I finally got off my a$$ and bought your book for my xmas gift. Prob should have been my first investment in this hobby. Based in SoCal and I can attest that it is difficult to find gold. Yet to find gold with my detector but at least getting good at finding #8 lead shot and a lot of cool mineralized rocks. This video is going into my library, thanks!
Jason has been showing how they are identifying the part of his mine that produces the higher grade, the hanging wall, in addition to focusing on that material, he is working on clearing a shorter adit, and he sells samples of ore online, all ways to increase efficiency and get more for the material. A mine requires development. Yes, he is working hard for what he is getting right now, but he is playing a longer game.Remember also, one part of the mine was reported in the old days to produce several ounces per ton.
I've been told I need to assay my ore, but what matters to me on a small scale is what I can recover, and I do it exactly like you showed, weigh my sample and weigh the gold that I recover. Thanks for validating my thinking process.
The good news for Jason is that his mine is pretty rich, at least in selected areas. It makes up for a lot of the work, but may not pay for back surgery down the road. Enjoyed the video and the info you shared.
And yet another great video chris. One of your commenters hit the nail on the head its " what you can get." Me ? I just want it all. Lol to me the most important thing is to have fun. If you cant have fun and learn doing this hobby no amount of gold is going to be worth the work you put in.
Great video Chris. Thank you. The Florence mine in the Snowy Range Mountains in south Wyoming had from 6 to 7oz per tun in a milanoitis quartz diarite seam.
I build rock crushing equipment for mining. Ive been working on my own portable mill. Its nowhere near the size of Iroc mills but it will fit in a my truck bed and usable for assay work. Good luck with that ore you found. Wouldn't it be nice to know where it came from. They might have left piles of high grade behind.
I know where they all came from, but I am not going to invite others to come and take what they can find. Some are from claims that belong to friends who invited me to visit and take samples.
@@ChrisRalph well that's the miners creed. Don't tell anyone. I thought that some of the ore was brought to a milling site from other mines. A friend of mine had found some nice samples at mill site. He tried to locate their source and through mineral testing, found that they weren't from the area of the mill. So somewhere there's a mine that had some decent quality. Where, that's yet to be discovered. At least we have modern technology readily available. But boots on the ground are still the first step in finding a claim.
All that hlutters..... What followed the gold? Beyond purity and other minerals what value can be added to the extraction site, is their potential? Probably the most important consideration is if the pursuit is good for health. Bless your heart Chris ❤
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Great video Chris. This subject is one that I've wanted to explore further for several years. On another note I'm planning a trip to Australia in March and was wondering if you could recommend a prospecting guide service that you may have used when you were there. We'll be in NSW, Victoria and South Australia so hopefully you're experience over there was in one of those states. Thanks. TJ
With the end result of gold dust... could it have been larger in size but through the process was broken or is it throughout the rock in small pieces like that?
Gold can break down, yes, but a lot of times it is just smashed up. Its very soft and malleable so larger gold in my chain mill often gets rolled up into little balls.
Tell me what purpose - for you to mine it alone? For a small company to mine it? for a large company to mine mountains of it? the scale of operation makes a difference.
Nicely done Chris! Did you test your tailings off the gold cube? Also check out the "primary" crusher I made in my only hard rock video, might be an idea for you so you're not having rock chips flying everywhere.
Another great informative video, I have a nice crystal with a lot of visible gold, I think it’s more valuable in the mineral . I know one of your videos said that. When is that the case ?
Is it prudent for us smaller scale people to "roast" hard rock quartz to soften it a bit so its easier to crush to small size ? I dont have a jaw crusher or hammermill, and the "smaller pipe with cap inside of a larger pipe" works well enough for small samples, but i have broken caps before because the quartz was very tough. I had read somewhere that roasting the quartz weakens it, is that something legitimate ? Or just a backyard myth ?
Roasting does not do that much. To do anything significant, you would need to get the ore to a bright red heat (like in a furnace) and then instantly quench it in cold water, and then there are dangers with that process too as hot ore particles can go flying.
@@ChrisRalph thank you for the reply. I will skip thinking about that process and perhaps try to find a piece of 2" solid steel rod as opposed to pipe and cap to crush samples.
It depends on many factors beyond just assay number - How much is there? Is water available? can you do it legally? How easy is it to mine? Plus lots more questions.
@@ChrisRalph Hi Chris thanks for the reply! All very good questions. Before I head out to the field I always check the BLM website to make I'm not claim jumping or trespassing in my area of interest. A state trooper rolled up when I was looking for a spot to set up my sluice, he asked me if was having any luck. He told me they pulled out a lot of gold when built the damn. Wished me luck went on his way. As to how much there is I'd guestimate several tons of gravel to work, it's also right next to the river. The gravel isn't very compact so it's fairly easy to mine. Only downside as far as processing is moving the material 300+ ft to the sluice. I think I'll head back up there next week with my gorilla cart and see how much I can process in a day. Thank you for your videos and insight it is much appreciated.
Its a whole lot of work no matter how you slice it. You have the paitience of a saint ! Looking for that strike of a life time could take a lifetime ! Or could i say it will? Thank you for telling it like it is. The more you put into samplings and the more you know the better your chances. Most people are too busy making a living to devote all the time and effort needed. If one enjoys the hunt its worth it. The gold will just be the icing on the cake.! Well at least thats the way i see it.
That depends a lot on where you live. In many places yes, but some places are snot so much claimed up. For new guys I always recommend joining a club in your area. This will give you access to the club's lands.
That unit is very old - maybe 60 to 80 years old. It was made by Gardner Denver equipment, but I don't think they even make crushers anymore. Its a lab scale unit made for crushing rock samples. I got it used but I am sure there are companies that still make things like this but it will be expensive.
Will not a hammer mill pound small particles of gold so thin that the abundance of surface area will cause them to be washed away during panning even with the use of a detergent like jet dry? of the three sample assayed in "How to assay ores for free gold - at home using easy methods and simple math" the only sample that showed economically workable results was the one that was not put through the hammer mill. I am certain that some superfine gold is loss due to surface area/panning, I'm just not sure how much. Could you please address this?
Too small can happen if you over grind. The holes on my mill are only about 20 mesh - so its not a big problem. If you tried to go to 100 percent minus 200 mesh, then yes, that can happen. And all three samples went through the mill.
I know a spot to collect rocks that look like yours. I've been trying to figure out how to process these rocks at home. I wasn't sure if i was doing it right because how high my numbers were for the small rocks, but i think i did. If you have any tips that you think would be helpful to me, that would be appreciated. Idk anyone who knows that stuff who could lmk if im doing it right. So that part idk. Thanks
Hi Chris I know in today's Gold Mining terms , that 1 Oz per ton of rock is high grade but I've done a serious amount of reading into what used to be found in some gold deposits that people had come back with assays of 1 Oz per pound of rock or 2000 OZ per ton! Also people were in thee Klondike getting 250 oz of gold per bucket of bedrock gravel.. THAT MIGHT SOUND INSANE BUT I THINK IVE STUMBLED APON SOME ORE VERY MUCH LIKE THIS. SOMEBODY MESSED UP DOING THEIR HOMEWORK IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN PLANES . I HAVE MULTIPLE THEORIES ON WHY THIS IS AND WHY MY AREA HAD BEEN OVERLOOKED AND TO THIS DAY I HAVE NEVER MET ANYBODY THAT I GREW UP WITH OR KNOWN THAT GREW UP IN THIS AREA THAT HAD ANY IDEA THAT WE ARE ON TOP OF AN EXTINCT VOLCANIC COMPLEX AND I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.
COMPARING PLACER GRAVELS GRADES WITH HARD ROCK GRADES IS LIKE COMPARING APPLES AND MILK COWS - THEY ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS. i WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK IN YOUR PROSPECTING.
You ever see pyrite turn black? But this gives me a good idea. This creek i go to has lot of flour gold. But no nuggets. Its in the middle of the city bout 2 hour drive from the mountains. Give or take. But no one know where the gold os coming from... Is it the hills? Theres huge granite rocks all around with pyrite.. also lots of quartz, rose quartz quartz thats pure white and some quartz that has black in it. Ive tested random spots on the hills found nothing other than black sands and garnets. Im thinking its gotta be in the quartz or the granite. However i did find a decent flake that had a red rock attached to it. Like a sliver of red rock. And there are lots of red rocks down there. I just wanna find the nugets. Sure finding the pockets of flour is nice but i can do 5-10 buckets and get maybe 0.25 of a gram down there. Just wish i could highbank or dredge . But you know Washington State laws only hand pans and sluices
@@ChrisRalph i know the vashon glacier carved the canyon that holds the creek. Interestingly tho other creeks close to it. That have also been carved out by the same glacier hold little to know gold lol. It's strange. I just wish I knew why it's all flour though
roasting sulfides is a whole separate process. I did take the sulfides from that ore and put them in a tub I have that I am going to treat to extract the gold next year. I will do a video on it.
First, you know that quartz takes a very dangerous and powerful acid to dissolve it, right? The vapors given off are very toxic and dangerous as well. I say this because there are guys on TH-cam who dissolve calcite (a very different mineral from quartz) to get silver. Dissolving calcite is easy and not toxic. Dissolving 2 lbs of quartz would take several gallons of expensive HF, give off a dangerous cloud of gas during the process and cost a couple hundred dollars to accomplish. Crushing and panning was easy by comparison.
@@ChrisRalph yep but it would be the same process that these boys are using to get the gold off of electronic components. I don’t believe it would take gallons of acid if you crushed the rock I doubt it would take more than a couple of quarts. Yes you are right it is a toxic process.
No, not the process guys are using on electronic components - you can do that with muratic (HCl) - the same acid used on the calcite. 2 lbs is two pounds - no matter the particle size, the same amount of acid would be necessary. It takes 4 molecules of HF to dissolve one molecule of quartz, and the saturation purity of the HF sold on the market is only 60%. One gallon is about $200.
Something I don't see people mention when they say get it assayed is that the total amount of gold in it is irrelevant to you if your recovery methods don't get it. It seems more realistic to do this method yourself. If you have a bunch of microscopic gold that takes a ball mill or a smelt to recover, and you aren't doing that, who cares what the fire assay says?
@@ChrisRalph No I didn't mean without crushing. What I mean is if you're only able to crush it to 50 mesh with your equipment and you have trapped gold that requires 200 or smaller mesh and a ball mill or something to release it, an assay is going to show you more than you can actually recover. If it was super rich it might be worth investing in more equipment. That's why I've been doing a more realistic home assay like you show instead of having it sent off. If I can practically get the gold myself and assay may not be accurate right?
Something to say about touching the vein 12 times from mine to end of process. The simpler the better. The old timers hit the rich veins and abandoned the finger veins for a reason. There’s still rich veins out there. Remember that.
Love it when you share more of your knowledge and experience. Expert level!
Thre is certainly more content to come! Glad you enjoyed it!
I finally got off my a$$ and bought your book for my xmas gift. Prob should have been my first investment in this hobby. Based in SoCal and I can attest that it is difficult to find gold. Yet to find gold with my detector but at least getting good at finding #8 lead shot and a lot of cool mineralized rocks. This video is going into my library, thanks!
I always got some gold in the Randsburg area when I lived down there. Best of luck to you in your efforts.
Jason has been showing how they are identifying the part of his mine that produces the higher grade, the hanging wall, in addition to focusing on that material, he is working on clearing a shorter adit, and he sells samples of ore online, all ways to increase efficiency and get more for the material. A mine requires development. Yes, he is working hard for what he is getting right now, but he is playing a longer game.Remember also, one part of the mine was reported in the old days to produce several ounces per ton.
I am not criticizing Jason, just noting that handling something 10 times means you need to do a lot of extra work.
I've been told I need to assay my ore, but what matters to me on a small scale is what I can recover, and I do it exactly like you showed, weigh my sample and weigh the gold that I recover.
Thanks for validating my thinking process.
You are right. what matters is what you can recover.
The good news for Jason is that his mine is pretty rich, at least in selected areas. It makes up for a lot of the work, but may not pay for back surgery down the road.
Enjoyed the video and the info you shared.
Some parts are rich, but most is not that rich to pay for handling 10 times then hauling to town to crush and process.
Chris not even saying "surgery" is so funny to me!
😂🤣"pay for surgery" 🤣😂
You rock Mr. Ralph.
Couldn't ask for a more Perfect professor
Thank you
Thanks!
Thanks Chris, Merry Christmas to you and yours. 🎄 heavy pans to Ya and a prosperous New Year ⛏⚒⛏🍻Cheers
Same to you! A very Merry Christmas to you are yours.
I need to do these steps with the ore specimens I have. Thanks for the video.
Yes, you should. Its a good exercise to test your ores and then you will know what is good and what is not so good.
And yet another great video chris. One of your commenters hit the nail on the head its " what you can get." Me ? I just want it all. Lol to me the most important thing is to have fun. If you cant have fun and learn doing this hobby no amount of gold is going to be worth the work you put in.
Well said! Thanks for the kind words.
Great video Chris. Thank you.
The Florence mine in the Snowy Range Mountains in south Wyoming had from 6 to 7oz per tun in a milanoitis quartz diarite seam.
sounds like a good grade of ore.
Great video! I've seen it before i think. Still it is always good to review procedures. Like sampling a large amount.
THe same content has been covered by me and others, but this is a new video. Thanks for watching!
I build rock crushing equipment for mining. Ive been working on my own portable mill. Its nowhere near the size of Iroc mills but it will fit in a my truck bed and usable for assay work.
Good luck with that ore you found. Wouldn't it be nice to know where it came from. They might have left piles of high grade behind.
I know where they all came from, but I am not going to invite others to come and take what they can find. Some are from claims that belong to friends who invited me to visit and take samples.
@@ChrisRalph well that's the miners creed. Don't tell anyone.
I thought that some of the ore was brought to a milling site from other mines. A friend of mine had found some nice samples at mill site. He tried to locate their source and through mineral testing, found that they weren't from the area of the mill. So somewhere there's a mine that had some decent quality. Where, that's yet to be discovered.
At least we have modern technology readily available. But boots on the ground are still the first step in finding a claim.
Yes, some was picked up at an old custom mill site, but I have other information and so I know where it came from and the area is under claim.
All that hlutters..... What followed the gold? Beyond purity and other minerals what value can be added to the extraction site, is their potential? Probably the most important consideration is if the pursuit is good for health. Bless your heart Chris ❤
Good exercise and getting outdoors are always great things to be involved it.
I am interesting in your advice about sampling a lot more places to go sampling.
Selecting places is a research project. Take a look at this video on prospecting research: th-cam.com/video/jRw3aI3ObcM/w-d-xo.html
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About 0 degrees C here in the mountains of North America. Too cold to go out!
@@ChrisRalph from one extreme to another extreme cheers Chris 🍻
Thank you for your effort!
My pleasure! Glad you liked the video.
Great video Chris. This subject is one that I've wanted to explore further for several years. On another note I'm planning a trip to Australia in March and was wondering if you could recommend a prospecting guide service that you may have used when you were there. We'll be in NSW, Victoria and South Australia so hopefully you're experience over there was in one of those states. Thanks. TJ
I went to W.A. I have not been to the states you are going to, so I have no suggestions.
Thanks just the same Chris. I'll update you on the trip once I'm back if I have any success.
With the end result of gold dust... could it have been larger in size but through the process was broken or is it throughout the rock in small pieces like that?
Gold can break down, yes, but a lot of times it is just smashed up. Its very soft and malleable so larger gold in my chain mill often gets rolled up into little balls.
@@ChrisRalph ummm, interesting! Thinking of gold like chewing gum🤣
Please tell me what is the cutoff of quartz vein gold ore?
Tell me what purpose - for you to mine it alone? For a small company to mine it? for a large company to mine mountains of it? the scale of operation makes a difference.
Nicely done Chris! Did you test your tailings off the gold cube? Also check out the "primary" crusher I made in my only hard rock video, might be an idea for you so you're not having rock chips flying everywhere.
Tested the tailings and they were clean.
@@ChrisRalph nice. I’ve been curious how well the cube would do on the ultra fines. Not nice that there was not more gold to be had..
The old timers didn't leave good gold behind very often.
Another great informative video, I have a nice crystal with a lot of visible gold, I think it’s more valuable in the mineral . I know one of your videos said that. When is that the case ?
When the gold in the specimen is crystalline.
Excellent, I’ve gotten great results and , I bought your book too , only 1 left on Amazon currently. Thank you
Great video Chris as always thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Is it prudent for us smaller scale people to "roast" hard rock quartz to soften it a bit so its easier to crush to small size ?
I dont have a jaw crusher or hammermill, and the "smaller pipe with cap inside of a larger pipe" works well enough for small samples, but i have broken caps before because the quartz was very tough.
I had read somewhere that roasting the quartz weakens it, is that something legitimate ? Or just a backyard myth ?
Roasting does not do that much. To do anything significant, you would need to get the ore to a bright red heat (like in a furnace) and then instantly quench it in cold water, and then there are dangers with that process too as hot ore particles can go flying.
@@ChrisRalph thank you for the reply.
I will skip thinking about that process and perhaps try to find a piece of 2" solid steel rod as opposed to pipe and cap to crush samples.
The weight of the plunger going down makes a difference. Its still a slow process but it does work.
What's a good number for placer? I found a spot that's roughly 2 grams per ton, wondering if it's worth while. Thanks
It depends on many factors beyond just assay number - How much is there? Is water available? can you do it legally? How easy is it to mine? Plus lots more questions.
@@ChrisRalph Hi Chris thanks for the reply! All very good questions. Before I head out to the field I always check the BLM website to make I'm not claim jumping or trespassing in my area of interest. A state trooper rolled up when I was looking for a spot to set up my sluice, he asked me if was having any luck. He told me they pulled out a lot of gold when built the damn. Wished me luck went on his way. As to how much there is I'd guestimate several tons of gravel to work, it's also right next to the river. The gravel isn't very compact so it's fairly easy to mine. Only downside as far as processing is moving the material 300+ ft to the sluice. I think I'll head back up there next week with my gorilla cart and see how much I can process in a day. Thank you for your videos and insight it is much appreciated.
Good video. Thanks 1/2 oz good plan. lots of hard work.
You bet, hard rock mining is tough work.
Its a whole lot of work no matter how you slice it. You have the paitience of a saint ! Looking for that strike of a life time could take a lifetime ! Or could i say it will? Thank you for telling it like it is. The more you put into samplings and the more you know the better your chances. Most people are too busy making a living to devote all the time and effort needed. If one enjoys the hunt its worth it. The gold will just be the icing on the cake.! Well at least thats the way i see it.
Thanks for the kind words.
Awesome! Thank you for these vids!
Glad you like them!
It's getting hard to find lands that are open to mineral entry or land that isn't claimed up by a company. Thank you for the great content.
That depends a lot on where you live. In many places yes, but some places are snot so much claimed up. For new guys I always recommend joining a club in your area. This will give you access to the club's lands.
Who makes the lil jaw crusher in this video, I'm trying to find one! Any help would be appreciated, new or used!
That unit is very old - maybe 60 to 80 years old. It was made by Gardner Denver equipment, but I don't think they even make crushers anymore. Its a lab scale unit made for crushing rock samples. I got it used but I am sure there are companies that still make things like this but it will be expensive.
Will not a hammer mill pound small particles of gold so thin that the abundance of surface area will cause them to be washed away during panning even with the use of a detergent like jet dry? of the three sample assayed in "How to assay ores for free gold - at home using easy methods and simple math" the only sample that showed economically workable results was the one that was not put through the hammer mill. I am certain that some superfine gold is loss due to surface area/panning, I'm just not sure how much. Could you please address this?
Too small can happen if you over grind. The holes on my mill are only about 20 mesh - so its not a big problem. If you tried to go to 100 percent minus 200 mesh, then yes, that can happen. And all three samples went through the mill.
@@ChrisRalph Thanks, what about gold particles that are already smaller than 100 mesh? Alluvial in greenbelt gneiss?
I know a spot to collect rocks that look like yours. I've been trying to figure out how to process these rocks at home. I wasn't sure if i was doing it right because how high my numbers were for the small rocks, but i think i did. If you have any tips that you think would be helpful to me, that would be appreciated. Idk anyone who knows that stuff who could lmk if im doing it right. So that part idk. Thanks
Best of luck to you in your efforts. Maybe join a prospecting club if there is one near you.
Hi Chris I know in today's Gold Mining terms , that 1 Oz per ton of rock is high grade but I've done a serious amount of reading into what used to be found in some gold deposits that people had come back with assays of 1 Oz per pound of rock or 2000 OZ per ton! Also people were in thee Klondike getting 250 oz of gold per bucket of bedrock gravel.. THAT MIGHT SOUND INSANE BUT I THINK IVE STUMBLED APON SOME ORE VERY MUCH LIKE THIS. SOMEBODY MESSED UP DOING THEIR HOMEWORK IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN PLANES . I HAVE MULTIPLE THEORIES ON WHY THIS IS AND WHY MY AREA HAD BEEN OVERLOOKED AND TO THIS DAY I HAVE NEVER MET ANYBODY THAT I GREW UP WITH OR KNOWN THAT GREW UP IN THIS AREA THAT HAD ANY IDEA THAT WE ARE ON TOP OF AN EXTINCT VOLCANIC COMPLEX AND I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.
COMPARING PLACER GRAVELS GRADES WITH HARD ROCK GRADES IS LIKE COMPARING APPLES AND MILK COWS - THEY ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS. i WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK IN YOUR PROSPECTING.
Good stuff, very understandable 👍
Glad it was helpful!
You ever see pyrite turn black? But this gives me a good idea. This creek i go to has lot of flour gold. But no nuggets. Its in the middle of the city bout 2 hour drive from the mountains. Give or take. But no one know where the gold os coming from... Is it the hills? Theres huge granite rocks all around with pyrite.. also lots of quartz, rose quartz quartz thats pure white and some quartz that has black in it. Ive tested random spots on the hills found nothing other than black sands and garnets. Im thinking its gotta be in the quartz or the granite. However i did find a decent flake that had a red rock attached to it. Like a sliver of red rock. And there are lots of red rocks down there. I just wanna find the nugets. Sure finding the pockets of flour is nice but i can do 5-10 buckets and get maybe 0.25 of a gram down there. Just wish i could highbank or dredge . But you know Washington State laws only hand pans and sluices
Pyrite when it oxidizes turns a very dark brown - almost black. Otherwise hard to say where the gold is coming from, there are many possibilities.
@@ChrisRalph it got deposited there some how. Could have been deposited when the glacier's receded
Most of the gold in the Midwest is from glacier gravel brought down from Canada.
@@ChrisRalph i know the vashon glacier carved the canyon that holds the creek. Interestingly tho other creeks close to it. That have also been carved out by the same glacier hold little to know gold lol. It's strange. I just wish I knew why it's all flour though
Great video
Your sample that was mostly sulfides could be roasted and that would release the gold from the sulfur
roasting sulfides is a whole separate process. I did take the sulfides from that ore and put them in a tub I have that I am going to treat to extract the gold next year. I will do a video on it.
@@ChrisRalph thanks, I just acquired a piece of property and it has heavy sulfide material on it, love to see your process.
On that single rock sample you could just let it sit in an acid bath and then measure the gold after the quartz has been dissolved.
First, you know that quartz takes a very dangerous and powerful acid to dissolve it, right? The vapors given off are very toxic and dangerous as well. I say this because there are guys on TH-cam who dissolve calcite (a very different mineral from quartz) to get silver. Dissolving calcite is easy and not toxic. Dissolving 2 lbs of quartz would take several gallons of expensive HF, give off a dangerous cloud of gas during the process and cost a couple hundred dollars to accomplish. Crushing and panning was easy by comparison.
@@ChrisRalph yep but it would be the same process that these boys are using to get the gold off of electronic components. I don’t believe it would take gallons of acid if you crushed the rock I doubt it would take more than a couple of quarts. Yes you are right it is a toxic process.
No, not the process guys are using on electronic components - you can do that with muratic (HCl) - the same acid used on the calcite. 2 lbs is two pounds - no matter the particle size, the same amount of acid would be necessary. It takes 4 molecules of HF to dissolve one molecule of quartz, and the saturation purity of the HF sold on the market is only 60%. One gallon is about $200.
Something I don't see people mention when they say get it assayed is that the total amount of gold in it is irrelevant to you if your recovery methods don't get it. It seems more realistic to do this method yourself. If you have a bunch of microscopic gold that takes a ball mill or a smelt to recover, and you aren't doing that, who cares what the fire assay says?
If you are not crushing the ore how would be recovering the gold?
@@ChrisRalph No I didn't mean without crushing. What I mean is if you're only able to crush it to 50 mesh with your equipment and you have trapped gold that requires 200 or smaller mesh and a ball mill or something to release it, an assay is going to show you more than you can actually recover. If it was super rich it might be worth investing in more equipment. That's why I've been doing a more realistic home assay like you show instead of having it sent off. If I can practically get the gold myself and assay may not be accurate right?
Question: What is the Jetdry for?
I have to say... I think the name of the game is "Slowly Feed"
It's used to break the water tension..so your gold don't float
Jet dri keeps the small gold particles from floating.
@@JediShilts Thank You! I would've guessed it had to do with shine & luster... 🤣 Jetdry's marketing working even when it's used with rocks! 🪨
@@ChrisRalph Thank You Chris! Am I the only one who doesn't know this trick?
Crazy old man hahaha mike 64 in Buckeye az u r a great teacher mister
I'm glad you liked the video.
Thanks from Australia
You're welcome, mate.
Something to say about touching the vein 12 times from mine to end of process. The simpler the better. The old timers hit the rich veins and abandoned the finger veins for a reason. There’s still rich veins out there. Remember that.
Very true 👍
I agree.
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Find someone in your country who can help you.
I send about four to five types of stones to you channel through U tube camera to know there names thanks.
No. I do not offer mineral identification service.
Thank you sir
You are Welcome - glad you enjoyed it.
Well-done
Thanks.
Hard rock mining is real work !!!!!!!!!!!
That's for sure! But it can be worth it. 👌
love you, Chris. I am bout your age. Time to lose weight. We want you around for a while. May God Bless You.
Wow, thank you, not sure to take it as a compliment or an insult.
Crush to sand at home? Thats the rub.
Yes, it does take some equipment.
got a small crusher. $35 off craigslist. bring the rocks to my truck. see what happens. have a good day.
Let me know how it works for you. I'm interested to hear.
@@ChrisRalphits a T handle one. mashes into a piece of pipe. but small. you can bring it with you to sample. like 10 lbs. let you know.