Always enjoy hearing you talk about acquiring pieces, gold value, dollars, etc. The lifestyle and reasoning behind your refining videos interests me as a viewer.

@ANCIENTASTRONAUT411

2 жыл бұрын

SCREETIPS IS GOLD 👑 KING

@_jb_

Жыл бұрын

The only problem is that the guy selling for 3750 as opposed to 4660 pure gold value don't have the time nor equipment nor experience to refine the gold. Also if you pay yourself a wage and calculate all the cost of material, I think his profit won't be $900 but closer to $300

@thejll

Жыл бұрын

@@_jb_ but Mr Sreetips enjoys it, and so do we

@ctvxl

Жыл бұрын

@@_jb_ You are thinking about it backwards. The gold in the bracelet is worth approximately the same amount whether it is refined out or not. And in fact, the bracelet if it is in good condition should be worth well more than its scrap gold value alone. A bracelet like that sold today, new in the jewelry store would probably cost upwards of 5-6k or possibly more. The finished product is worth more than the raw material.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I used that gold to pay off my house.

That moment when the SMB meets the solution = perfection. Something I hadn't heard of or seen before until your videos. Always fascinating. Now I make my husband wait if he wants anything during this process. "Not now, I can't leave before it precipitates out of solution." He even sits down to watch it with me. I know I will never find myself in a lab doing this myself, but I can experience it through you. Thanks for another fine video.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

That’s gratifying, thank you

$3750 is likely more than the seller would have gotten from a jeweler and it's not like the average person is going to refine it themselves. So if the seller needed to get the cash it probably ended up as a win for both parties.

@gernsey7362

2 жыл бұрын

yeah i don't believe the line that people value FIAT more then gold. That's some fluff

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

How about this: do you believe that most people think that the dollar is still backed by gold? Just ask your bank teller.

@janicobrackenmillioniarely1617

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahah

@janicobrackenmillioniarely1617

2 жыл бұрын

@@gernsey7362 and it’s true I see it every day man. Crazy times people value a peice of paper worth almost nothing more then actually value because they say it’s worth value. And I ask god and look where I am

@bmccarty2012

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. I question the "people value dollars over gold" conclusion myself.

That’s impressive, the yield is pretty good. I’ve tested and used an xrf machine many times on 18K jewelry, my usual finding are: that stamped 18k jewelry, necklaces, rings, etc, is usually 17.3-17.5k. So slightly less than 75%. About 72-74% gold, So your yield seams consistent with what I have found in jewelry.

It's so amazing. I've watched several of these now; this guy and one other. It's so satisfying to see junk get dissolved into various stages of what looks like Gatorade into a brown dirt, then pure, beautiful shiny gold. Love it.

The color of that solution during the 2nd refining process was so beautiful. I'm really surprised that the experiment turned out as well as it did and never cease to amaze me with your refining skills!!

Excellent video. I think lots of us are very happy you produced this video!!!

Excellent video. I really enjoyed watching this. I was about to go to bed and saw your notification and had to watch it. You weighed the bracelet and I stopped the video to calculate the gold weight and the dollar value. I was within $50. I didn’t look up the spot price but knew it was around $1975. Good guess. You are really peaking my interest in making this a new hobby for myself in the coming years. I have 4 years till my kids get out of school and then I will have more time, space, and money. In the mean time, stock piling supplies to refine. Thank you for sharing your video. Great job 👍

That was great , I never ever get tired of this process. I could literally watch a thousand times and I'd still watch it again. Looking forward to your next video Sreetips. Cheers my friend

Another beautiful gold bar! Nice work brother - seems like a pretty good yield for using the “simpler” method.

@McSilverWolff

2 жыл бұрын

Nice to see you in the comments brother. Sreetips is an awesome channel. I've used his methods on refining silver and his methods are pure and work everytime. Can't wait to try and afford to do some gold!! You rock Rob

Another great video thanks door the break down in the beginning. Hope your finger is healing well. Happy Easter.

3:20 just perfect 👌🏽 the whole video is really great, very informative. Thank you!

Back in the day when banks first opened ppl deposited gold and silver for protection, then after a while they started giving out papers which was supposed to represent how much gold/silver that peice of paper was worth. Thats the birth of fiat currency. The money we actually use in circulation actually has no value except what ppl make it to be.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Not only people in the U.S. but the whole world.

I stumbled across this page about two weeks ago and can't stop watching these videos. I've learned so much.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome and thank you!

That was perfection. I wasn’t sure at first but, it all worked out in the end. One of the best pieces I’ve seen u poor. Ty for the entertainment. Well done.

Years ago I fell on hard times and I had to sell my gold bracelet. I could get food with the cash but alas not with the bracelet. So sometimes I understand peoples motivation for cash. Great video Kevin!

Love your channel. I am amazed by how graceful you are when handling your various beakers. I'm guessing that comes from experience.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been doing this for going on twelve years this September. I love it!

I don't know why but aquarita dissolving gold is exciting to me and I thoroughly enjoyed watching this episode I've been watching you for a while and I just enjoy everything you do and I learn a lot. Thanks for sharing your life an gold science. With us!! ✌🏼💗😊❣️

@fgb3126

2 жыл бұрын

AQUA REGIA

@donnakawana

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was speaking into my phone didn't notice it was spelled wrong... As I didn't have time to look.. I expected spell check to catch it...!!! Thanks professor 😘

Very good buy. ...and here we go, watching again...

Fantastic, I wasn't aware that you could skip the inquartation process, but you showed us how to do it. Very interesting and informative, sreetips, you pulled another rabbit out of your hat!

Really enjoyed this video. Would like to see more like this in the future!

I would like to see you repeat this exact experiment but keep the individual aqua regia (post gold dissolve) pours separate to see how much gold carries over from the first cycle of aqua Regia to the second to the third and so on to see if the majority of the gold comes through on the first, second or third dissolves. That would be neat to know.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Love love love it! Not just fascinating, but relaxing. Sreetips has a unique presentation. So chill it makes me want to watch again. If I hadn't just loaded up on a couple numismatic pieces I would bid on these bars. Im glad you get well over melt for em on the bids. You deserve it brother 🤙

@bdub2622

2 жыл бұрын

Where can you bid on his stuff? His work is amazing!

@bigtxbullion

2 жыл бұрын

@@bdub2622 same name on ebay

Love your continuing journey, and experiments in gold refining and extraction - it's really interesting mate, thanks for sharing it with us.

Always like starting my weekend with one of your refining videos

Great video. Question: Using this method of refining skipping inquartation. Was your yield higher. Cost cheaper, time spent refining shorter?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

A little shorter but it wouldn’t work with 10k or 14k because they contain too much silver and base metals,

your final product, not counting the silver, is worth $1400 more than you paid for the bracelet in today's spot pricing! A good day's work depending on the cost of the refinement. Fun to watch!

Well done Sreetips! You very effectively demonstrated the benefits of inquartation without actually inquarting!!

Great videos! I've watched several, and have always wondered what you do with the finished product. Do you just sell it at market value somewhere?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

No, I try to keep it

What a lovely bracelet!

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful!

I enjoy watching your videos as you are doing something I would enjoy doing but I will never be able to do myself.

Hello sreetips, just starting to learn about this. Thank you for all your knowledge! Question: what is your bowl made out of that you are burning with? I saw another video in which they were using the graphite.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Fused silica melt dish

I've always wondered if this specific process was viable. Thank you for running it, even though I've never thought of asking. Lol

Streetips you are a genius, my only input would be working on the production quality of your videos. With your know how and a good camera set up I could easily see your channel have millions of subscribers. Either way keep on keepin on!

Stunning bar. Thanks for one more exciting video.

Totally awesome. I believe I could do this. After watching these videos for a long time.

Very nice job! I was fascinated to see this whole process.

Yikes! I loved this💕👀, thank you so much. Must admit I had a little freak out when you melted that georgous bracelet…lolol, I guess someone can start over making another one you can buy cheap……lolol, very neat sreetips.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

It didn’t fit me and Mrs sreetips didn’t want it - too gaudy.

Wow what a bar wish I knew how to do this and had the set up thanks for sharing

Superb! You’re welcome. It is my pleasure to watch. I can’t help but feel that the silver button and the gold bar are relieved to be liberated from that awful contortion of a bracelet, no disrespect to the maker or original purchaser. The gold bar looks like it’s looking back with the all seeing eye! I wonder if that gold was first mined in Egypt.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! I though if the eye when I noticed that spot in the middle of the bar - good one.

I'm definitely trying to learn to do everything you show in these videos been watching them no stop since I found your channel. Where do you get your beakers and other equipment you use

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

eBay

That was fantastic! Love your videos. Woody approved.

That's pretty interesting how it's a powder then turns into gold after you're done Looks like lots of steps thanks for sharing

I gotta a question, I notice you always rense off the tops when you cover the beaker. I know that's for a possible splash of gold solution. My question is, being that the gas from the solution is yellow, does some good go up in the fumes by any chance? Or does gold have a third state it can exist in as a gas? I would think if it can be melted, be a powder, a solid and dissolved in liquid then it could possibly be particulars in the gas as well.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I believe that tiny droplets of gold are leaving the beaker in that red fumes. But traces only

Another great explanation. Just a question regarding the ice cubes. Are they made from tap water or distilled water ? Thanks.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Distilled

Wow, one of the best videos! Always was curious if inquartation was a necessary step. The hot HCL rinses helps remove base metals after the first SMB drop... Bravo!

@drakesavory2019

2 жыл бұрын

My understanding is that inquartation is not necessary if you have a high percentage of gold and I think 18k is the lowest this would work at.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I think that you are right

Sweet! SREETIPS! You the man! I’m ready for an eBay order

A couple of questions. Was that method quicker, or easier, that inquarting? Why did this method seem to produce more silver chloride than when you inquart?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

It was a little shorter than usual. But this is because of the high gold content (and low base metal and silver content). That’s the reason I was able to pull it off. This wouldn’t work with low karat gold such as 10k and 14k. The resulting solution would be too dirty and the silver content too high.

What’s not to love about your videos. From children to adults there is something for everyone and makes chemistry interesting to all.

Always enjoy watching your channel. Have you ever recovered gold from bone China and glassware?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

No I haven’t.

These videos are so enjoyable and so relaxing

Very cool. What did you do with the rest of the silver chloride solids? It looked like powder? Did it get melted with the rest of the solids from initial beaker? Keep the videos coming!

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Probably, but this whole thing was new to me. So I’m not quite sure exactly what those solids were. After viewing edited version I wish that I’d have gotten a closer view of that material with the camera.

The BoB Ross of chemistry! Great video!

Beautiful gold bar, and those gold solutions looked pretty too. Will you try to extract more gold from the waste solution?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Youbetcha

31:19 love to see you replace the clack of this Gold in to the pan with the kaaching eBay sound when someone pays for your item!

I'm curious, when you're buying the gold, do you weigh it before buying it, or are you just good at estimating what it weighs?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes weighing is critical. Other time it’s not. For example, I picked up an 18k bracelet once and asked them the price. They said five dollars. No need to break out the scale for that

I thought high purity gold couldnt be desolved without inquartation? Learned something new. Great results

Always great to see a beautiful gold bar and enjoy watching your video thanks for sharing sreetips

I love watching your videos, very educational with the process of smelting, refining and chemical composition. I metal detect in my spare time but wouldn't mind picking this up as a hobby as well. My question is with the current situation involving the dollar and how its so deflated, would you consider picking this up as a hobby and extra income?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

I could probably make a fume hood with an 8inch inline fan huh? I have an extra, new in the box I'm not currently using I think it moves close to 800cfm so would likely do the trick. I would likely vent it out my basement window to the woods. Any tips on building a homemade fume hood? Also I am wondering about using nitrile gloves when working with nitric acid. Is it safe because the acid you are working with isn't very concentrated? Are butyl gloves better for use with concentrate acids? Great videos! Really has me thinking of different projects to do.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

If I was to make my own fume hood, I’d use a large poly plastic tank with a round hole on top. Like they use to transporting liquids. I’d install a suitable (no metal parts exposed to fume exhaust path) external fan and have it draw through the fill hole for the tank. I’d cut an opening in the front and install acid-proof poly hinges. That’s what I’d go if I decided to make my own hood. As far as nitrile gloves, they will burst into flames with 95% fuming nitric, so I’ve been told. But with 68% to 70% like I use they work fine.

@necrophagus9

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips thank you for the reply. Good information!

Damn that was a very nice bar of gold man Thanks for sharing

Phenomenal work Mr. sreetips ! Always a pleasure to watch

Could you try explaining the difference between regular gold and white gold please? Other than the color!

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I have a video on it “White Gold What is it?”

@devillxx9612

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips ok thanks I haven't been following that long but I am very interested in these types of video's thanks again

Not going to lie…could watch this stuff all day, my kids think I’m boring….I say nothing boring about this process and pure gold. Bloody kids 😂

Can we use any percent of hydrochloric acid? & And how many days is the process of refinning?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I use 31.45% hydrochloric. I think this video took two days to complete.

Hey Sree! I like this new method - seems like you can save some time and money by going right to the aqua regia! When you took the gold into solution the second time was that simply because you were trying to refine any extra base metals out? Kinda cool that you can take the gold in and out of solution several times with aqua regia/SMB. Thanks!!

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello. I don’t think this would work for lower karat gold such as 10k and 14k. And I refine silver also. The first step in refining silver is to dissolve it in hot dilute nitric. So I may as well use it to inquart the gold. It does such a fine job of cleaning the metal. Inquarting with silver (or copper) is one of the most valuable refining techniques that I’ve ever learned. Second only to incremental nitric dosing.

@lo-tar1442

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips That's good to know - better to do it right! I'll make sure and brush up on your silver inquarting videos - I'm headed out this weekend to start buying beakers and chemicals! Excited to start on this journey. Thanks so much Sree :)

Any way you could do a video on how to take scap lead mixed with tin and other impurities and turn it into pure 100% lead.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t know how

Nice man I like your Gold cooking videos.

Great video. That is one way to make a 1000.00 dollars in a day. That’s awesome how you turn 18k into 99% pure gold. Can’t wait to see your next video.

Sreetips - as always great content. Curious though, do you know what exactly the fumes are that are off gassed by the aqua regia?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Not quite sure

@joun456

2 жыл бұрын

Nitrogen oxides, NO2 gives it the brown colour. Toxic! Defo needs done in a fumehood or outdoors

Bud it is so cool how you literally used ice to remove 90%of the silver from the gold in one shot! Keep up the good work 👌

Can't you sell scrap gold to a refiner for close to spot? What is the advantage of doing the refining yourself?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I get to make videos of the refining. By sending high purity gold, the refiner I sell to can’t fudge even a little. They know that I know what I’m doing. They don’t give credit for silver or PGMs. By refining myself I get to keep these metals. Plus - it’s fun.

Wow. What a stunning bar.

Great video! How's the thumb healing up?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Bandage off, I pulled two stitches myself this morning. Still a little tender but coming along nicely - thanks for asking.

Your really good, love the maths, logical, if people listen carefully to you, you have just told and shown how to calculate how much pure gold, now that with chemical cost sets wether its ecconomical or unecconomical to buy the item......People need to listen carefully to Sreetips....What a guy.

Whats the coast for the chems to do that the invest for glass an you most have a vent system are a lab still a dam good return nice job

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, since this is my hobby I don’t track expenses for each batch. But I estimate that the total cost of chemicals is probably about $100

how to do you not blow away all your pure gold powder when hitting it with the tourch ??

@sreetips

9 ай бұрын

I do it carefully.

I enjoyed seeing the experimental refining. I wonder how much nitric you saved doing it that way…??

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

In a recent video with the catches I opened a brand new 2.5 liter bottle of nitric when I started the nitric boils. I remember having about 1/2 liter left when I was done with the nitric boils. So it must have taken 2 liters of nitric to remove all the silver. But it doesn’t matter. I refine silver also and the first step in silver refining is to dissolve the silver in nitric. So it really doesn’t matter because I’m not really saving nitric

7:58 - somehow the thought "wonder how much gold could we get from THE OTHER bracelet here" flashed through my mind... : )

Why did some of the gold dissolve when you placed the bracelet in strait hydrochloric acid?

@sreetips

10 ай бұрын

I don’t know. Sometimes we see some strange effects with these metals and acids.

I buy gold from facebook marketplace/craigslist/etc. cheap and resale myself. I found a pretty good buyer that pays a good premium but this is making me think about refining myself. Is it worth it?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

There’s no need to refine it other than for your own enjoyment. The karat gold should track right on up with the bullion. The scrap contains silver and platinum group metals. By refining the gold myself I get to keep those.

I would love some advice on acquiring my first pieces of karat gold scrap/jewelry so that I can begin refining. I would like some ideas on where to find pieces and how to approach their owners with the goal of eventually refining and stacking their prescious metals against my future needs.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Preston, we go to yard sales, estate sales, thrift stores and resale shops. But you got to get up early and be there first or else the gold will be long gone.

@prestontucker6171

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips thank you sir! I'm wanting to make this a hobby between my wife and I, like you have with Mrs. Sreetips. My biggest problem is that I have young children and I need to keep them safe and protected from all the chemicals and fumes.

Dear serrtips, thank you for your effort, I really appreciate it. I have samples of river silt, and chemical analyzes have proven that it contains gold at a rate of 1% per 100 grams. But I could not extract gold from samples, neither by chemical methods nor by gravity sedimentation, perhaps because gold is microscopic gold? Can you help me with your experience and give me some advice on this issue?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Chlorine leach. But it’s not easy. And chlorine is deadly.

Hello Sreetips, since finding you (and subscribing), and have been watching, and learning, a lot. One thought is that I should try to learn a bit about these acids and other chemicals you use to make sure I don't do something that could cause any serious problems, like explosions and other dangerous situations. What are your thoughts on this subject?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

The first requirement is a fume hood. No way to safely do these reactions without one.

@PaulDinwiddie

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Thank you; that's where I will start, along with some hardware that I see you using. Thanks again!

@PaulDinwiddie

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips To save me from searching ALL your videos, would you tell me if you have a video on how to make a "fume hood"?

it would be interesting to know how much gold was present in the button, as a indication of how efficient(sp?) the process was

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I think the button was mostly silver. This was all new to me. I’ve never done this process. I made it up as I went along.

@MrPetrion

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips i think you're right. i just got one o' them inquirin' minds i guess!

Hey I'm new here, I'm sure this has been asked before but I'm going to ask it anyway(I had a gander and failed), but is there a reference video to see what all the processes you take to refine the gold. Very interesting watch, renews my fascination about noble metals.

@FromATalkingDonkey

2 жыл бұрын

I've found some very interesting in dept video from you now ! Please forgive my ignorance.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Not at all. Welcome to the channel

I added smb before I neutralized the nitric in solution, I had very little reaction and the solution is dark brown and it looks like the smb just settled at the bottom of solution.

Was the point of this to cut time/cost from your refining technique?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

No, just an experiment to see if I could pull it off

Hi doctor you come again with amazing video Again I have some questions why didn’t you Neutralize your solution before add SMB?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

No need, I only used just enough nitric to just dissolve the gold. Hydrochloric does not need to be neutralized. Only the nitric. But if you add the correct amount of nitric then there’s no need to neutralize the excess nitric because there won’t be any to remove.

@ssofmas8473

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips doctor then you know exactly how much make AR please tell us how much we need AR for amount of gold or foil gold or...?

@CothranMike

2 жыл бұрын

@@ssofmas8473 Incremental does the trick. Add 90% of the Nitric Acid to make your HCl/Nitric ratio initially. Then add only enough more Nitric Acid to dissolve the "gold" . If that does not do as you expect then rehydrate with HCl to give the gold somewhere to go into solution - again add no more Nitric Acid than is needed to dissolve the metal. This is Incremental Nitric dosing in the creation of AR - figure your ratio amounts from the weight expected to be recovered, stopping short on the Nitric Acid so as to be able dribble it in as you go!

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I can dissolve an ounce of GOLD POWDER with about 150ml hydrochloric acid (31.45%) and about 20ml nitric acid (68% to 70%).

You should show us your collection. How many pure gold and silver bars do you have?

@sreetips

9 ай бұрын

I’ve had to sell them. I was over $200k in debt. Plus I needed new roof and AC with new ducting.

Question! where did all the hinge pins go? I'd expect all the metals to dissolve in aqua regia so one of the liquids should have all the steel pins and screws that let the bracelet flex.

@Heathenheart1979

2 жыл бұрын

Did you notice that the solution was very dark? It is possible that the iron went into solution and covered the color of the gold. Then, the iron in solution was taken out of the way.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

The hinge pins were probably made of 18k gold

@rrfields65

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips : they were, all high-end jewelry use the same metal for pins and clasps, now the cheaper $chitt will use brass or alloyed steel!

good night colleague congratulations for this beautiful work. I would like to know if you this stuff these intel 586 processors if you how much is the kg??

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I’ve never worked with them

Sreetips, well for me being ex-Navy it's always Senior Chief. lol Where do you buy your beakers and the rest of your glass and funnels?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

eBay

will it percipitate the same way if we use hydrogene pyroxide h2o2 instead of nitric??

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@nostalgia9256

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips thank you

What does boiling the pure metallic gold in hcl at the end do??

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

It dissolves silver chloride if present so we can rinse it off the gold

Can I ask what is the cost of your supplies to do this?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Gary, since this is my hobby I couldn’t tell you. But I can say that once all the hardware and glass is acquired then it’s just a matter of replenishing consumables such as acids and filters and the like.

SreeTips, are your ice cubs made from distilled water?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

Dude, that bar is a hair over 5K! 😳 Well done...👏

Sreetips thanks for your channel, how do you sell the gold ?

@sreetips

9 ай бұрын

I don’t. I’m trying not to sell my gold. I’m buying, while it’s still on sale. But it can be sold on eBay or to a big refiner such as elemetal direct. Or ARAgold.com in Huston TX. But I’d advise against selling. Unless you need some paper to pay bills.

If u were to spill that say on the floor would u be able to recover ther gold?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know, I’ve never spilled nor tried it