I like the new video format. Time lapsing through the boils and stuff. I love seeing it start to finish in one video!

You've given Stump-Out so much air time, they should be sponsoring you by now.

I learned today because of you that copper and gold both melt around 1950° and silver Below that at 1700° I always was under the Impression golds melting point was the lowest.

Remember the old days when your camera used to overheat all the time. 😆

This is so cool ! I asked you to inquart with copper again because it's the method i use (easier than getting silver). Thank you so much!!!

Mrs Sreetips, better known on the streets as "The Dragon Lady". A skilled early morning creature who feeds on precious metals for breakfast.

The clear golden colored Aqua regia is so beautiful.

You and the Mrs deserve every success in your efforts

I absolutely love to watch when you add the SMB and see the instant flashover . 😮

Gold (79), Silver (47) and Copper (29) are all transition metals in the same group on the Periodic table. All three metals share the same valency property of 1. (Gold also has a second valency of 3, and copper an additional valency of 2) Copper is a lighter element than silver but can be used to inquart Gold

Might be interesting if you start with a fresh jar of gold refining waste and track how many grams "shy" you are with each batch, then recover the gold from the waste jar and compare numbers. Did you miscalculate? Did you lose some somewhere? Or did it just get poured off into the gold refining waste jar and not make it to the melt dish.

Goooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night! Nice change of pace!

$6K bar Chief...WE did real well tonight! 😮😅...Lol...😂!!

Always loved that copper blue its simply stunning. Hope everyone has a lovely Easter.

Always add Borax to the final smelt Sreetips to slag out any minute metal oxidations in the glaze. Then Dremel the melt dish back to base and re-borax glaze!

Excellent result and a fine demo on refining with copper!

Although it is, as Mrs. Sreetips says, very competitive out there, the two of you are a truly scary-smart team that no doubt has the competition staring at the walls and muttering at the thought of getting out there and trying to do what you do. It's a genuine pleasure to watch and learn. This old black-shoe salutes you!

That rosebud tip at the end really gives a nice even pour and cool off. Keeps it looking like a mirror. 👍

Mrs. Sreetips & Mr. Sreetips, the dynamic duo of gold refining. team work makes the dream work!!

Just beautiful as always. I also love it when you drizzle the pure gold into cold water off the wet board, those sparkling gold nuggies are just awesome.😊

Had my second cataract removed yesterday and this time watching the gold was absolutely fantastic for sure, just Love your videos for sure!

Nicely done, as always. The ingot "set" nicely in the mould too. Had those little ripples on the top of it, looked totally sweet! 👏👏👏👍👍

Sreetips, you wife is awesome!!! I totally understand the secrecy but what about how does she value the items? Does she use a scale, also, is there a price she won't go over per K value? Thanks for providing the awesome content!!!! Happy Easter

That bar is a beaut - as nice a one as I've seen you pour. Your technique is really close to perfect for this!

Totally answered one of my biggest questions on the reasoning behind and science behind inquarting the gold and not just straight to pulling metals out as the gold sits! Awesome video again!

This is so therapeutic to watch...Many Thanks to You Sir!

Haven't watched for aaaages. So therapeutic watching you. Thanx darl for sharing your brilliance,, big kiss and huuuge hug to Mrs Sreetips.... she hunts allll the goodies for you to purify

That bar turned out beautiful! I think it’s your best pour yet.

Mr and Mrs Sreetips, a winning combination. Thanks for another great video and a Happy Easter to you both. 🐣

shoutouts to mrs sreetips for doing the legwork to get the metal for the content for the videos for the channel

I really liked this video! Kind of interesting to see the difference between using copper and silver for your refining.

Absolutely fantastic refining, Mr. Sreetips! That's a superb looking gold bar! And from just 1 refining! Now we're talking! Proper execution of base metal removal and gold rinsing prior to aqua regia really are the key to high purity gold. Thank you for sharing!

The early bird gets the worm 🪱 😅 Go get'em Mrs. Sreetips.

Hey Teacher thank you; I learned a lot from all you do for others. Once again thank you

I've been thinking about your video from a couple day's ago with the rose bud torch. Sometimes the line pressure could be too low/ high, causing a backfire. A dirty tip or a loose torch can do the same . I was a welders helper in my teens 30 years ago. Hope my foggy memories can help

Yes you must honor her wishes, Kev. Happy wife happy life 🤣🤣👍👍

Just a beautiful job as always. I do have a comment on the copper part of this video. I noticed a steam explosion as you were pouring the inquartated metal, that yielded "sand" in your water pot. If this is not something you want, (I hate that pop) warming the water will greatly reduce that kind of event. Just mentioned it because I have made a lot of copper shot like that in the last few years. I finally found out how to avoid it. Just passing that along.

Omg Mr.StreetTips, your amazing at your specialized skill! Been watching you for a number of years now. Seeing the refining progression through those years, hand been quite a pleasure!! Because back in the early days, things have 100% changed and the refinement process has gotten so much cleaner.. love the skilled work. Thank you. One day some day, I will work at your professional level? 😊😊

Excellent Video Sreetips 🏴‍☠️ Thank you for showing us the copper method. Very useful information. God Bless 🙏

Your content is top notch. I have watched a lot of your videos multiple times and in all of them, you drop so much knowledge it feels like a college level chem course. Keep up the good work! Plz drop more videos on your refining setup, and how to best set one up.

I would love to buy some of the stones you remove from the gold. I checked your ebay site and none were listed. You still rock thought!

Very impressive gold bar! Loved seeing the Rose Gold by using the copper. Thanks Sreetips

Great work, thanks for sharing.

Liked this slick speedier video. I have to say this feels to me like it was your best pour at the end. beautifully symmetrical and shiny as anything. A very pretty ingot. Well done, and good luck out in the wild to the hunter gatherer that is Mrs. Sreetips!

I can only imagine the collection Mrs. Sreetips has that she doesn't hand over for purification. A little reward for every now again on a great looking piece for all the getting up early to go to wherever it she goes to find all this material.

Thanks for the video as always. Looking forward to the silver chloride > metallic silver demonstration!

Wow, that is a stunning bar of gold. You are one of the few youtubers that listens to your subscribers, and I know you are a silver refiner, Thank you so much for this video, you are one in a million well done Kevin I love your work.

❤ the video! The Mrs. Is right. Keep it close to the vest. I appreciate you sharing your expertise.

I’ve watched quite a few of your videos like this one and it still blows me away. The way you can (in dum dum terms) boil up silver and gold and refine it to such a purity is super cool. I wish I had your talent, knowledge, and tools to do this myself. Would definitely make stacking precious metals way more fulfilling than just buying a silver round here or a gold gram there. To be able to point to it and say “I did that” would be a wonderful feeling

I always enjoy your videos and your knowledge. Thanks again my friend.

Your pouring technique and setup is pretty much perfect these days 👍

Awesome timelapse, the copper inquarted gold sure gave an angrier looking reaction. Third pass thru the filter really did wonders. Another spectacular gold bar. 👍🏻

"Mrs. Sreetips has been at it -again." 😂

You're like Mr. Wizard if he had to get all his supplies from storage unit auctions. 🤘

You are welcome. A nice result from the efforts of Mrs. Sreetip. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟

Senior Chief, You may have answered this in a long ago previous video, but would you be so kind to explain the use of distilled water in the Nitric boils?

The early bird gets the worm, as Mrs. Sreetips would say.

It's cool how the gold makes the light reflected from it also be golden as seen on your gloves at the end...

Just out of curiosity, why not use the pure silver crystal that you already have on hand to inquart with the karat gold, because since you already have the silver crystal there would be no additional purchases of sterling silver needed for inquartation, thus drastically increasing your profit margin with the final gold recovery… just my two cents worth…

What a professional looking pour!

Excellent video thank you!!! Good morning from Iowa and Happy Easter to all . This states colors are black and Gold

Stunning bar!

According to the figures I ran, dissolving copper requires about two and a half times as much nitric acid as an equal mass of silver.

hey Mr. SreeTips have you tried preheating your mold with the oxy/ast torch to see it it affects the finish of the bars it forms?.... seems like it should likely make a cleaner surface finish on the bars if the casting apparatus was at a closer temp to the metals themselves being poured into them

Very cool video! Thank you

Hello dear Mr. Sreetips, this is a wonderful looking bar. I have a suggestion regarding to the stamping. The upper side is so beautiful that it would be very unfortunate to have stamps on that side, I would stamp the bottom.

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OMG! That WAS Lucky... at 23 minutes and some change... i literally gasped thinking it was bout to be a mess 😮😂😂😂

Have you ever considered doing the boiling immediately before pouring off the gold refining liquid? I know gold is really good at "cold welding". I wonder if a mildly hot boil would help merge the colloidal gold so it settles.

That was a beautiful gold bar... interesting you can use copper as an alloy metal... but I guess you're right it makes more sense to use silver in your case since it's a double whammy from your perspective, extracting gold AND silver at the same time, which is indeed a bit more efficient

1st thanks for being so generous with your time and knowledge. I saw in your past videos where you would use tapwater ice cubes to cool your aqua Regis solution before filtering. You then moved to distilled water ice cubes because of the chlorine. I’m just getting my feet wet and had a question about this. I have a well and a water softener that we Iron Out in . Would either of those necessitate me needing to use distilled water for my gold recovery projects? I can bypass the water filter by getting water from my outdoor spicket as well. I’m in Central Indiana and are well. water is known for a high iron content. Thanks!

Great video Sreetips! As long as I've watched your videos I don't recall you ever using copper. I was going to ask why in the comment but glad I waited to watch the entire video. Yeah it really does make sense if you're already a silver refiner. It would be wasteful spending.

Very clearly described. Is this alternative using copper instead of silver fully purify the gold? No sure.

nice. i noticed the torch used to melt the fold dust was different than the one used to melt the scrap.

That little bar is worth over $5700

The biggest difference that I found is that copper takes over three times the amount of nitric acid to dissolve than silver. It’s worthwhile if you don’t have silver, but if you have silver to inquart it’s a much more efficient use of resources. The silver is recovered. Nitric is consumed.

Isn't science spectacular? It was amazing to see a pile of scrap gold and other metals turn to a watery liquid. The yellow liquid then turned into a powder and then right back into a solid gold ingot 🤯😎 Thank you for that excellent presentation❣️

Another excellent video, would you say well water or spring water is as ok to use instead of distilled, as long as it's not treated? Is it just the city water that has chlorine

Love the vids. Are the nitric fumes corrosive? Do they affect your extraction equipment?

Awesome video and nice gold bar I can seen the gold color reflected on your gloves thanks for sharing sreetips

Thanks for showing the alternatives. Is it possible to enquart with the silver cement rather than the normal sterling silver?

I don’t blame Mrs Sreetips… can’t give away all of our hustles/secrets.

That almost went over my head with the synthesis of silver nitrate... It's an "energetic material" ;)

Good job I learned alot. thx man !🍺🍺🍺

Thank you very much! A question: couldn´t you have started the process after the copper inquartation with the much cheaper sulfuric acid, so that the bulk of copper ions would get washed out quite quickly, due to its high solubility in H2O and on the last step make a boil with nitiric acid, to get the silver out, as it has a better solubility in its nitrated solution?

Do you have all your bars from the various refinings?? I’d be curious to what your treasure vault looks like

Me and Mrs Sreetips make a great team! Love to see it. 💪💪👍

Wow.. good looking bar.. holy smokes.

Very cool, so why do all the other video's use silver which at $27/ozt has to be recovered but copper at $2/Lb dose not? Thank you.

Turning the sound off at the end was so dramatic. The only sense we had available was our vision....which is the primary sense utilized with gold. Awesome experience.

What do you think about inquarting with Tin? Maybe there's some inquart metal that can allow HCl to be used instead of nitric

Funny, I took my girlfriend to an estate sale last weekend and we followed the get there early rule that you always remind us of. As I was looking at something near the entrance of the living room, she zoomed in on the corner of the dining room, on the other side of the house, where the "gold" was. Ok so we just about cleaned them out of gold and the silver set, I have 6 nieces that would just love to have more jewelry. After getting home I put the fly making light with magnifying glass on the table and we were reading and separating out the different pieces and calculating just how much gold we got. The look on her face when I said the weights and total monetary worth between the plated, gold filed, and karat gold was price less. Most of the jewelry was in bags as costume jewelry for 5 buck. Then I started to think about what you said about a woman that can spot gold like that. Still that date ranks up there with the raspberry picking and jam making date.

My brain had to do the math, That's almost 6K, no wonder you had the sound turned off. 🤣 I'd have bust out with a hokey pokey 😂

Nice copper does seem to help a lot more seems like less work and refining sweet

What anice Bar, well done.

Ive been wondering if you cement the copper out of those solutions also, you could melt it up into bars and sell that also

I'd be interested to know if there is a difference in time between using silver versus copper.

Happy Easter streetips family!

No need to cut the sound off, we enjoy those sounds! Go Steetips 💪😎👍

You should get a induction smelter Sreetips, much faster - bigger crucible and save on gas for the final smelt.