The Miners Table - Hard Rock Gold Mining in the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

hey everyone welcome back to another episode of my 50 states of treasure hunting series in this series I'll be visiting all 50 states in the US plus all 5 territories I already have a couple of the states done and Puerto Rico's done as well if you guys are interested in watching those make sure you check out my 50 states playlist and you can access that just by searching around on my channel there so the mission for this series is to visit all 50 states and 5 US territories doing some sort of treasure hunting in each place I'm currently in Alaska doing some treasure hunting up here and thank you guys for the invitations I'll be meeting up with a few people here in Alaska and if you have a cool metal detecting or gold prospecting or any kind of treasure hunting area that you'd like me to come and visit make sure you send me an email there's a link in the thing for my email anyway I hope to hear a few guys and thanks for watching hey everyone welcome back to another video today I'm in Seward Alaska with the miners table this is Cody and Kaylin and Cody has a claim up here in the mountains I'm not going to tell you exactly where it is but it's on the Kenai Peninsula here in Alaska and he's got this awesome Hard Rock mine up here we're gonna go check it out and I want Cody to explain what the miners table is that's his website link in the description for it if your interest he sells pay dirt and also he sells salmon and everything on his website so definitely check it out link in the description but I'll let Cody take over for a minute howdy folks miners table is basically what we do is you know we like to provide things that you might find that a miners table so you're gonna find gold you're gonna find you know all the things that come out of a mine on minor stable food of course and you know salmon being are one of our local bounties here it's easy for us to produce but that's the concept what you can find on the miners table at is the miners table so some of you folks that might have some stuff for us to sell you want to see some of your stuff on the miners table we can do that yeah that sounds really really cool I don't I've never heard of another place ever doing that so definitely check it out link in the description he's also been talking about possibly sometime in the future maybe when you're watching this video cruise ships come into this port that's how I got here and there's people on these cruise ships that want to just waste money at the casino but he's thinking about doing excursions for a really reasonable price you come out here and do some real gold mining in Alaska because this move this claim is actually pretty accessible I'm not gonna tell you exactly where it is but it's pretty accessible for like cruise ship people to come out and and do some real mining so anyway I hope you guys enjoy the video so we're walking up the trail here and as we walked right past this part you can see shale bedrock here it's all vertical look at this it reminds me of pic Urton in bc and there is a gold reef up hill up here and Cody's actually panned some of this stuff out he's done samples all along this trail going up to the mine and he's found gold right here about how much did you find here I was a half a gram to that section and down around back well half a gram of gold just doing pans just different pans wow this is pretty insane it's fine it's super fine gold but chunky chunky Arif gold yep so again in Alaska even though we're further up north we're still in a rainforest you got to watch out for The Devil's club Devil's club is a plant that pretty much if it hits you yeah let's let's take a look at the devil's club here it is right here I showed you in the other video but yeah you don't want to run into that stuff even the leaves have spines on it let me get a nice shot of the Devil's club right there Alaska's favorite thing yeah there's another trail right here there's some clay you can see we were playing with this area last year same thing you can pan all that dirt so I started digging it down to the bedrock found a beautiful clean layer pudding [Applause] this is a trail in quotation marks this is the trail you can see we've left it rough they didn't want people coming up in here sure which is a good thing because they would have probably if they would have saw a trail they would have been down here there was no trail visible this is overgrown perfect oh yeah like it's Oh too bright too bright there we go yeah you can see the top of the a dirt right there all right we're just approaching the add it here see it right there I'm gonna turn the camera off so I can get down there safely and we'll take a look at it all right so I could easily lift the camera and show you guys an amazing view but we're gonna keep this place secret so I can't do that but this is the first time I'm seeing it - yeah here we go here's the entrance do not enter or be here if you're here you are wrong so what's what are we expecting to find in here well yeah this thing hasn't been worked in like 15 years so as far as some of the things might possibly you know expect is you know some debris on the ground so you kind of gotta watch the footing some rocks falling stuff like that I poked my head in here before double check to air make sure that you know we're good to go so we're not gonna have any problems with their fortunates it's not super deep right now it gets plenty air flow through there so what we're gonna see when we open this up is a front part little workstation and then there's the rest of the edit okay you've got the thing nailed shut yes how far back does this go this is about 120 feet so as far as you know depth goes it's not one of the bigger mines but they didn't need to go very far to access and it's not even nearly cleared out no in fact it's ready for a winds okay because there's a whole nother level all right so pretty much we're gonna go into this adit here we're gonna take some samples we're gonna crush them down and we're gonna see if there's any gold in it Cody's really confident 100% that we're gonna get some really really fine free mental gold out of here the tools that we're bringing just up to the added here's a you know normally you'd bring a rock hammer but we couldn't find ours so I'm taking a a hammer and an old chisel here that should do it not too much overhead danger here okay just yes here to your right side and then the spine it's a few hazards to watch out for uh-huh the bottom has not been mucked so just watch your footing okay so you can see this is like a workstation over here on this side sorry for the brightness it's tough what to get the lighting but a couple workstations along here the floor has not been mucked out yet you can see this quartz vein right above our heads here goes all the way through this is the stuff we're gonna be chopping at that's fine above your heads and the middle of zoom in on it that little pocket right there and all this stuff in between all these seams along side of the quartz that's where you're going to find your good most of your gold and it's just covered in court seems all the way back this is what they were chasing I think this is the good stuff so I think we're going to go ahead and do some sampling we'll grab some of this stuff and I'm not gonna film too much in here because of obvious lighting issues yeah we're gonna I'll try to get some footage of us shopping the stuff apart nice yeah yes it's falling apart this is one of the original events right here that's been it's been you know compressed over time but then multiple events that happen in here so degrades this stuff is where we're gonna find most of our stuff out today fine example of the multiple enrichment yeah I think you've got one you gotta you know this this this little fracture right here yes is running lateral at east and west okay but then you have all these other I like right back in there this is the stuff will be big that looks like the stuff that I would choose - yep fortunately with the sulfides in here and the water we're not having any problem with you know the sulfuric acids or any of those types of gases all right so we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna sample up in here but everything on the ground that's falling off since there's only nationally run inside of an adit like this all this stuff is good too but we are gonna be working on into an ATAR just to make sure we get everything that does come off of the walls here so I'm gonna start grab and start chiseling a little bit look at this so pretty much if you watch the rest of this it would just be the same thing that's busting this apart I'm not gonna bore you with too much of it that stuff right there is exactly what we're looking for but yeah look at that quartz and shale and this is mostly shale bedrock I guess laughs yeah black shale so yeah we're just gonna fill up a bucket with that check over here uh Kaelyn right right here on this rock mm-hmm it might be gold right there can't really tell on a percent but it's not the not shining and the chalcopyrite in here has that high gold content so you're gonna have a hard time sometimes distinguishing between the color so you're saying that what is the the percentage again for the chalcopyrite the gold it was a 10 to 20% Cody's here is diggin got some really nice degraded this is all degraded shale bedrock quartz in it where was that I want to show you guys the pyrite that I saw and right to the left of it some visible pyrite and this pyrite is 10 to 20% gold so what we're seeing there is visible gold and the quartz veins right here in this adit yeah there's a big seam of it right here just all over the place there's biotite to be stood here and they got to calcite and yes laminate stuff all right this big piece is gonna fall probably here farrakhan yes the piece I was trying to get right there all right we are done we oh my goodness we got some really nice gold ore in this mine and you can see on the ground here this is pieces of it everywhere okay sorry for the fog on the lens that was pretty awesome man so we got a bucket full of material here we're gonna go ahead we're gonna bring that down we're gonna crush it up thanks to through night flashlights this little flashlight was what we were using to light up this added here we found his rock hammer in there it was as soon as we were leaving we found his rock hammer that we were searching for before anyway we're gonna take this down to the crusher we're gonna chop it up and we'll see what we got all right you want to hand me the bucket I'm gonna get a rope around me I'm not worried about me so much we're trying to save the dirt I saw you going down I was like well I'm going down with you I was gonna grab hold I saw this thing coming up my bum right on there [Music] [Music] alright guys I hope you enjoyed this first half of the video the next half is gonna be over in Colorado while I'm testing this stuff out to check the the gold content and everything and check out that awesome nugget I've never found any I didn't even know anything like that ever existed have you ever found anything like that in this area ever that's unique that's it from the Kenai Peninsula here in Alaska thanks again Cody I really appreciate it welcome alright and I'll see you guys back in Colorado alright we're back in Colorado at the Panna station here as you can see this is all of our concentrates from Alaska we're gonna go ahead and process this stuff with Mercury we're gonna see what kind of gold's in it and also rent tests up that nugget we're gonna call it him to open it up we're gonna add a bit of distilled water alright now we're gonna add a few drops of mercury what this is gonna do is collect up all of the gold the microscopic stuff and everything so 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 just a few drops here so if I had maybe a pound or more of concentrates to do I would probably just do it in the rock tumbler but do it the old-school way alright so I had this little nugget thing and with all the concentrates so it kind of stained it like rusty I'm all the way around but I do have a scratch test here we'll go ahead and scratch out the outside part which I think may be silver I don't know it really is scratching out of the way silver wood I might have to cut this thing in half in order to scratch the gold part out I don't I don't know let's just test and see if this is silver here it turns red we got silver it's not turning red it is dissolving it though it's it's not turning red I still want to see if the gold stuff is gold so I'm gonna go ahead and just cut this thing in half [Music] [Applause] Dyl looks strange to me there's definitely something inside of it is it gold I don't I don't know I'm not sure what this is yet oh there's something floating around inside there let's get this into a pan this little piece came out of the center of this stuff here seems like there's even some left inside here I guess we should test that and see if it's gold so this little piece this little crumb doesn't want to scratch out I really don't know what this is it's just a strange piece of metal it's not silver I'm gonna test the entire thing for platinum if that dissolves it's not platinum and then I'm also going to test it for gold because I have the solution here it's much harder than gold but that disappears it's not gold the platinum stuff is dissolving it so it's not platinum gold has gone too it's not gold I don't know what it is it's too light to be led maybe it's a piece of steel or something it was hard to cut with the hacksaw [Music] on camera you can see that it's at the top it's like gold and then it turns into the silverish type of metal same thing on the other side after cleaning it up with the HCL you can see the colors better I'm gonna try one more scratch test on that gold yep it's scratching out gold let's find out I'm gonna add 10 karat solution to it if this dissolves if this if this makes it disappear then it's not ten karat gold it's not gold and it vanishes instantly unfortunately we don't have any gold here so I've been shaking this stuff up and letting it sit the entire time I was messing with that questionable nugget there pour it out see what kind of gold's in it alright so now we're gonna carefully pan the stuff down and remove the mercury alright so now to get the mercury out I like to have a snuffer bottle handy and you just panning it kind of like gold except the Mercury's gonna roll out sometimes so you got to watch the mercury roll out just grab it as you see it with a sniper bottle up top here you can see the mercury here we're just gonna grab that with the snuffer bottle as we see it you can tap the mercury out just like you can gold since gold is so heavy you can tap the mercury out there you can see a nice line of mercury you want to continue this process until you get it all out you don't want to miss any of the mercury it does take a long time to pan it out like this but just repeat that process [Music] all right well after that process I got everything and I scraped it into here with some borax I melted it down and I don't see any gold it's possible that we just had a bad sample where there wasn't enough gold in it to to show up I did see flower gold while we were up there panning so I know there's gold there anyway if you guys enjoyed this video make sure you hit the thumbs up button if you haven't subscribed yet go ahead and do that I put out a new video every three days that's all I got for today thanks for watching [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 20min 43sec (1243 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 24 2019