Alright everyone, welcome back to Cody's lab.
So today I'm going to be doing a little introductory video to a series that I'm going to be doing this month.
You see I've gotten a lot of requests from people to refine and purify gold
I did a video a little while ago where i got this button out of some materials that I was using in a previous project
there's also the gold electrode that I had from that, so this is all I have left
of that coin that I had which came from multiple sources including dental crowns
and electronic scrap such as this over here. So I want to do a series on
refining gold starting with the easiest case which would be this one which is
basically pure gold already, but I just have to purify this bead to remove
every last bit of lead and then to have a pure piece of gold which I can probably
make into a coin or something. The second video is gonna be refining karat
jewelry so this is fourteen karat gold here of old rings and stuff so this
will be a pretty easy project as well but It will definitely show you a lot of
the science behind actually refining the gold. The next video will be refining this gold
filled jewelry so this is basically gold jewelry but the gold is not solid it's
got under laying copper layer. I'm hoping to get the videos on the jewelry out
before February 14th because, as it turns out, there's a very popular jewelry
giving holiday on the fourteenth which means there's gonna be a lot of jewelry ads
on those videos which means I'll make a lot more ad revenue so you know I want to
capitalize on that. (giggles) So I got a bunch of that and I got some gold RAM fingers
which is thin plating of gold on to fiberglass basically and also the same thing here
which is some cards from computers. This is some gold plated pins so this is a
thin coating of gold on top of brass same thing here just with a little less gold
This actually is some gold fingers that I took out of computer parts and plugs
a very long time ago; I think I've got some of the video somewhere and I'll insert
that in here.
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Got some plugs, I've already done a few. Here's the pins, the contacts from the plugs.
Let me get at it, just [Hammering]
break the plug
Pluck all this, and
... just use a pair of pliers...
... pull these out...
Lost one
and next I have here some things that people sent me, James actually sent me
these processor chips and a lot of them actually! But I'll definitely be
processing these to get their gold content and any other metals they contain
Jim Smith as you can see here sent me this material, he actually runs a, I think he said
some sort of mill where he processes computer scrap and he sent me this
here which has been ground up then incinerated and sieved as you can see here
and he wants me to see if I can extract the gold content from this
as well as this here which has not been incinerated or sieved yet so this has just been ground up
this is pieces of old computer boards and stuff
So this here is a pile of old cellphones that Arthur actually rounded up for me, Arthur was actually my roommate in college
and he has his own YouTube channel now and I'll put a link to that in the description
Now these I'll definitely be cracking open and getting the gold, you can see there's gold contacts all over in them as well as
the batteries themselves which are lithium-ion which I might extract the lithium from
which might be pretty fun. I have some smoke detectors, I bought a bunch of
these and I wanted to try to see if I can extract gold from them it's probably
definitely not worth it but I've always wanted to try doing that. Once I have
gone over all the chemistry of the gold scrap and stuff so you guys know how it
all works then I'll go and work on some gold ore, this particular piece has about a
third of a gram per tonne, so not very much but I know I can extract it and I'm sure you guys
would love to see that process. So that's everything I got currently, I may add
some more things if you guys request it like I might do some silver scrap at some point
But yeah hopefully this will be an interesting series, I will definitely put in some video clips
of me processing that gold there towards the end of this video
and this here I think will actually be the next thing that I work on, Jim is actually getting
pretty anxious for me to get this done as you can see I, he sent it to me over
Christmas break and I said I'd get it done weeks ago but still haven't got to it
so I'll probably actually work on this first I'll post some sort of video but
I won't make it public. I'd like to put him into this sort of order here because this is
going from easiest to hardest
Alright so I hope you guys enjoyed this little clip and I'll see you next time
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