I follow Jason and MBMMLLC. Thank you for processing that 25 lb sample if ore. I've been waiting for Jason to process his ore on the equipment available to him but no joy as yet. Thank you again
the destination is finding it yourself 😅 but I guess if you enjoy it who cares. even large scale mining is not the best investment, people who think you get rich off gold don't realize their better off looking for change and collecting bottles lol. have fun and experiment. roast those sulfides!
I use a manual jaw crusher and a cheap chinese grain mill to grind it down to powder. You want to get it down to 1/8 minus before using the mill. I bought 75lbs and got a little over 4 grams I got it all down below 50-. And a lot of the gold is locked up in those sulfides. I smelted the gold and sulfides together to get that result. Tis the nature of the beast. You have to smelt to maximize values.
In Jason's mine and many other wide mesothermal gold bearing quartz veins the gold is concentrated in a narrow band of the vein called the "shoot". Crushing all of the vein quartz might have 1oz per ton, but the shoot might have 15oz+ per ton. So statistically allot of the rocks you are crushing have little values and results might vary widely from sample to sample.
Jason is mainly an ore processing machinery manufacturer. Great guy with interesting videos. He teams up with Ghost Town Living, Dan Hurd, and a few others for collaborative shows.
I’ve been waiting for this one! I’m in the same boat you were and life events have kept me from starting this adventure so far. At some point I will come back to this video and let you know my results as well. With the sulfides I have seen others, including Jason take the sulfides and put them in a frying pan and get them cooked up if you will. I assume after doing this you can pound that into dust and maybe liberate a little more. He put out a video in the last week or two where he ran a ton thru his awesome set up. Part 1
That is some stick-to-it-iveness. You earned my subscription. I too am prone to falling down rabbit holes which lead to more rabbit holes. Keeps me out of trouble.
I think it’s all about the experience when you buy rock like that. No ROI. What a ride man. Great video. Can’t wait to see the next group of rock you crush.
Great job crushing it fam. Need a lot of that to make it worth it. Got to be on some good ground indeed. If you can find it. You're close to the source 😊. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠
It's funny I came across your video. I just received a 25lb bag of ore dust that he crushed recently. This stuff is powder. I'll have to make a small sluiceor something to clean it out. We'll see!
I got a couple bags of Jason's ore recently. Washed the big stuff off and immediately found a dozen or so nice specimen quality hunks with visible gold and probably silver in them. Those got set aside. Awaiting parts for grinding the rest to dust for processing now. Just putzing around with the fine stuff and a pan, I picked up what's gotta be a gram and a half or so of super fine gold. I saved everything to re-run a few times, I know I blew plenty out of the pan in my haste. A couple of the specimens are probably worth the bogs when it comes down to it. Will have to figure out how to get it all in processing tho, sounds like smelting etc has been a challenge for most. Maybe suspend it all in Aqua Regia and ship it to SREETIPS for finishing!
Jason would be just as intrigued watching your video as I am I’m sure. I would love to do what your doing, but living in the Netherlands doesn’t make that a viable thing….so I watch Jason and a lot of other gold mine related TH-camr folks. Your video is cool, so much effort and just admitting your just tying to learn…thanks for letting me look over your shoulder….
I bought the same thing and got a few specks out of the dust. Ended up selling the lot to someone else as I didn’t have a crusher that was going to get it fine enough. I’ll stick to pay dirt.
when I first started crushing rock; I got a flat piece of steel and a slightly smaller but taller piece of steel. built a hollow box around the flat steel. put rocks on the flat and crushed them with the heavy steel. then gathered the dust in a dust pan. worked with a lot of work. but cheap. then i bought a small crusher for $1000. it sucked, broke parts continuously. got it away. then i bought a jaw crusher from MBMM Jason. it works great. I also bought a hammer mill which worked good, but i've worn out the hammers.
44:40, round and flat? Unless that was a product of the grinder annealing smaller chunks, it looks like placer chunk. If it was lode gold, it was mashed that way from some oxidized/liberated ore. Lode is not round and flat- unless you hit a rich enrichment zone or redeposition area, it is microbits.
Former Health & Safety Officer here: @29:30 That surgical mask is not designed to protect you from inhaling dust. I suppose it will protect the rocks from your spittle. But seriously, for silica dust and yes, viruses, you want at a minimum N95. I see later in the video that you had a good elastomeric mask while grinding. Carry on :D
none... I panned everything that came out of that bag.. I even swept the floor where I did all the crushing and panning and panned that stuff to make sure I didn't miss anything. the only thing I did not do is smelt the metals to try to pull out gold from those. I am not there quite yet.
Cool video. I just got the same bag and hand sorted it similar to you. I have loads of different colors that stayed in the cleanup sluice from all the dirt powder. I noticed a good amount of fine flour gold so it seems it should be a better yield capturing the metals with a furnace and ending with cupelled gold beads. I still need to accumulate the products needed to do that like flux soda ash etc etc. I did it to learn how to do all said and learn about their mine and hard rock mining. This was certainly way more interesting then hand made pay dirt. Very cool!
I was surprised I didn't break stuff in the process especially my arm when I was drilling the hole in that steel ring. it jerked my arm while trying to punch through it several times!
Here's how to Crush Rocks as a Hobbyist. Purchase a small Propane Furnace Pot, these are great for Smelting as well. Place some Rocks in the Furnace Pot and stick a Propane Blow Torch in the Hole typically used by the Burner. You can Easily Heat Rocks to Red Hot and then Quench them in Water. This will completely Fracture the Rock Internally. Crushing after that is Simple. And the Dust Levels are much lower when smashing the Rocks with a Hammer. Easy-Peasy.
Jason's mine has a lot of pyrite and i believe another mineral called molybdenite? The silver values are alloyed with the gold. The gold is mostly very fine dust and ore must be crushed to baby powder fine if you wanna recover it all.
silver shiny material is probably galena (lead sulfide). There is a mine a mile from where i live. The gold is not visible in the rock. Each dump truck worth of ore is worth about $11k to $17k.
I like this video. It’s a bit funny that you project yourself to be more of a beginner than mbmmc But your humility makes me like your video more than his, I seem to always be yelling at the screen when I’m watching him. Lol
Part 2. He had a heck of a time getting his smelt to finally work right as far as getting the right mix of agents together. If I remember correct it was just a little over an ounce. It looked to be mostly gold percent wise. I’m sure there is some silver mixed in. Anyway I really enjoy your videos. Hello from NC! Thank you for sharing this adventure. Good job on your rock crusher. Curious, anything you would do different in your build now that you’ve used it some? Thanks again.
Great video. That’s a long process of getting very little gold. I’ve been thinking about getting a bag of it. Since now he sells it already crushed up for I think $100. I was going to do a review on my channel but now since I saw your video, I don’t think it’s worth all that work for .214 grams of gold. I’m going to hold off for now. Thanks for the video.
I follow Jason's channel as well. Make sure that you hang onto all of that silver material because it could very likely be tellurides that are coating the gold in the rocks. He explains all about it in one of his latest videos.
Nice work. I like how you were up for the challenge! Subscribed. Maybe you can send it back to Jason and he could smelt you a button? I gotta say though.. please cover up that insulation in your shop if you are concerned about dust and your lungs. Great video have a good day!
I think Jason believes that a half ounce per tonne is “payable” return. If you don’t value your labour and other inputs (dynamite, air drilling & humping the ore down a mountain etc - then yes you could consider half ounce per tonne as payable ore. In the old days it was considered payable ore if it went 1 ounce per tonne which is probably a better metric to judge a payable mine. But There are other methods Remember that Jason has his processing plant and can throughout bigger quantities in a time effective manner. If you were to cyanide leach the crushed ore through activated carbon & separate it in quantity you might get higher recovery because your collecting gold at molecular level. Perhaps mercury amalgam is another option. Any way you look at it his mine to my mind is barely payable. It is only payable to my mind in the inventive ways he sells it as pay dirt for one example or as sliced rocks etc. Add in his TH-cam revenues & maybe his mine is actually just viable. That would be my summation.
You can cut the handle off that manual rock crusher you have and attach it to a chipping hammer. Then you put some rock in the tube, drop the crushing bit attached to a chipping hammer on top, hit the button and push down....ta dah! You have pulverized quartz dust.
Nowadays with eBay and people that are too lazy to dig, or mine for themselves. That is how these miners stay in business these days versus 60 years ago, 100 years ago they didn't have eBay to sell the worthless cheaper oar rocks that may contain a little gold that people buy now because we're too lazy to do it ourselves.
My son bought me one of those bags to play with.I'll come back later when I've got around completely.Crushing it and running it and I'll let you know what I find in it.Cause They bought me the exact same thing.....
4-pounder and a chunk of railroad iron. In a shallow box to catch the frags. Sieve and repeat. If you want a good cheap rock crusher, get a fairly heavy walled (used portable) cement mixer and a bunch of steel balls and make a small ball mill. You wil want to put a spray bar just outside of the barrel as it makes a LOT of quartz dust- hazard to breathing of course, but will also eat your bearings up. And lode gold is usually combined with other stuff where placer is quite higher gold content. And (if you are stil awake) lode gold is generally VERY SMALL.
You should contact Jason and if you order again,ask him if he could break it done to powder with his machines.That would be easier than you having to work months on it.He can do it in a hour.
17grams per ton is actually pretty good, but not if you're buying it 25lbs at a time and not for $100 a pop. If it's your claim and the only cost is your time then it's worth it.
I am starting to think he has a small amount of platinum in that mine. I’ve watch a couple of you guy processing the ore. It is rare with gold but does occur.
Well you may have some platinum there, hard rock is never fun. No one will talk me into it again. There's plenty of placer from glacier till and decomposed bedrock. I've done both on large scale, from 50 man load mines to Cyanide ponds from super fine ore. Hope it warms up for ya.
Because i'm an expert at watching experts refine gold... 😅😅😅 Before you get disheartened, you may just need to smelt your concentrates with the right collector metal, flux recipe and cupell it to get the gold. That would probably be a few more $100 of equipment.
Its not really about getting monetary value out of the ore you purchased. What you bought with your $109 is the experience of liberating the gold from the ore. People like me see that as entertainment value in itself. After all, if i wasn't doing this, I'd either be getting in trouble or being a couch potato.
I knew that going in... I wanted to see if I could do it and I know I didn't get it all, but I just wanted to see if I could do it. Learning as I go....
Wash out the plastic bag shake out and possibly wash the go bag put it into a pan and see how much gold you get out of that how much gold did you get on your hands you kept wiping on your pants how much gold did you leave in that other room
So at todays prices for 1/2 oz you would get about 1200=1300 dollars worth of gold after doing all the work. Instead he sells the material for 6000 a ton and goes out and buys 2 ounces of gold with the proceeds. So you could say his ore is netting him 2 oz per ton. Plenty of websites out there selling grams of gold and you net way more than what most pay dirts will.
Too bad for you that I only just discovered your channel because I could have made you one for $50 plus parts [about $75 more] and had it done in 3 days. Oh well... Life moves on...
Hey bud,next time u get some big ore take n build u a fire and heat your ore for a couple hrs,then it will literally crumble easy in your manual crusher n real ez in your robi crusher....works great
I suggest you watch some more videos! The ‘silver’ is iron csulfste. Green is copper sulphate. What looks like dark yellow rich colored rock is probably fool’s gold… iron pyrite. Watch Dan’s videos when he prospects up on the mountain.
Jason @ Mt Baker Mining and Metals. And he manufactures crushers, gravity tables, material handling machines and prospects/produces precious metals. Get his Channel. Been watching him for quite some time. Very knowledgeable as well. You need to roast those sulfides to liberate precious metals. I believe. Good Luck! GT
They are not meant to produce a profit for the buyer. If they would, in such small amounts, the gold would be some of the richest hard rock gold ever found - and Jason's mine is far from that.
Wait so it’s priced so that he’s the one getting the deal even tho u had to do the work to crush/pan it? I thought that these prospectors sold it cheaper as pay dirt so they didn’t have to process it and ot was a good deal for the buyer. Apparently not?
See his videos on extracting the ore from the mine. Crushing and panning is the easy part. Most of the gold prospectors only did placer mining. Hard rock mining for gold was rare and the gold usually recovered as a byproduct from mining copper or silver.
One way to brake rock down is heat it and drop it in ice water. Or if you have a drill get a tiny hammer drill a hole in the end of the hammer put a bolt threw the hole put it in the drill find a bucket with a lid cut a hole in lid the size of your drill chuck put drill threw lid attach hamer with bolt put rocks in bucket put lid with drill and hammer on and theres a crudely made hammer mill
I follow Jason and MBMMLLC. Thank you for processing that 25 lb sample if ore. I've been waiting for Jason to process his ore on the equipment available to him but no joy as yet. Thank you again
I am in it for 250lbs. Bought a Mighty Mill to help with the crushing. Its about the journey for me, not the destination. Love seeing your video.
That's a lot of ore to crush!
the destination is finding it yourself 😅 but I guess if you enjoy it who cares.
even large scale mining is not the best investment, people who think you get rich off gold don't realize their better off looking for change and collecting bottles lol.
have fun and experiment. roast those sulfides!
What is your zoom?
I use a manual jaw crusher and a cheap chinese grain mill to grind it down to powder. You want to get it down to 1/8 minus before using the mill. I bought 75lbs and got a little over 4 grams I got it all down below 50-. And a lot of the gold is locked up in those sulfides. I smelted the gold and sulfides together to get that result. Tis the nature of the beast. You have to smelt to maximize values.
Yeah his sulphides need to be processed.
What kind of grain mill did you get? Hand crank?
Most of these comments like this one are precious learning materials.
Free education.
Don’t expect a windfall ROI on paydirt. Ain’t gonna happen.
In Jason's mine and many other wide mesothermal gold bearing quartz veins the gold is concentrated in a narrow band of the vein called the "shoot". Crushing all of the vein quartz might have 1oz per ton, but the shoot might have 15oz+ per ton. So statistically allot of the rocks you are crushing have little values and results might vary widely from sample to sample.
Jason is mainly an ore processing machinery manufacturer. Great guy with interesting videos. He teams up with Ghost Town Living, Dan Hurd, and a few others for collaborative shows.
mine operator, pioneer Pauly, jeff Williams, Kasey grey , Jerry Laredo, and Jim Lampman to name a few. all of em great prospectors
Jason & Father owns many gold mines and many thousands of acres of timber!
Face it, you don’t have a clue of what you are doing!
Including panning!
I’ve been waiting for this one! I’m in the same boat you were and life events have kept me from starting this adventure so far. At some point I will come back to this video and let you know my results as well. With the sulfides I have seen others, including Jason take the sulfides and put them in a frying pan and get them cooked up if you will. I assume after doing this you can pound that into dust and maybe liberate a little more. He put out a video in the last week or two where he ran a ton thru his awesome set up. Part 1
That is some stick-to-it-iveness. You earned my subscription. I too am prone to falling down rabbit holes which lead to more rabbit holes. Keeps me out of trouble.
thanks for sub and I have my own holes to worry about. I think I would pan a turd if they said it had gold in it....
@@thegroovygoldhunter1728 hahaha so true. That's when you know you got the fever ! Hahaha thanks for the mental image.
Chickenshit gold, ever heard of it?
Should be about .3 grams in 25lbs if my math is correct. I believe his assay was about an 1 ounce per ton.
I got .41 grams at 1oz/Ton
I think it’s all about the experience when you buy rock like that. No ROI. What a ride man. Great video. Can’t wait to see the next group of rock you crush.
Great job crushing it fam. Need a lot of that to make it worth it. Got to be on some good ground indeed. If you can find it. You're close to the source 😊. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠
The mystery metal is likely tellurides?
It's funny I came across your video. I just received a 25lb bag of ore dust that he crushed recently. This stuff is powder. I'll have to make a small sluiceor something to clean it out. We'll see!
Was it on ebay?
Use jet dry or dish soap so it falls out
I got a couple bags of Jason's ore recently. Washed the big stuff off and immediately found a dozen or so nice specimen quality hunks with visible gold and probably silver in them. Those got set aside. Awaiting parts for grinding the rest to dust for processing now. Just putzing around with the fine stuff and a pan, I picked up what's gotta be a gram and a half or so of super fine gold. I saved everything to re-run a few times, I know I blew plenty out of the pan in my haste. A couple of the specimens are probably worth the bogs when it comes down to it. Will have to figure out how to get it all in processing tho, sounds like smelting etc has been a challenge for most. Maybe suspend it all in Aqua Regia and ship it to SREETIPS for finishing!
I know you worked off your hiney for that shiny!
Aqua Donkey Prospecting approved!❤🎉🎉❤
Jason would be just as intrigued watching your video as I am I’m sure. I would love to do what your doing, but living in the Netherlands doesn’t make that a viable thing….so I watch Jason and a lot of other gold mine related TH-camr folks. Your video is cool, so much effort and just admitting your just tying to learn…thanks for letting me look over your shoulder….
Thank you so much! I bought the same product. Good to know what you got with yours.
I bought the same thing and got a few specks out of the dust. Ended up selling the lot to someone else as I didn’t have a crusher that was going to get it fine enough. I’ll stick to pay dirt.
when I first started crushing rock; I got a flat piece of steel and a slightly smaller but taller piece of steel. built a hollow box around the flat steel. put rocks on the flat and crushed them
with the heavy steel. then gathered the dust in a dust pan. worked with a lot of work. but cheap. then i bought a small crusher for $1000. it sucked, broke parts continuously. got it away.
then i bought a jaw crusher from MBMM Jason. it works great. I also bought a hammer mill which worked good, but i've worn out the hammers.
44:40, round and flat? Unless that was a product of the grinder annealing smaller chunks, it looks like placer chunk. If it was lode gold, it was mashed that way from some oxidized/liberated ore. Lode is not round and flat- unless you hit a rich enrichment zone or redeposition area, it is microbits.
Former Health & Safety Officer here: @29:30 That surgical mask is not designed to protect you from inhaling dust. I suppose it will protect the rocks from your spittle. But seriously, for silica dust and yes, viruses, you want at a minimum N95. I see later in the video that you had a good elastomeric mask while grinding. Carry on :D
How much fine gold did you wash off the ore.
none... I panned everything that came out of that bag.. I even swept the floor where I did all the crushing and panning and panned that stuff to make sure I didn't miss anything. the only thing I did not do is smelt the metals to try to pull out gold from those. I am not there quite yet.
Gold doesn't glitter it glows. That glittery stuff is most likely pyrite. Which could contain some gold.
Gold crystals will have flat faces, so should glitter somewhat - depending on how smooth it may be.
Cool video. I just got the same bag and hand sorted it similar to you. I have loads of different colors that stayed in the cleanup sluice from all the dirt powder. I noticed a good amount of fine flour gold so it seems it should be a better yield capturing the metals with a furnace and ending with cupelled gold beads. I still need to accumulate the products needed to do that like flux soda ash etc etc. I did it to learn how to do all said and learn about their mine and hard rock mining. This was certainly way more interesting then hand made pay dirt. Very cool!
Well done you proved ur self wrong. You did the build, congrats.
I was surprised I didn't break stuff in the process especially my arm when I was drilling the hole in that steel ring. it jerked my arm while trying to punch through it several times!
joined the channel...excited to see your up n coming videos!!!...especially this because im quite familiar with jason and dan hurd etc
thank you for subscribing!
Here's how to Crush Rocks as a Hobbyist. Purchase a small Propane Furnace Pot, these are great for Smelting as well.
Place some Rocks in the Furnace Pot and stick a Propane Blow Torch in the Hole typically used by the Burner.
You can Easily Heat Rocks to Red Hot and then Quench them in Water. This will completely Fracture the Rock Internally.
Crushing after that is Simple. And the Dust Levels are much lower when smashing the Rocks with a Hammer. Easy-Peasy.
Yes, this.
Jason's mine has a lot of pyrite and i believe another mineral called molybdenite? The silver values are alloyed with the gold. The gold is mostly very fine dust and ore must be crushed to baby powder fine if you wanna recover it all.
It’s not molybdenum just puritite
You could use CLR and dissolve the quartz..it takes a few days but it works
silver shiny material is probably galena (lead sulfide). There is a mine a mile from where i live. The gold is not visible in the rock. Each dump truck worth of ore is worth about $11k to $17k.
awesome. Is there company mining it out?
@@thegroovygoldhunter1728 yes, they are the ones hauling the ore in big trucks pulling pup dump trucks. even now in winter.
I like this video. It’s a bit funny that you project yourself to be more of a beginner than mbmmc But your humility makes me like your video more than his, I seem to always be yelling at the screen when I’m watching him. Lol
Did you pan the dirt that you washed off from your ore?
Yes, I panned everyrhing.... even recrushed bigger material down to dust to make sure I got all I could with what I had...
A half ounce of gold per ton of rock is pretty darn good.
I ordered a box as well. I did it to support him as I love his videos.
Part 2. He had a heck of a time getting his smelt to finally work right as far as getting the right mix of agents together. If I remember correct it was just a little over an ounce. It looked to be mostly gold percent wise. I’m sure there is some silver mixed in. Anyway I really enjoy your videos. Hello from NC! Thank you for sharing this adventure. Good job on your rock crusher. Curious, anything you would do different in your build now that you’ve used it some? Thanks again.
Have been using a hand crusher that i made at my last job...kinda like yours. Need to make an angle grinder box
Thanks for doing that, that's a lot of work! Tells me it's not worth it to go about it that way at that $75 cost.
Great video. That’s a long process of getting very little gold. I’ve been thinking about getting a bag of it. Since now he sells it already crushed up for I think $100. I was going to do a review on my channel but now since I saw your video, I don’t think it’s worth all that work for .214 grams of gold. I’m going to hold off for now. Thanks for the video.
i haven't seen the non crushed stuff on ebay yet.. i saw his video where he said he was doing that but its not on his listing
I follow Jason's channel as well. Make sure that you hang onto all of that silver material because it could very likely be tellurides that are coating the gold in the rocks. He explains all about it in one of his latest videos.
Very groovy effort. Don't you have to smelt gold ore? I LOVE your crusher!
I think you should consider the "dust" that came in the bag as just pre-crushed ore. Collect it and pan it out also.
I did and I panned all of it... i cut a hole in bottom of bags and sprayed them in to a bucket to get the stuff stuck in the bags
Its not a scam. It's a learning experience. ( Being serious)
Nice work. I like how you were up for the challenge!
Subscribed.
Maybe you can send it back to Jason and he could smelt you a button?
I gotta say though.. please cover up that insulation in your shop if you are concerned about dust and your lungs.
Great video have a good day!
I've considered trying to do it myself just to see if I could....probably my next step in this learning process!
Well I just might not bother crushing the rest of mine , lol nice job , great video
If you got 1/4 gram in 25 pounds that would be 20 grams per ton. Not bad.
You said that was 25 lb how much did that cost all those rocks are pretty
100 bucks after shipping....
@@thegroovygoldhunter1728what a rip off....
I find a hand sledge within a metal box works, don't swing the hammer just drop it straight down and save your arms?
Some brilliant rocks there.
try and find an old concrete mixer and find some steel balls dont know how much but that should crush the rock!
Great video!
Hard rock mining hard in a garage and no equip lol😂
I think Jason believes that a half ounce per tonne is “payable” return.
If you don’t value your labour and other inputs (dynamite, air drilling & humping the ore down a mountain etc - then yes you could consider half ounce per tonne as payable ore.
In the old days it was considered payable ore if it went 1 ounce per tonne which is probably a better metric to judge a payable mine.
But
There are other methods
Remember that Jason has his processing plant and can throughout bigger quantities in a time effective manner.
If you were to cyanide leach the crushed ore through activated carbon & separate it in quantity you might get higher recovery because your collecting gold at molecular level.
Perhaps mercury amalgam is another option.
Any way you look at it his mine to my mind is barely payable.
It is only payable to my mind in the inventive ways he sells it as pay dirt for one example or as sliced rocks etc.
Add in his TH-cam revenues & maybe his mine is actually just viable.
That would be my summation.
You can cut the handle off that manual rock crusher you have and attach it to a chipping hammer. Then you put some rock in the tube, drop the crushing bit attached to a chipping hammer on top, hit the button and push down....ta dah! You have pulverized quartz dust.
maybe a 4inch casing manual stamping tube ??? a giant of the little 1 u have
Yes . I am a follower of Jason , should be Gold in it ! Cheer's .
have you tried roasting the rocks first then crush? it makes it easier to crush.
I am surprised that anyone would be surprised that a mining company would fail to go bankrupt selling thier gold ore, for more than it's worth?
Nowadays with eBay and people that are too lazy to dig, or mine for themselves. That is how these miners stay in business these days versus 60 years ago, 100 years ago they didn't have eBay to sell the worthless cheaper oar rocks that may contain a little gold that people buy now because we're too lazy to do it ourselves.
If you can smelt you can "cook" the rock to make crushing easier
My son bought me one of those bags to play with.I'll come back later when I've got around completely.Crushing it and running it and I'll let you know what I find in it.Cause They bought me the exact same thing.....
Lol he sells it crushed now .nice video thank you 😊
You should use a minimum of grade 100 alloy chain and use steel for the holder.
No wonder he is selling the ore. Its a huge pain in the arse to get the gold out!!! Dang it!!
Do you need someone to install your flooring?
no, I had it done last week... I am doing all the trim work but we had someone come in and do the flooring for us... they did a good job
4-pounder and a chunk of railroad iron. In a shallow box to catch the frags. Sieve and repeat.
If you want a good cheap rock crusher, get a fairly heavy walled (used portable) cement mixer and a bunch of steel balls and make a small ball mill. You wil want to put a spray bar just outside of the barrel as it makes a LOT of quartz dust- hazard to breathing of course, but will also eat your bearings up.
And lode gold is usually combined with other stuff where placer is quite higher gold content.
And (if you are stil awake) lode gold is generally VERY SMALL.
You should contact Jason and if you order again,ask him if he could break it done to powder with his machines.That would be easier than you having to work months on it.He can do it in a hour.
Super beginner here, so this might not work, but could you have sliuced this more easily? Instead of panning?
You know... if you cook that ore in a really nice hot fire. Then take it right from the fire and, dump it water. you can crush it with your fingers.
@@ryanhunter1587 i have more ore I am working on.... I am going to try that
where'd ya get that clock?
Lol … was wondering about the magnets alright
17grams per ton is actually pretty good, but not if you're buying it 25lbs at a time and not for $100 a pop. If it's your claim and the only cost is your time then it's worth it.
The dust in the box has gold in it as well as the post office. ;)
I am starting to think he has a small amount of platinum in that mine. I’ve watch a couple of you guy processing the ore. It is rare with gold but does occur.
Right on Brother thanks alot 🎉😊
You did better than me. I ended up finding a total of 3 pieces at minus 100 in my box after crushing to powder😢
Well you may have some platinum there, hard rock is never fun. No one will talk me into it again. There's plenty of placer from glacier till and decomposed bedrock. I've done both on large scale, from 50 man load mines to Cyanide ponds from super fine ore. Hope it warms up for ya.
We love Jason!
Because i'm an expert at watching experts refine gold... 😅😅😅
Before you get disheartened, you may just need to smelt your concentrates with the right collector metal, flux recipe and cupell it to get the gold.
That would probably be a few more $100 of equipment.
Buy the mighty mill rock crusher
Its not really about getting monetary value out of the ore you purchased. What you bought with your $109 is the experience of liberating the gold from the ore. People like me see that as entertainment value in itself. After all, if i wasn't doing this, I'd either be getting in trouble or being a couch potato.
I knew that going in... I wanted to see if I could do it and I know I didn't get it all, but I just wanted to see if I could do it. Learning as I go....
Wash out the plastic bag shake out and possibly wash the go bag put it into a pan and see how much gold you get out of that how much gold did you get on your hands you kept wiping on your pants how much gold did you leave in that other room
Get the mighty mill, under 400 dollars. You will be glad you did
Smelt it it's lock in t🎉 he rock or chemical release the gold. be carefully. Love your determination.
So at todays prices for 1/2 oz you would get about 1200=1300 dollars worth of gold after doing all the work. Instead he sells the material for 6000 a ton and goes out and buys 2 ounces of gold with the proceeds. So you could say his ore is netting him 2 oz per ton.
Plenty of websites out there selling grams of gold and you net way more than what most pay dirts will.
Too bad for you that I only just discovered your channel because I could have made you one for $50 plus parts [about $75 more] and had it done in 3 days.
Oh well...
Life moves on...
Without Jason's vibrating table you will not be successful.
Hey bud,next time u get some big ore take n build u a fire and heat your ore for a couple hrs,then it will literally crumble easy in your manual crusher n real ez in your robi crusher....works great
I will do that
Little less talk , more action !
buy a jaw crusher from Jason. build the stand and buy a gas powered engine to drive the jaw crusher. mine works great after tons of quartz.
That metallic material is probably telluride, maybe not silver.
Without smelting you cannot account for gold that isn’t freed up by your method.
Silver stuff could be Galina
I hope this video will make some of that $400/ $700 for you!
I suggest you watch some more videos! The ‘silver’ is iron csulfste. Green is copper sulphate. What looks like dark yellow rich colored rock is probably fool’s gold… iron pyrite. Watch Dan’s videos when he prospects up on the mountain.
You should get a small wet saw and cut some of those peices
matbe think about buying a cobra crucher or a mighety mite crusher
The silver metalic is likely from the drilling. Try magnets.
Its mbmmllc stands for mount baker mining and metals llc
Jason @ Mt Baker Mining and Metals. And he manufactures crushers, gravity tables, material handling machines and prospects/produces precious metals. Get his Channel. Been watching him for quite some time. Very knowledgeable as well.
You need to roast those sulfides to liberate precious metals. I believe. Good Luck! GT
his 25 pound bags of ore are worthless but at least you support his cool lifestyle
They are not meant to produce a profit for the buyer. If they would, in such small amounts, the gold would be some of the richest hard rock gold ever found - and Jason's mine is far from that.
Wait so it’s priced so that he’s the one getting the deal even tho u had to do the work to crush/pan it? I thought that these prospectors sold it cheaper as pay dirt so they didn’t have to process it and ot was a good deal for the buyer. Apparently not?
See his videos on extracting the ore from the mine. Crushing and panning is the easy part.
Most of the gold prospectors only did placer mining. Hard rock mining for gold was rare and the gold usually recovered as a byproduct from mining copper or silver.
One way to brake rock down is heat it and drop it in ice water. Or if you have a drill get a tiny hammer drill a hole in the end of the hammer put a bolt threw the hole put it in the drill find a bucket with a lid cut a hole in lid the size of your drill chuck put drill threw lid attach hamer with bolt put rocks in bucket put lid with drill and hammer on and theres a crudely made hammer mill
Siver ore could be platium!