Thanks Jason, I have been studying your videos on smelting and I will be setting myself up to recover my fine gold from my concentrates as the gold I am able to produce is very fine and difficult to separate further through gravity separation. By showing your problem pours along with your successful pours it should help me assemble a system and reduce my cash outlay for the system. Thanks again, Bob Wall
That claim owner has to be happy with your results!! That was a good video/lesson learned to not throw out your black sands untill they are officially done with.. great video....
How many people are kicking themselves for throwing out possibly enough gold and silver to buy a house, if you've been doing it for years!!! Have a GREAT Day!!!
Jason anyone who does not like your videos should look behind and down. These Videos are so informative in a year think 2 I will be trying my hand at it. You are a very good teacher. Thanks Ray
WOW. great return. I couldn't believe how a material makes up 3% of the whole, yet is invisible to the naked eye. I'd figure to see at least ALMOST microscopic specks of gold or silver in it. I smelt, and recover/refine gold, and started to do the same with silver. The pyyamid cupel route is absolutely worth learning. I appreciate what you are doing. Where are you from?
Thanks for the info! All this time I've been panning out my black sands, and I could have just melted them...way faster! Thank you for sharing the tools and material you used, now I know what to order for my summer time project.
Not only that.. all the nonvisable material. Lesson learned for me, luckily I've only chucked 1 bucket of black sands thinking it was done after blue bowling it all. Looking through the loupe I was always wondering what those shiny metallic silverish grains were.
Great videos you have been putting out. Although I live where there are no sources for neither silver nor gold I really like your straightforward explanantions and demonstrations. I find the whole process very fascinating and I hope you will continue to do well.
a simple question do you have any plan on making a more permanent foundry with refractory material? As the exposed kale wool will send out fibers thru the air, and is not good for your lungs.
So now you need to take that button and dissolve it in H2SO4 and HNO3 then add some Na2S2O5 (sodium metabisulfite) until your Stannis Chloride test comes back negative and smelt the precipitate for the 999 fine gold. If you capture the liquid from the precipitate and pour it in a bucket with copper in it silver will form in precipitate and cling to the copper. (yes I know that platinum group metals come out of solution with the silver in copper. You have to reprocess the silver to remove the platinum group metals) So you get all the precious metals out of the button that you can. Great video on this subject sir!!! Love your videos and the time they take.
Jason congratulations for and awesome instructional video. I'm glad that I saw this because our alluvial claim has very small micro gold that is hard to pan out but we have huge amounts of sulfides. Since this is the second video I seen of your work I would like to send samples and evaluate our recovery process. Best Regards
Yet you're on the internet with all that information at your fingertips and, ironically, within the time it took you to type this message, you could have answered yourself and NOT looked like an idiot. And society wonders why they're doomed... no thought process and only doing as they're told.
Absolutely epic! Love those results! I can’t wait to process my crushed gold ore, and my black sands! I even crushed the magnetite an Hematite to help release its precious metals! I’m building up for a awesome video! Thanks for the insight and great information
Do you have a trusted source for any high grade ore samples? I'm looking to do another demo video for my crusher and would like to use some good ore that will show good visible results after crushing, instead of the usual powdered material. I've seen your reviews on paydirt before and thought I'd ask about a high grade source. Thanks!
I finally have a bucket full of old sand & gravel from gold paydirt I bought, but mostly sand and gravel from the local rivers. I've got all the gold panned out that I could possibly find and saved in a vile, and I was keeping the heavy concentrate in separate containers, but do to needing to dispose of a lot of rocks, gravel & sand, I've mixed a bunch of it into a "catch and release" bucket. Now I'm back to thinking I need to just get all the heavy stuff and smelt it all as I had been planning. Argh! I'm never going to get rid of anything and someday I'll be on an episode of hoarders as some old crazy dude living in a house with buckets of rock, sand and dirt stacked to the ceiling and floors on the verge of collapse....At least I'll be on TV!
Omg you sound exactly like me! Even down to the catch and release bucket. Rocks in containers and cabinets in every room of my house…so I’m not the only one. Waiting on a gas kiln that should be here this week, then I’m gonna fire them up! 🤩
Another great and informative vid Jason , you were pretty close with your gold content estimate almost 65 % on the XRF gun , ohh how i would love one of those things , but very expensive indeed , lol , top vid mate cheers .
I really enjoyed your video. I’m shopping fire brick and some crucibles because I really want to make an old school furnace with a plaster lid. I’ve been watching some videos getting some ideas from everyone
It's an excellent and near zero-cost test better known as a "specific gravity" test. Look up "specific gravity test" on YT, there are several good videos on it. It's a little better if you use a length of thread to suspend the item and have some kind of "scaffold" to hold the item suspended in the water...which can a dowel over two stacks of books...but for quick and dirty, what Jason showed here was fine.
The ancient Romans sold a lot of lead from which they had removed the silver content, marking the ingots “ex argentum”. Any idea how they managed that on an industrial scale? Just curious, and you might have some info. Next, how did they refine all the silver from lead in Leadville , CO?
Fascinating work. The thought occurred watching the mold full of poured molten material: would vibration of the pyramid-shaped vessel increase settlement of lead and precious metal? The vibration could be mechanical or mechanical as by ultrasonic vibration, possibly even radiofrequency. What do you think Jason?
Great video. Very nice gold from that small sample. I have a few buckets of dredge cons That I usually run through a clean up sluice wit silicon mats. I have a small foundry that would do the smelt. I guess I need to watch more of your vids.😎👍👍👌👌⛏⛏
so what your saying is to keep all of your black sands from the clean up till you get how much? then ship to a refiner? just making sure i get this straight,, thank you for another great video, be safe, be strong, be free, be blessed
If the black sands were ground finer, would the shaker table then be able to separate the gold out? Since it stands to reason the super fine precious metals are lost in the larger granules of sand
Always learn much from you Jason. Once I get all the equipment if I could smelt for 4-5 dollars per session this would be practical. However there is more to be lernt about smelting, flux formulas etc.. It seems without smelting I would not recover anything in my area. What kind of educational course would you recommend? Other than high school chemistry. This would be better than travailing hundreds of miles away to find a few specks of gold. N'est pa?
Hey great video! What an awesome recovery! So, is there an assayer outfit you might recommend? My son has a considerable amount of black sands that he and I are convinced contains gold and/or silver but it is extremely difficult to process...
Jason another great video I saw you used an iron rod again how do you keep the precious metals off the rod? And you were using Portland cement as a qupel in a previous video, how did you keep it in the shape of a cup? And do you recommend Portland cement as a qupel for diy'ers?
So the gold and silver must have been attached to the black sand if you did not detect much by panning. Wonder what your xrf would show when reading the concentrates before smelting.
So Im just learning about all this. My question is. Can precious metals be turned to liquid.? Not molten either. Can it then be returned to precious metal. ?
By far the best real life educational smelting video I've seen. I enjoyed watching. Thank you.
Hard work fascinates me. I could watch it for hours.
Thanks Jason, I have been studying your videos on smelting and I will be setting myself up to recover my fine gold from my concentrates as the gold I am able to produce is very fine and difficult to separate further through gravity separation. By showing your problem pours along with your successful pours it should help me assemble a system and reduce my cash outlay for the system.
Thanks again,
Bob Wall
That claim owner has to be happy with your results!! That was a good video/lesson learned to not throw out your black sands untill they are officially done with.. great video....
How many people are kicking themselves for throwing out possibly enough gold and silver to buy a house, if you've been doing it for years!!!
Have a GREAT Day!!!
makes me want to find someones tailings and run that stuff
True
this channel should have waaaaaay more subscribers and views.
Jason anyone who does not like your videos should look behind and down. These Videos are so informative in a year think 2 I will be trying my hand at it. You are a very good teacher. Thanks Ray
I am neither a miner nor a smelter- I still find your videos very interesting. Well edited and produced.
Again you have the best Info for smelting gold ore , step by step and that's why you are my favorite chanal . Thank u
Wow jason ,the camera dint lie ,that bead looked gold !
Thanks mate for another awesome video.
So cool how the density tests worked out, very interesting! Thank you for sharing those methods.
really well-done. i'm getting a lab set-up this winter for small smelts and your vids really help tremendously. well done!
For anyone wondering the gold content in that button is worth about $540.00~$560. The silver is worth about $2.00-$3.00.
Thank you.That is just AWESOME!
and the palladium content around $5
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Great video as usual. I think you are generating alot of interest in smelting... and clearing up alot of questions about it.
Thanks!
The smelting and smithing videos are so cool.
Jason, that is absolutely awesome. I am so glad I have saved most of my black sand cons tailings.
WOW. great return. I couldn't believe how a material makes up 3% of the whole, yet is invisible to the naked eye. I'd figure to see at least ALMOST microscopic specks of gold or silver in it. I smelt, and recover/refine gold, and started to do the same with silver. The pyyamid cupel route is absolutely worth learning. I appreciate what you are doing. Where are you from?
I have a forge I built but need a smelter . So I’m building one as well. Refining my first cat ! Appreciate your vids! Thanks for the info
Dont put your cat in the smelter.
Bro you make math and science fun, awesome channel I always enjoy and learn something new thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for the info! All this time I've been panning out my black sands, and I could have just melted them...way faster! Thank you for sharing the tools and material you used, now I know what to order for my summer time project.
Not only that.. all the nonvisable material. Lesson learned for me, luckily I've only chucked 1 bucket of black sands thinking it was done after blue bowling it all. Looking through the loupe I was always wondering what those shiny metallic silverish grains were.
thats why you save the black sands because you never know if there’s still gold
Great videos you have been putting out. Although I live where there are no sources for neither silver nor gold I really like your straightforward explanantions and demonstrations. I find the whole process very fascinating and I hope you will continue to do well.
a simple question do you have any plan on making a more permanent foundry with refractory material?
As the exposed kale wool will send out fibers thru the air, and is not good for your lungs.
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Amazing! must keep all black sands. Very little here in middle Tennessee. What an education I'm getting. Thank you
Something Ive never heard with such excitment... "Wow look at that thing, it's huge"!
So now you need to take that button and dissolve it in H2SO4 and HNO3 then add some Na2S2O5 (sodium metabisulfite) until your Stannis Chloride test comes back negative and smelt the precipitate for the 999 fine gold. If you capture the liquid from the precipitate and pour it in a bucket with copper in it silver will form in precipitate and cling to the copper. (yes I know that platinum group metals come out of solution with the silver in copper. You have to reprocess the silver to remove the platinum group metals) So you get all the precious metals out of the button that you can. Great video on this subject sir!!! Love your videos and the time they take.
Invaluable information!! WELL DONE!
Great presentation.
Jason congratulations for and awesome instructional video. I'm glad that I saw this because our alluvial claim has very small micro gold that is hard to pan out but we have huge amounts of sulfides. Since this is the second video I seen of your work I would like to send samples and evaluate our recovery process. Best Regards
Me - a vet techie, stumbling upo Your channel: Intresting.
The crucible looked like like a pieace of art!
I dont understand the first thing about what you're doing there but it sure is cool to watch
Yet you're on the internet with all that information at your fingertips and, ironically, within the time it took you to type this message, you could have answered yourself and NOT looked like an idiot.
And society wonders why they're doomed... no thought process and only doing as they're told.
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As is your useless commenting that takes up scroll space...
Absolutely epic! Love those results! I can’t wait to process my crushed gold ore, and my black sands! I even crushed the magnetite an Hematite to help release its precious metals! I’m building up for a awesome video! Thanks for the insight and great information
Do you have a trusted source for any high grade ore samples? I'm looking to do another demo video for my crusher and would like to use some good ore that will show good visible results after crushing, instead of the usual powdered material. I've seen your reviews on paydirt before and thought I'd ask about a high grade source. Thanks!
Is the black sand is iron ? I have black sand and its attachments for magnatic , is it have ore gold ?
Great video brother! Keep up the great work!
I really wish you would have 100 x magnification of your samples so I can compare to what I find, please.
nice pour. that was cool fam. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!
Whoa....It makes you wonder about all the tailings piles all over the planet that have been left behind after thousands of years of gold mining.
Yes if those old operations were running gravitational separation of free milling gold techniques, there will be a lot left.
Wow! Big button dude!
Thanks buddy
✌️PT
While I'd love the idea of doing this, I am so amateurish, I don't even know where to start. Thumbs Up!
I've played with the thought but that's as far as I went . to many other irons in the fire . maybe in a few years
That’s incredible. Imagine how much gold has been thrown out by prospector’s over the last 150 years.
Amazing results, Great channel BTW
Great video! I really enjoyed this one!
I finally have a bucket full of old sand & gravel from gold paydirt I bought, but mostly sand and gravel from the local rivers. I've got all the gold panned out that I could possibly find and saved in a vile, and I was keeping the heavy concentrate in separate containers, but do to needing to dispose of a lot of rocks, gravel & sand, I've mixed a bunch of it into a "catch and release" bucket. Now I'm back to thinking I need to just get all the heavy stuff and smelt it all as I had been planning. Argh! I'm never going to get rid of anything and someday I'll be on an episode of hoarders as some old crazy dude living in a house with buckets of rock, sand and dirt stacked to the ceiling and floors on the verge of collapse....At least I'll be on TV!
Omg you sound exactly like me! Even down to the catch and release bucket. Rocks in containers and cabinets in every room of my house…so I’m not the only one. Waiting on a gas kiln that should be here this week, then I’m gonna fire them up! 🤩
Hi Jason, I found the information
Thank you so much
Best Regards
Thank you for your smelt recipe observations, I may use this to try and hack away at some copper sulphide-rich magnetite
Awesome explained! Great math at the end! Thanks and keep on!
Will do! More to come
"Let's have a look... (pause) ...HOLY COW!!!!!!!"
Love the density formula
Very interesting. You seem to have a good understanding of how things work.
Another great and informative vid Jason , you were pretty close with your gold content estimate almost 65 % on the XRF gun , ohh how i would love one of those things , but very expensive indeed , lol , top vid mate cheers .
I really enjoyed your video. I’m shopping fire brick and some crucibles because I really want to make an old school furnace with a plaster lid. I’ve been watching some videos getting some ideas from everyone
I got a whole lot of -100mesh that I've been holding until I had a plan
This is that plan. Good speed
that water displacement trick blew my mind
It's an excellent and near zero-cost test better known as a "specific gravity" test. Look up "specific gravity test" on YT, there are several good videos on it. It's a little better if you use a length of thread to suspend the item and have some kind of "scaffold" to hold the item suspended in the water...which can a dowel over two stacks of books...but for quick and dirty, what Jason showed here was fine.
Really cool thanks for your dedication
The ancient Romans sold a lot of lead from which they had removed the silver content, marking the ingots “ex argentum”. Any idea how they managed that on an industrial scale? Just curious, and you might have some info. Next, how did they refine all the silver from lead in Leadville , CO?
check de re metallica or pirotechnia of vannoccio biringuccio
that was great,,,,,,,,,those black sands are worth smelting,,,,,if they are like what you had,,,,,
Fascinating work. The thought occurred watching the mold full of poured molten material: would vibration of the pyramid-shaped vessel increase settlement of lead and precious metal? The vibration could be mechanical or mechanical as by ultrasonic vibration, possibly even radiofrequency. What do you think Jason?
WOW that stuff is BRUTAL on crucibles....
So hard on them. The salamander crucibles are the way to go
That's crazy.... I'm gonna have to try smelting my mailbox prospecting black sands I have left over. I've got a little furnace at home
Great video. Very nice gold from that small sample. I have a few buckets of dredge cons That I usually run through a clean up sluice wit silicon mats. I have a small foundry that would do the smelt. I guess I need to watch more of your vids.😎👍👍👌👌⛏⛏
That density scale is cool info for the bank. So easy to tell the karot with a desity scale thanks for info
As usual , very informative
THANK YOU !
Wisconsin is mostly black sands and flour gold
Still learning, thank you
wow that shows why you need to keep your old cleaned out ? concentrates to later check them more carefully when you have the time.
so what your saying is to keep all of your black sands from the clean up till you get how much? then ship to a refiner? just making sure i get this straight,, thank you for another great video, be safe, be strong, be free, be blessed
That was very cool. Thanks!
To be honest man I thought all this shit was super complicated. Appreciate you can break it down for all of us
If the black sands were ground finer, would the shaker table then be able to separate the gold out? Since it stands to reason the super fine precious metals are lost in the larger granules of sand
Very scientific stuff
Great job
Also, can i use my electric smelter in the same way you do for the first melt before finishing in a cuviet?
Great stuff!
You smelt it you dealt it
You are a great teacher...Thank Q...I wonder if there might be more gold etc left...I am a thinkin a microwave the rest might be worth a look see
Good information ❤️
Hammer time
Always learn much from you Jason. Once I get all the equipment if I could smelt for 4-5 dollars per session this would be practical. However there is more to be lernt about smelting, flux formulas etc.. It seems without smelting I would not recover anything in my area.
What kind of educational course would you recommend? Other than high school chemistry.
This would be better than travailing hundreds of miles away to find a few specks of gold. N'est pa?
Hey great video! What an awesome recovery! So, is there an assayer outfit you might recommend? My son has a considerable amount of black sands that he and I are convinced contains gold and/or silver but it is extremely difficult to process...
Sir, whatever quantity you have told to mix in this, how much quantity to mix: and what are their names, will you tell me
Jason another great video I saw you used an iron rod again how do you keep the precious metals off the rod? And you were using Portland cement as a qupel in a previous video, how did you keep it in the shape of a cup? And do you recommend Portland cement as a qupel for diy'ers?
Was wondering the same he makes it look so easy and does a awsome job with the videos
Nice video as always , Thanks jason
Impressive. Fun stuff
i loved your video, finally someone that can put it in plain english. Do you have a refining business?
DAMN BOI!! Kinda makes me want to experiment in my area, Charlotte, NC... 1st Gold Rush in Murica, F' yeah!
Do it !! My ancestors from Ireland followed the gold trail from there into Georgia.
Great vid. Still trying to figure out the smelting proccess for the placer concentrates I am recovering
Gold to Ya !
🤘🥰🤘..... thank You Sir. Appreciated!
Great vid . Keep up the good work 👍
Nice lesson... , 👍
Thanks!
Is it possible to separate/concentrate the precious metals in these black sands even more with the shaker table?
So cool 😎 👍😎
Yeah, that's some seriously rich black sand.
2/3 gold by weight of that nearly 15g is almost 10g! Several hundred bucks per smelt!
Would there be a disadvantage to having more lye added to begin with for the excess base, could you be any negative effects on the smelt?
Your questions were the same as mine. Was the lye okay to start out with in the first place? I’m just starting out with a kiln n crucible.
This was dope!
Is there any way of separating the gold and silver
Wow! Good job. I've got lots of black sand from Cape Cod and could not pan out anything. Maybe there was gold in it.
So the gold and silver must have been attached to the black sand if you did not detect much by panning. Wonder what your xrf would show when reading the concentrates before smelting.
Very good
So Im just learning about all this. My question is. Can precious metals be turned to liquid.? Not molten either. Can it then be returned to precious metal. ?
Yes.
Watch Sreetips here on YT.
You will see.
Nah dude...you got plenty of pours left in that crucible...lolz