Cement Silver Prep for the Silver Cell

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]Welcome back to my channel everyone.

[00:00:01]Three tips here and these are three pans of cement silver that I've dried off in these dishes on low heat. And we're going to transfer this silver and make some room in these dishes now because we need to uh do some more. Put this in a bucket.

[00:00:24]I pour the cement silver in the bucket outside because it sends up a cloud of silver powder and I don't need that coating everything in my shop.

[00:00:38]This is my backlog of silver refining uh recovery of this powder from my gold refining. And I've just sit there and let it build up on me until there's so much sitting around in buckets. It's driving me crazy. So, what I decided to do was just go ahead and get focused on this and start processing all of this cement silver. The goal is to get it all rinsed free of the blue liquid, get it dried out, and then we're going to melt it into granules for the electrolytic silver cell.

[00:01:38]This is from yesterday's work.

[00:01:42]Put these filters in my paper storage.

[00:01:50]This is a waste solution.

[00:01:53]Have nothing but copper in it.

[00:02:31]Oh dog.

[00:02:37]Heat. Heat.

[00:03:41]I use sterling silver to encort uh carrot gold for gold refining.

[00:03:48]And then I pull the silver and the base metals back out with hot dute nitric acid boils. And I save those solutions from those hot nitric acid boils because they will contain the silver. And then I filter the solution, the silver solutions from that and uh collect the solutions. I use clean copper to cement the silver back out of those solutions.

[00:04:17]And that's what this gray powder is.

[00:04:19]This is cement silver recovered from my gold refining operations. Uh the silver is a byproduct of my gold refining. And I just uh set those solutions aside, save them until I have enough, and then uh cement the silver out onto the copper. And that's what this gray material is. It's uh 98% silver powder, 2% copper.

[00:06:05]Heat. Heat.

[00:06:59]In my experience, I've found that it takes about half a gallon of hot distilled water. And that pan right there, that glass pan, holds about 1/2 gallon of distilled water. So, when I get that pan full of water poured through this amount of cement silver, all the uh copper, or most of it anyway, you don't have to get it every bit of it off of there, but most of it will be rinsed off of the cement silver and then we'll be suitable to go ahead and melt it up in the granules for the silver cell. And you can see here I'm using a glass rod to stir it. That's why I use two filter papers. The two filter papers provide protection so in case I scratch one or make contact with one, it doesn't fail.

[00:07:52]This is a time lapse. I rinse the silver with distilled water, pour off the rinsed silver into one of those pans, and then dump the copper solution into that waste treatment bucket. And I do this over and over until I've got the proper amount of uh silver rinsed off.

[00:08:14]I've got those three pans. And that's about as much as I can endure uh during one session here. So when I'm done with three three full pans of silver, I'm ready to quit.

[00:08:27]Got three pans of silver now that have been uh rinsed free of the uh blue liquid.

[00:08:47]Let's get this out of the way.

[00:08:59]Waste solution.

[00:09:02]Copper insolution.

[00:09:05]That's pretty much all we got left in here once we rinse all the copper off of the cement silver. So, I've got three 5gallon buckets full of this copper nitrate solution free of precious metals. And what we'll do is we'll have to uh put this in our waste treatment bucket, cement the copper out of it.

[00:09:31]This is our three pans of cement silver.

[00:09:36]And uh I don't know how much is here. I stopped weighing this stuff a long time ago.

[00:09:43]I'm just going to get all the blue liquid rinsed off of it.

[00:09:47]And then uh what we'll do is dry it off slowly over low heat back here. And then when I get all three of these pans dried off, I'll transfer it into a bucket.

[00:10:03]And uh and then we'll have to melt this all up into granules. This cement silver's recovered from my gold refining. It's about 98% silver, 2% copper. So, we'll get this all dried off and then we're going to melt it into granules and use it as feed stock for the electrolytic silver cell. This will conclude the video. Thank you for watching.