I never get tired of watching your electrolytic silver cell process but my favorite part is when you melt down all that cement into shot.

I'd never ask but I like to think Sreetips has a guest bedroom in his house full of tupperware containers filled with silver crystal stacked to the ceiling. Hahaha...

@josephdelange8497

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Joe, weird question but have you ever met anyone with horns? BTW I imagine Mr. SREETIPS has a few tubs😎 he's the guy.

This stuff NEVER gets old! I enjoy this! Great video!

@philmann3476

2 жыл бұрын

True. Even though I have absolutely no intention of actually doing this stuff myself, it remains fascinating for reasons that are...well, I don't know what they are.

When you finish a nice, high purity gold bar pour I'm always dazzled by the result. But man - when those silver crystals are fully formed at the end of a refining they are nothing short of spectacular. 👍👍👍

@ZoonCrypticon

2 жыл бұрын

Are you also one of the persons, who like the glitter of pure silver crystals more than that of gold ?

@ripwlf

2 жыл бұрын

Sir you and I have spoken a few times. And I really need some help and or advice I took a mess load of silver items and melted and refined it down. But I made too many mistakes in my process. Now I am stuck with about 800 grams of silver of unknown quality. If I was to send it all to you can you refine it down for me. I also have quite a few other silver items I want to have added into the deal too.

I never tire from watching Sreetips videos . You inspire me to one day try my hand at precious metals refining . Thanks much , from one veteran to another . Peace my Brother .

Ive been watching your videos for years now and I gotta say: I really love your videos. They are educational, interesting and you always maintain a very calm and captivating voice while explaining everything. Your videos always give me some enlightening peace during those difficult times. Thank you sreetips!

I love these videos! I can watch this all day. It makes me want to learn more about precious metal recovery.

You’re welcome! Again, it was my pleasure to watch. Very concise and informative. A couple few years ago, my friend in Guerrero introduced me to his silversmithing method and as I watched him liquify about two oz in a melt dish then remove the flame I noticed a shape in the mobile surface slag that looked like a map of russia. At that same moment he said “continents form” and I watched intently as the sub-continent of India plowed into the larger mass…simply fascinating.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome, I’ve seen stuff like that in my melts.

Its amazing how you jump from Imperial to Metric. Inch to Kilo, Grams to Celsius, Fathoms to Kilometers. It always keeps me on my toes.

I love to watch and learn the process of your refining videos! You must have the most patience ever to do this!!

The new setup is working great thank you for sharing your knowledge five stars my friend

Honestly I can watch you do this stuff all day long. Your videos are great, so interesting! 👍🇬🇧

Always a joy to watch

Amazing Mr Reetips! Besides the video anyone who wants to learn how AA perfect Silver refine process should be, you also answered all questions I had in my mind over all these years In follow you.

Streetips continues to reward us with some of or if not the best informative analytical metallurgy on the web. The best things in life are free..

that is soo cool !! thanks for sharing your journey

Yay another silver cell video, I love these.

The silver "popcorn" has a certain visual appeal at least through video. Of course pure silver crystal is very appealing, visually and financially. Great video and great explanation!

Thanks for the video. I thought it might have been an old one but when I saw the new rig you use to refine the sliver .I hope to see more new videos and always enjoy reviewing older ones. I do believe I could do this sort of work if ever the opportunity presented itself.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I’m very thankful for what I have been given. It’s like a dream

Great video as always. One of the few channels I will keep the notification on for

Love your channel! Just started my silver cell last night, can't wait to harvest some pure elemental silver crystal!

thanks for sharing your experience with us 🙂

Even thou ive seen you do this a few times now I still Love to see it and the End Result is so cool as the Silver Crystals look so Good thank you Great Vlog

Metal crystals of any type are always so cool.

Good video Mr. Tips. These are keeping me sane !!!

Yay thanks for all the content lately! The silver is my favorite. I'm not much of a gold guy anyways I prefer silver esthetically. But the crystalline structure of the silver in the silver cell is so amazing too!

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve noticed that most people prefer the look of the silver over the gold, even though gold is worth 80 times more than gold. Eighty times? That total rubbish. Silver should be at $200 for a 20 to 1 ratio. But I’d rather hold an asset that’s being artificially suppressed than one that is being artificially inflated.

Thanks again for doing these great videos.

The distilled water rinse added into the nitrate acid is a very efficient idea.

Nice job, not sure when you changed the connection to the bowl, I must have missed that one. Looks like a nice solid connection now. Thanks for sharing, love watching the silver cell series.

Absolutely Awesome!!!

It's really amazing how quickly the copper starts sucking the silver out of solution!

Good to see you long time back happy to see you

Daaaaaaaamn.... Chemistry is bloody amazingly awesome.

Answered all my questions. Thenks

Silver is my favorite thank you

Simply amazing!!!

Thanks! I'm halfway through your achievements.

Awesome video. I am really into the journey, from start to waste treatment. Hiccups, experiments and lessons learned. And oddly, the whine of the fume hood.

Great job, inspiring !

Thank you for uploading such a nice and informative video 👍

Amazing work

Your vids make me wish I hadn't skipped chemistry in high school. Fascinating stuff.

I love silver.....so nice.

I also refined gold using this technique more than 15 years ago ,a suggestion you could try like I did for metal preparation: I poured the metal into the bar then I rolled the bar as thin as I could (0.9 mm) then I used a rolling mill for corrugation, after which I cut the sheet to the desired size, then put into acid, or other method try drilling the crucible like a sieve near the end of the stream, but i think you need another type of deeper crucible. The thinner the metal, the better the final quality and timing.Good luck!

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard of that method but never tried it

Excellent. Thank you.

Fine work ☺️👍🏻 To big a job for me but I like watching and learning. I melt silver myself for rings that I make, but on a very small scale.

Love these videos…… soooooo cool!

Simply great, thanks ;--)

Always great content !!

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Shannon! Thank you

Thank you so much!!!

Yay more silver cell! I was just about to go to bed, saw the notification and hit the 'fridge for another beer. Can't wait to watch. Thank you for doing what you do. Edit: What happened to that little furnace you had which enabled you to melt larger quantities of cement silver at once?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

It’s coming soon in a future video

Very cool. Seems simple, but you must have a little fortune invested in equipment/beakers and stuff. Keep the videos coming!

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I have a tendency to over-kill. Anything worth doing is worth over doing - Steven Tyler

another verry good video from you :-)

Interesting for sure

I think it is amazing how the entire worlds Silver reserves can fit into Sreetips house. :)

Good video!

Nicely done brother 👍 yumm

@thelotec007

2 жыл бұрын

So are you for hire...lol.. have sulfide, platinum, chromium....yes Gold...Need help... Got $$$ I want to learn how to do this safety. I'm so tired of paying for assays...😬

The hum of your fume hood is soothing. You should record it on a soundtrack and sell it as white noise for sleep and relaxation.

Ty again.

Holy Smokes mr Sreetips this is awesome man 🔥🔥💥💨and nice silver granulate thats great man!👍keep it UP man!👍👍💨super dupe great 🎉

Cement silver seems like a very safe way to store it. Who's going to look twice at a big bag of "cement" in your workshop? Just need to be absolutely sure you use the right bag next time you're doing construction :)

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Good idea

Amazing

I've never seen anything like this; it's amazing. There is this stretch of highway the million dollar or route 66 or something like that at Silverton Colorado. My God man the gash there is horrific, they went gonzo on silver ore. I always had to stop and just look at that gash in utter amazement. Cheers

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Silverton Colorado. I’ll have to remember that. I want to see out west before I leave the earth.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Looked at a map, is that gash just north east of silverton?

@anthonyrstrawbridge

2 жыл бұрын

Red Mountain Pass and Engineer Pass are amazing. Definitely drive them .... except in ice conditions. ❣️♥️

Great as always. Amazing to see how copper contaminates your silver even after you rinsing it numerous times. The green flame from melting as well as the copper color on the shot. It is curious to see that even though it is a very low concentration of copper in the shot, the copper color is more predominant than the silver color.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

It’s an anomalous propagation. It could be buffed off to a brilliant mirror silver finish.

@beauhodges7957

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips wow I learned something today! Of course I see why you wouldn't do that considering it's going right into the silver cell basket. Still a really neat thing.

I love watching you do stuff like this, I wish I could do it I'm just to scared of acid hehe

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a healthy fear to have.

Sweet!

it will be nice to get some confirmation of your pure silver with XRF gun... maybe some youtuber can help? there are few youtubers that have such device... great video as always, keep them comming

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I had a sample analyzed last year. Came back greater than four nines. That’s 99.99% or better. They document actually listed hundreds of possible contaminants. Said they were not detectable during their analysis. Guardian Laboratories in the U.K. Did it for me.

Wow. I don’t see you for a while and you’re back and getting crazy views!!

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

It’s all a gift from above. I’m thankful for what has been granted to me!

@trancethan

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips I’m glad you’re back! Looking forward to more refining.

A stainless steel bowl. That, I bought at K Mart about ten years ago.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

It’s even got a rubberized coating on the outer bottom to keep it from slipping. Nine dollars I think it was about ten years ago. But with the value of dollars melting away faster than a snowball in July due to money printing by our friends in high places, it is probably about twenty dollars these days. It hadn’t gone up in value, the currency used to buy it has lost that much value. I had surgery on my hand today and still a little loopy. Good luck!

@mrbikeman

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips I love your videos. Keep up the good work!

you should look into a Devil-Forge or something similar.

So if you get let's say 50 troy ounces after 10 days does this mean you also feed it 50 ounces of unpure silver?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Yes

Wow, interesting!

wow so cool bro

the silver cell is my favorite part of the channel, I'm currently trying to grow the largest copper sulfate crystal :)

@malclaire

2 жыл бұрын

How big is it now. My favorite part of his content as well.

@rickydona919

2 жыл бұрын

@@malclaire it's currently 1.4 inches and .4 inches thick

@malclaire

2 жыл бұрын

@@rickydona919 woah!! Ever think of trying to do this in a Stainless steel straw? Is that even possible to get out?

@rickydona919

2 жыл бұрын

@@malclaire you can't grow a copper sulfate crystal in a metal container because the metal will contaminate the crystal, especially with stainless steel, the copper will cement out onto the steel instead of on the crystal

@malclaire

2 жыл бұрын

@@rickydona919 oh I meant the crystals sorry I was still watching the end of the video.

I love these videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Where does the impurities go? The silver deposits on the bowl but where does the copper or other metals deposit?

@ButterflyMonkeyEffect

2 жыл бұрын

The blue liquid is the copper...impurities will be low....this makes .999 silver

@mikestewart4752

2 жыл бұрын

Copper goes into solution and turns the liquid blue. Other noble metal contaminants will be left as slimes in the anode basket.

I don't really understand what's happening but boy is it neat!

Hey @sreetips. So I understand the precision in quality you get from chemically purifying things. One thing I've always wondered is why you only melt metals in a dish with a torch blasting on it for long periods? Would one of those electric forge/foundry's not be better for the quantities you go through?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Open face melt dish with a torch works well. It’s easy, fast, and I grew up (in my refining career) using it.

@Nocare89

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Well I sure can't argue with that. Thanks for the response

Man. If someone placed me in a facility with equipment to do things like this, I would work for free. Why do I enjoy this so much? Is this chemistry or alchemy?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I love it

Love your videos :) One question. Is there a specific reason you are using the small melt dish? As in a slightly bigger one would fit more silver at a time I guess :)

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Next time I do this I’ll use a propane furnace with a two kilo crucible. Just didn’t have time to set it all up this go around.

We're do you source your concentrated nitric acid? Do you extract the copper from the solution after the cementing? If so can the nitric acid be reused again? It seems you are forever cycling what you have and gaining beautiful silver crystals every harvest. So intriguing. I'm glad I ran onto your channel!

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Nitric from dudadiesel.com I extract the copper in my waste treatment buck on angle iron. I do not recover nitric because it’s time consuming and the yield is low.

Nice! Love the vid. Question,, would an induction melter with a black cruseble not be more efficient to melt lager amounts of silver. Or the gas furnace

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Possibly

@ronblizz7973

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/fGqHt9Kwg93RZto.html one like this

Be carefull boiling distilled water, I've had it flash boil and its not pleasant. Add a little silica sand, inert boiling beads or use your most scratched up pot/beaker/pan, that will create nucleation points so it won't flash boil.

@sreetips

9 ай бұрын

I’ve boiled many gallons of distilled water and never had that happen.

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I just keep learning which leads to questions, like; until I get an acetylene torch will a MAP Gas torch do the job for melting silver and gold? I know they're not as hot, but until I can get the latter, I wonder if it will do the job.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

Map takes a little longer

Another great video Sreetips! I have a question; Is there a way to refine silver to pure silver by other means like the chemical refining you do for gold with aqua rega and precipitating? Would love to see other ways you would come up with to get your cement silver to pure silver, as an experiment of course.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, silver chloride conversion with lye and sugar will get you three nines silver.

@glOckcOma

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Cool, I just googled "silver chloride conversion with lye and sugar" and one of your videos from 2016 popped up and I just watched it. Nice use of a power drill lol (not sarcasm, I think it's great ingenuity). I see why you prefer the silver cell.

are gold and silver dust so heavy they dont get blown away by the torch?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

No, the torch will blow that silver powder out of the dish faster than a Florida hurricane in September if your not careful.

I wanna try this! Nitric isn't cheap.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

You can use hot sulfuric and silver chloride conversion with lye and sugar. Three nines fine.

@bobcansee

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Thats right I forgot about that, Thanks!!

With all this effort you would think that silver is more expensive than gold

Great content thanks very much. keep them coming please 👍🏻. I have a question what is the electrode bar made from and did you make it???... thanks again, Cheers. 👏🏻

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Electrode bar is made of pure silver. Yes, I made it

Hey Sree love your videos keep'em coming. I've learned a ton from your videos. Where were you when I needed a good science teacher. Haha. Was just curious do you use distilled water in the pan when you pour silver shot or when you enquart gold with your silver or do you just use the distilled when you rinse? I'm guessing its fine to just rinse with the distilled rather than have a big pan of it when you're making shot. I wasnt sure if the chemicals in the tap water would make a difference when you poured shot. Also where do you get your Acids from. I know you get some from Ace Hardware but wasnt sure where you got your Nitric, sulfuric, etc..from and if there is a certain brand that's better than others.

@sreetips

3 ай бұрын

Distilled water only when working with silver in solution. All other times, tap water is ok. Sulfuric from ace hardware. Nitric from any chemical supply.

Excellent video! A question I couldn't find anywhere in this video - is the electrode bar you insert on top of the silver shot itself made of silver? If so do you just cast a section of copper wire into a small ingot mold of molten silver?

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

I suspend a 10 gauge copper wire into the mold cavity and heat, then I melt some pure silver crystal (about 2.5 Troy ounces) and pour it in. The molten silver instantly welds to the hot copper wire. I’ll make another and do a video on it.

@tonydyvr

Жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Thanks! Looking forward to the video!

Do u have a video on how to start up, like the materials list and perhaps a link or two , we can use to purchase

Any updates on the galvanic corrosion concern between the copper and stainless bowl?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

None so far

Great content as always! Keep up the great work. Can you use an electric cell for good as well? If so, do you not use one due to the much smaller volume of gold vs silver?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve done electrolytic gold video - it’s called the wohlwill process. The gold looked amazing.

@BobRazler

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips and here I thought I have seen all your videos! I will look for it. Thank you!

@guygordon2780

2 жыл бұрын

The disadvantage of electrolytic refinement is that you must start with quite pure metal, which will then produce very pure metal. It won't work with much impurity in the anode, for several complicated reasons. For example silver with too much gold will acquire a gold coating that blocks any more silver from dissolving. The gold electrolyte is AuCl3 in HCL Silver impurities will form an insulating Silver Chloride layer on the gold anode. And it's slow.

I'd really like to know how you dispose of the terminal liquids... Do you get rid of them in some recycling facility specialized into chemical wastes ?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

No, waste treatment, I do it myself using chemistry.

I searched for those dacron bags since they looked like they would make a washable cover for the regular vacuum filter. Amazon says customers who bought it also bought crucible and beakers... Looks like sreetips shops on Amazon 🤣

You need a larger melting area. Like a crucible.

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Agree

friend, try boiling dirty silver in sulfuric acid and then there will be pure metal after melting, then the refining solution will be cleaner

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve dissolved sterling silver in boiling concentrated sulfuric acid.

What purity does the cement silver come out to if you just pour a bar?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

98% to 99%

Any idea why the silver shot turns that gold/bronze color ? I've been dealing with the same thing when I pour shot, even if it's quite pure silver. Something to do with tap water maybe ?

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

It’s oxidation from the heat. There’s a little copper in there too.

@Jutilaje

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips thanks !