Melting Silverplated Scrap to Recover Pure Silver & Copper #silver #refining

Recovering silver with fire experiment! Is refining silverplated items worth the effort? I think so, if you can purchase the silverplate at low cost. To test this theory, I melt over three kilos of silverplated scrap, pouring it down the lava slide, to turn it into shot    • LAVA SLIDE!  Melting Metal, Silver, a...  . After pouring the shot, I test the alloy metal in the Olympus GoldXpert XRF. You can fast forward to XRF results towards the end of the video. The alloy metal included copper, silver, zinc, lead, manganese, tin, and trace iron all melted together. Next, the shot is further purified in a custombuilt copper cell using copper sulfate electrolyte to recover the silver from all other base metals. The pure copper plates out on the copper cathode. I’m keeping track of all significant weights to calculate profit and loss from this experiment. This will be an ongoing experiment that may take several weeks with future videos to come.
Typically, I purchase silverplated items as an afterthought while searching for gold and silver jewelry and scrap. Over a year, I have collected over 50 pounds of silverplated scrap which I will be running some excitining experiments. I’m calculating different methods of purification while keeping track of supplies and other expenses. The ultimate goal is to be able to refine electroplated silver at the lowest possible cost. Just the refined copper alone has proven to be profitable and useful for other refining projects.
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