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DIY Treasure: Copper Smelting for Fun and Profit
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- čas přidán 4. 08. 2022
- Uncover the secrets of backyard copper smelting and turn metal into money. This video will show you how to turn green rocks into valuable bullion with easy-to-follow instructions and expert tips. So if you are looking for a new hobby or a side hustle, smelting copper can be both fun and profitable.
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It's amazing how much Copper you can get from crushing and smelting down a small rock of Malachite ore. If anyone has a better way of doing it, please leave us a comment on how to do that. PLUS - all the Copper we smelted down today we will be giving away ....how do ya like them beans. Next, we will turn that Copper into Gold using the Philosophers stone ....stay tuned .
THERE YOU GO BOSS!! LETS COPPER!!!!!
In a previous life I sold air pollution monitoring systems to a smelter in AZ. They have some of the scariest smokestacks I've ever been up! 🤠
@@motokenzo763 Intresting, I remember as a kid seeing active chimnies but not anymore! Thanks !!
I think if you heat up your molds the bars will come out better.
Could you use electrolysis to remove the copper
Heat the mold red hot before and during the pouring, the shock of heat difference is minimal.
Try skimming some of the slag off before you pour.
Sreetips has a torch aimed into the mould as he pours the metal in it keeps it right up to temperature till the end of the pour.
Copper boils way faster than gold, sreetips melts gold or silver only.
I agree I have better pours and avoid fast cooling I also use a bigger mold it doesn’t have to be filled to the top a 5oz to 10oz molds are nice and they avoid spill over
not really I have been melting and don’t have problems
They say you learn something new everyday, and today I learnt all about copper. Loved it. Thank you so much Jeff. Years ago I can remember watching my dad melt down lead to make fishing weights. Always fascinated me. But, through dad's work trade, he ended up with severe lead poisoning! So, whenever he melted down lead, he had to drink a pint of full fat milk. This helped to neutralise the lead in his system. He's nearly 83 & having radiotherapy treatment (had 3rd dose today) but he does buy the fishing weights instead now!! Many thanks for all your hard work Jeff. Much appreciated. Take care.
thats great Sue, you betcha and you too
Wtf is great bout what Sue said. You fw
Man what a great video!
That sound at 7:30 is so cool
Hey Big boy! It's me Dave from Florida! I love the fact that you are doing videos again, anything you do is cool with me!
Everybody needs at least one dude like this in their lives
I love this guys energy!
Thank you for sharing brother God bless! 👍
thanks
I can't wait to come out there & hunt for heavy elements.
All these years and you're still making great, entertaining videos :)
thanks
To get a decent looking bar from metal, you should get your mold hot enough that it glows and keep it there until you are finished pouring, this allows the metal to stay liquid for longer so that bubbles rise up and out, and the liquid is able to level off. You'll still likely get some defects from the bar shriveling up in the cold, but it'll shine up very well.
I've seen other people also sprinkle some powdered graphite in their mold when they pour in their smelted metals. Does that make a significant difference?
@@dionh70 If you are using a steel mold or similar, it helps improve the finish and release of the metal, but if you use a graphite mold it's made of the stuff.
The preheating technique is what Sreetips uses on his channel, he usually uses map gas or acetylene
And if you cool the bar slower the wrinkling will be less significant
Haven't seen you in over a year bless u jeff
thanks
I used your Parkes process from a long time ago. It worked perfectly
Great to hear!
Many years ago, I visited a copper smelter in upper Michigan. They poured the copper into molds made of copper. Immediately after the mold was filled, the whole thing was sprayed with water. Shortly after, the ingots were solid enough to be dumped out of the mold into a pool of water. The ingots were quite nice looking, being only slightly discoloured. Possibly a mold of the same material resulted in the ingots being so nice,
So I'm back on the Patron list! Yeah!
Thats Great Ronald
And thank you enough you are the man I like all your educational videos thank you thank you Jeff for taking the time to do that there's people out here that that really love that profession and are just learning and thank God it's through you good man
You are so funny! Awesome video to learn what smelting is 😊
Goldurn it Crushinator, jump! No Pa, I love him.
Thanks for your hard working friend Mr Jeff.keep up
You are very welcome
damn, that's some pretty green rock
Powder!!! Let’s Goooooooo!!!
This is great. This guy is great and heck think i learned something! I gotta see what other videos this guy has!
Great to see Jeff up and about, don't care none, just the smelting of mental is enough to get my AU boiling.
Very hot mold 👌with a bit of graphite or sawdust to eat the oxygen and stop sticking 👌
Ok, that was just great. Thanks, Jeff.
Grinding it up is the answer Jeff.
Another fantastic video .......goot job.
If anyone knows how to cast nice metal bars it will be the Australian guy from the bigstackD Casting YT channel. He made an art out of making metal bars from all sorts of scrap metal. He also shows how he does it, and how he gives the bars a nice finishing polish. I'm sure that if you watch his videos that you can learn from it. And besides that it is a joy to watch his videos.
I agree 100%
I think it’s New Zealand…but Aussie still I guess…
I like it when Jeff pretends his a novice, he explains "see the mistake" I made, so, other words, don't go be a fart smeller and do this here at home kids, thermal shocking, water vaper creating bubbles in the cast. If anything, it's being in a hurry, having stage fright to perform in front of camera lences in a timeous fashion and not the fact that he does not know. OH he knows, OH the humanity...take 6...
Yup, he's good
I asked BigstackD to do a copper ore video a couple of years ago , as far as I know he still hasn’t done it . But I am more than happy to be corrected. Well done Jeff for doing it .
This exciting and extremely cool! Thanks, now i know the ancient secrets of working with semi precious stones.
Just the man I needed to see. Go Go Gadget information 😂
You gotta eat the beans first! That’s the secret to a good pour! Thanks for the fun content and the knowledge!
I knew it ....thanks
Smelting is so much fun!
Was working with copper all day and was wondering the smelting process. Loved the video and answered my questions!
Glad I could help!
This was a fun video!
Great video! Can't wait for Jeff to make a video on how to make gunpowder out of sulfur rock and charcoal, hint, hint!
and Potassium Nitrate
@@Askjeffwilliams Yessirree! That stuff doesn't grow on trees!!😄
Very cool. Great information my brain will forget
Glad to help
Jeff, you always make your videos Interesting, informative and fun!
I appreciate that!
Nice can't wait to hear from you Jeff so come on let's go
here I am sonny Jim
Thanks for all the education you've given me over the years bub
you betcha
Cool! I recently collected a small pile of Malachite I may try this !
Awesome video! !! !!! !! !!! ! ! ! ! !!! ! ! ! !!!
Looking good ☺️
Come on, let's go!!!
Another cool video JW! Have a great weekend!!
thanks and you too
Great video Jeff. i am in process of crushing the copper ore i got from the old mine then gonna smelt it.
*Very interesting Jeff Williams 🙌👌☺️*
Yes,I smashed it 😃
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Awesome Jeff!! I know where some is at! Thanks for sharing video, this'll is definitely being saved!! All the best to you and family!!
thanks ...there is a mine full of it called Copper World
I like the music too.
Thank you for posting this video it was only the other day I was asking you about the blue Rock
and here it is
I live in Nevada and I have alot of those rocks on my property. Thanks for the tip
You bet!
Good information
Hi Mr. JEFF, (and Slim)
Post bar making you can use tomato paste to clean copper. The acidity of 🍅 🍅 🍅 cleans the bottoms of my copper kitchen pans quite well.
Worth a shot smart feller.
thanks
Looked a bit of gold in the chunky ✨️ they heat up the molds
Me likes that tiny oven. Great heater to cook the Bush's. Oh and a power goes quicker..................... Nope I was wrong.
I just came across this video and I'm so glad..Bro you're f*ckin hilarious....I'm talking seriously entertaining..Can't wait to watch more of your content !!
just keep them pants on ....we got more on the way
Yes!
Crushing the ore qill be a faster/better reaction because crushing the ore will increase the surface area exposed to the chemicals/gases during the reaction in the furnace.
Crushed easy one
What a great video Jeff. Very interesting to see this and that great ripper shout out, at 58 seconds. And the extra funny stuff…. The ear guy and the “what’s that?” guy.. love watching.
Glad you enjoyed it Gary
Thanks Jeff, I have a few good copper vain’s on one or two of my claims. I haven’t done anything yet the copper yet. Because I wasn’t sure how to smelt it out. So thanks again & please keep the videos coming.
you betcha
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Thank you! You too!
Another great one
Thanks again!
I did just the opposite a while back. I turned copper into it's salts with different acids. Fun times!
Jewelers Cloth, to shine up them bars! (And gold!)
Loved the whole process, Jeff. Very informative, couldn’t turn it off if we wanted to.
thanks you two
I own a copper mining claim right in the northern copper belt of Namibia . I’m definitely going to research and try this
Good afternoon from Northern Wisconsin.
afternoon
We had silver and copper mines here in my region in Slovakia - where mining ended around 1789-179x...
Also, great beans!!
2 things for a good copper bar: 1: you gotta top it off with flux when you reheat it, and 2, then you reheat it in the mold [typically in a refractory/heat-treating type oven] and let it sit there at the melting point for 2 hours, then really slowly let it cool back to at least the freezing point before letting it completely cool outside of the kiln/oven.
thanks
when we were purring molten chocolate in the mold we tap it so that the liquid gets settled all around and the air bubbles go away. dont know about copper but it works with choco 😁
Thanks Jeff I have copper all around me I'm going to refer to this one when or if I start 👍🙏
Thank You for that Harles69 , we really appreciate it
Nice video bud I go up to copper country quite often... Aka the keweenaw peninsula of Michigan... Going to have to try some of the techniques you use in your videos
I love this kind of thing. More flux chemistry is more better!
Very interesting video Jeff we really liked this one, so we smashed the flux out of your like button!
Thanks so much
Smashed the flux! Lol! Why did I find that very tongue in cheek? Or is it just my way of thinking 🤔?? 😂 Hope you're both keeping well over there my lovelies & not too hot 🥵 Stay safe.
The mineral itself is more beautiful, and in my opinion more valuable than the garbage piece of copper you get, besides all the process needed and cancer from the dust. Nice and informative video anyhow.
I'm a fart smeller when it comes to smelting jk I haven't even coated my foundry yet and it has almost been a year .many if I find some green rock it will motivate me. Thanks again for the vids
Smash it!!!!!
There's something you put in molten copper to keep it from absorbing nitrogen. Grant Thompson struggled with that. I know copper is more common and less valuable, but that color has got to be the prettiest and most unique in the periodic table. It all deserves to be cast into cool steampunk-looking machine parts or something.
thanks for sharing
My pleasure
Exalent super 👌 Sir
You can also use a piece of cardboard under the crucible to keep it from sticking. (Tip courtesy of a BigstackD channel subscriber.)
awesome sauce
😋
52.5 gms WOW TOO COOL! If and when I find precious metals, I’ll leave it to the professionals Jeff
The bullion pit ! 👀
Awesome
You can put cardboard under your crucible if you don't have bone ash. It forms a thin layer of ash. Cool!
Get da coppa raw hide hahaha hey Jeff
I must say, my blackberry, apple & elderberry pie looked like that today. Cooked it too long lol!!
Smashed the like button so hard, it triggered an Advil commercial.
hahhahahaha I saw that
@@Askjeffwilliams
Next’ll be an ad for PANTS!!!!
Awesome video old son .. 🤘😎
Thanks 👍
Addrock and bigstackd use cardboard under the crucible when firing copper to stop sticking must just be that ash that stops the sticking if you need to penny pinch 👌
exactly
Get a Propane Torch like a Bernzomatic TS8000 (Swirl flame version) and lay it flat flaming the mould from above while you get the crucible so it keeps the mould heated, and keep it going on the bar surface during and for 4-5 seconds after pouring. Slows the surface cooling of the bar. Same method to get smooth PGM bars
Sweet ⛏️
Thanks Jeff🤪
you betcha
What up Jeffery
Scott here
Hey, that's awesome, beautiful stuff. Thank you for sharing that smelting fun.
I'll tell ya what though, it looks freakin hot!
Oh that's right, it wasn't hot at all, due to the cozy weather. Lol Hilarious!!🤣🙂
hahahahaha thanks
hello friends good video greetings from traditional Indonesian gold miners👍🤝🔔🇮🇩🙏
Hello 👋
Heat the mold before and while pouring. That way material doesn't start solidify immediately, when it hits cold mold. Flows much smoother.✌️😎
Sweet