smelter operations. They all have the platinum group sister in them.

[@capoman1]

I've never refined or messed with gold at all... After watching a days worth of your videos, I literally feel like I could refine pure gold and even sell it!... The only thing I haven't seen is the calculations for how much initial nitric acid to use based on weight, or how much silver to add based on purity and weight.... Really educational.... After enough videos (a lot of fast forwarding) I can predict every move and I understand what I am seeing.

[@sreetips]

Calculating how much silver to add is just basic math. The hard part is acquiring the scrap gold for refining,

[@bfd1565]

That is one huge beautiful solid bar of gold you produced Sreetips. Cool stuff bud.

[@DRichPlays]

Phenomenal job with this video. Highly professional as well as stayed interesting throughout. Keep up the great work!

[@jellymatebasia8396]

Thank you for sharing your unselfish skills and knowledge and of course your buyers details. That is very kind of you. Much appreciated. Cheers.

[@disgruntledtoons]

One thing that stands out is how beautiful the pure solutions look, and I'll bet that the camera doesn't do them justice. Anyway, $14k for the bar at the current spot price. Not bad for a day's work.

[@allenhammer7923]

Great one thank you. I am buying a Water tote to make a fume hood with. 275-gallon acid resistant, it has a built-in drain system to a threaded pipe. It will catch all boilovers to a drainpipe into a waste bucket? Semi tailor for a lab. The walls are that government green.

[@chriscarley9951]

Thanks for the refiner/buyer's contact info.👍🇺🇸

[@calogero_t]

One thing Streetips doesn't really explain is the "Patriot Act" laws. Most refiners don't deal with the general public. You need to prove that you have some connection to precious metals such as jewelers and jewelry repairmen (which I believe mr. streetips falls under), pawn brokers, antiques dealers, coin shops, etc. You also need to furnish info such as business or resale licence numbers, tax id, etc. It sounded like the gentleman that Streetips spoke to on the phone briefly touched on some of the requirements but again, there are requirements when dealing with refiners.

[@ut000bs]

@@calogero_t also depends on the state you're in.

[@ThisIsSolution]

Loved the info at the end. It was great to see you call a place and get a feel for how to finalize the transactions if you have precious metal

[@ernestobenchocron5796]

Woou! Sir I am very impresses with that wouenderful information. You are a Master never saw a perfect video like this I am glad saw it for the first time I am so much enjoyed and learn all the ditel. Thank you so much.

[@electro1622]

TIP... either heat your dish from the bottom or heat the whole thing in a furnace so you don't reach excessively high temperatures during melting... excess heat will vaporise some of the gold ( gold will start to "evaporate" as little as 1500 deg C.. which is easily reached with propane/oxy mixed gas) ...in a furnace or heating from under the dish will keep your temp just above melting point so you lose nothing.

[@sreetips]

Excellent, thank you

[@670TXxGregorysxXT670]

Sree has done it again. Excellent video.

[@burriedhistory]

So nice of you for publishing info about your buyer. Continue doing a great job 👍

[@tommetz2972]

Thank You Sir for the Refiner's Info...You just saved me who knows how many hours of time in trying to find a Fair-Priced Refiner! Your the Best!!!

[@uselessbob3630]

Idk how I got here but KZbin blessed me. I wanted inform myself on precious metal's as I wanna expand my investing to not be 100% on stock's. This video and channel is awesome 👌

[@TheRoxtar80]

If you just slightly crumble the gold with glass stick after every nitric acid bath .then it will be easier for nitric acid to penetrate the gold quickly and you will need only 3 nitric acid baths to purify gold to 23.99 karat.

[@sreetips]

We don’t want to crush the gold because it will form nano particles that don’t settle well. Or worse, colloidal gold. Then separation of the liquid from the silver becomes a nightmare.

[@aredditor4272]

I've done the same thing with other companies. The process is as smooth as sreetips showed. I shipped scrap jewelry from California to New York.

[@dadhuntscoins]

I love those poor pour lines on your melts. Good info to know if needing to sell or exchange.

[@mhamma6560]

It's shrinkage, happens when it cools down.. tucks inside.

[@owensuppes1]

This video just made me lots of money. After my first sale with aragold, I will be looking to donate to your channel.

[@dominiccoletta1823]

Y not use the furnace to melt everything at once

[@owensuppes1]

@@dominiccoletta1823 how do you seperate the metals with a batch melt?

[@dominiccoletta1823]

@Owen the same way you would any other time. If ur adding silver to ur gold to incourt it using a furnace to melt everything would just speed up the melting process. That way you don't have to melt the gold then melt/mix in the silver

[@sreetips]

Excellent, thank you

[@graemewight2975]

I really liked the unintentional tree ring pattern on the Gold seen in the Video's thumbnail. 👍🏻🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@cjd1467]

Great video Kevin! The last part with the refiner call was very informative. Question: When are we going to see another waste bucket refining? Want to see more Palladium/Platinum extraction from that!

[@sreetips]

Coming soon!

[@Chris-xl6pd]

Best orange soda channel on yt!

[@danielcox9475]

That was awesome, very informative. I really appreciate your time, you answered many of the questions I was wondering about. Keep up the great work!

[@walterhansen3284]

Does the refinery give you more for the gold you process vs. the gold that's in carot gold? Is it worth the time and materials it takes to refine it yourself?

[@sreetips]

They have zero room to fudge on the payout. Plus I get to keep the silver and PGMs in the karat scrap by refining it myself. Other than that, the only reason I refine is because I love it. I can’t not do it.

[@waynoswaynos]

The first part is all really great but are there better ways to do this with less HNO3 waste? Such as boiling the inquartated metal in a flask and condensing all the vapours into more aqua fortis rather than let go up in smoke? A two neck flask might be employed so that the liquids could be siphoned out and replaced easily. Or doing smaller batches, where there is enough water, acid, metal for all Ag to go into solution in one or two passes? Seven or eight looks labour intensive. I thought about how the old school chemists had tops for their alembics where the vapours condensed and were collected. Something like that which could fit onto a beaker, or a modified beaker so all of the red smoke could be collected and reused. But could also be quickly and easily removed and replaced. A modern version of that might be a reaction flask that has a circular clip that holds the lid down. Its basically a round bottom beaker. It has a ground glass joint to add whatever condenser you like to it. If it were a reflux setup, all the red fume would condense and drip back in to help with the reaction. Zero waste. Or putting the inquartated metal with dry nitre crystals and heating them in a reaction flask or large crucible with lid, dry. Then washing the silver nitrate out once cooled. Is that done? KNO3 melts at 320°C so I'd imagine it wouldn't need to be much hotter.

[@sreetips]

Wow, I’d like to see a video of that. Thank you

[@KentuckyColonel]

I had dealings with ARA way back.. years ago.. they were 100% above board.

[@davelamont]

I really enjoy your videos. They are very educational as well as entertaining. My hobby is metal detecting and I am an over the road truck driver. Your videos prevent me from going to sleep when I really should be sleeping. LOL. Keep up the great videos.

[@sreetips]

Keep your eye on the road man. Truckers are the life’s blood of this nation. I salute you!

[@garryschyman99]

Thank you for your recommendation of ARA Gold. I got a quote from my local coin Co on some scrape gold I had and they offered my $820 - ARA paid me $1,052 and gold spot price had gone down a bit. Great suggestion!

[@WilXliFY]

Did you provide them an LLC or business account?

[@garryschyman99]

@@WilXliFY I have an S-Corp and provided that information. Otherwise they will pay you but at a slightly reduced rate. ARA paid 98% of spot with my S-Corp.

[@robertallison9653]

@35:32 wait for it! Give it 10 seconds. "what a sight to behold!" Amazing bar!

[@michaelcato9255]

Could you take the powdered silver straight to the silver cell instead of melting it into larger granules? Is it too fine and might go through the filter cloth that you make the basket from? Love your videos. It is a fascinating process to watch.

[@mkstech7004]

Use hot water and put it in freezer as hot then the ice cubes will be also pure if your ice cube is cloudy it means it contains impurities ice will be clear if you freeze hot water

[@edwardmccarthy4505]

Thanks for a new avenue to sell my dore'... I leach with eco-goldex e. and I am a fairly serious hobbyist leaching close to a half ton of trimmed ram fingers per day yielding appx 7 ounces per day. however you taught me to refine my personal stash with ar. thank you. you also taught me safety.. I dont like a.r. refining as I have had reactions go out of control. but I keep learning from you.

[@sreetips]

Excellent

[@kb-lb4fu]

I would like to hear where you are sourcing the jewelry/gold scraps from and how you know whether it is 10k,14k, 18k,24k...

[@sreetips]

We buy scrap gold at local sales for very cheap because people don’t understand that gold is more valuable than paper dollars. The karat scrap is usually stamped but not alway. But you can’t always go by the marking.

[@seansimpkins668]

I re coated my wedding ring with gold thanks to you!

[@mnap89]

Is there any benefit of refining before selling to refinery? Becasue in my country gold price is the same no matter karat. So it is more profitable to just melt it and sell as is, than to waste time, chemicals, energy to refine it.

[@sreetips]

There’s no need to even melt it. The karat gold can be sent in just like it is. I refine it first because I love doing it. Plus, it lets the refiner know that I know what I’m doing. Gives less wiggle room when my pay out is determined. And even though it’s not much, I get to keep the silver and other precious metals in the karat gold. Big refiners normally only pay you for the gold. They keep the other metals for themselves. People forget about this or they don’t know about it. Karat scrap contains silver and platinum group metals. This is how they can afford to pay 98% of spot for your gold. And, every refiner will end up cheating the customer, eventually. That’s part of the reason I refuse to refine other peoples material.

[@sheenawalker1751]

How did you get started in refining precious metals? How could I get started?

[@sreetips]

I wanted to refine my own metal and I developed an intense desire to succeed.

[@ghnbtrcv8672]

What a nice piece of gold

[@thebhut3446]

Love your videos. Why sterling to enquart? Wouldn't silver plate scrap work? I've seen you use copper before.

[@sreetips]

I refine sterling.

[@jeffgries60]

So many steps , so so many, and dangerous, a new level of responsibility and respect for refining, I love the look of the Silver cell/ and the 5gal bucket of silver cement 💲💲💲I’m a silver guy, so many uses for silver it’s my favorite

[@richardshiffka1110]

Do you refine for individual people

[@marcelloroos766]

Shouldent u filter the distillered water after putting in the sulfuric acid to get the percipetated lead out and only then continue with disolving the gold?❤❤

[@sreetips]

Sounds right

[@quinntenlindley8432]

Hi sreetips. I was just checking into nitric acid substitute sodium nitric and as a beginner refiner to a intermediate beginner refiner I’d like to get your opinion on it. Is it something you have ever used and continue to use or do you just use nitric 70% and what is your preference to one another.

[@sreetips]

I’ve never used it, no experience. I just buy the nitric already made

[@bigsarge3684]

One of the best most informative videos I have seen thus far and with the added info for the refiner just proves to me this is the best method. JMO.

[@Zenithstudios5274]

rte Tqste.of.. Tqsteofthesouth

[@Rexs_Den]

If I use Clean Copper instead of Sterling Silver do the calculations for the amounts remain the same? Thank you again for all the videos. They're very informative and fun to watch.

[@sreetips]

Yes

[@korpse6rinder]

Have you ever tried placing a one of the rinses on the ultrasonic cleaner? Not poured into but just put the beaker on top of it? It seems like it could get into the gold or silver powder better than just a swirl.

[@jwdickinson643]

most excellent video, Sr. Chief!

[@peteroliver3408]

Do you process/ adjust Ag addition for white, yellow, rose, etc gold separately? thinking of the Pd/Ni in white vs Ag+Cu in yellow or just Cu in rose.

[@klosoncy]

do you still need to incorporate silver if you're refining placer gold? And thanks!

[@sreetips]

No necessarily, but I would because it does such a good job at cleaning the gold.

[@shortyspice9673]

Sreetips you have helped me so much! as a newer refiner I have not had alot of mentors jumping out trying to help in my learning and experience process. Thank you for yourself and channel. I use your methods daily but your form in professionalism is going to take some time. I hold you on high my freind. Wildsun.

[@sreetips]

Thank you!

[@ronjlwhite8058]

The golden flame print is as unique as our own fingerprint, I like that part of the bars best.

[@ChrisJ-mf7cj]

Where is the equal point between value of gold/silver vs cost of nitric used to inquart here? And why go this route instead of aqua regia? I’m asking as a serious learning point question because i haven’t a clue and am genuinely trying to learn, not critique or whatever. I love love love watching your videos. I learn something every single time, even if it’s a rewatch. I will pick up on something i missed earlier. Thank you so much for your channel and the sharing you do.

[@sreetips]

I don’t know equal point because I’ve not calculated it. Inquarting with silver or copper lowers the gold content. Then the nitric can get everything out before going to aqua regia. Trying to dissolve the karat gold without inquarting creates problems with a very dirty solution and passivation.

[@ChrisJ-mf7cj]

@@sreetips I just got to the point in the video where you explained that. My bad. Should’ve been patient and known you would explain the refining points. Thank you sir. Please keep up the good work! One day I’m going to be able to buy some of your eBay offers and that stamp of yours will be more valuable than the metal, to me anyway!

[@okkrom]

Why not use pure silver instead of sterling when inquarting? The only things I kow about refining is whatever I learned watching you but it seems like not having the copper ''contamination'' would make for easier refining of the silver afterwards?

[@sreetips]

Using pure silver, that’s already been through the silver cell, would be taking a step in the wrong direction.

[@tutordave]

I know sterling has some copper in it... do you think enquarting would be better with refined silver?

[@sreetips]

No, because it’s already been through the silver cell. And we’d lose the blue color indicator that’s so convenient.

[@tutordave]

@@sreetips True, true... I was wondering about that. Have you trained in chemistry? I'd like to see more theory although it might be a little "mathy" for some folks. Feel free to holler @ me if you have any chem questions. Maybe I can help.

[@lancemillward2462]

in new zealand refiiners prefer to buy the old jewelry as it is . the reason being that stolen jewelry is often melted down so it cant be identified.

[@sreetips]

Makes sense. I buy my karat scrap from local sales.

[@jeremyv5650]

Hey Sreetips. I love your videos. I’m curious, could you use some of your cement silver to enquart the gold instead of purchasing silverware to melt down?

[@sreetips]

Not recommended. Palladium follows silver because it’s soluble in nitric. The palladium tends to build up in the cement silver if used to inquart. High concentrations of palladium causes it (the palladium) to get into the silver cell electrolyte. High concentrations of palladium in the electrolyte could cause palladium to plate out with the silver and contaminate the pure silver crystal. But contaminated silver is not the concern. Palladium is almost 80 times more valuable than silver.

[@lets_dig_a_little_deeper]

quick question sreetips,cab i use the inpure silver shot that i made from the cemented silver instead of sterling silver/clean copper

[@sreetips]

Yes but it’s not recommended.

[@Kryxys]

That lost gold was the stuff from the beaker you said you would get later.

[@bullyhunter6930]

I like how you don’t waste the silver. As someone like myself that has no idea what this is about. It’s interesting that you have to add silver to get it where you need it, but then the silver is disposed of...but not wasted as you apparently cement it out (as you say)

[@sreetips]

Correct, then I melt into shot and run it through my silver cell.

[@thedailyprepper517]

You should show us what the value is before processing and after processing plus cost of processing.

[@sreetips]

I don’t track expenses for each batch.

[@hello_world777]

One question; if there are excess nitric acid when you pour it into the silver jar - why dont you just boil it for longer? Nitric Acid is expensive and difficult to procure ( at least where I live).

[@sreetips]

I add pieces of silver to consume all the excess nitric acid. A small amount of free nitric is required for the silver to react with the copper and cement out of the solution

[@MotorJeffries]

Wow, incredibly informative. Well done and beautiful results.

[@lirnerpublishingnotes]

Hey, have to say wouw, love the way you monetize the acid for the next process, thinking ahead is always a good idea, and the thoroughness of procedures are awesome, outstanding effort, nice one Streetips, excellent job.

[@glennwmurphy1]

TOP NOTCH INFO TOP NOTCH PRODUCTION, START TO FINISH. I GOTTA SAY IT, THAT'S REAL CLASS:)

[@billlumburg7594]

How toxic is the nitric acid vapor? Is the vent fan, gloves and filter mask enough protection?

[@sreetips]

It’s deadly, I work in a fume hood to draw the fumes away from my work area.

[@billlumburg7594]

@@sreetips I saw the video showing your vent hood with the metal light housing. You mentioned having to modify the light. I look forward to seeing the evolution of your setup. Thank you.

[@blnematode1267]

WRT cement silver, you said, “then I rinse all the copper off it.” But subsequent steps in your silver refining process suggest that that doesn’t quite happen. After all the phrase you use for your shot is “impure silver shot” and your electrolytic chamber becomes blue as the Pacific with (copper nitrate?) You’re still rinsing rinsing rinsing this stuff off at the end of process from your pure silver crystal. I gotta say, and I say it with love because Mr Sreetips you are awesome, but this appears to be a major weakness in your workflow. Have you ever attempted to brainstorm a better way to rinse your cement silver?

[@sreetips]

Two points here: #1, as long as the copper concentration is kept below 60 grams per liter in the electrolyte, and voltage (current flow will vary) is kept at 3.5 volts, then the copper will not plate out in the cell with the pure silver crystal. #2, according to GoldSilverPro on the goldrefiningforum.com (one of the professional refiners that I learned from) a small amount of copper in the electrolyte, like what you get when traces of copper in the impure shot start to build up in the electrolyte as it dissolves, improves the crystal structure. It promotes fat crystal growth. I learned from the best. Their methods are tried and true.

[@bormisha]

I guess that when cementing silver with copper, tiny particles of metallic copper get separated from the bulk and are mixed with the cement silver. So rinsing won't help much, but electrolysis will. Sometimes Sreetips ran his pure silver crystal through the cell again, resulting no blue stain to the electrolyte. This proves that the single stage electrolysis properly takes care of the remaining copper.

[@samhianblackmoon]

At 29:17 now that’s a nice glass of tea 🔥👍🏽

[@shywatcher1961]

that place has an excellent pay out compared to others.. i am going to put their contact information in my address book for future reference............................... thank you Sreetips

[@sreetips]

Talk to JC, is excellent customer service

[@shywatcher1961]

@@sreetips i sure will and thank you...

[@danielwydner438]

Hey Sreetips! Big fan of your work - I think it's really encouraging to see people carve their own path business-wise in our day. I'm not sure if you'll see this, but if you do, I'd love to know your thoughts on shipping insurance when selling to a place such as ARA. Namely, do you think it's worth it? For example, a carrier like USPS only insures up to $5000 for a priority shipment. If someone were shipping GF scrap with a yield estimate of ~2.5 ozT to a company like ARA, their cost would be ~$700 ($200 for shipping and insurance, and ~$500 for ARA's cut), or just under 15% of the value of their gold. Do you reckon that's worth it so long as they bought all of their GF scrap at at least a 15% profit?

[@sreetips]

When I used with ARA I shipped via usps registered mail insured. It’s their most secure method. It stays locked up the entire shipment. But it can take up to ten days to arrive. Today I use elemetal direct $14 shipping. They provide the containers and insurance. I’ve never sent in GF material. I’ve only sent in three nines pure gold ingots. Gives them no room to wiggle on the pay out.

[@ericmitchell4432]

ARA gold We used to sell to them all the time when we live in Dallas Texas there was a gentleman there named Bill spicy he was the head refiner there good guy

[@scrapman502]

I agree with everything Sreetips has to say EXCEPT for sending $7000+ in gold using USPS. USPS would be the LAST option I would use to securely send my gold to any refiner.

[@sreetips]

That’s 7.6 Troy ounces of pure gold valued at $14,000 and USPS is the only carrier I trust. People love to hate the post office. Those folks do a fantastic job! Using register priority mail it will arrive in Dallas before next Wednesday. The charge was $48 including insurance.

[@scrapman502]

@@sreetips You can trust USPS as much as you want, up until the time they loose one of your packages, and then you'll NEVER trust them again.

[@subparwelder]

then he collects the value of the package more easily than he would from any of the private carriers. The only better option than the USPS would be to collect enough to make it worth personally delivering the gold to the refiner.

[@dominickporretto9181]

what gas is emitted when you pour the used nitric acid onto the silver?

[@sreetips]

Nitrogen dioxide

[@2manycatsforadime]

I have a pint container of liquid dalic plating solution. I know there is still gold in the solution. Is there a process for extracting the gold from the solution?

[@sreetips]

Bob I’ve never worked with plating solutions

[@HoodBillyLife]

I’ve watched several of your videos and they are very educational and interesting

[@uwillnevahno6837]

8:33 I'm looking at the fill/rinse/wash cycle and wondering what kind of volume in a refining operation would be needed to justify the expense of having a process train in place? By process train I mean fill, drain and transfer lines into/out of a reaction vessel to reagent reservoirs, waste treatment and filtration stages. Just looking at the yield and admittedly not knowing the input, overhead and labor costs almost 8 oz. of Gold is a tidy sum.

[@ericdrisgula3879]

This is straight up the exact definition of true Alchemy , something that very very very few people know anything at all about these days , this is an ancient lost art, or a dead art, glad to see someone doing quite advanced refinery type work on a small private scale , so if.im not mistaken through all the combined process's that you executed here if I understand correctly at.the end you end up with very pure silver and very pure gold that both can be smelted down or poured into homemade casts in the shape of small and large rounds as.well as any size and shape silver or gold bars you may want. You should have a machine shop CNC or laser jet/water jet a couple specific sized and visual patterned and misc identifying .lettering In coin and bar shapes CNC'd from whatever the correct material would be to use when stamping and or pouring gold and silver then maybe get a matching back side to whatever size and shape coin or bar stamping die you have CNC'd and weld this back piece which would be like 1-2 tenths of a millimeter smaller In overall size and weld it to a big 2"-4" round or square solid hardened steel block that you can attach to a bench top hydraulic press , mount It directly as the head of the press at the end of the piston shaft, then have your main CNC'd front as well as main body piece of the proper metal milled out of a massive block of whatever metal that may be ,.say like long enough to stretch from front edge to rear most edge of the two front and rear main pressing platform IBeams and say I dunno 4"-6" wide by like 3'-4" tall , this will be your stamping base that you'd put your 1500 degree or whatever the temperature is molten and already slightly cooled basically liquid silver or gold directly into , enough so there is small excess at the top so you end up pressing some excess out when you do press it to make sure you got enough molten material to make a full size piece however big your stamping block and press head/back side press face attached to thick strong metal which can be directly mounted to the hydraulic piston right at the very end of the ram. If you get the size and fitment between the bottom stamping base and the base side stamping head so there's almost no excess play whatsoever it should literally only stamp the exact size you want quite reliably maybe with a very thin slight build up of excess gold or silver that squeezed out around the edges that can easily be broken off and very carefully filled with a fine grit file then buff those edges up to a decent polish real quick and boom you got homemade refined silver and gold , a homemade hydraulic stamping press with as many different shaped casts that you wish to have made , and end up with properly and accurately measured gold and/or silver rounds and bars stamped very professionally all at home and the stamping press wouldn't be that much money to put together. Then if you got all the silver and gold you used to stamp a bunch or rounds or bars for a really good price such as like priceless estate sale treasure finds that you've collected alot of weight in over time , you could actually go ahead and probably sell some of your silver and gold rounds or bars and make a very high rate of profit if you got the raw and scrap metals cheap enough. I have one question , If I'm not mistaken through part of this process you did regarding the silver did you actually take cheap and not so valuable sterling silver scrap and refine it down to a practically .999% silver purity which is like as pure as it gets except for the .9999% we see from the Canadian national mint, cause if so I'm gonna start going out to find and collect as much cheap ass sterling silver as I can get my hands on. Also when you refine the silver do you end up with the same weight in ultra pure .999% silver as you started with in sterling silver purity ? Or is there a percentage of materials loss say per ounce or however? One last question again if I'm not mistaken you in a couple hours time and careful precise work are able to consistently and reliably convert 10k and 14k purity gold and refined it down to a .999% pure 22 or 24 karat gold purity, I think that's what you did i just want to make sure , if so what's the materials loss rate in say refining 1 ounce of mixed 10k and 14k gold scrap into .999% 22 or 24k virtually as pure as pure gets , so basically how much 22-24k .999 gold would you be left with after refining say one ounce of scrap 10kand 14k. I know I said one last question but one more just hit me , is there a way you are aware pf to at home successfully strip gold and silver plating off from other metal based items and then go on to refine that striped gold or silver plating , second is it even worth the time ?

[@sreetips]

People understand gold and silver even less. They think fake paper dollars, that can be printed out of thin air, are more valuable than gold. They want the fiat paper so badly that they will gladly trade their gold for dollars - at a discount! But this won’t last forever. Eventually people will realize that the paper is worthless and there will be a mad dash into metals. Then we won’t be able to find gold anywhere.

[@ericdrisgula3879]

I truelly respect the work you do brother. Speaking of not being able to find gold when everyone finally realizes the paper is worthless I heard a report from some think tank group in where they did some calculations as to how much silver is going to be needed to meet the technological demand of the population in 10 years and they reported that there's only enough silver left in the earth to mine to build not even 50% of the the total projected needed technologies one decade from now. I know you know what that means , over night at a point the price on silver is going to literally skyrocket , possibly coming near the value of gold if not higher who knows. Im gonna do what I can the next couple years to free up as much fundage as possible and start focusing on silver because of this report, I wish I remembered where I read it as I'd share it but sorry to say I have no memory at all of where I read this , it was quite a few months ago. Btw that little swirling pattern you get on the one side of all the bars you pour is quite beautiful I thought I should add. What is your opinion on salvaging silver and gold from things like cell phone and computer components and circuit boards ? Is it worth it and how would one go about learning how o separate gold and silver from other components made of plastics and other metals? I'm curious because I use an electronic cigarette to get my nicotine fix since I quit real cigarettes a year ago , and I just found out that the little disposable "vape pods" that I blow through like candy with this device have the entire battery contacts and heating coil plated in gold , I have been saving them for a year on a hunch and have over 4,000 of these pods , each one with an estimated 1/10th-1/15th of a grams worth of gold if I could separate them all from the plastic bodies then learn how to remove the gold plating from the contacts and terminals I calculate that over 4,000 of these little things would amount to quite a few ounces of gold and quite a few thousands of dollars. Can you recommend any books or how too step by steps on how these processes are done , basically how to remove the plating from the base metals as I think from there using your videos I could find my way through how to refine , smelt and pour it , just need a little guidance . Thanks in advance

[@sreetips]

Electronics must have gold or they’d quite working in about a week. But the amount of gold is tiny - almost nothing, will do the trick. In my experience, gold plated material is best run through a sulfuric acid stripping cell. I don’t refine much escrap anymore because the amount of work and waste produced is so high. And the are just too low. But it is a way to accumulate pure gold and I don’t blame you for finding ways to get some. I hate refining silver! It’s messy, bulky solutions, lots of waste to deal with. But I just keep cranking out pure silver Crystal. As long as my wife keeps finding it, I’ll keep refining it.

[@lordchagrin1378]

Great videos and very informative! I love that you take the time to explain the process.

[@OnsloVest]

How often do you clean the silver jars that are used for the pour offs of the nitric with the Sterling inside? Is there much gold/mud in with them? Always wonder as there’ll be silver in that you don’t like going in your stock pot

[@sreetips]

I keep piece of undissolved silver and boil those silver jars to ensure that all the free nitric is gone. However, there is gold mud and gold foils that settle to the bottom. After a few months accumulation, I add nitric to completely dissolve all the silver in the silver jar - so that there is plenty of boiling nitric AND NO PIECES OF SILVER LEFT AT ALL. Then I filter all the gold mud and gold foils and capture them in a specially prepared filter. Once I have the solids in the filter I rinse with much hot distilled water to remove as much silver as possible. Then I add the filter to my filter storage and save it. Once I’ve accumulated enough filters, I burn them to a fine ash and then process them for the gold and other precious metals that they contain. The clear filtered solution will have excess free nitric. I add that back to the silver jar and put in more sterling silver to consume it all and keep the silver jar going.

[@OnsloVest]

@@sreetips and so the cycle continues...Thanks for the reply

[@marcelloroos766]

Or should u after adding sulfuric acid add hydrochloric acid and then filter out the lead and only then continue with nitric acid to disolve the gold?❤

[@sreetips]

I add sulfuric while dissolving the gold in AR

[@catalinaislandliving6916]

Do you take advantage of the extra 1% (98 vs 99%) when selling 20 grams or more or is that too much volume for you to sit on?

[@nicholaswinterton39]

Cool vid I just did a ruff melt of some alaska gold I think I'll send it into them 39.2 grams testing at around 20 kt