The Old Paint Mine, at the Utah Uinta Mountain's Moon Lake area was mined for gold and the special high grade red hematite, first by the Spanish, then followed by Caleb Rhoades and then by a man with the last name of Kandarus, because it was not just regular red clay hematite, it is contains pure iron particles which produce long lasting paint that could stand up to weathering. Then in the early 1900's, Old Man Kandarus lived in Price, Utah (my home town) and was doing as others did at that time, which is prospecting for Tom & Caleb Rhoades lost Pine Tree Mine that was the main source for the 1800's Mormon Gold Coins. Unfortunately, as far as for the Spanish ORO / Caleb Rhoades Pine Tree Mine Shaft, it was completely filled in (300 feet deep) with surrounding glacier rock and dirt after Chief Walker died, with the new Northern Ute Tribe's Chief kicking Caleb Rhoades out of the Uinta Mountains and all the Tribes land with threat of death if caught trespassing. That is when Caleb Rhoades moved to Price, Utah for gathering more Mormon Gold out of the SW Colorado's Laplata Mountain and San Juan Ranges, from LaPlata Canyon to Silverton, Colorado. Then when the GENTILE White-man began claiming and mining the LaPlata Mountain Range, Caleb Rhoades moved to Kama in Heber Valley Utah, without collecting much gold after this. Now everybody knows the true factual story about Caleb Rhoades collecting gold for the Mormon gold Coin production, and NOBODY has been back into this mine shaft since the Ute Indians filled it in. However, in the 1930's construction of the Moon Lake Dame, bulldozers uncovered the top square set timbering of the Spanish ORO / Caleb Rhoades Pine Tree Mine Shaft. The enormous Spanish ORO / Rhoades Pine Tree was ax cut down a long time ago with all the carvings face down in the glacier rock and sand. After erosion was around the tree, we noticed some Spainish carvings, so we dug and bared rocks from under the tree to read the Spanish And Rhoades carvings. Then in the 1980's when the new paint mine Road was bulldozed in, they illegally took the big bulldozer up our claim access road that was the old Moon Lake Construction material road, and drug the enormously fat (over 4 foot in diameter) and 60 foot long pine tree down to were their new road cut across our access road, with hauling that timber to the Vernal Saw Mill along with the excessively large amount of cut timber cut down for putting in their road. This wiped out all of our hand dug road cross-cut drainage ditches, so the Forrest Service then allowed us to bring in our bulldozed with a backhoe attached on the rear, to repair the deeply dug gouge dug in the middle of our road. We are the only ones to use that road and thew broke the law with no consequences involved. SLC BLM has our mining claim files of nearly 40 years at Moon Lake, with this incident in our claim files. They purposely planned the road to harvest the most timber as possible to pay for the road, with making a huge profit and we thought that was the plan, with the added benefit of having access to the old Paint Mine for attracting investors with many law suites filled by some of the the ripped-off investors. They paid for the road while making a huge profit in doing it. Today, after my family dropped our mining claims on this area after the year 2000, the Forest Service took in a big track-hoe with covering this Spanish / Rhoades Mine Shaft along with the two Spanish Tunnels into the hillside. Also, in the year 2001 when we reclaimed everything on our claim block, the mine shaft and two Spanish Tunnels into the bottom of the hillside were still there. What is worse, the Forest Service purposely broke the Antiquity Act by covering over the Spanish Mine Shaft and two tunnels. Then the Forest Service pushed the 1930's two 10 foot high and one 20 foot and one almost 30 foot high rock loading ramps 1930's built big timber rock loading ramps for bulldozing glacier rock into the back of big dump trucks that transported the rock down to the Moon Lake Dam's construction, are no longer there. There is a 20 to 30 foot high by 100 foot wide by 300 hundred feet long bulldozed glacier rock flat area rising above the downward sloped valley floor, that had the four wooden ramps being placed for bulldozing the glacier rock into big dump trucks. After the year 2000 the Forest Service pushed all four big timber ramps into the 15 to 20 foot deep drainage ravine against the hillside and burned them up with only the long steel support rods left in the drainage ravine today. Because of health reasons I cannot attend the 2024 Moon lake Gathering, but at next year's Moon Lake Gathering I will be one of the featured speakers with telling the complete factual story about this subject along with our teams progress report on the new Moon Lake Project
Wow! That is some really cool information and history surrounding the area, much of which you were personally involved with. Many thanks for taking the time to write all of that and share with us. I'm sure there are many on here (myself included) who will find this information very useful. I'm glad its not going to be lost to history. Thanks again.
Good job! Reverse engineering at its best: discovering how things were done and uncovering a lot of history too, that would otherwise disappear like a mountain through erosion and leave a tree-covered hill that you would not believe are the remains of a mountain! I'm further north, where the glaciers, roam, and geology, or history, are the 2 subjects that capture my attention. Thank you and awesome video-it looks like you found your calling!
This is the best presentation of historical mining, processing, smelting, I have ever watched. Putting the photos of the old equipment helped tie it all together. I liked and subscribed today.
Of course I’m curious like everyone else, but I’m happy that you kept the location to yourself. Overall you gave a great narration and vivid experience as to what the early stages were like for mining. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us!
Oh snap brother, rock on! I appreciate the shout out. Sorry for the confusion everybody. It's now Smokey and Spike Productions with limitless possibilities.
Awesome. I like the greenhouse you guys built from scrap. Very cool way to recycle some old material. I'll update your channel info in the description down below.
Hey there! Just subscribed. TH-cam algorithm must be doing its job for your Channel because it came across my feed and caught my interest right away. Your channel offers everything that peaks my interests. History, geology, and gold prospecting. Looking forward to watching more of your content. 🍻
Absolutely fascinating video. Not only did I learn more from this one video than I have in years watching similar ones - but I was totally engrossed in it the whole way through. Love your 'presentation style' makes it so enjoyable to watch. Many thanks from a 'Goldless' Scotland...
Good video. I watched all 52 minutes. I learned a lot and enjoyed every minute. The story of how you got started making personal videos to send to your father and they became to big to send as a file this then forced you to use TH-cam to carry the load and look at you now with your own TH-cam channel. Well, that is one of my favorite parts of this video. Thanks for sharing this and for all the effort you put into this. Sincerely, Pete
Got yourself a subscriber. I prospect for gold here in Az and do pretty well. Got my eye on a spot with natural riffles about 50-75 yards long that I found on google earth. Great big inside turn, it's a rough 4 mile hike in to get to it. Known gold in the drainage. I'll be off with my Gold Monster, shovel and a pan as soon as it cools off. Wish me luck!!!
I APPRECIATE your time. I've had huge difficulty just filming a fishing trip. There's alot of us that like the hard rock experience. Most are short like me.😊
Cool stuff Sir thanks for sharing sny shed antlers along your way? I'm obsessed with shed hunting & just recently got into prospecting & the history behind the it all which is absolutely interesting to say the least.
As strange as it sounds, I hardly ever find any sheds. Not sure why not, maybe I'm up to high and they are down lower in their wintering grounds. Good luck with both your hobbies and hope you find some cool stuff out there.
@@LowBudgetExploration i was just wondering but I'm here for your content which is quite good I may add. Always interesting & entertaining thanks much appreciated & same for you happy trails & safe travels Sir
Great video, I live right next to the East part of the Uinta mountain and look for signs of mines and the Spaniards all the time with no luck. Watching this was awesome to let me see what I'm looking for. Too bad I'm getting to old now lol.
I learned something along the way I've always been fascinated with history. I was learning about the old Spanish Trails in California. And they were explaining that. The monks would spread mustard seed. All along the attorneys to to Mark the path. To the next mission. I wonder if those are Mustard Seed flowers you're walking through.😮
Thanks Chris for another amazing video. I remember picking up a translated book from the 1500s called De Re Metalica (hopefully I spelled that right) which was the Spanish handbook on mining and such. It covered much of what you showed in this video concerning the processes used back then. I wish I was 40 years younger. LOL That way I could go back to many of the things and places I saw back in those days
Amazing you can still see these sites going back hundreds of years if you know what your looking at. I live in southern Spain and I've seen them using a paddle system not disimilar to what you were describing, where they crush the ore down and create a slurry with the heavies sinking to the bottom. I guess they use all sorts of fancy chemicals these days but the mechanics are not much different.. Great video, super interesting..
I find the history of it all way more fascinating than the Gold or Silver. Our ancestors were most definitely very clever and innovative people. Thanks for the comment and hope you enjoy living in beautiful Spain. I've been there a number of times years ago; Barcelona and Rota. Very nice people and beautiful architecture.
Thanks Clay hope your doing good. It's still my 4 year old iPhone, but started filming in 4K and not moving around so much. Dang phone has been through hell and back, but still pulls it off. LOL.
This kind of content makes me wish I grew up out west. Appalachia is my forever home but we don’t have the type mineral mining y’all have. Just dang black coal
Doesn't surprise me. I've watched videos where they are still using mercury in the same manner I highlight in this video. Not in an Arrastra, but in Gold Pans.
At 18,20 ish, i would have been kicking that a couple of times to see what happened, before going in. But maybe you are not supposed to do that, i dunno, im not from around. A VERY GOOD JOB U DID HERE, TY : ())
Make a video every week? I think that people don't quite get the time, cost, logistics, and effort involved in getting actual field footage and not just re-telling bad versions of the same old stories. Then, after all that, you have to do the video composition, which involves planning, researching and acquiring extra content like illustrations, making transitions and editing, and on and on including the upload process. Real stuff takes time.
I've never been able to find the person who is credited with the discovery. More than likely, the discovery was purely accidental. It probably went something like this: Unbeknown to some ancient Alchemist he accidently tips over a vessel containing Mercury on his workbench prior to going to bed. During the night, this mercury came into contact with some gold coins that were also on the work bench. When the Alchemist ventured into his lab the next morning. Much to his dismay, he observed that the mercury had began absorbing the gold coins. He shares this observation with others, experiments are done, knowledge is shared and the rest is history. At least that is how I imagine it taking place.
And your best guess as to how many workers an operation like that might need? Very few videos actually talk about the infrastructure needed to mine. It is like they expect us to think that they were mining pure gold not ore Do you find ore that was not processed ?
I have found rich ore before, usually where they were stacking the High Grade material. I once found a piece with small bits of gold and Acanthite (Silver). I have tried to research how many Spanish Miners would venture out together, but have never been able to find much historical data. My theory is probably between 15-20 men. This would be viewed as a formidable force to the Indians, but still small enough the profits wouldn't be diluted and secrecy could more easily be enforced. It would also allow for some of the men to be designated as hunters/cooks and other logistical responsibilities. They would have packed in beans, rice and flour, but still would have needed wild game to supplement their diet. I imagine they would be consuming lot's of calories a day mining and climbing up and down canyons/mountains looking for mineralization.
Thank you! I have learned a ton, I am now subscribed!
Thank you very much very educational ❤watching
absolutely the most informative video on this subject i have seen anywhere. thank you sir, you are appreciated.
I’m a farmer from Sweden and I think this is the one of the best mine and geology videos on youtube .
How is being a farmer related to mining and geology.
Have you ever heard the last name Holmgren in Sweden ?
Very informative !
@@redskyz483people speak like this a lot, communication with no sense
I'm a doctor from Sweden and I think this is one of the best mine and judge videos on TH-cam, as well.
The Old Paint Mine, at the Utah Uinta Mountain's Moon Lake area was mined for gold and the special high grade red hematite, first by the Spanish, then followed by Caleb Rhoades and then by a man with the last name of Kandarus, because it was not just regular red clay hematite, it is contains pure iron particles which produce long lasting paint that could stand up to weathering. Then in the early 1900's, Old Man Kandarus lived in Price, Utah (my home town) and was doing as others did at that time, which is prospecting for Tom & Caleb Rhoades lost Pine Tree Mine that was the main source for the 1800's Mormon Gold Coins. Unfortunately, as far as for the Spanish ORO / Caleb Rhoades Pine Tree Mine Shaft, it was completely filled in (300 feet deep) with surrounding glacier rock and dirt after Chief Walker died, with the new Northern Ute Tribe's Chief kicking Caleb Rhoades out of the Uinta Mountains and all the Tribes land with threat of death if caught trespassing. That is when Caleb Rhoades moved to Price, Utah for gathering more Mormon Gold out of the SW Colorado's Laplata Mountain and San Juan Ranges, from LaPlata Canyon to Silverton, Colorado. Then when the GENTILE White-man began claiming and mining the LaPlata Mountain Range, Caleb Rhoades moved to Kama in Heber Valley Utah, without collecting much gold after this. Now everybody knows the true factual story about Caleb Rhoades collecting gold for the Mormon gold Coin production, and NOBODY has been back into this mine shaft since the Ute Indians filled it in. However, in the 1930's construction of the Moon Lake Dame, bulldozers uncovered the top square set timbering of the Spanish ORO / Caleb Rhoades Pine Tree Mine Shaft. The enormous Spanish ORO / Rhoades Pine Tree was ax cut down a long time ago with all the carvings face down in the glacier rock and sand. After erosion was around the tree, we noticed some Spainish carvings, so we dug and bared rocks from under the tree to read the Spanish And Rhoades carvings. Then in the 1980's when the new paint mine Road was bulldozed in, they illegally took the big bulldozer up our claim access road that was the old Moon Lake Construction material road, and drug the enormously fat (over 4 foot in diameter) and 60 foot long pine tree down to were their new road cut across our access road, with hauling that timber to the Vernal Saw Mill along with the excessively large amount of cut timber cut down for putting in their road. This wiped out all of our hand dug road cross-cut drainage ditches, so the Forrest Service then allowed us to bring in our bulldozed with a backhoe attached on the rear, to repair the deeply dug gouge dug in the middle of our road. We are the only ones to use that road and thew broke the law with no consequences involved. SLC BLM has our mining claim files of nearly 40 years at Moon Lake, with this incident in our claim files. They purposely planned the road to harvest the most timber as possible to pay for the road, with making a huge profit and we thought that was the plan, with the added benefit of having access to the old Paint Mine for attracting investors with many law suites filled by some of the the ripped-off investors. They paid for the road while making a huge profit in doing it. Today, after my family dropped our mining claims on this area after the year 2000, the Forest Service took in a big track-hoe with covering this Spanish / Rhoades Mine Shaft along with the two Spanish Tunnels into the hillside. Also, in the year 2001 when we reclaimed everything on our claim block, the mine shaft and two Spanish Tunnels into the bottom of the hillside were still there. What is worse, the Forest Service purposely broke the Antiquity Act by covering over the Spanish Mine Shaft and two tunnels. Then the Forest Service pushed the 1930's two 10 foot high and one 20 foot and one almost 30 foot high rock loading ramps 1930's built big timber rock loading ramps for bulldozing glacier rock into the back of big dump trucks that transported the rock down to the Moon Lake Dam's construction, are no longer there. There is a 20 to 30 foot high by 100 foot wide by 300 hundred feet long bulldozed glacier rock flat area rising above the downward sloped valley floor, that had the four wooden ramps being placed for bulldozing the glacier rock into big dump trucks. After the year 2000 the Forest Service pushed all four big timber ramps into the 15 to 20 foot deep drainage ravine against the hillside and burned them up with only the long steel support rods left in the drainage ravine today. Because of health reasons I cannot attend the 2024 Moon lake Gathering, but at next year's Moon Lake Gathering I will be one of the featured speakers with telling the complete factual story about this subject along with our teams progress report on the new Moon Lake Project
Wow! That is some really cool information and history surrounding the area, much of which you were personally involved with. Many thanks for taking the time to write all of that and share with us. I'm sure there are many on here (myself included) who will find this information very useful. I'm glad its not going to be lost to history. Thanks again.
Thank you for sharing your first hand info.
“I’m from the government +here to help you!” Right
@@davidvanvoorhis4979😅😂😅😂😅😂😅
My wife's Grandpa is a Kandarus from Price Utah. Small world 🌎....
Good job! Reverse engineering at its best: discovering how things were done and uncovering a lot of history too, that would otherwise disappear like a mountain through erosion and leave a tree-covered hill that you would not believe are the remains of a mountain! I'm further north, where the glaciers, roam, and geology, or history, are the 2 subjects that capture my attention. Thank you and awesome video-it looks like you found your calling!
This is the best presentation of historical mining, processing, smelting, I have ever watched. Putting the photos of the old equipment helped tie it all together. I liked and subscribed today.
Thank you dvog and welcome to the channel.
Of course I’m curious like everyone else, but I’m happy that you kept the location to yourself. Overall you gave a great narration and vivid experience as to what the early stages were like for mining. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us!
Very interesting! Thanks from an old prospector's daughter. I've really enjoyed this.
Very good video. thanks for explaining the mining process from gold ore & refining it to gold bars
That was really well done, and not annoying like some guys who act for their camera. Thank you. I enjoyed the history.
You produce quality content... feels like college 101... Thanks!
i have learned more in this video than any other one i have watched.
Same here!!
You deserve an Oscar
Exactly, such a down to Earth 🌎 view of my favorite subject: [understanding Geology & Mineralogy.
Great Vid! I love the area of the Uintas and I learned a lot. Thanks
finally!
been looking for some ancient gold mining for a good while now!
thanks, dude!
What an outstanding video my friend. Thank you for your knowledge and efforts!
Hell yeah!!! Amazing episode again!!
Great video
Oh snap brother, rock on! I appreciate the shout out. Sorry for the confusion everybody. It's now Smokey and Spike Productions with limitless possibilities.
Awesome. I like the greenhouse you guys built from scrap. Very cool way to recycle some old material. I'll update your channel info in the description down below.
@@LowBudgetExploration excellent, thank you so much!
This was a very informative video that was crafted in a way that kept me interested in its entirety.
I greatly appreciate your videos. Please keep them coming. Best Regards
Wow. I just saw this on my feed and thought I'd check a little bit out and stayed until the end. What an awesome presentation!!!!!!! Thank you!
Awesome video. Thank you for this.
Great to go on a walk with you. So interesting. Thanks 👍
Hey there! Just subscribed. TH-cam algorithm must be doing its job for your Channel because it came across my feed and caught my interest right away. Your channel offers everything that peaks my interests. History, geology, and gold prospecting. Looking forward to watching more of your content. 🍻
Another great video. Your knowledge is very impressive .
Absolutely fascinating video. Not only did I learn more from this one video than I have in years watching similar ones - but I was totally engrossed in it the whole way through. Love your 'presentation style' makes it so enjoyable to watch. Many thanks from a 'Goldless' Scotland...
Thank you sir and appreciate the positive feedback.
awesome video
very fun and informational video. Thanks. Way cool.
Good video. I watched all 52 minutes. I learned a lot and enjoyed every minute.
The story of how you got started making personal videos to send to your father and they became to big to send as a file this then forced you to use TH-cam to carry the load and look at you now with your own TH-cam channel. Well, that is one of my favorite parts of this video.
Thanks for sharing this and for all the effort you put into this.
Sincerely,
Pete
Many thanks Pete.
Very good video great job....
This is very educational! Very well done!
Great Video, Thank you
Very awesome. Lots of new information to me.
Well done, interesting from start to finish.
Interesting info. Learned some new things about gold and silver and how mercury is used in the process.
Best video i'v seen on TH-cam.
Excellent presentation. Thank You.....
I just learned more than I thought I could learn in that short time. Wish you were my neighbor.
Wow wow wow ..I wish I had seen this when I was young. Glad to see it now.
Thank you for sharing great information.👍🏼
I’m gonna need more videos from you, please step your game up 😉. Thanks truly enjoy you videos after a hectic work week
😝👍
These videos now with you talking and explaining stuff are much better than the videos before with text on images.. keep it up
Got yourself a subscriber. I prospect for gold here in Az and do pretty well. Got my eye on a spot with natural riffles about 50-75 yards long that I found on google earth. Great big inside turn, it's a rough 4 mile hike in to get to it. Known gold in the drainage. I'll be off with my Gold Monster, shovel and a pan as soon as it cools off. Wish me luck!!!
Sounds like a great site. Best of luck!
Incredible and informative video really enjoyed it from Canada.
Excellent video bro, covered allot for sure! Keep up the good work, stay safe !
Keep it up and thanks for doing what you're doing!
Great stuff.
Great video! Well worth watching 👍🏻🍻
truly enlightening thank you!
Great video, thank you
Well done.....🤙
Another awesome video pal! Keep up the good work brother!
Hell of a good informative video nice
Very good, and insightful thank you!
Thanks for all the information very cool from Ontario Canada near the Niagara Falls
Very interesting!!!!
A man been watching your videos love them nice work and good hiking.. From AZ got lot of treasure out here I know they went through here
Awesome brother. Happy adventures.
Thank you for your educational video.
That camel mounted canon was the coolest thing I've seen in a while
I APPRECIATE your time. I've had huge difficulty just filming a fishing trip. There's alot of us that like the hard rock experience. Most are short like me.😊
Cool stuff Sir thanks for sharing sny shed antlers along your way? I'm obsessed with shed hunting & just recently got into prospecting & the history behind the it all which is absolutely interesting to say the least.
As strange as it sounds, I hardly ever find any sheds. Not sure why not, maybe I'm up to high and they are down lower in their wintering grounds. Good luck with both your hobbies and hope you find some cool stuff out there.
@@LowBudgetExploration i was just wondering but I'm here for your content which is quite good I may add. Always interesting & entertaining thanks much appreciated & same for you happy trails & safe travels Sir
I am working on moving out of Texas and starting to prospect with my family. Will be fun for me and my kids when we get started.
Wish you the best of luck and hope you make many memories.
@@LowBudgetExploration thanks man, can’t wait to see more of your adventures 🫡
Always wait for your videos, they never disappoint ❤❤❤
Great video, I live right next to the East part of the Uinta mountain and look for signs of mines and the Spaniards all the time with no luck. Watching this was awesome to let me see what I'm looking for. Too bad I'm getting to old now lol.
I learned something along the way I've always been fascinated with history. I was learning about the old Spanish Trails in California. And they were explaining that. The monks would spread mustard seed. All along the attorneys to to Mark the path. To the next mission. I wonder if those are Mustard Seed flowers you're walking through.😮
Great show 😊
I'm not able to get out in the woods like I use too. I enjoy your videos. THANKS BOB
Just found your channel really like the content.😁👍
really Interesting thanks
I’ve always wondered how anyone ever figured this stuff out. Great video, instant subscribe!
Thank you.
Thanks Chris for another amazing video.
I remember picking up a translated book from the 1500s called De Re Metalica (hopefully I spelled that right) which was the Spanish handbook on mining and such. It covered much of what you showed in this video concerning the processes used back then.
I wish I was 40 years younger. LOL That way I could go back to many of the things and places I saw back in those days
Hey Cat, hope all is going good.
That book was like the Bible of Mining for many years. The illustrations themselves are Works of Art.
Amazing you can still see these sites going back hundreds of years if you know what your looking at. I live in southern Spain and I've seen them using a paddle system not disimilar to what you were describing, where they crush the ore down and create a slurry with the heavies sinking to the bottom. I guess they use all sorts of fancy chemicals these days but the mechanics are not much different.. Great video, super interesting..
I find the history of it all way more fascinating than the Gold or Silver. Our ancestors were most definitely very clever and innovative people. Thanks for the comment and hope you enjoy living in beautiful Spain. I've been there a number of times years ago; Barcelona and Rota. Very nice people and beautiful architecture.
I did enjoy your videos
Outstanding video. FYI, I really like the ones you narrate.
Arsenic poisoning Bud......
I think you might be spot on. I was sick all night and most of the next day. It felt like a really bad hangover. Best way I can describe it.
@@LowBudgetExploration that shit ain't no joke. It's prevalent with silver deposits I hear.
Watching 1st time great video thank you
Thank you I have discovered a massive gold deposit in Pennsylvania so need all the advice and help I can get
Very interesting thanks..
Just subscribed to your channel. Great content and very informative.
Many thanks and welcome.
Wow lots of good information again amigo. Did you get a new camera? The video and sound seem to be a lot better. Good video
Thanks Clay hope your doing good. It's still my 4 year old iPhone, but started filming in 4K and not moving around so much. Dang phone has been through hell and back, but still pulls it off. LOL.
You're very educated man.
All of the ancients learn this metallurgy from fallen Angel technology.
I learned stuff. Thanks 😊
This kind of content makes me wish I grew up out west. Appalachia is my forever home but we don’t have the type mineral mining y’all have. Just dang black coal
Yep. I'm from Logan County West Virginia myself. Coal is king here
Great video , well done
🇦🇺
This old man is ready to go prospecting !
Awesome content! New subscriber here. So glad I found you!
Welcome to the channel my friend.
@@LowBudgetExploration Thank you
That fire setting method is used In Africa with rubber tires mining baker metals shows it on his channel
Doesn't surprise me. I've watched videos where they are still using mercury in the same manner I highlight in this video. Not in an Arrastra, but in Gold Pans.
Another excellent production! Any chance you’re attending the Moon Lake Gathering this weekend?
I wont be there, but hope they have a good turn out. Appreciate the compliment.
Hmmm now I need to study mercury and red mercury
Good.
At 18,20 ish, i would have been kicking that a couple of times to see what happened, before going in.
But maybe you are not supposed to do that, i dunno, im not from around.
A VERY GOOD JOB U DID HERE, TY : ())
❤ Your work
Make a video every week? I think that people don't quite get the time, cost, logistics, and effort involved in getting actual field footage and not just re-telling bad versions of the same old stories. Then, after all that, you have to do the video composition, which involves planning, researching and acquiring extra content like illustrations, making transitions and editing, and on and on including the upload process. Real stuff takes time.
great .. informative / brain food / thx
you just got yourself another sub
Thank you and welcome to the channel Tory.
Awesome video. I was wondering how it was they actually came to the realization that mercury absorbs gold?
I've never been able to find the person who is credited with the discovery. More than likely, the discovery was purely accidental. It probably went something like this:
Unbeknown to some ancient Alchemist he accidently tips over a vessel containing Mercury on his workbench prior to going to bed. During the night, this mercury came into contact with some gold coins that were also on the work bench.
When the Alchemist ventured into his lab the next morning. Much to his dismay, he observed that the mercury had began absorbing the gold coins. He shares this observation with others, experiments are done, knowledge is shared and the rest is history.
At least that is how I imagine it taking place.
Appreciate the insight.
Good work Son
Thanks Mom.
Thank you! Super interesting. Toxic chemical pits, poor horses and slaves.
And your best guess as to how many workers an operation like that might need? Very few videos actually talk about the infrastructure needed to mine. It is like they expect us to think that they were mining pure gold not ore
Do you find ore that was not processed ?
I have found rich ore before, usually where they were stacking the High Grade material. I once found a piece with small bits of gold and Acanthite (Silver).
I have tried to research how many Spanish Miners would venture out together, but have never been able to find much historical data. My theory is probably between 15-20 men. This would be viewed as a formidable force to the Indians, but still small enough the profits wouldn't be diluted and secrecy could more easily be enforced.
It would also allow for some of the men to be designated as hunters/cooks and other logistical responsibilities. They would have packed in beans, rice and flour, but still would have needed wild game to supplement their diet. I imagine they would be consuming lot's of calories a day mining and climbing up and down canyons/mountains looking for mineralization.