It is so satisfying watching u do the whole process of refining the gold, I could watching u for hours explaining it all u r so good at refining silver and gold, love your channel it's amazing and awesome 👌 👏 👍 fantastic job.

Thank you for your content.Over the years, it has been highly enjoyable and satisfying.Watching you do your processes, Something about your purification process. Separating the amalgamit's really is therapeutic. I have been watching for over a decade now.Probably not as long as others but long enough to say I consider you a brother... Much love and all the blessings to you and yours!!!

These inquartation melts are always so satisfying to watch plus the refining process is fascinating 👍🏻

I really enjoyed the Darth Vader imitations while emptying the water in the sink, but loved the visuals with the silver creamer melts, Loved tonight's video!!! Oh ya I met a young man named Sree last week at work. didn't think I would ever meet someone with that name.

Thank you Sir. Always a pleasure to watch this process.

I've been watching your videos for so long now that I can tell from the thumbnail how clean that gold is. Beautiful.

Was about to go to bed and got the alert I'm definitely not going to bed yet lolol 9:45 pm was when it alerted me my favorite on KZfaq by far

Mesmerizing as always. Thank you Sreetips!

Oh yea! This makes my day complete! Great video. Thank you for sharing.

"Mrs. Sreetips has directed me . . . " LOL! She Who Must Be Obeyed!🐞 We all have one.

I already know you wanted to throw one of those bracelets in the batch to push your estimated yield up to 93.3 😉. As for the refining, very well done sir! That gold looked clean on the first drop!

Thanks for sharing with us Sreetips 🤠 Excellent Work 🐉 God Bless 🙏 I can't wait to get out and do some metal detecting at the lakes here Find some scrap gold.

Man!!! You make it look so easy, Brother! I don't know if I'm going to live long enough to get to where you are now! Seriously, you are a ROCK STAR, in Alchemaic Sciences!

Gooooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!

I never get tired of watching your videos thank you

For the decade plus I've been watching, the first spoonful of SMB is always my favorite reaction 👌🏻

Beautiful gold. Thanks for your fantastic content.

I like how at 29:24 when you add the first spoon of SMB and the first gold starts to precipitate, all he ice in the beaker jams up to the top of the liquid.

LOL, for a minute I thought I was hearing Darth Vader doing the melting of the shot 😉 That's a novel approach mr Sreetips 😆

It’s mesmerizing to watch that gold and silver melt into the pot… The honey pot 😊

I was looking at Tomoko's Enterprize channel and saw where he got some silver crystals from you and made a king about 3 years ago and I saw where you started a chess set about 6 years ago. Someone on that channel said it would be neat to see a silver and gold chess set. Still just learning refining, using a torch or a home made furnace, home made vacuum chamber, how to identify the jewelry and everything else. It takes time learning all that and casting the metals is an art. It was nice to see some of your crystals get cast into something.

Have you ever accidentally scrapped a jewelry item that Mrs. Sreetips wanted to save?

That gold in aqua regia... Wow. It's gorgeous!

@ 8:00 Darth Sreetips. You gotta admit it's catchy 😆

Just looking at this man work you know its more for fun than for profit hehe. Good on ya, great men content!

This is honestly one of the best channels on KZfaq. You should try to make a nice cuban link out of what youve made so far

Missed something on inspection! I think what you didn't catch in the melt showed up in the filter! Nice to see the strait forward process for high purity end result!

Another great video, thanks Sreetips! Please can you tell us in your next video, more about those contaminants you removed from the initial melt? What are they and how did you spot them? What would they have done, and what would you have needed to do had you not spotted them? I'm fascinated! Thank you from Australia. 👍😎🇦🇺

Ahh man been waiting for a new show lol, great vid

Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips. First a clip from you...Then out to use my detectors 🙂 God bless you 🌸🌸

Another AMAZING educational efficient video. You r the BEST on tha Tube!!! 💯💯💯 I do have something I hope you can help me out with, I unfortunately do not use Nitric due to cost and availability, what options/substitutes do u recommend inplace of the Nitric boils for refining karat gold? I usually dissolve in acid peroxide bleach, and just tested a new method of Potassium Nitrate and HCL as a Aqua Regia substitute, if I can find a sub for the Nitric boils I'll b SUPER happy. Thanks in advance, speaking on behalf of your viewers we REALLY appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experience! I can't imagine how many you have educated! You are truly a gift to us! We can not thank you enough! God Bless, I wish u and your family all the best!

kind of addicted to watching that aqua regia phase and nitric boils cleaning things up... then that ... ok, so I'm hooked !

Amazing how fast the copper goes into solution!

You got us….” To be continued….” Good video, keep up the great work

I also had an idea....... A Centrifugal separation using a Maytage washing machine, that has a Stainless Steel drum and no agitator in the middle to get in the way. Waiting for gravity to drop parcipitates is almost unendurable. At my age time is a valuable commodity! What are your thoughts? Comercial centrifuges can't do large capacity solutions. I figured a way to be able to use 8,1,000 ml beakers at a time, in the drum of the washer. They would be able to pivot as the washer sped up.

I have to say that I consider your videos better than any other and I recomend to my friends and family that they watch your videos.

Been waiting on gold video!

Sodium chloride brine electrolysis would negate the need for inquaurtation. It converts the gold and other constituent metals into a very finely divided mud. I don't know how silver would react to the nacient chloride reaction, but it takes the gold plating layers off of plated phosphor bronze quite readily. There is no need to process the bulk of the core base metals, so there is also the effect of concentrating the gold content by leaving much of the base metals behind. If nothing else, it reduces the requirements for acids in the processes afterward.

QUESTION: If I have been paying attention well enough, could you alternatively take the inquarted gold/silver to your silver cell for extraction of the gold, and then take the gold residue straight from the silver cell feed bag into the aqua regia process for refining (with associated rinses and sulfuric acid lead removal step)? Thank you for all your educational videos.

Awesome video can't wait until next video thanks for sharing sreetips

watching gold precipitate is awesome

Question for you @sreetips which you may have addressed in a past video. How long could you store the gold in solution after dissolving the gold in aquaregia (spelling?) and boiling off the excess nitric? Can it be store indefinitely or is there a time frame it should be precipitated out?

The Ring doorbell sound made my dog bark!

I just wanted to bring your attention to the fact that your ice cube tray did not have your name on it .

I love your work ❤

Back to the yeller stuff. Love the colors of both the blue and red/yellow and then to the bright yellow. Last two nitric boils could have been saved to reuse. $ wasted...

@sreetips: The first refining looked so clean. What would you expect the fineness to be after the first refining?

Kevin I'm curious, have you ever attempted an AP base metal extraction in lieu of a nitric extraction after inquartation? I would imagine it costing a LOT less in reagents at the cost of a week bubbling outside. Just a thought for a potential video. It's how I've done mine (on smaller scales) to save from spending the pretty penny on nitric or making enough to do a batch.

Hello, just came across your channel. May I ask exaclty what it is that you are doing? Are you taking gold from junk-electronics and refining it? Or are you growing gold in a home lab?

heh nice smashing the stack reference

What's your ph on the orange disolved hold solution and the clear solution, post precipitation pre rinse? Just wondering how acidic it still is. How much it drops during precip.

Afternoon Gunny! Have you ever had issues with the inquartation process? I'm working with some 18K, maybe a bit better. It doesn't seem to want to mix well with the copper I'm using for inquartation. I've melted and stirred it twice now and I'm still getting copper shot in my quenching pot. Any ideas?

New to the channel and fascinated with it all. I’m sure it’s been explained elsewhere, but I’m wondering if you precipitate the silver back out of solution? Is it difficult? Is it worthwhile? Is it just the cost of doing business when you refine the gold? Edit: never mind I think I need to check out the silver videos..

Hello Mr. Sreetips. Silly question here. Can gold somehow be in gas form? I know it's stupid, but I feel like some of the gold is flying away of the beaker in gas form. Is it possible to place a stannous chloride soaked paper on top of the beaker during the aqua regia process in your next videos to check this? Thanks.

Sreetips: Regarding Sterling silver, if it is 88-90% silver, what price per ounce, as a percent of spot, would you pay for silverware and still consider it to be a good deal? Also, when appraising silverware, what would you deduct for components that are not sterling, like knife blades? Thanks!

Hi. I'm new here and really love your channel. I have a question though, maybe 2. I have a lot of e-waste material like mainboards and old pci cards and old gold painted watches and so on, kilos and kilos. I figured I remove the components that could be of value as they are, such as EPROMs, Coils, Tantalum Caps, Inductors and some ICs. Most of the other components, such as resistors and caps are not worth a lot and I left them on the boards. Now the idea is to break the boards apart so they fit into my plastic container in order to give it a chembath so I can extract all the metals from the boards and the 9k jewlery. From the videos I've seen so far I know that Nitric Acid will break down every metal, except Gold if I just give it enough time and some bublling action or heat it up, please correct me if I'm wrong here, maybe I missed something but as far as my monkey brain understands, Nitric Acid breaks the metals such as Tin, Silver, Copper and Aluminum (or Aluminium) apart. I suspect there could be some other metals on the boards or inside the watches that don't get dissolved in Nitric Acid? Anyways, if I'm correct the Nitric Acid should take out everything that isn't Gold, I would pour the solution into another container for later possible silver extraction (using copper rods). Once I see no more stuff reacting with the Nitric Acid I would prepare 3 parts of Clohidric Acid and 1 part of Nitric Acid in order to obtain the Agua Regia to dissolve whatever gold is left on the boards/jewelry. Bubble action again, or heating it up to make it faster ofc, and transfering the solution into another container until there is no more yellowy reaction going on in my fist container (there should be no gold left then I guess). I would then add sodium metabisulfite to precipitate the gold from the agua regia solution and heat the obtained powder in my table furnace into a blob. Please tell me if the plan is correct and I understood everything correctly, or maybe explain a different, better approach. Could I maybe directly make Agua Regia, extract all metals with it and then just precipitate the gold and toss teh rest? I don't trust ChatGPT and don't wanna blow up my workshop xD. Really looking forward to a professional opinion from someone that does this stuff by the day.

Good afternoon again good sir. Quick question, as always lol. What ratio would you say you use when adding sulfuric acid to precipitate and lead? Or are you just adding a squirt, so to speak? Thank you as always, can never get enough of these videos. One more question. When inquarting, say you don't have enough gold to make 6k gold (I have some grips for a 1911 I won at auction for 120 bucks that have 20% of their weight being made up of 8k gold and I don't have enough gold to get to 6k)... is there much harm in having a higher ratio of silver to gold?

how do you work out the cost of refining the gold and other metals? not so much the buying of jewellery, the flux and acids and materials used while refining?

i know its a piece of feedback you wont care too much about, but the watch in the background on the time lapse shots is amazing. keep up the good work man

Sounds like you had Darth Vader as your cameraman @8:02

Have you ever extracted and refined gold from gold ore? I know there’s several videos on KZfaq be about it. It would be interesting to see your procedure.

Excelente.

Yeah, I have been guilty of getting too excited and jumping the gun. The results are that you end up spending even more time and chemicals redoing. Definitely frustrating.

First spoon full ✨🔥 Thats pure Solution Sreetips reacts that quick

Are the torches/burners you use oxy-acetylene? Could it all be done using a metal melting furnace? Also, is the burner you use with the ceramic and glassware an induction burner or coil?

Is the silver incourtation absolutely necessary for the acids and heat to purify the gold? It won’t chemically react the same I’m assuming? Have you ever tried??

Thank you sir as always a very enjoyable and informative video six stars sir

Hes the master. Im glad he will never get to see me refining, i dont think he would be able to hide his laughter! I may sell some dirty 23k+ nuggets soon on ebay. If Sree buys them, they have a chance to be real 24k oneday. 😎

Sreetips ive seen other people use urea to neutralize the acid. Does that take away from the final weight by using that?

I am new to this. So aqua regia does not dissolve lead and some other basic metals? These are all the black particals in the filter paper?

Did the hydrochloric acid turn yellow when you first poured it in due to left over nitric acid caught in the gold even after the water boil ?

Could the junk in the filter be lead from the jewelry? Ty SREETIPS for answering us. 👍🤙❤️

What were the little white blobs, you pulled out with a tweezer? Just curious. It looked like Borax. I have the same thing occur. I'm going to melt some 14K and 18K today. Thought I'd try the Copper inquartation you demonstrated.

It never ceases to amaze me at how much "junk" is left over in some of these steps. Where do you find your gold pieces?

My question is that blowout can it be added to the current batch or not? if not why?

Can you share details about the respirator/filters you use in which circumstances?

Have you ever thought about melting metal with a solar death ray? People frame up a lense from an old big screen tv and use it to focus the sun. It might be hard to control but it would save on gas. Also you could do larger amounts, the beam is about an inch wide and will slice through anything.

The Legend!

Hello me again, I have a question i dont think you have ever addressed before. What happens if you have your loaded aqua regia with gold , and just leave it to evaporate ? No MSB or such, just let it air dry out? If i was to guess it would crystallize, but again i,m guessing. Thanks

QUESTION. I have a vintage class ring, 1944. The inside is stamped “BALFOUR GOLDFLEX”. After watching a boatload of your videos I can tell you know way more than you let on, lol. Do you happen to know ow what goldflex is? Thanks

anyone else clench a little bit when he started pouring the bucket into the sink?

Yep gonna download this for offline watching

What happens if you let the gold laden solution evap all the way? Will the gold be left as a powder ?

The paper squares are a good reference for size 0.5cm²

Nice job

I thought you started inquarting with copper and liked that better. What made you go back to silver?

Can you inquart with gold plated scrap? I've seen you use several base metals to inquart. Using scrap plated material could allow you to recover the gold more easily in the plated stuff and provide the needed base metal.

Just curious why you continue to use the torch and melt dish method. Why don't you invest in an electric or propane furnace?

I just noticed the model of your scale - GOLD SERIES. Appropriate.

You must be rolling in the dough, granite counter tops for the lab, nice,,,,

Also, if your stannous tests smoke yellow, its because of excess nitric correct? Thats what i believed anyway, i added a lot of SMB (to avoid Urea), and my 1st drop had gray/brown crystals with gold mud inside rhem and beside them. Luckily hot water fixed it all in the end, but thats the 2nd time in hundreds of runs over years that i had those crystals, first time a decade ago, they were green/yellow crystals. This time, I just remember my stannous test smoking yelleow, and having to add a whole lot of SMB before any color change or gold drop. It was a scary moment that still has me puzzled 5 days later. I tell myself it was to much nitric (im usually using Sodium Nitrate), and then to much SMB to neutralize it. But im honestly unsure. Good news is you rarely, or likely never lose the gold in solution forever. But sometimes you must worker 10x harder to get the gold back because you made a mistake. And that day i made some mistake. But the fix was easy, fortunately for me.

Does stompout change the PH? Does it neutralize the acid?

Do you use Distilled water for the ice cubes in this video?

Awesome as always just wondering if you would maybe do a show on refining iridium from old pool cell chlorine generators?????

Would you concider to use metric numbers in length as well not just only in weights? When I hear 7 inch, it doesn´t mean anything in Europe. Thank you Mr Sreetips. Greetings from Sweden.

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Good work team

Why does adding ice sometimes put Silver Chloride in the Gold?

What would happen if you added the stump out to the warm solution?

Holy Cow! Under 10 minute gang!