I learned today because of you that copper and gold both melt around 1950° and silver Below that at 1700° I always was under the Impression golds melting point was the lowest.
🤔🥺 słyszałam że mężczyznę są platkarzami ale by aż do stopnia pisania bajek 😉 🤷 Spoko - jak chcesz kamienia z zawartością pirytu i złota to mogę oddać za symboliczną cenę bo za darmo🤔 to mój pies może plotkara zjeść 🤷 🤣
Haven't watched for aaaages. So therapeutic watching you. Thanx darl for sharing your brilliance,, big kiss and huuuge hug to Mrs Sreetips.... she hunts allll the goodies for you to purify
Człowieku czego chcesz od tej pani ? Posiada wiedzę bo czyta i ma fart bo wie gdzie szukać minerały a kamienia z zawartością pirytu i złota też możesz koło różnych źródeł rzek znaleźć, powodzenia i szanuj innych bo jejzior 🤔 odpadnie 🤪panu🤣
Gold (79), Silver (47) and Copper (29) are all transition metals in the same group on the Periodic table. All three metals share the same valency property of 1. (Gold also has a second valency of 3, and copper an additional valency of 2) Copper is a lighter element than silver but can be used to inquart Gold
Might be interesting if you start with a fresh jar of gold refining waste and track how many grams "shy" you are with each batch, then recover the gold from the waste jar and compare numbers. Did you miscalculate? Did you lose some somewhere? Or did it just get poured off into the gold refining waste jar and not make it to the melt dish.
Yeah I don't know why he doesn't attribute that to his jar, he has already said it is his "savings" jar, or I guess when refining the jewellers trimmings (Sree)"Tips" jar 🙂
@@sreetips Beware of tin. It forms stannous chloride and steals gold in the form of gold stannate. I suspect that many hobby refiners are not aware of the risk.
Although it is, as Mrs. Sreetips says, very competitive out there, the two of you are a truly scary-smart team that no doubt has the competition staring at the walls and muttering at the thought of getting out there and trying to do what you do. It's a genuine pleasure to watch and learn. This old black-shoe salutes you!
Just beautiful as always. I also love it when you drizzle the pure gold into cold water off the wet board, those sparkling gold nuggies are just awesome.😊
Absolutely fantastic refining, Mr. Sreetips! That's a superb looking gold bar! And from just 1 refining! Now we're talking! Proper execution of base metal removal and gold rinsing prior to aqua regia really are the key to high purity gold. Thank you for sharing!
Sreetips, you wife is awesome!!! I totally understand the secrecy but what about how does she value the items? Does she use a scale, also, is there a price she won't go over per K value? Thanks for providing the awesome content!!!! Happy Easter
Totally answered one of my biggest questions on the reasoning behind and science behind inquarting the gold and not just straight to pulling metals out as the gold sits! Awesome video again!
Always add Borax to the final smelt Sreetips to slag out any minute metal oxidations in the glaze. Then Dremel the melt dish back to base and re-borax glaze!
Omg Mr.StreetTips, your amazing at your specialized skill! Been watching you for a number of years now. Seeing the refining progression through those years, hand been quite a pleasure!! Because back in the early days, things have 100% changed and the refinement process has gotten so much cleaner.. love the skilled work. Thank you. One day some day, I will work at your professional level? 😊😊
I've been thinking about your video from a couple day's ago with the rose bud torch. Sometimes the line pressure could be too low/ high, causing a backfire. A dirty tip or a loose torch can do the same . I was a welders helper in my teens 30 years ago. Hope my foggy memories can help
Maybe cheaply made , talk to a couple of welders when you refill your tanks. Ask them their opinion about it. Have fun and thanks for your videos are very entertaining .
Just a beautiful job as always. I do have a comment on the copper part of this video. I noticed a steam explosion as you were pouring the inquartated metal, that yielded "sand" in your water pot. If this is not something you want, (I hate that pop) warming the water will greatly reduce that kind of event. Just mentioned it because I have made a lot of copper shot like that in the last few years. I finally found out how to avoid it. Just passing that along.
I’ve watched quite a few of your videos like this one and it still blows me away. The way you can (in dum dum terms) boil up silver and gold and refine it to such a purity is super cool. I wish I had your talent, knowledge, and tools to do this myself. Would definitely make stacking precious metals way more fulfilling than just buying a silver round here or a gold gram there. To be able to point to it and say “I did that” would be a wonderful feeling
Awesome timelapse, the copper inquarted gold sure gave an angrier looking reaction. Third pass thru the filter really did wonders. Another spectacular gold bar. 👍🏻
Liked this slick speedier video. I have to say this feels to me like it was your best pour at the end. beautifully symmetrical and shiny as anything. A very pretty ingot. Well done, and good luck out in the wild to the hunter gatherer that is Mrs. Sreetips!
Funny, I took my girlfriend to an estate sale last weekend and we followed the get there early rule that you always remind us of. As I was looking at something near the entrance of the living room, she zoomed in on the corner of the dining room, on the other side of the house, where the "gold" was. Ok so we just about cleaned them out of gold and the silver set, I have 6 nieces that would just love to have more jewelry. After getting home I put the fly making light with magnifying glass on the table and we were reading and separating out the different pieces and calculating just how much gold we got. The look on her face when I said the weights and total monetary worth between the plated, gold filed, and karat gold was price less. Most of the jewelry was in bags as costume jewelry for 5 buck. Then I started to think about what you said about a woman that can spot gold like that. Still that date ranks up there with the raspberry picking and jam making date.
Nice! It’s still out there. But as the dollar keeps declining (as reflected in the gold price) the gold will become increasingly more difficult to find.
I bought four ounces when it was $286 then sold it at $400. That didn’t make any sense. Why convert the highly valuable metal back into paper dollars. Finally I realized that gold is not an investment to be bought low and sold high. It’s a store of value that will protect and preserve my hard earned savings from being plundered by the money printers.
Wow, that is a stunning bar of gold. You are one of the few youtubers that listens to your subscribers, and I know you are a silver refiner, Thank you so much for this video, you are one in a million well done Kevin I love your work.
Your content is top notch. I have watched a lot of your videos multiple times and in all of them, you drop so much knowledge it feels like a college level chem course. Keep up the good work! Plz drop more videos on your refining setup, and how to best set one up.
I can only imagine the collection Mrs. Sreetips has that she doesn't hand over for purification. A little reward for every now again on a great looking piece for all the getting up early to go to wherever it she goes to find all this material.
Great video Sreetips! As long as I've watched your videos I don't recall you ever using copper. I was going to ask why in the comment but glad I waited to watch the entire video. Yeah it really does make sense if you're already a silver refiner. It would be wasteful spending.
1st thanks for being so generous with your time and knowledge. I saw in your past videos where you would use tapwater ice cubes to cool your aqua Regis solution before filtering. You then moved to distilled water ice cubes because of the chlorine. I’m just getting my feet wet and had a question about this. I have a well and a water softener that we Iron Out in . Would either of those necessitate me needing to use distilled water for my gold recovery projects? I can bypass the water filter by getting water from my outdoor spicket as well. I’m in Central Indiana and are well. water is known for a high iron content. Thanks!
That was a beautiful gold bar... interesting you can use copper as an alloy metal... but I guess you're right it makes more sense to use silver in your case since it's a double whammy from your perspective, extracting gold AND silver at the same time, which is indeed a bit more efficient
I’m not getting rich, I’m protecting and preserving the purchasing power of my savings. Gold doesn’t change. It’s the currency declining that makes gold appearing to be going higher.
@@sreetips ... Then we were lied to in government statistics that inflation over the same period was under 10 percent (time period where gold went to average up to $1800 to 1850/oz to $2208/oz a bullion coin buyer pays today). Speculators are making people holding 1 oz of gold in 2023 rich now vs inflation numbers ... Or reporting inflation is not true being under 5 percent Joe Biden says. Speculation must have alternatively kept gold subdued to today's correction (not matching 2021 to 2024 loss of wealth) or there are speculation profiting now going on where banks and individuals are buying more up because of future loss in wealth speculating. !?
Fact; a large paper futures market exists that can be used to easily and conveniently control the price, and therefore the demand, for physical gold and silver. Both metals are grossly undervalued. Here’s what I’m doing, ignore the talking heads, we tend to only pay attention to the ones who say what we want to hear. Understand that gold is NOT an investment to be bought low and sold high. Gold (and silver) are money. Their value does not change. They are constant. Currency, that can be printed out of thin air, without limit is what changes. I insist on getting paid in real money, gold and silver. My savings are in gold and silver. If I get paid in paper dollars I immediately convert them to real money; GOLD and silver. Paper dollars are for buying and selling and investing. Gold and silver are for storing wealth and saving. I’m not giving financial advice here. I’m merely explaining how I conduct my affairs,
I used an oxy/acetylene cutting hard to inquart the scrap with copper. I used a map gas torch and oxy/acetylene with a brazing tip to melt the pure gold powder.
Isn't science spectacular? It was amazing to see a pile of scrap gold and other metals turn to a watery liquid. The yellow liquid then turned into a powder and then right back into a solid gold ingot 🤯😎 Thank you for that excellent presentation❣️
Another excellent video, would you say well water or spring water is as ok to use instead of distilled, as long as it's not treated? Is it just the city water that has chlorine
Just out of curiosity, why not use the pure silver crystal that you already have on hand to inquart with the karat gold, because since you already have the silver crystal there would be no additional purchases of sterling silver needed for inquartation, thus drastically increasing your profit margin with the final gold recovery… just my two cents worth…
Well..... hello again, Gunny! It's been a few minutes! I kind of dropped off the world for a bit. Chemo, Radiation and Light therapy. Knocked the wind out of my sails; but, it actually worked! Yay? The question mark is irony. During the treatment, I wasn't sure if the therapy was actually worse then the ailment. Needless to say, now that I am on the happy side of things, yes, worth it. Everything in my life got put on hold, ( I was thinking, permanently; but, God had other plans). At any rate. I'm getting my strength back and, I am back in the Lab. During the whole ordeal, my son replaced my cellphone; and, unfortunately, the contact information you gave me was lost. Possibly, if you are of a mind too, you might send me updated information, I have more questions. Again, and as always, you are an incredible teacher! I always enjoy watching your videos! They are incredible! My best to you and Mrs. SREETIPS! Wade Bert
@sreetips Thanks Buddy! Touch and go for a bit. Had me really wondering 🤔! The body's an amazing thing! So too, the new therapies! 10 years ago? I don't think I'd be here to write you! Love the copper inquartation! I don't feel so bad, melting copper. Always made my stomach churn, melting silver. This was really instructive! I've got allot of catching up to do! Thank heaven you're still doing what you do!
In refining, its not a good metal because it forms compounds that cause problems. And aluminum is not soluble in nitric acid. The pro refiners that I learned from taught me to avoid aluminum, like the plaque.
The biggest difference that I found is that copper takes over three times the amount of nitric acid to dissolve than silver. It’s worthwhile if you don’t have silver, but if you have silver to inquart it’s a much more efficient use of resources. The silver is recovered. Nitric is consumed.
hey Mr. SreeTips have you tried preheating your mold with the oxy/ast torch to see it it affects the finish of the bars it forms?.... seems like it should likely make a cleaner surface finish on the bars if the casting apparatus was at a closer temp to the metals themselves being poured into them
You are awesome!!! Hey, a question: I’m having a hard time getting Nitric, but I have lots of clean gold plated items. If I mailed it to you, would you process it and split it 50/50?
Thank you for the offer. Unfortunately I only work on material that my wife and I find at local sales. This is my hobby. I’m not a professional refiner.
Any chemical supplier will have nitric. You’ll probably need a business address to receive it (have it shipped to your friends business address if you don’t have one)
Thank you very much! A question: couldn´t you have started the process after the copper inquartation with the much cheaper sulfuric acid, so that the bulk of copper ions would get washed out quite quickly, due to its high solubility in H2O and on the last step make a boil with nitiric acid, to get the silver out, as it has a better solubility in its nitrated solution?
Turning the sound off at the end was so dramatic. The only sense we had available was our vision....which is the primary sense utilized with gold. Awesome experience.
I like the new video format. Time lapsing through the boils and stuff. I love seeing it start to finish in one video!
Concur 1000%, Mike!
I learned today because of you that copper and gold both melt around 1950° and silver Below that at 1700° I always was under the Impression golds melting point was the lowest.
This is so cool ! I asked you to inquart with copper again because it's the method i use (easier than getting silver). Thank you so much!!!
You've given Stump-Out so much air time, they should be sponsoring you by now.
Remember the old days when your camera used to overheat all the time. 😆
And the really noisy fume hood 😂
And the several microphone setups 😂😂
Yes
Yes
Yes!
Mrs Sreetips, better known on the streets as "The Dragon Lady". A skilled early morning creature who feeds on precious metals for breakfast.
She’s the reason that I get to do this instead of punching a time clock at Home Depot.
🤔🥺 słyszałam że mężczyznę są platkarzami ale by aż do stopnia pisania bajek 😉 🤷
Spoko - jak chcesz kamienia z zawartością pirytu i złota to mogę oddać za symboliczną cenę bo za darmo🤔 to mój pies może plotkara zjeść 🤷 🤣
What a lady, Mr@@sreetips.
The clear golden colored Aqua regia is so beautiful.
Caloric acid
forbidden gatorade...
@@rrfields65Lol. Chloroauric acid.
The Aqua Regia becomes Chloroauric acid.
I absolutely love to watch when you add the SMB and see the instant flashover . 😮
$6K bar Chief...WE did real well tonight! 😮😅...Lol...😂!!
I got 5693 and change dang sure did very well🎉🎉
Excellent result and a fine demo on refining with copper!
Haven't watched for aaaages.
So therapeutic watching you. Thanx darl for sharing your brilliance,, big kiss and huuuge hug to Mrs Sreetips.... she hunts allll the goodies for you to purify
Love, don't do this to yourself again. You should try to watch a bit per time, if you're too busy. But please don't deprive yourself ❤
@@joy_is_purple oh my God 😍 you are too cute and funny. Love it🤗
Człowieku czego chcesz od tej pani ? Posiada wiedzę bo czyta i ma fart bo wie gdzie szukać minerały a kamienia z zawartością pirytu i złota też możesz koło różnych źródeł rzek znaleźć, powodzenia i szanuj innych bo jejzior 🤔 odpadnie 🤪panu🤣
Gold (79), Silver (47) and Copper (29) are all transition metals in the same group on the Periodic table.
All three metals share the same valency property of 1.
(Gold also has a second valency of 3, and copper an additional valency of 2)
Copper is a lighter element than silver but can be used to inquart Gold
Always loved that copper blue its simply stunning. Hope everyone has a lovely Easter.
Same, thank you.
Might be interesting if you start with a fresh jar of gold refining waste and track how many grams "shy" you are with each batch, then recover the gold from the waste jar and compare numbers. Did you miscalculate? Did you lose some somewhere? Or did it just get poured off into the gold refining waste jar and not make it to the melt dish.
Yeah I don't know why he doesn't attribute that to his jar, he has already said it is his "savings" jar, or I guess when refining the jewellers trimmings (Sree)"Tips" jar 🙂
Most of it was probably in the filter that I washed and poured into the waste container.
@@sreetips
Beware of tin. It forms stannous chloride and steals gold in the form of gold stannate. I suspect that many hobby refiners are not aware of the risk.
Goooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night! Nice change of pace!
Hello my dear friend 🌺🌺
Hope that your dog is fine now.
God bless you🌺🌺🙏
Goooood evening!
@@Arne-ns2mw Hi Arne! She is getting better... and we are so thankful for the prayers my friend! Hope you have a wonderful weekend buddy!
Sooooo good to heare ❤️
And thank you 🌺
Had my second cataract removed yesterday and this time watching the gold was absolutely fantastic for sure, just Love your videos for sure!
That rosebud tip at the end really gives a nice even pour and cool off. Keeps it looking like a mirror. 👍
That bar is a beaut - as nice a one as I've seen you pour. Your technique is really close to perfect for this!
Although it is, as Mrs. Sreetips says, very competitive out there, the two of you are a truly scary-smart team that no doubt has the competition staring at the walls and muttering at the thought of getting out there and trying to do what you do. It's a genuine pleasure to watch and learn. This old black-shoe salutes you!
Just beautiful as always. I also love it when you drizzle the pure gold into cold water off the wet board, those sparkling gold nuggies are just awesome.😊
That bar turned out beautiful! I think it’s your best pour yet.
Absolutely fantastic refining, Mr. Sreetips! That's a superb looking gold bar! And from just 1 refining! Now we're talking! Proper execution of base metal removal and gold rinsing prior to aqua regia really are the key to high purity gold. Thank you for sharing!
Sreetips, you wife is awesome!!! I totally understand the secrecy but what about how does she value the items? Does she use a scale, also, is there a price she won't go over per K value? Thanks for providing the awesome content!!!! Happy Easter
Same, thank you!
Totally answered one of my biggest questions on the reasoning behind and science behind inquarting the gold and not just straight to pulling metals out as the gold sits! Awesome video again!
Always add Borax to the final smelt Sreetips to slag out any minute metal oxidations in the glaze. Then Dremel the melt dish back to base and re-borax glaze!
Mrs. Sreetips & Mr. Sreetips, the dynamic duo of gold refining. team work makes the dream work!!
Excellent Video Sreetips 🏴☠️ Thank you for showing us the copper method. Very useful information. God Bless 🙏
Nicely done, as always. The ingot "set" nicely in the mould too. Had those little ripples on the top of it, looked totally sweet! 👏👏👏👍👍
You and the Mrs deserve every success in your efforts
Mr and Mrs Sreetips, a winning combination. Thanks for another great video and a Happy Easter to you both. 🐣
Omg Mr.StreetTips, your amazing at your specialized skill! Been watching you for a number of years now. Seeing the refining progression through those years, hand been quite a pleasure!! Because back in the early days, things have 100% changed and the refinement process has gotten so much cleaner.. love the skilled work. Thank you. One day some day, I will work at your professional level? 😊😊
Thank you!
This is so therapeutic to watch...Many Thanks to You Sir!
I've been thinking about your video from a couple day's ago with the rose bud torch. Sometimes the line pressure could be too low/ high, causing a backfire. A dirty tip or a loose torch can do the same . I was a welders helper in my teens 30 years ago. Hope my foggy memories can help
That rose bud looks awful cheap to me.
Maybe cheaply made , talk to a couple of welders when you refill your tanks. Ask them their opinion about it. Have fun and thanks for your videos are very entertaining .
Thanks for the video as always. Looking forward to the silver chloride > metallic silver demonstration!
Yes you must honor her wishes, Kev. Happy wife happy life 🤣🤣👍👍
Hey Teacher thank you; I learned a lot from all you do for others. Once again thank you
"Mrs. Sreetips has been at it -again." 😂
Very impressive gold bar! Loved seeing the Rose Gold by using the copper. Thanks Sreetips
Just a beautiful job as always. I do have a comment on the copper part of this video. I noticed a steam explosion as you were pouring the inquartated metal, that yielded "sand" in your water pot. If this is not something you want, (I hate that pop) warming the water will greatly reduce that kind of event. Just mentioned it because I have made a lot of copper shot like that in the last few years. I finally found out how to avoid it. Just passing that along.
Good info, thank you.
I’ve watched quite a few of your videos like this one and it still blows me away. The way you can (in dum dum terms) boil up silver and gold and refine it to such a purity is super cool. I wish I had your talent, knowledge, and tools to do this myself. Would definitely make stacking precious metals way more fulfilling than just buying a silver round here or a gold gram there. To be able to point to it and say “I did that” would be a wonderful feeling
I really liked this video! Kind of interesting to see the difference between using copper and silver for your refining.
It's cool how the gold makes the light reflected from it also be golden as seen on your gloves at the end...
Awesome timelapse, the copper inquarted gold sure gave an angrier looking reaction. Third pass thru the filter really did wonders. Another spectacular gold bar. 👍🏻
Liked this slick speedier video. I have to say this feels to me like it was your best pour at the end. beautifully symmetrical and shiny as anything. A very pretty ingot. Well done, and good luck out in the wild to the hunter gatherer that is Mrs. Sreetips!
OMG! That WAS Lucky... at 23 minutes and some change... i literally gasped thinking it was bout to be a mess 😮😂😂😂
Me too!
Funny, I took my girlfriend to an estate sale last weekend and we followed the get there early rule that you always remind us of. As I was looking at something near the entrance of the living room, she zoomed in on the corner of the dining room, on the other side of the house, where the "gold" was. Ok so we just about cleaned them out of gold and the silver set, I have 6 nieces that would just love to have more jewelry. After getting home I put the fly making light with magnifying glass on the table and we were reading and separating out the different pieces and calculating just how much gold we got. The look on her face when I said the weights and total monetary worth between the plated, gold filed, and karat gold was price less. Most of the jewelry was in bags as costume jewelry for 5 buck. Then I started to think about what you said about a woman that can spot gold like that. Still that date ranks up there with the raspberry picking and jam making date.
Nice! It’s still out there. But as the dollar keeps declining (as reflected in the gold price) the gold will become increasingly more difficult to find.
@@sreetips I can remember in 1998 getting an ounce for 600 dollars'
I bought four ounces when it was $286 then sold it at $400. That didn’t make any sense. Why convert the highly valuable metal back into paper dollars. Finally I realized that gold is not an investment to be bought low and sold high. It’s a store of value that will protect and preserve my hard earned savings from being plundered by the money printers.
I would love to buy some of the stones you remove from the gold. I checked your ebay site and none were listed. You still rock thought!
shoutouts to mrs sreetips for doing the legwork to get the metal for the content for the videos for the channel
Great work, thanks for sharing.
Wow, that is a stunning bar of gold. You are one of the few youtubers that listens to your subscribers, and I know you are a silver refiner, Thank you so much for this video, you are one in a million well done Kevin I love your work.
Thank you
Your content is top notch. I have watched a lot of your videos multiple times and in all of them, you drop so much knowledge it feels like a college level chem course. Keep up the good work! Plz drop more videos on your refining setup, and how to best set one up.
You're like Mr. Wizard if he had to get all his supplies from storage unit auctions. 🤘
Estates sales and yard sales mostly.
Your pouring technique and setup is pretty much perfect these days 👍
❤ the video! The Mrs. Is right. Keep it close to the vest. I appreciate you sharing your expertise.
What a professional looking pour!
I can only imagine the collection Mrs. Sreetips has that she doesn't hand over for purification. A little reward for every now again on a great looking piece for all the getting up early to go to wherever it she goes to find all this material.
Very cool video! Thank you
Good job I learned alot. thx man !🍺🍺🍺
The early bird gets the worm, as Mrs. Sreetips would say.
I always enjoy your videos and your knowledge. Thanks again my friend.
I don’t blame Mrs Sreetips… can’t give away all of our hustles/secrets.
I’d imagine she’s giving you the ugly/broken stuff, and selling the nice stuff for some kind of premium though.
Great video Sreetips! As long as I've watched your videos I don't recall you ever using copper. I was going to ask why in the comment but glad I waited to watch the entire video. Yeah it really does make sense if you're already a silver refiner. It would be wasteful spending.
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Gday mate!
@@sreetips Gday mate. I hope you and your family have a bonza easter.
1st thanks for being so generous with your time and knowledge. I saw in your past videos where you would use tapwater ice cubes to cool your aqua Regis solution before filtering. You then moved to distilled water ice cubes because of the chlorine. I’m just getting my feet wet and had a question about this. I have a well and a water softener that we Iron Out in . Would either of those necessitate me needing to use distilled water for my gold recovery projects? I can bypass the water filter by getting water from my outdoor spicket as well. I’m in Central Indiana and are well. water is known for a high iron content. Thanks!
I use tap water for my ice. Contaminants in parts per million. Not enough to report in an assay.
You are welcome. A nice result from the efforts of Mrs. Sreetip. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
My brain had to do the math, That's almost 6K, no wonder you had the sound turned off. 🤣 I'd have bust out with a hokey pokey 😂
Actually my voice transceiver got overheated because I had it too close to the melt.
That almost went over my head with the synthesis of silver nitrate... It's an "energetic material" ;)
That was a beautiful gold bar... interesting you can use copper as an alloy metal... but I guess you're right it makes more sense to use silver in your case since it's a double whammy from your perspective, extracting gold AND silver at the same time, which is indeed a bit more efficient
According to the figures I ran, dissolving copper requires about two and a half times as much nitric acid as an equal mass of silver.
That two times number seems not to match what we see in the video. Looks like just slightly more nitric with copper
Sounds right.
Me and Mrs Sreetips make a great team! Love to see it. 💪💪👍
That little bar is worth over $5700
A year ago below $4900. Gold is going high now on more commodity speculations. Sreetips is getting rich now 😂
I’m not getting rich, I’m protecting and preserving the purchasing power of my savings. Gold doesn’t change. It’s the currency declining that makes gold appearing to be going higher.
@@sreetips ... Then we were lied to in government statistics that inflation over the same period was under 10 percent (time period where gold went to average up to $1800 to 1850/oz to $2208/oz a bullion coin buyer pays today). Speculators are making people holding 1 oz of gold in 2023 rich now vs inflation numbers ... Or reporting inflation is not true being under 5 percent Joe Biden says. Speculation must have alternatively kept gold subdued to today's correction (not matching 2021 to 2024 loss of wealth) or there are speculation profiting now going on where banks and individuals are buying more up because of future loss in wealth speculating. !?
Fact; a large paper futures market exists that can be used to easily and conveniently control the price, and therefore the demand, for physical gold and silver. Both metals are grossly undervalued. Here’s what I’m doing, ignore the talking heads, we tend to only pay attention to the ones who say what we want to hear. Understand that gold is NOT an investment to be bought low and sold high. Gold (and silver) are money. Their value does not change. They are constant. Currency, that can be printed out of thin air, without limit is what changes. I insist on getting paid in real money, gold and silver. My savings are in gold and silver. If I get paid in paper dollars I immediately convert them to real money; GOLD and silver. Paper dollars are for buying and selling and investing. Gold and silver are for storing wealth and saving. I’m not giving financial advice here. I’m merely explaining how I conduct my affairs,
@@sreetips I mostly agree, but how can silver and gold have constant values if the ratio of gold/silver price changes? They are pretty stable though.
The early bird gets the worm 🪱 😅
Go get'em Mrs. Sreetips.
Excellent video thank you!!! Good morning from Iowa and Happy Easter to all . This states colors are black and Gold
I’m from CR
Go Hawks!
Awesome video and nice gold bar I can seen the gold color reflected on your gloves thanks for sharing sreetips
nice. i noticed the torch used to melt the fold dust was different than the one used to melt the scrap.
I used an oxy/acetylene cutting hard to inquart the scrap with copper. I used a map gas torch and oxy/acetylene with a brazing tip to melt the pure gold powder.
So,,,, you're saying Mrs. Streetips is NOT a grave robber?... well that's a relief!!!
Correct
Isn't science spectacular? It was amazing to see a pile of scrap gold and other metals turn to a watery liquid. The yellow liquid then turned into a powder and then right back into a solid gold ingot 🤯😎 Thank you for that excellent presentation❣️
Love the vids. Are the nitric fumes corrosive? Do they affect your extraction equipment?
Yes. Nitrogen dioxide. If they get in your lungs, they will combine with the moisture on the lungs, forming nitric acid, in your lungs.
Oh ive been waiting for this.
Another excellent video, would you say well water or spring water is as ok to use instead of distilled, as long as it's not treated? Is it just the city water that has chlorine
I’ve never use well water. I always use distilled water.
What a great video! 🤩
Thank you
Wow.. good looking bar.. holy smokes.
Just out of curiosity, why not use the pure silver crystal that you already have on hand to inquart with the karat gold, because since you already have the silver crystal there would be no additional purchases of sterling silver needed for inquartation, thus drastically increasing your profit margin with the final gold recovery… just my two cents worth…
Because it’s already been through the silver cell.
Because he list it for $100 a Troy oz on eBay lol that that Crystal is worth more than Heisenberg‘s crystal off of breaking bad
@@24kGanksta sounds like someone is jealous… don’t be butthurt bro…
Happy Easter streetips family!
Happy Easter!
No need to cut the sound off, we enjoy those sounds! Go Steetips 💪😎👍
Had it too close to the heat, killed the transceiver.
Very clearly described. Is this alternative using copper instead of silver fully purify the gold? No sure.
It gets it to about 992 or so. Three nines requires Aqua Regia refining.
Well..... hello again, Gunny! It's been a few minutes! I kind of dropped off the world for a bit. Chemo, Radiation and Light therapy. Knocked the wind out of my sails; but, it actually worked! Yay? The question mark is irony. During the treatment, I wasn't sure if the therapy was actually worse then the ailment. Needless to say, now that I am on the happy side of things, yes, worth it.
Everything in my life got put on hold, ( I was thinking, permanently; but, God had other plans). At any rate. I'm getting my strength back and, I am back in the Lab.
During the whole ordeal, my son replaced my cellphone; and, unfortunately, the contact information you gave me was lost. Possibly, if you are of a mind too, you might send me updated information, I have more questions.
Again, and as always, you are an incredible teacher! I always enjoy watching your videos! They are incredible!
My best to you and Mrs. SREETIPS!
Wade Bert
Good to see you’re doing better, welcome back.
@sreetips Thanks Buddy! Touch and go for a bit. Had me really wondering 🤔! The body's an amazing thing! So too, the new therapies! 10 years ago? I don't think I'd be here to write you!
Love the copper inquartation! I don't feel so bad, melting copper. Always made my stomach churn, melting silver. This was really instructive!
I've got allot of catching up to do! Thank heaven you're still doing what you do!
Thanks for showing the alternatives. Is it possible to enquart with the silver cement rather than the normal sterling silver?
Yes, but not recommended. PGMs tend to build up if used over and over and cause problems in the silver cell
Do you have all your bars from the various refinings?? I’d be curious to what your treasure vault looks like
What anice Bar, well done.
Can this be done with aluminum to make purple gold?
In refining, its not a good metal because it forms compounds that cause problems. And aluminum is not soluble in nitric acid. The pro refiners that I learned from taught me to avoid aluminum, like the plaque.
The biggest difference that I found is that copper takes over three times the amount of nitric acid to dissolve than silver. It’s worthwhile if you don’t have silver, but if you have silver to inquart it’s a much more efficient use of resources. The silver is recovered. Nitric is consumed.
That's been the secret to my success: Arriving early and doing the requisite reading.
Your casting skills can not get any better.
hey Mr. SreeTips have you tried preheating your mold with the oxy/ast torch to see it it affects the finish of the bars it forms?.... seems like it should likely make a cleaner surface finish on the bars if the casting apparatus was at a closer temp to the metals themselves being poured into them
I had that mold glowing red in this video. With gold, the hotter the better. But it can get too hot and burn some of the graphite and ruin the mold.
I'd be interested to know if there is a difference in time between using silver versus copper.
Yes, copper takes more acid. But I’m not sure about time.
You are awesome!!!
Hey, a question: I’m having a hard time getting Nitric, but I have lots of clean gold plated items. If I mailed it to you, would you process it and split it 50/50?
Thank you for the offer. Unfortunately I only work on material that my wife and I find at local sales. This is my hobby. I’m not a professional refiner.
Any chemical supplier will have nitric. You’ll probably need a business address to receive it (have it shipped to your friends business address if you don’t have one)
Thank you very much! A question: couldn´t you have started the process after the copper inquartation with the much cheaper sulfuric acid, so that the bulk of copper ions would get washed out quite quickly, due to its high solubility in H2O and on the last step make a boil with nitiric acid, to get the silver out, as it has a better solubility in its nitrated solution?
I’ve used sulfuric to part the inquarted gold in a past video. It did well, but took much longer than nitric.
Turning the sound off at the end was so dramatic. The only sense we had available was our vision....which is the primary sense utilized with gold. Awesome experience.
That happened purely by accident. The camera mic connection gets corroded over time and the sound cuts out during filming.
@@sreetips did you a solid IMO. Focused that once sense into that beauty of a bar of gold.
Good to know, thank you.
You and Mrs sreetips make a great team