It's great to see you guys pan out some material. Great results from only 1.2 kilos of material. I'd really like to see you guys go through enough material to show us a big clean up with an ounce or two in the pan. I want my mind to be blown! 🤯🤯🤯
Much more informational about sulfides and sulfide bearing ore than others that do prospecting videos and that is why I only watch your videos now. I can literally spot out potential areas because of the massive amounts of information I've soaked from your videos, I really appreciate it!
You guys channel is amazing. I love all the different spots you guys constantly find. Keep up the great work, and i agree with other comments Im looking at outcrops and old samples ocks from my finds with a new set of eyes. Thanks!
Wow! Fever inducing vuggy goodness! I would love to see that gold through a loop, I bet it is some very pretty stuff!Hint, hint :D I have taken photos with my phone through a loop.
So I always wondered growing up how old timers used to find gold and pick where they were going to mine… but now I understand how where to dig is chosen.
Just out of a mini pan sample. I'd been lmao over that little pan showing me that much gold !!! I have one of those mini pans. It's rather useful for cleaning gold
Seems to me that sampling would go a lot more smoothly if you had a handheld blower you to get that snow off of it. There are some pretty good anomalies in that rock, I think! Yours truly, Big Johnson Mining
Some of those hollow spongy pieces of quartz you showed looked very much like what is on my land, so I am hopeful that this means that in the near vicinity is some useful mineral.
Awesome video more knowledge great fantastic amount of gold sweet you can still see rocks with the snow u got. Lol I wish I could see some rocks out here lol thanks a lot guys be safe and warm now
That claim definitely needs some more attention, very nice bit of geology there...how's the snow on the Island? We got hammered down here in Olympia, just now quit.
Yes it does when the snow melts. We filmed this and an hour later it started dumping down. We have had almost 50cm in the last 3 days. We are expecting 25cm more by tomorrow.
If the math I did on the yield is correct that’s about 42 grams or 1.3 ounces to the ton of ore body if it holds true. I would mine that all day long , nice find boys.
An assay of this vein was just over 64g/ton. When we crushed the ore we didnt go fine enough to capture everything in the video so recovery would be more if mining.
@@911mining Thanks for the response, it was a pretty spectacular sample; plus or minus a few pennyweights should be well within the margin for error for the technique demonstrated and the results. That samples assayed higher does not really surprise me; it is a nice find and you have a big outcrop with multiple zones of mineralization. As always, I love your work.
I found some of that vuggy quartz last summer on a scouting trip here in Alaska but in my case it came up empty on the free mill stuff. Some of the vugs had crystal pockets inside of dark black, tiny crystals. Not sure what that is.
Thank you very very and so so much i down load all videos from your channel It is very useful Although we do not know your face,but we know your huge work in geology Your vedios are my quide in our mountains
They would contain a little gold but the most was where the breciatted argalites contacts the quartz vein. which we crushed down to 1/4" we would definitely find more gold if it was crushed to a finer mesh (We just didn't have the tools when making this to crush it very fine). If we where actually trying to capture all gold it would be crushed to at least 200mesh minimum. Especially with the presence of sulfides some gold particles will be down to micron level so even finer.
Question... ~( 'w')/ If I have some stone which is jam packed full of vugs, does that mean that space was once full of sulfides? I ask because I got some hellafied hollow spongy looking quartzite stuff that looks just totally like blown foam it is so full of hollow spaces, but all that are in them now is red clay... This goes inland into the hillside somewhat, and might possibly lead to something more valuable, but I do not want to just go mad demolishing the place if its worthless.
@@911mining Its literally the edge of a cliff, overlaying some chert [or dolomite] underlaid with shale/limestone, so in reality, there is nothing downhill but black soil and other than one really large chunk of the stuff, just fractured shale/limestone. I dug up a sample from uphill of it and have some in sulfuric acid and some in just plain water [the sulfuric acid got hot but that might have just been soil moisture] and the acid turned the deep reddish brown material all bluish-gray except for a hint of something amber floating in solution.
Awesome video guys...thiis is unvalivable and probably best spot you guys tested so far...does a 30 degree vein tells you anything?was this place on top of a mountain?thanks
Argillite is a sedimentary rock which eventually grades into shale and schist through metamorphism. This is more like an argillite schist mix. The schists have "developed" where they contact other rock types.
I don't have any experience mining gold but it seems to me that shouldn't you crush the rocks up some to dislodge any gold that is sticking to the other minerals ? Then check it . Also saw lots of material sloshing out of the mini pan into the larger pan , bet there is some gold in that larger pan . Anyway you slice it that's a dream pan .
Probably this was just meant to show there's gold, wouldn't read to far into panning with an 8" pan. We actually kept all the material from this for an assay everything was re-mixed and sent in for analysis.
@@911mining Thanks for getting back to me . Gold mining has intrigued me my whole life . I look for gold when I buy storage lockers . About half have a little and every once in a while you score . I will take gold or silver over the fiat currency they print . But sadly most have no idea just how much we are lied to . There's a reason why China Russia and other countries are hoarding it . They know the bubble will burst and this next time will be the deliberately planned cause for WW3 or something like it . Let's pray it doesn't come to that .
It's not necessarily poorly explored, there has been claims over a ton of areas where we are in fact you look at Mineral titles online and previous tenures and theres been more staked than not but a lot are by lone prospectors who have no funds to do much of anything but general prospecting. With logging going like crazy everything around here is getting restaked. Because massive showings are being discovered. For instance we just staked a property today. The entire area of 15km square had been staked and held by a huge company who's revenue is around 75-100 million annually this was staked in 2009 they found little outcrop exposed it's all 3rd growth forest so without spending huge dollars for a chance there's something subsurface they keep what they can find and let other areas lapse and explore target areas, now logged in the last month, logging road building exposed 11 new exposures for us. Now we staked it and have potential to sell it back to them. In the end we both win because the renewal fees to keep such huge properties active each year or the amount of work needed to keep it active is more than they would have to pay us for an option or sale back to them. We have huge amounts of showings and past producing mines discovered where we are but every time an areas logged you find more and more. However some areas were just impossible to get to without logging building roads and where just never explored by old timers.
@@911mining Thanks for that detail; when you put it like that it makes perfect sense. I'd just always assumed that the USA and Canada would have thrashed the area when it was first discovered. My home state of Victoria has virtually no unsearched ground and the old timers were not averse to setting wildfires to clear up undergrowth to make it easier, Western Australia probably has almost no area that hasn't had a metal detector over it in the last 30 years and South Australia, where I live now is not minor exploration friendly, even remotely, (uncooperative geology combined with property law) and State law keeps it that way unless you discover Roxby Downs, Prominent Hill or the like. In situ acid leaching for Uranium in palaeo channels turned out to be an environmental disaster. By law I can prospect waterways and 3 metres to each side, farmers aggressively don't like respecting that law. EDIT: I'm a little embarrassed when you give me such comprehensive answers, I don't want to waste your time as much as I appreciate it.
Not a problem I haven't done to much awnsering to comments as I have been out in the field for 15 hour days the last 4 days so its wind down time and I like responding so not a problem. We have so many areas that used to be hard to get to but now with logging we have access to. I'm not sure how the terrain is over there but we have mountains everywhere and a lot of rugged terrain so honestly without our loggers as we would have way less discoveries here. The biggest bummer here is placer mining rules I can do just as much staking a mineral claim over a placer deposit as staking it as a placer claim. The placer mining is honestly almost limited to panning here because of watercourse "contamination" 🙄
Great vid ! nice returns from one small pan... I've been a good fan since you've started doing these vids...send me a message on LinkedIn... Marc R. ( Moses ) Goldenberg
Your making me sick Justin! All this really nice ore i got from Mike. Has no gold in it. Or metals for that matter. I used my metal detector on it and the pin pointer. I feel like yukon cornelius . Nothin.... : (
Most ores with sulfides arnt detectable with a detector as there not a solid element. For instance a hunk of native copper would go off like crazy but chalcopyrite copper - iron - sulfur because it's not pure metal won't. Picture taking all those elements and throwing them in a blender when your done it will be evenly mixed so there's not bug hunks of metal. This is why when you refine sulfides it needs to be crushed so fine to break each element apart so they can be separated. Sometimes you will have free elements with sulfides which would be picked up by the detector if big enough.
@@911mining And what is Galena? I have heard you say it many times. Never knew what it was. I'm talking about that stuff you told me about you take in the field. I tried it and stone had purple gray on areas. Did a bit of sizzling as well...
It's great to see you guys pan out some material. Great results from only 1.2 kilos of material. I'd really like to see you guys go through enough material to show us a big clean up with an ounce or two in the pan. I want my mind to be blown! 🤯🤯🤯
Much more informational about sulfides and sulfide bearing ore than others that do prospecting videos and that is why I only watch your videos now. I can literally spot out potential areas because of the massive amounts of information I've soaked from your videos, I really appreciate it!
😊👍
You have found some gold again. Hope to see you out there this spring. Thanks.
You guys channel is amazing. I love all the different spots you guys constantly find. Keep up the great work, and i agree with other comments Im looking at outcrops and old samples
ocks from my finds with a new set of eyes. Thanks!
WOW!!! Very nice gold!! Definitely go back in the spring. I really want to see more of that one. As always be safe out there
Thank you...is a learning experience for me...is nice that you always reply!!!
Wow! Fever inducing vuggy goodness! I would love to see that gold through a loop, I bet it is some very pretty stuff!Hint, hint :D I have taken photos with my phone through a loop.
WOW, it's amazing! Lots of color in this pan!
nice outcrop there with some nice gold in the pans, beauty. thanks for sharing as usual. :)
So I always wondered growing up how old timers used to find gold and pick where they were going to mine… but now I understand how where to dig is chosen.
Wow, very interesting. Your knowledge has me looking at rock now in a completely different way. So much to learn.
Same here! I never really cared about rock all that much. Now, I find myself looking all the time.
You should be a rock hound and work in a quarry. 😁 I got some good specimen of pyrite and calsite.
Another awesome video! Very informative.
Once again thanx for the detail, it helps us newbies a lot!
No problem!
Just out of a mini pan sample. I'd been lmao over that little pan showing me that much gold !!! I have one of those mini pans. It's rather useful for cleaning gold
Nice vein. Thanks for panning some gold for us at the end.
No problem.
Seems to me that sampling would go a lot more smoothly if you had a handheld blower you to get that snow off of it. There are some pretty good anomalies in that rock, I think! Yours truly,
Big Johnson Mining
Some of those hollow spongy pieces of quartz you showed looked very much like what is on my land, so I am hopeful that this means that in the near vicinity is some useful mineral.
Awesome video more knowledge great fantastic amount of gold sweet you can still see rocks with the snow u got. Lol I wish I could see some rocks out here lol thanks a lot guys be safe and warm now
I think you found your spot!
Nice showing on that pan
That claim definitely needs some more attention, very nice bit of geology there...how's the snow on the Island? We got hammered down here in Olympia, just now quit.
Yes it does when the snow melts. We filmed this and an hour later it started dumping down. We have had almost 50cm in the last 3 days. We are expecting 25cm more by tomorrow.
Nice pan for a small sample !
Very nice 👍.
Another great video, thx for sharing.
CR
Thank you my friend! Nice video nice information!
If the math I did on the yield is correct that’s about 42 grams or 1.3 ounces to the ton of ore body if it holds true. I would mine that all day long , nice find boys.
My math was different: 1000/1.23 = 813, 813 x 0.07 = 56.91gms/1000 Kg??
An assay of this vein was just over 64g/ton. When we crushed the ore we didnt go fine enough to capture everything in the video so recovery would be more if mining.
@@911mining Thanks for the response, it was a pretty spectacular sample; plus or minus a few pennyweights should be well within the margin for error for the technique demonstrated and the results. That samples assayed higher does not really surprise me; it is a nice find and you have a big outcrop with multiple zones of mineralization. As always, I love your work.
was there a follow up video to this? would you mind linking it somewhere if so? Thank you!
Purty damned good for scratching in the snow!!
Interesting site, next time your up show us a view of your area full of snow...
I found some of that vuggy quartz last summer on a scouting trip here in Alaska but in my case it came up empty on the free mill stuff. Some of the vugs had crystal pockets inside of dark black, tiny crystals. Not sure what that is.
Cool contact zones...that's one of the best examples yet.... even with a little snow. Wonder what it looks like today? Snow. :)
Oh yes we have had probably 40cm scince then and 25cm more to come tonight. Fun stuff!
I really enjoyed this video!
It would be great if you pointed at the parts of the Rock your describing
Nice gold!
How much gold is in the gravels that you pulled out? You should crush those and then pan again. Great educational video. Keep it up.
Probably some, most definitely if I had the right tools at the time generally we would want this to be 200 mesh or finer
You should sell paydirt from there😉👍
Great vid fella, very interesting, I wish there was more gold by me, mass of glacial till, but I wouldn't know where to start.
Was I imagining things, or were there tiny fine gold flakes floating on the water while you panned?
Most likely if you saw it it was a little mica. Gold can float but we didn't crush the material fine enough for this.
@@911mining Oh ok.
Thank you very very and so so much
i down load all videos from your channel
It is very useful
Although we do not know your face,but we know your huge work in geology
Your vedios are my quide in our mountains
I was wondering what you did with the rocks and stones you removed while panning. Do you crush them up later and re-pan them?
They would contain a little gold but the most was where the breciatted argalites contacts the quartz vein. which we crushed down to 1/4" we would definitely find more gold if it was crushed to a finer mesh (We just didn't have the tools when making this to crush it very fine). If we where actually trying to capture all gold it would be crushed to at least 200mesh minimum. Especially with the presence of sulfides some gold particles will be down to micron level so even finer.
Question... ~( 'w')/
If I have some stone which is jam packed full of vugs, does that mean that space was once full of sulfides?
I ask because I got some hellafied hollow spongy looking quartzite stuff that looks just totally like blown foam it is so full of hollow spaces, but all that are in them now is red clay...
This goes inland into the hillside somewhat, and might possibly lead to something more valuable, but I do not want to just go mad demolishing the place if its worthless.
A lot of times but it's not always sulfides could be other minerals. Try soil sampling or sampling float materials down from the outcrop.
@@911mining Its literally the edge of a cliff, overlaying some chert [or dolomite] underlaid with shale/limestone, so in reality, there is nothing downhill but black soil and other than one really large chunk of the stuff, just fractured shale/limestone.
I dug up a sample from uphill of it and have some in sulfuric acid and some in just plain water [the sulfuric acid got hot but that might have just been soil moisture] and the acid turned the deep reddish brown material all bluish-gray except for a hint of something amber floating in solution.
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Awesome video guys...thiis is unvalivable and probably best spot you guys tested so far...does a 30 degree vein tells you anything?was this place on top of a mountain?thanks
Yes fairly close to the top. In a road cut.
does argalite is petrified argile?
Argillite is a sedimentary rock which eventually grades into shale and schist through metamorphism. This is more like an argillite schist mix. The schists have "developed" where they contact other rock types.
I don't have any experience mining gold but it seems to me that shouldn't you crush the rocks up some to dislodge any gold that is sticking to the other minerals ? Then check it .
Also saw lots of material sloshing out of the mini pan into the larger pan , bet there is some gold in that larger pan . Anyway you slice it that's a dream pan .
Probably this was just meant to show there's gold, wouldn't read to far into panning with an 8" pan. We actually kept all the material from this for an assay everything was re-mixed and sent in for analysis.
@@911mining
Thanks for getting back to me . Gold mining has intrigued me my whole life . I look for gold when I buy storage lockers . About half have a little and every once in a while you score . I will take gold or silver over the fiat currency they print . But sadly most have no idea just how much we are lied to . There's a reason why China Russia and other countries are hoarding it . They know the bubble will burst and this next time will be the deliberately planned cause for WW3 or something like it . Let's pray it doesn't come to that .
I love it! Keep searching guys, ya'll are doing a great job.
Wow nice i see in may plays
good luck! like in Brazil
So where can I mine this
I'll show you where its at!
That’s some crazy shist right there. That shist is NUTS
That's a great spot. I'm pretty jealous!
It's a pretty amazing spot. Hoping or spring we can mine it a bunch of the vein by hand and run it through a high banker for a bigger test run.
Cool dude.. 1.67oz/T from your sample.. High banker heaven!
Bring it on!
PT
Yeah, I came up with 56 gm's per tonne also. I don't understand why the region is so poorly investigated/prospected.
It's not necessarily poorly explored, there has been claims over a ton of areas where we are in fact you look at Mineral titles online and previous tenures and theres been more staked than not but a lot are by lone prospectors who have no funds to do much of anything but general prospecting.
With logging going like crazy everything around here is getting restaked. Because massive showings are being discovered. For instance we just staked a property today. The entire area of 15km square had been staked and held by a huge company who's revenue is around 75-100 million annually this was staked in 2009 they found little outcrop exposed it's all 3rd growth forest so without spending huge dollars for a chance there's something subsurface they keep what they can find and let other areas lapse and explore target areas, now logged in the last month, logging road building exposed 11 new exposures for us. Now we staked it and have potential to sell it back to them. In the end we both win because the renewal fees to keep such huge properties active each year or the amount of work needed to keep it active is more than they would have to pay us for an option or sale back to them.
We have huge amounts of showings and past producing mines discovered where we are but every time an areas logged you find more and more. However some areas were just impossible to get to without logging building roads and where just never explored by old timers.
@@911mining Thanks for that detail; when you put it like that it makes perfect sense. I'd just always assumed that the USA and Canada would have thrashed the area when it was first discovered. My home state of Victoria has virtually no unsearched ground and the old timers were not averse to setting wildfires to clear up undergrowth to make it easier, Western Australia probably has almost no area that hasn't had a metal detector over it in the last 30 years and South Australia, where I live now is not minor exploration friendly, even remotely, (uncooperative geology combined with property law) and State law keeps it that way unless you discover Roxby Downs, Prominent Hill or the like. In situ acid leaching for Uranium in palaeo channels turned out to be an environmental disaster. By law I can prospect waterways and 3 metres to each side, farmers aggressively don't like respecting that law.
EDIT: I'm a little embarrassed when you give me such comprehensive answers, I don't want to waste your time as much as I appreciate it.
Not a problem I haven't done to much awnsering to comments as I have been out in the field for 15 hour days the last 4 days so its wind down time and I like responding so not a problem.
We have so many areas that used to be hard to get to but now with logging we have access to. I'm not sure how the terrain is over there but we have mountains everywhere and a lot of rugged terrain so honestly without our loggers as we would have way less discoveries here. The biggest bummer here is placer mining rules I can do just as much staking a mineral claim over a placer deposit as staking it as a placer claim. The placer mining is honestly almost limited to panning here because of watercourse "contamination" 🙄
nice
Go to mudfossil university. I think you've found a giant gold is certain to be found I want in!
Thank you 911
Great vid ! nice returns from one small pan... I've been a good fan since you've started doing these vids...send me a message on LinkedIn... Marc R. ( Moses ) Goldenberg
Your making me sick Justin! All this really nice ore i got from Mike. Has no gold in it. Or metals for that matter. I used my metal detector on it and the pin pointer. I feel like yukon cornelius . Nothin.... : (
Most ores with sulfides arnt detectable with a detector as there not a solid element. For instance a hunk of native copper would go off like crazy but chalcopyrite copper - iron - sulfur because it's not pure metal won't. Picture taking all those elements and throwing them in a blender when your done it will be evenly mixed so there's not bug hunks of metal. This is why when you refine sulfides it needs to be crushed so fine to break each element apart so they can be separated. Sometimes you will have free elements with sulfides which would be picked up by the detector if big enough.
@@911mining Thanks Justin. Your such a knowledgeable Dude. : ) Gonna try that field stuff you told me about next. Thanx bud.
A light purplish gray? Or an extreme purple?
Galena.
@@911mining And what is Galena? I have heard you say it many times. Never knew what it was. I'm talking about that stuff you told me about you take in the field. I tried it and stone had purple gray on areas. Did a bit of sizzling as well...
nice