I always enjoy the videos you share! Especially this one! Thank you for the in-depth instructions and why you repeated the process several times! I appreciate all you do! 👍
Reputable businesses aren't going to screw you over -- Trust takes years to establish, you can't even buy trust, it's got to be earned. Screwing around over percentages isn't worth one's reputation. You screw people over and you're google infamous.
@@sreetips hey sreetips! New in the business at 24 years old and looking to learn where to find scrap silver/copper and learn to have the eye for it. Any insights?
Yes - there’s no substitute for experience. Learn how to spot fake stuff, get up early, be first in line cause the metal goes quickly. Estate sales, yard sales, thrift stores, consignment shops. Hope this helps
@@OvechkinRbk9k yard sales are great place to start for picking up 925 stamped sterling silver I’m new to this (hobby may be a poor choice of word) but everything from computers to phones to random equipment have precious metals but you really need to be careful there are some stamps that look like initials next to the xxkt most of the time it’s actually talking about how and what it was processed and not good for scrap there is a book a lot of smelters/refiners say is the Bible for this I forget what it is hit there is a discord for all this if someone else’s sees this and can help out!
every time I watch one of your videos, I learn something new. Even if I have already seen the process in a previous video. Thank you very much, I have learned a lot with you
I love your passion and energy for refining. You have definitely sparked an interest in me and I'm looking to invest in some equipment in the near future close to my retirement. Thank you for all you do, I really do appreciate it!
Hey, have to say wouw, love the way you monetize the acid for the next process, thinking ahead is always a good idea, and the thoroughness of procedures are awesome, outstanding effort, nice one Streetips, excellent job.
I've got quite a good deal of rhodium and tantalum so I'm very grateful for your including their information in this video because now I know where/who I now can send that stuff over to !! Thanks bigtime streetips !!!
Great video Kevin! The last part with the refiner call was very informative. Question: When are we going to see another waste bucket refining? Want to see more Palladium/Platinum extraction from that!
Fantastic wholistic video here, Sr. Chief! Thank you so much for sharing your personal refiner contact with us out here, I'll likely need it in a year or so. I've started hitting estate/yard sales for deals to collect metals and will eventually be setting up for refining in the future. Currently trying to find the best way to determine whether these unmarked knife handles are plated or not, but thinking I'll have to just take the samples I bought and hit them witn potassium dichromate after filing down or cutting into them, per the video you talk about testing for plating. Already checked for magnetism and they passed that. Those knife handles with stainless blades are a bit of a pain in the butt since they aren't marked sterling like forks and spoons. (Please let me know if you'd prefer I drop the rank in comments... I haven't served in the military, myself, but my father was a SSgt/E-5 when he got out of the USAF in the early 70's and came home from Saigon, so I use it with the utmost respect and want to be sure it's received as such.)
I really enjoy your videos. They are very educational as well as entertaining. My hobby is metal detecting and I am an over the road truck driver. Your videos prevent me from going to sleep when I really should be sleeping. LOL. Keep up the great videos.
Could you take the powdered silver straight to the silver cell instead of melting it into larger granules? Is it too fine and might go through the filter cloth that you make the basket from? Love your videos. It is a fascinating process to watch.
I have that same #3 graphite crucible 18:47 It can crack if heated to quickly, so incrementally add heat over 5-10 minutes. I dont want to see that happen when you melt your cemented silver in the future. I recommend buying a salamander crucible they dont need any pre heat
Sterling silver, karat gold, inquarted gold, and last but not least, pure gold. You always have the prettiest colors in your videos. lol Oh! I was forgetting my favorite orange, chloroauric acid! Thanks, Sr. 🙂🙋♂️
Thank you sir for the info on where to sell gold. Right now I'm gathering gold after that the chemicals and tools for refining . It's going to be fun and as always safety is first. Thanks again
I've never refined or messed with gold at all... After watching a days worth of your videos, I literally feel like I could refine pure gold and even sell it!... The only thing I haven't seen is the calculations for how much initial nitric acid to use based on weight, or how much silver to add based on purity and weight.... Really educational.... After enough videos (a lot of fast forwarding) I can predict every move and I understand what I am seeing.
Have you ever tried placing a one of the rinses on the ultrasonic cleaner? Not poured into but just put the beaker on top of it? It seems like it could get into the gold or silver powder better than just a swirl.
One thing that stands out is how beautiful the pure solutions look, and I'll bet that the camera doesn't do them justice. Anyway, $14k for the bar at the current spot price. Not bad for a day's work.
Idk how I got here but CZcams blessed me. I wanted inform myself on precious metal's as I wanna expand my investing to not be 100% on stock's. This video and channel is awesome 👌
You're one of the few that add HNO3 a little at a time. I've been refining for years and have always done it this way. Why spend hours of needless "boildowns"? Recently I sold my Rh that I've saved through the years. A lot of jewelers used to plate Rh behind the stones to catch the light. Tho individually in very small amounts, through the years it built up. I even got it to melt using mapp gas fusion that took 3 hrs., 3 seperate melts. What fun. Goes to show ya anybody with a little common sense can do anything he sets his/her mind to do. My daughter follows in my footstep. Great Video. Look forward to catching more.
Richard, I know that I have rhodium in my wastes. I’m totally knowledge less about how to test, recover and refine rhodium. I’m running out of time. My daughter is into real estate and just bought some bitcoin. I tried to discourage her. But she’s just like me - stubborn streak a mile long. She won’t buy gold, listens to Dave Ramsey. But she’ll get the kind of expensive education that making unwise decisions brings. Congrats on your daughter following in your footsteps. I can’t complain, my daughter is doing better than I am and for that I’m grateful.
@@sreetips Most of my Rh was plated to the Au just under the diamonds,emeralds,rubies,etc. My refining method on scrap Au is a little but not much different than yours. I usually take the time to seperate the stone settings. Place these in Aqua-regia solution. As the Au dissolves the Rh will float around like your gold filled scrap floating on your HNO3. I retrieve them by filtering and place in a repository, where I'll try not to forget them for another 10 years. Yep, i had placed the marked container when i moved, in the garage. Oops! Any way we all make mistakes. Got 2 ozs. out of it. Something else you might consider is selling your brown powder Au to local jewelers. The ones i dealt with in the past would pay a premium on it. easy to weigh and mix for whatever their alloy. Easier to weigh powder than wire, plus they could make their own colorful alloys. They love it.
Rhodium has got ahold of me. Now I’m obsessed with recovering and refining some so I can make a video of it for my channel. Thanks for the info. I can tell when folks know what their talking about - and you’re one of them.
@@sreetips The best book i ever had for learning was the 1948 Chemistry and physics handbook. For some reason that book seems to be the hardest to find. Most of my experience came through the mining industry.Worked at Magma for a few years. Found Pd in Au alloy. People were selling there gold thinking it had Ag alloy. Proved with a paper trail how they were getting ripped-off. 1 ton of rock yeilded 7oz.Au 1oz Pd. Sold both as seperate elements. Most of the Rh i gathered thru the years was from behind the gemstones. It would float on the surface like your gold plate. By the way,a lot of older custume jewelry was plated with the same. Little known secret i just let out of the bag. Work with your refiner,some like it alloyed with Cu. It's rather unique because it depends on what it's alloyed with. Think of the tons of sludge those electrolitic cell produce a day at the big mining smelter operations. They all have the platinum group sister in them.
Woou! Sir I am very impresses with that wouenderful information. You are a Master never saw a perfect video like this I am glad saw it for the first time I am so much enjoyed and learn all the ditel. Thank you so much.
Great one thank you. I am buying a Water tote to make a fume hood with. 275-gallon acid resistant, it has a built-in drain system to a threaded pipe. It will catch all boilovers to a drainpipe into a waste bucket? Semi tailor for a lab. The walls are that government green.
Thanks for a new avenue to sell my dore'... I leach with eco-goldex e. and I am a fairly serious hobbyist leaching close to a half ton of trimmed ram fingers per day yielding appx 7 ounces per day. however you taught me to refine my personal stash with ar. thank you. you also taught me safety.. I dont like a.r. refining as I have had reactions go out of control. but I keep learning from you.
Hey Sreetips. I love your videos. I’m curious, could you use some of your cement silver to enquart the gold instead of purchasing silverware to melt down?
Not recommended. Palladium follows silver because it’s soluble in nitric. The palladium tends to build up in the cement silver if used to inquart. High concentrations of palladium causes it (the palladium) to get into the silver cell electrolyte. High concentrations of palladium in the electrolyte could cause palladium to plate out with the silver and contaminate the pure silver crystal. But contaminated silver is not the concern. Palladium is almost 80 times more valuable than silver.
8:33 I'm looking at the fill/rinse/wash cycle and wondering what kind of volume in a refining operation would be needed to justify the expense of having a process train in place? By process train I mean fill, drain and transfer lines into/out of a reaction vessel to reagent reservoirs, waste treatment and filtration stages. Just looking at the yield and admittedly not knowing the input, overhead and labor costs almost 8 oz. of Gold is a tidy sum.
So many steps , so so many, and dangerous, a new level of responsibility and respect for refining, I love the look of the Silver cell/ and the 5gal bucket of silver cement 💲💲💲I’m a silver guy, so many uses for silver it’s my favorite
@Owen the same way you would any other time. If ur adding silver to ur gold to incourt it using a furnace to melt everything would just speed up the melting process. That way you don't have to melt the gold then melt/mix in the silver
I always enjoy the videos you share! Especially this one! Thank you for the in-depth instructions and why you repeated the process several times! I appreciate all you do! 👍
Id be nervous af sending gold in, id probably have to go take it in person and wont let go of the bar til they give me the money lol
Reputable businesses aren't going to screw you over -- Trust takes years to establish, you can't even buy trust, it's got to be earned. Screwing around over percentages isn't worth one's reputation. You screw people over and you're google infamous.
One of my mentors used to say, “sooner or later, the refiner will end up cheating the customer.”
@@sreetips hey sreetips! New in the business at 24 years old and looking to learn where to find scrap silver/copper and learn to have the eye for it.
Any insights?
Yes - there’s no substitute for experience. Learn how to spot fake stuff, get up early, be first in line cause the metal goes quickly. Estate sales, yard sales, thrift stores, consignment shops. Hope this helps
@@OvechkinRbk9k yard sales are great place to start for picking up 925 stamped sterling silver I’m new to this (hobby may be a poor choice of word) but everything from computers to phones to random equipment have precious metals but you really need to be careful there are some stamps that look like initials next to the xxkt most of the time it’s actually talking about how and what it was processed and not good for scrap there is a book a lot of smelters/refiners say is the Bible for this I forget what it is hit there is a discord for all this if someone else’s sees this and can help out!
I appreciate how precise the language you use is. It's a lost art, using the exact amount of words to describe a process without over explaining.
Watching that SMB cloud roll around at the bottom never gets old streettips
every time I watch one of your videos, I learn something new. Even if I have already seen the process in a previous video. Thank you very much, I have learned a lot with you
Yeah that's awesome how you recorded the call and asked questions for everyone viewing. Thanks man
Really enjoy watching this channel. Makes me want to get into this as a hobby.
It never gets old watching gold drop out of solution
Precipitated gold is probably the sneakiest way to hide it in your gardening gear...
@Sreetips what a wonderful service to demonstrate the process of dealing with the large refiners! Thank you 😊
I love your passion and energy for refining. You have definitely sparked an interest in me and I'm looking to invest in some equipment in the near future close to my retirement. Thank you for all you do, I really do appreciate it!
Thank you for sharing your unselfish skills and knowledge and of course your buyers details. That is very kind of you. Much appreciated. Cheers.
Always enjoy your videos! Thank you!
Phenomenal job with this video. Highly professional as well as stayed interesting throughout. Keep up the great work!
Absolutely love love love this stuff, Thanks man!!
Loved the info at the end. It was great to see you call a place and get a feel for how to finalize the transactions if you have precious metal
I love how the top looks when you keep the torch on the pour out
You are such a great teacher. Thank you.
So nice of you for publishing info about your buyer. Continue doing a great job 👍
That was awesome, very informative. I really appreciate your time, you answered many of the questions I was wondering about. Keep up the great work!
I don't care what anyone says... You are hands down, the best. Fantastic video!!!!
Hey, have to say wouw, love the way you monetize the acid for the next process, thinking ahead is always a good idea, and the thoroughness of procedures are awesome, outstanding effort, nice one Streetips, excellent job.
Thank You Sir for the Refiner's Info...You just saved me who knows how many hours of time in trying to find a Fair-Priced Refiner! Your the Best!!!
I love those poor pour lines on your melts. Good info to know if needing to sell or exchange.
It's shrinkage, happens when it cools down.. tucks inside.
I’ve watched several of your videos and they are very educational and interesting
That is one huge beautiful solid bar of gold you produced Sreetips. Cool stuff bud.
I've got quite a good deal of rhodium and tantalum so I'm very grateful for your including their information in this video because now I know where/who I now can send that stuff over to !! Thanks bigtime streetips !!!
Like tantalum capacitors? Tantalum is worth a fortune
This channel is the best source of free entertainment during a pandemic....and it’s educational as well.
Thank you for these!
Here you are still watching it.
Great video Kevin! The last part with the refiner call was very informative. Question: When are we going to see another waste bucket refining? Want to see more Palladium/Platinum extraction from that!
Coming soon!
thanks again for all of the information!!!!
Fantastic wholistic video here, Sr. Chief! Thank you so much for sharing your personal refiner contact with us out here, I'll likely need it in a year or so. I've started hitting estate/yard sales for deals to collect metals and will eventually be setting up for refining in the future.
Currently trying to find the best way to determine whether these unmarked knife handles are plated or not, but thinking I'll have to just take the samples I bought and hit them witn potassium dichromate after filing down or cutting into them, per the video you talk about testing for plating. Already checked for magnetism and they passed that. Those knife handles with stainless blades are a bit of a pain in the butt since they aren't marked sterling like forks and spoons.
(Please let me know if you'd prefer I drop the rank in comments... I haven't served in the military, myself, but my father was a SSgt/E-5 when he got out of the USAF in the early 70's and came home from Saigon, so I use it with the utmost respect and want to be sure it's received as such.)
SSgt= E6...
Great video, especially love your gold refining vids thanks
Great videos and very informative! I love that you take the time to explain the process.
Wow, incredibly informative. Well done and beautiful results.
I really enjoy your videos. They are very educational as well as entertaining. My hobby is metal detecting and I am an over the road truck driver. Your videos prevent me from going to sleep when I really should be sleeping. LOL. Keep up the great videos.
Keep your eye on the road man. Truckers are the life’s blood of this nation. I salute you!
most excellent video, Sr. Chief!
Always learning, thanks .
Could you take the powdered silver straight to the silver cell instead of melting it into larger granules? Is it too fine and might go through the filter cloth that you make the basket from? Love your videos. It is a fascinating process to watch.
I have that same #3 graphite crucible 18:47
It can crack if heated to quickly, so incrementally add heat over 5-10 minutes. I dont want to see that happen when you melt your cemented silver in the future. I recommend buying a salamander crucible they dont need any pre heat
Thank you excellent video
Thank you Sreetips for your honest content 👏
Sterling silver, karat gold, inquarted gold, and last but not least, pure gold. You always have the prettiest colors in your videos. lol
Oh! I was forgetting my favorite orange, chloroauric acid!
Thanks, Sr. 🙂🙋♂️
Excellent thumbs up thank you for sharing this information
Thanks so much for the awesome videos and great information ☺️
Excellent
Sreetips you're the best and thanks for the information Sir...
wow another great video sir love it thanks for sharing..
New bench jewler thank you so much for this video. Love the ddg cover.
Excellent, thank you
Best orange soda channel on yt!
One of the best most informative videos I have seen thus far and with the added info for the refiner just proves to me this is the best method. JMO.
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Thank you Sir...
I really liked the unintentional tree ring pattern on the Gold seen in the Video's thumbnail. 👍🏻🙏🏴
Great, thanks for the tips. great job.
I re coated my wedding ring with gold thanks to you!
Thank you sir for the info on where to sell gold. Right now I'm gathering gold after that the chemicals and tools for refining . It's going to be fun and as always safety is first. Thanks again
I've never refined or messed with gold at all... After watching a days worth of your videos, I literally feel like I could refine pure gold and even sell it!... The only thing I haven't seen is the calculations for how much initial nitric acid to use based on weight, or how much silver to add based on purity and weight.... Really educational.... After enough videos (a lot of fast forwarding) I can predict every move and I understand what I am seeing.
Calculating how much silver to add is just basic math. The hard part is acquiring the scrap gold for refining,
Awesome information sir. U are great ❤️🙏🏻
Thanks for your service!!!
Thank you!
Have you ever tried placing a one of the rinses on the ultrasonic cleaner? Not poured into but just put the beaker on top of it? It seems like it could get into the gold or silver powder better than just a swirl.
Thank you!
Thank you
Nice video , thanks .Great work .
Excellent video with Excellent info!
Have a Great Day My Friend!!
One thing that stands out is how beautiful the pure solutions look, and I'll bet that the camera doesn't do them justice. Anyway, $14k for the bar at the current spot price. Not bad for a day's work.
Such a phenomenal video thank you for your information I will be contacting them
Idk how I got here but CZcams blessed me. I wanted inform myself on precious metal's as I wanna expand my investing to not be 100% on stock's. This video and channel is awesome 👌
I've done the same thing with other companies. The process is as smooth as sreetips showed. I shipped scrap jewelry from California to New York.
Excellent educational video on refining gold and precious metals
I see experiance in this video. Good job sir.
Thank you very informative
Thank you. I really had no idea what to do with it except try ebay
You're one of the few that add HNO3 a little at a time. I've been refining for years and have always done it this way. Why spend hours of needless "boildowns"? Recently I sold my Rh that I've saved through the years. A lot of jewelers used to plate Rh behind the stones to catch the light. Tho individually in very small amounts, through the years it built up. I even got it to melt using mapp gas fusion that took 3 hrs., 3 seperate melts. What fun. Goes to show ya anybody with a little common sense can do anything he sets his/her mind to do. My daughter follows in my footstep. Great Video. Look forward to catching more.
Richard, I know that I have rhodium in my wastes. I’m totally knowledge less about how to test, recover and refine rhodium. I’m running out of time. My daughter is into real estate and just bought some bitcoin. I tried to discourage her. But she’s just like me - stubborn streak a mile long. She won’t buy gold, listens to Dave Ramsey. But she’ll get the kind of expensive education that making unwise decisions brings. Congrats on your daughter following in your footsteps. I can’t complain, my daughter is doing better than I am and for that I’m grateful.
@@sreetips Most of my Rh was plated to the Au just under the diamonds,emeralds,rubies,etc. My refining method on scrap Au is a little but not much different than yours. I usually take the time to seperate the stone settings. Place these in Aqua-regia solution. As the Au dissolves the Rh will float around like your gold filled scrap floating on your HNO3. I retrieve them by filtering and place in a repository, where I'll try not to forget them for another 10 years. Yep, i had placed the marked container when i moved, in the garage. Oops! Any way we all make mistakes. Got 2 ozs. out of it. Something else you might consider is selling your brown powder Au to local jewelers. The ones i dealt with in the past would pay a premium on it. easy to weigh and mix for whatever their alloy. Easier to weigh powder than wire, plus they could make their own colorful alloys. They love it.
Rhodium has got ahold of me. Now I’m obsessed with recovering and refining some so I can make a video of it for my channel. Thanks for the info. I can tell when folks know what their talking about - and you’re one of them.
@@sreetips The best book i ever had for learning was the 1948 Chemistry and physics handbook. For some reason that book seems to be the hardest to find. Most of my experience came through the mining industry.Worked at Magma for a few years. Found Pd in Au alloy. People were selling there gold thinking it had Ag alloy. Proved with a paper trail how they were getting ripped-off. 1 ton of rock yeilded 7oz.Au 1oz Pd. Sold both as seperate elements. Most of the Rh i gathered thru the years was from behind the gemstones. It would float on the surface like your gold plate. By the way,a lot of older custume jewelry was plated with the same. Little known secret i just let out of the bag. Work with your refiner,some like it alloyed with Cu. It's rather unique because it depends on what it's alloyed with. Think of the tons of sludge those electrolitic cell produce a day at the big mining smelter operations. They all have the platinum group sister in them.
Woou! Sir I am very impresses with that wouenderful information. You are a Master never saw a perfect video like this I am glad saw it for the first time I am so much enjoyed and learn all the ditel. Thank you so much.
awesome that was nice to watch enjoyed it 👍 😊👍
Appreciate the video, i learned something, and have new questions to ask.
You can ask them here.
*Very* nice content, thank you sir!
Great one thank you. I am buying a Water tote to make a fume hood with. 275-gallon acid resistant, it has a built-in drain system to a threaded pipe. It will catch all boilovers to a drainpipe into a waste bucket? Semi tailor for a lab. The walls are that government green.
Excellent video.
Thanks for a new avenue to sell my dore'... I leach with eco-goldex e. and I am a fairly serious hobbyist leaching close to a half ton of trimmed ram fingers per day yielding appx 7 ounces per day. however you taught me to refine my personal stash with ar. thank you. you also taught me safety.. I dont like a.r. refining as I have had reactions go out of control. but I keep learning from you.
Excellent
You're a fabulous alchemist WOW! very useful info I salute you...
Do you process/ adjust Ag addition for white, yellow, rose, etc gold separately? thinking of the Pd/Ni in white vs Ag+Cu in yellow or just Cu in rose.
Sree has done it again. Excellent video.
Thank you for the educational video
Wow. I don't do this sort of thing, but your videos are amazing
TOP NOTCH INFO TOP NOTCH PRODUCTION, START TO FINISH. I GOTTA SAY IT, THAT'S REAL CLASS:)
Do you use distilled water for you ice cubes? And thanks for the viedo.
Hey Sreetips. I love your videos. I’m curious, could you use some of your cement silver to enquart the gold instead of purchasing silverware to melt down?
Not recommended. Palladium follows silver because it’s soluble in nitric. The palladium tends to build up in the cement silver if used to inquart. High concentrations of palladium causes it (the palladium) to get into the silver cell electrolyte. High concentrations of palladium in the electrolyte could cause palladium to plate out with the silver and contaminate the pure silver crystal. But contaminated silver is not the concern. Palladium is almost 80 times more valuable than silver.
8:33 I'm looking at the fill/rinse/wash cycle and wondering what kind of volume in a refining operation would be needed to justify the expense of having a process train in place? By process train I mean fill, drain and transfer lines into/out of a reaction vessel to reagent reservoirs, waste treatment and filtration stages.
Just looking at the yield and admittedly not knowing the input, overhead and labor costs almost 8 oz. of Gold is a tidy sum.
Very informative, Thank You :)
Best Channel ever 🤜🏻🤛🏻
Good stuff man Thanks!
Thanks for the great videos! Now Subscribed!
Excellent, thank you
Super interesting, also seems to be super addictive as well lol , awesome , very informative 😉
Awesome video sir!
Thanks Great info. You are a class act!
That’s awesome you showed how you sell your gold. Those are great rates compared to some I’ve seen.
Refiners always pay the most
very nice video , alot of details
Great job!!!
So many steps , so so many, and dangerous, a new level of responsibility and respect for refining, I love the look of the Silver cell/ and the 5gal bucket of silver cement 💲💲💲I’m a silver guy, so many uses for silver it’s my favorite
This video just made me lots of money. After my first sale with aragold, I will be looking to donate to your channel.
Y not use the furnace to melt everything at once
@@dominiccoletta1823 how do you seperate the metals with a batch melt?
@Owen the same way you would any other time. If ur adding silver to ur gold to incourt it using a furnace to melt everything would just speed up the melting process. That way you don't have to melt the gold then melt/mix in the silver
Excellent, thank you
WOW GREAT SHOW!!!
I love this show.