Turning a BLOB into PURE GOLD!

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Жыл бұрын

A client came to my shop and left me a gold blob. Can I uncover its secrets?
PART 2 SILVER: • Turning a BLOB into PU...
So @NileRed , how did I do? If any of you are interested in a project like this from an actual chemist, I highly recommend you check out his video: • Turning old jewelry in...
I would also like to thank @sreetips for all of the informative gold refining videos which helped me navigate my own project.
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Description: Gold refining. Turning a gold blob into pure 24K gold.

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@MichealMadu-vp7ll 7 күн бұрын

Wow this is very nice.....extracting gold is a bit difficult if you find one and its very rare to see

@RoseBalerus 7 күн бұрын

Who wants to go through that stress, That's why i always buy mine, and I don't have to worry about overspending due to my secured investments.

@RobertDamanii 7 күн бұрын

That's nice, you feel so sure why is that?

@RoseBalerus 7 күн бұрын

My investments are managed by a portfolio manager who organises and secures my investments.

@OwenFlex 7 күн бұрын

How does this work?

@MichealMadu-vp7ll 7 күн бұрын

I think I've heard about this, they help to organise and manage investments as well as give counselling.

@juststevoo 8 ай бұрын

As a chemist, seeing 96% yield of 99% purity from a process by someone who calls themself a non-chemist is mind-boggling. Smithing is definitely chemistry imo, and I have some serious respect for you for doing something like this so flawlessly. 10/10.

@michialphelps2339 8 ай бұрын

It doesn't seem like it takes as much knowledge as it does patience. Anybody can do it you just have to focus and make sure you do it right and repeat repeatable processes and double check to make sure your ready to move on. Sounds like basic chemistry to me and I took two years of chemistry

@donovansimon2636 8 ай бұрын

@@michialphelps2339 That is mostly what the goal is in a lot of reactions. The problem for inexperienced folks in chemistry is that it's not so easy to repeat a process that generally does not go off of set times but off of visual queues and identifying the stages as they complete and guaging your success based off of the outcome, yield, and the understanding of what that should look like or be.. In most cases, a simple change of color, type of physical reaction (bubbling, gassing, simmer, etc) can mean so much to the observer who knows what they are doing and could be an indication to make necessary changes either in the moment or later as needed because of this, it is amazing that somebody who would be so unsure about the exact details and not have any way to determine if the information he is getting is for sure the best source of information if he's researching it online and taking whatever information he can get ahold of, maybe he got a book but what if that's outdated information, there is so much to this than just patience and repeating a couple of steps when it comes to getting a high yield and purity of an end product in whatever recipe you follow for any reaction you are trying to accomplish in chemistry whether it be a reduction, extraction, or reaction. I am not even a trained chemist myself but have lots of at home experience as a teen and young adult doing experiments and I am very impressed at how confident he seems and the fact he just has all this shit at his disposal and isn't substituting with some type of kitchen / shop technique haha as well as the fact he is performing this on something that isn't necessarily even his, so he says.

@emilymayer5926 8 ай бұрын

You're not a chemist 😂

@nekomimicatears 6 ай бұрын

@@emilymayer5926and your proof to back this claim up is...?

@EeveeRealSenpai 6 ай бұрын

You really only have to follow a guide and buy the right tools/materials from the looks of it.

@Magnus5757 Ай бұрын

As a chemist living in an RV on Mexico-USA border, I approve 99%. 👍

@AbdoMohammed-jt5ye 7 күн бұрын

Are you cooking meth there 😂😂?

@vesstig 5 ай бұрын

The craziest part to me is knowing the generations of Alchemists who tried to create gold which also lead to the discovery of so many interesting reactions in chemistry.

@foxmulder7616 4 ай бұрын

Good thing they didn't succeed or gold would be worthless. Lol

@masonhales Ай бұрын

@@foxmulder7616 but if they had succeeded then gold would be plentiful and we could use it more often in things like electronics and machines

@nicfab1 27 күн бұрын

@@foxmulder7616 In the very end their successors did succeed. We can turn lead to gold now, it only requires a particle accelerator and so much energy and equipment and work that it's not even close to worth it to do.

@user-pr6ed3ri2k 16 күн бұрын

*lead*

@ramonhanneman 9 күн бұрын

@@nicfab1 Cool, I learned something!

@TomCelar Жыл бұрын

I am 100% sure that if children at school watched this video in a chemistry class there would be a huge increase in interest in that subject, good job on the process and on filming it well (y)

@divineantiwokegangster Жыл бұрын

school is for general knowledge not practical knowledge,

@itzl2124 Жыл бұрын

If the kids watch Breaking Bad for sure they’ll be interested in chemistry class, however that show has some mature topics and scenes

@leepic5631 Жыл бұрын

@@itzl2124 so what?

@noompsieOG Жыл бұрын

Wow I never thought of that. So you are saying that subjects and information can be taught in a school? And not only that whatever the students are exposed to will increase an interest in that subject due to becoming aware of it ? My mind is blown right now omg . I’m certain (no need for percentage because any less that 100% wouldn’t be certain would it ?) that you may have just stumble upon why school exists. Anything you show or bring to the awareness of curious learning minds is going to generate further interest it doesn’t matter what the subject is. So I’ll call your comment with a similar bet. I’m 100% (certain) that if you handed out money to people on the street some of them would take it and spend it. (Fulfilling its purpose)

@noompsieOG Жыл бұрын

@@itzl2124 yeah true , I watched Rambo as a kid so I was interested in obtaining ptsd and feeling bastardised by society to the point that violence which was I learned from society can be used against the society for noble purposes. They never had the classes at school for it though so I just did the next best similar thing which was baking and food decorating . Good thing about kids is they are naturally interested in things it’s doesn’t matter what you choose to expose them to, the curiosity will always prevail. Furthermore school is designed to create effective and obedient workforce to build economic wealth and nothing more. It’s up the individual or parent expose their own beliefs and ideas interests onto their kids because society is already doing that with their subjects that essentially say “learn this to get money and have less adversity via currency” opposed to “learn whatever you are passionate about and innovate it and use it to make our world better “

@tul5124 Жыл бұрын

This is easily one of the best, well documented videos I've ever seen on KZfaq. Amazing watch. Totally captivated the entire time.

@HyperHrishiHD Жыл бұрын

Literally I didn’t even get bored for a second 😂

@alexdrockhound9497 Жыл бұрын

This was a very nice video, but this is just the tip of the iceberg for the quality of many youtube videos out there.

@m4rvinmartian Жыл бұрын

Apparently Matt's only seen 100 videos on YT. Can't wait to see what his next year will be like.

@tanelviil9149 Жыл бұрын

Now give the gold to me... you are already rich ... but i am poor... give it to me.

@edelweiss- Жыл бұрын

a creature got killed in this video lol

@ChippyMapping 8 ай бұрын

I've seen chemists do this sort of thing, but your perspective definitely makes it seem way cooler and more interesting to watch

@Blessedjake-nz2cq 8 күн бұрын

You know you right

@OnlyAnOpinion20 7 ай бұрын

How captivating, that was an amazing outcome, well worth the time you invested in it, I can’t wait to see what you do next. Thanks for the upload.

@NickAndriadze Жыл бұрын

A regular chemist wouldn't struggle with the chemical-related part, but would struggle with the actual goldsmith-related part, so seeing a goldsmith who didn't struggle with the gold smithing part, but with the chemical part, is truly an interesting change in roles. Also *3:29* RIP blob 2023-2023. He will be missed ;~;

@johnmcwick1 Жыл бұрын

Blob is not dead but was born again into a new blob body! Lol

@BirnieMac1 Жыл бұрын

Can confirm Was a chemist for a while and holy fuck I'd be fine with the chemical side (though I really have to give him due respect for handling stuff like Aqua Regia; it's impressive imo) Like yeah I could do the casting part but that hardly counts comparatively to his work haahaha We used something similar (designed to get organic T A R) off the beakers Pirahna solution is evil shit; a mate got a tiny tiny on his arm and washed it immeditately (was in the fume hood) Still got a really nasty blister/chemical burn

@tanmaychaitanya4920 Жыл бұрын

@@johnmcwick1 blob reincarnation

@nastykerb34 Жыл бұрын

u didnt watch Nilered

@warriorapple705 Жыл бұрын

the blob was a family thing so it was probably born a long time before that

@el_dominikilla7511 Жыл бұрын

These are the kind of science experiments i wished they conducted in high school. Never thought of watching someone turn a piece of blob into pure Gold. You sir are definitely the Modern Goldsmith.

@nachomolaolivera7580 Жыл бұрын

Way too expensive and way too dangerous as well. Not a good idea at all.

@Srsli Жыл бұрын

that's $13,000 in gold, something tells me it might be a little outside the budget of a school :D

@SteelBlueVision Жыл бұрын

It's all fun and games, until you take a sip of the forbidden orange juice and puff some of that orange Nitrogen Dioxide gas to see if it will get you high (warning, don't do this!).

@seanblackford5953 Жыл бұрын

Im 😁

@no-bk4zx Жыл бұрын

Why would you let school kids near fucking aqua regia??? Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

@thepaperboy9009 7 ай бұрын

My 2nd time around watching this. Still very well done and still satisfying to watch. Your well written script helps, and to film while doing all the multiple acid dissolving, my head is spinning. Congrats! 😀

@Indie9999 7 ай бұрын

A good tip to deal with black crud like you had at the start is to add some hydrogen peroxide. Most likely the black stuff is carbon, which isn't water soluble. Hydrogen peroxide will break it down and give off simple carbon dioxide. It's also quite safe to use really.

@taploko 3 ай бұрын

And remember to put plants near the CO2 to prevent greenhouse emmisons

@violettracey 25 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@Sevenigma777 11 ай бұрын

The thought of how people figured this all out is just amazing. Theres so many steps that need to be done in an exact certain way that i can only wonder the frustrations people had in the past to figure this all out.

@ericknabenshue5689 10 ай бұрын

While being prosecuted by the church in the process. Having to do it underground had to make it a thousand times harder to share information between alchemist.

@tudeslildude 10 ай бұрын

Generations upon generations of applied sciences, culminating to what we have today. It's likely the result of100 smaller experiments for different reasons, that gave way to the knowledge needed for the process.

@niggamaster9139 10 ай бұрын

@ericknabenshue5689 bs ,ure 🤡, this thing came from Egypt, this knowledge is not even from humans but annunaki and different kind of aliens that also build piramids

@alansmith5267 9 ай бұрын

Fun fact: (kinda) We humans have been fascinated with gold since around 5,000 BC. If today, we were to take the entire world supply of gold, collected since 5,000 BC and we melted it all into one giant cube... (rough calculation only, as gold supply is always expanding each year by 1% > 2%) That giant golden cube would be roughly 22m * 22m * 22m (22m^3 or 10,648 cubic meters) and would easily fit under the first level of the Eiffel Tower. Imagine an Olympic sized swimming pool, that's as deep as it is wide and is long: 25m * 25m * 25m The world's gold would fit in that and still have 3m on each side before even being close to being filled. I can't find the source, but I once read that this 'gold cube' grows at the rate of about 1cm to 2 cm per year.

@niggamaster9139 9 ай бұрын

@alansmith5267 the reson al the gold dissapir3d from prev civiliazations is annunaki that took that gold,they still do from time to time coming back and taking all the gold

@tippytappy Жыл бұрын

This is definitely not your average jeweller channel 😍 i’ve always loved your videos, and this turn you’ve taken makes you even more awesome

@moderngoldsmith Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Though I might be done with gold refining for awhile....

@tippytappy Жыл бұрын

@@moderngoldsmith awww 🤗 it looks insanely complicated and dangerous, but you’re still a badass for having done it

@Coder4894 Жыл бұрын

@@moderngoldsmith haha!

@MisterTwisted-bh1yn Жыл бұрын

@@moderngoldsmith 12:07 mmm what a tasty orange juice...wanna drink

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@carlcowan7044 5 ай бұрын

I remember coming across this gem of a video back in the beginning of this 2023 year when you first uploaded it. Now, it's less than a week until Thanksgiving as of this writing, and I'm STILL amazed by the whole gold refining process you blessed us with! Keep up the greatness!

@moderngoldsmith 5 ай бұрын

Ahhh thank you so much! Appreciate you coming back for more

@carlcowan7044 3 ай бұрын

@moderngoldsmith Definitely, Sir! It's now a full year later in late January 2024, and I STILL come back to watch this amazing display of sciences you put into this amazing video! 👏

@faroukmakubuya4858 2 ай бұрын

Hi What an amazing video, its very captivating. Am wondering, did you have to lower the ph of the Aqua Regia to 5 before adding the Sodium Metabisufite to drop the gold ? Or its okay to add it without lowering the pH ? Many thanks in advance for getting back to me

@OriginalUnjustifier 7 ай бұрын

With unlimited resources and unlimited time, this is the kind of thing I would love to mess around with. Refining things not out of necessity or greed, but out of sheer joy of the process of creation.

@Xavierpng Жыл бұрын

I recently just bought my first gold bar that is only 1 gram and it was pretty expensive. The fact that this turned out to be 213 grams is pretty wild. To put that in perspective, that blob of gold is worth $14K+ right now.

@QueJoto Жыл бұрын

xavier what you doin here

@robinsonhiciano1586 Жыл бұрын

Ur not the real on this isnt the correct badge that shows that

@Fuzionjay2 Жыл бұрын

I thought it was like 19k

@trevortalbot4325 Жыл бұрын

@@Fuzionjay2 Depends on your currency, but it's about 12.5k USD at the moment for 213 grams @ highest bid.

@pastexpiry2013B Жыл бұрын

Are you the guy with the hillarious quotes on Twitter?

@herval Жыл бұрын

That was so satisfying to watch! Glad you had the patience to go through the whole process!🎉

@moderngoldsmith Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!! Was def a test of patience haha

@PurpleSurple 8 ай бұрын

WOW!!! I am so impressed with what you did. Great job!

@Jayguevara1982 11 ай бұрын

Given that even that little disc of gold is worth almost $13,000 (U.S.) as of the day I'm writing this, the amount of work invested into this process is absolutely worth a goldsmith's time. As for me, I was just completely mesmerized by the chemistry. Great video!

@Kosisxnaing 9 ай бұрын

me to

@michaelj8582 8 ай бұрын

me tree

@BurkenProductions 8 ай бұрын

pretty basic stuff, nothing to be amazed about.

@xallax 8 ай бұрын

@@BurkenProductionsdude ._.

@Xushuzz 8 ай бұрын

@@BurkenProductions ofc minecraft guy, like duuhh just use an iron pickaxe and smelt the ore right??

@stickman4719 Жыл бұрын

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how much work he put into this gold?

@hutlazzz Жыл бұрын

for a 12.5k$ blob it worth it :P

@stickman4719 Жыл бұрын

It's actually 17K in my currency (Canadian Dollar CAD)

@hutlazzz Жыл бұрын

@@stickman4719 its also called trudeau pesos

@SleepyPlushy Жыл бұрын

@@stickman4719sheesh

@ModernBeastx1 Жыл бұрын

Well I would hope he would that blob is now worth 15 thousand dollars.

@Phiz787 7 ай бұрын

When the paper test came back clear and the dropper showed no reaction I actually gasped. I figured an 'amateur' would struggle to dissolve it entirely. But chemistry is consistent and if you follow the procedure diligently, it stands to reason you'd achieve your goal! So cool! Thanks for the video.

@jonintrovertednerd9988 7 ай бұрын

Titles don't offer results.

@michaelcolley1631 15 күн бұрын

That was one of the most enjoyable and fascinating videos I’ve ever watched on KZfaq. Great job.

@nbow51 Жыл бұрын

First time I watched this process was NileRed refining a viewers gold. It’s cool to see a gold smith do it just using some research. The yield was very high I was surprised. In the original block there was a huge section of dirt and other metals and I thought that would bring the yield down a lot from the initial estimate. Great video!

@kelvinluk9121 Жыл бұрын

the yield is not really that high considering lots of losses during the process. the estimated weight was based on an inaccurate measurement of a non representative sample

@Sralit Жыл бұрын

@@kelvinluk9121 I suspect you are right, but we don’t really know the lose, since we (as you say) don’t really know if his original measurement of purity was representative. He should have melter the blob and then measured the purity.

@sayerwoadhyll8440 Жыл бұрын

As a metal detectorist, many years ago, I found a similar yet much smaller blob. It had silver and gold melted together. A local historian (Southern Missouri) showed me photos of recovered items from local bandits. Among the items were 'cobs' that were the stolen booty that the bandits had melted and then distributed to the gang. Apparently this practice was commonplace during and after the civil war for that region. (Quantrill raiders)

@cheriehomebody9454 Жыл бұрын

If you find a melted blob like this and you can tell it is metal, what is the next step to finding out what kinds of metal it is?

@varno Жыл бұрын

@@cheriehomebody9454 Find someone with an XRF machine, and then get them to do a report for you. Shouldnt do anything and is non-distructive.

@DesertTuna Жыл бұрын

@@cheriehomebody9454 throw it and catch it is it denser then steel

@stvjjgcj Жыл бұрын

Man thats awesome

@georgegordonbrown9522 Жыл бұрын

@@DesertTuna It´s ndenser than lead

@IceMaverick1986 7 күн бұрын

You have earned a sub from me, this is one of the most interesting videos that I have seen in quite a long time! Thank you for keeping me entertained as well as teaching me new things about chemistry! Also, good first attempt!!! You did awesome.

@michellebailey5892 Ай бұрын

That was so fascinating. What a process! Thank you for sharing.

@virtualfroggy Жыл бұрын

I love this video Not only is it fun to see a non-chemist try something like this - and for it to succeed so well (seriously your yield is astonishing) This video also has story to it, *The Blob* is a lovely little character and im happy to see him looking purer and healthier than he's ever been Thank you for this

@rebeccabanner1499 Жыл бұрын

I’m a chemist and work with aqua regia frequently- you did a fantastic job, but I am wondering how you handled the aqua regia waste. If left unneutralized in a plastic waste container, it can eat at the plastic and spill everywhere! love you channel and have been watching for a while :)

@alfredoprime5495 Жыл бұрын

You're not going to mention that Büchner funnels are not meant to be used for gravity filtration? A lot of the finer particles he tried to filter out likely made their way under the filter paper because there was no vacuum holding it firmly against the funnel.

@hosammohamed7107 Жыл бұрын

@@alfredoprime5495 yeah i'd be more happy if he plugged air suction haha

@MichaelGroves777 Жыл бұрын

He probably didn't do the stoichiometry, would have gave him the quantities needed for all the reactions

@MichaelGroves777 Жыл бұрын

His method is very old school.

@Mike__B Жыл бұрын

@@alfredoprime5495 Yeah I was cringing a tad when I saw him fill this funnel so full knowing full well some of the liquid was passing unfiltered right under the paper.

@DulcetCatharsis 4 сағат бұрын

Second time I've seen a KZfaqr extract gold out of an unknown/impure source, and just as cool the second time as it was the first. Brilliantly done

@winfordnettles3292 5 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed the video. The gold blob looks really good! Thanks for posting.

@ExxonMobilCompany 11 ай бұрын

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@JTCoinRings Ай бұрын

This was a great video

@AusMiner Жыл бұрын

Very good and well described video. I am a retired metallurgist who worked for many years in the gold mining industry in Western Australia. I managed laboratories where we not only conducted our own assays on bullion by traditional fire assay methods - we also produced our own 99.9% "proof" gold to use as standards in the fire assaying processes. Our method of producing "proof" gold was very similar to what you have shown here, except that after the aqua regia digestion, we filtered out any remaining solids (silver chloride) and took the solution up in hydrochloric acid / reduced over heat and re-filtered a couple of times before finally taking up in distilled water giving us about 5 litres of a very clear, but still acidic solution containing the gold. We then slowly added caustic soda to this clear solution while gently stirring - the metallic gold precipitating out of the solution looked like "gold rain" falling to the bottom of the beaker. Precipitate was then washed in distilled water a number of times before drying. We then weighed out one gram lots of this dry precipitate into small china / porcelain crucibles and put into a dedicated furnace to melt down / anneal into small gold buttons or "prills". These were then put through manual "bullion rolls"and rolled out into long strips, which were stored and cut up when required to make "proof" standards to compare routine assay results against. You could also purchase certified "proof" gold ribbon and solutions from the Perth Mint for use in making your own "standards" but these were very expensive. As a result, we only very rarely purchased these standards and used them to confirm / validate our own site-produced standards - usually when conducting assays for other clients / joint venture partners etc.

@jaymaraz711 Жыл бұрын

So you are in Gold Rush in Bendigo?

@AusMiner Жыл бұрын

@@karenwallace462 probably less time than it took you to read it, given your apparent lack of anything much between the ears.

@sarahyoung646 Жыл бұрын

This was really interesting. Thanks for taking the time.

@JewelryEnthusiast 6 ай бұрын

Wow this was absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing this amazing process.

@user-qx2qe9nf6z 7 ай бұрын

Your passion shines through in every video! 💖

@Trevih Жыл бұрын

So satisfying! Thank you for taking the time to share this. I have always been super curious how gold goes from those earth chunks to the pure stuff. :D This was discovery channel worthy content.

@GiannahNoelle Жыл бұрын

Jordan this is crazy! Your talent and passion go so much further than surface level jewelry. Your depth of appreciation for your craft is one of the reasons I cherish my engagement ring (other than the man who gave it to me of course haha). It is an honor to have had something handmade by someone who truly is a master at the craft

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@raymondbrown8940 Ай бұрын

This is much fun watching! Thank you.

@audiodiktat6337 6 ай бұрын

beautiful work !! really enjoyed watching your experience !! thanks for sharing

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@johnniewelbornjr.8940 Жыл бұрын

Probably the last subject I expected to be watching but certainly a pleasantly surprising process for this layman. This could have been a boring process but your production made this quite interesting. Well done! Thanks for sharing.

@zoratschung Жыл бұрын

I hope you make more explorative videos on your channel because I'm sure I'm not the only one who found this fascinating! Love your channel!

@FactsRiddles-ly6cf 7 ай бұрын

Loved it great of you to show the proyect!

@jurikii 7 ай бұрын

This is so satisfying to watch! Thats a nearly $13k blob of 24k Gold! Fantastic video!

@moderngoldsmith Жыл бұрын

PART 2: SILVER REFINING: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mJ1mhq2XzM--eYE.html WOW. The comments! I'm happy so many of you enjoyed this video. Makes all the hours worth it. Please subscribe and tell 50 of your closest family and friends. haha. As mentioned in my video description, I owe a debt of gratitude to NileRed and Sreetips for their videos, which helped me tremendously.

@chouseification Жыл бұрын

Nice video overall, although I'd call out that when you add your nitric, you want to add it a little bit at a time; both to make sure to not let the reaction boil over, and so your end product has only a little bit of free nitric. i.e. go stoichoiometric and estimate the max amount of nitric you would possibly need, so you don't waste a lot of time (and materials) doing the de-nox step after. Sreetips does a lot of great videos showing that method.

@everythinghate666 Жыл бұрын

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@benjaminwaterman9580 Жыл бұрын

Your experiment was entertaining - but oh boy did you do it the hard way! Sreetips goes into great detail on this process. You were probably better off going inquarted, just nitric boils, then aqua regia. You had iron, copper, silver, who knows what else in there...nitric acid dissolves everything but the gold at a low enough enrichments (25% gold) so that you could dodge all that silver-chloride. Silver chloride is a bear to filter. All that said, for a first-timer, you did great!

@theresapittman205 Жыл бұрын

Aaaaaaaand now I feel like a loser, because I don’t have 50 close friends/family. I kid

@dodgeit3014 Жыл бұрын

Streetips will take hours of your day away and you will LOVE IT lol

@RexSkittles Жыл бұрын

This is seriously one of the best videos I’ve seen in at least the last year or two! Outstanding work and your diligence is impressive! Thanks for doing this!

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@tree4104 Жыл бұрын

if you like this kind of content a channel called Nile Red does quite a bit of chemistry stuff similar to this and in a similar format as well, you should check em out.

@antoniorodriguez9028 6 ай бұрын

Wow! Master of the craft, really enjoyed each second of the video. Thanks for the chemistry class

@SilverTreasures Ай бұрын

Sreetips: “Hold my beer”

@joshua.snyder Ай бұрын

I have managed a metallurgical refiner for years and I am dumbfounded that you got that level of extraction. Well done!

@emamartinez4489 Жыл бұрын

Man, just watching you went trough the entire process was fascinating, great job and keep up the good work!

@eboyd53 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed the process for the gold refinement. It helps me understand all of the gold miners excitements of finding flakes of gold.

@natasjadirken5633 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this! I'm amazed! I came here from a ancient Egypt video where they said that the goldsmiths from back then already mastered this proces like 4000 years ago! They were also really alchemists knowing how to make the chemical solutions which modern days goldsmiths can just order online. I'm going to watch more of your video's 👌

@jsfernald 6 ай бұрын

Great video, you explained things very well. Much appreciated!

@davidsnyder2000 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed seeing all your hard work. Great job at filming, editing, and the audio sounded great. Liked and subscribed 🙂 I didn’t know how much work goes into refining gold. I got a real education here. Thank you 👍🙂

@JayDee-kw8oz Жыл бұрын

By far the best video I've seen on this in every way. The blob face had me cracking up and you simplified the entire process as much as it could be while maintaining a high standard. I've been making handmade jewelry on the side for a couple years now and end up with a lot of scraps of gold and silver. I've been watching chemistry and smelting videos all over YT off and on and it's a daunting time/money investment. Especially the chemistry part. Guess I can say I already started the time investment. If I wasn't doing so many other things I could just focus on this.

@LlamaKingGaming Ай бұрын

Great job, Very impressed. I can tell you watched a lot of sreetips. Do more like this. 😊

@bradshores9617 13 күн бұрын

This was very enjoyable to watch. I loved it

@thelongwayback2528 Жыл бұрын

It's amazing to witness the transformation of raw materials into something so valuable and precious. Your dedication and hard work have truly paid off!

@michaeldblake 8 ай бұрын

I think he took something valuable and turned it into a raw material.

@user-kt3lc6rr8u Жыл бұрын

This is awesome!! It’s so cool to see people appreciate chemistry as it applies to their fields. As a chemist, I have one tip: add a very small amount of sulfuric acid (like a few drops worth) to your reaction before adding the sodium metabisulfite. This will keep lead in solution as the gold precipitates. That should ensure purity for jewelry making because even small amounts of lead will ruin the gold’s malleability. If you really want to get extremely pure, you can run it several times. Then, eventually precipitate the gold with oxalic acid instead of sodium metabisulfite (but this might require you to adjust the pH in order to precipitate the gold).

@devindiep8057 7 ай бұрын

Watching this made me intrigued to possibly doing something like this. Great video and work bro

@thomasanglin1751 7 ай бұрын

Wow that's the first time I have seen smelting done like this, looks like a lot of work but the purity is the reward..

@danbrawn9262 Жыл бұрын

This was byfar one of the best videos I have ever seen. You didn't go too heavily into the chemistry and kept it at a low high school level that was easy to understand. I can't wait to see you do the same for turning silver back into the pure ore. When you make the rings or whatever out of these blobs, please make it a bit of a retrospective of the whole process.

@brandonowens282 Жыл бұрын

Well don't take this video as how it's done. He should have started the chemical process with straight nitric acid-->filter> rinse and theeen start with AquaRegia

@RaghavRaiRalhan Жыл бұрын

Hats off to your patience bro ❤️ loved the video loved the process. More power to you!

@mattshu 13 күн бұрын

Wow you more than doubled subs since this video. Congratulations and I’m happy to find you as your videos are relaxing

@julienrobitaille9884 7 ай бұрын

Wow! super cool! I really enjoyed .Thank you! I didn’t know gold could look like this during the procedure…

@dylbrieee Жыл бұрын

when you said you werent a chemist and have never done gold refinery like that before i was skeptical but u did a very thorough job and turned out a great yield well done, that gold looks amazing, never gets old looking at that shiny 24k blob

@lisamarcel1 Жыл бұрын

Wow! That was an awesome video. Thanks for taking us along on your learning journey😊

@althompson8417 7 күн бұрын

Super cool. I've never watched anything like this. Makes you rethink what is possible 🤔

@somebeachdetecting 7 ай бұрын

Freaking kick ass man that was awesome ! one of the best videos I've seen on KZfaq! I'll be watching the rest of your videos. 👍

@eijazamily6460 Жыл бұрын

I must say this is your best video yet simply because you showcased how cool chemistry can be 😊 Keep up the good work Jordan ✨💕

@CrimFerret Жыл бұрын

The orange fumes were mostly nitrogen dioxide and you were correct about not wanting to breathe those. They were also an indication there was a fair amount of silver mixed with the gold which was the main reason there was so much metal left after the first try at dissolving it. Silver doesn't dissolve well in aqua regia so it took several repeats. The gold you get when you precipitate it is incredibly fine. There's not enough surface on any given particle to really reflect light so it looks like clumpy brown flour. Just going by appearance, that button is 99%+ pure. The initial blob didn't look to be a very consistent alloy so you got a really good yield. Given that you hadn't done it before you did a great job.

@JoshuaOdionson 7 ай бұрын

Ive watched Cody's lab do stuff like this before, but its nice to see someone do this for the first time.

@John.of.all.tradezzz 4 ай бұрын

This a spectacular instructional. Thank you so much!

@Shasha-jo5iv Жыл бұрын

This was extremely cool!!! I really love your channel because you, unlike other channels aren't a 'ultra luxe' channel showing off but you're actually interested in gold and your skills as a smith and in teaching us. ❤️ Will you do something with silver or titanium next?

@Nomorewar6756 Жыл бұрын

The patience you showed is commendable, great job.

@sadecetamir 8 ай бұрын

That's very amazing project!

@nazirahmed7579 6 ай бұрын

It was a great work. Thanks for your time and effort

@backslash4571 Жыл бұрын

Excellent job for a first time! As others said, with lower purity gold it’s much easier to use hot nitric acid to remove impurities. Luckily, gold chemistry tends to be pretty much quantitative because it’s so easy to precipitate it and test the solution for gold. It also makes such a bright yellow solution that it’s easy to see when you’ve washed it off of filter papers and glassware.

@slapdat.byteme Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thx for walking us through what must’ve been a painstaking (but rewarding) process. Glad I didn’t have to do the dishes afterward!

@abu-karz 5 ай бұрын

The yield you reached was extremely maximized. Such dedication 💪

@Rasalghoul123 Ай бұрын

This was awesome to watch I am always shocked at how far we have come in the word of alchemy/chemistry

@tre6316 Жыл бұрын

Seen a million vids of this but it never gets old and you presented it in a super fun & enjoyable way. Diving into the silver extraction vid now, cheers!

@Mravilet18 3 ай бұрын

I know nothing about metals, but very good video… I learned a lot, it was clear, and fun to watch. Keep it up!

@demianw572 7 ай бұрын

absolute amazing work Dude. 🤩

@fullup91 Жыл бұрын

The gold blob is much more beautiful than the initial bar-shaped casting. Good call.

@csantos2 Жыл бұрын

That’s an incredibly impressive yield. Good job on the chemistry and the video.

@GalacticFlame1947 7 ай бұрын

WOW The PROCESS WAS SO SATISFYING

@profesionalniamater5909 7 ай бұрын

That soo beautiful well done man !

@DreadlyKnight Жыл бұрын

This was honestly amazing to watch, its always cool to see chemical refining of gold :). Iirc theres a youtuber that does paydirt videos and gold panning, and keeps the runoff or whatever its called and later refines it in a similar way iirc and gets a good chunk from that. Honestly seeing you get a loss of barely 9 grams was really impressive.

@YukisGirlfriend1 Жыл бұрын

I love love love your videos so much! Your personality and humor really shine through, and the whole video is so calming and cinematic!

@CrazyHustlerTV 7 ай бұрын

Great info and great video on gold refining and chemistry🏆

@user-su7il1eg3r 7 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, sir. I really enjoyed watching the video and benefited from the information

@jeffypeters333 Жыл бұрын

It’s clear from other chemist videos, people love watching broken up old jewelry, or in this case dirty hunks of impure gold, being turned into pure clean 23-24 karat gold, so I would definitely consider continuing to make videos like this. Who knows your videos could be worth their weight (or more) in GOLD!

@Dragon-Slay3r Жыл бұрын

What's taking them so long to come forward? They waiting to go to work on canoes? Then they will come

@robertwhite3752 Жыл бұрын

There’s about $13,200 at 23k and almost $14,000 at 24k. What a beautiful process. I love chemistry and always wanted to get into it. Such valuable information to learn. Thanks for taking the time to make the video it was really well made. 👍👍👍

@damiontaylor1121 Жыл бұрын

So that dial was/is worth 14 thousand dollars???

@nathanvaughn7744 Жыл бұрын

@@damiontaylor1121 yup roughly

@Blind_Ghostling Жыл бұрын

pov: "When you suck out 1/5 a cup of blood onto a cup" 2:26

@plaguedoctor8180 Жыл бұрын

With the spot change, it's currently worth 15,368 USD.

@tubqhe 11 ай бұрын

Wow, was kinda wanting to know how much the final outcome was worth. Thanks

@boyharmon357 Ай бұрын

Thanks for the great video , so good to see something on the tube that is so interesting .

@K4Z0K4 27 күн бұрын

Very interesting video, sir. For the Artists and crafts people like is. It was very entertaining and educational. Kudos to your dedication and content 🥂