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.
@sreetips3 жыл бұрын
Bravo - keeping it in the family will sooth you. Nice job, you did a refining on the palladium? No easy task
@joeestes81145 жыл бұрын
I have to say that you are very thorough with your refining prosses. Thanks for sharing
@KubotaManDan6 жыл бұрын
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!
@mikewhitfield84256 жыл бұрын
I love watching and learning from all your videos!
@alllove1754 Жыл бұрын
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!
@CoinSilver8006 жыл бұрын
I see a sreetips video, I click like, I watch :D Always informative!
@charlesdarwin60486 жыл бұрын
same here!
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
You guys are awsome!
@nnyz38196 жыл бұрын
I would love to see what comes from your box of ash and other recovered “waste”
@michellet28906 жыл бұрын
same ! please make a video next
@nickd59436 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@petermundy33396 жыл бұрын
Me Three
@jasoncoates18355 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@ak101farhan4 жыл бұрын
Did 2do
@xredhead7135x11 ай бұрын
Wow, how your setup and equipment and skills have changed and improved. Bravo!
@PoppinPortraits Жыл бұрын
I knew you would add to it to make the Troy !! Brilliant shiny purity as always Sreetips great learning and entertainment
@NRVxM6 жыл бұрын
Wondered about white gold for a while now. Awesome video and very well explained thank you
@uspockdad64296 жыл бұрын
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.
@rtchow30002 жыл бұрын
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
@sreetips2 жыл бұрын
Excellent!
@Lancelot.6667 ай бұрын
I love watching the old vids as hou can see how professional you have become my friend. Love your work.😊😊
@sreetips7 ай бұрын
Thank you
@Lancelot.6667 ай бұрын
@@sreetips thanks be to you kind Sir for supplying hours of educational viewing...🤓👍
@garrybrewster58215 жыл бұрын
your work is driving me crazy, i really enjoy what i see ...thank you for sharing 👀
@TheMeditron6 жыл бұрын
I've always wondered what made something white gold, excellent video.
@patricktrudeau26808 ай бұрын
Great video! I'm really looking forward to your refining of the melt table sweepings. Thank you.
@tylervanorman4923 жыл бұрын
Super cool to see another precipitation technique.
@OwlTech3336 жыл бұрын
Very comprehensive! Thanks!
@danieleakop10843 жыл бұрын
A very knowledgeable person. Thanks for sharing.
@steven22126 жыл бұрын
Fantastic and instructional. Great vid.
@scott272883 жыл бұрын
Very cool video. I love to watch all these reactions. See ya in the next one.
@Jewelrymaker6 жыл бұрын
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.
@JohnPricePrice6 жыл бұрын
Which one means a true ruby Ken?
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
A synthetic Ruby will send it up towards the diamond range also. I should have said that in the video.
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
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
@Jewelrymaker6 жыл бұрын
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.
@buggsy56 жыл бұрын
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".
@allanbond36734 жыл бұрын
Never new there was such thing as white cold, very interesting!
@nickd59436 жыл бұрын
Great video, as usual very informative.
@joel3834 жыл бұрын
Brave man drain that over the sink with no strainer! ...though the p-trap should catch it...
@Saphykitten6 жыл бұрын
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!
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
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.
@Steven1Cicero3 жыл бұрын
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!
@sreetips3 жыл бұрын
First item is the fume hood. No way to do these reactions safely without one.
@erichansen24186 жыл бұрын
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?
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Another great show thanks Sreetips 👉🏼✊👈🏼
@anthoneyking65725 жыл бұрын
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
@solace67175 жыл бұрын
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
@JustJeff622 жыл бұрын
Another excellent video my friend!
@IMDunn-oy9cd4 жыл бұрын
I think a work bench sweeps video would contrast nicely after your 25 oz gold refining video.
@IMDunn-oy9cd4 жыл бұрын
I watch so many Sreetips videos that I should get a lab coat as an honorarium.
@Beachnative423 жыл бұрын
LOL
@jamie.7772 жыл бұрын
That bar is a beauty!!! I am checking your ebay store for future stuff
@hendrik57956 жыл бұрын
The cold beaker was an endothermic reaction
@drinventions97426 жыл бұрын
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
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
It looked very pure. But I have seen fibers and dirt in the filters before. But tiny amounts only.
@malootua27392 жыл бұрын
I always wondered about white gold
@banteringboomer42806 жыл бұрын
love the educational value of your vids :)
@junioraifamaifam12953 жыл бұрын
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.
@lawrencetyler93985 жыл бұрын
Amazing video, sir 🙏 I have learned a lot. Thank you so much
@gdmininggroup43085 жыл бұрын
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 ?. ganddmininggroup01@gmail.com Peter.
@chethanchethan41103 жыл бұрын
@@gdmininggroup4308 give me ur number pz yargu
@chethanchethan41103 жыл бұрын
@@gdmininggroup4308 hi
@nybe5 жыл бұрын
So fascinating watching your videos... do you teach workshops on gold refining? Also; How do I buy one of your gold bars??
@sreetips5 жыл бұрын
Hello, I've never done any workshops, only the videos. I will list a gold bar from videos I do from time to time.
@OneOfDisease5 жыл бұрын
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?
@sreetips5 жыл бұрын
I've melted many ounces of gold sopping wet with liquid and still in the filter paper. Assays three nines fine every time.
@uncle_thulhu5 ай бұрын
Pardon my ignorance, but what, exactly, is the diamond tester testing? Refractive index?
@sreetips5 ай бұрын
It uses heat, that’s all I know.
@maricelmones833 жыл бұрын
im happy to see ur interesting vedio.. i have some of white gold but i dont know how to refine into pure gold.
@sreetips3 жыл бұрын
Refining white gold is the same exact process as yellow gold - they both contain the same amount of pure gold in their alloy.
@markflores90552 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Very informative.
@afrozarahman83997 ай бұрын
Just unique work done.
@jerryellis8353 жыл бұрын
So, since both yellow gold and white gold are refined exactly the same is it safe to refine both colors together? Love your videos.
@sreetips3 жыл бұрын
Yes
@ANCIENTASTRONAUT4113 жыл бұрын
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
@igorbanski51576 жыл бұрын
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!
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
My email is kadriver2011@yahoo.com
@Dealazer3 жыл бұрын
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?
@sreetips3 жыл бұрын
No I didn’t forget
@dantyler69073 жыл бұрын
Nitric WILL dissolve gold, slowly and mostly without affect Heating AU will help speed reaction up but, even hot AU reacts slow.
@steveperry73474 жыл бұрын
great vid sreetips, i very much enjoy watching, personallly i do prefere the smb precipitation it seems cleaner and not so risky ,thanks!
@sreetips4 жыл бұрын
I agree. Oxalic acid works best with gold that is of high purity to begin with. Its a "polishing step."
@steveperry73474 жыл бұрын
@@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
@johannesdesloper84343 жыл бұрын
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.
@ironchip6 жыл бұрын
Nice job Sreetips, not sure I'm comfortable with messing around with the Oxalic Acid as of yet though :)
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
It's not my favorite method for producing pure gold. Especially when it can be accomplished with SMB.
@djcbanks3 жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
@@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...
@JohnPricePrice6 жыл бұрын
Sreetips, can you please enable remote playing on this video so I can cast to the TV? Thanks!
@JohnPricePrice6 жыл бұрын
Thank you if you did. It is casting now.
@gdmininggroup43085 жыл бұрын
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 ?. ganddmininggroup01@gmail.com Peter.
@Smokey420Greenleaf4 жыл бұрын
@@gdmininggroup4308 pretty sure sreetips just sells his stuff on ebay.
@stephenwhitaker26203 жыл бұрын
Thank you for teaching me
@rtchow30002 жыл бұрын
i have some oxalic acid on hand. does this substitute the aquaria step? great video and very useful to melt my nuggets. thanks, bob
@sreetips2 жыл бұрын
Oxalic acid is used to precipitate the gold. Aqua regia is used to dissolve the gold.
@TroubledOnePaydirt Жыл бұрын
Out of all the acids I’ve seen on your channel, the thought of boiling ammonia terrifies me. Lol… that just seems dangerous. 😩
@sreetips Жыл бұрын
I hate ammonia. Especially hot ammonia.
@TroubledOnePaydirt Жыл бұрын
@@sreetips that’s a healthy hatred to have though. Lol… ammonia is some terrible stuff.
@KutreeZ6 жыл бұрын
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
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
I changed it, thank you.
@KutreeZ6 жыл бұрын
No problem, glad I could help :)
@herrgunlovert5 жыл бұрын
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.
@sreetips5 жыл бұрын
I'll be making some new videos now that the holidays are over.
@rickb13873 жыл бұрын
Amazing.
@maxpenrose90943 жыл бұрын
Pure gold is so much more beautiful than Then any other percentage there's nothing like pure gold
@Thingsthatgopew226 жыл бұрын
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.
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
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.
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
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.
@junioraifamaifam12953 жыл бұрын
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.
@sreetips3 жыл бұрын
It’s best to use just enough nitric so you don’t need to rid excess nitric.
@junioraifamaifam12953 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips thank very much my friend👏👏👏
@Rob337_aka_CancelProof2 жыл бұрын
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?
@sreetips2 жыл бұрын
I don’t know a thing about rhodium
@Obi-Tod-Kenobi6 жыл бұрын
Rhodium is the platting that is on gold. It's more common then making an alloy. I bet you have a ton of it.
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
We see it from time to time at the repair shop.
@Rob337_aka_CancelProof2 жыл бұрын
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?
@sreetips2 жыл бұрын
I’ve never recovered rhodium. I’m not sure.
@allanbond36734 жыл бұрын
I wonder how many times the chemicals can be reused? And what happens to them after use? how do they get properly disposed?
@sreetips4 жыл бұрын
Waste treatment
@buggsy56 жыл бұрын
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.
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for pointing it out. I was guessing when I typed it.
@nidhalalalawi12074 жыл бұрын
@@sreetips sir what you perfer SMB or Oxalic acid
@fransjoe6 жыл бұрын
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?
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
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.
@snoozin994 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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!
@louiereale31384 жыл бұрын
If you don't have any tester for stones, diamond will disappear in water. And you just see the stone mounts.
@yodarded87123 жыл бұрын
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.
@sreetips3 жыл бұрын
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
@Doohanfan3 жыл бұрын
Wondering why you used oxalic acid in the second refining rather than BSM?
@sreetips3 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic!
@lion94196 жыл бұрын
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
@fatnindja6 жыл бұрын
Jesus loves you too.
@Smokey420Greenleaf4 жыл бұрын
@@fatnindja so does Santa Claus and the tooth fairy.
@fatnindja4 жыл бұрын
@@Smokey420Greenleaf LOL ... deal wit it
@Smokey420Greenleaf4 жыл бұрын
@@fatnindja huh? deal with what? your comment makes no sense.
@fatnindja4 жыл бұрын
@@Smokey420Greenleaf Ummm ...
@xcvsdxvsx2 жыл бұрын
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
@macguru99992 жыл бұрын
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 ????
@sreetips2 жыл бұрын
It makes a very dirty solution
@sullytrny3 жыл бұрын
What do you use for a vacuum regulator? Great videos
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
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
Hydrochloric acid will precipitate silver chloride. The PGMs, if present, can be cemented out with copper or zinc.
@105kline5 жыл бұрын
***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?
@sreetips5 жыл бұрын
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.
@wolfedan33 ай бұрын
Hot Nitric Acid boils will indeed dissolve traces of pure gold into solution.
@sreetips3 ай бұрын
Correct.
@apleasantmisery3 жыл бұрын
What about Blackhills gold? It's green and rose colored. Have you ever tried to purify it?
@sreetips3 жыл бұрын
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.”
@xdebugxDotNet6 жыл бұрын
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?
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
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.
@SHATRUEX4 жыл бұрын
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 .
@sreetips4 жыл бұрын
Please see my video titled; how to make a profit refining precious metals.
@jessefew82294 жыл бұрын
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.
@sreetips4 жыл бұрын
Jesse Few sorry, I’ve never done it
@AloPozega14 жыл бұрын
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?
@sreetips4 жыл бұрын
I don’t have any experience with that much, type, or cold aqua regia. Sorry
@sreetips4 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
We only ever sniff at an ammonia bottle once in one’s life. Clears the sinus well though😢😂❤
@thecrazylife6996 жыл бұрын
I've been thrift shopping for about a year now.Are thrift stores the best places to find metals? Thanks keep up the vids
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
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
@johnfarrow58732 жыл бұрын
have you ever done a video on your melt table sweeps
@sreetips2 жыл бұрын
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.
@ANCIENTASTRONAUT4113 жыл бұрын
Thank you than my diamonds are diamonds yeah baby thank you so much my friend
@mohmadborhan43886 жыл бұрын
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
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
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.
@mohmadborhan43886 жыл бұрын
thanks ...and i hope to see a video of cyanide leaching
@pablovarela37163 жыл бұрын
Your the best stay safe thanks.
@nostalgiaarcadefuture Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
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.
@OwlTech3336 жыл бұрын
@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
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
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.
@OwlTech3336 жыл бұрын
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.
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
That's even better
@anisahemad69686 жыл бұрын
I very like video nice sir and process awesome and second parts Platinum recovery please sir thank you sir
@sreetips6 жыл бұрын
I've got the platinum, just need to get it done. Thank you.
@jasonb11565 жыл бұрын
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.
@anthonytaylor75904 жыл бұрын
do you remove the the pgm before refining the silver nitrite or remove the pgms after
@jking40204 жыл бұрын
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.