My First Time Refining Silver

[Bassdude]

Hi all

Just wanted to share my first ever silver refining experience and my first post here on the silver forums.

This silver was refind from electrical terminals out of electric forklifts and here is the finnished product, it took me alot of mistakes and time and researching but i learned alot and perfected my system, just got the purity test back on them and they are 99.16% pure silver which is a far better result than i was expecting.

All done with nitric acid, distilled water and copper, im also going to build a second refining process to get my future silver to 999.99% using a silver cell as the second refining process.

[sixgun]

Well done!

[MetalMandible]

Looking forward to hearing how it works out..

There is a youtuber who calls himself sreetips that refines precious metals and uses a silver cell.  Kind of jealous that you get to experience it firsthand.  Best of luck!

[dicker]

Very nice result!

[Bassdude]

2 hours ago, sixgun said:

Well done!

 

4 minutes ago, dicker said:

Very nice result!

Thanks guys im pretty pround of my first batch

5 minutes ago, MetalMandible said:

Looking forward to hearing how it works out..

There is a youtuber who calls himself sreetips that refines precious metals and uses a silver cell.  Kind of jealous that you get to experience it firsthand.  Best of luck!

Yes i watched most of his refinging videos thats where i learned most of whar i know.

I really enjoyed doing the entire refining process and am looking at trying to build a business out of it now that i have invested a bit of money in equipment. I need to work on my bar pouring skills alot as you can probably tell by the picture.

[Arganto]

That's very cool indeed. I actually kind of like the 'almost reconstructed' T-1000 liquid metal terminator look of that top bar.

Well done for taking the plunge and having a go, I'm sure it's a thought many of us have entertained but not brought to fruition 👌

[Bassdude]

2 hours ago, Liam84 said:

That's very cool indeed. I actually kind of like the 'almost reconstructed' T-1000 liquid metal terminator look of that top bar.

Well done for taking the plunge and having a go, I'm sure it's a thought many of us have entertained but not brought to fruition 👌

Its a fun process and relatively easily done if you have the right equipment

[Arganto]

Maybe a YouTube/Bitchute channel beckons? Shove a camera in your face whilst your working and talk through what you're doing, it may be another way to top up the pot as your projects grow.

[Bassdude]

4 minutes ago, Liam84 said:

Maybe a YouTube/Bitchute channel beckons? Shove a camera in your face whilst your working and talk through what you're doing, it may be another way to top up the pot as your projects grow.

I have definitely thought about that too. 😂

[McDougall]

Looking Good 👍

[sovereignsteve]

do you have an idea of the economics of the whole process?

[Bassdude]

8 hours ago, sovereignsteve said:

do you have an idea of the economics of the whole process?

Well because it was my first time doing it was not very economical with all the mistakes and rerefining. But it worked out to be cheap to do as the chemicals and distilled was is relatively cheap here in New Zealand and it didn't use much nitric acid really. My next batch i will be working out costs and profit.