Richest Black Sand Smelt I've Ever Done! No Visible Gold/Silver, Huge Precious Metal Button

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  • We recovered A LOT of gold and silver from these black sand concentrates that didn't have any visible gold or silver in them. This was a sample of concentrates off one of our MBMM shaker tables that a customer sent up for us to test our smelting setup on and WOW were we surprised with the resulting button. Just goes to show that smelting/assaying black sands may be worth it especially if they come from rich gold ore. Don't throw anything away until you know its actually junk.
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  • @ruthiematteson6827
    @ruthiematteson6827 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    By far the best real life educational smelting video I've seen. I enjoyed watching. Thank you.

  • @kurtisengle6256
    @kurtisengle6256 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hard work fascinates me. I could watch it for hours.

  • @tadvanallen
    @tadvanallen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    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....

  • @robertwall713
    @robertwall713 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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

  • @jackburton6085
    @jackburton6085 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So cool how the density tests worked out, very interesting! Thank you for sharing those methods.

  • @shaneyork300
    @shaneyork300 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    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!!!

    • @Elon_Trump
      @Elon_Trump 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      makes me want to find someones tailings and run that stuff

    • @garydunn9418
      @garydunn9418 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True

  • @nickb5410
    @nickb5410 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video as usual. I think you are generating alot of interest in smelting... and clearing up alot of questions about it.
    Thanks!

  • @glennwmurphy1
    @glennwmurphy1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    really well-done. i'm getting a lab set-up this winter for small smelts and your vids really help tremendously. well done!

  • @gingerdude94
    @gingerdude94 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing results, Great channel BTW

  • @chriscarley9951
    @chriscarley9951 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jason, that is absolutely awesome. I am so glad I have saved most of my black sand cons tailings.

  • @ramondiaz8375
    @ramondiaz8375 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Again you have the best Info for smelting gold ore , step by step and that's why you are my favorite chanal . Thank u

  • @wilsonrawlin8547
    @wilsonrawlin8547 ปีที่แล้ว

    Invaluable information!! WELL DONE!

  • @frankbyrd9345
    @frankbyrd9345 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    As usual , very informative
    THANK YOU !

  • @martyparsons8395
    @martyparsons8395 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video! I really enjoyed this one!

  • @klausnielsen1537
    @klausnielsen1537 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

  • @oregongoldhunter
    @oregongoldhunter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video brother! Keep up the great work!

  • @traceyosterlind14
    @traceyosterlind14 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am neither a miner nor a smelter- I still find your videos very interesting. Well edited and produced.

  • @kraulth
    @kraulth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    this channel should have waaaaaay more subscribers and views.

  • @Marleydog2023
    @Marleydog2023 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow jason ,the camera dint lie ,that bead looked gold !
    Thanks mate for another awesome video.

  • @ambieomystico6124
    @ambieomystico6124 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really cool thanks for your dedication

  • @savannahbanana3183
    @savannahbanana3183 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing! must keep all black sands. Very little here in middle Tennessee. What an education I'm getting. Thank you

  • @videolabguy
    @videolabguy 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was very cool. Thanks!

  • @southernoregonprospector9074
    @southernoregonprospector9074 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

    • @markselten4985
      @markselten4985 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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.

    • @Slavicplayer251
      @Slavicplayer251 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      thats why you save the black sands because you never know if there’s still gold

  • @raydirkin9107
    @raydirkin9107 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bro you make math and science fun, awesome channel I always enjoy and learn something new thanks for sharing your knowledge.

  • @lamancha7066
    @lamancha7066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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

  • @ProspectorTripp
    @ProspectorTripp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow! Big button dude!
    Thanks buddy
    ✌️PT

  • @markwhite9148
    @markwhite9148 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting. You seem to have a good understanding of how things work.

  • @GSProspecting
    @GSProspecting 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    nice pour. that was cool fam. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!

  • @Mysucculentchinesemeal
    @Mysucculentchinesemeal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The smelting and smithing videos are so cool.

  • @GoldMiningGermany
    @GoldMiningGermany 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome explained! Great math at the end! Thanks and keep on!

    • @mbmmllc
      @mbmmllc  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Will do! More to come

  • @ronaldroller7176
    @ronaldroller7176 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great presentation.

  • @darin7745
    @darin7745 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the density formula

  • @randomrondomonia
    @randomrondomonia 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great vid . Keep up the good work 👍

  • @scarsprospecting
    @scarsprospecting 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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

    • @timetravela890
      @timetravela890 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Dont put your cat in the smelter.

  • @rayarthur586
    @rayarthur586 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @lamancha7066
    @lamancha7066 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Jason, I found the information
    Thank you so much
    Best Regards

  • @antoniospanayiotou8619
    @antoniospanayiotou8619 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great stuff!

  • @SquareCoinTalk
    @SquareCoinTalk 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice video as always , Thanks jason

  • @lamartrobertson6487
    @lamartrobertson6487 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Impressive. Fun stuff

  • @jerrykingsley6703
    @jerrykingsley6703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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?

  • @Archangel4500000
    @Archangel4500000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    For anyone wondering the gold content in that button is worth about $540.00~$560. The silver is worth about $2.00-$3.00.

    • @garydunn9418
      @garydunn9418 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you.That is just AWESOME!

    • @readoryx373
      @readoryx373 ปีที่แล้ว

      and the palladium content around $5

    • @ShawnGoENT
      @ShawnGoENT ปีที่แล้ว

      🤑🤑

  • @aienatu
    @aienatu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was dope!

  • @alfonsoalfonso5254
    @alfonsoalfonso5254 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Still learning, thank you

  • @romiagusta8161
    @romiagusta8161 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice lesson... , 👍

  • @MrDutchman100
    @MrDutchman100 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great job

  • @dreamcommunications8993
    @dreamcommunications8993 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good information ❤️

  • @EthanBonardel
    @EthanBonardel ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks!

  • @k_froggy
    @k_froggy 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    great vid

  • @CandSMINING
    @CandSMINING 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.😎👍👍👌👌⛏⛏

  • @metallatem3100
    @metallatem3100 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @GrooberNedJardine
    @GrooberNedJardine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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 .

  • @debralabarge614
    @debralabarge614 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting!!!

  • @pangulotuyo6568
    @pangulotuyo6568 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you sir godbless💖

  • @ManMountainMetals
    @ManMountainMetals 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    👍👍 Loved the video.😜

  • @readoryx373
    @readoryx373 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for your smelt recipe observations, I may use this to try and hack away at some copper sulphide-rich magnetite

  • @bASICMiner
    @bASICMiner 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    great video! :)

  • @animatesj9260
    @animatesj9260 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That density scale is cool info for the bank. So easy to tell the karot with a desity scale thanks for info

  • @Nar8234
    @Nar8234 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice

  • @Fambamm-ib6pw
    @Fambamm-ib6pw 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting

  • @GoldenpaydirtReviews
    @GoldenpaydirtReviews 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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

    • @southernoregonprospector9074
      @southernoregonprospector9074 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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!

    • @ataali4279
      @ataali4279 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is the black sand is iron ? I have black sand and its attachments for magnatic , is it have ore gold ?

  • @adilhassan3231
    @adilhassan3231 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good

  • @billmiller4972
    @billmiller4972 ปีที่แล้ว

    The crucible looked like like a pieace of art!

  • @chrissaucier9386
    @chrissaucier9386 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @bronx718nyc9
    @bronx718nyc9 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    So cool 😎 👍😎

  • @moosescrapper5928
    @moosescrapper5928 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOW that stuff is BRUTAL on crucibles....

    • @mbmmllc
      @mbmmllc  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      So hard on them. The salamander crucibles are the way to go

  • @GalenLeRaaz
    @GalenLeRaaz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Me - a vet techie, stumbling upo Your channel: Intresting.

  • @nathanielpontinovitz4698
    @nathanielpontinovitz4698 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hammer time

  • @frankbyrd9345
    @frankbyrd9345 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great vid. Still trying to figure out the smelting proccess for the placer concentrates I am recovering
    Gold to Ya !

  • @JenniLJones-qx8ys
    @JenniLJones-qx8ys 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    🤘🥰🤘..... thank You Sir. Appreciated!

  • @grantberry4540
    @grantberry4540 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice amazing

  • @johnparise418
    @johnparise418 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very scientific stuff

  • @garymucher9590
    @garymucher9590 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    While I'd love the idea of doing this, I am so amateurish, I don't even know where to start. Thumbs Up!

    • @lrhcconrad2230
      @lrhcconrad2230 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @pertinentparadigm1337
    @pertinentparadigm1337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    DAMN BOI!! Kinda makes me want to experiment in my area, Charlotte, NC... 1st Gold Rush in Murica, F' yeah!

    • @donniebrown2896
      @donniebrown2896 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Do it !! My ancestors from Ireland followed the gold trail from there into Georgia.

  • @sukamto0820
    @sukamto0820 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good 👍👍👍

  • @whatthefunction9140
    @whatthefunction9140 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You smelt it you dealt it

  • @bigchig01
    @bigchig01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I dont understand the first thing about what you're doing there but it sure is cool to watch

    • @kylel8605
      @kylel8605 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

    • @bigchig01
      @bigchig01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@kylel8605 gfy

    • @defiantlion231
      @defiantlion231 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      As is your useless commenting that takes up scroll space...

  • @drmodestoesq
    @drmodestoesq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    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.

    • @captainTubes
      @captainTubes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes if those old operations were running gravitational separation of free milling gold techniques, there will be a lot left.

  • @sagarugolden3798
    @sagarugolden3798 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice

  • @ruebenmikoch1828
    @ruebenmikoch1828 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Something Ive never heard with such excitment... "Wow look at that thing, it's huge"!

  • @jchoover111
    @jchoover111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks much for these great videos! I recall that you used to use electric kilns in your videos. Do you no longer use them?

  • @JimNichols
    @JimNichols 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @kerrypurcell6022
    @kerrypurcell6022 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    that was great,,,,,,,,,those black sands are worth smelting,,,,,if they are like what you had,,,,,

  • @SaxonSuccess
    @SaxonSuccess 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Let's have a look... (pause) ...HOLY COW!!!!!!!"

  • @------country-boy-------
    @------country-boy------- 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    that water displacement trick blew my mind

    • @pneumatic00
      @pneumatic00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @toussetaxi8127
    @toussetaxi8127 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    شكرا

  • @georgehall6098
    @georgehall6098 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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?

  • @RunningGrass-we7tm
    @RunningGrass-we7tm 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow

  • @3mhiddengold
    @3mhiddengold 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good bod 👍

  • @cheesynuts4291
    @cheesynuts4291 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is probably the third time I have watched this video. Waiting on all my stuff to show up so I can start screwing up the smelting process.
    I wonder if you could give me your impression of the electric furnace you’re using. I have seen fairly mixed reviews online. Yours seems to be working?

  • @brianbassett4379
    @brianbassett4379 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Like magic on TV.

  • @JericoHerculesProspectingLLC
    @JericoHerculesProspectingLLC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wisconsin is mostly black sands and flour gold

  • @ez1913
    @ez1913 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    That is cool stuff, thanks for sharing, Jason.
    You did black sands from under your bench that were a bust, right?
    Do metal detectors give any clues just waving over a handful?
    What does the iron rod surrender or collect to the smelt? -EZ

  • @pappawheely
    @pappawheely 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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

  • @vadenk4433
    @vadenk4433 ปีที่แล้ว

    That’s incredible. Imagine how much gold has been thrown out by prospector’s over the last 150 years.

  • @ski6712
    @ski6712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wow that shows why you need to keep your old cleaned out ? concentrates to later check them more carefully when you have the time.

  • @savannahbanana3183
    @savannahbanana3183 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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?

  • @93matarl
    @93matarl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    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.

  • @ryanvanpelt8237
    @ryanvanpelt8237 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks man. I was totally curious about the cost of all this? As cheap as this is I can't wait to experiment!

  • @johnhayes8557
    @johnhayes8557 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Jason, as usual, another fine video from you. What brand and model of XRF gun do you recommend? If you put up an affiliate link to things like this, it will help everyone, including you.

  • @Fdeubcfhbbjhfd
    @Fdeubcfhbbjhfd 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have always told everyone that prospects to save their black sands and cons and use mercury. BOOM! Double production easily... this makes more sense with ga/ak fines/cons.