This was SO helpful. I needed 1/4 pound of zinc (112 g) and now I can identify literally 10's of pounds of it in my garage in fence parts alone. Thanks man, great video.

Interesting. I used to work for Olin Brass / Winchester Ammunition. The shot towers were quite tall. Lead is pour in sieves and allowed to fall a long distance. The air pressure and surface tension of the metal would allow it to form the ball before hitting the water to cool. Different size shot was made based on the sieve used to pour the lead through. Thanks for sharing. Joe

Really interesting video *as always*. Learned a couple things about zinc I didn't know prior....thanks again Chris...!

Hi Chris, this video is very helpful especially in my case because I wanted to re-plate my very rusty motorcycle bolts and other metal brackets. Thank you for helping me identify the zinc metal and also how to melt it. Great video!

Just found your channel. I'm hooked! Love the enthusiasm and knowledge, Thank You

What I learn over my years of scraping Metal and casting, is that you have to be careful on some zinc has Cadmium used as corrosion resistance plating which is very Poisonous

Thank you ❤ you answered so many questions!

Wow, this was so interesting and informative. I follow you with my prospecting channel. Every time I look for something there you are. Lol. I am going to be casting metal soon and was looking into zinc.

My dad was into reloading and when i was younger we watched a programme on how shot gun shot was made. In it the molten lead was pored from over 20 meters high and into water 10 meters deep. This was how they got nice round shot. maybe next time you could try poring into a section of drain pipe lower down (might need a splash gard). I cant wait to get my fourge up and running and will definatly give zinc a go. great informative video. Thanks Eric

Good video Chris. Hope your doing well and staying healthy in these crazy times.

Thanks for the great learning experience

This was cool Ralph! I’ve never heard anyone do a zinc video!! I watch a KZfaq series called “ghost trails and gold towns” about a historian who tells amazing stories of old time prospectors running into lodes... he mentions multiple stories of huge veins of zinc Or galena that were seen but lost by old time prospectors... The stories take place in Canada where there seem to be lots of those sorts of deposits.. It was very informative to see you explain where to find zinc in modern machinery :D Thank you for such a great video and look forward to seeing the zincs relationship to becoming silver and gold 🤔

Nice Experiment Video Sir Thank you very much

Great work..😍

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Have enjoyed all your videos. Learned a great deal. Have you ever thought ablout doing the history of mining in the old west with a tie into the railroads. Really enjoyed this one. Going to look at some more if time allows. Thanks!

This is so useful, thank you! I need some zinc powder for the reduction of nitro guanidine and I could only think of new pennies and battery casings!

Wow!!! I didn't know that thank!!

Thank you very helpful

Love the posses on braking down medal type into liguid and how much heat and what type eguipment is needed specialy how to exstract real gold keep up the good work im learning alot with these videos

Chris , I checked into die casting, it involves molten metal. The process of using powdered metal is called Sintering - the metal never reaches a fully liquid state and in some cases isn't heated at all, simply pressed into the mould under extremely high pressure. Otherwise, a great help in sourcing cast zinc for use as anodes in electroplating. Thanks

Hi Chris. Nice videos. Have you heard of using Glacial Vinegar to separate gold from black sand? Vinegar has some weird properties when used at nearly 100%, like being highly explosive and corrosive. You really have to read, understand and follow the MDS data sheet to be safe with this stuff. A fume hood and PPE are a must? The resulting gold is 95% pure though. If you're interested, I will share the second step to complete the process on another venue to be safe.

Hey Chris Nice video

Good info !!!!

On another subject but the same in a sense, how do you know when you've added enough zinc and is their a way to rinse the zink out of pgm's? Thanks in advance.

I feel the weight and strength if its something that a piece has broken off i look at the texture on exposed area. Than final quick test small blowtorch. It starts melting quickly it defnetly zinc.

I also melted these plates and made a coin of 20-30grams 💕 It's easy to melt (500°C)

This very educational love it and love your work how many of people realy know about difrent medals then the Mason 😂😆 but keep up the good work

I need zinc for my upcoming project of electro plating all of my workshop tools, I have several old col war era wrenches and would like to make them nice and shiny !

Thank u Sar ji aapane Jinke bare mein bahut acchi Jankari Di Sar ji

great video !! I would like to know how I can differentiate between zink and tin metals ?

What is the purpose of boron or borax in the melting of gold? I know boron acts as a flux, but what are the reasons for using it in melting gold into ingots? At what part of the gold processing is boron used? Does it purify gold nuggets while its melting? Or is it to allow the gold nuggets to fuse together while melting or is it to not let the gold stick to the molting pot? I find this interesting. And boron is non toxic to work with too. Thanks for you advice.

What forge and crucible are you using?

Wot about old Matchbox and hot wheels cars. I think they Zinc, cheers Graham

@Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector My zinc bars crystalized in the center and look pretty interesting but aren't what I'm trying to do. Am I pouring too hot or cooling too fast?

Thanks for having an Arabic translation worth like

I wonder if zinc might be a good metal for casting into a bell ?

Thank you sir, it was magical demos n rich exposure how many parts in auto are made of zinc. Color difference between Al n Zinc. Jussojuan

Hi Chris, i wonder about what you mean with converting the zinc into gold. Wonder if you have made the video ? Thanks

As you know, but maybe some of your listeners don't, is that Zinc being heavy is one reason it is used to replace lead in wheel weights. It also rings if you drop it on concrete. And, even though it's against the law, you can get a bunch of it from 1982 1/2 to present cents. Commonly known as Zincolns. Although there is the copper wash to contend with.

do you have a book or info for silver as apposed to gold?

You could get the scales out for that weight show!!!

Perfect, I was looking for inspiration as to what places in my shed to look for zinc. That pulley wheel hit the spot, I've got a couple spares/surplus. Need some during lock down with an electroplating project!

After the melting process I made to obtain silver, another metal is formed between the slag and the button. what is this or is there still precious metal in it

Great video. I honestly thought almost all those items were aluminum

From India

New pennies since 1983 are copper plated zinc.

How does electrolosis/electroplating seperate impurities from the main metal(or would it be called an element for this purpose?) If one uses gold for the positive(cathode?) and i guess ill say steel for the negative(anode?) , the steel becomes gold plated. How would it lose impurities during transfer and not just particals of all of the types of material being transferred ? If I used a u.s. gold eagle as my cathode material And used .99999 fine gold as the anode , wouldnt I get 90% pure gold plated 24k gold or would it be somewhat purified? I am fairly sure steel would be plated with that 90%gold with the copper/silver they use for gold eagles. .how would the copper and silver get left in the plating solution with a gold anode ? I was watching a video on roughly how four and five or even more pure gold is made.they showed the process and gave little information . but it started by melting the gold sponge , chemically purifying it with the lead oxide/ boneash crucible technique to get 99.5% gold. They then used a dilute acid to turn it into solution and added more chemicals to make the gokd drop out of solution which is washed and remeleted purifying it to .999 fine gold. This is made into ingots , those are rolled and sheared into thin plates and then become cathodes in a huge elctroplating tank. This is supposed to make .9999 fine gold. Its been bugging me. I appologize for being so over the place with my question . I am trying to get it to make some sort of sense.

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Zinc has colour bluish white metal. Blue and white colour.

Thank goodness we don't live in world without zinc. Without zinc there would be no telephones or batteries or cars and many other things made of zinc.

Thanks for this video sir, i have like 5-6 gas regulators, will melt them this vacations

R there places where u can buy zinc in its natural form

remind of pen & teller, dont know why

Maybe a larger bucket of water next time. Tongs could use an upgrade man.

there is a something called weight scale 😏 5:28

This is the Zn, beautiful friend This is the Zn, my only friend Zn of our elaborate plans Zn of everything that stands

i've found a few kitchen faucets that i though were brass...nope..zinc

Huh, guess my scrapyard is stupid, if it ain't copper/brass, gray and nonmagnetic, they call it all aluminum lol

Sir iam india

This will be out secret 🤫

Toy cars are made of zinc too

Just use pennies from after 1982.

Some of those items are maganese not zinc .