Here's What Gold Miners Don't Want You To Know..
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- In this adventure we show you how to get you gold using liquid mercury! Mercury is VERY TOXIC and should not be attempted by anybody who is not trained to do so! If you want to see more videos please be sure to support the Pioneer family by Subscribing and checking out my Facebook & Instagram page! Thank you and I hope you enjoy.
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I have been a gold miner for 30 years. We used to put the mercury in a pan like you did with the concentrates, then squeeze it through a cloth and came out with an amalgamate nugget of gold and mercury including all of the fines. Then burn it off , then just touch it and it would break up into all of the original gold.
Are you saying that all the original pieces of God would be there at the end as they were before amalgamation???
Did you bring the jet dry? 😅
This was also my experience, overheat the amalgam and you will get a sponge, which in the days of old was the only legal way to own refined gold.
@@danhelwig"legal way to own refined gold"
Uhhhh.....money?
@@isthisoneunavailableIt used to be illegal for humans to own gold in America. Only the lizard people in government could legally own gold... It is part of the history of the USA, but no school likes to teach the truth... Like the government killing people with the army, they don't like to tell the truth. Never trust the lizard people in government...
Very interesting Pauly, I've seen Mercury recovered from it's host rock (Cinnabar), I believe it was on Cody's lab and he had a huge retort. You could hear the drops of mercury hitting the walls as it condensed. Thanks for the video, and yes working with mercury vapors is dangerous, glad you wore the correct PPE while doing it!
Yeah i watched that too!😂👍
Did you also see Cody handle mercury and then get tested! Mercury is very safe when handled correctly.
@@Scorpster Yes I did, when handled properly it's very safe!
For being a professional you are missing two filters that snap onto that 3M respirator. That pre filter stops the particulate's that save your filter from clogging up.
Thanks dad.
Ok Karen
It’s a gram of gold, not a factory. 😮
That's very particular
Thats a dust cover. He's fine. You act like he's sanding something and stirring up a bunch of dust
Make a pouch in the center of a chamois, place amalgam into the pouch, then Squeeze the Amalgam mercury thru a chamois, the pouch contains the amalgam, then empty the pouch into the retort and there you have it, cooked off mercury and clean Gold. Saw that on AskJeffWilliams and Two Toes Gary.
Dropped a thermometer when I was a kid. Collected the merc. with paper and put it on a penny. Eventually it seemed to soak in, just leaving a spot on the surface. Was ok though. It was the early 80's. Much safer back then....... :) Thanks Pauly! Hope your tank is full so you can continue your adventures!
Back when cents were made of copper not zinc
@@mentalmetalist I’m from the future, cents aren’t made at all now
"Dropped" it
Didn't soak into the copper it evaporated, it will evaporate at room temperature
I am so old that I remember playing with the stuff bare handed in grade school science class around 1961 (third grade?) It was very cool to do, but now we know how toxic it is. Maybe that is why I am how I am now! Drain Bamage. So many things we played with back then that is not allowed today. What do you get when you mix powder charcoal, sulfur, and one other ingredient? So many fun projects for kids. Just be careful you don't end up having the nickname Stumpy!!!
Boomstick juice! Not as OLD as you, but I'm getting there : D
Any time a thermometer got broken in our household; in the early 70's, my sister and I would play with it. We turned out pretty normal, but have wondered if it has had any lasting health issues!
Charcoal sulfur and salt peter = black powder.
@@bobirving6052 use to mix that up and charge my home made cannot that would shoot 3/4 in ball bearings from dump trucks. Cannon might be a stretch since it was just galvanized plumbing pipe with a cap on the end and a small hole drilled for a fuse port. At thirty yards it would punch through one inch wood siding like cardboard. Fun projects for ten year olds. Just walk into a local pharmacy and buy powdered sulfur and salt peter in a brown paper bags by weight no questions. Today Homeland Security would knock at your door.
LOVED THIS!!! Very educational and you made sure all safety precautions were taken. Thank you for this great video Pauly! Have a great weekend!
Very cool we don’t see it ever here in Tassie so a good education for me although it probably is about 👍🏼
We got to play with the Mercury in science class in the 60’s. We would coat our rings in it to make them shiny. The things we didn’t know.
Anytime a thermometer got broken in the early 70's my sister and I would play with it. I can guarantee that some particles were dropped! Had no idea back then it was a haz mat. 😳
I recently found a mercury covered nugget on the Yuba in California and once it was burned off WOW did it shine. Thanks to my buddies help! Awesome video. Love science
9:40 You had plenty of mercury to collect all the gold. What you failed to do was tumble it together. You have to constantly mix the gold, dirt, and mercury. That allows all the gold to be captured by the mercury. Tumbling is best, because you can set the tumbler and let it run for an hour. But I suppose mixing with a kitchen mixer would do. Even a magnetic stir pellet in a beaker. The important thing is constant agitation.
Dude! So happy you made one of these videos. I’ve been waiting to see how you delt with amalgam that you find in the rivers.
Yessssss! Pauly Sciencing!!!! I genuinely appreciate and just love the extra effort you go to in the editing and stuff for these kinds of videos dude. All your vids of course, but science is just rad, and it’s cool seein you have fun with it 👌🇦🇺
Hi Pauly,
Of course, it‘s super cool to play with mercury but be aware, you created a million microscopic tiny beads, you'll never collect (check the scratches in your pan with a loupe). They will vaporize over the time but stay in your shop forever...
You'll also never get all of the mercury out of the black sand, now it's hazardous waste.
In order to avoid the vaporization, all things that were in contact with the mercury, should stored under water or at least in sealable plastic bags (e.g. the retort).
Best regards from Germany!
Oh definitely. Even if we vacuumed the shop we wouldn't get it all -- A price to pay for education I guess! Everything is in bags in a cool safe. Thanks for stopping by! 🇩🇪🇨🇦
It would be a lot safer to use your retort outside with a breeze to your back. Mercury in liquid form doesn't`t exhaust fumes until heated of course. Also the best retort is the one that looks kinda like a still. It`d be great if you could do a vid. retrieving the 30,50,100,200 as well, using the chamois method ,cause that`s really cool too. thanks
Thanks learn something today how interesting I have heard about it but never have seen it like what you showed thanks for doing a science project instead of just reading a script😊
I love finding new videos from you!
And I love making new videos for you!!
That was fun!!! Second comment several months later, I went to a class and the teacher said that the retort should be totally cool before removing, you can just leave it or after 20 -30 minutes if not cool then drip water over the top. But to leave it to cool until you can remove it by hand, with only a plastic glove. Otherwise you can release the mercury vapor
Hi Pauly! great video!!
Very cool and educational to see how mercury behaves in water and around gold.
Most of us (hobby) prospectors have found some flakes of gold covered in mercury.
Very interesting to see how it can be extracted or cleaned with a retort, many thanks for that!
Stay happy & safe!!
Cheers from Switzerland
Thanks for the video. I have a small amount I do need to retort, and that small retort is just perfect.
Pioneer Pauly always seems to be in such good spirits! Thanks for sharing bro! Keep up the great prospecting content and nugget sniping videos too! 🤙🏼
Polly, did you ever get a larger retort?
FYI, I’ve never read in any primary or secondary historical sources of miners intentionally dumping mercury in rivers as a method to extract gold. Most mercury we find today (in gravels or on bedrock) was associated with past placer operations where it was placed in sluice boxes to capture fine gold. There was a loss factor and some was washed or agitated out inadvertently through the back of the sluices.
I do love your videos btw, just a constructive clarification.
Because you know literally everything?
Pauly IS BACK to YT!!!!! Woot, we missed you very much my friend ❤️
Try putting it all into a tumbler at low speed for a day. The Gold/Mercury amalgams should attach to each other and form a ball that you can just pick out of the black sand. The other trick is to do it like you did but work it in a pan full of water with your fingers and try to work the little pieces all together into a ball.
Loved Mercury Stairs!!!
If you place gold leaf on top of the beaker of Mercury, it will absorb the gold leaf like a sponge.
The mercury going down the Lego was such an amazing shot, it's so surreal it felt like cg and I know it wasn't .
You broke my smooth Brain 🧠
On the claim I left the sucker bottle on an angle with gold and mercury for days and the fines did join together to make a clump and when burnt off formed a nugget from fines.
that was cool fam. keep on getting that AU. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!
i was prospecting here in Vermont and found some gold, and also some mercury. it was super cool! they merged though so i took that cut and put it in a glass jar with some mineral oil until i could also process it apart. but got to wait till i have more material to work with lol. for now it just a nice sample lol.
Very cool vid!! Always use a Retort outdoors just in case and make sure that tube has fully cooled before removing! Storing the retort in a sealed plastic container is a good idea too. That is a super nice little retort by the way! i hope guy who made it can find another seat post for his bike soon..lol
The old timers around here ran that amalgam from stamp mills over copper plates to collect it (small bits) from the water and slimes. Seems the mercury likes copper also. Then they would clean the plates with wooden scrapers and retort the amalgam. When there was damage or age, the wooden scrapers were burnt and the remains retorted with the rest and values recovered.
Ah ha! Missing info found, I suspect. :) Thanks!
I can’t believe we use to have to stick mercury thermometers in our mouth to take our temperature lmao.
Better than where else they used to stick it.
@@ITechcompulock 🙈
This video was SSOOOOO helpful! I panned 3 or 4 grams of what looked like buckshot, but the magnet wouldnt grab it. I set the pan in the sun to dry and came back to a puddle of mercury! I dont have any way refining it myself so itll a cool souvenir 😅
I remember finding mercury for the first time and a well known miner I know told me what it was. He said I can touch it without a glove in its liquid state. When I told my family this they all freaked out except for my grandparents may they RIP. I asked my grandfather, didn't you used to play with this stuff from the thermometers back when you were a kid? He says most definitely we didn't all the time and the rest of the family were speechless. It was the funniest reaction I've seen with my whole family. Priceless.
Hello Paul, that mixture of black sand and gold has to be pickled in sulphuric pickle first for mercury encapsulation,only then You could get it in one lump,regards George
and i move in and sleep on the floor !?!?! u make me giggle and u teach me stuff.....
DADDY?!?!? ... LMAO much love buddy
Hi Pauly the Old timers in the Australian gold rush would cut a potato in half hollow out a little on one side put the mercury gold amalgam in put the spud back together with wire,place it on a shovel then put it over a fire,the mercury would dissipate into potato leaving a button of gold in the cavity.Very dangerous practice as they had no idea of the toxic nature of mercury.It was the cause of many deaths.
holy cats! Sure hope they didn't eat the dang spud!
Great video Paulie! I loved the Lego staircase😁
Thank you! I'm going to make something much better in a future mercury video!
Should have used that SHLOOVEL to seperate the gold from the black sand magnetite... 🤣🤣🤣
I always wanted to know how to separate Mercury from Gold! Cool!!!
Good work Pauly, I like the little retort tool. A bit tipsy but handy.
Thanks
✌️PT
Now we know what makes Paul so crazy! 😉
Haha caught me! 😋
Well Pauly you've done it again.I love watching your videos and learning about gold recovery. I've been watching g you from the beginning and it never gets old. There's just something about the way you do your videos I enjoy watching. There funny,exciting,and informative.I know much more about gold panning now though Han I ever Dr d and hope one day ill be able to try it myself. It seems to be a lot of work but worth it in the end. Thanks Pauly for all ya do for our entertainment! Keep on pannin!
Hi Pauly! 😁Can you please do a video on all the gold you have collected over the years please?😊
The North your friend is wearing look like mercury vapor MV. They are olive. 7500 series. Those fumes can turn you into a human vegetable with one good exposure.
thank you Pauly I learned something new today amazing that I have not heard of it before
This is an old post and you know better by now but if you put the black sand in a rock tumbler with the mercury you will end up with a blob of amalgam then squeeze the blob through a chamois into a pan of water then you can burn it off in a retort.
I'm old. When I was in grade school, they let up play with mercury during out science classes without gloves or a mask. We also used to have thermometers with mercury. I broke one at my doctor's office and was playing with the mercury when the nurse left me alone. She was in a bit of a panic when she found me. :-)
Pauly, This is the first feed that has popped up since "I Almost Filmed My Own Death". I haven't seen your content in six months. I am subscribed with all notifications. If this is the only time you've seen this, it probably is a glitch in my feed. If you've seen this frequently, your channel has a problem.
I was always curious on how this works, now I finally know they answer.
Very cool - always wondered how the process worked.
So glad you didn't go into the medical profession after seeing your skills with the gloves on. 😅
Just teasing you Pauly. 🥳
🦃 Happy Turkey Day... even if you don't celebrate. 👍
You need a pointy cone bottomed flask to get all the amalgam to collect in one place.
Also, since some of the gold may have been stuck to the magnetite, that was going to ruin your plans anyhow.
When dealing with microfine gold mingled with magnetite, you are better to either dissolve the iron with HCl or dissolve the gold with CN
Very cool to finally get a look at how this is done, thank you
The Mercury down the legos was cool. Entertaining and educational well done bummer your retort wasn’t big enough. So how long did it take to cook it off the gold? 20 min? Thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏻👊🏻
It took maybe 1 minute to fully burn but all together including filming the shots etc yeah maybe 20 mins!
@@PioneerPauly you should go check out the video on this that two toes did to recover gold from mercury
Pauly bought a hoodie and never received a confirmation or tracking
As a child my wicked brother knew it was poisonous, but poured some into my hand to see how it felt, I did, then told me about it. Don't remember getting sick, or side effect. Mother found out, and we all got into Trouble. It's good to know your elements kids! Pauly knows his stuff. TC,GBU.,SM.,NZ., ✌❤😁🤟
Nice knowledge, thanks Pauly!
Very happy to see u back here Pauly
As kids the thermometer used to break and I used to play with the little balls with my bare fingers that were silver looking
Growing up in the 1950, Us kids would play with Quicksilver That we got from Breaking Thermometers. Who knew that it was DANGEROUS !!!
GL&HH GREG
The old timers used to use a copper sheet with the mercury and gold amalgam..that might help
That was a great video! Thanks pauly and friends
May I suggest, when u finally open the retort, cool it first with water, so the mercury gas became solid
As a hazmat guy that cleans up mercury spills, your shop, Legos, pan and everything you touched is now hazardous waste. Hmu if you want some guidance on limiting your repeated exposure. Fun vid Pauly ❤
The channel ask Jeff Williams shows like a mercury gold retort or something. You hear up one end and the mercury goes to the other end and distills in water so you don’t waste mercury or pollute.
It’s like ya third world countries just using mercury without gloves and breathing the stuff as they burn it ya that’s pretty bad but the mercury retort thing I saw seemed pretty safe.
Eye protection was missing but hey I'm just a viewer.. Be safe everyone!!
So we should be dredging our rivers and creeks to remove mercury from our waterways? Ca. Doesn't think so. They would rather leave it in your water. Genious!
Should have schlooovelled it...
Great vid pauly. Was talking about this method recently with a scrapper.
Pauly great teaching on how to ... enjoyed the share - thank you.
Excellent video Pauly, i also had success in seperating Mercury from gold.
When i retrieved the mercury from the pan after using the tube retort,
the mercury doesn.t seem to want to join back together in the vial which i found strange.
You could always just boil off the mercury outside with a white background and shine a flashlight shining on it. The vapor may be invisible but it still casts a shadow!
Love the music accompaniment!! You rock Pauly! (I mean you gold)
Oh why thank you!!
Gentlemen, thanks for the show .heads up, just like gold .mercury is a non ferris metal .hence non-magnetic .so you may want to skip the magnetic test .just a thought.
Those retorts are very special.
Pauly, I think it was necessary to grind the magnetite into a fine powder first. Mix with mercury in a wet state by pouring water into a jar. Then rinse through nylon tights using a spray bottle. The balls of mercury with amalgam should remain on the nylon, and the empty magnetite powder will pass through.
Im glad I read the comments first, This was going to be my comment, so now Ill just have to back you up...lol
tnx. now i can make puregold without having to spend on different acids plus the tedious work
Run your black sand w/ gold mixed (with mercury in it) through a pulverizer then use a 'blue bowl' to separate the sand, THEN run it through a retort. the process works, just be careful.
The Lego sluice is cool. Great video. You need practice on your panning tho.
I remember as a youngster dropping a thermometer on the kitchen floor. Tiny balls of Mercury were all over the floor. Back then, no big deal. Just sweep it all together with your hands until it's one big ball and dispose of it. 😆 59 yrs old and no learning disabilities or brain or organ damage... To my knowledge. Lol. I grew up in what today's generation would say was a dangerous era. Hell, we'd toss giant heavy steel darts towards each other and that's a store bought game. 😂
Love that you're getting new content in brother. That was really cool. Have a gooder
Edutainment at it's finest
Whoa Pauly, I never knew your Intellectual side 😳🧪🥼🎓 your a good Human ✊
I collected a fruit jars worth of mercury from blood pressure cuffs when they became as toxic Hazzard and were replaced. And yes, I put it through every test I could think of also for recovery including electro magnet recovery. It's unlike any other metal that's for sure. Like in your experiments I may have picked up minute particles but not what you could call a success and chalked it up to probably contamination from metal particles. The retort I made can hold the entire 700 mil.jar not that I'll ever need that much but best to err on the side of candy "science term". The only thing I did different is the recovery tank. I have a 10 lb aluminum bar that I machined out to hold the retort inside with 1 1/2" of space around it. I freeze it over night to cool water inside again I err on the side of I don't want to do the poisoned cockroach dance for a bit of candy sicamatific approach. But what amazes me is that through the dozens of times I ran it to work out the details of getting the recovery down. I haven't lost any mercury by weight. So I guess it's "scientifically" safe. Although I do place my retort in a case I seal up with an old bath fan and venting to prevent the basically mustard gas if it should escape from the retort from being my dance partner. I don't know who came up with the idea even though I've looked for the information. But as smart as we think we are those old school chemists were pretty amazing! What really does shock me is that the knowledge of the effects of the gas and skin contact were well known, the minors that would handle and inhale the fumes must have been on low end of the Darwin scale. Next time out, try adding ice to the cooling tank I think you'll like the results. Great video Pauly!👍😷
you should put a drop of mercury on top of an aluminium can.. or sit a full soda can in the mercury and see what it will do to the aluminium. also if that mercury is from rivers you may want to flash that down also. it may have dissolved cold in it still
Pauly Nye the science pioneer guy!!!!
Great video mate. Very interesting stuff
Something tells me that Pauly has a huge stash of lego...
Nice to see some PPE with the mercury. Watched another video of an “old timer” doing his method, handing the mercury bare handed and without a mask… because _back in my day_ 🤦♂️
Fish like shiny silver soft things ?😮 would a trout eat it ? Floating by in the current.
Really enjoyed the video. It was a nice balanced mix of entertainment to information.
Thanks for the info. Probly saved my life
.I would of listened to the wrong person and done it there way.
7:20 That Binging Babish reference tho lol
Can't wait!!
I think a collac with Codyslab would be cool, he’d prob be able to build u a retort and halo refine everything down with you
The micro gold can actually leave the retort if the temperature is held long enough. Gold is volatile when hot.
Coolest Mercury video I've ever watched. Great job PP
Have you seen Cody'sLab? He has some old mercury videos with huge amounts of it, like flushing it in an (isolated, not connected to plumbing) toilet. Also iirc he made a video of getting mercury out of cinnabar ore, and also how to purify mercury. He even froze it to make a bullet one time!
@@revenevan11 I haven't saw that, but frozen mercury bullet sounds cool...and scary! Thanks
Thank you!!
@@revenevan11 Oh yes Cody is the king at mercury..and a bunch of other stuff haha
@@PioneerPauly at least your cool enough to give him credit he is an awesome dude love your videos to keep up the good work look forward to more I'm newer to watching your channel came here after seeing you on klesh and with Dan Hurd so started watching got to say haven't been disappointed have a good one
That was a great video pauly
very good info to know thanks for sharing
Hi Pauly it will form a nuget with fine golg. kind of cool u should show people the potato method that the old timers used.
PAULY fantastic work showing us the method of recovering gold from Mercury. PAULY you need to do some more SNIPING VIDEOS hehehe I still need my fix lmfao 👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦
That was a fun vid, thank you for your " professionalism " :)
Thanks Pauly for another great video. Be safe and good luck.