Gotta say, Jason is by far the consumate standard in gold mining channels. From the raw mining to the manufacturing of the machines through the smelting process, and then to a product Sreetips could purify. Awesome channel Jason!! It's obvious why Dan and Jeff rely on You.
To stop your crucible from sticking to the brick in the furnace, place a small square (about the size of the base the crucible) of corugated cardboard under the crucible. |this will turn to charcoal, and form a barrier that prevents the crucible from sticking.
I mentioned Brent at Cerro Gordo, and you went and did a collaboration with him. Then I mentioned Dan Hurd, and you were off to Canada. Now - considering what you are embarking on, I want to mention Sreetips. If you are breaking out the chemistry set and the nitric acid, you need to talk to Sreetips.
Is that street sweeps is one of the gurus of the precious metals refining for jewelry and electronics and stuff He's he's very smart and knowledgeable I also want to try to get him on the show maybe a show and an adventure it's going to be the quest for the eight noble medals and I've got a bunch of ideas and I got my show so check a little take a look and see what kind of just messing around on the side side show jobs because refining recovery of precious metals gets those very boring moments that's when we fill it in with all the sideshow stuff but I want to do this signal that like an adventure thing in mind I'll keep in touch I'll keep you in the loop you need to let me know if you're interested and yeah like I said we could actually get a good little collaboration of us like-minded and talented people put our minds together and we have us one hell of a team anyways later talk to street tips I'll be talking to him too maybe we can collaborate later
Seeing gold run in the galena is neat. Usually it’s high grade silver that runs in galena in NE Washington. I’ve seen assays that ran over 1000 ounces a ton (silver) on galena
Dan makes such light and fun videos, 🙄 Jason on the other hand make more fun and light videos. I think 🤔they work well together. But that's just me 🤣😂🤣
Love your videos, thank you. I am surprised about 1 item, your guessing of the gold silver content in your buttons. For the amount of work you do refining gold/silver wouldn't be worth buying a gold and silver testing and detection scanner so you know the exact content of the gold/silver in each button? I know they are expensive but how about a used one for sale. These analyzers can even be used checking the gold/silver ore content in the mine vein.
That's crazy I was thinking it was going to be way richer but still impressive thanks Jason for the update can't wait to see the helicopter ore processed as always its been a pleasure learning from you thank you sir Happy holidays to you and yours
I will stay tuned for the next refining video for sure 👍 Word of advice before starting devolving the buttons in nitric acid. Get yourself a gold karat test kit. You will need to get the gold content to around 25% or lower by adding either copper or silver to the material. Otherwise the gold will protect the silver from going into solution. There are a lot of information about this around the Internet, and it’s a fairly simple refining trick. Search for “assaying gold/silver with inquartation”
I've been watching "Flour Gold Wizards" lately as well. The HUGE difference between the yields around Lake Superior and West Coast is striking. For beach gold along Lake Superior, a 0.3g day is a "huge" day.
Hi Jason, AWESOME!! Dynamite video! Very exciting to see the gold line go across the shaker table. It will be very interesting to see what the #2 concentrates button produces in gold/silver. Also looking forward to the assay results from the #4 waste. How many gold specimens did you not crush & refine? Stay safe!! Thank You for another fantastic video. Jim
Thanks for all your effort and dedication! This is one of your best videos ever, mainly because we can learn what to do when things turn south, thanks for not cutting off the mistakes and letting us learn from your experiences.
Hey mbmmllc! Maybe use a selfie stick or similar expansion rod horizontally between the walls and clamp the camera to it so you can record more of the ore extraction process and have both hands free to work! Greetings from Vancouver British Columbia Canada! Ride ride ride!
Finally an answer to my question if the gold and silver can be separated. I can't wait until that video comes out. Please be as detailed as possible. Did you smelt the pan of #4 tailings?
Hey, there is a channel by a jeweler named sreetips who does silver/gold inquarting, and he makes some of the most pure gold I've seen on YT. Maybe you can get with him or do some work together to build both of your channel bases like you have with dan heard and ghost town living.
You read my mind when u said at the end that you are going to part the silver and base metals away with chemical reactions!! You will get some really nice looking gold for sure after u do, can’t wait to see the results!!
Well Jason one thing is for sure! And that your precious metal is unique unto you. I hope you enjoy purification of the gold out process? Love and luck from Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤️
Watching the pour cool down and seeing that surface of the sun is one of my favorite parts of your videos Jason. Great content keep up the good work and stay safe!
20:14 Jason, don’t know if it has been said before, but canvas tarps are way better when dealing with material like that. They are so much easier to shovel or scoop off from, more resilient, and you are not leaving bits of plastic everywhere. Just my $.02 Thanks for making a great channel.
Nitric acid dissolves silver, but not gold, soak they material, heat, pour off the liquid (repeat several times to be thorough) into a jar with pure copper to cement the silver nitrate back to silver powder. Metallic gold and silver separated.
I just realized I've been watching your videos for some time as they were recommended but I was not subscribed. I fixed that. Thank you for these really cool videos. It is something I don't ever see myself doing, but I do enjoy watching.
Hey Jason, you could do a collab with Sreetips to refine your gold! He's great at it. Always cool to see the trial and tribulations of smelting the concentrates! Looking forward to the refining video!
Hey Jason Have you ever tried to oxydize the lead without cornflaking it first? As lead has a slightly lower melting point than Potassium nitrate i suspect that most or nearly all of the reaction happens with the lead already molten anyway. So that additional step of cornflaking the lead could be avoidable.
Just found your channel, and I gotta say this is AWESOME. I love your format and the way you present your mining and then refinement processes. LOVE your channel, keep doing you!
That was a cool video!! I am a long time watcher, and this was up there as being my favorite video series because of all the steps you will have to take to complete the processes.
Maybe build a hoist? A tripod frame that sits over the vertical shaft opening with a winch. You could climb the ladder then winch the bags up. Unless you like the exercise I guess!
Dude after seeing that bat, that would be the end of my prospecting for the day! I want to point out how good of shape your in Jason, walking that material up and down that ladder
Areet. looking forward to the follow up video to this. Really wanted to know like you the results on this one. 💚💛❤️👍 Ps I shared your sketchy gold mine video on my community page 👌
Appreciate all the hard work you put into these videos, especially sharing the mishaps, helps us all learn. It'd be cool to team up with sreetips YT channel and have him refine these for you, although I think he's on the other side on the country.
TH-cam algorithm def knows me better than I know myself cause this video auto played after a Sreetips video for me 😂. I have no illusions I’ll ever refine or mine gold, but I sure get some strange sense of both calm and excitement watching others do it! Calm right up to the reveal and excitement at the reveal of the spoils 😊
You mentioned copper staining was the blue wonder if you could elaborate a little more on what the different colors indicate because that area working in there seems to have quite a variety of colors that I'm not able to correlate with minerals and even if it's not helpful in practice my curiosity gets the best of me sometimes
To separate the Au and Ag from the buttons you'll need to inquart with some more Ag to bring the Au concentration to around 25% or less. Too much Au will prevent the HNO3 from getting to all the Ag. An excellent book that some refiners consider as the bible on this subject is "Refining Precious Metal Wastes" by CM Hoke.
as you mention - seems like 70% 30 mesh and 50% 50 mesh isn't small enough to collect all the smaller gold. also appears that there are some larger quartz chunks passing thru as well. what would it take to get it down to sub 100 mesh? dreamy vein for sure. great stuff, thanks for the share, enjoy your challenges as well as successes!
You really need to make a Christmas/Holiday fireside video of the close up of the boiling "surface of the sun" as everything cools. I could watch that for hours. Combine all of your footage so it is constantly changing. Maybe even have it as a screensaver.
Any idea why this mine was abandoned? Roosevelt's Gold Program in 1930's? I guess things like this mine were forgotten in the 40-something years it took before private ownership of gold was allowed again.
Man this has been a fun Journey watching you start and now finally crushing and recovering gold that stuff looks insane I've always wondered why when you guys do that corn flaking why you never poured over ice is there a reason or is it just you don't have any ice available I would think it would make smaller Corn Flakes but I can't wait for the one where you part with nitrate should be good times thanks for the great videos Man you always make my day
You can use an electromagnetic separator to separate the Galina from the gold. To do so, have the powder run past the magnet on a thin stream on a conveyer. The gold and silver will get kicked away while the rest goes straight through. Magnitite, if present, will stick to the magnet. Old microwave transformed with the primary attached, but the secondary hacked off so it makes an E core works well. Hook 3 in series for 120VAC.
Wow! What a perfect separation system in this shaker table! You would have a hard time getting it any other way. Lots of very fine beautiful gold! What Country are you in?
Gotta say, Jason is by far the consumate standard in gold mining channels. From the raw mining to the manufacturing of the machines through the smelting process, and then to a product Sreetips could purify. Awesome channel Jason!! It's obvious why Dan and Jeff rely on You.
To stop your crucible from sticking to the brick in the furnace, place a small square (about the size of the base the crucible) of corugated cardboard under the crucible. |this will turn to charcoal, and form a barrier that prevents the crucible from sticking.
I mentioned Brent at Cerro Gordo, and you went and did a collaboration with him. Then I mentioned Dan Hurd, and you were off to Canada.
Now - considering what you are embarking on, I want to mention Sreetips. If you are breaking out the chemistry set and the nitric acid, you need to talk to Sreetips.
Agreed!
Yeah sreetips is the
Definitely one of the gurus of the
Is that street sweeps is one of the gurus of the precious metals refining for jewelry and electronics and stuff He's he's very smart and knowledgeable I also want to try to get him on the show maybe a show and an adventure it's going to be the quest for the eight noble medals and I've got a bunch of ideas and I got my show so check a little take a look and see what kind of just messing around on the side side show jobs because refining recovery of precious metals gets those very boring moments that's when we fill it in with all the sideshow stuff but I want to do this signal that like an adventure thing in mind I'll keep in touch I'll keep you in the loop you need to let me know if you're interested and yeah like I said we could actually get a good little collaboration of us like-minded and talented people put our minds together and we have us one hell of a team anyways later talk to street tips I'll be talking to him too maybe we can collaborate later
Seeing gold run in the galena is neat. Usually it’s high grade silver that runs in galena in NE Washington. I’ve seen assays that ran over 1000 ounces a ton (silver) on galena
This would be the perfect video to do a collab with Street tips.
Sreetips*
I totally agree! (SreeTips)
Love the series! The work with Dan Hurd was a special treat!
Dan makes such light and fun videos, 🙄 Jason on the other hand make more fun and light videos. I think 🤔they work well together. But that's just me 🤣😂🤣
You are right. Feather and wedges!
Thanks for sharing. I'm not a miner, but the adventure is real! It's fun to follow along.
I am not a:
Miner
Hoof trimmer
Chemist
Rust game player
Astro physicist
Stock trader
But i like watching all of those.
Love, love, & love the smelting/result videos!!
Thank you Jason, these videos are great!
It's about time ! Yahoo 😂😂 I've been waiting for this one 👏👏🤞
Hope you get outstanding gold recovery!
Thank you !
Love your videos, thank you. I am surprised about 1 item, your guessing of the gold silver content in your buttons. For the amount of work you do refining gold/silver wouldn't be worth buying a gold and silver testing and detection scanner so you know the exact content of the gold/silver in each button? I know they are expensive but how about a used one for sale. These analyzers can even be used checking the gold/silver ore content in the mine vein.
I'd love to see that. But understandable being that a decent unit cost upwards of $4 - $25k
That's crazy I was thinking it was going to be way richer but still impressive thanks Jason for the update can't wait to see the helicopter ore processed as always its been a pleasure learning from you thank you sir Happy holidays to you and yours
I will stay tuned for the next refining video for sure 👍
Word of advice before starting devolving the buttons in nitric acid.
Get yourself a gold karat test kit. You will need to get the gold content to around 25% or lower by adding either copper or silver to the material. Otherwise the gold will protect the silver from going into solution.
There are a lot of information about this around the Internet, and it’s a fairly simple refining trick.
Search for “assaying gold/silver with inquartation”
I think I've heard h talk about "inquartation" (?) before.
sreetips has lots of info about this
I've been watching "Flour Gold Wizards" lately as well. The HUGE difference between the yields around Lake Superior and West Coast is striking. For beach gold along Lake Superior, a 0.3g day is a "huge" day.
Hi Jason, AWESOME!! Dynamite video! Very exciting to see the gold line go across the shaker table. It will be very interesting to see what the #2 concentrates button produces in gold/silver. Also looking forward to the assay results from the #4 waste. How many gold specimens did you not crush & refine? Stay safe!! Thank You for another fantastic video. Jim
Thanks for all your effort and dedication!
This is one of your best videos ever, mainly because we can learn what to do when things turn south, thanks for not cutting off the mistakes and letting us learn from your experiences.
Thanks for taking us along with you on this adventure! Really interesting.
Hey mbmmllc! Maybe use a selfie stick or similar expansion rod horizontally between the walls and clamp the camera to it so you can record more of the ore extraction process and have both hands free to work! Greetings from Vancouver British Columbia Canada! Ride ride ride!
Dynamite idea and it was made in BC, Canada!
Finally an answer to my question if the gold and silver can be separated. I can't wait until that video comes out. Please be as detailed as possible. Did you smelt the pan of #4 tailings?
Hard day in the office Jason. Looking forward to the refinement video.
Exciting stuff Jason!
Part 2! Excellent!
Let’s GO!
Thank you, enjoyed very much. Excited for the next part of the journey.
Hey, there is a channel by a jeweler named sreetips who does silver/gold inquarting, and he makes some of the most pure gold I've seen on YT. Maybe you can get with him or do some work together to build both of your channel bases like you have with dan heard and ghost town living.
You read my mind when u said at the end that you are going to part the silver and base metals away with chemical reactions!! You will get some really nice looking gold for sure after u do, can’t wait to see the results!!
Nice videos. Your production values are great. Very watchable.
Be sure to add some extra silver to the gold for good acid penetration. Sreetips does good work on the recovery/refining process
Inquarting I believe its called. Diluting the gold with silver or even copper to purify it. Seems crazy but works amazing!
Enjoyed it thoroughly Jason . Can’t wait to see the outcome of the actual gold content. Thanks for taking us along 👍
So about $5k worth of gold - what a nice payday -even though a lot of hard work , I've learned so much in just this one video. Excellent !
Great video looking forward to seeing you use the nitric acid. Thanks for taking your time to share this
New camera? Video looks great!
Well Jason one thing is for sure! And that your precious metal is unique unto you. I hope you enjoy purification of the gold out process? Love and luck from Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤️
Watching the pour cool down and seeing that surface of the sun is one of my favorite parts of your videos Jason. Great content keep up the good work and stay safe!
Love to watch that table work.
Woo hoo! All that hard work is paying off. Congrats
This is so frickin cool. I'm a geologist, and I wish I could get goin on something like this.
20:14
Jason, don’t know if it has been said before, but canvas tarps are way better when dealing with material like that. They are so much easier to shovel or scoop off from, more resilient, and you are not leaving bits of plastic everywhere. Just my $.02
Thanks for making a great channel.
How do you separate the gold and silver.
Yes I wonder that also
Nitric acid dissolves silver, but not gold, soak they material, heat, pour off the liquid (repeat several times to be thorough) into a jar with pure copper to cement the silver nitrate back to silver powder. Metallic gold and silver separated.
Wow! Great adventure show. I loved the mine quest.
Thank you Jason love the videos keep them up wish I could join the hunt for gold it is alot of hard work keeping the dream alive and kicking
I just realized I've been watching your videos for some time as they were recommended but I was not subscribed. I fixed that. Thank you for these really cool videos. It is something I don't ever see myself doing, but I do enjoy watching.
Blimey, that WAS a lot of work! I watched every second and enjoyed it immensely !
Hey Jason, you could do a collab with Sreetips to refine your gold! He's great at it.
Always cool to see the trial and tribulations of smelting the concentrates!
Looking forward to the refining video!
I was going to suggest sreetips too
I agree with the @sreetips idea. I guess a lot of us are subscribed to both of you guys.
I love that you show the whole process in one video.
Been looking at your edu vlogs for years. So glad to see you building subscription count. Thanks yo.
Hey Jason
Have you ever tried to oxydize the lead without cornflaking it first?
As lead has a slightly lower melting point than Potassium nitrate i suspect that most or nearly all of the reaction happens with the lead already molten anyway.
So that additional step of cornflaking the lead could be avoidable.
i could watch that shaker table all day
Nice job Jason. I wanna see the nitric!
It’s so satisfying watching the shaker table
Just found your channel, and I gotta say this is AWESOME. I love your format and the way you present your mining and then refinement processes. LOVE your channel, keep doing you!
I wonder if Sreetips channel would help you refine the gold?
This would be the perfect setup for a collaboration with Sreetips.
Streetips knows his science well
That was a cool video!! I am a long time watcher, and this was up there as being my favorite video series because of all the steps you will have to take to complete the processes.
Your channel has really improved, I've been enjoying catching up. Someone needs an oiling can. You really have that table tuned good.
I admire your tenacity
Great job Jason
Maybe build a hoist? A tripod frame that sits over the vertical shaft opening with a winch. You could climb the ladder then winch the bags up. Unless you like the exercise I guess!
Dude after seeing that bat, that would be the end of my prospecting for the day!
I want to point out how good of shape your in Jason, walking that material up and down that ladder
Great vid looking forward to the follow up vid 👍😀
YeeYee! I love it!
Have you ever considered trying to do acid separation on your tailings to see if there's anything still attached to quartz that might be recoverable?
checkout sreetips channel he does all sorts of acid refining
Jason is trying to develop ways of eliminating as much of the hazardous refining as possible...hence the shaker table refinements.
@@HanstheTraffer acids aremt that bad to work with, but i wpuld stay away from the cyanide solvent process.
@@HanstheTraffer true though Im curious how much lead is emitted in the cupeling versus nitric reduction
Love it I've been waiting for this one!
I'm a teenager, and I'm absolutely fascinated with mining and minerals.
What advice would you give to someone like me to get into the mining industry?
Areet. looking forward to the follow up video to this. Really wanted to know like you the results on this one. 💚💛❤️👍 Ps I shared your sketchy gold mine video on my community page 👌
Appreciate all the hard work you put into these videos, especially sharing the mishaps, helps us all learn. It'd be cool to team up with sreetips YT channel and have him refine these for you, although I think he's on the other side on the country.
Hey !that truly amazing good video ,keep them conming
I'm curious to see the results of the helicopter float.
look how smooth everything works
Very cool video, thank you!
you should watch the Sreetips channel for the acid recovery and refining process, he's very detailed on the step by step detail orientated.
well thank you for sharing the adventure and information.
My family owns a lot of the old eastern oregon land. Horse heaven etc. I would love to see if there is any things to prospect!
I've been to Horse Heaven. Didn't spend too much time there though.
@@gordonyork6638 that’s awesome my mom grew up out there. Told me many cool stories
Good video Jason. FYI Streetips is a great channel for chemistry processing of gold and silver.
TH-cam algorithm def knows me better than I know myself cause this video auto played after a Sreetips video for me 😂. I have no illusions I’ll ever refine or mine gold, but I sure get some strange sense of both calm and excitement watching others do it! Calm right up to the reveal and excitement at the reveal of the spoils 😊
Great video!!!
You mentioned copper staining was the blue wonder if you could elaborate a little more on what the different colors indicate because that area working in there seems to have quite a variety of colors that I'm not able to correlate with minerals and even if it's not helpful in practice my curiosity gets the best of me sometimes
To separate the Au and Ag from the buttons you'll need to inquart with some more Ag to bring the Au concentration to around 25% or less. Too much Au will prevent the HNO3 from getting to all the Ag. An excellent book that some refiners consider as the bible on this subject is "Refining Precious Metal Wastes" by CM Hoke.
TH-camr sreetips has a great channel where he does this regularly. Each video (especially his lastest ones) is a great tutorial on his process.
@@mericksonj Jason and sreetips are my gods.
as you mention - seems like 70% 30 mesh and 50% 50 mesh isn't small enough to collect all the smaller gold. also appears that there are some larger quartz chunks passing thru as well. what would it take to get it down to sub 100 mesh? dreamy vein for sure. great stuff, thanks for the share, enjoy your challenges as well as successes!
😅😊 😊😊
Amazing work Jason. Can’t get enough of your channel 👍🏻
I get it about parting, nasty acids, vacuum filtering, at least you can popcorn quench to avoid rolling, but the gold you get is so buttery yellow!
Real great video man. But the Hammermill need some grease imo =P
Love the content!
You really need to make a Christmas/Holiday fireside video of the close up of the boiling "surface of the sun" as everything cools. I could watch that for hours. Combine all of your footage so it is constantly changing. Maybe even have it as a screensaver.
Mistakes are good. They help you learn.👌🏻
I watch all your videos this is one of the best...
Congratulations on good business
Right on Jason thanks alot all the time you really give me a good idea to keep learning about mining minerals and especially precious metals see ya 😊
Looks like fun would love to join you next time not afraid of some hard work for that shiny
I can’t wait to see it run this summer!!!
Nice one. Great video thx
Awesome your on the gold😁
Any idea why this mine was abandoned? Roosevelt's Gold Program in 1930's? I guess things like this mine were forgotten in the 40-something years it took before private ownership of gold was allowed again.
I would say the value of the gold versus the cost of recovering gold plays a big part
Super cool, can't wait to see the results. Sreetips is all set up for refining. Maybe you could collaborate with him.
You have the best shaker table
Dan the man! Love your videos.
That was great to see. I implore you to work with sreetips on some project in the future
good work and success always
great video awesome job per normal keep on keeping on!
Do you ever check those underground tailings for any gold I wonder if any make it down there though the shaker table practically speaks for itself. 😮
That's a pillar left to keep the area from caving in.
Man this has been a fun Journey watching you start and now finally crushing and recovering gold that stuff looks insane I've always wondered why when you guys do that corn flaking why you never poured over ice is there a reason or is it just you don't have any ice available I would think it would make smaller Corn Flakes but I can't wait for the one where you part with nitrate should be good times thanks for the great videos Man you always make my day
You can use an electromagnetic separator to separate the Galina from the gold. To do so, have the powder run past the magnet on a thin stream on a conveyer. The gold and silver will get kicked away while the rest goes straight through. Magnitite, if present, will stick to the magnet. Old microwave transformed with the primary attached, but the secondary hacked off so it makes an E core works well. Hook 3 in series for 120VAC.
Wow! What a perfect separation system in this shaker table! You would have a hard time getting it any other way. Lots of very fine beautiful gold! What Country are you in?
Talk about a load of muck! Nice mining👍