UK Collector Travels to USA for Lithic Gold

[@Franky.80]

Wow! Another amazing video Jeff! Love to see your passion for minerals and sharing it with us! Must be great to combine work and passion. The only way to get things perfect 😊 Looking forward for more!

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks, Franky! Doing something you love for a living certainly helps keep you going on the rough days. Thank you for watching!

[@R3troZone]

$72,000 worth of gold right there in 3 small ingots. Amazing.

[@Slipknot60]

Jeff where in the heck have you been?? We started to send flowers but didn't have an address! We love ya here in SC and missed ya!! Stay safe my professional Friend! And don't wait 6 months to post another video, will love anything you post!!❤

[@LithicMetals]

Appreciate it! I get so busy in the lab. I have to pull all nighters just to make the time to edit one out. Lol that's two Sunday nights in a row now with no sleep 😁

[@squachek]

Fully agree!

[@MicksMetalsUK]

Beautiful pours! ❤️‍🔥 amazing pieces in the museum also 😮wow

[@bradleyozbun1012]

💯 the viedo is phenomenal . The Education of the museum nice touch . 10 ozt. Bars 💯 art work man.

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks, Bradley! 💛

[@MarkACarroll]

That museum is awesome. Didn’t know about it. Greetings from Chicago.

[@LithicMetals]

It's definitely worth the trip! 😁

[@michaelbell-youtube]

Beautiful. What a fantastic video! Thanks for making this.

[@LithicMetals]

And, thank you for watching, Michael! 😁

[@deehaddad8420]

Great video!

[@LithicMetals]

Thank you! I appreciate you watching!! 💛

[@WorldMoneyWins]

So cool to watch!!

[@LithicMetals]

😁

[@tonywharton5220]

Can't get enough of that ripple. It really makes it your work ✌️

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks for saying so, Tony. I appreciate that!

[@machinist1337]

Great video! Thanks for showing the natural deposits at the end. I'm glad you're making videos again.

[@LithicMetals]

Thank you. And, thanks for watching!

[@ideasytnow]

Happy to see your videos. Inspirational.

[@LithicMetals]

I appreciate that, Steve!

[@lizardkingof1968]

Awesome video! I am a proud owner of one of your 1oz. Gold buttons and a 3oz. vial of silver crystals through KZOO...but I am unhappy with them...they fact shame me for not owning more of your artwork 😭😭😭 ...but that will change in the future 😁 ...keep on keepin' on

[@LithicMetals]

I really appreciate you adding some Lithic silver and gold to your collection! Thanks so much! 😁

[@3DWoodWorks]

That Coper you found is awesome. So are those beautiful bars of gold. Thanks for the tour of the Mineral Museum. Great video.

[@jeffonpluto]

awesome as always bro!

[@LithicMetals]

😁

[@obiwanbenobi4943]

It is a beautiful area up there. I lived in Houghton-Hancock for 15 years, went to MTU for a 4yr degree and stayed a bit longer. I lived on campus for over 7 years and one of the buildings housed the mineral museum before it was relocated to the place you visited. At the time I happened to also know the curator of the museum pretty well. :) I enjoy watching your work. Glad to see you posting again. Take care.

[@LithicMetals]

It must of been difficult to leave. Such a wonderful area.

[@obiwanbenobi4943]

@@LithicMetals It was a long trip to get to where most of my family is at - eventually I moved back.

[@ScotsSilver]

Missed you. Glad to see you back making me envious of all that yellow metal 👍

[@LithicMetals]

Appreciate it! Definitely fun to play with 😁

[@teeslunk]

Great to see how it looks 🖖🤟👊👋🫵👌👍✌️🫶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@LithicMetals]

💛... 😁

[@noicue8078]

Excellent video, both parts. Beautiful pours and crazy looking museum pieces. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks for watching!! 😁

[@billscott7788]

Geff, that brill, i myself live in the West of Scotland Uk and i must say i would love one of your Indian head coins.

[@LithicMetals]

Glad you enjoyed it! I'd be happy to make one for you 😁

[@AKshooter100]

The commentary reminds me of Bob Ross!😂

[@OnlyMe-mt7zb]

I was gonna say the same thing

[@asdfgsfgj8220]

Thanks for video, specimens look amazing!!

[@LithicMetals]

I appreciate you watching! 😁

[@martydalgliesh]

Trip looks awesome...those bars are beautiful. I wish you could ship here! 😢😢😢

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks! I'm sure one day I'll be able to. 😁

[@homesteadaquarius]

Absolutely beautiful pours Jeff! This was so much fun. The copper tour was awesome. Nice piece you found! I believe the globular piece in the museum was a Botryoidal Hematite. Keep up the amazing work!

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks! I think you're right!!

[@Seeing_Red]

Awesome work, and... Wow, those museum specimens are something else.

[@LithicMetals]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@GoldSilverHunter]

How have I not come across you! Perfect voice for YT.....some great looking bars! Loved the walk through of the museum specimens!!! I want those : )

[@LithicMetals]

I do, too! Glad you found me. I appreciate you watching!! 😁

[@sebouhakharjalian6707]

So beautiful Jeff. Great work

[@LithicMetals]

Thank you! I appreciate it!!

[@KahnSkins]

Awesome video man! this was fantastic!

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks, Jay! 😁

[@ivsongold322]

Super 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾😎

[@LithicMetals]

Appreciate it! 😁

[@ProductionsLightMike]

Awesome video! Really loved the museum part as well, the size of some of those nuggets!!!

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks, Mike! I'm glad you enjoyed it!! 😁

[@reverendlarshassler245]

@LithicMetals do you plan on starting to put more content up? It's been a while and now 2 videos in the past month.... Miss your videos.

[@LithicMetals]

I definitely plan to post more content, but it will likely continue to be sporadic. My main focus is the work in the lab. It doesn't leave me much time to edit content. 🙂

[@RayRusawcocktailminer]

very enjoyable video thanks for sharing

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks, Ray! I appreciate you watching!!

[@Shawn-mp6zm]

I like your channel a lot you are a cool and laid back dude thanks for sharing everything you do I love gold so awesome.

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks, Shawn! I appreciate you watching!! 😁

[@nicholasb8799]

I love it Jeff!!

[@LithicMetals]

😁

[@JohannesDavidsen]

Beautiful place 👍

[@hbryan7565]

What happened to the silver harvesting? Could you explain more how the whole process works? Its fascinating! Thank you!!

[@TroubledOnePaydirt]

That is some amazing stuff! Where is this museum at? Michigan? Upper peninsula?

[@LithicMetals]

It's a great place to visit. Yes, it's in the UP. Houghton, Michigan

[@9931374]

Another great video !!

[@LithicMetals]

Thank you! 😁

[@Jb-eh9gm]

Amazing work as always, still waiting for that 1kg bar to be poured 😀

[@dannomight1980]

It’s nearly impossible to describe the beauty of seeing fresh poured gold in person 😎

[@LithicMetals]

Indeed! 💛

[@redstargem]

Oh nice that's lots of gold and golden works

[@BREWSWILLIS-1988]

You’re like the Ultimate Lattè Foam Art Barista, for Gold

[@LithicMetals]

💛

[@rastaralph7154]

Amazing all of it 👍 I'm a gold prospector and you might like my strange shape nugget there in my profile picture. It weighs 7.55g and people ask me what it's worth in money and if I'm going to sell it. My simple answer is gold has real value and money is debt based and gold goes up while money loses value so no I don't want to swap it for something with less than no value. Plus I love it. The chain underneath it is a 21.5g rose gold pocket watch chain which I found in the same place right next to my old house in the same week. 💚💛❤️

[@JohannesDavidsen]

Money is just temporary value for trade. Keep that has value. And money can double sometimes in work. But always lose value at the end 👍

[@Hill-13]

So beautiful

[@LithicMetals]

💛

[@AutismPhotoshop]

You've got a golden voice; I wish I could hear it better.

[@chazzface8562]

Very nice! I love rocks since I was a kid, been to many museums, found lots of pretty rocks rock hounding. Finding good gold every year, so addictive to find it. Would love to know how to process silver ore, found a good abandoned silver mine and pulled some nice quartz with black silver ore out of it. Found a nice meteorite on my first hunt, Steve Arnold of the meteorite show thought it might be an L class Chondrite. I was taking geology in college, got bored and joined the military, just needed to finish up the math and chemistry classes. I prefer being in the field, cant stand too much time in doors and on computers. Research heavy then go find it. Fun times

[@hbryan7565]

MORE VIDEOS PLEASE!!😢

[@mattlevesque5927]

How the heck did I miss this one 😂. I can watch you do this all day brother

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks for saying so! 😁

[@papercuts777]

To improve their mood some people do alcohol some people do drugs. Jeff does gold

[@LithicMetals]

😆

[@tntwentyone2951]

No way I was asking about where I can buy one of your bars to a guy only the other day

[@antonart2.0]

Hello Jeff, thanks for the videos -exceptional. Clean, precise… a pleasure to watch your craft. I’m curious if there’s a story behind the “Lithic” name, if you don’t mind me asking. Usually, “lithic” refers to stone. If that’s the case, what kind of stone is it?

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks, Anton! I appreciate you watching!! I enjoy knapping and searching for lithic points. Years ago, while hunting for good stone, I stumbled into some rock with copper veins. Raw metal encased in stone that I had to work in order to recover. I long since had the gold fever. That day drove me into the chemistry of refining and the pouring metals. "Lithic Metals" just seemed like the perfect fit.

[@echosmyth2282]

Hey Jeff, love the content and have watched all your videos, many more than once. I just realized I haven’t seen what you do with the copper that’s left in liquid after refining? Do you precipitate it out and make copper bars?

[@Jimdandymetals]

Try a clear splash shied it’s the heat drying your eyes out that irritates them with a clear shield you can see clearly and your eyes won’t be dry afterwards and by the way beautiful bars love the ripple effect you get

[@LithicMetals]

I'd have to differ with you on that. A clear shield just doesn't do the trick. Once the dish gets red hot, it is so bright. Without the tinted shield, it leaves you with a black fuzzy spot in the center of your vision. Thankfully, I learned my lesson halfway through the first bar I poured with that torch. But it left me with minor vision loss for a short while. Thanks for watching, Jim!

[@hippyhebrewhomestead8593]

Dang! Y’all were up by us, wish I coulda met ya!

[@dajjalmohammadmulhidpeer5198]

Beautiful. Always a fan of your craftsmanship. Perhaps you were in India. I am a machineshop worker too. Done enough bench-fitting, grinding, milling and turning. I get really excited to see letter and number punches. Thought you could have 1 of those small kilns to melt your metals.

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks! I've yet to be able to travel to India. I appreciate you watching!! 😁

[@dajjalmohammadmulhidpeer5198]

@@LithicMetals Yes, you'd be surprised to see just how many fans you'd make if you shift your business to India. ♥️🙏👍

[@Fight2BeFreeNeverGiveUp]

Within 10 seconds you drop it out from the mould, it sets unbelievably fast.

[@LithicMetals]

Once you see the ripples stop moving, it's frozen solid. 😁

[@Fight2BeFreeNeverGiveUp]

@@LithicMetals frozen solid lol, I would want to touch it till the next day, if your saying that. 😅 But I was intrigued by your video and have started a few more to view, as it just popped on my suggestions. Why, no idea.. but cool stuff. 👍

[@miklemon2357]

@@Fight2BeFreeNeverGiveUp not saying otherwise, but have you done molds of gold? i have been curious about this as well

[@bigdogs-29]

MANY of my SCREENSAVER pics ARE from snapshots of your Lithic MASTERPIECES. STACKON...

[@LithicMetals]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing that with me!! 😁

[@frantiseklaluch6605]

Hello Jeff, both parts of video are great... to be honest, the first part is somehow more magnetic...

[@LithicMetals]

Thanks! I appreciate it!!

[@patricestange8151]

Thats a lot of Cheaddar! I can't imagine traveling with that much gold on my person. Amazing that he/she is not stopped going through customs even though they have paperwork.

[@LithicMetals]

If they ask you if you have anything to declare... just say, yup! There's people that wear watches more expensive lol

[@patricestange8151]

@@LithicMetals that’s true, I bought one in Switzerland and declared it coming through customs

[@1977JohnBoy]

that must of been around a 75k pay day! not too shabby

[@LithicMetals]

It was a sizable order! However, I only get paid to pour the bars... I don't get the gold for free

[@1977JohnBoy]

@@LithicMetals oh i had visions of you purifying it all like sreetips lol but yeah still a nice order!

[@shaundodd2979]

Outstanding simple as that

[@LithicMetals]

Thank you! 😁

[@hugedell]

The bars look amazing . How did he transport it/take it back with him ?

[@LithicMetals]

He just carried the parcel on his person and declared it upon landing.

[@brevobrevo]

Fabulous video, thank you for sharing. Hailing from the UK myself, did you get any info on shipping that quantity of gold back over the pond? How does that process work with customs? All the best my man! 🙏😊

[@LithicMetals]

The owner carried it back with him on the plane. He had to declare it, of course. However, since there isn't a VAT tax on gold in the UK, there wasn't much to it. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching!

[@brevobrevo]

@@LithicMetals appreciate the reply.

[@Tyler.i.81]

Very interesting

[@LithicMetals]

😁

[@mickeylickey123]

Do you lose any weight when melting it in that fashion? I notice with silver, when I use a torch, I lose weight after I pour. There is white powder around the dish. It is silver powder which I sweep up but I'm curious if it happens with gold?

[@LithicMetals]

I know exactly what you're talking about. If you look at that white powder under a magnifying glass, you'll see that it's tiny silver spheres. Thankfully, gold is nothing like silver in that regard. There are no oxides, and there's no splatter either. So when working with gold, you never get any measurable losses like you do with silver.

[@mickeylickey123]

Ah, thank you for the info. Great video and beautiful bars. I'm thinking about trying some gold pouring, but I don't have any cheaper gold to try. It's all in coin form, and I don't want to devalue it it by turning it into a bar. Maples and eagles, ya know what I mean. Cheers.

[@matejgigel5494]

Hi, do you know you can make copper, silver, gold crystals at home by electrolisis. I just make some copper crystal and they are so good. Only copper sulfate solution copper electrodes 0.6 volt and wait for a week. Next time i will try even lower voltage 0.1 v and let it grow maby for months.

[@chazzface8562]

Man I would be gold panning that broken up conglomerate and lake gravels, glaciers brought in much fine gold.

[@LithicMetals]

Unfortunately, the glaciers didn't leave much gold behind up there. I generally will get around one piece of flour gold for every 5gal bucket of sand. Fun, but...

[@chazzface8562]

@@LithicMetals Totally understandable, and its not like they will allow you to use a Dredge to multiply that by 100x the volume. So many restrictions in these last 20 yrs keeping people from going outside and enjoying nature. Keep up the hard work and take care.

[@damientorres9969]

Where do I go to buy one of your gold bars? Seems like an awesome way to invest lol can watch it happen too is a plus!

[@LithicMetals]

Hi Damien. Feel free to email me at [e-mail] and I'll get you all the details.

[@RickCarroll-j5n]

Bob Ross of gold 🪙

[@LithicMetals]

😁

[@timscoviac]

I was watching one of sreetips videos and he made a mistake by turning off the oxygen on his torch first while over the gold which blew some carbon on his gold bar and it was stuck on there. Was wondering if you ever had that problem before? Nice looking pours btw!

[@RonsonYap]

Jeff how do you recover silver from an aqua regia solution after recovering the 24k gold?

[@LithicMetals]

Well, there shouldn't be much silver in your AR. By that point, +99% has been removed. But a nice chunk of copper in the stock pot will make sure that you've dropped it all, if any.

[@cole7750]

You said you started with 10 ounces of gold but why did you not lose any weight after melting the gold?

[@LithicMetals]

Hey, Cole. When you're melting pure gold, you don't have any measurable losses. I could re-pour it 100 times and still bot see any loss. Silver is a different story. Silver or even karat gold will form oxides when melted and exposed to oxygen. Silver likes to splatter a bit as well under the torch. You will indeed have losses with other metals than gold. Thanks for watching!

[@cole7750]

Ty I learned something very important. I didn’t know that and I’ve been dealing with g with a lot of our silver and having a hard time to get a precise weight on a bar after it’s been melted and poured. I’ve read different places to add anywhere from 3 all the way to 10% extra silver before melting to get the desired weight but still all over the place with post weights. Any suggestions?

[@LithicMetals]

Silver is tough. When I was pouring 4oz and 10oz Ag bars, I would add apx 0.2oz to the pour. But as you said, it was still all over the place. If you're using a torch, use the lowest flame you can while still be proficient. Keep the flame steady over the molten silver to avoid losses from oxides. Nothing that you likely don't do already, but those are the best tips I can offer.

[@cole7750]

@@LithicMetals thanks I’ll give that a try. Keep up the good videos, and I haven’t seen you on KZbin in a while I thought google magically unsubscribed me but then I got up today and there you were

[@maxcactus7]

13:05 are dragons eggs, obviously!! 😉

[@LithicMetals]

💛

[@goldsilverjunkie]

Hey do poured silver bars come out nicer with oxy acetylene then from an electric furnace?

[@LithicMetals]

The final product is the same. However, there are pros and cons for both.

[@goldsilverjunkie]

@@LithicMetals I was thinking higher temperature means the metal will act more liquid and when poured into a mold, it will spread out evenly nicely. I’m just gonna have to try it out for myself.

[@geofftuller9584]

Sounds like a bob ross painting video for gold 😂😂..

[@LithicMetals]

💛

[@dleetr]

Hey guys, why did he put the spear points point in different directions?

[@reg_ular_guy]

I think it's based on how the ripple turned out, to match it so it looks aesthetically pleasing.

[@LithicMetals]

Exactly right!

[@dleetr]

@@LithicMetals Be funny if it was the time of day the bar was poured.

[@LithicMetals]

Lol, that it would be 🙂

[@MikeB2217]

Is this troy ounces?? of Gold

[@maxcactus7]

Yes.

[@LithicMetals]

Always, when dealing with precious metals

[@CarCosmeticsChannel]

Wow. Do you find your own gold to make the bars or do you buy it in as beads?

[@LithicMetals]

Much of the gold is from karat scrap that folks send in to be refined.

[@CarCosmeticsChannel]

@@LithicMetals You've got the art of casting really well, you make it look easy but I'm sure it's very difficult.

[@prinzaurum2461]

❤

[@LithicMetals]

💛

[@FourNines-silver]

Its pretty mind blowing that we are looking at over $70k sitting on the table

[@LithicMetals]

Agreed. 😁

[@pleasestandby5954]

I wonder how he got on at customs?

[@LithicMetals]

Just fine. You simply have to declare what you have. There aren't any VAT on gold in the UK.

[@pleasestandby5954]

@@LithicMetals Nice! I assumed there would be some silly restriction

[@LithicMetals]

It only becomes a problem when you try to sneak it in or out of a country.

[@hugedell]

Did they let him get out of the country with it ?

[@LithicMetals]

Of course, but one has to declare what they have. Otherwise, there could be problems. He had all the receipts necessary.

[@hugedell]

@@LithicMetals what kind of receipts could he have you mean from you ? Like purchase ? Or origin of funds ?

[@NietzscheanMan]

What is the residue on the first mold?

[@LithicMetals]

I'm not exactly sure what you are referring to, but most likely, you were seeing water vapor coming off. The only other residue would just be carbon from the mold itself.

[@bigguix]

ouh sexy ! i'm kinda sad with my 1/10th oz gold coin ! but hey ! you have to start somewhere !

[@LithicMetals]

Plenty of folks wish they just had a gram of gold. When panning for gold, I'm happy to just find a speck 😁

[@noicue8078]

The most important thing is that you started 👍

[@FoxValleyStacker]

m e s m e r i z i n g

[@LithicMetals]

💛

[@DSilverman59]

How about 5 or 10 grammars

[@shubbz87]

Lefty

[@LithicMetals]

Yup!

[@incompletethough-8934]

Are you single 😍

[@LithicMetals]

I just asked my wife, and she said, "no". 😁