TURN LEAD INTO SILVER - Using the Parkes Process |ask Jeff Williams

In this video we will show you how to effectively turn Lead into Silver using the Parkes process.
When zinc is added to liquid lead that contains silver as a contaminant, the silver migrates into the zinc.
The zinc remains in a separate layer and is easily removed. The zinc-silver solution is then heated until the zinc vaporizes, leaving nearly pure silver behind.
Cupellation can also be used for the removal of Zinc
If gold is present in the liquid lead, it can also be removed and isolated by the same process.
We use iron from a skillet to aid in oxidation of lead sulfide which pulls the sulfur from the lead sulfide and creates Sulfur Dioxide.
The carbon from the charcoal is added to reduce it down to lead matte all in one step
Now we know this is an older vid but it got pulled down for some reason and we are re posting it.
If you liked this vid....well then Sonny Jim give it a Big thumbs Up and leave us a comment cause we love to read them......
So you know what I am gonna say huh...
So C'mon.....Let's Go !!!!!!
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[@SenorQuichotte]

Yeah i like these classic episodes.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

me too

[@respectanimals2]

Very interesting, I like the way you presented this video , quick and informative, excellent ☠️👍

[@breakawaymotorsports]

Turn lead into silver..the 0nly real way is the old fashioned train robbery. :)

[@stumped463]

You mean the finest silver is the silver you've stolen from someone else. lol

[@user-nm5tn7td5b]

The title is very wrong because this is not the conversion of lead into silver.... Rather, this is the method of extracting silver from lead

[@vonthorne8387]

that was one hell of an earth bong, goly. Great video Jeff, thanks for all your hard work going into it, that Parkes process is no joke.

[@MrInsaint]

Yes, be careful about such processes. Thank you Jeff, Slim & Crew.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks and we will

[@arthurc1971]

So it takes $200 in labor to have $40 in silver? That sounds like a Government job, where do I sign?

[@jello1847]

Awesome video!! Thank you!

[@IBRAKEFORBEDROCK]

Jeff, that was really neat ...Thanks for taking the time.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

you bet and thanks for watching.....as you can tell this is an older vid that Got pulled down so back up it goes....

[@BonifaceNzom]

Very nice explanation of the process .Educative .

[@auassassin787]

Great informative video as always Jeff!!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks

[@fuzzeymofo]

Thanks for takeing the time. Literally. I enjoy your shows along with your die hard enthusiasm. From one fellow rock picker to another. Rock on !

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks Rob

[@insolentstickleback3266]

Excellent, Thank You for making this!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

you betcha

[@joelonderee2872]

Always love your videos, Jeff. Please keep them coming.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

thanks Joe we will.

[@iamlexcda]

I truly do appreciate you and all your videos. Thank you for the effort and time put into each of them. Hopefully one day I'll be able to use what I've learned.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

you betcha and thanks

[@artflow7805]

You are so incredible Jeff!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks

[@markholland5767]

That was a good video Jeff. I’m blown away by your knowledge of metals. Your the man.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks Mark

[@allada9590]

My compliments to chef Jeff. Those are the best cupcakes ever.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

yum yum

[@angiestoner8415]

Great video Jeff, very informative!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

thanks

[@artflow7805]

So cool to talk! Thank you so much for replying!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

you betcha

[@nkommartin1196]

Wow you should add more videos for different gold extraction processes. That was great Jeff

[@Askjeffwilliams]

we are working on it ...

[@stoggies3546]

Thanks for the videos Jeff

[@Askjeffwilliams]

you betcha

[@carolhorton-hines420]

That was awesome.

[@MarkSeve]

Thanks for sharing Jeff.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

you betcha Mark

[@petecrabtree6734]

Man you really know your stuff and yeah I'm gonna watch the next video . 😁👍

[@nathanmoore8919]

Awesome vid mate 👍 Love it!!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

thanks

[@AGDemo]

Great work as always!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks

[@jshilohshea381]

interesting and educational ! thanks for sharing your knowledge !

[@Askjeffwilliams]

you betcha

[@dezertraider]

JEFF IS THE BEST THANK YOU!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks

[@johnramirez5032]

Thanks for the video. Your a man of many talents.!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks John

[@indyme2]

Cool video, Jeff. Thanks.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

you betcha.....glad you liked it

[@richardwarnock2789]

I been Cupelled to thank you Jeff fun but nasty Scarry kind of fun But Me likes the Gold too!!! Thanks Slim for posing for introduction!!!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

yep that is why I am a Gold guy

[@_TONY_Az]

Nice I'm with you on the gold

[@BrianClunie]

Thank you for give some outstanding information!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

you bet Brian

[@rickp46]

The conan music was awesome. And so was this video!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

thanks.

[@aaronkeeth651]

you got tongs for everyday of the week, awesome!

[@i.c.c.c.i.abdullahibnloren]

Very cool video I can dig it I love that craziness you got man thanks for teaching us really awesome video lot of work goes into making silver pure

[@Askjeffwilliams]

thanks and you betcha

[@theshootindutchman]

So easy, I can't believe I haven't done this before!😁

[@foytaylor5876]

Just showing this process I see why the Professor Jeff goes for the Gold. Best videos on prospecting on KZbin

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks

[@SomervilleBob]

Nice job. Thanks.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

you betcha

[@morlanius]

good stuff, thanks jeff :)

[@Askjeffwilliams]

you betcha

[@Uncle_Buzz]

I'm thinking it costs more to process the galena into silver than the silver is worth. You'd have to do that on a large scale to make it worthwhile, huh. Good stuff! Cheers, Chris.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

pretty much

[@samrgam6138]

@@Askjeffwilliams 6:35 "I wish that is Gold"? Are you saying you don't know about the Gold? cuz I think you lie if u said so.

[@bedrockbennett1827]

Great video

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks

[@clintcommander]

Loving the Conan Soundtrack in the background!

[@nelsongarcia9792]

Greatings from Venezuela!!! Jeff...hey buddy I loved this epidode!!! This vídeo transforming galena in natural condition to silver...was awespme men!!!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

thanks Nelson......really glad you liked it...

[@BonifaceNzom]

🎉 Excellent.

[@anthonybrau7399]

Wow...quite a process for 15 bucks an ounce!! Thanks for another great video Jeff. Yup....I'll stick with the gold.

[@TheKeving123]

20 seconds in I'm already loveing the dubstep playing during the warning credits.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

you just gotta love dubstep.

[@ronaldwells1805]

I always like watching your channel pretty cool

[@rastamanralph6670]

I found it!,great video👍

[@Jon.......]

Dang ! Learned some more nuggets of knowledge from Professor Jeff ! Thank you. What's next .. platinum mining & processing ?

[@dougalbin1022]

Great video,👍👍👍👍🥂🥂

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks

[@djteddybear131]

GREAT SHOW JEFF GIVE IT A 850%

[@davidcarnes8810]

Cool 👍 😎

[@joseywilds3133]

I’m trying this at home

[@realcourte]

Cookin' with Jeff. Book comin' soon! YeeaAAAH!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

ask Chef Williams

[@GOWIN8109837]

2,642nd 👍 That barrel kiln with the slide away top. 👌 Maaaan, You got all the good toys.

[@bedrockbennett1827]

You should go back and take a look at El Dorado County Coloma and also Placer County's got some pretty cool history as well

[@ArtisticallyEligible]

beautiful

[@hughezzell10000]

Do Not Try This At Home. Yeah right. I'm getting all the things I need together right now!

[@74KU]

And Hugh E was never heard from again :P

[@myronward203]

🤣🤣

[@UndergroundLookingUp]

I watched this specifically to see if it was the way I thought I could refine it at home. Note: dont breathe the fumes!

[@zindi1138]

Thats awesome

[@Askjeffwilliams]

thanks

[@PHARRAOH]

so freaking cool, you are a treasure chest of knowledge. Thanks, and where's slims lazy ass lately?

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks Alan and Sleeping on his pile of Gold like Mcscrooge duck ....as usual.....

[@philais]

Seems like silver should cost more than $15oz

[@lazypooh5457]

PHARRAOH Hi !! I don’t know what flux is ?? How can i get it pls!!!

[@toxxicdutchie232]

@@lazypooh5457 flux is somethin used to make metals come together, use borax

[@calebprice747]

Now I no to not even mess with my galena. How much that be worth my man? Love all your videos and work. You my hero man.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

might get 20 or 30 bucks for it......

[@Whadaa72]

That is a lot of steps just for silver. I live close to a old huge mine called Wilbert mine in butte County it produced over half million ounces of silver and equal amount of lead. Its all but gone now but still has lots of old structures still standing

[@tomweidler8910]

Absolutely AWESOME You Is Indeed Sir!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Your friend in Las Vegas Nevada Tom Weidler 😎👍👍

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks Tom, really glad you liked it.....

[@Oidium45]

That is the both the ugliest silver bar that I have ever seen and the most beautiful! Thanks for the vid!

[@rmcnasty7319]

Good video I didnt know that. TKS For sharing. Mine safe

[@SeanTHirsch]

I like these

[@Askjeffwilliams]

thanks

[@robertbogan225]

The most fun you can have with lead and silver.

[@dand8538]

Hi Jeff. I totally love your video's. You and slim are awesome. I wish i was out there with you and slim mining for gold but in the mean time. This was a really good trio of footage on silver mining and how it is done with safety notes so the people that will actually try this don't kill them selves. I was wanting to ask about platinum mining and if there are any platinum deposits so you could show how that process works. That would be awesome.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks Dan....we really don't do Platinum my friend.....Gold only with a little Silver...

[@keithlong3129]

Slim and Jeff hope y'all have an awesome holiday season slam I wanted one of your rings thay was done sold out soon as I went to click on it that's the way the cookie goes love you guys stay safe keep up the awesome content your friend Keith out of Asheville North Carolina

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Thanks Keith.......you too my friend and who knows maybe one day the Slim ring will make a come back....

[@appclickable]

Phew, now the process! Its not yellow, but it sure is shiny.

[@Nomadicsage1]

Three people first hell yeah!

[@dirtyolpat]

Thanks Jeff, I love that old video, I sort of remember seeing it before,but forgot what a pain in the ass that process appeared to be XD

[@Iguanaman321]

That's a lot more work for silver! But can't beat the gold shiny!

[@Famo59]

That was truly fantastic JEFF.. Hi Ho Silver..Away.. So come on let’s go make some Silver Projectiles for the Vampire slayers ..!! Thanks for sharing Jeff.. Cheers Famo59.👍🤓🍺⛏

[@ITechcompulock]

Same kind of PPE when welding galvanized metal.

[@CrucesNomad1]

Finally a way I can reproduce. Yes safety is a must, wont need to tell you twice. I was lucky to work a precision cast factory that used the lost wax method. But Im looking to make bars. I metal detect and have pounds of jewelry I need to process. Followed you for years now, always informative.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

thanks and let us know if you have questions on processing your scrap Jewelry....

[@jacobh707]

I appreciated "the riddle of steel"

[@Chris_Harris]

Mmmmm Epic Silver Time!

[@Askjeffwilliams]

next time.....we eat our coins.....

[@Chris_Harris]

@@Askjeffwilliams Jeff, serve me up some of that shiny...even if it's silver and I'd have my knife and fork out at your table any day of the week! OH BY the way. We got 950 ounces this year before getting frozen out of our claim on the Yukon for the year. A hundred and twenty of those baby's had my name on them. :) Highest ever AND we think we're coming into a couple football field size spot that wasn't dredged. (the drilling samples we got from the area were classified as..."tainted" because the drilling went through huge nuggets (we think). The kind of nuggets you ain't never seen down there in the desert, son. Wish us luck next season once the twelve feet of snow melts) Love your south mining videos still though. AU never gets tired.

[@richardrobertson1331]

Jeff, for that last zinc boil-off furnace process, if you make your own crucibles using lots of bone meal, any lead left over in the silver will flow into the crucible wall and bind with the calcium phosphate. I am not suggesting you do it because then you have lead contaminated crucibles, and what do you do with them? Just a thought, not a suggestion.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

thanks Richard.......yes you can do that with magnesite too....thanks

[@requiem5179]

Zinc shakes sound permanent.

[@6514jimmydean]

ok brother its time for a video SO Common Lets GOooOOo !!!

[@SURFEAMORETERNO]

Woo Hoo!

[@jimfurr81]

Where is that Slim! Making you do all the work! :)

[@Askjeffwilliams]

always.

[@spectrumofcreation5679]

Slim most likely was hiding and waiting for when Jeff wasn't looking!!! He was gonna nab that silver.

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

I have a feeling that the cost of the materials involved, the charcoal, carbon, flux, zinc and fuel to melt the ingot, cost much more than you got in silver at the end....

[@Askjeffwilliams]

yes but this was just for proof of concept

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

@@Askjeffwilliams , Oh, I know. Unless there is an actual full-scale mining company, I don't see how mining silver profitably (and safely) is feasible....

[@granite-headgold1038]

Have you done any videos on the other methods of silver extraction? We have a decent amount of placer gold here in northern NH (small amounts of lode also), and I do dredge quite a bit, but we also have a bunch of galena around too (there's an old lead mine literally just up the road from me), and I'd like to try making some of my own silver bars... without poisoning myself in the process! Would like to see the process for copper too, as there were a ton of copper mines nearby back in the day.

[@kerrypurcell6022]

great video,,,,,,,,i have lots of silver,,,,and copper,,,,,,

[@muhammadridwanasshiddiqiea6647]

Mantap 🙏

[@GF_Burke]

Fun stuff to do. I built a waste oil foundry. Propane was just too costly, plus we change our own oil. ha. Then I traded it all for a rifle.. miss doing it.

[@brendanwood1540]

I was honestly expecting something like a description of a silver heist using lead bullets.

[@drkbltn]

Gotta love a little sulfur dioxide in the mornin

[@Askjeffwilliams]

whaaaaah whaaaaaaaah

[@wutntarnation]

Hey Jeff, next drift mine you open forget about tracks, ties, and cars. Ditch witch makes a vacuum for cleaning out storm drains. It could easily pull rocks the size of soft balls through a hundred yards of 6" PVC pipe. Also it would pull fresh air into your mine so no extra ventilation needed. We used to excavate under buildings in Seattle with this setup. You can add a cyclone filter made out of a 55 gallon barrel so no dust reaches the vacuum.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

yep we saw that ...wonder if it cmes with a longer hose.... sounds like a great idea...they use something like that in lightning Ridge Coober pedy

[@wutntarnation]

@@Askjeffwilliams Do what we did excavating under houses. Buy 10' lengths of cheap pvc drain pipe for a couple bucks a stick. We've pulled dirt through a couple hundred yards of pipe. Put an easy to make cyclone filter made from a 55 gallon drum right in front of the vacuum. Good luck you loco hombre.

[@larrybethrowden2149]

how would you keep the lead out of the galena and all of the rest of the minerals

[@seanpreston3653]

Sorry you mentioned it in previous vid. Ya how's days can't make money off silver. Wonder what that bar was worth in 1800's

[@Rincypoopoo]

Great video. There is an old mine near me that has lead sulfide lying around. The Romans mined the lead for silver. Got to try it just once. More Zn than Pb/Ag ?

[@Askjeffwilliams]

Sounds great!

[@nhragold1922]

Nice! Why am I having so many issues with Chapman flux???? Between gold and silver I lost ounces so far.

[@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756]

With all the fumes that aren't good for me. What's a better way to get AG?

[@yangmeister666]

The Conan theme in the background makes this video

[@ITechcompulock]

What don't you do Jeff? I'm looking at a refrigeration recovery unit in the shot of the lead/silver muffins.

[@mafic_taco7061]

Mmmm just like mama used to make!