hahah, kind of funny it's worth more as a block of gold than it is a piece of jewelry that took a lot of time to manufacture, I kind of agree jewelry is meaningless
To be honest: I always thought that miss Streetips being the source of your Gold was a cover story to hid your real sources. Haha, very amused to see she really IS a precious metal hunter.
The gold waste water container has a nice powder to liquid ratio! It's amusing how you're less careful about letting powder through with your rinses today than you were in your earliest videos from many years ago. It just shows how streamlined your whole operation has become. You know that you're getting it all back anyway, so you don't sweat the small stuff anymore. It was really nice to get to witness that evolution.
@@MikeS-wk8sw those are some of the best videos! Those and the silver cell slimes. Palladium seems to be about 75 % the price of gold, thereabouts, at least today. Watching all that palladium was like WOWWW. But hey, Rhodium has GOT to get into the mix. 500 a gram... whew
21:58 This low angle of the reaction was mesmerizing, especially with the lighting. Very well done, sir! And thank you to Mrs. Sreetips for sharing the thrill of the hunt! Excellent video as always.
Mrs. Sreetips has an excellent eye, and combined with your absolute domain and technique, produce this authentic close to 4 nines gold bar. My respects to both of you, and I sincerely hope you keep achieving this level of success.
Beautiful bar! 💜💜💜 Awesome to see Mrs Sreetips again! 💙💙💙 You’ve been working in the yard too much with those big ole calluses on your hands! 🤣 thank you for the great instruction!
I enjoy all of your videos! I'm so fascinated by your work on recovering gold and silver . Thank you for sharing your knowledge so people like me can see and understand the ways of refining in a safe ( as possible) atmosphere. Your backup carrier should be in a podcast. You have clear and awesome voice for it ! Stay safe and keep your videos coming! Robert from Colorado.
I've been a Chemistry teacher for 30 years, and am impressed with your old school lab technique! Curious what the costs are on your consumables. Would wager the money is made when you (or Mrs. Sreetips) BUYS the raw material! BTW, beautiful wife you have there! She seems like a go-getter, and was first in line! Never seen such a line at an estate sale! Thanks for the content!
Your first sentence has piqued my interest! Do you have examples of some of the techniques Sreetips uses that are done differently in today's labs? Aside from a couple of things I'd to slightly differently, his procedures for refining gold seem as optimized as possible. He looks like he could do it with his eyes closed. Working in a longer fume hood that's not as deep so that there's no risk of knocking down glassware in the front while you work in the back would help. So would using a spreadsheet to calculate automatically how much silver is needed for inquartation. And lastly, I prefer using an electric kiln and melt powder or granules directly into the mold instead of using torches in a crucible and having to pour the ingots, but that's just personal preference.
@@Alsacien The old school guys know how to get good results with a basic equipment and a minimal amount of technology. Take that away from a lot of the younger generation, and they're lost. Many rely on apps/programs to do their calculations, and have lost the ability to do much of it on their own. Many younger guys don't have the innate 'feel' for the lab work. Technology CAN be good for making things more idiot proof, but it also has a way of breeding better idiots. lol The less they rely on themselves and the more they rely on technology, the less in tune they become with hands-on work.
@@n2omike Thank you for expanding on your original comment! I'm not exactly young anymore at 40, but I'm a big proponent of spreadsheets, with the caveat that people should build them themselves to demonstrate that they understand how everything is calculated. It's such a powerful tool. I'm with you on Sreetips' technique! The man operates his wash bottles with the fluidity and precision of a ballet dancer. And I haven't seen him break glassware, spill something or even have a runaway reaction in forever.
I watch all of your videos, I sure wish I could do that because it's just so interesting, and ending up with pure gold and silver is just an added treat after carrying out the interesting steps.
We’ve tried to sell as antique pieces. But they just sit there until the price is lowered to down around their gold content. This has been our experience.
Thank you Mrs. Sreetips! It was great seeing you in action. Finding those treasures. You definitely are amazing at finding them. I hope to see more of you in the future videos. 😊
I guess a good analogy for how the inquarted gold reacts with the acid to free up the pure gold is like a chocolate chip cookie dropped into milk. The cookie (silver) dissolves in the milk (nitric acid) and the chocolate (gold) is left behind.
Many thanks to Mrs. Sreetips for taking us on her journey. Does Mrs. Sreetips do anything else to help out with the process? Ordering/collecting consumables or glassware, filming or editing, maintaining the silver cells, etc. You two seem to make a great team.
No, her passion is finding a good deal at a local sale. She’s obsessed with it. But she hates refining. I have a passion for refining Precious metals. I can’t not do it. But I’m not to fond of digging through peoples stuff to find a bargain. We are the perfect match - opposites attract!
Nice! Did really well on scrap cost, around $500. Final gold value was approximately $1500, after subtracting out the 4.2 gram 24k button from earlier video.
If you look, you’ll see the seller hand me a bag with unidentified metal in it. It was not marked. He asked me to take it home and check it for him. I did that and it turned out to over 16 grams of 14k gold. I sent him another check for five hundred more.
@@sreetips I would love to see a video where you break down the finances. Most of that equipment looks relatively inexpensive but it all adds up and the chemicals as well. I suspect the chemicals are mostly cheap but the last time I bought muriatic acid I was shocked at the price of drain cleaner. Also, where do you sell the finished gold and do they take you to the cleaners with commissions and claims that your gold isn't pure or stuff like that.
Hi Sreetips, I really like your “new” way of precipitating gold with the gas flow! It is mixing it up a bit! But is there benefit in doing it this way besides that it looks way cooler? Greetings Stephan
This liquid dropper seems much sturdier than that fragile glass thing you used before. I used to hold my breath when you placed that fixture at an angle in your fume hood! Thanks for another interesting video.
I haven't started this video yet, but I bet this is Mrs. Sreetips in her element! Like a kid in a candy store! Like a 40 year old female at a New Kids on The Block concert!
I love watching your wife get right into the action. She definitely has a good eye. Well done to you both. And thankyou as always to a great show. Paddy down under 🇦🇺👍🙏
When you guys go to an estate sale like that is there any bargaining involved when it comes to the prices marked or if you buy a lot they give you a break? Or are they usually firm on the marked price?
Thanks. I had been using sulphuric acid and adding sodium nitrate and was wondering why it was taking so long and not completely. Inquartation to 25% (6k).
When u had fun in science class but never want further because of a learning disability ( written tests ) and watch you do a lot of cool things makes me wish my teacher took a little bit more time to see my interest in chemistry and try to work with me a bit more then some others in class. Some teachers can read kids and help them a bit more hands on and some just don't have the interest in seeing someone trying to succeed at something that just don't come naturally to then and they move on .iv been watching you about 3 years now and find it fascinating to watch and learn from u Sir . Thank you for what u do .
Sreetips adds Hydrochloric Acid to "Rehydrate" the dissolved gold from the Aqua Regia. Now I haven't taken chemistry since high school 32 years ago and am wondering will it produce an Aqueous Solution?
As far as the nitric acid boils go I always thought of the karat gold as bricks that the acid can't penetrate to get the silver, etc. out of the gold. When you inquart gold with sterling silver (or copper) You turn that 14k gold into 5-6k gold and that solid, impenetrable brick becomes a loose, open sponge that the acid can get all the way into and do its work. The sterling becomes the "air pockets" of the "sponge" if you see what I mean. The ring got very tiny pits from what base metals were present on the surface. The nitric ate that away and took the shine off the gold. "That will buff right out." lol Mrs. Sreetips is good to us and she has fun doing it. It's nice when someone not only enjoying their hobby but at least making a little money doing it. 🙂🖖
Fantastic Mr and Mrs Streetips love your videos and Mrs streetips is a fab gold hunter you make an exellent partnership keep up the good work 👏 best wishes from Andy 🇬🇧
great video again, what acid did you put into your sodium metabisulphate gas bubbler. also what did it cost the boss to buy the gold at the sale? what sort of profit margin did you make 👍
Sulfuric acid. I don’t know the profit margin until I sell it. And I’m not selling my gold if I don’t have too. So for now, my profit is in gold. Plus, I converted failing paper dollars into highly valuable GOLD.
Thanks for a peek behind the curtain at the sale. Excluding time and consumables 24 g the 14k gold gave a 3x ROI. Combining the other items would theoretically pay for another vacation?
I like ur videos. U should do a video with rams chips with sulphuric acid then process the gold. I bet it would do well because its a popular topic in ewaste
Do you ever use Sulfamic Acid during your Aqua Regia step--to neutralize the HNO3--and to generate H2SO4 to precipitate lead and silver? I recently stumbled across several forum members who have been using that instead of the boiling step to clear their solution of excess nitric acid.
I like evaporation because nothing gets added. Adding sulfamic could introduce contaminants. Sulfamic is faster. But you got to do it while it’s hot. And adding it too quickly could boil over.
I recently read on the gold refining forum you could precipitate gold with UVB the same wavelength your body uses to bio-synthesize Vitamin D and the same one melanin (the pigment in your skin that makes it dark) blocks which I thought was very interesting I believe that's the same one that does all the damage to your DNA if exposure rates are high like in the case of germicidal lamps
Great video! Ive been watching your videos for years and have always wondered if a beaker with gold in solution is so much heavier than a regular beaker with water if it is jarring when you go to pick it up because of how dense it was. This happened to me on a subconscious level the first time i picked up a silver bar or gold coin so i wonder if it happens when the denser metal is in solution?
Hey Sree! I have not commented in a while. I have been thinking about giving my testimony to congress about UAP's... however, I think you nailed a shtick with content showing your estate sale and what the outcome is with your recovery. Looking forward to your future videos! Mrs. Sreetips seems like a sweet woman. Lucky man! Take care, and I look forward to years of videos to come!
@sreetips Well shipmate, I'm not going to jerk you around. I don't know the true depth of the phenomenon and how our government morally did this to their citizens. It is 100% real.
As a different procedure would it be possible to dissolve the carat gold in Aqua Regia as a first step. Then precipitate out the metals in the usual way. Then do the Nitric boils on the precipitate to remove the unwanted metals.
Some of those almost 4 grams may have ended up in the beaker you pour off the precipitated gold rinse solution into. It looked like it you didn’t let it settle after rinses and that solution was brown. Just giving an idea of where to look for it. I know you plan on recovering those at a later date, but nobody wants to be wondering where their gold went.
Thank you for this beautiful and informative insight of how you find the raw material for your refining! In my country it's pretty hard to find some gold under spot value because nowadays pretty much every shop is acid-testing every piece they handle. But today was my lucky day, first I found 6 silver medals stamped 999 fine (185 grams in total) for 61€ ($ 67) and later on I got a 1915 Danish 20 Kroner gold coin containing 8 grams of fine gold for 31€ ($ 34). This is the first time in over 10 years of coin collecting, that I found a genuine gold coin for less than spot value. About the 999 fine silver medals - would you keep them as they are or refine them even further? (There is no numismatic value to them) Best regards!
It’s out there. Most people have been conditioned to believe that paper is more valuable than gold. They will sell you their gold, at a discount. I’d keep any minted coins that contain a known quantity of gold. And truthfully, you can keep karat gold just like it is. It value will track right on up with bullion. So long as you don’t try to “melt it down” and ruin the markings. No need to refine it. I only do it because I love it.
Mr. SREETIPS would pouring the Incorded gold into ice water help to get the micro explosion? To get it in the finer pieces that you've talked about before.Just wondering I don't have the ability to test the hypothesis. But I have noticed it's alway the first bit that dose it. When the water at its coldest
You’re welcome, the pleasure is mine. If anyone is wondering what the best metal detector is look no further than Mrs. Sreetips, unfortunately for us she’s off the market (and priceless). NICE HAUL Mrs. Peters!!! Thank you Sir! 👍👍🤟
I'm disabled and cannot work, but I have a gift. I can spot Gold when it's mixed in with costume jewellery. Not sure how the gift works, the Gold just seems to glow somehow. So for the last 20 years I've gone out on my scooter, using buses and trains, to visit every fare, every bric-a-brac shop, every charity shop I can find. Everytime I got to 200gm of mixed purity Gold I'd put it in my deposit box at the bank. I can't get out as much as I once could, but seeing you on this channel, has given me the idea of purifying my Gold. I have a back ground in chemistry so I have the lab skills. It going to keep me busy I have alot of bags to work through. Thank you so much for the education, entertainment and inspiration you've given to everyone who views your channel.
We’ve learned to spot karat gold just by looking also. After seeing tens of thousands of pieces over the last two decades, it’s easy to spot. You don’t need to refine the karat gold. It will track right on up with the bullion. So long as you don’t try your melt it and ruin the markings. Then it’s value becomes questionable. If you do decide to refine then make sure and get a fume hood first. No way to safely do these reactions without one. I ignored this when I first started and now I have impaired lung function and blurry vision from the fumes getting in my eyes.
@sreetips oh for sure I need a fume hood + a lot of other PPE too. I think I'd like a gas monitor outside the fume hood just to be sure, NO2 is seriously toxic. I think the Germans considered it a possible chemical weapon in WW1. The HNO3, HCl, H2SO4 and high strength H2O2 are all bad actors when it comes to your health. But I think the one's that people overlook are the metal salts. Mercury, chromium and cadmium being the worst. Thank you for your advice and inspiration, I hope you both have a great day.
I'd love to hear about your leads for buying gold and what your return (or expected if you sold) on it is. The chemistry is cool, but the finances is what's interesting me right now: I know you're stacking silver.
For all of us, please thank Mrs Sreetips for letting us join her on her hunt.
Mr Sreetips is the chemistry teacher I never knew I needed.
Truth
If school chrmistry had been action-chem like this there would be lots more chemists today!
"Yeah, it was someone's treasured heirloom. Time to inquart it."
14k is usually not a treasured heirloom.
@@richardmccann4815I’m pretty sure he was making a joke there…ya know?
hahah, kind of funny it's worth more as a block of gold than it is a piece of jewelry that took a lot of time to manufacture, I kind of agree jewelry is meaningless
@@noblshtsometimes the jewelry is worth more, but in this case it doesn’t have retail potential.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
To be honest: I always thought that miss Streetips being the source of your Gold was a cover story to hid your real sources. Haha, very amused to see she really IS a precious metal hunter.
She’s the real deal.
The gold waste water container has a nice powder to liquid ratio! It's amusing how you're less careful about letting powder through with your rinses today than you were in your earliest videos from many years ago. It just shows how streamlined your whole operation has become. You know that you're getting it all back anyway, so you don't sweat the small stuff anymore. It was really nice to get to witness that evolution.
I thought that. There was tons of gold sliding into the waste. Sreetips has got Vegas Blues
I hope when he has collected a lot of that gold waste water he will eventually make a video of it, just to do another great gold video.
@@MikeS-wk8sw those are some of the best videos! Those and the silver cell slimes. Palladium seems to be about 75 % the price of gold, thereabouts, at least today. Watching all that palladium was like WOWWW. But hey, Rhodium has GOT to get into the mix. 500 a gram... whew
The lighter material is going to contain the impurities, if any. Results in a finer end product.
I was wondering where you collected all the jewelry to feed into your refining process. Looks like it’s a treasure hunt and part of the fun. 👍
Hat tip to the Mrs. Your videos always shine up my day.🍻🏅
Man , this guy put his wedding ring in a batch of chemicals to demonstrate what he is teaching . That's dedication! Respect.
That’s knowledge…
The first few times i saw him do that trick the ring actually came out shinier, the acid gave it a nice cleaning 😂
Gas precipitation is always fascinating. The way it changes colors and the gold just appears like that is wild.
I was wondering if using gas precipitation causes more gold to run off into waste container? Due to finer particulates?
@@sandisherck4636 kinda seemed like it this time. I don’t think that’s usually an issue tho.
21:58 This low angle of the reaction was mesmerizing, especially with the lighting. Very well done, sir! And thank you to Mrs. Sreetips for sharing the thrill of the hunt! Excellent video as always.
Mrs. Sreetips has an excellent eye, and combined with your absolute domain and technique, produce this authentic close to 4 nines gold bar. My respects to both of you, and I sincerely hope you keep achieving this level of success.
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips.
Thank you both for a exelent clip as always 😊
Arne
Beautiful bar! 💜💜💜 Awesome to see Mrs Sreetips again! 💙💙💙 You’ve been working in the yard too much with those big ole calluses on your hands! 🤣 thank you for the great instruction!
I enjoy all of your videos! I'm so fascinated by your work on recovering gold and silver . Thank you for sharing your knowledge so people like me can see and understand the ways of refining in a safe ( as possible) atmosphere. Your backup carrier should be in a podcast. You have clear and awesome voice for it ! Stay safe and keep your videos coming! Robert from Colorado.
Thank you for another one!
It was great to see the Mrs’ side of the business!
I love how she told you to "hurry up" and then left you behind. She's awesome!
They don’t call her “speedy” for nothing.
It was nice to see Mrs. Sreetips in a video of yours . She is the bargain hunter so cool . And SO2 precipitation is my favorite way to watch .
Mrs. Sreetips reminds me of my Mom. On a mission to get specific stuff .. thanks for sharing! You both are amazing people!!
Love seeing you guys out on the hunt together. Best gold bars poured on CZcams!
awwww mrs sreetips accent is so cute. being a southern boy from mississippi but living in LA, her accent just warms my heart haha
She’s Southern Girl.
Your videos are mesmerizing. I think I've seen them all.
Mrs. Sreetips is a nice addition to the show! 😊😊😊😊
Mrs. Streetips seems like such a sweetheart. you guys make a great team
She’s the best thing that ever happened to me.
I would LOVE to see more of the gold hunting. That is a completely different skillset I would enjoy learning!
I've been a Chemistry teacher for 30 years, and am impressed with your old school lab technique! Curious what the costs are on your consumables. Would wager the money is made when you (or Mrs. Sreetips) BUYS the raw material! BTW, beautiful wife you have there! She seems like a go-getter, and was first in line! Never seen such a line at an estate sale! Thanks for the content!
Your first sentence has piqued my interest! Do you have examples of some of the techniques Sreetips uses that are done differently in today's labs? Aside from a couple of things I'd to slightly differently, his procedures for refining gold seem as optimized as possible. He looks like he could do it with his eyes closed. Working in a longer fume hood that's not as deep so that there's no risk of knocking down glassware in the front while you work in the back would help. So would using a spreadsheet to calculate automatically how much silver is needed for inquartation. And lastly, I prefer using an electric kiln and melt powder or granules directly into the mold instead of using torches in a crucible and having to pour the ingots, but that's just personal preference.
When I pulled in from being out to sea, she would be the first one on the brow as soon as they let family members come on the ship.
The refining cost less than fifty bucks all-in. Not counting the gold.
@@Alsacien The old school guys know how to get good results with a basic equipment and a minimal amount of technology. Take that away from a lot of the younger generation, and they're lost. Many rely on apps/programs to do their calculations, and have lost the ability to do much of it on their own. Many younger guys don't have the innate 'feel' for the lab work. Technology CAN be good for making things more idiot proof, but it also has a way of breeding better idiots. lol The less they rely on themselves and the more they rely on technology, the less in tune they become with hands-on work.
@@n2omike Thank you for expanding on your original comment! I'm not exactly young anymore at 40, but I'm a big proponent of spreadsheets, with the caveat that people should build them themselves to demonstrate that they understand how everything is calculated. It's such a powerful tool. I'm with you on Sreetips' technique! The man operates his wash bottles with the fluidity and precision of a ballet dancer. And I haven't seen him break glassware, spill something or even have a runaway reaction in forever.
Mr. Spiteers, you make it look so easy.
Thank you for sharing your labwork with us.
I would have never known any of this without your great channel.
She's a rockstar! Behind every good man is a better woman. Congrats on all these years with her, Senior Chief.
I watch all of your videos, I sure wish I could do that because it's just so interesting, and ending up with pure gold and silver is just an added treat after carrying out the interesting steps.
As an antique dealer that deals with jewelry, the jewelry piece were worth so much more then the gold. This breaks my heart! I can’t even watch.
We’ve tried to sell as antique pieces. But they just sit there until the price is lowered to down around their gold content. This has been our experience.
Thank you Mrs. Sreetips! It was great seeing you in action. Finding those treasures. You definitely are amazing at finding them. I hope to see more of you in the future videos. 😊
I guess a good analogy for how the inquarted gold reacts with the acid to free up the pure gold is like a chocolate chip cookie dropped into milk. The cookie (silver) dissolves in the milk (nitric acid) and the chocolate (gold) is left behind.
Good analogy.
Many thanks to Mrs. Sreetips for taking us on her journey. Does Mrs. Sreetips do anything else to help out with the process? Ordering/collecting consumables or glassware, filming or editing, maintaining the silver cells, etc. You two seem to make a great team.
No, her passion is finding a good deal at a local sale. She’s obsessed with it. But she hates refining. I have a passion for refining Precious metals. I can’t not do it. But I’m not to fond of digging through peoples stuff to find a bargain. We are the perfect match - opposites attract!
@@sreetips I suppose she has more than enough to be getting on with anyway. You two are a great team.
@@sreetipsthey don't make them like that anymore! 😂
Love seeing the start to finish,, thanks!
Thanks for the alchemy lessons!! Best wishes!
That was a beautiful refining, thank you!
Nice! Did really well on scrap cost, around $500. Final gold value was approximately $1500, after subtracting out the 4.2 gram 24k button from earlier video.
If you look, you’ll see the seller hand me a bag with unidentified metal in it. It was not marked. He asked me to take it home and check it for him. I did that and it turned out to over 16 grams of 14k gold. I sent him another check for five hundred more.
Still, that leaves about 1k profit
@@sreetips I would love to see a video where you break down the finances. Most of that equipment looks relatively inexpensive but it all adds up and the chemicals as well. I suspect the chemicals are mostly cheap but the last time I bought muriatic acid I was shocked at the price of drain cleaner. Also, where do you sell the finished gold and do they take you to the cleaners with commissions and claims that your gold isn't pure or stuff like that.
that's $1782.80 as of today's gold price.
SO2 precipitation never ceases to amaze me. It's like magic that anyone can perform (with the proper safety equipment).
Awesome .. and the outro was absolute gold.
Too cool. I wish I could do this. Fascinating.
Hi Sreetips,
I really like your “new” way of precipitating gold with the gas flow! It is mixing it up a bit!
But is there benefit in doing it this way besides that it looks way cooler?
Greetings
Stephan
really liked the addition on how you guys purchase the gold (the estate auction)
fascinating ..
Another beautiful bar. Love the gas precipitation, always comes out "chef's kiss"
Love you two!
This liquid dropper seems much sturdier than that fragile glass thing you used before. I used to hold my breath when you placed that fixture at an angle in your fume hood!
Thanks for another interesting video.
Just show how important it is to be experienced in this field like Mrs Tips .Enjoyed this video .Great team.
I haven't started this video yet, but I bet this is Mrs. Sreetips in her element! Like a kid in a candy store! Like a 40 year old female at a New Kids on The Block concert!
She loves getting a good deal at a sale.
Would love a video of you dealing with the waste beaker soon just to see how much is stuck in there
That’ll probably be next.
Awww,, what a great Finder,,! Mrs Sreetips knows what shes doing, Great job,, and Thank you for your Navy Service,,
Very cool chemistry at 24 min and a perfect pour,
imagine seeing a piece of jewellery that was sentimental to you just melted away.
It’s all on loan to us. We’ve got to leave it all behind someday.
I love watching your wife get right into the action. She definitely has a good eye. Well done to you both. And thankyou as always to a great show.
Paddy down under 🇦🇺👍🙏
Mrs Sreetips is a beast! (That in the UK is slang for bloomin amazing) You got a good woman there Mr Sreetips :)
When you guys go to an estate sale like that is there any bargaining involved when it comes to the prices marked or if you buy a lot they give you a break? Or are they usually firm on the marked price?
Depends on the seller. Some will haggle, others won’t. These guys usually will.
Mr. Kevin, I just felt it necessary to point out that Mrs. Sreetips is absolutely beautiful!
Strongly agree!
Very good sir! God speed always! Bless you both eternity 💟
Thanks. I had been using sulphuric acid and adding sodium nitrate and was wondering why it was taking so long and not completely. Inquartation to 25% (6k).
Such a beautiful gold bar and Mrs Sreetips sure does a great job on finding precious metals and jewelry at sales. 👍❤️
Mrs. SREETIPS is a BOSS!
It is a privilege to have an expert like Mrs. sreetips.👑
Thanks again, your better half is a treasure to have. That's a nice bar of gold from scrap, well done both of you.
When u had fun in science class but never want further because of a learning disability ( written tests ) and watch you do a lot of cool things makes me wish my teacher took a little bit more time to see my interest in chemistry and try to work with me a bit more then some others in class. Some teachers can read kids and help them a bit more hands on and some just don't have the interest in seeing someone trying to succeed at something that just don't come naturally to then and they move on .iv been watching you about 3 years now and find it fascinating to watch and learn from u Sir . Thank you for what u do .
I got a “D” in the only chemistry class I ever took in high school fifty years ago.
Man, that's the prettiest bar I've seen you pour!
Sreetips adds Hydrochloric Acid to "Rehydrate" the dissolved gold from the Aqua Regia. Now I haven't taken chemistry since high school 32 years ago and am wondering will it produce an Aqueous Solution?
Ms sreetips is hitting them out the park she has a good eye for the gold thanks for sharing this with us six stars my friends
As far as the nitric acid boils go I always thought of the karat gold as bricks that the acid can't penetrate to get the silver, etc. out of the gold.
When you inquart gold with sterling silver (or copper) You turn that 14k gold into 5-6k gold and that solid, impenetrable brick becomes a loose, open sponge that the acid can get all the way into and do its work. The sterling becomes the "air pockets" of the "sponge" if you see what I mean.
The ring got very tiny pits from what base metals were present on the surface. The nitric ate that away and took the shine off the gold. "That will buff right out." lol
Mrs. Sreetips is good to us and she has fun doing it. It's nice when someone not only enjoying their hobby but at least making a little money doing it. 🙂🖖
It's good to see Mrs. Sreetips do what she does!!
I bought my estate from an auction company. Nice Work Sreetips 🤠 I'll take it. All of it 😁 the whole estate.
Nice!
Such a useful video tq so much
Not sure how much the total loot was .... but that gold bar is $1767usd. Not bad
Fantastic Mr and Mrs Streetips love your videos and Mrs streetips is a fab gold hunter you make an exellent partnership keep up the good work 👏 best wishes from Andy 🇬🇧
Definitely made some money on that shopping trip. Great video.
great video again, what acid did you put into your sodium metabisulphate gas bubbler. also what did it cost the boss to buy the gold at the sale? what sort of profit margin did you make 👍
Sulfuric acid. I don’t know the profit margin until I sell it. And I’m not selling my gold if I don’t have too. So for now, my profit is in gold. Plus, I converted failing paper dollars into highly valuable GOLD.
Thanks for a peek behind the curtain at the sale. Excluding time and consumables 24 g the 14k gold gave a 3x ROI. Combining the other items would theoretically pay for another vacation?
It’s like picking up real money off the ground.
The light is great. But depending on the angle, the glare on the breaker was strong. Maybe a more overhead position would help?
I like ur videos. U should do a video with rams chips with sulphuric acid then process the gold. I bet it would do well because its a popular topic in ewaste
I request more Mrs Sreetips, please. Maybe she could let us know what draws her eye first when she's looking at a display of jewelry?
She can spot an over looked piece of karat gold at ten paces.
Mrs.Sreetips! Wow I absolutely love her brother! Mr. Sreetips you've done well!
Do you ever use Sulfamic Acid during your Aqua Regia step--to neutralize the HNO3--and to generate H2SO4 to precipitate lead and silver?
I recently stumbled across several forum members who have been using that instead of the boiling step to clear their solution of excess nitric acid.
I have sulfamic but rarely use it. I’ve come to prefer nitric dosing and evaporation.
@@sreetips Are there any significant pros or cons to using it versus evaporation?
I like evaporation because nothing gets added. Adding sulfamic could introduce contaminants. Sulfamic is faster. But you got to do it while it’s hot. And adding it too quickly could boil over.
That bar is a beauty SREETIPS 👍👍
I've been wondering why you add the silver. Finally it makes sense.
Beautiful! :)
You pour excellent quality bars!
Very nice! Was your fume hood making noise?
I had the volume control set too low for part of the video new the end, by accident.
She's the best
This is so precious 😊
I recently read on the gold refining forum you could precipitate gold with UVB the same wavelength your body uses to bio-synthesize Vitamin D and the same one melanin (the pigment in your skin that makes it dark) blocks which I thought was very interesting I believe that's the same one that does all the damage to your DNA if exposure rates are high like in the case of germicidal lamps
I didn’t know this.
Great video! Ive been watching your videos for years and have always wondered if a beaker with gold in solution is so much heavier than a regular beaker with water if it is jarring when you go to pick it up because of how dense it was. This happened to me on a subconscious level the first time i picked up a silver bar or gold coin so i wonder if it happens when the denser metal is in solution?
Yes, it is heavier.
Hey Sree! I have not commented in a while. I have been thinking about giving my testimony to congress about UAP's... however, I think you nailed a shtick with content showing your estate sale and what the outcome is with your recovery. Looking forward to your future videos! Mrs. Sreetips seems like a sweet woman. Lucky man! Take care, and I look forward to years of videos to come!
Unidentified Ariel Phenomenon? You have experience with this? I wish that had.
@sreetips Well shipmate, I'm not going to jerk you around. I don't know the true depth of the phenomenon and how our government morally did this to their citizens. It is 100% real.
As a different procedure would it be possible to dissolve the carat gold in Aqua Regia as a first step. Then precipitate out the metals in the usual way. Then do the Nitric boils on the precipitate to remove the unwanted metals.
No,
The silver would become silver chloride and precipitate out, making the solution very difficult to work with.
Thank you Mrs. Sreetips
Some of those almost 4 grams may have ended up in the beaker you pour off the precipitated gold rinse solution into. It looked like it you didn’t let it settle after rinses and that solution was brown. Just giving an idea of where to look for it. I know you plan on recovering those at a later date, but nobody wants to be wondering where their gold went.
Would it be a good idea to test for silver when you're last nitric boils are colorless? Didn't you used to do that with ammonia on a small sample?
Yes, it can be done with a few drops of hydrochloric acid will form silver chloride. Ammonia tests for copper in solution.
Great video again! I wish ms sreetips would chance your wedding ring for 6K once. What a video that would make😂
Mrs sreetips looks so cute I know she is a sweetie
Nice bar! Decent return for getting up early!
Thank you for this beautiful and informative insight of how you find the raw material for your refining!
In my country it's pretty hard to find some gold under spot value because nowadays pretty much every shop is acid-testing every piece they handle.
But today was my lucky day, first I found 6 silver medals stamped 999 fine (185 grams in total) for 61€ ($ 67) and later on I got a 1915 Danish 20 Kroner gold coin containing 8 grams of fine gold for 31€ ($ 34). This is the first time in over 10 years of coin collecting, that I found a genuine gold coin for less than spot value.
About the 999 fine silver medals - would you keep them as they are or refine them even further? (There is no numismatic value to them)
Best regards!
It’s out there. Most people have been conditioned to believe that paper is more valuable than gold. They will sell you their gold, at a discount. I’d keep any minted coins that contain a known quantity of gold. And truthfully, you can keep karat gold just like it is. It value will track right on up with bullion. So long as you don’t try to “melt it down” and ruin the markings. No need to refine it. I only do it because I love it.
Mr. SREETIPS would pouring the Incorded gold into ice water help to get the micro explosion? To get it in the finer pieces that you've talked about before.Just wondering I don't have the ability to test the hypothesis. But I have noticed it's alway the first bit that dose it. When the water at its coldest
The smaller the pieces, the better.
You’re welcome, the pleasure is mine. If anyone is wondering what the best metal detector is look no further than Mrs. Sreetips, unfortunately for us she’s off the market (and priceless). NICE HAUL Mrs. Peters!!! Thank you Sir! 👍👍🤟
I had to laugh when Mrs Sreetips said, "Alright, come on". She means business. LOL!!
I'm disabled and cannot work, but I have a gift.
I can spot Gold when it's mixed in with costume jewellery. Not sure how the gift works, the Gold just seems to glow somehow.
So for the last 20 years I've gone out on my scooter, using buses and trains, to visit every fare, every bric-a-brac shop, every charity shop I can find.
Everytime I got to 200gm of mixed purity Gold I'd put it in my deposit box at the bank.
I can't get out as much as I once could, but seeing you on this channel, has given me the idea of purifying my Gold.
I have a back ground in chemistry so I have the lab skills. It going to keep me busy I have alot of bags to work through.
Thank you so much for the education, entertainment and inspiration you've given to everyone who views your channel.
We’ve learned to spot karat gold just by looking also. After seeing tens of thousands of pieces over the last two decades, it’s easy to spot. You don’t need to refine the karat gold. It will track right on up with the bullion. So long as you don’t try your melt it and ruin the markings. Then it’s value becomes questionable. If you do decide to refine then make sure and get a fume hood first. No way to safely do these reactions without one. I ignored this when I first started and now I have impaired lung function and blurry vision from the fumes getting in my eyes.
@sreetips oh for sure I need a fume hood + a lot of other PPE too. I think I'd like a gas monitor outside the fume hood just to be sure, NO2 is seriously toxic. I think the Germans considered it a possible chemical weapon in WW1.
The HNO3, HCl, H2SO4 and high strength H2O2 are all bad actors when it comes to your health. But I think the one's that people overlook are the metal salts. Mercury, chromium and cadmium being the worst.
Thank you for your advice and inspiration, I hope you both have a great day.
Good work, mrs S
I'd love to hear about your leads for buying gold and what your return (or expected if you sold) on it is.
The chemistry is cool, but the finances is what's interesting me right now: I know you're stacking silver.
I don’t think in terms of paper dollars. My profits are in real money; gold and silver.