Unknown Powder & Fluid Refine WAS THERE GOLD?

[00:00:08]So, I just got these free liquids today from Eddie. Eddie is one that um brought the thief to me.

[00:00:16]And he said he's tried to filter him, but it kept going through the filter.

[00:00:20]So, I'm I've prepared a double filter.

[00:00:23]We've got two filters in this one.

[00:00:26]Let's see if we can get the solids with any solids in there.

[00:00:30]He thinks there might be gold in there, so we're going to test the solution, test the any solids we get from it.

[00:00:39]And uh we're filtering this first step.

[00:00:41]Let's filter it.

[00:00:44]So, this stuff must have settled.

[00:00:47]And so, I've just poured off the liquid into the filter.

[00:00:52]And what I do is I'm going to put this lot into nitric acid and get any any copper and zinc and any non-valuable metals out of there. Apart from silver, it takes silver as well, but I will test it for silver.

[00:01:10]And we'll see if there's any solids left.

[00:01:13]If there's some solids left, then we'll put it in aqua regia and see if there's any gold.

[00:01:19]We'll let this filter first so we can put it all in together.

[00:01:22]I'll put all this in one beaker.

[00:01:26]I might even add some water first just to get out anything any chemicals that he's used.

[00:01:33]So, I'll probably get a give it a rinse through the filter once this has gone down.

[00:01:39]We'll do that next. We'll wait for the filter.

[00:01:43]So, I've added about a liter of water, bottled water, and I'm going to wait for that to settle. I've just given it a good stir with a chopstick.

[00:01:55]Throw these containers away now.

[00:01:57]This one is filtering out.

[00:02:02]Not totally clear, but definitely clearer than that.

[00:02:10]And it's coming through all right, so that's good.

[00:02:13]If I'd have put all the solids in with it, it would have just clogged up straight away.

[00:02:17]So, once that's settled, I'll pour that liquid. That should be that should be uh down by the time that's settled.

[00:02:25]I'll pour that into there, and then we'll get all the solids together.

[00:02:30]And then uh put some nitric in it.

[00:02:35]I'm going to test the the solution when it comes out of the filter with some uh sodium metabisulfite just to see if there is any gold in solution.

[00:02:48]I wouldn't have thought so, but we'll we'll check.

[00:02:51]And then uh we'll get the solids together and do that process.

[00:02:55]So, as you can see, I got all the liquid out of there.

[00:02:59]I'll put it into there.

[00:03:02]I've got a crack in that beaker, and I've had that there for months, and it's still working fine.

[00:03:07]Anyway, yeah, that's all in there.

[00:03:09]That's pretty clear.

[00:03:10]So, I'm going to put the rest of this mud in here just so I can get as much of that liquid out as possible.

[00:03:16]We'll see if it'll pull it through.

[00:03:19]Pulled the rest of it through, all right, so I can't see why not.

[00:03:23]Do that next.

[00:03:26]So, I'll put the rest in there.

[00:03:29]That's filtering all right.

[00:03:34]So, I'll wait till that's finished.

[00:03:39]So, this is the solids, all dried out.

[00:03:42]This is the liquid.

[00:03:44]I'll put some sodium metabisulfite in here to see if there is any gold, but there's nothing. It's been left overnight.

[00:03:51]Nothing in there.

[00:03:52]So, we're going to We're going to refine this one now.

[00:03:55]We're going to put this in nitric acid first.

[00:04:01]And anything left over, we'll put it in aqua regia.

[00:04:07]Do the next.

[00:04:10]So, I'm going to put this in nitric acid next.

[00:04:14]Got as much of the liquid out of it as I can without drying up.

[00:04:22]So, yeah.

[00:04:24]Going to dissolve in nitric.

[00:04:27]So, this is them solids that come out of that liquid.

[00:04:30]So, I put one lot of nitric acid and I got loads of color from it and it burned something off.

[00:04:38]And then put a second lot in and there's nothing coming from it now.

[00:04:43]So, I'm going to filter that and then put whatever's in the filter in aqua regia and then we'll go from there.

[00:04:55]So, this has been in nitric for hours stewing away.

[00:05:00]So, two lots.

[00:05:02]And I've now filtered it.

[00:05:08]And this is what we've got.

[00:05:16]It's sponge.

[00:05:18]Took some of the liquid out and you can see it's full of copper.

[00:05:25]That green.

[00:05:29]Probably some silver in there as well.

[00:05:32]Maybe.

[00:05:34]I don't know what was in there the liquid to start with, so.

[00:05:40]I'll put some copper in there and see if any silver drops out.

[00:05:48]So, this is what we've got left.

[00:05:55]So, I'm going to put that into a large beaker.

[00:05:58]>> [music] >> I'm going to have to put the camera down while I get that out of there.

[00:06:12]So, I've got all that in the new beaker.

[00:06:15]Just Just washed up the other one.

[00:06:19]And I'm going to put this in aqua regia now.

[00:06:23]But, I'm not going to put any heat on that.

[00:06:26]And I'm going to leave it overnight.

[00:06:31]There's quite a bit in there, so I'm going to put I'm going to put about 500 ml of hydrochloric acid.

[00:06:45]And about 100 ml of nitric.

[00:06:50]We'll see how that goes.

[00:06:55]All right, that's all in there now.

[00:06:58]There was some water in there as well.

[00:07:02]So, I put it up to 1,000 ml.

[00:07:11]No reaction.

[00:07:14]I don't know if that's good or bad.

[00:07:18]But, I'll come back in the morning and see see how it looks.

[00:07:28]I might come back in a little while and see how it looks first.

[00:07:35]But, no reaction at all. But, then there's no heat, so it might be different in 15 20 minutes.

[00:07:46]So, this has been aqua regia all night.

[00:07:48]I did put a bit of heat on it last night for about about 2 hours.

[00:07:54]Then I turned it off. So, this has been sitting in aqua regia all night. So, I'm going to filter this now.

[00:08:00]And then we'll drop it and see if there's any gold in there.

[00:08:05]Well, that filtered off now.

[00:08:10]This is what's left.

[00:08:21]I'll put all of that into into there and wash it wash it through thoroughly.

[00:08:28]And if there's any gold in there, I'll be in that liquid there.

[00:08:35]So, this is all the waste.

[00:08:40]It's all been filtered.

[00:08:41]And now we've got the the aqua regia is in here all filtered.

[00:08:47]So, now I'm going to put some urea in there because it's probably there's probably excess nitric in there.

[00:08:55]I'll put some urea first and I'll drop that with sodium metabisulfite.

[00:09:01]Do that next.

[00:09:04]This is what's happened after putting urea.

[00:09:09]A lot of excess nitric in there.

[00:09:14]I didn't know what to put because there was a lot there was quite a bit of powder.

[00:09:20]So, I've obviously put too much.

[00:09:27]So, I'll just keep adding a bit more urea until it till it stops reacting.

[00:09:34]Second spoon, it's not as impressive.

[00:09:40]So, you wait.

[00:09:45]I think that would have done it, though.

[00:09:46]I'm going to add a little tiny bit more.

[00:09:48]Give that a good stir first. Add a little bit more Is there any any reaction at all?

[00:09:54]So, I'll put another half a spoon, and there's no reaction now.

[00:09:58]So, that's had two knife spoons, two small spoon.

[00:10:05]And that's now neutralized.

[00:10:08]So, I'm going to give it a stir, and then get some sodium metabisulfite in there.

[00:10:14]So, I've given it a stir, and that seems to have cleared all the the powder up.

[00:10:21]It's all diluted.

[00:10:23]No reaction at all.

[00:10:27]So, now we can drop the gold, if there is any gold.

[00:10:32]Okay, I'll put one spoon of sodium metabisulfite in there.

[00:10:38]Now, we're going to add this. See if there's any reaction.

[00:10:43]Quite dark.

[00:10:56]No immediate reaction.

[00:11:00]So, what I'll do is I'll just leave that.

[00:11:03]Leave that a few hours and see See if there's any gold in there.

[00:11:11]So, this is the outcome. There's no gold in there at all.

[00:11:16]Nothing. Nothing has dropped to the bottom.

[00:11:28]So, there just wasn't any gold in there.

[00:11:29]That's the waste there.

[00:11:31]Still in the powder form.

[00:11:34]Okay. unfortunately, there was nothing there, just a waste of chemicals, waste of time.

[00:11:41]So, that was the powder left over.

[00:11:45]And the waste is in here.

[00:11:48]So, yeah, that was a that was a fail.

[00:12:01]Well, that's that little project finished. Zero gold.