White Gold Refining With Oxalic Acid

[@Enjoymentboy]

MY wedding ring was 12k white gold and was 5.1 grams. My first foray into refining white gold was done with it since I figured I wouldn't need it any more what with no longer being married. I tried to sell it off once I was separated but was never given anything close to a decent price and so it just sat in a drawer. But when I finally got around to working with it I am proud to say that I managed to recover 2.49gm of Au and 2.47gm Pd. I melted the Au into 2 1gm beads and one gave them to one of my daughters who made a pair of earrings from them. The Pd I still have in powder form and one day I hope to make something from it. Oddly enough as much as I don't miss the ring I don't feel right selling off the metals and it did my heart good to see my daughter use the Au as she did.

[@sreetips]

Bravo - keeping it in the family will sooth you. Nice job, you did a refining on the palladium? No easy task

[@joeestes8114]

I have to say that you are very thorough with your refining prosses. Thanks for sharing

[@KubotaManDan]

Fascinating & informative. I never knew about those colored golds having alloys. Your one of my top favorites on You Tube. Thanks for the great videos!

[@mikewhitfield8425]

I love watching and learning from all your videos!

[@alllove1754]

You have made me a hobbyist... it's still just vicarious, but I will be ready. You would love this video I saw where someone had, essentially, mined the sidewalks of 5th Avenue, outside of every jeweler he vacuumed up all the silt in the cracks of the sidewalks. Sooo much was recovered. I can't even imagine what the storm drain would've had in it!

[@CoinSilver800]

I see a sreetips video, I click like, I watch :D Always informative!

[@charlesdarwin6048]

same here!

[@sreetips]

You guys are awsome!

[@nnyz3819]

I would love to see what comes from your box of ash and other recovered “waste”

[@michellet2890]

same ! please make a video next

[@nickd5943]

Me too.

[@petermundy3339]

Me Three

[@jasoncoates1835]

Agreed!

[@ak101farhan]

Did 2do

[@xredhead7135x]

Wow, how your setup and equipment and skills have changed and improved. Bravo!

[@PoppinPortraits]

I knew you would add to it to make the Troy !! Brilliant shiny purity as always Sreetips great learning and entertainment

[@NRVxM]

Wondered about white gold for a while now. Awesome video and very well explained thank you

[@uspockdad6429]

Another amazing video. Ive actually been saving my white gold until i saw a video on the subject. If i had the cash to buy that bar of gold I definitely would. I just wish there was like a tip jar for videos or something. Id be happy to tip a few bucks your way anytime one of your videos helps me out, which come to think of it, might come up to the value of that gold bar.

[@rtchow3000]

very coincident! i stumbled in this white gold video by chance. now I will the composition and better understanding on white gold. thanks Sreetips, bob

[@sreetips]

Excellent!

[@Lancelot.666]

I love watching the old vids as hou can see how professional you have become my friend. Love your work.😊😊

[@sreetips]

Thank you

[@Lancelot.666]

@@sreetips thanks be to you kind Sir for supplying hours of educational viewing...🤓👍

[@garrybrewster5821]

your work is driving me crazy, i really enjoy what i see ...thank you for sharing 👀

[@TheMeditron]

I've always wondered what made something white gold, excellent video.

[@patricktrudeau2680]

Great video! I'm really looking forward to your refining of the melt table sweepings. Thank you.

[@tylervanorman492]

Super cool to see another precipitation technique.

[@OwlTech333]

Very comprehensive! Thanks!

[@danieleakop1084]

A very knowledgeable person. Thanks for sharing.

[@steven2212]

Fantastic and instructional. Great vid.

[@scott27288]

Very cool video. I love to watch all these reactions. See ya in the next one.

[@Jewelrymaker]

As a gemologist, I can tell you a diamond tester will never indicate a natural ruby from a synthetic. You have to look at the stone under 10x magnification and look for curved striations and or flux and two phase inclusions.

[@JohnPricePrice]

Which one means a true ruby Ken?

[@sreetips]

A synthetic Ruby will send it up towards the diamond range also. I should have said that in the video.

[@sreetips]

The best way to tell is to examine the Ruby under high magnification. A natural Ruby will have imperfections inside. If no imperfections are present then it's 99.99% probability that it's a lab-created stone, or 0.01% chance it's a very high quality natural Ruby. I think the gemologist can use a refractometer to tell the difference

[@Jewelrymaker]

A refractometer will only tell you if it is natural OR synthetic corundum (ruby and sapphire are corundum.) The ONLY way to distinguish between a natural or synthetic is like I said in my previous post. Examine the stone under magnification (preferrably a dark field illuminated microscope) and look for curved striations which would indicate a flame fusion grown synthetic, or look for fingerprint like flux inclusions which would indicate a flux grown synthetic. A natural ruby can be flawless, so just because it has no inclusions in the stone doesn't mean it's a synthetic.

[@buggsy5]

In the past a ruby has been any sapphire with more intense color than a pink sapphire. Because of this ambiguity, the international organizations now consider all the chromium bearing reddish corundum to be rubies. Most rubies contain rutile crystals - known as silk. Apparently some are heat treated to make the rutile become invisible to the naked eye. But stones with a bit of silk are far more valuable than one that is "flawless".

[@allanbond3673]

Never new there was such thing as white cold, very interesting!

[@nickd5943]

Great video, as usual very informative.

[@joel383]

Brave man drain that over the sink with no strainer! ...though the p-trap should catch it...

[@Saphykitten]

Fantastic video, I really appreciate them. Keep up the good work! If you ever get around to casting your 999 silver into bars to sell them, I would probably buy a few!

[@sreetips]

I've got lots of silver, but I'm saving it for my chess set. Plus the spot silver market is just too low to be selling a whole bunch of silver right now. Thank you for watching.

[@Steven1Cicero]

Some day it would be nice to have you show your safety equipment to show what is required to do these process's refining gold and silver safely. Really enjoy watching your videos!

[@sreetips]

First item is the fume hood. No way to do these reactions safely without one.

[@erichansen2418]

Another phenomenal video from start to finish... very informative and interesting to watch. I am always learning something new watching your videos. Question, I’ve watched you do these gold refining videos a few different ways. Is there be a difference in the purity of the gold if you just dropped the gold with just SMB as apposed to using copperas or oxalic acid to drop the gold? Which method do you prefer to use to drop the gold (SMB, copperas or oxalic acid) or do you just go with what you have on hand when your refining?

[@sreetips]

Eric, three nines gold can be produced all day long with just SMB. For some refinings, such as Gold Filled, where some junk tends to follow the gold, it may be best to use a different precipitant for the second refining. For example, SMB will drop platinum, if present, with the gold. But oxalic acid or copperas won't. But oxalic will drop copper and tin if present, SMB won't. Copperas could contaminate the gold with iron, but SMB won't. Each precipitant will selectively remove contaminants that the others may not remove. But refining straight yellow gold, inquart with silver and two SMB refinings usually gets the gold very clean. Oxalic acid is like a polishing step. It's used when the gold is already quite pure, like in this video. You can see by the color that the gold is already high purity after parting with nitric before the first aqua regia treatment.

[@PoppinPortraits]

Another great show thanks Sreetips 👉🏼✊👈🏼

[@anthoneyking6572]

Well for sure I know now why you use the first method as this one here is very much more work time-wise and what do they say TIME IS MONEY lol thanks mate great Vlog

[@solace6717]

Question: This might be a noob question...At 23:20 you "called" it and said you have all the base metals dissolved, leaving you with the the final product, gold. At 24:13 you add Sulfuric acid to dissolve led along with the HCL solution to dissolve gold. Should these two steps not be done separately so led could be precipitated out of the solution before adding HCL to dissolve the gold to provide an even purer gold button? I understand this question would make me sound like a complete noob, but for me to understand I need to know. Thank you for all your high-quality videos, it is really informative....never mind, answer is at 31:10

[@JustJeff62]

Another excellent video my friend!

[@IMDunn-oy9cd]

I think a work bench sweeps video would contrast nicely after your 25 oz gold refining video.

[@IMDunn-oy9cd]

I watch so many Sreetips videos that I should get a lab coat as an honorarium.

[@Beachnative42]

LOL

[@jamie.777]

That bar is a beauty!!! I am checking your ebay store for future stuff

[@hendrik5795]

The cold beaker was an endothermic reaction

[@drinventions9742]

There should be no trash or impurities in that BRAND of Oxalic acid,, I called the company 3 years ago and asked what the purity of their product was and they said it was 99.8 - 99.9 ,, He went on to say that they take great integrity with their work and product

[@sreetips]

It looked very pure. But I have seen fibers and dirt in the filters before. But tiny amounts only.

[@malootua2739]

I always wondered about white gold

[@banteringboomer4280]

love the educational value of your vids :)

[@junioraifamaifam1295]

Professor oxalic acid is to precipitate gold, as well as the metabisulfite? I thought the oxalico was to purify the royal water to eliminate impurities. Thank you very much I am from Brazil and we speak little English, I do not understand what you speak, I will translate on gogle. Thanks.

[@lawrencetyler9398]

Amazing video, sir 🙏 I have learned a lot. Thank you so much

[@gdmininggroup4308]

Hello, I have Gold Bars & Diamond Stones for sale, Can you help us to look for Gold bars/Diamond buyers in your country and i promise to be giving you 5 % ofany sale please ?. [e-mail] Peter.

[@chethanchethan4110]

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[@chethanchethan4110]

@@gdmininggroup4308 hi

[@nybe]

So fascinating watching your videos... do you teach workshops on gold refining? Also; How do I buy one of your gold bars??

[@sreetips]

Hello, I've never done any workshops, only the videos. I will list a gold bar from videos I do from time to time.

[@OneOfDisease]

I have seen other refiners on youtube just throw the filter paper(s) in with the final melt, would this effect your final purity if you would have included them?

[@sreetips]

I've melted many ounces of gold sopping wet with liquid and still in the filter paper. Assays three nines fine every time.

[@uncle_thulhu]

Pardon my ignorance, but what, exactly, is the diamond tester testing? Refractive index?

[@sreetips]

It uses heat, that’s all I know.

[@maricelmones83]

im happy to see ur interesting vedio.. i have some of white gold but i dont know how to refine into pure gold.

[@sreetips]

Refining white gold is the same exact process as yellow gold - they both contain the same amount of pure gold in their alloy.

[@markflores9055]

Thank you. Very informative.

[@afrozarahman8399]

Just unique work done.

[@jerryellis835]

So, since both yellow gold and white gold are refined exactly the same is it safe to refine both colors together? Love your videos.

[@sreetips]

Yes

[@ANCIENTASTRONAUT411]

How can you tell if the white gold has lead cause I got tons of white gold I find nuggets everywhere and it all passes 18 k gold test but I'm afraid it may have lead well some of it cause some is very heavy and some light for the size

[@igorbanski5157]

Sreetips Is there a way I can contact you privately? I have a friend in the demolition business and am wondering if it may be profitable to collect electronics from the buildings. Thanks and awesome videos!

[@sreetips]

My email is [e-mail]

[@Dealazer]

Thanks, Legend! Didn't you forget white gold holds most often Silver? Which might nearly not need that much addition of Silver? I know this video is old but since then the same?

[@sreetips]

No I didn’t forget

[@dantyler6907]

Nitric WILL dissolve gold, slowly and mostly without affect Heating AU will help speed reaction up but, even hot AU reacts slow.

[@steveperry7347]

great vid sreetips, i very much enjoy watching, personallly i do prefere the smb precipitation it seems cleaner and not so risky ,thanks!

[@sreetips]

I agree. Oxalic acid works best with gold that is of high purity to begin with. Its a "polishing step."

[@steveperry7347]

@@sreetips; Thank you for your prompt reply.i very much appreciate that, i didn't know there was a specific reason for the oxalic acid until now. and makes perfect sense for producing the upmost quality and purity that can be obtained.thanks once again, your vids are very informative and interesting

[@johannesdesloper8434]

I knew you used oxalic acid to percipitatate gold once so got back to it... I saw you used a huuge amount of Oxaldihydrate... It's very potent stuff. As you've seen. You really need to use distilled water indeed else Calciumoxalate will pircipitate from the water.

[@ironchip]

Nice job Sreetips, not sure I'm comfortable with messing around with the Oxalic Acid as of yet though :)

[@sreetips]

It's not my favorite method for producing pure gold. Especially when it can be accomplished with SMB.

[@djcbanks]

@@alienrocketscienceshared8454 I’d be cutting that pavement up and putting it in a rock crusher to get that back. Ugh how heartbreaking. Thankfully I’ve never had any major losses like that when refining. 🤞 fingers crossed I never do.

[@nostalgiaarcadefuture]

@@alienrocketscienceshared8454 dude, thats why you gotta have a large bin or kids swimming pool or something in n event like that, hell lay out towels everywhere so you can just dissolve the whole towel.... I would have had a pickaxe and or a jackhammer so fast, and would have just thrown the damn asphalt and concrete in some aqua regia!! how much was lost?? I feel that pain even now...

[@JohnPricePrice]

Sreetips, can you please enable remote playing on this video so I can cast to the TV? Thanks!

[@JohnPricePrice]

Thank you if you did. It is casting now.

[@gdmininggroup4308]

Hello, I have Gold Bars & Diamond Stones for sale, Can you help us to look for Gold bars/Diamond buyers in your country and i promise to be giving you 5 % ofany sale please ?. [e-mail] Peter.

[@Smokey420Greenleaf]

@@gdmininggroup4308 pretty sure sreetips just sells his stuff on ebay.

[@stephenwhitaker2620]

Thank you for teaching me

[@rtchow3000]

i have some oxalic acid on hand. does this substitute the aquaria step? great video and very useful to melt my nuggets. thanks, bob

[@sreetips]

Oxalic acid is used to precipitate the gold. Aqua regia is used to dissolve the gold.

[@TroubledOnePaydirt]

Out of all the acids I’ve seen on your channel, the thought of boiling ammonia terrifies me. Lol… that just seems dangerous. 😩

[@sreetips]

I hate ammonia. Especially hot ammonia.

[@TroubledOnePaydirt]

@@sreetips that’s a healthy hatred to have though. Lol… ammonia is some terrible stuff.

[@KutreeZ]

Great video! not sure if this was meant, but you've put your eBay listing under ( Coins & Paper Money>Bullion>Silver>Bars & Rounds ) Surely it should be under gold? Forgive me if wrong, my knowledge isn't the greatest. I just enjoy watching the videos and the detailed process. Thanks

[@sreetips]

I changed it, thank you.

[@KutreeZ]

No problem, glad I could help :)

[@herrgunlovert]

whens the next time you'll be doing another gold refining video? (subscribed on this video btw) watching the different amounts of acid react with the gold and the repeated process of refining and expelling all the base metals/other unneeded precious metals from the gold is satisfying to watch.

[@sreetips]

I'll be making some new videos now that the holidays are over.

[@rickb1387]

Amazing.

[@maxpenrose9094]

Pure gold is so much more beautiful than Then any other percentage there's nothing like pure gold

[@Thingsthatgopew22]

I have an idea for you sreetips. Make an inquartion like this but instead use elctrolysis to remove the silver. Then use acid on the remains to refine the gold.

[@sreetips]

Sounds interesting. That's not a technique that I'm familiar with. Parting out the silver with electrolysis to get the gold seems like kind of a round about way to go. But it would make an interesting video.

[@sreetips]

After thinking about it, there would be no way to get all of the silver out with the electrolytic step. More nitric would be required and then the gold would crumble and turn into powder. That would take much longer than just straight dilute nitric treatments.

[@junioraifamaifam1295]

hello my friend congratulations on the videos, is oxalic acid a reducer to precipitate? and to neutralize it can be sulfamic acid? before precipitating with oxalic acid can i neutralize with sulfamic acid? Thanks.

[@sreetips]

It’s best to use just enough nitric so you don’t need to rid excess nitric.

[@junioraifamaifam1295]

@@sreetips thank very much my friend👏👏👏

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

I would think the Platinum Group Metals in solution would almost certainly at least in part be rhodium but were you ever able to determine what they were exactly if they were present?

[@sreetips]

I don’t know a thing about rhodium

[@Obi-Tod-Kenobi]

Rhodium is the platting that is on gold. It's more common then making an alloy. I bet you have a ton of it.

[@sreetips]

We see it from time to time at the repair shop.

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

How important is the color of the white gold alloy if it's rhodium plated? Does rhodium plating cover any other colors like yellow or Rose or does the true color bleed through the rhodium plating?

[@sreetips]

I’ve never recovered rhodium. I’m not sure.

[@allanbond3673]

I wonder how many times the chemicals can be reused? And what happens to them after use? how do they get properly disposed?

[@sreetips]

Waste treatment

[@buggsy5]

You misspelled endothermic. Grin. Great video, as usual. I have never used the oxalic acid precipitation method and after seeing your demonstration, probably never will.

[@sreetips]

Thanks for pointing it out. I was guessing when I typed it.

[@nidhalalalawi1207]

@@sreetips sir what you perfer SMB or Oxalic acid

[@fransjoe]

What tips would you have for a beginner that wouldn't have all the lab equipment and chemicals. Anything that could be done with household stuff and old coffee pots and mason jars?

[@sreetips]

Back when I first started I used a coffee pot because they could be heated. I used 3 liter jars from the thrift store (still use them to decant my stock pot). Pyrex measuring cups work good to heat things in as well. I have clear glass saucers that I use as cover for my beakers. Good luck.

[@snoozin99]

Hi Sreetips, I was wondering if you could incinerate the tap water off, instead of chancing that some was left in and if that would do the same but better rinsing? I was curious as well in alot of videos a ton of folks use hcl first to rid the base metals out, then they always seem to add nitric after they rinse it from the hcl; the thing that seems to happen more often than not is that some hcl is left and makes some form of chloride salts; if after rinsing the hcl would it in your opinion be better to incinerate it red hot then do your nitric acid? I was just curious thinking that would for sure rid it of all hcl that would be left in it by accident or such. Thank You for your time and would love to see the box of ash waste as well. :) Love your content, you're the best on KZbin in my opinion for thorough content and doing it right the first time. :)

[@nostalgiaarcadefuture]

the nitric is the troublesome acid that needs to be driven off or used up, the hydrochloric is actually really weak in comparison, and it reacts with silver to form silver chloride which is a thick sticky mess that will "gum up the works". also Hcl cant really dissolve any of the base metals by itself from what i understand, which is why he uses pure nitric and avoids Hcl until he is ready to make aqua regia. i only ever see him rinse with hcl sometimes but the nitric is the real workhorse and the extremely powerful reagent of the bunch... in fact sometimes after rinsing a bunch of time with water, he will add some hcl and instantly start dissolving gold just from the very tiny amount of nitric left after all the water rinses...the only reagent that seems stronger than nitric acid is high percentage hydrogen peroxide, that stuff just shreds anything in its way, lmao!

[@louiereale3138]

If you don't have any tester for stones, diamond will disappear in water. And you just see the stone mounts.

[@yodarded8712]

im curious what this process would do to white gold with a bit of rhodium polluting the PGM or rhodium plating. The hot nitric shouldn't dissolve rhodium, but the aqua regia should, right? So if i understand it right, any rhodium would pass through the filter with the gold. I'm not sure about the rest of the process, but with rhodium being over $10,000 an ounce im very curious.

[@sreetips]

Yoda, there’s rhodium in my filters and in my stock pot. I’m sure of that. I just haven’t figured out how to get it yet. But I will and then make a new video

[@Doohanfan]

Wondering why you used oxalic acid in the second refining rather than BSM?

[@sreetips]

White gold could contain platinum group metals. SMB can drop PGMs if present and could contaminate the gold. Oxalic acid won’t drop PGMs.

[@susanholiday7347]

Fantastic!

[@lion9419]

As always u r great may Allah bless you sir waiting eagerly for next video thanks a lot for sharing ur knowledge love u sir

[@fatnindja]

Jesus loves you too.

[@Smokey420Greenleaf]

@@fatnindja so does Santa Claus and the tooth fairy.

[@fatnindja]

@@Smokey420Greenleaf LOL ... deal wit it

[@Smokey420Greenleaf]

@@fatnindja huh? deal with what? your comment makes no sense.

[@fatnindja]

@@Smokey420Greenleaf Ummm ...

[@xcvsdxvsx]

I think I can simplify your math page on 11:30 a lot for you. If we want 6k gold then 0.25TW=PG (TW=Total Weight) Calculate PG and insert it into there and solve for TW. Now TW-GR=AS

[@macguru9999]

Hey Mr Sreetips, just a question.... what if instead of inquarting, you dissolved everything in Aqua Regia at the start, then precipitated the gold and god knows what else out with the bisulphite, washed off the chlorine, then treated with nitric acid to dissolve the base metals, leaving the gold behind ????

[@sreetips]

It makes a very dirty solution

[@sullytrny]

What do you use for a vacuum regulator? Great videos

[@sreetips]

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[@medhatgad9999]

Soo good work as alwaya I have a qust Afrend disove alloy of gold and ather metals by adding sulferc and nitruc All metals disolve and gold is purifid Can the solution have any pgm,s in it or silver or gold And how can I presitate all that metals Hope you anser me becuse its about 400lLiters of solution

[@sreetips]

Hydrochloric acid will precipitate silver chloride. The PGMs, if present, can be cemented out with copper or zinc.

[@105kline]

***SreeTips*** Do you process gold for others? If I have 665 Grams PC fingers and pins already separated from cards and melted using scrap metals flux and borax would I get most of the gold and majority of impurities out?

[@sreetips]

This is my hobby, I don't refine other people's material. Melting causes metals to alloy together. They don't separate. Refining is the only way to separate the metals from each other.

[@wolfedan3]

Hot Nitric Acid boils will indeed dissolve traces of pure gold into solution.

[@sreetips]

Correct.

[@apleasantmisery]

What about Blackhills gold? It's green and rose colored. Have you ever tried to purify it?

[@sreetips]

Yes, no problem. They “color” gold by adding different portions of base metals to the gold alloy. For example, “rose gold” has the same exact amount as “yellow gold”. But it looks more red because they add more copper and less zinc to the “rose gold.”

[@xdebugxDotNet]

Why didn't you just burn the filter with all the gold in it this time? Usually you just melt the gold with the filter?

[@sreetips]

Burning the filter during the melt hurts nothing. But there are some folks, not familiar with these techniques, who may consider burning paper with the gold as a source of possible contamination, even though it's not. Since I was going for high purity and will be selling this bar, I decided to not include the filter paper in the melt just for the effect. It's also the reason I used a fresh melt dish.

[@SHATRUEX]

I wonder how do you get the metals ( do you buy it as scrap silver ? ) because i would like to try this aswel at home in my workshop .

[@sreetips]

Please see my video titled; how to make a profit refining precious metals.

[@jessefew8229]

Hello Sreetips,this is Jesse Few. Have you ever refined keyboard mylars? If yes could I get the link & if no would you mind maybe try to make a video to refine some mylars.

[@sreetips]

Jesse Few sorry, I’ve never done it

[@AloPozega1]

Would it be OK to use cold AR to extract gold from a big 15kg bach of industrial scrap in a teflon barrel? It would take ages to do it in a beaker. Did 1.000g test and it gave 1.38%. So cold AR and just let it sit, possible?

[@sreetips]

I don’t have any experience with that much, type, or cold aqua regia. Sorry

[@sreetips]

It sounds like a lot of work, a lot of waste that must be treated, for a small amount of gold recovered. These are the reasons that I don’t do much escrap these days.

[@PoppinPortraits]

We only ever sniff at an ammonia bottle once in one’s life. Clears the sinus well though😢😂❤

[@thecrazylife699]

I've been thrift shopping for about a year now.Are thrift stores the best places to find metals? Thanks keep up the vids

[@sreetips]

She buys bags of junk and broken stuff. It sells for about $30 at the thrift store - sometimes there is nothing, but she usually finds some over-looked karat gold and silver

[@johnfarrow5873]

have you ever done a video on your melt table sweeps

[@sreetips]

I add those sweeps a spoon at a time to the cement silver when I melt it. Then run it through my silver cell. Any precious metals get trapped in the silver cell anode filters. Then I process the anode filters for the precious metals that they contain.

[@ANCIENTASTRONAUT411]

Thank you than my diamonds are diamonds yeah baby thank you so much my friend

[@mohmadborhan4388]

great video like always .i have a qustion , can we use another thing to drop the ph insted of amonia can we use sodium bicarbonate or costic soda

[@sreetips]

Owl Tech used potassium hydroxide in his video with good results. I don't think the soda has the power to do it. Ammonia is not the best choice. I hate using it but that's what the book called for: refining precious metals waste by cm Hoke.

[@mohmadborhan4388]

thanks ...and i hope to see a video of cyanide leaching

[@pablovarela3716]

Your the best stay safe thanks.

[@nostalgiaarcadefuture]

man, you need to sell some of that gold sponge.... thats gorgeous!!! selling some electrolytic gold crystal would be cool too, but you should sell some at spot price for your fans!!! I would love some but paying a markup just ain't something a seasoned gold buyer like yourself can ever do!.... I know you do great hard work and want to get paid for it, but getting 100k views on every vid ain't nothin to sneeze at! I just think it would be a cool way to give back to the fans! :) plus man i would love some sreetips sponge! and silver crystal for that matter!lol, but I seriously have watched every vid of yours like a dozen times each, because they play over and over while im doing some other activities and i actually watch them when i need some refining asmr, lol!....

[@sreetips]

Here’s the problem, I don’t really want to sell any gold with the spot price so grossly undervalued. We all know that gold is headed higher - much higher. If I can’t get the ask then I’ll just hang on to it. No offense. Just being practical

[@nostalgiaarcadefuture]

@@sreetips the whole value of gold, and the whole point of it rising, is why spot price is fair, because that means selling at spot DOES make you profit and depending on how long you hold the gold, determines the amount of profit you make. to charge someone a future gold value is essentially stealing from someone and telling them, "oh in the future. time will pay back what i am stealing from you now."... lol. and you always talk about how you've been holding a lot of this metal a long long time, i assume since it was probably only 800 an ounce or lower and i know back then you weren't paying spot for it. lol, so if you sell at current value, that literally gives you a profit of over 900 bucks an ounce just for owning something, and then your customers are given the opportunity to make some money also, thus making the entire precious metals idea actually work how its supposed to. it works based on mutually fair profit gains, and to think you deserve a higher profit gain than any other man is a really dangerous and conceited way to think about anything, and doesn't show any appreciation or value for the really lucky part, which is being one of the incredibly lucky few to have a successful youtube page, and to be making money simply by uploading videos of you doing what you'd be doing anyways.... man you would think you'd be satisfied having it all!!!! youd hink you were starving and homeless with that mindset... and as someone who actually is starving and homeless due to terrible luck, ( a crippling rare form of arthritis that stole my youth at age 21, taking my music career and my jobs i loved and leaving me disabled, and then a freak house fire days before christmas 2021 that destroyed everything i ever knew and owned and loved while i nearly died on the lawn watching it be devoured, from trying save my beloved pet rat but not being able to save my precious pet rabbit, something that still destroys me every day.) ............ EDIT: i am not angry at you i apologize for seeming that way, i just want to give you some perspective. still love you and your videos, and probably will still be a pain in the ass commenter, lol, you aren't any different than the majority of people these days so i cant be mad at ya, i just wish people could know what really bad luck is like, because it would make the world a better place. and i can admit i see a lot of myself in you and know that if things were reversed, i would be doing and saying the same things.... i guess i'm just being a sad complainer and I'm sorry... i didnt mean to guilt trip you like that....dont you change how you are just because im bitter. maybe i need to just push myself harder and getting some sreetips gold someday could be my motivation.... seriously i do apologize for that it was uncalled for... actually showed me a bit about myself there... a man has the right to ask any amount he wants for his own belongings and me trying to tell you what your value should be is really bitchy and i feel like a prick.... i am just jealous and bitter and thats the real pathetic thing here, not your self worth...you value yourself and your work and thats not a crime.in fact it shows self esteem, and maybe i need to work on mine....don't even lower yourself to reply to my outburst, just keep on keeping on. still love ya man.

[@sreetips]

I had to sell all my gold to pay my debts. Now I’m debt free. I don’t have to sell my gold anymore. Thankfully.

[@OwlTech333]

@41:16 adding spoon of powdered oxalic acid and spoon of soda ash until the solution loses its yellow tint will be easier than making a whole new batch of oxalic solution IMHO

[@sreetips]

If it's going to the refiner then yes. But the gold from this video will be sold. I could see trash in the filter, some colored fibers and some dirt. While probably OK to add the powder, I'd rather be safe and keep any unknown contamination out of the process. I watched your video last night, very nicely done.

[@OwlTech333]

Excellent point, I'm using lab grade reagents so I didn't take reagent contamination into account. Thanks, for most of my videos I've used yours as reference.

[@sreetips]

That's even better

[@anisahemad6968]

I very like video nice sir and process awesome and second parts Platinum recovery please sir thank you sir

[@sreetips]

I've got the platinum, just need to get it done. Thank you.

[@jasonb1156]

Just to be clear, you cannot take 14 parts (59%) yellow anything and add 6 parts (25%) white anything and then add 4 parts (16%) orange anything and end up with a pure white anything as the end result. You end up with, as sreetips stated, a tinted yellowish off white colored metal that is not pleasing to the eye. Which is why the jewelry is then rhodium plated to give it that bright white finish people like. It should also be noted that most modern sterling silver jewelry is given the same rhodium plating to keep the item from tarnishing. This is why most gold purist or jewelers don't like white gold items for repair because they are plated with rhodium, thus needing one more step, just to look identical to sterling silver that is plated with rhodium. Moral of the story is, if you like that "white gold" look, then just save yourself tons of money and buy modern sterling silver jewelry. I promise you that your friends won't know the difference.

[@anthonytaylor7590]

do you remove the the pgm before refining the silver nitrite or remove the pgms after

[@jking4020]

Sir you are making what i believe is mono atomic gold. Or the pure form of gold in a powder. I thank you for showing us how to achieve this! Its the philosopher's stone. The manna of the bible. Elixir of life. Thank you sir. And you all should look into this. It could be the answer to many things.