STRAIGHT FROM THE VEIN! Simple Gold Recovery and Smelting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ธ.ค. 2021
- 600 POUNDS of ore jackhammered right out of the mine! This simple gold recovery method can be used by anyone to recover free milling gold from rock. We are essentially doing 2, 300lb fire assay to quantitate the real-world values from this here gold mine.
How much gold will we recover smelting gold ore!?
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14:16 | your "baking" music was giving me a groovy, trippy 60's vibe ... Rock On, Hard Rock Miner!
hehe, it was a pretty groovy trip down the mine shaft!
Did you go to The School of Mines CSM?
My 90-year-old father loves watching your videos with me.
It makes me happy that you and your father are enjoying the adventures! The Lure for Gold is real! I went to school for Natural Resource Management, Land and Water. Now, I'm managing to pull some natural resources out of the ground ;)hehe. Happy Holidays!
Honestly I love watching these videos of yours more than the gold rush show’s
Awesome 👌 thanks for sharing my friend
My pleasure Billie!
Cool! That was fun to watch. Relaxing.
Melting Zen!
That might have been the best mining to smelting movie Ive ever seen. Soo cool
😀All smiles here, thanks Dig!
Nice job. I'm a retired professional miner. I worked from drilling and blasting, both underground and pit, to set-up and operation of the mill all the way to the smelting and then refining areas. The last mine i worked at here in AZ we just crushed and smelted. High copper and i used the copper that was in the ore as a collector. Took 2 of us to man handle the crucible. The furnace sounded like a 747 taking off. Keep it up, your doing a pretty good job.Love the intensity and the drama and your editing is absolutely superb.
Oh man! I can imagine that furnace just roaring like crazy! I wish everyone could know what that heat and power feels n sounds like. Straight crush and smelt huh, that must have been some rich and or well sorted ore! Sounds like you have a wealth of knowledge! Still lots of gold hiding out in AZ!
Thats what it's about, hard core my friend! Getting it done!!Looking like nice recovery and wishing you all the best in the field and under the field!!🗻⛏⛏
Yea!!!! Thanks RMLP! I'm on a mission to produce gold! I wish you great success and adventure as well!
You should have more subs! Great video...keep at it!
I keep thinking the same
This dudes awesome
Aww, thanks for the Support Leigh! I do what I love!
Your now my new GOLD GOD!
Just doing what I love!
Can't imagine the patience I would have to have for this. Lots of respect & great job. Very interesting.
great work all around fam. keep on living the dream. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!
For the Win!
Wow! This looks so fun! The pace and music in the intro is exciting!
You are so knowledgeable and gracious to share this process with others.
I like watching your videos to learn about smelting, I don't know much about. So let me tell you about an old minesite. I found a bunch of ore that had been ran through a stamp mill years ago. They left it there either because low grade or the war. But it was extremely difficult to separate the fine gold. So I screened it down through window screen size. Then made a recirculater at the end I added thick felt and fanned that part outwards. The felt caught a large majority of the gold. Panned out the cons then ran what I couldn't pan out through a tumbler with mercury which caught guessing 95% of the gold I couldn't pan. I did this process with I think 8 buckets full of material from the old mill. I ended up with a little less than 2oz of gold! It was alot of work, I went back up there to get more ore and someone noticed I was digging up the old sump material. So they dug out the rest! But still more upwards toward where the stamp mill was mounted. They poured concrete and had troughs made funneling the material into the sumps! But the trough is full of old boards and wooden fibers making it difficult to work with. A learning experience for sure! Good luck with your mine!
Wow, that sounds like a fantastic experience Pat, thanks for sharing! The concrete trough funneling the crushed ore is likely loaded with coarser gold, especially if it has any sort of obstructions in it. Very cool n Best of Luck out there!
One of these days I'm going take my wet dry vac and clean the whole thing out. Who knows whats in the trough under all the wood next to where the stamp mill was. I found chunks of leather and an old corn cob pipe in the sump, when it started to dry it just fell apart! Squeezing out excess mercury using pieces of leather is my guess. In the late 1800's towns sprang up all over, with schools, post office and bars then just die out after a few years. Some places you can't tell a town ever existed there. They would dismantle the mill and haul it to another location. Good luck!
This sounds like a dream pat power to you dude
Imagine touching something that hot like that and I didn't know you could smelt it like that with all the black sand and stuff in there.
Crazy hot!! One spill or splash onto bare skin would likely burn down to bone, possibly further.. Careful! My blue jacket is at least "fire resistant"
@@ColoradoGoldCamp Thanks for the reply! I thought people just smelted the small peices of gold not mixed with all that stuff to get the gold itself. That is awesome that it just breaks off and the gold buttons in the center. I bet thats a very cool sight to see your hard work pay off. Thanks for sharing this awesome learning video!
Doing this at night is so freaking cool.
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I like the science at the end! ...math!
Math was never my strong point but gold will motivate me!
You could actually see the lead leaving the Gold, very cool.
Nice clean job. Your educational and professional. Thank you.
That was memorizing to watch man, you are getting better at the videos as much as you are at finding gold brotha, great job, always cheering for you Dia. -Sully
Thanks Sully! I'm doing my best to live it my friend! We should meet up one of these days, Cheers!
Exxxxccceeeeellllleeennttt.
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Nice and simple video! Thank you for sharing. Great video
I used to charge 175 an hour to climb trees with a chainsaw. I used a tarp to catch all the small stuff and make it easier to pick up. I've dug some metals. I think trees are a better gold mine than gold mining. But gold fever is real
It sure is Alex. I truly love the adventure and hunt. Have done some forestry work but not as a climber.
I can appreciate the effort put in to make this video possible. Keep up the good work and maybe we will cross paths one day out there prospecting.
Thank You ES! Best of luck in your adventures! PGM's may be the wave of the future!
Looks like you got to cool the rocks. Loved the show. Ty men God bless all.
Interesting video even though I don't even understand half of what was happening.
Good video edits and the music is just right.
Thanks Koromi! I am thinking about creating a series to explain each step in the process.
Just wish I had somewhere to go here in Scotland that I could do the same thing, over here the land is what's called the crown's,or is owned by a few very rich land owners,or the known gold bearing ground has been sold by the crown to large gold company's, there is only two areas where I can buy a permit to pan, and nothing to explore by way of mines,I watch videos from around the world and know that the prospecting is much more towards the benefits for both gold hunters and the claim owner.
I don’t know what you did , but this was sure an awesome video to watch sir 👍👍
Hehe, love it! Thanks for the support Eric🙌
""THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THERE HILLS" !!!
( I always wanted to say that 🤣 )
You go it Lugo🙌
$143 worth of gold. Courious the refined gram per pound or 100 weight even, of rock/ore. Either way way cool to watch. Impressed
Wow... What a process.. Very interesting video.. Thanks.. 👍
I’m glad I waited until the end because the first question I had early on in the video was “is there a viable concentration of gold locked in sulphides that would require roasting?”. Seems like a great follow up video is to collect the same amount from the same locations, crush and roast, and re-smelt. Thanks for the video.
Definitely Paul! I saw very little visible pyrite but there was some odd blackish material that was likely a sulphide.
This was an awesome video
The whole process is fascinating! Thanks Lee!
Great vid of the smelting process 👍nice camera shots
Thanks for the support Tony🙌
I'm curious about the cupel why did it become brittle ,almost soft looking ? It's so mesmerizing to watch the oxides shed off. Truly beautiful in the camera's eye. What an amazing assay .I loved watching the pours and the convection cells as they cooled. wicked show today. I'm forever learning because of this type of content. thanks for the adventure today. Until the next one.
I believe that particular cupel was saturated with base metals n lead making it somewhat dough like while blazing hot. Once cooled, it hardened up again. Mesmerizing indeed! One of these days I will capture the point where all of the oxides are expelled causing the bead to "blink" extremely bright!
@@ColoradoGoldCamp That is an amazing sight to see. I was hoping that you would have filmed that very moment when it blinks . I was literally nose to screen watching to see if it would happen. I'm simply taken back by the beauty of it when it finishes shedding. thanks for the great reply man and I'm totally looking forward to the next great video. Happy prospecting my friend.
@@stevezozuk9622 Absolutely Steve! The blink happens in an instant! and is difficult to capture on video because the furnace door has to be open wide enough to film. Trouble there is that the inside temperature drops, disrupting the cupellation process. I will get it one of these days! Hopefully on a whopper bead!!
@@ColoradoGoldCamp I'll be there for sure🙂
Perfect smelting music
Thanks Ron! It's tough finding good royalty free music.
Enjoyed ✅
It works pretty slick ST, thanks!
Very nice I have been working a area in Az that I have taken samples out and has shown come gold in the concentrates so far. I took one cup and panned it and had a couple visible pieces of gold in it. Without even breaking down the bin of rock I have from the same location.
Nice work my friend!
Thanks Moe!
Great video looks like a bunch of fun wish I could be there
Come on up!
Hello Mr Colorado.
I miss you. Hope you Come up whit some clip soon😊
Take care my friend, and god bless you.
I love how fast you pour , other youtubers pour the melt too slow.
Awesome video thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the support!
Most people really don't realize the true size of a ton !
Could you imagine a Ton of gold!?
Very cool thanks for the info
My pleasure James!
Do you make and edit your own videos? This one was soooo smooth!
Thanks SCS. Yes, I personally produce and edit all of my content.
Ever tried CN on the ore? Just a thought. Nice videos 👍🏻🇺🇸
Great video!
Thanks Yar!
13:34 glad you stopped and repositioned your tongs to get a proper grip!
Love to watch it collect and drop outta solution though
Nice woork😊
Thanks Arne!
Absolutely fascinating! What's the geology of the area and the gold deposit?
Very nice man. Wish I knew more about smelting. Eventually maybe try it one day. I have the same furnace (havent used it yet) but don't have a cupel furnace (if I even spelled it right lol) anyhow enjoy the videos you make.. keep it up
If you have the furnace, maybe start practice melting/casting aluminum and copper. That will get you more familiar with the process, good luck!
Great video nice gold 😎
Happy Holidays Tony!
@@ColoradoGoldCamp Happy Holidays!!
well done man, I'm a 65 years old miner from south America, just a question, how high is it the highest temperature your cupelling oven reach? you seem to be a tunnel rat like myself with the right tools to succeed, you do a great job and i do appreciate the chance to see your videos, keep on doing it. thanks a lot
💰💰even at half ounce a ton! Lookin good man. Stay safe and warm out there
Thanks, You too Billy!
it's wild that lead oxide boils.
Mesmerizing to watch it skim over the surface and be sucked down into the cupel!
"For all your hualing needs" 😂
Man oh man oh man do I need to move to Colorado so that I can get some of them medicinal magic mushrooms and watch this video again the colors are absolutely amazing just stoned out of my mind
It's that time of year where I live in New Hampshire and I get 8 months of darkness so here comes at least six to seven months of depression
Hehe, the colors and patterns sure are mesmerizing. I might just have to make a compilation video of crazy cool molten rock!
The winter blues are real.... do what you can to get outside and moving, hang in there my friend!
Even with that glove it startled you !
Gotta stay on your toes!
Second one boiled the flux over because of a bit to much borax needed a little bit calcium carbinate i saw the matte on the outside when you poured as in writing this you said something if while your bring the crucible up to temp spinkle a little bit of aluminum oxide power in and thatll help with boil overs but its also due to it being roasted happens everytime i try a no roast procedure
Interesting, will have to look into that Susie!
Nice video man!! Good job s using a respirator, safety glasses, and hard hat. Looks like you had a pretty good day. I will be currious of your final extraction method 1oz per ton looks real good. Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure Colter, Safety First! Well some safety is better than none ;) I might have to get myself a fireproof apron.
@@ColoradoGoldCamp lol yeah melted metal is kinda volatile if it finds moisture
Nice job. Question where can I purchase the capstan flex sorry if I didn't spelled it correctly
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Great video displaying the beauty of smelting! Question about the the assay versus what you actually got in the end. Is the gravity separation method simply melt and pour? And what other methods do you think would be practical to get more of the gold?
I would want to know what you find out and can't wait to see more of your videos!
Hey William. It can be a challenge to deal with hardrock ores on a small scale. For gravity separation, a shaker table or centrifuge would work best to collect all of the heavier particles which could then be smelted or leached on a small scale.
@@ColoradoGoldCamp sounds like you and @mbmmllc should do a collaboration video, you take him exploring some veins and he will process you hard-rock gold on his shaker table (not a cheap piece of equipment).
glass blowers use didymium glasses and filters for their cameras which cut through the flame glare and let them see the hot glass through the flame. Didymium filters might help with your videos.
Great suggestion Jerry. I will definitely look into those!
Shouldn't you be putting a peace of iron into the cursable? To reduce the sulfides. As I believe that would pervent most of your boiling over problem.
Iron definitely helps with the sulphides and I use it in a majority of my smelts.
Should honestly put a ventilation pipe down there, though with the dust mask and goggles you should be fine.
You missed where to get the jawcrusher in your tools list?
nice job!!!!
The Jaw/roller unit is quite handy and easy to use. It's a Keene RC46
@@ColoradoGoldCamp thanks for the info
Hell yah man
Get it!!
I was hoping there was a billboard on the ground!
Ha, there is! Good eye!
For all your hualing needs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Killer video, nice gold! I like that crusher. What kind is it?
Keene rc46
Does your light flash on purpose or is it shorting out?
Why does the cupel not absorb any of the gold?
Man sign me up. That looks more like fun instead of work!
That looks like a lot of fun to do. Sloppy seconds sounds bad until you got the beads in your cup.
The man with the crew that opened that up aint interested in it. Even at 5 GPT you need to scrape that edge for a mile to get 6 ton for an ounce. After that you need dynamite to go further.
But a prospectors dream you found there. I wish I could find a spot like that.
This is an exciting mine to explore. So far we have only sampled 2 sections of vein. There are at least 6 other stringers in there. The hunt continues!
gold is always man power to weight!
In the springs, will hook up this summer for claim info, etc. think u know brother byoda
Where has the bacon man been hiding?
@@ColoradoGoldCamp in the springs, remodeling rentals, I just got to Panama City beach for 2 months with my equinox, then out your way in the spring
Hey guys new to the chanel
I'm wanting to start mining but I live in east Tennessee
Any ideas I live on the Cumberland plateau and don't know exactly where to start
Coker Creek and the Tellico River are the best known areas for gold prospecting. I would start research that area. The placer gold had to come from the surrounding hills and upstream.
We’re you using lead strips or litharge?
Lead lumps. Old dive weight and wheel weights. They do contain a tiny amount of Ag
How much ore is required for a good professional assay? What's the approximate cost?
Professional assay labs typically will assay 29.167 grams of ore. They will require 60+ gram samples. Will average around $50 per sample.
At 12:08 you set your tongs down on the ground, with the tips RED HOT. This is a BAD habit, like shit, be glad you didn't step on it! Safety has to be the prime directive! Love your videos!
What is "up to temp" setpoint of the cupelling furnace
I like to keep it around 1,750 during cupellation.
Do you make and edit your own video
Hey where do you get that big cone mold?
Legend Inc, Sparks NV
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Looks like Limonite, or fault gouge follow the rust never go bust, hammer mill or ball mill gravity roast then smelt, save the tailings for eco goldex salooshy. Or throw the mercury in the ball mill woops did I say that.
Follow the Rust, Never go Bust! Love it!
Guy you should look into some of keen small desperation stuff it may speed your your ore recovery just a thought
The Keene double roller mill is pretty slick!
@@ColoradoGoldCamp glad you checked out their site but was thinking more of small sluice that recycle water to recover fines you would have to do less heat recovery
mountain baker mining uses a mould thats been welded steel plate.
I have seen that. Nice thing about this cone mold is that it is super sturdy and has a large volume.
Hi buddy where can I buy a setup like yours I'm from South Africa and I would like something like this to keep our area clean recycling is the way forward I believe
Absolutely. What you are melting will dictate the size of your smelting furnace.
Im starting small with aluminum can I'm from South Africa and I would like to create jobs for the unemployment of our youth today is so high so I'm starting something to involve young people to work smart with recycling Cans and later we can move into gold coz gold is not a problem to get in this country
I would love that furnace you have where can I buy it and what would the cost be to ship it to South Africa (Cape town )
If I can buy your setup how much will it cost me
Size makes a big difference in cost. You can build a larger furnace for less or buy one this size for $250-650. All said and done, I would say minimum $1,200 for a full kit. That includes cupelling furnace + fluxes etc
Process that in ball mill or rod mill to polvorize all the material.
I would like a nice big 1+ tph rod mill
I want 2 gold biscuits
I'm a fellow creator on TH-cam I do kids education videos and I would love to do a video on you and what you do with rock and some smelting footage. I would like to use small clips of your channel edited and I add some fun facts and get kids to understand what's happening in your videos about smelting. I would love to collaborate if your would like to make an impact in some kids lives please reach out. Thanks for making great videos!
So the lead burns off?
The lead gets absorbed into the cupel along with other base metals.
@@ColoradoGoldCamp ahh ok cool thanx 4 the reply :)
why was the flame absolutly roiding? 11:01
The ore might require roasting is why the old timers gave up the ghost on this showing
Greetings.
I am not sure if you can help me or not but I am seeking about a half ounce to purchase for making my wife's Marriage band.
I have a ~60 carat topaz from Colorado which I am going to cut myself but am looking for Colorado gold as well because we love it here in the rockies.
Can you help me with this or can you point me somewhere?
Thank you for your time.
That CO topaz sure would look nice in some Colorado Gold! Send me a message on our FB page or you can find my phone # on the website. I have a few ideas for you.
@@ColoradoGoldCamp thank you for your reply.
will be in touch soon via phone as I have no facebook.
am grateful. 👍🏻
suond like you have generator issues there that u need to have fixed asap.
The generator is maxed out running the cupelling furnace and keeping it at a constant temp (throttle up n down). Will be switching to solar gen soon.