Gold From Black Sand Using Mercury And Nitric Acid
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- čas přidán 24. 03. 2018
- Do not try this at home. Today I show you my process of recovering gold from black sand using Mercury and Nitric acid.
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Imma try this at home! And while waiting for the mercury to amalgamate with the gold, Imma run around the yard with scissors!
Please don’t 😂
Klesh's Labratory... Klabratory. Nice video Klesh, good fun. :D
LOL Thanks for watching!
Awesome video as always. I learn so much from u Klesh.
Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed it
Great video I have been wanting to try this after watching you do it I can see it's not worth the trouble. Thanks for sharing.
where do you get your black sand? I live in Arizona and have so much black sand in the river bed behind my house.
Wow this video beats all other videos that I have seen by 2 country miles. Thanks for sharing this video & all of your time
Thanks for the compliment, I enjoy making these.
My son and I love your channel! We live in Castle Rock so he recognizes some of the places you go and thinks that’s so cool. Keep up the great work! Pro tip for everyone. Firehouse Subs sells their pickle bucked (5gallon) for 2 bucks! That also includes a water tight lid!!
Thanks for making this video Klesh! I Definitely Won’t be trying this at home! To dangerous and to much hassle with dangerous chemicals.
Mark from Melbourne Australia
im in Pueblo and excavated rocks under my 100 year old house. aparently i have a couple bits of granite with gold or copper in them. would this he a good method? i have my explosive/ ammo manufacturing license so i can get nitric acid with no questionable reason
thanks for doing this...do you know if you can run the mercury in a metal cement mixer? like if the mercury sticks to the metal of the mixer??? THANKS!!!
The mercury will stick to copper and possibly other metals, so personally I wouldn't do it unless it was totally contained and specific for mercury use. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching!
yes you can use a cement mixer but you won't be able to safely run anything else in the mixer...the mercury will be in the walls and its wicked to clean...vapors, gas, absorption...you
Thanks for the video, I thought I wanted to do this until I watched the video, but not really into playing with mercury. However, I wondered if just washing black sand with Hydrochloric Acid may release some bonds to gold as well. Has anyone tried the acid wash only, and if so, were you able to recover any gold from your black sand? Just curious, and thanks!
Great video and great explanation! I definitely enjoyed watching this. On your way to becoming Klesh'sLab haha. Take it easy my friend.
Nice, best video lately. Think I will build a retort.
Love the Video Shane. Yeah and if you had all the cell phones in the world you would more gold than the US. Extracting it is the hard part and time consuming. Cant wait to see that Video..Thanks AL
Wow yeah i bet all the cell phones in the world have more gold than the US. WIll be working on that project soon, thanks for watching!
Interesting video Shane. Thanks for sharing
If I add to the soil with gold, does gold appear alone after a while
I love this vid klesh 👍 well done mate 👍
Thanks man
Great bideo and experiment!! Thanks for sharing!!
Love the insight & info. Awesome video
Thanks for watching!
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I'm glad you showed how to do it but I will stick with a magnet, followed by a blue bowl over a nugget bucket much easier. Great video and glad you were safe.
Thank you for watching
I always wondered if you could find more gold underneath where a culvert begins? I watched some of your older culvert videos. Maybe the heavies drop down before the culvert. Sorry off subject.
culverts are great places to find gold; sort of like using an abandoned sluice box
Amazing Video Brother Thank You So Much
is smaller mesh of black sand increase chance of gold finding say u mill it till talc powder consistency?
Probably but I’d guess not enough worth the effort.
Interesting process. Cool video. Cheers
Pretty cool, informative video. Good stuff!
Thank you
great video shane. way to much work for me. I put the black sand in the tomato plants they love it
Very interesting information. Really like the channel.
That brown smoke will travel downwind and create acid rain. But not much.
What is the molarity of your acids?
Good info. Thanks
Yeah love ur videos, I pray 1 day you hit the jackpot, as you seem like a very Genuine Man, love the way that you always mention SAFETY, This is spot on. Good Job, hope you find some nice pickers or nuggets, Mark.C.
Thanks Mark Cloud chaser glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Mr Wizard 🧙♂️ i have heard of this process now i know how its done Awesome Video Mr Klesh thanks for sharing an NO I'm not gonna try this at home lol
Keep pickin & grin en 🎸 Rusty & Luke 🐶 👍 #94 ✌ till your next video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
4:48 forbidden chocolate milk
Anermaly
This one was a very interesting and informative!
Thanks glad ya liked it
does the copper rod take all the mercury? Is it necessary to distill the remaining liquid? Does the mercury disappear completely with baking soda? do you answer
Yes I answer. I don't know since I stopped doing this process years ago, sorry
soiummetabisulphate also or urea, reverses much like bicarbonate soda as you used, seemed golden was that copper?
Thank you Leslie Jones!
Hi Shane
Thanks for sharing your gold recovery process.
Cheers Tony.👍🍺⛏🇦🇺
THanks for watching!
Great video as always.
Very nice video!! What strength nitric acid do you prefer?
70%
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Awesome. Video you are right about the nitric fumes a little bit won't kill you but a decent lung full amount will . question does the recycling center charge for taking the waste I know here in pa its 20$ for 5 gallons
Yeah it's about the same here in Colorado
great video...very informative. Thanks!
Thank you
Great Video man
HNO3 is not to be casual around. Use baking soda to neutralize the HCl, best to do it under an exhaust hood. Hang plastic on your kitchen hood to help draw it, even if it dumps out the top in the kitchen it is being both diluted and reacted while its moving and not going into you directly.
You have invested so much in materials , you should start refining.999 gold! I enjoyed watching this, great job and : DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!!!!
Culd u use a magnetic seperator to seperate the mercury and the black sand
Interesting information. Thanks for the video. Looks like it's cheaper for me to crush my sands and pan them. :-)
Yeah it's definitely not cheap but it was a fun experiment. Thanks for watching!
Very interesting!
Thanks buddy
That looked like a lot of work with nasty chemicals , but still looked kind of fun
Thanks for the informative video. I was wondering what was involved. I think I'll be selling my black sand though. :o)
Safe to say that this process would work for gold ore that was crushed but with micro-gold that is too fine to pan or recover in more traditional ways? tnx
Mercury will make any amount of gold into an amalgam over time, but would be safer for you and the environment to do it traditionally.
@@Klesh How the Mercury or Nitric acid uses in hard rock gold mining?
Great video as always. But I have a question. With the health risk and all the chemicals why would you process the black sand?. Doesn't seem worth the risk and expense.
Just for a video experiment. Don't try this at home.
@@KleshBut why would all the black sand be held on to if it's not worth it? I wouldn't try this, I do enough dangerous stuff. Like drive through Pheonix traffic.
@@Klesh my son and I are wanting to do a paydirt bag. What company would you suggest?
Great video! I will not try that at home! 😊
Reading about the lode mining operations in Alabama where they would run the material over copper sheets covered in mercury that they were notoriously inefficient and would lose as much as fifty percent of their gold in the process.
I agree Douglas Ives, and thanks for watching!
Very Interesting AWESOME Bro,
Thanks!
Hi .
M akash
I have some amount of gold with sand but it's weight is less than black sand .It moves with water . How can I separate it ?
Kindly inform me .
I have a video showing this process czcams.com/video/tU6gQSGSw_A/video.html
I'm like 99% sure that I used to live in the same apartments that u live in I honestly think that used to be my appartment that your in now so crazy I love your videos and thank you for all the knowledge brother keep doing what u do I would love to be able to prospect with u one day. Bobby from az
These videos were from when I lived at the Highland Point Apartments, i was in apartment #207. I had that info public and would get people sending pizzas and stuff, which was nice, but also freaked me out so now my actual residence address is private and instead I use a PO box for fan mail etc.
@@Klesh I could see why that would be kinda scary to have someone that's famous like you to have your address public and I did live in that exact same appartment about 9 years ago it's like on about Alameda and chambers right around there correct? Anyways thank you for actually responding to me I never have gotten such a quick and actual like real message from anyone on CZcams so that was awesome shows that you really do value your fans and your not fake.
Nice clean job. No mercury hazard I could see.
You are quite the chemist, i would never go that far even if I could!
I don't use chemicals any more but this was a video that needed to be done.
Thank you i totally enjoyed the video
Thanks Elise T glad you enjoyed it!
I always wondered how well that would work. Looks good but I think I'll stick to my borax method.
Yep, not too difficult but kind of expensive. Thanks for watching!
Hi there, awesome videos, I've got a few requests... People think I'm crazy, but there's different types of black sand depending on where you are located. I get pickers out of my black sand(I get what you got, out of 1 tablespoon(not a pound) of black sand from northern Georgia) I also use a tumbler and reduce to -200 mesh and it's really hard to rinse, but its necessary to do so or the mud will harden into a rock again. - can you PLEASE make a video on charging mercury using as many methods as possible; metallic sodium? 12 volt car battery? 9 volt(fire alarm)? I saw a video on charging mercury using as device which reversed the polarity + 18 volt car battery... My chemist person said you can dissolve the gold out of the black sand by chemically liquidizing it, is that cyanide? There's supposed to be a chemical in production in south America which works like cyanide but is environmentally friendly.....?? Our clubs placer property is where I get it there's plenty of mercury there too. Theres a few weird spots where the tailings have degraded & the black sand crumbles in your hand into a rusty mess...??? HOW? Some sort of extreme oxidizer? WHAT? I have collected more black sand than I can process within my lifetime at my current rate of speed. - CAN YOU PLEASE go to my channel: BLUNDERBUNK urban prospector, and check out my QUICK video to verify that THERE ARE PICKERS IN GEORGIA BLACK SAND? & I'd like to send you some or meet up with you this may when I come out for 14er season & drop some off to you. You got a po box address?
Hi I looked at your video and see you found some gold in your black sand, nice job! Must be lots of magnetite and hematite there in N. GA. I don't know any other ways to chemically extract gold, just my way. I know there's other ways I just don't know them so can't make a video on those other processes. I do have a PO box address listed in the description of every video. Thanks again for watching -Shane @ KleshGuitars
I just found a shelf of black sand in a wash created by new construction. I need to figure out safe ways to separate the gold.
When you showed the cost of materials needed to perform this process....that was pre-use costs? So , how many pounds of black sand can you process with the materials purchased?? is it really cost effective to do so.?
The mercury can be re-used many times, and you don't need a lot. The nitric acid will also last a long time, I used a very small amount as well. If you're running a lot of black sands and plan on repeating the process yeah it will be cost effective for sure. If it's only a small amount of black sands a few times, I'd just throw the black sands away and save the money.
I did learn something! I will never do that. Best left up to the experts for sure! Lots of hazardous work and cost. I will have to find my own gold nuggets! Lol
Cool thanks for watching!
If I had read things correctly from some books, I think you saved enough black sand with gold that you should be to re-pan a large amount of it in a pan which you should be able to pan out more black sand and concentrate the gold further. Then you should be able to put some mercury into the concentrated gold and absorb all of the fine gold making a gold/mercury button. Then do the acid process with the button to devolve the mercury leaving behind the gold.
Correct! Thanks for watching
Crazy dangerous! But cool to watch.
Definitely fun too, glad you liked it
Can I raise the density of mercury?
Cool video klesh
Thanks for watching!
Always wondered how to do the mercury shtuff. I'm to clumsy. I gotta stick with the ol elbow grease extraction
Good choice, I never use mercury or those harsh chemicals any more
Great video
Thank you Pedro Zuniga!
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Not to worry, I wouldn't try any of this at home. I'll leave it to the master Shane Klesh who knows what he is doing. Thanks for sharing this interesting video.
Good and thanks for watching!
no he does not
Hi....hopping wel very nice video
Do as you oughta, add acid to watah!
u dont need to strain it through pper towel , just usig nitric acid does the trick , the mercury disolves and leaves the gold behind
That's true but I like to conserve as much as possible. Thanks for the tip and thanks for watching!
youre welcome. i like your videos, i just thought thats an unrassary step that might confuse your viewers
Thanks prospector_pete glad you enjoyed it!
i like all yr videos
Wow it worked, I don’t think I’ll try it though but great to learn something new, ⛏🤪
Thanks for watching!
15:41 was thinking that car honk was outside my house.
Back in the 60s we grabbed the gold in mercury until it was in a ball just smaller than a golf ball (7-8 days worth). We cut a potato in half, hollowed out enough for the ball then put it in a pan on a camp fire until all the mercury was gone and you got this weird looking round thing. We did not go near the file! This is obsolete now. Don't try it.
You can crush and pan the baked potato after and recover your mercury also
So basically you need to have a dump truck load of black sand in order to get any cold that is worth anything the reason I ask is I have all of my Blacksands over the last few years but this seems like a dangerous and a bit stressful process to do just to get nothing back if that makes sense
Yeah the more black sand the better.
Science with Klesh
Indeed it is
Good video, informative. I toss my blacks away. Yes heard in gold bearing area encapsulated gold, but not worth extracting it. Was tossing sulfides/pyrites until I gave some guy some, he got gold. Now I'm trying to figure out that. Thanks for taking the time.
Thanks for watching
Love the backyard mad scientist show. Great video.
+4+
Thank you
Good idea thanks
Thanks Ririn Andriani for watching!
Every day is an adventure. Didja get the staaach out?
Gotta get the Staach out!
Do a huge amount of black sand this way! It would be a awesome video when you got a lot more gold
I'd like to but really got away from using chemicals in processing material anymore.
@@Klesh I hear ya there! Sketchy stuff
Interesting.. though the way I saw shown was to use a copper pan and spread a thin layer of mercury on the pan with water then add the cleaned back sand, I have never seen the mercury separated in a paper towel it all goes into the nitric acid then using aluminum foil to get the nitric acid to release the mercury after the reaction is done with the foil your pour off the acid and you have liquid mercury sitting in the bottom of the beaker instead of scraping it off of a copper rod
Yeah it can be done many ways. This is my way, uses the least amount of chemicals
Ahhh I get it.. thanks for the feedback
Neighbors porch just below
Lol
Wait'll you see tomorrow's video. LOL
Cost of mercury & chemicals used higher than value of gold recovered ?
Yes
Seems like a good family activity. Where can I find the hydrochloric acid?lol
Link in the description for Hydrochloric acid :)
chemical storehouse
Im justjoking guys. This is about the opposite of a family activity.
Hi Shane,Great video,Very informative,Thanks.
Thanks chris.
Too much toxic work for the R.O.I..
Thanks for taking one for the team.
Where do we can found black sand?
In the river I find it usually behind boulders, and on the inside bend of rivers, the same place gold is usually found. Black sand is a great indicator in a river of where the gold is hiding! Thanks for watching!
Smart man
Thank you Gezus Bravo!
Yep, you're a good panner.
You don't need to use straight strength nitric acid. Use 2 parts water, 1 part nitric. Heat to about 150 F until fumes stop. Puts merc in solution, then use strips of ordinary al foil. Will drop HG out of solution. This method is the traditional placer miner's method. Works fine. Save on your nitric acid cost. AL is cheaper than CU.
Good Idea David Howard! Thanks for watching!
I wonder if you can get the Mercury out with a magnet? My old boss used to save all the Mercury bulb thermostats, break the bulbs and keep it in a jar and sell it to some business. He accidentally broke one and it spread all out like little BB's all over. He took a magnet and it picked every bit up and he put it back in his jar. My Science teacher got silver out of Silver nitrate using a copper plate. He said he used to get it from X rays and film developers back when they still developed film. It was pretty cool it attracted to the copper and looked like little Icicles Of Silver.
mercury is not magnetic...want to pick up mercury...use activated charcoal; and use the gloves strictly made for handling mercury...will set you back about $20.00...
Someone broke a thermometer at my high school and they closed the school down for a week to clean it up
Mercury! Scares the heck out of me!!
That's true!
The nitric potentially dissolved some gold into the liquid you poured off. After you separate the mercury from it you should test it by adding stump out to it to see if gold forms
Don’t forget to denox nitric before precipitation.
Complicated, would it be worth it economically consider time chemicals & waste disposal?
Maybe, depends on how good you are at separating your gold from black sand. If you're good at it, might not be much gold to process.
Makes sense. You seem to do a good job separating
Good Lord that's a lot of work/risk for a tiny reward.