999 Fine Silver Cell Harvest and Reboot

Summary

In this video, the creator demonstrates the silver cell operation process, detailing the 13-day journey of extracting high-purity silver crystals from an anode bowl. They explain the role of the anode filter basket in trapping impurities, leaving behind 'silver cell slimes' rich in Platinum Group Metals and gold. The video showcases the setup, including a safety fuse to prevent short-circuiting, and the process of harvesting silver. It also covers the preparation of additional electrolyte by dissolving pure silver crystals and nitric acid, and the steps to ensure the purity of the harvested silver, including multiple rinses and a test for residual electrolyte.

Takeaways

• 🌟 The video documents day 13 of a silver cell operation, resulting in approximately 1.5 kilos of high-purity silver.
• 🔍 An anode filter basket is used to separate impurities, leaving behind 'silver cell slimes' which can be recovered for Platinum Group Metals and gold.
• 🔌 A fuse is installed to prevent short-circuiting if the growing silver crystal contacts the anode basket.
• 📉 The current flow through the cell decreases as impurities accumulate in the anode filter.
• 🔋 The process involves dissolving impure silver from gold refining into granules, which are then used as feedstock in the silver cell.
• ⚙️ An electrode bar, made of pure silver with a copper wire, is connected to the power supply to dissolve the silver and allow silver ions to travel through the electrolyte.
• 💧 The electrolyte, initially containing 600 grams of pure silver dissolved in nitric acid, becomes depleted as the cell operates.
• 🔄 The electrolyte is reused for a second refining process after additional pure silver is added to replenish the depleted silver ions.
• 💦 The harvested silver crystals are thoroughly rinsed with distilled water to remove any remaining electrolyte.
• 🔬 A test with hydrochloric acid confirms that all electrolyte has been rinsed off the silver, as no silver chloride forms.
• 📈 The video concludes with the setup for a second run of the silver cell operation, demonstrating the process of reusing the electrolyte and starting a new batch.

Q & A

What is the purpose of the silver cell operation described in the script?

The purpose of the silver cell operation is to refine and harvest high purity silver from impure silver sources, such as that obtained from gold refining.

How long does it take to grow approximately 1.5 kilos of pure silver crystal?

It takes about 13 days to grow approximately 1.5 kilos of pure silver crystal in the described process.

What is the role of the anode filter basket in the silver cell operation?

The anode filter basket holds a Dacron cloth filter that catches impurities as the electric current dissolves the silver. These impurities, known as silver cell slimes, can be later recovered for precious metals like platinum group metals and gold.

Why is a fuse installed in the silver cell operation?

A fuse is installed to prevent a short circuit if the growing silver crystal inside the cell makes contact with the anode basket. This would otherwise release impurities into the cell and ruin the batch of silver.

How does the current flow affect the silver cell operation?

The current flow dissolves the impure silver, allowing silver ions to travel through the anode filter into the electrolyte, where they plate out as pure elemental silver. As the slimes build up, they interfere with the current flow, causing it to drop.

What is the composition of the electrolyte used in the silver cell operation?

The electrolyte is composed of silver nitrate dissolved in distilled water, which acts as a conductive medium for the silver ions to plate out as pure silver.

Why does the solution turn blue during the silver cell operation?

The solution turns blue because copper from the electrode bar dissolves into the electrolyte, indicating that the silver and copper ions are being transferred through the anode filter into the electrolyte.

How is the purity of the harvested silver ensured?

The purity of the harvested silver is ensured by the use of a Dacron filter that traps impurities, allowing only pure silver ions to plate out in the cathode. Additionally, the electrolyte is rinsed off the silver multiple times to remove any residual silver nitrate.

What is the significance of the copper concentration in the cell?

The copper concentration must be kept below 60 grams per liter to prevent it from plating out with the silver. If the concentration is too high, it can contaminate the silver harvest.

How is the electrolyte prepared for a second use in the silver cell operation?

For a second use, additional pure silver is dissolved in nitric acid and distilled water to create a new solution, which is then added to the existing electrolyte to augment it for another refining cycle.

What is the final step to ensure the purity of the silver after harvesting?

The final step to ensure the purity of the silver is to rinse it multiple times with distilled water, both cold and boiling, and then test a small sample with hydrochloric acid to check for any remaining silver nitrate, indicated by the absence of silver chloride formation.

Outlines

00:00

🔬 Silver Electrolysis Process

The script describes day 13 of a silver cell operation where the anode bowl is full of high-purity silver crystals. The process involves dissolving silver in an electric current, leaving impurities behind in the anode filter basket. A fuse is installed to prevent short-circuiting if the growing silver crystal contacts the anode basket. The current flow through the cell drops as impurities accumulate, indicating the need to harvest the silver. The process also involves adding pure silver to the impure silver as a feedstock, with the pure silver electrode bar connected to the power supply. The silver ions travel through the anode filter and plate out in the stainless steel bowl as pure elemental silver.

05:01

🧪 Preparing for Silver Electrolysis

The script explains the preparation of electrolyte for the silver cell operation. It involves dissolving 600 grams of pure silver in nitric acid, which is then depleted as the cell operates. To reuse the electrolyte, additional pure silver is added to replenish the depleted silver. The process of dissolving the silver in nitric acid is described, along with the steps to ensure all available free nitric acid is consumed. The anode electrode bar is then removed, and the power supply is turned off to prepare for harvesting the pure silver.

10:13

💧 Rinsing and Drying Silver Crystals

The script details the process of pouring off the electrolyte for reuse and harvesting the pure silver crystals. The crystals are scraped off the bowl and transferred for rinsing to remove any remaining electrolyte. Rinsing is done multiple times with both cold and boiling distilled water. A test is conducted with hydrochloric acid to ensure all electrolyte is removed. The silver is then dried off by placing it on low heat.

15:14

🔄 Reusing Electrolyte and Restarting the Cell

The script outlines the steps for reusing the filtered electrolyte and restarting the silver cell operation. Fresh anode basket and electrode bar are prepared, and the electrolyte is added to a new stainless steel bowl. The cell is charged, and the process begins anew, with the formation of pure silver crystals visible within 30 minutes. The harvested silver is weighed, yielding 1.3 kilograms of pure silver crystals, concluding the video.

Keywords

💡silver cell

A silver cell refers to an electrolytic cell used in the process of refining silver. In the video, the silver cell is used to convert impure silver into high purity silver by dissolving it and then allowing the silver ions to plate onto a cathode. The operation of the silver cell is central to the video's theme of silver refining.

💡anode

The anode is the positively charged electrode where oxidation occurs. In the context of the video, impure silver is placed in the anode basket, where it gets dissolved by the electric current, leaving behind impurities. The anode is crucial in the electrolytic process of silver purification.

💡cathode

The cathode is the negatively charged electrode where reduction occurs. In the video, the cathode is a stainless steel bowl where pure silver ions plate out to form high purity silver. The cathode is essential to the silver cell operation as it is where the desired product is collected.

💡Dacron cloth filter

A Dacron cloth filter is used in the anode basket to trap impurities as the silver dissolves. The filter prevents these impurities from entering the electrolyte and contaminating the silver plating process. The script mentions that the silver cell slimes, which include platinum group metals and possibly gold, are left behind by this filter.

💡electrolyte

An electrolyte is a substance that conducts electricity when dissolved in a solution, typically due to the presence of ions. In the video, the electrolyte is a silver nitrate solution that facilitates the movement of silver ions from the anode to the cathode within the silver cell.

💡impurities

Impurities refer to unwanted substances or elements mixed with the primary material. In the silver refining process described, impurities are left behind in the anode filter basket and do not plate onto the cathode, thus keeping the silver produced pure.

💡current flow

Current flow refers to the movement of electric charge through a conductor, which in this case is the silver cell. The video discusses how the current flow dissolves the silver and how it decreases as impurities build up in the anode filter, affecting the efficiency of the cell.

💡silver crystal

Silver crystal in the video refers to the high purity silver that is produced and collected in the cathode of the silver cell. The script describes the harvesting of these crystals, which are of high purity and have a distinctive crystalline form.

💡refining

Refining is the process of purifying a substance, such as silver, from a mixture or compound. The video is centered around the refining of silver from an impure form to a high purity state through the use of a silver cell.

💡nitric acid

Nitric acid is a strong acid used in the electrolyte solution to dissolve impure silver and facilitate the transfer of silver ions. The script mentions adding nitric acid to distilled water to prepare additional electrolyte for the silver cell.

💡hydrochloric acid test

A hydrochloric acid test is used to check for the presence of silver or silver nitrate by observing whether a cloud of silver chloride forms. In the video, this test is used to confirm that all electrolyte has been rinsed off the harvested silver crystals.

Highlights

Day 13 of the silver cell operation, resulting in high purity silver crystal.

Anode bowl is full of pure silver crystal, estimated to be 1.5 kilos.

Silver is dissolved by electric current, leaving impurities as silver cell slimes behind a Dacron cloth filter.

Anode filter slimes can be recovered to extract Platinum Group Metals and gold.

Installing a fuse to prevent short circuit if silver crystal contacts the anode basket.

Current flow drops as slimes build up in the anode filter, affecting the cell's operation.

Description of how the silver cell works, including the role of impure silver and electrode bars.

Silver ions travel through the anode filter and plate out as pure elemental silver in the cathode.

Electrolyte becomes depleted as the cell operates, requiring additional pure silver to be added.

Preparation of additional electrolyte by dissolving pure silver crystal in nitric acid.

Anode electrode bar is removed, and the power supply is turned off to prepare for harvesting.

Electrolyte is poured off and saved for a second use in the silver cell.

Pure silver crystal is revealed and scraped off the side of the bowl.

Rinsing the silver crystal with distilled water to remove any remaining electrolyte.

Testing the purity of the silver crystal using hydrochloric acid to check for silver chloride formation.

Drying the pure silver crystal on low heat to remove moisture.

Filtering the electrolyte and preparing it for a second refining run in the silver cell.

Rebooting the silver cell with a fresh anode basket and electrode bar.

Observing the formation of pure silver crystal within 30 minutes of the cell's operation.

Weighing the harvested pure silver crystal, yielding approximately 1.3 kilos.

Transcripts

welcome back to my channel everyone

sweet tips here and today is day 13 of

the silver cell

operation and if you look down in

there the anode bowl is full of pure

silver crystal that's high Purity silver

39's fine or better

probably uh 1.5 kilos or so I grew it in

about 13

days what we're going to do is we're

going to harvest the silver out of here

but I want to talk a little bit about

this first before we do that if you look

down in our anode filter basket you'll

see that the uh silver that I feed in

here gets

dissolved by the electric current that

flows in

there and what gets left behind there's

a Dacron cloth filter in there and what

gets left behind is silver cell slimes

and what that is is that's just

like

goop uh like mush down in there the

impurities in this silver as the current

flow travels through the

uh cell the current flow dissolves this

silver and then the impurities get left

down in the bottom of this anode filter

and I can uh save those that's going to

be Platinum Group Metals maybe a little

bit of gold some other junk in there but

I can save that uh anode filter and

those slimes and do a recovery on those

slimes to get the gold and the Platinum

Group Metals out of there I've still got

the cell run running right now and we'll

continue to let this

run and while we're getting set up to

harvest the pure silver out of the cell

if you look up here you'll notice that

I've got a fuse

installed I do that on the last several

days of the silver cell operation this

is an inline automotive type 3 amp fuse

and that's there in case

the pure silver Crystal down inside the

silver cell you can see it grows and it

grows towards the anoe basket down there

if that Crystal makes contact with the

anode basket it'll short it out and burn

a hole in that filter bag and then all

the impurities will be released down

into the silver cell and ruin the batch

of silver here you can see the uh amps

have dropped dropped off when I first

started the cell it was up over 1 and

1/2 amps of current flow through the

cell and what happens is as those slimes

built up in the anode filter anode

basket there it interferes with the

current flow through the cell and it

causes the current flow to drop

off here's a little information about

how this cell works this is impure

silver that comes from my gold refining

I recover the silver from my gold

refining melt it into these granules and

I use this as a feed

stock in my silver cell anode basket I

have an electrode bar which is a bar of

pure silver with a copper wire cast into

it and I connect that to the power

supply and set that on top of the impure

silver that's in that filter basket the

current flow dissolves the

silver and then the silver ions travel

through the anode filter

itself and uh the copper does too the

the copper gets dissolved as well and

that's why the solution turns blue in

here but you can see the anode basket is

in contact with the silver nitrate

electrolyte and the silver ions and the

copper they travel down into the

electrolyte there uh the electrolyte is

conductive so it completes a circuit

between the uh electrode bar which is

positively

charged and the cathode which is the

stainless steel bowl and the silver

travels through the electrolyte and then

plates out in there as absolutely pure

Elemental silver metal now what happens

is uh as the cell operates I had 600 gam

of pure silver dissolved in nitric acid

in 3.5 L of liquid that's what the

electrolyte is there was 600 gram in

there when I started there's probably

only about 400 gam left in that

electrolyte because this electrolyte

becomes depleted as the cell operates it

plates out on the inside of the cathode

there as High Purity silver the

impurities get trapped in the

filter and the silver ions and the

copper travel down into the silver cell

the silver plates out but the copper

does not as long as that copper is kept

below 60 gam per liter concentration in

the cell then the copper will not plate

out with the silver but if it gets high

enough it will start to Plate out with

that silver and then you can see I've

got a connection here for the cathode

and that wire goes all the way up and

connects to the negative side of the

power

supply I'm going to use the electrolyte

in that silver cell a second time but as

I stated

earlier some of the silver has been

depleted out of that electrolyte so what

I need to

do is prepare some

additional electrolyte I'm going to use

about 200 g of pure

silver I see that number down

there all right now we're going to add

about 200 g of pure silver Crystal from

a

previous silver cell Harvest just going

to add it right in

here

all right that's about

230 gram of pure silver now what we'll

do is get our

silver and add

some distilled water to

it going to add about 300 milliliters or

so

I've got some nitric acid back

here this is just under 200

millit probably 190 something like that

I'm going to add this right on

in and you'll see the silver will

instantly begin to

dissolve and we'll cover this up

now and we're going to put this up on

the

heat and slowly

dissolve this pure silver Crystal and

then we'll use that to

augment the second use of our

electrolyte in the silver

cell

I can tell when all the available free

Nitric has been consumed by this

reaction because there's a little bit of

silver left in the

beaker all the fumes are gone and I got

the solution at a boil so now it's safe

to conclude that I've got all of the

available free Nitric using used up in

this reaction pull the anode electrode

bar out we're going to kill the power

supply now we'll do the same thing with

the negative

side now we'll take the anoid basket and

get it out of the way just lift it right

on up and put it in this

container and then I just set it aside

side for now let's cover this up so

nothing falls down in there and I've got

a uh a wrench

here will drop the cathode

connection cathode connection just a

hose clamp with a uh copper strap that's

got our toggle bolt in

it now let's pull this cover

off and

reveal the pure silver

Crystal down in our silver cell look at

that now let's

uh pour

off the electrolyte as I stated earlier

we're going to be using this

electrolyte a second time so what want

to

do see if I can get that on the camera

just pour it into this 5 L

Beaker and I'm going to save it cuz I'm

going to use it for the second run of

the silver

cell and there's our

beautiful pure silver

Crystal

about

1.5

kilos now we're going to scrape the

crystals down off the side of the

bowl

now we're going to transfer the pure

silver

into the

speaker there's a nice looking

Crystal highly unusual shape to

it now what we'll do is start

rinsing the electrolyte off of the

silver this is a bucket full of cement

silver it's got some copper in it and

we'll pour off the rinses that we're

about to do using distilled

water just throw some distilled water in

here and try to get the rest of this uh

electrolyte rinsed off of our Pure

so

I've rinsed it about four times with

cold distilled water I've got some

boiling distilled water here now and

we'll use this to do a few more

rinses

right this is the

seventh

rinse maybe eight I think I can't

remember but I know from experience it

takes

about six of these rinses to get all the

electrolyte off so we should have it all

off here but we're going to test this

now got a little Beaker I'm going to get

a little bit

of in this

speaker and now we're going to add some

hydrochloric acid to this and if we've

got any silver or silver nitrate left in

here we'll see a cloud of silver

chloride

forming as we pour this hydrochloric

acid

in and I don't

see one trace of silver chloride so it's

fairly safe to conclude that we've

got all of the electrolyte r rined

off of our pure silver Crystal now it's

hot boiling water I'm going to move this

out of the way

now and we're going to bring up a

dish and what we'll

do is add the pure silver Crystal to

this

dish now we'll take this all over and

set them on on some low heat and dry

this

off well we've got that silver drying

what I'll do is filter our electrolyte

and get it

ready to reboot the silver

cell I've said it twice already I'm

using the same electrolyte for a second

refining

I'm adding the uh silver nitrate

solution that we just prepared it's got

about 200 g of pure silver in it and

we're going to go ahead and pour this

through the filter

now I've got all the electrolyte pulled

through the filter now what we'll do is

take it over here to a fresh stainless

steel bowl we're going to add the

electrolyte to this stainless Bolt the

stainless bowl is the cathode for the

silver cell we're going to fill it up

with electrolyte to about within a half

an inch or so of the rim of the bowl

I've got a little left over and I'll

save that and we'll augment the uh

electrolyte as the cell operates with

that extra that I have left over now

we're going to charge up uh a fresh

anode basket that's a Dacron vacuum

cleaner filter bag that I use as a

filter going to install this now on top

of the cell which

submerged down in the

electrolyte and we'll

install our ano Electro

bar now we've got everything uh

assembled all fresh stuff put back

together going to enter the

cell and you see we got up over 2 amps

of current

flow the cell has been in operation for

about 30 minutes

now and if you look down in

here you can

see after 30

minutes that we're starting to form pure

silver crystal in there

already see those crystals growing on

the inside of that stainless steel

cathode Bowl

that's after about a half an

hour I think our pure silver crystal is

dried off now I've got a

cold stainless steel

spoon I just kind

of run it around in here there's still

steam coming off here that will condense

on this

spoon and I don't see any of that so

it's a safe bet that we've got all of

the uh moisture driven off out of our

pure silver Crystal now all right let's

get some

weight on our Harvest

here that's on

grams that's 2,200 Gams going to zero

this

out okay let's go ahead and add our

silver from this

Harvest see what kind of yield we're

going to get

here

all

right looks like we got

1.3

kilos of pure silver Crystal from that

Harvest and we'll take it okay this will

conclude the video I'd like to thank

everyone for

watching