I've been seeing you do this for years, I know exactly what comes next yet the suspense for pt2 is killing me.

@thesleeperofrlyeh9015

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, I almost always know exactly what step comes next(unless he switches it up) down to being able to finish almost all of his sentences. However, for some weird reason I get mad when I have to wait for a video because of the suspense roflmao. Been watching Sreetips for about 2 years now, still suspenseful lol.

@roberthayward9299

Жыл бұрын

@@thesleeperofrlyeh9015 I often watch and enjoy these videos too. I like to second guess what might come next and what I might want to do if I were treating the material. I'd be washing the solids a few times with distilled water, then adding sodium cyanide solution to leach out noble metals but I've never seen Sreetips use cyanide. Cyanide is what is used to extract gold in the mining industry.

@Sugarkraft

Жыл бұрын

A second that!

@ghosttwo2

Жыл бұрын

How Much Gold In Jewelers Bobbing Compound Pt2 and The Chamber of Secrets

@darkhorsegarage9623

Жыл бұрын

I watched someone pour acid on something and an orange cloud came up. I knew immediately that it was nitric acid. This sort of knowledge could save you life.

This is my favorite kind of thriller! Taking the unknown substance and extracting gold from it, like Sherlock Holmes. Please, keep doing it! Although it is not pleasant to perform, it is a hell ton of pleasure to watch.

@T-Rod423

Жыл бұрын

I vote "hell ton" actually becomes a unit of measurement. I agree!

The jewelers scrap videos are my favourite by far Please never stop

Hearing you describe general good quality jewelry repair as a dying breed reignites the little spark for jewelry craft I have. I'm only 24 but I took a jewelry class in high-school. I loved it, loved it so much I spent almost 600$ buying things to make jewelry but before I could get into it things went sideways in life. I really hope that one day in the future if nothing else that I find myself in a position to pursue jewelry craft again. Thanks as always for the great videos Mr tips.

"Every time I get jeweler scrap, I swear I'm never gonna do it again..." we love your videos. I am in a non gold bearing region however electronic waste is ever present and you have taught me a lot. Thank you so much.

Just like a fantastic series on tv I have to wait till next week. Gosh darn it lol. See you soon good sir. Look forward to it. 😂

So much work! This is another example of using the pyrometallurgical application of the fire assay analysis. Ignite and screen your sample down to that black powder. Ignite it again. You want to be left with your metals, carbon and abrasives oxides and carbides. Take the black screened material into a fire assay clay pot and fill it about 1/4 of the way up. Add half that volume of CuO. 2 oz of Na2CO3, 1 oz of Na3BO3 1 oz of clean SiO2. Heck. Throw in 5 oz of wheat flour to insure you have enough ignitable carbon. Mix the dry materials. Fire until molten in your furnace. Pour off into a metal cone. Let cool under a metal cover. Break up the glass and collect the Cu button. Repeat until all your initial sample is processed. When the carbon reduces the CuO to Cu metal, the glass formed by the borax, washing soda and sand will absorb the abrasive oxides/carbides. Work up your Cu buttons with your HNO3 boils. It'd be a quantitative collection of all precious metals. The only place you could lose metal value would be in the initial ignition and grinding process. No inquart needed. When you cement out the Ag, it'd be all the Ag in your total sweepage. Maybe some Pd, too! You're left with nothing but metal and glass. If it survives, the crockery can be used over. If it doesn't survive, it can go in the trash. Expect breakage. The glass can be disposed in your local glass recycling, if you wish. You have all the equipment that you need except the fire assay clay pots and CuO. (Chuckle) You can sweep up around your lab table and run that material.

This is going to be a good one! My next favorite videos, just below the stock pot (from the buckets) videos.

Great stuff Sreetips! I started watching, and then thought to myself, "Didn't he swear to never do this again?" Right then you said, "Yes I swore I'd never do this again and yet here we are." 😂😂😂 As the old saying goes, it takes one addict to recognize another. Looking forward to the next in the series. Did you remember to sweep out the furnace? Not that there would be much there.

@apveening

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering about the furnace as well.

@stooartbabay

Жыл бұрын

Sreetips is like “I ain’t never doing this aging!” And every one of us is like “Yes Yes! Do it again!!! “ :)

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it wasn’t much.

Such a tease! "What's in the brown mud? Find out in the next instalment!" I really need to be more patient! looking forward to the reveal. Have you ever had a mystery sample analysed in something like a mass spectrometer to know what it was in fact that you were dealing with? Would be a fascinating comparison on mystery substances like this.

I love this kind of series, can't wait for next episodes

Thank you for the new video, cannot wait to see how much gold you recover from this! I know it is hard to do, but these kinds of recovery are fun to watch.

You might be a glutton for punishment, but we love watching you doing these challenging experiments.

I can't wait to see how this goes

So good. I love these recovery videos. Treasure from trash. Amazing. Great work as always.

This is going to be a fun one 🙂 Excited to see what you get out of this. Keep us posted!

Loved the video and can’t wait for part two 🎉🎉🎉

This'll be fun 😂😂😂

I got a good feeling about this round Sreetips. That was a very good volatiles burn off and HNO3 separation and the most surface area you could ever ask for. GL&HF!

Can’t wait for the next part!

You are welcome. Looks like it’s shaping up to be an interesting result. As I watched this from the pacific coast tropics, nearing sunset, I looked up to see a large flying bird that wasn’t a vulture. I was able to get a quick glance through the binoculars and I’m quite sure I had my first known sighting of a Golden eagle (all other sightings, in Canada, can be attributed to being juvenile Bald eagles). That said, I figure it’s a good omen, and soon we’ll see a great golden egg. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I love animals, especially birds, especially birds of prey.

Another cool video. I have the feeling you're gonna get a nice haul out of this, and maybe a few extra interesting elements. She's gonna be messy tho.

Just gotta love a multi part series,Thank You Sir✌️ Napa California

Oh man thats gonna be a hell of a mess

Sreetips, you have gained roughly 30k subscribers since I have started watching you. I assume your viewership has gone up and you are hopefully monetized. Anyway, I (I am sure I can speak for most of us here) enjoy your videos and if there is a way I can support you including us in your hobby, I hope you let's us know how.

@busbey61

Жыл бұрын

I say this, because FYI, when you make comments on your videos about how you said "I was never going to do this again", means, this is going to be a damn good video or series of videos. And when you grovel over an incident in a video, it is usually the best part of the video. I don't believe it is because we enjoy your distress, I think it is because some interesting or new just happened and seeing how resolve the issue.... It is just like reading a good book (I would assume).

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Excellent point of view.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Just watch, comment, and enjoy!

I've been waiting for 6 days for the last video to come out. Now I'm going to watch all of them at once. Thank you for creating the most unique refining series videos. You are by far the best.

How wonderful to wake up to a video!

Looking forward for part 2. 😀

Can't wait for part 2.

Awesome I can't wait to see how it goes

Very nice work!

Looking forward to part 2 👍

thank you for your wonderful video, waiting for part 2

What a fascinating project. I cant wait to see how this one turns out. Will comment again at the end.

Very interesting 👌 just received my book finally! What a great read !!!

i love it when it says part 1.more good stuff to follow,thanks,sreetips

It looks like this could take a while. Very challenging stuff.

Chemical engineer here. When I designed a scrap recovery system, we used tunnel furnaces, which used trays and of material pushed from one end to the other.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

That’s sounds like a dream to me

I already like this one! A chemical puzzle once more.

I literally stop work when I get a notification from this channel!

Can't wait for part 2. Was worried about you. You haven't posted in a while. Looks like this will be a tough one.

I really enjoy these jewelers videos

Accept the fact that you like the challenge lol . I love the videos

This is going to be a very interesting series and I'm looking forward to it thank you for sharing this with us six stars brother

Good job, Senior Chief!

I know you swore to never do jewelers scrap again but I for one am glad you did. These are great to watch - but I sense your pain 😉 Well done sir. Great video 👍

Nice vidoe i am keen of your channel i am got many nice experience of your experments

Love watching jewelers scrap getting processed...so many curveballs. Lol

I wonder if this would work similarly to a batch of various scrap electronics I worked on last summer. I didn't have the patience in me to spend the time separating everything out so I just added it all to 400gm of sterling. I figured since I'd know reasonably close the amount of silver I'd get from the sterling that anything extra would have come from the scrap. I can't remember exactly how much scrap I worked but it was over 500gm. All various smd components (ie diodes, transistors, resistors, capacitors, fuses etc). I just melted the sterling and then began adding in scoops of the scrap and let it all melt and alloy. I had to use a LOT of flux though as it kept getting really chunky but when I poured it the flux had a really nice glassy look and separated very well from the prill. Followed that up with nitric acid and there was a surprising amount of black dust left over and most of that was Au. Some Pt which was just poured into the stockpot. I was surprised at how much Ag and Pd I got out of it. More than I expected and this method was (for me at least) much easier than the way I had been doing it previously and far less labour. It'd be interesting the see if doing this would make working this type of material easier to clean out for you. That abrasive has GOT to be a royal pain in the neck.

Excellent.

This is gonna be good 👍

Fun stuff Sreetips

I'd say that it's a gift of providence that a handful of reactions does so much of the work in refining precious metals.

Another interesting video

Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. What a kind man you are sir. Thank you for sharing this clip. Have a nice day both of you🌹🌹. Arne

Way cool video

This is so fracking cool.

In place of the repair person paying you for cleaning his equipment, is he giving a percentage of, or giving you in whole what you recover from this? I hope it's the full amount personally. Love the show and the work you do, very fascinating and fun to watch.

@PaulBrown-uj5le

Жыл бұрын

More like the other way round, he makes a fuck ton from these videos, if I had this many subs I'd do the jewellers dust for free, just my opinion but he probably does get a cut of the yield.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

He’s my friend, I get to work with actual jewelers scrap, he gets his material refined for free. Win-win.

@NOFX0890

Жыл бұрын

I was curious what a reasonable percentage is to keep if you are toll refining, not for a friend, with a material that is relatively (ha) straightforward. Theres many variables i suppose. Great series Srretips...

Hooked me in! Gotta see what's up with all that bobbing!

"Every time I take this jewelers scrap I swear I am never going to do it again!" - makes for some good videos though!! Thanks man...

Very anxious to see how this turns out.

Can't wait for part 2. Hope it's not just a lot of sand...

24:07 Sreetips is making strange coffee again!

back in the back, back there😂

Cool looking forward to part 2 be very interesting what's exactly in that mix?? 👍

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Good question.

Yes, that looks challenging.

love it

@dk7863

Жыл бұрын

🙂

I feel like you're the Bob Ross of refining material.

Hello sir, I just started watching this video, as I see the havoc, this is gonna be SOME series...

What a cliffhanger!

Oooohhhhhhhh, i can see à stock pot refining series ! Please do big and use your biggest funnel !

My dad was army and he used to say if you bite off more than you. Can? Chew just keep grinding till you get that bite small enough to swallow. Always informative can't wait to see the next episode of this.

Looks like a yummy Reese Peanut Cup at the end....😋

After a stressful city day his voice is just right, so relaxing. Thank the KZread algorithm that I found this channel.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Welcome!

@pittypatterputzzler5311

Жыл бұрын

I add this to my special KZread unicorn list. This is so pleasing to watch. People that have the pleasure to be close to you are surrounded with blessings all around. What a wonderful human being.

Doing cleanup work like this or the carpet from under the workbench always seems like they would be a lot of work, but makes for good content showing all the odd places you might find a surprising amount of gold. I noticed you had different kind of nitric acid bottles. Did you change supplier or did your supplier change the container? If you changed supplier any reasons why?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I bought nitric from dudadiesel just to try it out. I don’t like the way the bottle pour.

Tipo magica. Top demais. 🇧🇷🤝

With all the train derailments lately, I came across a Nitric Acid spill in AZ.

I wonder how much of the initial powder weight is attributable to the polishing compound? Is the compound silica based?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Some of it is.

is this the same jeweller you got the carpet from or is word getting out that you will clean up and pay them for it :P

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Yes

Is this the same jeweler that had the carpet scraps you refined? The guy that eats peanuts at his bench 😃 I know these are insanely time consuming but it’s fascinating the way you process seemingly non-metallic stuff into bars.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Yes

that yellowish brown vapor from your solution, does the precious metal evaporate to some degree?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

No, but the vapor leaving the beaker probably contains traces of precious metals.

I'm wondering if we will see a 2ed incineration for this refining. This kinda reminds me of the jewelers carpet

Wow do you buy that scrap from them or you just process it and they pay you?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

No, I’ll end up doing it for free because he is a friend. He gets his junk refined for nothing, I get the opportunity and experience working with actual jewelers waste. Plus I get the video.

What if you smelted it first? And then refined. Do you have furnace and crucible big enough?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

No

oh boy i cant wait to hear hoe many tens of thousands of dollars worth of gold the jeweler expects to come out of this one

Hey sreetips you should just keep your stir bars attached to a strong magnetic so the magnetic field in them doesn't get weaker over time 👌

That looks like Primordial Ooze lol

Good to see you taking another whack at this compound crap, aka (mud).

Would a coffee grinder work for processing things quicker?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know, possibly.

That liquid looks like it would be a mix of ferric, copper and silver nitrate? And probably a few other nitrates I might have missed

So curious what you think of Duda Energy. I've never bought nitric from them but I do buy my potassium nitrate and SMB from them because of price. Last place I bought nitric from was Bausch Scientific.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I tried the nitric on a recommendation. Not a bad price. But I don’t like the way they pour.

@SMOBY44

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips I got 4 of those big glass bottles from a friend and I ended up pouring them into used plastic 1/2 liters bottles because of the glugging. That and they're heavy. I'll take any deal on price anymore, including shipping.

@SMOBY44

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips I just ordered the 4 pack of these. $20 a liter including shipping is awesome. I have enough empty 1 liter plastic bottles that I can just refill with the glass ones. I actually might order another just because of the price.

Is that a Bulova 10BPAC you are wearing?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Omega Constellation.

Do you usually add muriatic acid to the base material? I noticed you didn’t this time.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Usually add it to the gold I intend to dissolve.

Would treating with sulfuric acid result in a favorable reduction of the non-metal material in the early stages of cleaning this up?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Possibly

I would do a Stannis test on that solution.

Curious , why do you put the plates on top ?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

To act as reflux and to keep junk from falling in

Mr Sreetips… I just want to introduce myself as an avid lover of the videos you have done. You being a hobbyist gives me real passion to pursue the same joy you are doing… which I hv already invested some into … Having said these things ,.. just as a opinionated answer or answers from you,.. could you please give me and others here any links to some viable” and somewhat cost friendly” sites beyond EBAY,.. that provide purchases of reagents and acids, that can be acquired as a home hobbyist. Particularly on Nitric acid sales and on dry reagents. I am meeting roadblocks as an individual trying to purchase and not as a business. Any input or direction would be so helpful… Ken from Kentucky

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I just bought nitric from dudadiesel. All the other stuff I get on eBay or Ace Hardware. If they want a business, then create an LLC. It cost a couple hundred bucks. Any tax accountant can do it for you. A company doesn’t have to be a building with plant and equipment. It’s just a piece of paper in a folder in your file cabinet.

Missed this video when it uploaded and I'm just now starting to watch it. I'm dumbfounded that this fan is inside the area where all the metal dust is collected! It's probably full of precious metals that can never be recovered!

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Possibly

Any reason not to use a vacuum on the dust?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

No

As a thought what about an electric arc to incinerate the materials just a cheap welder and a couple of carbon gouging rods