on today's video I have a crazy gold prospecting
adventure for you it took 2 years and over $4,000 this all started with a friend who gave me a map
to a lost gold vein I found it we prospected it and I was crazy enough to rent a helicopter and
fly some more off the mountain get it processed down and pour gold bars let's see if I strike it
rich or if I break my pick hey everyone my name is Jason with M Baker mining medals and on today's
video we're going on a little prospecting treasure hunting Adventure I got a tip from a friend that
there's uh kind of a lost mine up here he marked it for me on a map and I couldn't find it on any
of the USGS maps or anything but he said that if I can get to where the vein outc crop is it's
pretty rich and it gave me a few tips I want to look for so right now we're on our way up and
there's not really a trail to follow I'm just kind of bushwacking my way up through you know
this stuff behind me but uh one of the first things I'm going to look for is uh is some float
there's supposed to be uh kind of a big Talis slope underneath and he said that if you can start
finding uh quartz float on the Talis then you're probably getting in the right direction it's just
Cliffy steep Rocky crap I've taken a few different uh false false Trails I guess where you go up
and you get cliffed out and it's just it's just really tough going um but I haven't I haven't
found any float yet we're getting pretty close to where uh to where this place is supposed
to be I don't know the tenacity of these old guys I mean there's you know there's no Trails
there's no indication of anything up here and they were just these oldtimers were just out here
bushwacking through the Wilderness hoping to find some gold and I even have a map I mean I I kind
of know I know where I'm supposed to go and I'm still having trouble finding it so um yeah just
these guys were these guys are tough made it up into this little clearing and there's a little
stream running through here but uh let's see if I can get this look what I look what I found see
that right there that is a nice chunk of quartz float okay this is this is what's exciting this is
what the old guys were looking for this is uh like I said a piece of quartz float and Float is um a
piece of the vein or the outcrop that is broken off and rolled down the hill and this is what the
old guys would follow up the hill uh to the mother load essentially where the the vein outcrops and
is still in the Rock I don't see anything really fantastic in this one uh but that is certainly a
piece of Anin quartz looks really nice pretty big so you know the veins at least a foot wide I'd say
but this is our first indication here that we're on to something and actually now that I'm looking
around there's another piece right there there's a little piece there couple more little pieces
back up in here so we're uh we're getting we're getting on the on the trail here that's a pretty
good piece I might break this one open and take a look it's hard stuff I'll tell
you that all right so what I'm looking for here is any any sort
of mineralization any sulfides uh or some other indicator mineral in here often
times the gold or the the precious metals will hang out with other indicator minerals like you
know pyite or ptite Galina um I don't see a whole lot of stuff in this one but this could have been
laying out here for a thousand years you know and all that stuff could have been leeched out it gets
weathered and and uh you know here it's real wet gets rained on all the time um and they oxidize
out but man that's a that's a good find there I'm pretty excited now so what I'm going to do is
I'm just going to follow this I'm just going to go uphill from here this stuff came from up above
me so we'll just keep on going and see what we can find one of the nicest things about all
the rain is I've got lots of water to drink well there's there's uphill from me and
there's snow guess got pretty cold last night and hopefully I don't get into any of that
because if I'm looking for White Rock in the snow that's going to be pretty good challenge oh
look at here a little bit of Nature's Bounty huh blueberries oh they're ah they're real Sour I think they've been froze on too
so they're kind of going going mushy oh yeah those are those aren't real great okay we're hold on let me catch my breath
okay so we're up above the tree line now you can see it's just rocks and Talis and stuff behind
me there but uh I found this here this little guy little piece of float another piece of float so
that's a good sign uh we're getting pretty close we got to be because I'm running out of walking
area I don't have I mean there's only there's Cliffs a couple hundred feet above me so this
this is on the map where it says it's supposed to be um and we got some float so it's it's got to
be above me somewhere all right guys we found it a jackpot right here so I can do this in Reverse
is the vein going right up there right up around where uhoh losing it there we go right around that
corner it's a nice white CT stain it's uh I don't know anywhere from 1 to two feet and uh it comes
down here I don't know if can you see that right here all up up there all that quartz and I just
I followed the I followed the float uphill and uh it led me right to the vein all right so we
found our out crop and one of the first things that I like to do well the tendency is to just
start hammering away on the vein and and do a lot of hard work uh but what I like to do is there
there's plenty of stuff just laying around that has naturally falling off the vein and it's it's
the same stuff so uh a lot of times the surface is weathered it's brown you can't see anything
but one of the first things I like to do when I come and Prospect a vein is to just take some
of the float that's real close up near the vein and just break it open and see see what it looks
like um we're in a a little bit of a precarious spot here there's a there's a cliff right here
on the left side of me and uh you know it goes way up on the right side as well so I'm kind of
perched here on this little shelf um but as long as it don't fall off we should be fine so I'm
just going to start I got my three PB hammer or 5B hammer and I just start breaking stuff open
and and starting to look it uh it really helps if you can get it wet I know a lot of places
don't have water sitting around um but blowing off the surface always helps me and again like
what we saw down below what I'm looking for is uh some some kind of indicator mineral um if
I can if I can see gold sitting right on the on the surface that'd be awesome um but what
I'm really looking for is some sort of sulfide mineral something shiny something shiny that I
can get excited about um and hopefully it hasn't been sitting here in the weather too long to uh
oxidize all those those minerals away but I'm just going to start working this this vein here a
littleit bit and see what we can find well the the filming location here is a little bit difficult
um but here's our here's our vein and I I wanted to point out something on this spot because uh
when I'm high-grading or when I'm prospecting the first thing I look for is the indicator
minerals but then the other thing is even though the gold is associated with this vein it doesn't
mean the gold spread evenly out throughout the vein and almost most universally there are some
real highgrade zones within the vein itself and so if you can identify the highgrade areas and
not have to worry about you know breaking out the whole vein um that that is really to your
advantage and so I'm looking at this vein here and I see you know and and you kind of got to use
your imagination a little bit but foot walls down here hanging walls up here and there's there's
this band of quartz then there's this band of quartz and then there's another little band
right here along the hanging wall and it kind of comes over here you can see it it's kind of
maybe kind of hard to see but I'm going to look at those three different bands and try and break
away some of the quarts from those three different areas and if I can find you know an indicator
mineral or even some gold in one of those areas and not in the other two I'm going to I'm going
to laser focus on that one zone and uh because I got you know real limited time real limited um uh
tools and stuff so I want to I want to make the most bang for my buck so let me see if I can set
the camera up here and see if I can get get some of this stuff out but um as you can see you know
there's I'm I'm kind of hanging out over nothing here so um I'll I'll try and get the shot as
best I can I haven't found anything in the float yet here is the quartz I just broke out of
there and see how it's kind of rusty it's got rust stains on it it's got um that's that's better
looking stuff than the stuff that I was Finding on the on the surface and as float so this is just
you know there's a ton of it around it's just white white quartz whereas this stuff is a little
bit more iron stained a little rustier so this is this is what I'm talking about when I'm talking
about indicator stuff and it seems to me that my eyes aren't as good as they once were so it's
a little bit harder to pick out what I'm looking for uh I don't wear glasses yet but apparently
I might be shortly um but let me get this stuff kind of broken up washed off and um we're kind
of in a good Zone here with the mineralization in this in this little band I'm working I'm focusing
right here on the hanging wall because it looks like that's where most of the see that the dark
kind of dark reddish brown stuff but this lower band here is just it's just white quartz there's
nothing there's nothing exciting in it there's no mineralization it's just white fairly boring
as far as the minerology is concerned all right I'm working on getting this big chunk out here
I've been striking out up here on the hanging wall so if I can get this big old chunk out I
can get a full crosssection of the vein and we can look through the the crosssection
of the vein but first I got to get it out all right well we're we're chunking out piece
by piece here I guess I think oh yeah here we go okay now we can actually take a look at pretty
much the whole cross-section of the vein and see what we got here okay let me get you oriented
here we took this rock from there and this this face went up there so here's the hanging wall up
here foot wall down here and uh you know you can see there's there's a section of vein I don't know
a zone or an area where from the hanging wall down to about here it looks like there's a Zone and
then there's maybe all the way through or maybe it separates here um but this is the foot wall down
here and earlier I was talking about the hanging wall look good and there was that section um but
now down here the foot wall is looking pretty interesting I haven't been able to get to the foot
wall before um so let's uh let's work on this area here okay guys jackpot found some see if I can
show you it's right right down there there see it Flash oh yeah we're in the gold now so
this is this is the foot wall right here and that gold is right I mean an inch less
than an inch from the the wall so um I got it right from Down Under here on our big rock
and so I'm going to start concentrating right here along the foot wall I'm going to pry
this big one out over here and I'm just going to work work this little band on the
foot wall here pretty good all right guys pretty exciting stuff here can you see that
big gold chunk sitting right there on the corner big old yellow piece sticking out there
there you go and I can kind of see it look at there and this is a really good example you
know there's the gold and then there's this gray sulfide probably pyate right there with
it so that is a nice little piece and again it came off the same spot about about half an inch
from the foot wall so we found our our Rich Zone in the vein or or a rich Zone and I was just
looking at this piece some more here's that piece I just showed you with the gold here in
the corner um but if you turn it over there's a piece of gold right there at my thumb see
it flash it's all it's all dirty but there's gold there might even be some more gold right
there too so this this spot is really really rich I you when you can find free gold just
by knocking the quartz off this is this is a really good spot well don't hit your hand it
hurts but we're breaking our Rock up here and we're getting some really good stuff there's a
there's a section down here I don't know if you can see there there's a piece of gold sticking
out of the bottom of the Rock right there some in here so I'm working I'm working on this this
corner here see if I can get that exposed a little bit anything in here we're up above
the foot wall quite a ways now in this section and I don't see much
anything exciting so I'm going to let this little piece go or put it back
over there or something oh there it [Music] goes it seems like this real white
bull quartz stuff just doesn't have anything in it there's a few little vugs and stuff
little pockets of crystals but I don't see any really anything exciting in those I really
want to stay down here by the foot wall and uh so let's see if we can get this little chunk off
whoa okay don't don't go over don't go over the hill so I break this guy up in smaller pieces oh yeah there's some this piece is loaded here it's got It's
got gold all the way through here around this side and then on this fresh face there's gold up
in here even yeah that's a good piece throw that in the bucket we got other big rock here I'm
working along again that couple inches right above the the uh foot wall there and I mean
almost every Rock has gold in it it's just amazing it's it's I mean I break One open and
I'll see a little bit on the face this is this is a pretty nice little piece here I don't
but I mean it is all laced through there and you know like at this rock I broke open and
there's there's gold in this half and then on the other half of the rock there was gold
too so you know it's it's going through this one pretty good and then when I broke it open see
all that shiny stuff in there holy cow it's just loaded with gold all around that little pocket
of black stuff and it's on it's on both sides it's just it's just loaded with gold so I'm
I'm in the right spot I'll have to take this back and Crush some of the stuff up see if we
can get some more gold out of it than just what we can see on the surface well we got our big
rock busted apart right along here foot wall good stuff right here and then junk above
it everything above it junk and same thing here you kind of got a line in the quartz and
everything from there down to the foot wall seems to be pretty good has a lot of gold in it
and everything above it junk all right so let me try this I'm going to try and break the the
good stuff on the bottom off the junk stuff on the top see if I can film it and Hammer and
not fall off the cliff all at the same time that kind of worked got some separation there let's see what's in here so this is where
the gold will be is in that piece so we'll save that up there with our good pieces right here's
the spot we've been working I'm going to work my way down along here on the foot wall as well
and one of the important things when you're prospecting and stuff like this is you know don't
get too hung up on getting in one spot and trying to find a bunch of gold and stuff for me I mean
yeah I found some some gold over here I I got a good little spot there that I found some but I
want to I want to keep moving along and see if I can find some other stuff or you know maybe
I'm going to start looking in the hanging wall a little bit more here so um we're just going
to keep moving along here and keep looking we got a pile of rocks here I'm going to take back
with me I got all the stuff in my hat and uh so we'll have a a pretty nice little take with us
all right guys well that wraps up for me today the Shadows are getting long and it was a long
hike up here and even uh uh it's going to be a longer hike back cuz I got a pack full of rocks
now I have uh the sample here behind me of the quartz that I ended up getting so the first thing
we got to do here is I got our ore in the bucket and we're going to take a weight on it the blue
bucket weighs 2 lb so we have 26 lb of ore to start with so next thing we're going to do is
we're going to run them down this little 4 in by 6 in laboratory jaw Crusher it crushes down
to about I don't know 1/4 inch 38 minus I know there's a lot of free gold in here and a lot of
some some really nice maybe specimen stuff so I'm going to crush it into the drawer spread it out on
the table and see if we can find anything that's that's really good high-grade stuff that we can
take out as samples and then the rest will deal with some other way all right so now what I want
to do is I'm just going to screen him through a/ quarter inch screen I don't want to get all the
dust and all the junk out of there there now now we can have our nice clean quartz we can kind
of pick through on the table and get a look at it so there's the stuff we're going to
pick through and there's kind of the fine stuff we'll just crush up and
run through our table or a pan or something now in that other video I had some
pretty nice [Music] specimens and they all went through the crusher so all the gold that
I found up there all those pieces are in here somewhere well this is kind of daunting here
it's kind of like a three-dimensional puzzle I want to look at all the sides I got a lot of
volume to look through here this is like the 10th Rock I picked up and right there a little
piece of gold sticking out of the corner of it so hopefully I can find more of that stuff
all right guys I've handpicked through some of the stuff well most of it I didn't really know
what to expect but I'm disappointed there's not more visible gold in here when I was up there in
the hill and you know breaking open rocks and I was figuring you know a rock this big that had a
little bit gold in the corner there there would be a lot more inside that rock and so once I
broke it down to this smaller size and had a lot more surface area to look at I'd see a lot
more gold and that's really just not the case I picked out a few little rocks here that have
some gold on them but I was hoping to get you know some big pieces some nice specimen pieces
of gold out of here uh which I didn't so here's a few pieces I did find there's some gold there
a little bit of gold there little bit of gold on that corner some of it's hanging around with
this this gray uh mineral here and some of it's just sticking out of the white quartz like like
that piece and you know this is this is probably the best piece I found as far as size um but you
can see I mean the just the huge volume of rock I have and it's just you know I was hoping for
for a little bit better um but let's get this over and we'll crush it up and see what we can
pan out of it so one thing I just was thinking about while I was getting ready to pack the
corser stuff up is there may be some gold or a lot of gold that actually broke out of The Rock
when I crushed it and is in this fine stuff this is the quarter inch minus stuff um so I mean you
know obviously some may have gotten knocked out of here but but not all of it they're still if
this rock was really really rich you'd expect to see quite a bit of gold in the rocks um in
the corer stuff so anyway just hope just hoping against hope that I can get a little more gold
than what I see in the Rocks there here's a piece that I took to one of my friends with a rocksaw
and this is one of the higher grade pieces that I had but if I think I can get this if I if
I get it just right in the light you can see all the gold so little specks of gold maybe it's
better to do it like this but all that all that reflective stuff you're seeing there is all
little pieces of gold here is our little vibrating tube mill we're going to use and
this is just literally a steel tube that's I don't know about 3 ft long maybe one foot
wide you can see the inside of it there and these are the steel balls we use and so what
I'm going to do is I'm going to get the steel balls loaded into this chamber and then I'll
close this plate I'll add the ore in down the top here and turn it on and just let it go this
this one right now is set up as a closed system so I'm just going to turn it on it's going to
shake for a while and then I'll I'll clean it all out uh here's our material I'm going to run
I'm going to keep it dry and I'm not going to add any water because I found that it's a lot
easier to clean out when the material is dry for these batch this batch system I got it set
up for now we have tried it with rods uh in the past but we found that the balls actually work a
little bit better so there's our charge of balls loaded in there and when I put the cover on it'll
come up to about halfway a little under a half maybe all right it's been half an hour I'm just going to take the end off and we can take a
look and see how much we got crushed here here's a look inside and it looks like
all the materials in the back there it may have shifted it may be tipping down downhill that
way and it all runs down to that end but I'll pull some out and we'll see what it looks like
here's what this stuff looks like it's kind of interesting it's a lot of it's really really
fine and then there's like some big rocks in there there's a few little Pebbles but yeah it's
like it crushes a lot of it to super fine and then that leav some bigger stuff I'll let it run
another half an hour and we'll check on it again okay guys it's been a little bit over an hour
and now all the material is on this side so I don't I don't know I don't know why it migrates
back and forth in the middle like that but um it's it's over here now uh so I'm going to start
picking out these balls and I got a little bucket here so we can gather all the material in the
bucket and uh take it over and pan it see what we got this stuff is really funny it's it's
it's super super finely powdered and then a big rock and there's no there's no sand or
anything it's just like there's a bunch of super super talcum powder stuff and then like
big rocks in there so I don't really know how that happens if the if there's a little bit of
the ore that got you know kind of like hidden in the the bottom or over on the side or up against
the end plate and didn't get crushed but there's definitely some bigger stuff so I'll have to go
back and screen that stuff out maybe through like an e inch or a 20 mesh screen or something I'm
just going to do a quick and dirty pan on this stuff and see what we can get out of it and then
we'll run the tailings my panning tailings over on the Shaker table hopefully once it starts stops
raining and uh we see what we can get out of the panning tailings there's some nice gold I want
to see if that black stuff is magnetic but we started with 26 I probably ended up only crushing
about maybe 20 lb worth of stuff so that's gold from 20 lb worth of ore not too bad here we're
going to use our old magnet in the bag trick here there's some steel there but I mean I ran
all those balls and I ran that vibrating Mill for over an hour and that's that's really not
very much Steeler magnetics coming off of there there's a really nice little shiny piece of gold
there so that's pretty nice now what I want to do is take our panning tailings and run them on
this 4x8 Shaker table that we made see if I can scavenge any gold with my panning tailings so
you can see here there's a little bit the end of the grooves coming up this long Groove if we
had more material it keep keep working its way along and the gold would work its way up out this
long Groove Down Under the Water Bar and down into the this is where the number one and the number
two concentrates are but I want to get out of the rain so I'm just going to brush this down and get
it in one of those cups and then we'll pan it out okay just to cover all our bases here there's a
little bit of rock that uh stayed as gravel I'm going to run it down through this little disc
Mill here all right guys well I paned down the stuff that went through that little disc Mill
and a couple exciting things here here's a piece pretty nice little piece there and it it went
through the disc so it's super flat but uh man what I really wanted was to find something like
that in the rock that would have been a really nice specimen I mean it's been flattened out
now obviously but that would have been a really nice little piece of gold to find sticking
out of the quartz now I'll I'll combine all our gold together I'm going to take this little
Snuffer bottle I'm going to suck out as much of the gold as I can get trying to keep it more or
less clean now I take just a a blue shop towel here I'm going to take out my straw cap the end with my finger get it down
to the bottom of that shop towel and you just do that couple times get all the gold out of there
take your shop rag squeeze all the water out of it and then we'll go put it in our celling furnace so
this here's a chunk of bismuth so I'm going to add some bismuth in there a couple pieces maybe 10 or
20 gram that'll alloy with our gold and then our furnace because bismuth is not a precious metal
we're going to get it up real hot and it's going to start oxidizing and once the Bismuth metal
turns to bismuth oxide the bismo oxide will be absorbed by the cupel the bismo oxide is going to
get sucked into here now the precious metals the gold and the silver aren't they won't be absorbed
into the cupel so they'll stay as a little gold button on the surface when the whole process is
done the gold button will be sitting there solid in the cupel and the cupel will have turned kind
of a dark gray or dark brown color from all the oxides right now we're burning off the rag there
all the carbon and pretty soon we should see some silver liquid pouring out of the bottom of that
rag there it comes that'll be the Bismuth all right guys let's check on our bead here it's
been in about half an hour so it should be done yep there it is there we go her cooled off
a little bit of water here and there's our gold bead weighs 73 gam so
let's do some math we'll figure out how many grams per ton that is all right so if you
take our original 26 lbs that I hiked out divide that by 2,000 lb in a ton that's how
many tons you get you take 73 G divide it by our tons comes out to be about 56 G per ton so
a little less than 2 oz a ton which is awesome and today we're on a little prospecting
adventure with my friend Dan herd hello everyone Dan how you feeling so far it's a lot
of hiking it's a long ways up there's no Oxygen up here we're High we're high in the Alpine
North Cascades today I'm going to take Dan over to a little spot I found last year we're
going to find some free golden quartz here we go up up up the hill the Gold's always on the
highest point it seems like huh yep CU all the easy stuff was got was uh recovered a 100 years
ago yeah they only left the hard stuff for us yep hopefully the title of this video isn't Dan
has a heart attack rest in peace and H can you imagine prospecting this back a 100 years ago
we're doing it right now and I can't imagine it yeah I know and we drove 99% of the way up the
hill we did that we did and we still have to go up Dan made it up here he's not dead yet not yet and
uh I don't know if we're still friends but he's here with me and he's going to get right into
it he's going after that quartz Vin I brought my little hammer drill here Roto Hammer and what
I'm going to try and do is use some feather and wedges to break off chunks of that vein last time
I was out with Dan at his uh ocean picture Stone claim he showed me these feather and wedges and
I thought they were pretty cool so he brought me some so thanks Dan for bringing me some feather
and wedges you're welcome we're going to put them to good use here and see if we can get some
quartz off this vein all right I'm going to run my feather and wedges down along this face and try
and wedge this big chunk out so I'm going to drill kind of perp pendicular with the hanging wall
here put in four or five and see what we can break out and now I'm going to take one of these feather
and wedges so I've got it right down at the bottom here so I get the maximum amount of wedge and
then I put it in there like that I make sure that I'm forcing it out not this way I don't want to go
that way I want to force it out towards me and get it in there so take some pressure and I'll get the
other three lined out and then I'll just work my way down and see if we can break this off of here
all right let's see if we can break these off of here you're cracking I have converted Jason he's now using feather and wedges all right hear it cracking
it's working good at least the cracking okay I love those big great big cracks
you he now what now I got your chisel take your chisel of the crack right beside it just
hammer it down it'll pop right out all right I gather up all this fine stuff bag it up and then
we'll go through this little pile of rocks I have here and see what we can see man those feather and
wedges you can break a lot of rock real quick Dan how you feeling I feel great I found some gold
I saw some gold you brought it down to me but uh I've seen some freee gold so I'm happy that's
good it's not it's not as good a showing as I was hoping for today but hey gold is gold gold is
and we're still working right here along the foot wall I found some really good stuff I just sent
down to Dan for him to look through I'm going to work around right in here and find some more
but you always want to be if you don't find it in one spot you got move around a long strike
and up and down across the vein but it's in here you just got to find the right sweet spot for it
but there oh is that better there is some nice free Milling gold sitting right in the quartz if
I move my thumb these little pockets of the silver mineral or the indicator and you can see the gold
sitting right there next to it we found some other ones but this is the best one so that is what free
golden quartz looks like well we're finishing up for the day found a little bit of gold not as much
as we would have hoped I worked the vein kind of a long strike here and then up and down between the
hanging wall and the foot wall we've got a little bit of a sample here in this bag that I'm going
to try and take down if I can manage to carry it all the way down there uh and I'll run that on
through the hammer melon Shaker table and see how much gold we have we'll do a little assay because
uh one of my interests for this property is to get a helicopter up here and helicopter some this
stuff out of here maybe two or three tons and see if we can get a bulk sample and figure out how
much gold it's running well Dan what do you think not as not as much gold as we hoped but I got to
see some free Mill gold on quarts I'm happy there you go and you just said you had one bag to carry
down you didn't realize I have a bag for you to carry you have one yeah and it's so full it's
overflowing oh there's one hiding down there I see I see how it is y good well hey I wanted to
thank you for coming up um I appreciate it and uh yeah I hope you thanks for bringing me up this was
fun and you didn't kill me on the hike yeah yeah well we gotta go down still they're still down
but yeah looking forward to doing more videos with you in the future sounds good all right we
made it down the hill Dan is still alive I think we're still friends even after that death hike
I took him on he took a very slow for me which is good and we got our bag of ore so stay tuned
for that on a upcoming video but other than that thank you Dan for coming along with us on our
adventure thank you for bringing me up here it was a lot of fun all right and thanks viewers for
watching here's just a quick little shot of what I brought down there's 12 kilograms here so it's
not a huge sample but it's what I could pack out at the time and it's a really clean ore there's
not hardly any sulfides in this stuff it's mostly just gold and a little bit of a silver mineral
that has been the indicator for us for finding gold but we're going to get this crushed up so
we'll run it through the system and see what we get this is our 6x10 jaw Crusher and it
takes about a 6 to 7 in rock crushes it down to about half in minus it'll
do 1 to 3 tons an hour and as you can see it goes pretty quick on this
little sample crushes it down nice and fine then we move over to the Hammer Mill
where I feed the crushed material into the hammer Mill the hammermill will do about
1 ton per hour and we add about 1 to two gallons per minute into the hammermill to
keep the dust down and make a really nice slurry the bottom of the hammer Mill has a
screen that wraps 180° around the bottom and there's 20 High Chrome hammers that pulverize
The Ore once the ore is pulverized to go through the8 mm slotted screen comes out
as is a nice slurry down the orange chot where it continues down into the Aluminum
distributor trough for the table the gold and any other heavy sulfides will settle down
into the grooves and work their way across the table the gold and the densest minerals
will work their way up out the long four grooves under the water bar or they'll
move down into the number one and number two concentrates any sulfides contained in
the ore and liberated will work their way up to the end of the shorter grooves and
form a fan that goes down into the number three concentrates and all the water and gang
minerals will flow down into the number four tailings the whole system takes about 8 to 10 US gallons a
minute and the water is continuously recirculated with these two pumps down here in the corner
and up into the Shaker table and the hammer Mount that sample ran quick cuz there just
wasn't very much of it and there's a little bit of copper probably left over from
the last run but there's a couple little gold pieces there then the gold starting to come
out these top grooves there's some there's some it works its way up this long Groove then here's that
silvery sulfide we have that's the gold indicator so we have a lot of that and then the gold is
bouncing its way right up here under the water bar and it's it's working its way
right down into the number one concentrates that silver sulfide
or silver mineral is coming with it number two is pretty much quartz
a little bit of [Music] sulfides but we'll get it brushed down
cleaned off and get the stuff smelted well here's our little bit of number
one concentrates and most of that quartz got in there when I brushed down the table and I
brushed it all over into the number one and then here's our number two which is mostly
quartz well I've combined the number one and number two concentrates and rather than smelting
down all that quartz I'm just going to get rid of it I'm just going to pan it out down to where
it's pretty much pure sulfides well there's a little bit of gold in there remember this
is only from 12 kg so um it actually looks pretty good and I'm also wondering if in this
silver stuff there may be gold and or silver that when we smelt it it may come out in the
button well here's our mess of stuff in there added our concentrates then I added 25 gram of
silica sand I added 100 gram of soda ash I added about 10 to 15 gam of potassium nitrate just as
an oxidizer I added about 30 grams of lead oxide as a collector metal and then iron in there so
with these pieces here iron to help reduce any base metals to metallic form from the sulfide
form and then the lead's going to collect all the metal including the gold and silver down at
the bottom We'll pour it in our cone mold here once it's all Molten the lead will go down to the
bottom and then we can flip it over separate it from the slag put it in our cupel furnace first
we got to get this thing Fired Up Get It All [Music] Molten well let's have a look I uh I forgot that
big spike was in there and I dropped it in the slag I don't know if you saw it
in the video but then I had to fish it out so that's why the top of my my
slags all buggered up like that um but hopefully the lead pill is still intact
at the bottom so let's see what happens [Music] here that's a good sign there we go there's our lead let me
weigh it and then we'll put it in our cupel furnace 28 grams all right we
got our furnace going our cupels in there so our lead will melt and oxidize
in the oxygen rich environment in the furnace that we're going to make and
then those oxides will be absorbed by that cupel and the precious metal bead
will be left sitting in the in the cupel there all right let's see what we
got here oh there's a nice little bead so it's a little white in color but it's still pretty yellow see if it
changes when I cool it down some well there it is nice little bead there's
probably some silver it's probably about 80% gold based on the color but uh I bet you know and
I bet some of that came from that silver mineral in the pan let's see how much it weighs here and
just put it on there like that 68 G nice let's do some math right guys here's our quick math
there's how much our bead weighed I figured it's about 80% gold so that's grams of gold in our 12
kilograms 12 kilograms is 012 metric tons so when you divide grams of gold divided by the number of
metric tons you get 45.3 grams per ton of gold so that is really good that's way over an ounce a ton
it's about an ounce and a third ounce and a half somewhere in there so that is really encouraging
going to be working this quartz vein here behind me for some gold we're going to try and take two
or three tons off this mountain side but it's a lot of work to knock the vein and knock ore off
it so what we're going to do today is we're going to go after the float and down the Talis slope
here below me there's tons and tons of quartz float laying down here that's broken off this
exact vein which is really really rich and so we're going to go along and pick up bag up the
quartz vein the quartz float and then the plan is we're going to get it flown out of here with a
helicopter process it through a jaw Crusher Hammer melon Shaker table and see how rich this stuff is
now we're looking down the hill here there's my buddy Josh he's come up to help me today and it's
might be hard to tell from the camera but there's white float laying all over this Hillside and it
goes way over that way and it goes way over this way so we brought up a ton of these sandbags we're
going to fill them up like that with or then I got to weigh them I'm going to bring up some big Super
Sacks and we can fill them up with 500 lbs and the helicopter can fly all this ore out I'll load it
on the truck and get it to the crusher so we're sitting here debating whether it's going to be
easier to work your way down collecting the ore or start at the bottom and work your way up what
do you guys think leave me a comment down below but the first thing is we don't want to get hurt
going down this thing because it's really steep it might not be easy to tell from the camera but
it's pretty darn steep down there we're going to fill up our sacks with the White Rock and we're
going to Stage them at different spots along the mountain side and the helicopter can come pick
them up and fly him over to a spot where they get them on the truck well we're kind of developing
our strategy here going along picking up rocks the white rocks are the good ones I'm trying to
keep about the size of a golf ball or bigger it just doesn't make sense to pick up a little
tiny slivers and then I'm trying to set my bucket my bag bucket in one spot and collect all
around it Josh is over there he's kind of moving around we're actually thinking side Hill might be
the best work along the side rather than going up and down two minutes got half a bag well I've been
up here several times this spring and summer and I've got little piles cached out here and here
one here so I'm going to be grabbing those just don't want to fall off that Cliff land on Josh
down there well I got all our little piles here here and up there all picked up got them staged
down here in bags two four six there's eight bags there probably weighing average of about 50 lbs
each so there's 400 lb and then Josh has been down here he's got a couple three or four bags going
so another 200 we're coming up on half a ton it's not even lunchtime we kind of tried to get them
piled up there's a couple there's a couple some individual ones we' pretty much cleared this whole
Talis right here Josh has been kicking some down here into this little Gully he's been packing up
into sacks we're going to make a big pile of sacks right there but we've got this whole Talis here
to do across over here and then you know continue across that way so we're not going to get it all
done today but we've got a lot of lot of ore here to get well here's my situation it's been about
a week since Josh and I are up here I got the helicopter coming in a couple days so I had to
hike up here and get all these sacks that Josh and I did into Super Sacks so the helicopter
can fly him out and as you can see behind me there we're in the clouds today it's raining
I just made it up to the mine I'm just soaking wet and I was trying to pack these bags up
this hill and it is just murder I was hiking up through just Fields covered in ripe blueberries
I haven't seen a berry yet but this is Prime Bar country and the blueberries are just perfect
up here by myself miles from anywhere don't have cell service don't have a gun don't have bear
spray and I think all I brought for lunch is a few Nets so hopefully this isn't the
last you ever here from me all right well here's my plan I'm going to
weigh these sacks put them in this big white super sack here fly them out with
helicopter uh oh that doesn't work 35 lbs all right there's one it's a lot of work there you go there's 350 lbs and the bigger
rocks I didn't want to waste a uh sandbag on so I just load them in loose so now I've got some
down there I got one up there I've got a bunch up there so I'll just go around and grab them
stage them in these sacks I'm back up here at the vein and then down the hill probably
going to have to bring these sacks up to this location to make my 500 lb bag but if you
ever wondered how clouds are formed there you go there's a baby cloud in action and I don't know
if you can tell but right down here behind that cloud there's a little bit of sun in the
trees so that usually means it's about to rain so we'll see how it goes but we'll get we'll get this little pile here load
it up and that'll be our second sack okay second bag 475 lbs yeah just another day
at the office here it's sunny down there and cloudy over there here's kind of an overview
of what we're at we got these two bags one up there and then one up there by the vein and
I have almost 2,000 lbs in those four sacks so now I'll run over and load the fifth one and
we'll be good to go well here's our last little pile this is a big old chunk of vein that I
got and I don't know how much it weighs I'm going to guess 200 lb so I'm just going to roll
him into the bag I've got these four I'll kind of top that one off here with a little bit more
but unfortunately I've got one more bag way down there right there and if you
can't tell how steep that is it's pretty much a cliff there it goes see that this is a video all about
Jason taking bags of rocks for a walk all right let's see if
I can get this rock in that bag ah oh I'm not here by myself
making an idiot out of me that was Heavy that might be 300 lb all right
we got our last bag full so next shot should be the helicopter coming in all right guys well
it's morning of the helicopter day we got our little l in zone set up over here so hopefully
that works for him to drop the uh drop the bags in for us and then we're right here along the
road so we can just drive the truck over and load up the sacks once we get them dropped here
so hopefully this works let's go get those sacks off the mountain I made these rope chokers and
I can slip them through the four eyes on the bag like this and then I can go around another half
a time and get it on the eye opposite the first one and then when you get them all
straightened out here then you can hook both eyes up to the hook in the helicopter
and it'll lift the bag up nice and straight and even and I've got two ropes instead of
just one so that's our plan let's see if this works [Applause] [Applause] yes that was awesome yeah oh we got our five
bags now we got to get all that rock up on that truck all right guys well we got our bags
all loaded up we're headed down the Hill man I hope these have some gold in them well I am so
excited to finally run this sample after 2 years in the making we're going to get some gold out
of the stuff today the crushing process starts here with one of our 6x10 jaw Crushers going
to feed the material down through these Jaws here there're going going to fall through the
crusher comes out about 1/ in minus into this bucket once I have five or six buckets crushed
I'll bring them over here to our 16x 12 Hammer Mill the material feeds in this orange
Chute here with a little bit of water to keep the dust down this machine has
a 0.8 mm screen that wraps all the way around the bottom of it there's 20
swing Chrome hammers in there that crush up the ore until it'll pass that 0.8
mm screen once it passes the screen it comes down this orange Chute into the Aluminum
distributor trough under our 4x8 Shaker table it'll feed out of the distributor trough
fairly evenly across the table and all the dense minerals and gold will fall into those grooves
on the Shaker table top the Shaker table will move the gold another dense material across
under the water bar and the gold will make a fairly clean line down into the number
one concentrates we've built a ramp into the Shaker table and so the sulfides and the
quartz will be able to climb the ramp in the grooves but once they exit the grooves here
they'll form a band down into the number three midling comes out in this blue bucket and then
the number four tailings will flow down into our new addition to the system this is one of our
spiral classifiers and this works by having a water reservoir and once the tailings fall into
that water reservoir the heavier larger corser particles fall down through the water column
everything that settles down to the bottom is is augured up the trough and dewatered and
it will come out into this white super sack here where we can rrush these to liberate
more gold if needed or they can be dumped as tailings we did it we processed the whole batch I pulled
out five bags and a couple big rocks to cut later so I figured we process just right around
2,000 lb but we got it all into those two little buckets right there the number one and
number two concentrates but spiral just works so good it pulls out all the core stuff recycles
the water we've Ren this water many many times since I've been running today so it really
really helps with the water recirculation and then you can look over here in the bag we
have nice dry tailings that I can move around now I can process they're easy to store and
look here the little look at the little tiny bit of water that's seeped out of them they come
out of the Spiral so dry but I need your help on this one Guys these tailings I think still have
more gold so I'm going to pull out five batches of 25 lbs put them on eBay for a buck and what
I'm hoping you guys can do is process these down and then tell me how much gold I have left in
the tailings I'm going to work on a machine to reprocess these down to a finer grind and then
we can compare notes I've also pulled out some specimens I'm going to cut up later I think these
are pretty highr pieces and so once I get them in the shop we can take a look and I'll show you
what I was looking for and then we can get them cut up and see if we can find any gold in them
well here's our number one screened out I got the water cleaned up a little bit there is a huge
pile of gold underneath that silver stuff here's a little teaser there is a it's it's significantly
thick It's probably hard to tell from the camera but there's a pile of gold there I think we may
have paid off the helicopter and at least broke even on this crazy Venture before we finish
up with the number one I want to pan out the number two a little bit and the interesting part
is this ore was all oxidized it's been laying on the surface for hundreds or maybe thousands of
years years and so there wasn't many sulfides in it so it should be pretty easy to pan down
the number two here and see how much gold we got in the number two there should be very little
there will be some free gold in here but not very much here's the number two all panned out and it
looks like a lot of gold but a lot of it's super super fine and it's not very thick and there's
also just a few larger pieces I'm actually kind of surprised to see those larger pieces in there
but what I'd like to do now is I'm going to pull out the gold from number one and the gold from
number two separate and weigh them and then we can figure out what percentage of gold went into
each bucket all right what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my little Snuffer bottle I'm going
to suck up as much clean gold as I can get and that way I don't have to smelt all this junk I
got as much gold out of there as I can there's still a little bit of really really fine stuff up
here but I'm not going to worry about that so this will go back in the panning t tailings there's
our gold I'm going to dribble it into this blue cloth and then we have our gold and a little bit
of sulfides and some other junk that'll come out in the celling process now I'm going to take
some bismuth metal metallic bismuth put it in there with the gold and the other stuff and the
Bismuth is going to oxidize turn into bismuth oide in the celling furnace and take all the junk
with it and just leave the precious metals now we have our golden bismi in here we'll go put it in
the celling furnace got our cupel all preheated here put our little gold packet right in there
going check back on it a little while and see how much gold we have in the number twos I'll
do the same thing with the number one and then we'll get a total for the amount of gold we got
while we wait for that to cupel let's go over and cut some rocks here's the first rock we're
going to try and I like this one cuz it's got a a the hanging wall was right here the foot
wall and we've been finding that gold right along this band it's got some pretty distinct
quartz bands there all right let's have a look here that's an interesting stuff there well
this is pretty cool this is probably the best example I've ever seen of two generations of of
mineralization you've got the white and red here you've got the brown and gray down here a very
very well- defined contact right along there this is the stuff that I was looking for that silver
stuff right there that's where I've been finding the gold Associated I don't see any on this piece
I've got it going to pull off another slab we'll we'll check the other piece but just look at
the the be I mean this is a beautiful example of one generation of quartz and mineralization no
sulfides or whatever this little gray thing is and then just another generation of massive sulfides
that's probably ptite the quartz is a different color it's that orangey quartz larger crystals
it looks like up here it's hard to tell from this one slab but this is a prime prime example
of two different Generations of mineralization and this one down here is typically what I look
for when I'm looking for the gold here's a look on the outside the weathered side it's much harder
to tell this has the more sulfides it's more Rusty this has the less second generation but it's not
nearly as well defined here where the contact is if there's even two generations but man once you
get it cut it's just just a beautiful example well here's the next slab off that piece again real
defined two generations and then look right up here in the corner it's not on the cut face it's
where the Little Rock chipped off right at the last of the cut on the blade but there it is this
is the hanging of the foot wall right here the gold is I don't know what an eighth of an inch
off the hanging wall right associated with those silver sulfides there's a little bit more right
there as well here's some nice stuff from the tile saw it's too bad it's not sunny but everything
yellow there is gold here's the other face piece to it nice gold in there see that silvery
stuff is what you're looking looking for that's what the gold hangs out with but on the
surface I I didn't see any free gold on this at all but once you get it cut and you can see
those sulfide faces that's where the gold is look at this big boy we're putting in here
I think it'll cut this is going to be a really cool piece a big huge stand up I'm not quite done
but here's a look at some of the stuff I've been cutting in the rocksaw from the helicopter sample
some really cool pieces and then this stuff here with the gold in it pretty nice little haul oh
this is probably the best one so far I've got gold here gold up here I cut it across this face
and this gray kind of band right here has a bunch of little tiny gold in it there's some right
up here some down in here and then on this face there's some nice gold back up in here as well I
want to take a look at this nice piece here with the gold on it I'm going to use this little
microscope I've used it in a lot of my other videos clips right on your phone it's really
really handy if you're interested I'll leave a link in the description below here's that face
with the really good gold on it almost a little streak of gold there there's some that's just
hiding right inside the quartz there that nice piece look at all that gold fine gold but it's
all kind of bunched together in that little glob and then there's some more so this is a really
nice piece really cool specimen here's that face I was saying doesn't have much gold now that I
got the microscope going there's just a little band of that silver mineral and gold and there's
just gold speckled all through it wherever that silver mineral is see there's some really really
fine pieces there's some nice gold down in the quartz but look at all the little tiny gold
all around that silver mineral yeah there's more of it man oh man so this guy is the
winner really really really nice this is that face that had all that little Speckles
of gold right up in here with these Blobs of that silver stuff lots of lots of gold around
on this piece here's our number two button oh yeah it's a nice little button that's not bad
actually there's quite a bit of gold there and there was such a small amount there compared
to the number one I have High Hopes got some really nice stuff in our number one well it's
the Moment of Truth here it cost me $4,000 to recover whatever is in this furnace I figure
I've got about $3,500 in helicopter and $500 in fuel and rope and bags and stuff like that at
today's prices $2,000 an ounce I need about 60 gr of gold to break even so let's see if I can do it
here okay let's see if I can get my reaction on camera here I have not looked since I put it in oh
it's a big bead it's a it's a big button it's all done yeah that's a Beauty look at
that thing it's hard to focus on it and it's real hot oh yeah buddy
let's see how much that thing weighs I don't I don't know if that's 60 G
though 2 oz that's I don't know we'll see I have I have my doubts there's our
number two on the left number one right here get it cooled off oo nice yellow color there's our gold it's so heavy I cannot get
over how dense it is okay Moment of Truth 60 G I can't read it 65 yes 65 five I think is what
that says yes so the total with both of them is 66.4 not a bad haul well that was an epic video
you guys thanks so much for watching I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did I've got all kinds of
stuff from this video on eBay I'll put a direct link right up here so you can check it out if
you're interested and stay tuned cuz I've got a bunch more content coming up so thanks again
everybody and we'll see you on the next video
