The Bob Ross of gold refinement. Love your videos.

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ethan! I'll take that comparison any day!! 😁

@Manohar-qr1hb

10 ай бұрын

Sodium metaby sulphate? Sodium hydroxide ? Use Any one?

@matthewholmes899

Күн бұрын

I though his voice had a Jack Nicholson quality.

if someone told me... "when you grow up you will spend hours watching videos of guys refining precious metals" I never would have believed it... here I am watching you and sreetips all the time

Can’t get enough of your videos Jeff ,keep ‘em coming

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear! Thanks so much Chris!

Love your vids, Jeff. So silky smooth! The look of that gold solution always amazes me! ❤🤩

@LithicMetals

11 ай бұрын

Wonderful to hear. Thanks for saying so!! 😁

I enjoy watching both you and sreetips refine gold.

Very good explanation of what you were doing within that process. Nice outcome.👍

Came over from tiktok - really love your content - like honestly 10/10. The subject matter is interesting, your knowledge and skill is obvious, you communicate what you're doing well and have a voice that's genuinely nice to listen to! Oh and of course the vids are visually stunning!

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining me here as well George! Thanks for the wonderful feedback... im glad these vids speak to you!

That was so awesome! So much more professional than the way I've been doing it! Thanks for that!!

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the props Matt! 😁

Love your videos. Really cool to watch the whole process

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear, thanks Jacob! 😁

Great job Sir! I can’t wait! 👍😁🤗

Love the videos. Brand new to the industry and these teach me a lot!

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear Collin, thanks! 😁

That was awesome Jeff! Thanks for sharing👊🏻😁

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Derek! Appreciate ya watching!!

Thank you Jeff🌹🇳🇴🇺🇲

Hello Jeff. Thank you fore this Great clip🙂. Take care, and God bless you.

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Hi Jeff, I really enjoy watching your videos, keep up the great work

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

I really appreciate hearing that, thank you!

Good video Jeff. First time I have seen the ammonia rinses and it looked like it really cleaned the gold sponge.

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

I'll tell ya, that ammonia has been a game changer for me. It really scrubs out that sponge. I appreciate you watching John!

@charlie_maa

3 ай бұрын

Same here, i never knew about the ammonia rinses , so Jeff tell me , you buy the ammonia in form of what? Liquid ?

New to the channel...bravo love this video, can't wait to watch my way through the back catalogue. Informative and something for me personally to aspire to 👏

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate you joining me here! I hope you enjoy the other vids too! 😁

Good stuff bro, loved it. The ammonia rinse also dissolves any organic gunk passed on onto the metal.

Fascinating!

Thanks so much for sharing!

@LithicMetals

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! 😁

Your video's are so inspiring, great video mate.

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I appreciate hearing that. 😁

Thanks Jeff. We deal with a lot or raw gold and dore bars made of electrum (Au 60%, Ag 40% plus traces of Cu and Pd). We sell it at 40% discount to the 100% pure gold. However i'd like to experiment with this process as people dont like "contaminated" bars. Great explanation.Very easy to follow and in your voice not some weird computer voice reading a script. 👍

Dissolving the SmB in water first allows you to just pour it in and get perfect mixing and an almost instant crashing out of solution of the gold. Cool to see.

Hello Jeff. Always a highlite

Fabulous work 🎉

@LithicMetals

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Danny! I appreciate you watching!! 😁

Mighty fine 🎉

Love this content.

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful to hear! 💛

Very professional job.

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Appreciate you watching!! 😁

Another great video 🙏

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks David! 😁

Harold would be proud. Great video sir.

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

😁

Very clean precise workmanship great job👍

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I appreciate you watching!! 😁

Love the content.

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Lance! I appreciate you watching!! 😁

Great video, good job brother🤜🤛

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Loren! I appreciate it my man!!

Wow. just wow 😊

Nice video 👍

That was awesome tq for sharing😊✌

@LithicMetals

10 ай бұрын

💛

Hello Jeff. Hoping you an your famely are fine.🌹 Seeing forward to more clip from your Great canal🌹. Arne from Norway 🇳🇴

Here in Brazil, I use nitric acid for treatment and ammonia, ammonia to remove chlorides.

You can eliminate the chloride steps by simply continuing to boil in AR until the solution remains colorless. A touch of sulfuric acid during digestion will precipitate any lead. If you do this it will reduce the quantity of waste solution as well as the number of chemicals that have to be purchased and dealt with in the waste stream.

Buen trabajo Bro , saludos desde Chile

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Appreciate it!! 😁

Man that is a lot of work for 7 grams of Gold

You're a wonderful man. Exactly I have deposits of quartz almost similar to the soil I worked on I don't know man is it like it or not until I do like you ... Was this yellow dust caused by concentrating rocks and washing? thank you you are wonderful❤

This is such good stuff here!! I pan gold and have accumulated 50 grams so far. I bought it all from Klesh over the past couple of years and I dream of the day I can do exactly this to my gold. Thanks for showing me how! Now I just to get your setup in a shop… Hey, will you sell the equipment and chemicals or provide a link with a code so you get a commission?

I'm familiar with refining, but would like to use the ammonia rinse. Any particular kind or % to look for? Thanks, love your content!

Very cool

Jeff HAS TO BE sreetips son. Theres no way they are NOT related!

@LithicMetals

10 ай бұрын

Lol, I'm pretty sure we're about the same age.

If you watch the video give a like , he is sharing something not a lot of ppl understand 👍

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Scott. I appreciate the support! 😁

i think you still shoulda used distilled water at 4:45 because yes even though tap water contains trace amounts of chlorine, the hydrochloric acid is like half chlorine, so you dont need to add extra chlorine into the system, if anything tap water would actually contaminate your gold solution, adding more to wash out when you percipitate it. also, you shoulda added a small amount of sulfuric acid to percipitate any lead that would naturally exist in the metal, cause its definitly there because it came from a natural source and not like jewlery or bullion.

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

I found the pros out weigh the cons at that point. Distilled water doesn't always flush that remaining silver out of the AR like my filtered tap water does. The deposits it might carry are washed out later, easier than the silver still in solution would have. It's working for me! Oh yeah, always have to add the sulfuric acid. Bummer I didn't include it in the vid! Thanks for watching!

@adelinyoungmark1929

Жыл бұрын

@@LithicMetals yeah makes sense tbh. im just used to using distilled water for everything cause thats what you'd do in a lab setting, because sometimes things can be pretty sensitive to tap water (especially if your trying to get high purity products). also its even more so important to add sulfuric acid to natural specimins, as they contain higher lead content than most scrap gold.

Anytime I hear "I'm Jeff"

Sweet dude! I’m using Shor’s kit for two pounds gold plated copper contacts this week. I’m not liking the results. Wish I had extra time and stuff to get pure like you man!!!👍

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

I have a pound of their Quadratic Precipitant that I'm excited to use one of these days. I suspect that their kit should do the trick for ya, hope it goes good!

Love your vids! saw you first in TT. where did you learn to do this stuff? if you dont mind me asking.

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I started by reading a book by CM Hoke, then I just researched everything I could.

1:40 I would have used the magnet before the fusion to remove the magnetite, (black sand) if present.

Have you ever messed anything up? Like dropped or Mixed wrong stuff?

@LithicMetals

11 ай бұрын

Me?... Naw!... Well... maybe once or twice, lol. I actually feel I have a pretty good track record, but yes... I've certainly made a few mistakes. I've learned a lot from each of them, too! Thanks for watching!! 😁

Hi Jeff, I have see, you are doing ammonia rinces and gold looks amazing. I have some 3+ g of placer gold I washed myself, I clean it very carefully, that is the best part of prospecting. Here (CZ) is placer gold 22 K+, very goldy, mostly with silver, not much copper if any. One of reasons, I am watching refining videos, not to loose MY gold in refining process...

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I hope I offer you a few good tips!!

@frantiseklaluch6605

Жыл бұрын

@@LithicMetals Yes, you realy do, but not few.... many... 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 😀

Amazing video

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Pete! I appreciate you watching!!

@prospectorpete

Жыл бұрын

@@LithicMetalsive mentioned you in my video I posted today. I also linked your channel at the end of my video

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

@@prospectorpete I appreciate you sharing the love Pete!!

Do we need rinse the gold by H2SO4 after precipitation? Thanks Sir

Hello Jeff, today I for the first time refined some silver using cupellation process. Small test, turned 2 g of 800 into 1,580 g of pure (I hope) silver, that went great. Also tried to refine 2,5 g of 585 (14k) gold, it turned it into 636... I probably eliminated just some 200 mg of base metals. I must clean the bead from cupel and oxides residues (sadly no sulfuric, I will try pH minus - NaHSO4), inquart and go with nitric or not inquart and go with HCl + H2O2, or directly AR... I am nor sure yet...

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like fun experiments! If you really want the gold to be pure, you're going to have to inquart it.

Shoot! That's a good paydirt bag😂

What’s the purity of the hydrochloric acid you use to make aqua Regia?

Can this method work in PGMs. Specifically palladium and platinum

Why isnt it the practice to kind of compress or adjitate the balls floating at the bottom, like at 3:28 it looks like the liquid is getting into the balls, and that you want that to happen, would something like a masher help break it up making more area covered by liquid? Honesly id never do this or anything, just a question, this process seems so wild, real life gold out of sand haha

Can you do a video of just beauty shots of gold nuggets and bars? HD/good cameras/lighting/smooth slow rotation

A lot of work, but the result is very impressive

Your voice. 😍

Before smelting, gold was brown, then turned yellow, what is the explanation for this?

For real, id like to meet the person who figured all this shit out

great

That ammonium you mentioned, is it ammonium sulfate?

@Robert-bt8yj

Ай бұрын

ammonium hydroxide

Two questions: How much all the acids used here are worth & how big is the ammount of waste acids produced here?

Hello Sir, thank you for educating us, can i know if you loose the other precious metals and how much gold you loose in the process. And do you think if i have liquid gold in my suitcase the x-ray can detect it ?

@LithicMetals

7 ай бұрын

You don't lose anything in the process. Yes the xray would see it. The last thing you'd want to do is carry liquid acid around.

Hello... Thank you for the most inspiring vids. But I have somw questions... You used ammonia to rinsed the gold powder? what type of ammonia? the one from the hardware store?

@LithicMetals

5 ай бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Correct, just household ammonia.

@azlee101

5 ай бұрын

@@LithicMetals Thank you so much!!!

mate absolutely awesome, but what type of ammonia do you use?

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Regular household stuff 🙂

@manohar4332

10 ай бұрын

Which type of ammonia?

hey so i hope this isn’t a dumb question too ask but i enjoy your videos a lot and was wondering if Precious Metal Refining is something someone can do as a hobby for people ? like would i need licenses for anything like the equipment or chemicals ? Thanks again man :)

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

You want to check your local laws, but yes... I started doing it as a hobby. There is a lot to learn in order to do it safely. Go to the goldrefiningforum.com and start reading up!

@fathergoth2291

Жыл бұрын

@@LithicMetals Thank you man i appreciate it :) !

That's so much time, energy and resources for about $400 of gold.

@LithicMetals

11 ай бұрын

👍

Great job....really enjoyed your presentation....very knowledgeable, and thank you for sharing.... Bill

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure Bill! Thanks for tuning in! I'm glad you enjoyed it 😁

Most people use a magnet to trap the black sand and collect the gold from the pan or container.

@LithicMetals

8 ай бұрын

👍

What do you do with the leftover chemical solutions?

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

There's a series of simple but time-consuming processes that render it all inert. I'll probably do a vid or two on it.

I heard Sreetips mention the reason he doesn’t use cement silver for enquarting is because other metals will follow the silver when rinsed out, thus contaminating the cement silver again. I guess if you’re not dealing with silver it wouldn’t matter though. Edit: the one he said follows silver the most begins with a P, wasn’t platinum though. Can’t remember the word right now.

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

None of that would really matter much because when I recover the silver, it will go to the silver cell to be refined anyway. 🙂

@MyScreenNameIsTroubledOne

Жыл бұрын

@@LithicMetals oh you refine silver also? Haven’t seen any videos of yours about silver yet. I’ll go look for that! New subscriber and I’m loving your content! Appreciate ya! 💪💪👍

@MyScreenNameIsTroubledOne

Жыл бұрын

@@LithicMetals oh and I guess Sreetips would have gotten the cement silver from refining the crystals out of his silver cell, so it makes sense for him not to want to recontaminate it. Different strokes for different folks. 👍👍

1010 numerology baby yaaazzz

Did you go to school for this? Have a degree in chemistry? Self taught? What's your background that allows you the smarts for this? I love listening to and watching your videos. I'm a silver artist and thought about refining my own used silver.

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

I first read a book by CM Hoke, she essentially wrote the refiners bible in 1940. After going through the experiments she outlined and with the help of the goldrefiningforum community, I picked up a few things. I've had gold fever since I was a kid, and I think playing with gold was just inevitable lol 😁

Ты Крутой парень !!!

Do put it on the stove.?

Hi from Tic Tok😉

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Hey! Thanks for joining me here!!! 😁

Do you use tap water ice cubes or distilled water ice cubes

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

I use store bought ice at that point, which I consider to be tap water.

How many times can the acids for the rinses be reused? The Aqua Regia can't, but the others I suppose can be used a few times, as I imagine they aren't cheap.

@LithicMetals

Ай бұрын

When everything is done right, you can't reuse the reagents because they are spent.

@nikolatasev4948

Ай бұрын

@@LithicMetals Thanks for the info!

How much gold in one Bitcoin?

When you add ice, is it fromdemineralized water?

@LithicMetals

9 күн бұрын

Hey, Chris. No, I use plain filtered tap water for the ice. At that point, the solution is quite free of silver. If there is silver left in the solution, the traces of chlorine would cause it to drop out of solution, and I can then filter it out before proceeding.

What is the that white bake pan you use? I bought some at Walmart but they explode when I heat them up on the hot plate.

@LithicMetals

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, you can't use most glassware on a stove top. I use the old school Corningware dishes.

@nativeflight7079

2 ай бұрын

Alright got me a few on eBay! They’re slightly pricey but they should last me for a long time.

Can you add the ammonia waste to a regular stock pot?

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

No, it's not the best idea. I store and treat it separately. 😁

Hi, thanks for the video.. I am wondering on how to go about the SMB part... how do someone know the ratio to use, or approximate the amount to use?

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

If you have all of the free nitrates used up, you'll need just under 1g of smb for every gram of gold in solution. 🙂

@roreyheaker8045

Жыл бұрын

​@@LithicMetalsbagaimana cara mengilangkan nitrat bebas yg anda maksudkan?

If we use SO2 for prepicitation. How is the Purity of gold if compare with SMB? Thanks

@LithicMetals

2 ай бұрын

If everything is done right, both methods should yield 3nines or better.

Sir good day, I would like to ask you a question about neutralizing/denoxing the nitric ions, why is it that after the filtration i made from aqua regia gold solution, why there's white powder/ white silts forming from the bottom after I added Urea 46-0-0 and sodium metabisulfite to the solution.

@shirouie

Жыл бұрын

What's the next step should I do to precipitate the gold?

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Hmm... did the gold drop out and settle, and then a white precipitate settled on top of it? If so, I imagine you used a bit too much SMB. Or do you mean that you added the Urea and SMB, and no gold dropped out and the white precipitate formed? If that's the case I imagine you may still have way too much nitric in the solution. In that case I'd either add and dissolve more gold until the nitrates are spent, or keep boiling off the solution and adding more hcl until you're confident the nitrates are used up.

@shirouie

Жыл бұрын

@@LithicMetals thank you so much sir, noted.

نعم يوجد عندنا في اليمن منطق اثريه تاريخيه عند مانبحث عن ذهب نجد واع يجور.نفتحه ثم نجد ارمد

Interested in your venting procedure

@LithicMetals

11 ай бұрын

Do you mean my fume booth? I designed and built it.

@petegeanacopulos1582

11 ай бұрын

@@LithicMetals both ur fume hood and where/how you vent it.

Picking pricess process

Cool Jeff ,I was just wondering how much the loss would be on 20 grams 10 k .now I know maybe around 3 g? I follow stree tips as well. Cheers man✌️

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

20g of 10k = apx 8.33g of pure gold. I appreciate you following me as well!! 😁

@jennc8554

Жыл бұрын

@@LithicMetals looking forward to your next big project and it would have been great to have picked up one of your pieces.

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

@@jennc8554 I'm just about to wrap up my first 1/10oz Mercury series. A total of 250 pieces in the series. I have two on my bench at the moment. If you'd like to see pics or more info, please feel free to email me at lithicmetals@gmail.com 🙂

Do you give classes on how to do this ?

@goldsilverjunkie

Жыл бұрын

Watch SREETIPS he explains alot

You should sell that ice water! U know theres some person out there that wants to tell everyone hes so rich and badass he drinks "gold" water or "gold infused" water. Telling u bro, you could make a fortune. If someone will buy fart water someone will definitely buy gold water

Can you do a big batch?

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

Never seen a batch too big!

Hoping that life is treating you well and hope to get some new material from you soon...

@LithicMetals

6 ай бұрын

I appreciate it. I have a lot of footage to edit, I've just been too busy in the lab to post vids. But I'll have some great pours to show you soon!

@LithicMetals

6 ай бұрын

I appreciate it. I have a lot of footage to edit, I've just been too busy in the lab to post vids. But I'll have some great pours to show you soon!

@ahmedlegins5497

6 ай бұрын

Good to hear & I can't wait!!!