Electrolytic Silver Cell Cranks Out 100 Ounces
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- In this video I harvest the pure silver crystal from two runs of my electrolytic silver cell. One run produced 1.7 kilos of pure silver. The second produced 1.5 kilos of pure silver. Combined, they produced a total of 3.2 kilos of investment grade, high purity, three nines plus, pure elemental silver metal. That’s over one hundred Troy ounces of high purity silver.
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Always a pleasure to watch a modern day alchemist at his craft, i hope that you are inspiring future refiners.
Alchemist?
He has inspired me!🏆
@@PetraKann yeah... the term should be chemist. there's extra aluminium in there (AL chemist... get it? lLOL).
I’m getting there. Starting my fume hood build out soon. Safety first! 😉👍
Most definitely =)
As a metallurgist, your silver cell is a thing of beauty :)
All that dendritic silver looks like coral :)
Interesting how coral belongs to a small, but important group of organic gemstones.
it looks so awesome
They know, They don't want people to do this. Thats why we see? The silver compounds like AgCl etc that are abundantly found, are priced as near to the cost of pure silver.
Those silver crystals are always stunning and that timelapse of the silver cementing out of the electrolyte was brilliant. Very nice. 👍
Love the videos. I’d really love to see a closeup of the silver crystals, when the electrolyte is drained, but it’s still in the stainless steel container. The natural formations would be sick to see really zoomed in
I havent been around much, Mr. Sreetips, but I'm glad to see you're doing well
The cement silver Timelapse is always one of my favorites
It was so beautiful watching the time lapse showing the silver growing on the copper cylinder. I'm glad you got a great yield too. Those silver crystals were stunning.
Man I love the time laps, it is so cool to watch
Looking at that silver after it's been cleaned and dried is incredible, I could stare at it for hours.
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Goooood evening!
I tell everyone about you! You do such great work and always make sure things are perfect! Im really looking forward to creating my own silver cell so i can make stuff for my family for Christmas! Everyone gets a silver coin!
God Bless you sir & I hope you have a Great day!🙏🌞🌞🌞
I am always amazed at your chemistry skills. Merlin and Leonardo davinci were both alchemists. I think you are beyond them. Fantastic video. Love your work. ❤keep them coming my friend
Da Vinci was never an alchemist. Indeed he denounced Alchemy which is a false science. Alchemy relates to transformation of one element to another which is impossible for normal precious metals.
Sreetips is just using simple chemistry to refine or concentrate existing metals, removing the impurities.
Alchemy and refining chemistry should not be compared or even mentioned in the same sentence.
Enjoyed every second of this. Pretty awesome and educational.
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. I have see you harvest the silver crystals' many times,but i never get bored to see you doing it.
God bless you Sir🔥
It's amazing to me how much silver comes out of the electrolyte solution. Even more so since you just said that you dilute the solution before cementing it out!
Honest money in an easy to weigh and divide form! Silver cells for everybody! Thanks for helping us learn how to set one up.
If only everyone on Earth knew this!
Every time I watch you do this, I just think "it's so pretty!"
These are the coolest videos!!
Silver has got to be the most fun in refining. I like tinkering and I see this as a great hobby.
This looks like such a satisfying way to stack silver. I'd probably be obsessed with finding the perfect box that could fit exactly 1 kilogram of crystals perfectly. Either that or smaller boxes that could each hold 20 troy ounces. Then I'd be compelled to buy more boxes than I could ever possibly need just to make sure that I'd never run out, even though that would be a good problem to have, just like running out of space in your safe.
Knowing that you refined the silver in your stack yourself must be incredibly satisfying as well. I like my coin tubes full of American Silver Eagles and old French silver and gold coins, but you're stacking on a completely different level.
Really cool, man.
Sweet it's always a awesome thing to see how much silver that you get from the silver cell thanks for sharing this six stars brother
Awesome video brother. Nearly finished building the brick and mortar building to house all the lab ware. Fume hood going in next. Looks like setting up the silver cell should be the first priority as I have over 10 kilos of dirty silver. Brother you kicked stated my lazy arse. Not going back to work for a while so I am just going to concentrate on getting it right safely. Regards from England brother stay safe see you in the next episode. Thank you for sharing the knowledge safely
Hello Sir, hope you're well. Love the video and great harvest there! I would also like to see you demonstrate silver chloride to metal using the sulfuric acid and iron technique some day :)
Great video. Still hoping for you to crank a 100oz silver bar in that furnace.
Yeah. I really want to see that too.
Beautifull! Now pour a huge silver bar 😍
What magnificent return on the by product of your gold refining..🎉
The cementation time lapse, never gets old.
I love the new scale. 🤓🙃🐕🐶
Ten bucks at the flea market.
Cool to watch. Thanks for sharing.
Wow look at those long strands of silver! I have a jar of sterling silver scrap from my silver work I think I’m going to give it a try! Like always great work I really enjoy your experiments!
This is on topic… If you make a hopper to keep the reservoir filled with silver shot via gravity feed {fancy word for a funnel} you could optimize efficiency and not worry about refilling during runs. I’d love to see this modification:
That’s ingenious, excellent suggestion.
@@sreetips so can you actually make jewelry out of that? excuse me for my lack of knowledge in this field, but could you actually melt that down and make a silver chain or is it normally mixed with something else another type of metal per se?
You’re welcome. A great, short(er), video that fits my budget. I held a 100ozt .999 bar the other day, strangely, considering where I am, the bar is from a foundry in Canada and was purchased there for substantially less than where my friend is from (and we currently are). Its purpose is for smithing. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
it's so satisfying to watch the silver cement out onto the copper and fall off and build up in the bottom of the beaker
Only word is beautiful good sir. Just beautiful.
Super cool. Might try this some day for grins.
Maybe a packed column of Ag crystal can be rinsed with a continuous flow of hot distilled water. I think you'd generate less rinse water to achieve clean Ag crystal.
Congratulations on your excellent work, another possible test to see if there is copper, nickel and cobalt left in the rinses with hot distilled water is to add excess ammonia solution to a sample. If there are any of these 3 cations, the ammonia solution should take on a slight color. blue or greenish.
Yes, I’ve used that test to detect copper. It’s very sensitive.
Thank you for sharing with us. Nice Work 👍 Alchemist
Never have enough silver to keep mine rollin lol
It's occured to me several times watching your videos that you could use some stainless steel sivs(SP?). There are various sizes that are sold in most housewares departments meant for grease splatter (covering skillets when frying). But YOU could repurpose them for pouring waste liquids through without loosing ANY solids......and they're cheap.
sieves
His rinsing method seems perfectly adequate. It would be hard to hold all that weight on one of those grease splatter shields and you would probably still have minuscule crystals (they're fragile and can break apart into very tiny fragments) that make it through the mesh. The loss would be minimal and symbolic of course, but every fragment of gold or silver that goes down the drain is a tragedy. ;)
Sieves....got it....thanks. On Amazon they're called "grease splatter guards". You could just lay it flat on top of the beaker you're pouring into and that would ensure that if a tragic "landslide" of solids were to happen when pouring off waste liquid it would prevent an awkward (and possibly dangerous) juggle AND/OR loosing precious solids into the waste container........maybe I'm just being obsessive but every time you pour off waste I grit my teeth getting ready for the inevitable disaster.....😜
Sreetips, @ 1:28 That has to be a truly satisfying sound scraping those pure silver crystals off the bowl 😄
Always good to see the payday you work so hard for!
Your silver 3/999 fine looks fantastic and gorgeous so so beautiful to c amazing 👏.
Im just waiting for you to get a stainless steel bathtub to use as your cathode lol, itll last all year before you need to empty it!
Those crystals are just amazing!
They really scream purity! Best way to show people that silver is a white metal and not a grey metal. :)
Awesome silver man!👍...
Get more silver yeah!🎉
There’s something so satisfying about watching him scrape the insides of the silver cell. 😩
Sir that was another excellent batch of silver crystals. Thanks again for the last video as well. ?’s for you. In the last vid, how far up the beaker did the runaway reaction get to at around 16mins? Also, was it because you had to refill the sepratory flask and had a faster flow? Ty once again Chief for getting back to us. 👍🤙❤️
It got about 2/3 up. It’s because I increased the flow of peroxide, too fast. Came back down as soon as I slowed the flow.
WOW so clean
Mooor vidéos pliiiiiiz don't stop watching you
I never knew that’s how miniature golf course water was made
Reuse the waste is necessary and smart
using it to dilute is smart. I was just thinking - I wonder if he boils down the waste waters to make processing it require less space.
Its like free money. Imagine if every knew how to do this out if highschool. Silver and gold!!!
Gold and silver are money. Paper dollars are a money substitute and require third party validation. Remove the third party and value becomes worthless. No so with gold and silver. They stand on their own as real money.
ohh really but I want watch more!! hahah it just getting good see all that silver crystal
Two beakers both alike in dignity in fair laboratory lay. One containing a copper pipe the other a heavy load of liquid. One wonders a the purpose of hoisting the latter high to pour vice dropping the former thence to.
1.5 k of pure silver is worth about $1,119.81 in the U S
I come up with $922 for 1.5 kilo at current spot of 23.29
I got 100 Troy Oz @ 23.10 is $2310.00 US dollars as of today.
I love how you have it down to the cent and say "about". 😂😂😂❤
And I know why by the way.😊
@@Michael-rg7mx Yeah. That's about right.
@@thisisbeyondajoke6748 you got me
great slow Mo nice silver crystals
nice job sir🖤
You should use those silver crystals to inquart gold. When you did the inquarting from your previous video. The gold came out beautiful.
I save the silver crystals and use sterling for inquarting.
You make it look so easy sreetips
Such a cool process! SCIENCE! 😂
@ sreetips I just cannot wait until you smelt all that silver.
Also make us some sreetip contest momentum coins for thee winners of a donate cash for a contest?
First, im curious what you do with all of the silver you harvest? Do you sell it? Second, I want to scrape the silver crystal from the stainless bowl. Looks so satisfying. ❤
1) Put it away and forget about it. I offer an ounce of crystal for sale on my eBay site. 2) it feels like scraping ice off of a wind shield.
Have you ever done 800 sterling with the nitric process.
Yes
NICE STUFF THAT SILVER IS.
IT PRETTY KOOL WATCHING IT CEMENT OUT ON THE COPPER
When do you know that there is no more SILVER in the solution. Does the blue color go away? Or does it stop collecting on the copper.??
The copper stays a pink color and no more silver comes out of solution.
Thank you for sharing the video. I'm curious as to why some silver bars seem shinier than others, despite all being made from elemental pure silver. I distinctly recall a silver bar refined with 'Lye' and 'Surge' that looked outstanding; it even surpassed the standard Electrolytic Silver bar in appearance. Could you shed some light on this?
I don’t know why
It has to do with the way the bars/coins are pressed.
Could it be that some of them are cast and thus smoother (leading to shinier surfaces) than their poured counterparts?
Possibly
Some of those larger crystals and cold shot would make really nice pendants. Have you ever thought about selling just them as they are?
Yes
Oddly satisfying watching the crystals get scraped off
Very cool great job be safe everyone
Is the yield of silver greater than the cost of materials to get it? If you're making a profit, then you're a genius 👍👍
I buy sterling silver flatware at estate sales. All the main estate sale people (those hired by heirs to sell their deceased loved-ones estate), they all know me. They know I buy silver. So they call me ahead of the scheduled date of the sale, if there’s a sterling flatware set for sale. I go and pay cash for the sterling silverware. I just bought a set last Thursday from an estate sale, got some gold too. I paid full price, 100% of spot for the gold and the silver. Why did I do that? Because the spot price for both gold and silver are grossly undervalued. But the seller uses the grossly undervalued spot price to determine their asking price. I don’t have to worry about trying to resell it to gain more “profit” in paper dollars, because I’m not selling any of my silver. I use the sterling to refine gold. I recover the silver from that process. Then I melt it into shot, run it through the silver cell, collect the pure silver crystal and put it away and forget about it. My intermediate goal is to accumulate one thousand pounds of silver. Save it for retirement. Silver is even more grossly undervalued than gold. Twenty to one, gold to silver ration, is the normal ration since biblical times. That puts silver up over a hundred bucks. They crush the price of the metals, with inflation (money printing). They kill the inflation hedge, with inflation. It’s brilliant. But it won’t go on forever. When that paper dollar finally fails (fiat has a one hundred percent failure rate) then the only asset class left standing will be gold and silver. How can this be? Because when Apple, Google, Amazon, the U.S. dollar, and all the real estate in the world are long gone and forgotten, crumbled to tiny gainers of sand, gold (and silver) will still be here. And they’ll both still be valuable. Get some!
are we getting a cementsilver shot relod video soon. was a long time ago i saw that video you must be running low with winter coming
Correct.
As much nitric acid as you use, could you get wholesale pricing?
No, I use six, 2.5 liter bottles of nitric every six or eight months, depending on the type of scrap I’m processing.
Why do you use boiled distilled water in the rinsing
Hot water dissolves impurities better than cold.
Hot water works better than cold at rinsing off the silver nitrate electrolyte.
Is this a hobby or your job? If you do this for a living how do you source materials to extract?
I’d hate to have to do this as my job. Although making videos has become somewhat like work, my “job.” But the actual refining is my hobby. I don’t refine other peoples material. Only stuff that my wife and I find at local sales.
Great video as always, sreetips!
I must have missed this, but at around 9:20 why do you store the silver crystals in diluted water before they're ready to dry off? Can they not be left exposed to the air to dry off?
It’s best to keep them covered in air tight container dry, or else they may discolor and start to turn a golden color from the air.
I would to have bag of those silver bars/sticks or strands or whatever ya would call it, in that batch of silvercell.
I’m always curious on what the roi is after the chemicals and what not.
Return on investment. I traded paper for silver. My return is the silver. I’m not going back to paper. I’m keeping the metal.
i have seen the video of the small scale gold eltro but i wonder if you could do a larger set up like you have for th silver just in gold
They are both the same principle, but different configuration. I plan to try another larger gold cell. It’s fairly easy to set up.
@@sreetips looking forward to that video
You are tru wizard 😮 Ilove all your videos I have some old cpus I would like to refine do you sell official sreetips bullion I would definitely like buy some thanks
I’ve sold some in the past. But with metal prices so low, it don’t make any sense to sell metal, if you don’t have to.
Excellent
I have a question. Had 3 years of college chemistry, so I know what your doing. My question is why? Intellectual click bait maybe?? A prospector or scrapper just isn't going to a full wet process if they don't need to. We get it to 90%, we sell it as "coin silver". Get it over 92%, we sell it as Sterling. As my old boss used to say "That's close enough for a market this size" ;) For instance, I take silver ore, burn it, then grind it. Then I melt about 10 pound of lead and pour the grind into the lead. The Silver will mix with the lead. Then a few candle shavings will float the impurities to the top to be latteled off. Then zinc powder to collect the silver and float to the top. Spoon off and repeat till no more floats. Then pour the lead back into ingots and put the zinc/silver goo into a crucible and fire it. Zinc evaporates and leaves the silver. I'm out maybe a few lumps of coal for the furnace, maybe half a candle, and 75 cents for the zinc pennies. Just the Nitric here is $75 a liter. Most who watch you are prospectors or scrappers, so why????
I’m not selling my silver, I’m buying. I use sterling silver to refine gold. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. So I had a ton of impure silver laying around. I recover that silver and cement it on copper. Its purity, and therefore its value, are questionable. So I melt it into shot, run it through my silver cell, harvest the pure silver crystal, then put it away and forget about it. Pure silver is much easier to sell. And the crystal is damn near possible to fake. I’m not in this to gain paper dollars. I’m in it for the metals. I own and operate my own central bank. My bank is on the gold standard and has only one customer; me. My deposits are backed by gold, unlike all other banks, who back their dollar deposits, with more paper (treasury securities). I don’t own a shred of paper. Except what I need to pay bills or buy food. If I get paid in dollars, I promptly convert them to gold, and silver. I’m not in these metals for a big pop, although there’s a high likelihood of that happening, I’m in metals to protect my savings from the ravages of inflation due to the money printers. If I need a little extra paper, then I can always sell a little of my metal. Gold and silver are real money, since biblical times and before. Paper dollars are a money substitute and require third-party validation. Gold and silver stand in their own. Long after all other forms of money are gone and forgotten, gold and silver will still be here. And they will still be valuable. Hope this helps clear it up for you.
is this the same silver that bullion is made of?
Yes
As much water as you use for cleaning probably need a way to make de-mineralized water
I use about twenty gallons per month. It was $0.99 per gallon for the last decade, until about last year. Went to $1.19 but today it’s $1.39 and rising (won’t be coming back down either). Why? Is it the greedy merchant trying to gain more profit? Has it become more valuable? Is it harder to get? None of the above. What’s happened is the currency (US dollar) has lost that much purchasing power due to money printing. And that’s not going to get reversed. A good reason to store your wealth in gold and silver. They can’t print more metals. As for distilled water, other than having to tote it in, it’s easier for me to buy grocery store distilled water.
@@sreetipsI had just figured that rising fuel costs would be the main reason distilled water is going up, water isn't light and it's hard telling how far they transport it to get it to the store, problem is that even if fuel prices go back down the price will stay higher once they know you're willing to pay more then it's just extra profit to them then
Love it
wow.. any idea still of what you spend making the silver? cmon man.. per gallon or whatver
No idea. I just bought a sterling flatware set at an estate sale on Saturday. I use the sterling to refine gold. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. I recover the silver and run it through my silver cell. Then I put it away and forget about it. Gold refining is my hobby. So I don’t track expenses for each batch. Besides, when I buy sterling at sales like that, it’s not an expense. I’m trading paper dollars, that are declining in value and purchasing power, for silver, that’s rising in value. Food, gasoline, clothes, rent, those are all expenses and you’ll never see another nickel. Not so when “buying” precious metals. My goal is one thousand pounds of pure silver. For retirement. And to pass on to my kids. So I have no clue how much I spent. Because it really doesn’t matter. Unless I wanted to immediately resell the silver for a “profit”. And I ain’t selling any of my silver.
AS SUGESTED YOU CAN USE THIS TO REPLACE THE EQUATATION 🤗
I need sterling silver I can hardly find any around me! I was using the same silver over an over to incort with
Platinum group metals will tend to build up in the cement silver when used repeatedly.
@@sreetips wat if I use hcl to precipitate my silver
Possible, then cement the traces of pgm from that waste solution. There are some who use this method. Silver chloride conversion will make very pure silver and could easily be used to inquart gold over and over. I just get a headache thinking about the gallons of waste that must be treated.
@@sreetips yea it definitely makes a lot of waste lol
I have a dumb question and please excuse it. Why aren't more people doing this instead of searching for 1960s half dollars. Obviously everyone doesn't have the knowledge or equipment but once you find out how doesn't this attract more people to it?
That’s not a dumb question. Here’s why: people are clueless about silver. They think it’s an investment. Silver is money, since biblical times, and before. Eventually, after the dollar is long gone and forgotten, silver will still be valuable. I’m up at 5am to go to an estate sale that starts at 8:30am. Why? So I can be first in line. Why? Because they are selling a sterling silver flatware set. And they use the grossly undervalued spot price to determine its sale price, plus a 10% discount! It’s a silver-buyers paradise out there. My goal is a thousand pounds of: SILVER!
Along the same lines as this person's question, and it also may be a dumb question... but how is this not considered alchemy? When I look up SIlver Cells, I see people saying it's only for refining and you can't get out more than you out in. Is that accurate, or are you truly harvesting more silver OUT than you're putting in (as it appears)? Thank you!
Love seeing the silver cement off the copper thanks for showing
@sreetips QUESTION: Why do you use melted/granulated silver instead of the raw cemented silver in your electrolytic basket? The cemented silver "powder" would give you more surface area for electrical conduction.
It clogs the filter
have you ever thought about selling some of the nicer formed silver crystals as indivisual specimens on ebay or other sites? there is a market for them.. the first micro mineral i ever bought was a natural formed silver crystal. just a thought perhaps!
Yes
do you already do this? haha if so link me please!@@sreetips
I have some silver crystal listed on my eBay site.
So my main and most pressing question, is can somebody explain to me if he actually gains in weight at the end of harvest compared to the total weight of silver at the beginning and necesary for the process to work?? Im confused slightly on what he starts with compared to the end product ? Is it misleading in weight gain? Or is it just more pure same amount ? Please anyone feel free to set me straight! Thx
No new silver is being created out of thin air. For every 100g of impure 98% silver I feed into the anode basket, I’ll harvest 98g of high purity silver crystal.
@sreetips thank you I didn't think so but I appreciate you taking time to answer back! Great content very interesting
Why doesn’t gold form crystals like those?
It does, but there’s a special process to get crystals of gold that look like this.
@@sreetips I wonder how gorgeous gold crystals are
Is there much difference in the purity of cemented silver versus electrolyzed /// apart from the obvious process and chemistry differences, what other reasons & considerations are there to use one process or the other?
Silver chloride conversion with lye and sugar will yield high purity silver without having to run it through the silver cell.
100 ounces a week? Sreetips is definitely building a solid silver toilet or something. Lol…
Make a 100oz bar!
Hi Sreetips! Curious if you ever test the rinse water for copper. I know it is so hard to get copper to rinse out well.
No
Thanks for the video