I've been watching gold videos for years and this is the first time I've seen someone walk up to a mountain, identify and discuss a potential seam of gold bearing ore, drill, (blast), muck, crush the ore, separate, pan, melt and produce a chunk of gold.. .from start to finish! It was great to see the entire process. Thanks! Can't wait to see more.
would have liked to see you explaining the hole pattern you picked , delays used, charging the holes and then firing the round...... clean looking hanging wall ... nice looking button ....love it when they come out like that
@@Askjeffwilliams You know what Jeff, it's too bad TH-cam doesn't have the ability to create channels so we can watch stuff by category. You, Jason, Dan Hurd, Pioneer Pauly, VoGus, etc.
@@mbmmllc Hey Jason, was gonna say the same thing as Jeff. Would have loved to see that old Drill doing it's job, blowing the holes and seeing some mucking. I think it would bring a whole lot more viewers for sure. I watch other mine explorers, fun stuff to watch when you can't get in and do it yourself ;) Nice gold bead for sure!
@@butziporsche8646 I am a Patrion supporter of @Ask Jeff Williams and he does have some of this available to us on the Patrion end of things as well. plus multiple chance giveaway at gold nuggets he finds, if you guess the closest weight you get the nugget each month. @ a $10 a month pledge no one else comes close. So come on lets go!!!! Plus if you got a question you would like to ask Jeff you message him and get a decent honest reply. I never figured I would ever donate to Patrion for anyone but I like what Jeff stands for and contributes to the mining community.
To get the gold wrapped in the shop towel drier without tearing it surround it with the dry part of the shop towel moving it to another dry area regularly and gently squeezing. The dry towel sucks nearly all the moisture out of the little dollop of gold. I find it ironic that after all the blasting, and crushers, conveyors, separators, and other mechanical equipment it still comes down to the same technology uses for hundreds of years - a pan. This was really cool except for the part so many want to see - blasting solid rock to tiny bits. It was still a cool video.
Hey Jason! Good to see you getting back on some ground! Love your videos and information! Smelted my first gold button ever with your guidance! 31.5 grams brother!
The romans discovered that they could drill-chisel deep holes into large boulders and rock faces, leave them to fill with water and freeze over winter. By spring the water freeze and expansion would cause cracks n fractures along entire rock faces theyd bored into. I dont know if thatd be any good to do across exposed veins on your claim if youre drilling to blast anyway at some point? But blowing things up is too much fun to spoil lol. Is that a epithermal quartz deposit along a fault with a secondary deposit i assume taken place after maybe an earthquake has shifted the original fault? I wonder if the golds displacing copper in the sulfides as the mineral rich fluids pass through the quartz deposition. Thats a nice button btw good result!
Excellent content! You and Jeff Williams are showing us what it takes to build gold mines from scratch. A lot of us prospectors are interested in hard rock mining, not panning or sluicing. Thank you for taking the time.
Now this is interesting U-tube channel, I am former U/G hard rock stope mining electrician in Australia who can relate to what you are talking about, will be watching with enthusiasm how you progress, am now subscriber
I worked in a silver,lead, zinc mine, our stopes were massive approximately 100 meters in height,we had seams of quartz everywhere that carried fool's gold, sometimes copper and alluvial gold, gold was too minute to see and was only identified after milling process, seams of quartz ran through the silver lead zinc ore body, apparently it is all volcanic rock that the ore is found in, apparently our mine produced the purest form of silver in Australia or maybe the world ever mined called "Super Gene" at 96% or 99.6% pure silver (not sure which one it was),our ore body was a vertical ore body and the super gene sat on top of ore body like snow caps on the Swiss Alps,it looked like steel wool
Ore body was over a kilometer in height when I last worked there but the heat at that depth is too intense and is going to prevent mine going any deeper even with the assistance of ventilation
What ever happened on this mine? Great site and I follow everything you do but have never seen this operation anymore. Did I miss something or just never filmed anymore here?
Another great informative video by Jason. MBMM has excellent customer service and will take great care of you! Customer focused and their experience is world class.
When the hammer bounces like that it will Brad a steal, stick the Chuck and steal together and lose the water needle... I loved underground mining!! Thanks for sharing brother much love and respect from Colorado!!💪👊🍻
Seems you would have drill above the portal and drill down to a solid face just to see if it’s workable minerals. Plus it opens a bit more for staging at the portal, then clear away all that over burden. Then you can work directions on the face. Just me put nose in it!! You no what your doing!!!👍👍👍
I see you going to old mines climbing up hills good for reminding me I'm not going to do anything like that . Today not for older kids like me.Good stuff it's educational knowing what to do see it cool thanks 👍
I always learn something new watching your approach to processing and refining. In reading through the other comments I noticed others wanting to see the bang go off, I missed seeing it too.
Watching the bang go off is a risk to camera equipment and to the memory card. Shock waves will or may damage your gear, something most TH-cam vids don't talk about
That rainbow colored spot on the outside of the door. Is that do to the splatter from prior bakes building up on the inside? The build up looked rather thick to me and the sort showed me exactly where to look inside.?
Adding bismuth to oxidize it? That's certainly interesting, makes sense for free-milling ores. Our ore has enough sulfides to supply its own lead for cupellation, though a respirator is advisable!
How does one match the compressor to the pneumatic drill. I am thinking of buying the two but have no idea of what to consider when buying. its for artisanal mining
Jason, Your channel is one of the "only" YT mineral prospecting subscriptions that present the industry knowledge/information in a logical/methodical understandable format that is thorough. As a fellow WC, Maple Falls neighbor, I’m hoping our mining paths cross/meet in the Future. Wishing you and your team much Success!
Wow. You sure take this stuff seriously! :)) That's one hell of a home setup. Very interesting. You do that full time, for a living? I can't help wondering how you ever make any real profit off of it though? Just seems like awhole lot of labour and overhead with all that equipment and operating costs and everything.... for what seems like a very minimal amount of gold no? Though I assume it pulls alot more once you get into some rich ore and whatnot? You're aloud to blast and dig deep tunnels and shafts etc to get at all that ore there? Much red tape? I've got some private lands which I prospect abit and proving very gold rich (just between us) including some rich gold bearing reefs I've discovered only slightly (and fairly freshly) exposed. And messed around abit mining out and crushing abit of the ore from relatively shallow depths. Mainly quartz with obviously some leaching and oxidation etc but certainly very visible gold in it before even bother crushing. Which has netted some nice, and quite chunky, gold for a casual. A setup like that however, and some of that blasting and digging equipment, well as even part of your know-how, would probably be quite lucrative there though haha.... I assume the ore/reefs would only get more rich as it goes down abit, but I no expert. From what I hear though it'd be awhole lot of red tape and tax and scrutiny etc if I we're to try scaling it up much. Well as I don't want to lose my land or have to fight off the fatcat jackals from it (more) as here the government and the people/big companies in their ear can and often do take peoples private land and homes away, forcibly even, if they find out there's too much profitable mineral wealth hiding amongst it! Anyway it'd be nice to see what I could pull out of it sometime and to have a system like that to do so. )) Thinking of hiring some people with the skills and know how to see what'd it'd take and how far I could push it but... for now I'll probably stick to Detecting and/or working some of the very nice alluvial treasures within on a small time casual noob type basis. Videos like this kinda make it hard to keep my interest in check though. (Especially if or when you're on the big gold. :)
That was the most informative and interesting video I have seen on the beginnings of a mine. I’ve never before seen anyone so and explain this before. Awesome job bringing us from the exploration to discovery blasting and explaining we’re and how to start the portal and going all the way through to the refining. Thank you so much
You can't show explosions or explosives on TH-cam or you get demonitized. Same for guns and shooting, violence. And a host of other things. This platform runs on advertisements, and advertisers don't want thier companies or brands associated with or endorsing anything like that
Old mining equipment can be found abandoned all over the west. I am curious if now is their a requirement to clean up and restore the landscape after the mining operation ceases to operate?
these videos from start to finish are so good to watch :) full of useful information :) and great to see the button of gold at the end :) nice job Jason :)
have you done an assay on that Gold ore to the left and right of the quartz? ITs my understanding in research that the copper / gold / nickel / palladium ore is where the big assay is. Or maybe thats my misunderstanding, as I am still learning this. If an when you do test that, please let me know your flux recipie, cause I've been at it for a while and geesh I'm getting frusttrated with the thickness and the required amount of heat and fuel needed.
Gotta say that's pretty badass to be checking your own ore instead of someone else's for a change. Next time we wanna see the blasting footage! Let us know and I'm sure we'll chip in for a disposable go-pro, I know I will!
I put a gas powered pressure washer about halfway between my pump and the drill it really helps with the water pressure. You just need the right fittings and your good as gold. 😂
I saw a block of sal ammonia. What do you use that for? Also what is your host rock? Very intresting video. I hope you find a really rich vein. Mabe at the bend?
I've been watching gold videos for years and this is the first time I've seen someone walk up to a mountain, identify and discuss a potential seam of gold bearing ore, drill, (blast), muck, crush the ore, separate, pan, melt and produce a chunk of gold.. .from start to finish! It was great to see the entire process. Thanks! Can't wait to see more.
Yeah, this is so awesome!
@SubvertedWorld Ditto!
Ya , just like you said . Good job guys. Nice equipment
Perfect lmformitve. video.
I agree! Facinating! A whole lot of work!
Keep it up. Between you and Sreetips I get so much satisfaction watching.👍
Me too bro!! Two of my favorite content creators!!
Thank you for making a very informative video on mining and processing gold, yours is the very best i have ever seen.
Can we see the boom next time, please?
would have liked to see you explaining the hole pattern you picked , delays used, charging the holes and then firing the round...... clean looking hanging wall ... nice looking button ....love it when they come out like that
Thanks Jeff! Next time more info. Can't give it away all at once! :)
@@mbmmllc good point .... really love what your doing with this new portal and potential adit
@@Askjeffwilliams You know what Jeff, it's too bad TH-cam doesn't have the ability to create channels so we can watch stuff by category. You, Jason, Dan Hurd, Pioneer Pauly, VoGus, etc.
@@mbmmllc Hey Jason, was gonna say the same thing as Jeff. Would have loved to see that old Drill doing it's job, blowing the holes and seeing some mucking. I think it would bring a whole lot more viewers for sure. I watch other mine explorers, fun stuff to watch when you can't get in and do it yourself ;) Nice gold bead for sure!
@@butziporsche8646 I am a Patrion supporter of @Ask Jeff Williams and he does have some of this available to us on the Patrion end of things as well. plus multiple chance giveaway at gold nuggets he finds, if you guess the closest weight you get the nugget each month. @ a $10 a month pledge no one else comes close. So come on lets go!!!! Plus if you got a question you would like to ask Jeff you message him and get a decent honest reply. I never figured I would ever donate to Patrion for anyone but I like what Jeff stands for and contributes to the mining community.
To get the gold wrapped in the shop towel drier without tearing it surround it with the dry part of the shop towel moving it to another dry area regularly and gently squeezing. The dry towel sucks nearly all the moisture out of the little dollop of gold. I find it ironic that after all the blasting, and crushers, conveyors, separators, and other mechanical equipment it still comes down to the same technology uses for hundreds of years - a pan. This was really cool except for the part so many want to see - blasting solid rock to tiny bits. It was still a cool video.
Hey Jason! Good to see you getting back on some ground! Love your videos and information! Smelted my first gold button ever with your guidance! 31.5 grams brother!
that's amazing, congrats!
That's awesome! Congrats!
The romans discovered that they could drill-chisel deep holes into large boulders and rock faces, leave them to fill with water and freeze over winter. By spring the water freeze and expansion would cause cracks n fractures along entire rock faces theyd bored into. I dont know if thatd be any good to do across exposed veins on your claim if youre drilling to blast anyway at some point? But blowing things up is too much fun to spoil lol. Is that a epithermal quartz deposit along a fault with a secondary deposit i assume taken place after maybe an earthquake has shifted the original fault? I wonder if the golds displacing copper in the sulfides as the mineral rich fluids pass through the quartz deposition.
Thats a nice button btw good result!
I love this! I could watch you and those machines work all day long. And I do while I'm panning in the house. Great video!
How does the gold leach out of the rock though? Its a metal and no heat was applied since it was formed.
Did a lot of drilling and blasting for my dad in construction during the 80s .
Question.. When you pull the Cupel out of the furnace how long do you have to wait before you can remove the button safely??
Excellent content! You and Jeff Williams are showing us what it takes to build gold mines from scratch. A lot of us prospectors are interested in hard rock mining, not panning or sluicing. Thank you for taking the time.
I watch both of them as well great channels. But I also realize it doesn't seem with it for the amount of work unless you get lucky
The best explanation of the process on the net. Thank you!
The location is great bro, greetings to Indonesian miners
Now this is interesting U-tube channel, I am former U/G hard rock stope mining electrician in Australia who can relate to what you are talking about, will be watching with enthusiasm how you progress, am now subscriber
I worked in a silver,lead, zinc mine, our stopes were massive approximately 100 meters in height,we had seams of quartz everywhere that carried fool's gold, sometimes copper and alluvial gold, gold was too minute to see and was only identified after milling process, seams of quartz ran through the silver lead zinc ore body, apparently it is all volcanic rock that the ore is found in, apparently our mine produced the purest form of silver in Australia or maybe the world ever mined called "Super Gene" at 96% or 99.6% pure silver (not sure which one it was),our ore body was a vertical ore body and the super gene sat on top of ore body like snow caps on the Swiss Alps,it looked like steel wool
Ore body was over a kilometer in height when I last worked there but the heat at that depth is too intense and is going to prevent mine going any deeper even with the assistance of ventilation
The terrain lookslike you are up the Skagit or Baker river?
One of the few end-to-end videos of this process. Thanks.
Wish we could have saw the 💥.. 🍻👍
Dam freaking awesome
Great job! A wealth of info .enjoyed
I wonder how much it cost to set up the processing plant
He owns the company that makes the whole processing equipment. They have a nice website with prices
That's awesome job I'm impressed. Excellent Job.
Can’t believe you didn’t show the explosion. Fantastic work, no one else has documented this type of mining work that I could see on TH-cam
When water is short… have respirators ready. I wouldn’t risk any exposure.
Lets watch some mining, to much other stuff the mining and finding gold is much more fun to watch.
What ever happened on this mine? Great site and I follow everything you do but have never seen this operation anymore. Did I miss something or just never filmed anymore here?
Great upload. Can’t wait to see the mine development. Thankyou
Another great informative video by Jason. MBMM has excellent customer service and will take great care of you! Customer focused and their experience is world class.
The rock looked like schist but the advance rate on the drill looked like it was pretty hard rock. How tough is the country rock?
Its a super hard silicified metamorphosed schist. Hard to drill in for sure. I need to get some water and change the seals on my leg too
I love what you are doing! Great job, keep pumping out the vids!
Man I've watched for 25 mins I think I learned more than 100 hours of random hard rock video watching
When the hammer bounces like that it will Brad a steal, stick the Chuck and steal together and lose the water needle... I loved underground mining!! Thanks for sharing brother much love and respect from Colorado!!💪👊🍻
no.... get some water
@@aaronkeeth651 , what are you doing these days Aaron?
Fascinating.
great video, thanks for sharing.
I like that you showed the process through the crushing machines 🙂
Fascinating! Nice job with the play by play! 👍
Wow - those machines are clearly dialed in
Sweet! Nice to see ya back. Love that shiny
That's how to get it done fam. Gold squad out!!!
Hey really like all yer gold rigs!!! Thanks for sharing this
Seems you would have drill above the portal and drill down to a solid face just to see if it’s workable minerals. Plus it opens a bit more for staging at the portal, then clear away all that over burden. Then you can work directions on the face. Just me put nose in it!! You no what your doing!!!👍👍👍
Sorry for writing you, just out of curiosity your page come up on my suggested friend lists so I was just wondering if I knew you from somewhere??
Clean water would help with your recovery
I see you going to old mines climbing up hills good for reminding me I'm not going to do anything like that . Today not for older kids like me.Good stuff it's educational knowing what to do see it cool thanks 👍
Very Nice 👍
Where did the bismuth go?
Interesting , hope you find many more places to get gold, thanks for video and best of luck 👍
Dude you got it down. Great camera work, and narrating 👍👍
No flux in the cupel with your sample?
I love this job
I always learn something new watching your approach to processing and refining.
In reading through the other comments I noticed others wanting to see the bang go off, I missed seeing it too.
Watching the bang go off is a risk to camera equipment and to the memory card. Shock waves will or may damage your gear, something most TH-cam vids don't talk about
@@bonks4395 I work in mining and every single blast here is filmed doesn’t hurt the camera at all
That rainbow colored spot on the outside of the door. Is that do to the splatter from prior bakes building up on the inside? The build up looked rather thick to me and the sort showed me exactly where to look inside.?
What months are your seasons that you can work your claim???
I can't believe you guy didn't show us how you load the holes, and I really can't believe you didn't film the blast!
I'm sure youtube would have objected to that.
@@stanburton6224 Naw... several miners on TH-cam film their blasting...
There was probably no where within safe distance to prevent damage to the camera.
Excellent video showing the promise of some hard rock mining. Thanks for sharing. Subbed!
Adding bismuth to oxidize it? That's certainly interesting, makes sense for free-milling ores. Our ore has enough sulfides to supply its own lead for cupellation, though a respirator is advisable!
How does one match the compressor to the pneumatic drill. I am thinking of buying the two but have no idea of what to consider when buying. its for artisanal mining
Great video, thanks for the introduction to using bismuth.
Excellent
Jason, Your channel is one of the "only" YT mineral prospecting subscriptions that present the industry knowledge/information in a logical/methodical understandable format that is thorough.
As a fellow WC, Maple Falls neighbor, I’m hoping our mining paths cross/meet in the Future. Wishing you and your team much Success!
Where is the location? Is this project listed on venture?
Would love to see more details on processing the concentrates, can’t wait to see what you find further in…
Wow. You sure take this stuff seriously! :))
That's one hell of a home setup.
Very interesting.
You do that full time, for a living?
I can't help wondering how you ever make any real profit off of it though? Just seems like awhole lot of labour and overhead with all that equipment and operating costs and everything.... for what seems like a very minimal amount of gold no?
Though I assume it pulls alot more once you get into some rich ore and whatnot?
You're aloud to blast and dig deep tunnels and shafts etc to get at all that ore there? Much red tape?
I've got some private lands which I prospect abit and proving very gold rich (just between us) including some rich gold bearing reefs I've discovered only slightly (and fairly freshly) exposed. And messed around abit mining out and crushing abit of the ore from relatively shallow depths. Mainly quartz with obviously some leaching and oxidation etc but certainly very visible gold in it before even bother crushing. Which has netted some nice, and quite chunky, gold for a casual. A setup like that however, and some of that blasting and digging equipment, well as even part of your know-how, would probably be quite lucrative there though haha.... I assume the ore/reefs would only get more rich as it goes down abit, but I no expert.
From what I hear though it'd be awhole lot of red tape and tax and scrutiny etc if I we're to try scaling it up much.
Well as I don't want to lose my land or have to fight off the fatcat jackals from it (more) as here the government and the people/big companies in their ear can and often do take peoples private land and homes away, forcibly even, if they find out there's too much profitable mineral wealth hiding amongst it!
Anyway it'd be nice to see what I could pull out of it sometime and to have a system like that to do so. ))
Thinking of hiring some people with the skills and know how to see what'd it'd take and how far I could push it but... for now I'll probably stick to Detecting and/or working some of the very nice alluvial treasures within on a small time casual noob type basis.
Videos like this kinda make it hard to keep my interest in check though.
(Especially if or when you're on the big gold. :)
So what you saying is there is gold in them thar hills !!!!
Look like Parker off gold rush
Great to see back at it, was wonder if all was good, great videos keep them coming.
That was the most informative and interesting video I have seen on the beginnings of a mine. I’ve never before seen anyone so and explain this before. Awesome job bringing us from the exploration to discovery blasting and explaining we’re and how to start the portal and going all the way through to the refining. Thank you so much
Nice,, fans from Indonesia
Here's hoping that the vein gets even richer as you get into the hill!!!!
Where's the blast? I need some explosives going off! Great vid!
You can't show explosions or explosives on TH-cam or you get demonitized. Same for guns and shooting, violence. And a host of other things. This platform runs on advertisements, and advertisers don't want thier companies or brands associated with or endorsing anything like that
TH-cam/ Google & their censorship SUCK!
@@catch22frubert how about a red and black clad dirt biker .. running through their.. yelling runnnnnnn
@@catch22frubert snowflake season XD
It truly is a mad mad world
Thank you, love your videos and hard work.
Why didn't you drill down the seam, vein and sample the cuttings?
What is the cost difference between the lead and bismuth ?
about 5 times
Old mining equipment can be found abandoned all over the west. I am curious if now is their a requirement to clean up and restore the landscape after the mining operation ceases to operate?
Very interesting
Small scale mining without using any nasty chemical's. Way to go 👍
these videos from start to finish are so good to watch :) full of useful information :) and great to see the button of gold at the end :) nice job Jason :)
Please make more of these videos! There so hard to find good videos of small scale hard rock!
Cool video
Nicely done video. Decent grade for that width. Not Bonanza grade, but probably doable.
Yeah, I'm a small show so low overhead, but that also means I can't make a lot of tonnage either :)
That's a little over 14 grams per ton. Very high grade 👌
What kind of rock is the quartz vein in?
Nice set up! You mudt have quite a large investment in processing tools!
Do you ever do a test and see how many salamanders are in that area. They live in places next to quartz veins and are critically endangered
Sorry for writing you, just out of curiosity your page come up on my suggested friend lists so I was just wondering if I knew you from somewhere??
have you done an assay on that Gold ore to the left and right of the quartz? ITs my understanding in research that the copper / gold / nickel / palladium ore is where the big assay is. Or maybe thats my misunderstanding, as I am still learning this. If an when you do test that, please let me know your flux recipie, cause I've been at it for a while and geesh I'm getting frusttrated with the thickness and the required amount of heat and fuel needed.
Gotta say that's pretty badass to be checking your own ore instead of someone else's for a change. Next time we wanna see the blasting footage! Let us know and I'm sure we'll chip in for a disposable go-pro, I know I will!
I second that notion Mr. PP!
Very interesting and educational. Excellent video.
I put a gas powered pressure washer about halfway between my pump and the drill it really helps with the water pressure. You just need the right fittings and your good as gold. 😂
Mining just straight out intrigues me... it looks like such a horrible job... and the tunnels through rock they create is just amazing!
Nice work, thanks for thoses videos, love your tools, you are awesome !
That's an amazing setup. Cracking video 👍🏻⚒🏴
We are missing you jason
thx for doing this. Very informative. Are there more videos concerning this mine?
9:52 would a sacrificial wear plate be a useful and effective upgrade where the material strikes?
back breaking stuff with that air drill
like to see the blast next time?
Ex Artillery, 5.5 inch Guns.
I saw a block of sal ammonia. What do you use that for? Also what is your host rock? Very intresting video. I hope you find a really rich vein. Mabe at the bend?
I truly appreciate these mining videos
Wow! Keep us up to date on your progress. Great video.
Where has it leeched to then I'd try an find that trail
Over millions of years? the same place it all leeches to, bed rock or the bottom of the ocean
@@gh0st_0f_b0b_chandler it's possible to mine it then ..