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Instructional Videos, resources, and (in the near future) specialized products for the micro-scale hard rock miner. Panning micro-fine gold, taking representative samples, and more!
386 Mining Sapphires and Some VERY Nice Specimens
386 Mining Sapphires and Some VERY Nice Specimens
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385 Getting Fast and Actionable Results from Bulk Field Samples
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385 Getting Fast and Actionable Results from Bulk Field Samples
384 How Well Can a $45 Microscope Actually Work ?
zhlédnutí 468Před dnem
384 How Well Can a $45 Microscope Actually Work ?
383 Locating More Mines, Staking More Claim Corners
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383 Locating More Mines, Staking More Claim Corners
382 A Day Productive in Gold AND Information
zhlédnutí 370Před měsícem
382 A Day Productive in Gold AND Information
380 How Well Did Our Hoopty Fabricobbled Sluice Work on Batch 2 Top of the Hill ?
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380 How Well Did Our Hoopty Fabricobbled Sluice Work on Batch 2 Top of the Hill ?
379 Dumping the Leach Tank and Filtering the Solution
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379 Dumping the Leach Tank and Filtering the Solution
378 Eva Pulverizes Rocks Without Breaking a Sweat
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378 Eva Pulverizes Rocks Without Breaking a Sweat
An Awesome Sunday Drive in Montana, (plus a deer strike)
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An Awesome Sunday Drive in Montana, (plus a deer strike)
377 How to Properly Prepare a Sample for the Assay Lab
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377 How to Properly Prepare a Sample for the Assay Lab
376 Finishing the Breakthrough at Montana B
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376 Finishing the Breakthrough at Montana B
375 Latest Sluice Report From the Mill
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375 Latest Sluice Report From the Mill
373 The First Results from the new Hybrid Mill are in
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373 The First Results from the new Hybrid Mill are in
From Iowa Farmland to Gold in the Black Hills 1
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From Iowa Farmland to Gold in the Black Hills 1
The Worlds Largest Truck Stop and an Awesome Truck Museum
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The Worlds Largest Truck Stop and an Awesome Truck Museum
From Boston to THE LARGEST TRUCK STOP ON EARTH
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From Boston to THE LARGEST TRUCK STOP ON EARTH
Eva Goes Back to Cape Cod and the Paragon Carousel
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Eva Goes Back to Cape Cod and the Paragon Carousel
Wisconsin to Ohio via Sault Saint Marie
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Wisconsin to Ohio via Sault Saint Marie
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Hey Keith, Did those nuggets in that quartz look all coarse and prickly or did they look kind of rounded but not river run?
In the quartz they kind of coated the quartz. The placer below it had fractal 'prickly' pieces.
I'm happy for you that the hard facing did not become gold plated.
So am I.... very much.
Sound is not bad
Hello there
Howdy. The stream is over now. Every monday at 6 Montana time we chat and answer questions.
Yep I can hear and see
see this?
Second comment
We saw Jim right after that! Hope you are able to make it to next year's #springdirtfling
Give me a heads up and I mght. My memory sucks though.
@@hardrockuniversity7283 May 30th to June 9th 2025
Location?
@@hardrockuniversity7283 near Marion, NC
Gangster style lol please be my mentor
That's what the channel is all about. why not drop in tonight at 6PM Mountain time for the weekly live stream. We encourage questions.
I live in the desert where, for the most part, most good producing mines have been either exhausted, or are claimed. I basically only get what's left in old timer waste piles. The gold is mostly 300 mesh minus, and about half is 500 mesh minus. The gold is so fine, individual grains are invisible to the naked eye, and stick to the pan. So, just how do you manipulate such fine gold so that it can be gathered without the use of mercury? NOTES: I do this for fun, not to make money. I use a large and cleanup sluice to get my concentrates, and use a pan to get this ultra fine gold. But getting it out of the pan is the hard part, as it just loves to stick to it.
Use suction. About a dozen videos ago we showed the vacuum flask setup we use. It is a lot better than a snifter bottle.
@@hardrockuniversity7283 Wonderful! Snuffer bottles have never worked well for me. I'll order the hardware to make your vacuum snuffer. Thanks for your help
Any vacuum source that can take accidental moisture will work, but I found a mini shop vac for $35 that works great. I hate snuffer bottles also.
I'm here
none of these videos boil down the excess water,
Why would you do so? Just pour it off.
Someway I have lost your comments. Left and came back to site without luck. Bed time here.
Say something 😂
Good evening @Professor Hard Rock University
Woo hoo 😮
That was fun Keith n Eva , i wish they had places close around me like that . My Bother in law had a good friend that owned a Sapphire mine at Inverell in New South Wales , and my Niece worked there as a sorter , she got some nice ones . They were some sweet gold Specimens he had . Excellent !!!! Looks like you had a great day out, and got the Royal treatment 👍👍 Thanks for sharing . Cheers Ned . ✌
Fun times
That was a good showing of some specimens. My friend went there to look for sapphire
How did he do?
@@hardrockuniversity7283 I was surprised quite well. A couple nice size ones
Excellent!
Very goods yes ..😁pip pips and carryon pilgrims
I want a vein of THAT stuff.
You would have been amazed at the rubys we sent down the drege on the Boise river
Really? Drat!
Exactly what i needed in arizona
Very glad to help
Those things are fantastic , yes , i saw Jason FGW using one so i looked them up on Ebay , i haven't bought one yet but i think i must , lol 😁 They are great Keith . 👍👍 A wee bit more than 45 bucks here though . Cheers ✌
A decent but cheap optical microscope will give a better direct view, but with a larger display it works well.
i love this.
We try to make things cheap whenever possible.
I have some white stuff down here everybody was stunned couldnt figure out what it was. So i brought a sample up to the college they tested it and told me it was zircon.
Zircon eh? Interesting.
You are very meticulous with your cataloging everything Keith . Certainly always a good idea for future reference . 👌The sticky back cards are a great idea too , actually keeping the mineral samples on file 👍👍 I have no idea what the white mineral is , i first thought maybe gypsum but it is not heavy , perhaps Tungsten , it's heavy , would be interesting to find out . Keep at it Champion 👍✔ Cheers Ned . ✌
Scheelite is tungsten.
@@hardrockuniversity7283 Well , there you go , i learn something new everyday , lol , 😁 thanks for that 👍
You are most welcome Ned.
I like the glue on the paper trick. Can't wait to see if you find more using the bottle roller
We will get a lot of data from the leach processing also.
Thanks for you sharing your knowledge. What type of card paper do you use? Thank you
Just poster paper from Wal Mart
@@hardrockuniversity7283 Thank you for letting me know. Have a blessed day today!
You are most welcome
It's too bad we were born 200 years late. Can you imagine what the old time miners saw when they tapped the ore bodies and didn't need a microscope to see them 😮 😊 ⚒️
Ounces per pan sure sounds good now.
If its Tungsten, its great munny tho!
Probably too low a grade, but interesting.
BOTTLE ROLL?
You take a known weight of ore, place it in a bottle with a known weight of gold dissolving solution and roll it like a rock polisher. We use it to see how much gold will dissolve out of the rock. Not only is it cheaper to have solution assays run than fire assays, but we can do a sample 15 to 30 times larger than a fire assay also, which can give more statistically significant results in some cases. It is not as reliable on an unknown ore though.
great info
Thanks Bryan. Sometimes fast and crude is better than slow, expensive, and precise.
It’s brutal here also.. a two pack smoker day without cigarettes 😢 Oh well it’s a blessed spot to live and mostly wonderful. Smoky hot 100+ summer life in the Northwest is the toughest part imho. Crowd strike.. test run 101.. Again Imho. Thanks brother.. stay prepared and vigilant. Peace Prospector Tripp
Seat belt on tight, head on a swivel. Luck to us all.
Good show, as always
By the way. This is robert's happenings whose channel was removed by youtube after a third strike for quote " medical information"
Things are going to hell in a hand basket.
Yeah, the internet's been kind of screwed tonight. Sorry I missed you
Sorry Keith, missed it. 😮
Oh well. See you next week.
Good evening
Hello, that stream got interrupted. I'm sorry.
@@hardrockuniversity7283 No problem :)
Sure is aggravating to me. I hate letting people down.
The beauty of that tiny gold is amazing under micro scope!!
Yep. Thanks for showing us one.
Beautiful
Yep
I have a question about your stripping circuit(the container where you do electrolysis to collect metallic gold). In a stream you were saying that stainless steel objects become gold plated in your stripping circuit. What would happen if you place a piece of stainless steel pipe in the pond with the freshly crush ore and ecogoldx solution ? Would it become gold plated ? I'm asking this question because in the last two streams you were talking about welding with hard facing rods in your mill, sometime hard facing rods have very high level of chromium and nickel but not all of them(just like stainless steel). If a stainless steel object become gold plated in your pond I think you should weld with your hard facing electrode a piece of mild steel and submerge it in the pond to see if it collect gold. I think it would be a problem if the hard facing dust from the wearing mill is collecting gold before the resin. You should check the metal alloy composition of the electrode.
Hmmmmm. Very interesting thought! I could easily suspend one of my spare hard faced parts in the agitation tank and see what happens. I sincerely hope you are wrong, but you could be right. I noticed a while back a brass hose fitting that is VERY yellow. Not planning on just throwing it away, but hard facing dust would be a totally different problem to solve.. Right now the gravity circuit should be keeping most of it out of the tank, but the material from previous loads had no such treatment and is still on the pad. Thank you very much.
I need to get me one of those
Seems to do a decent job for the price
Woo hoo, luv me some fine fly poop 💩 😅
Sweat, but recovery is minute + only silver? Go back to the drawing board and the Gold? Good contraption
About 60% gold
cool stuff great to see more on leaching.
We're working on it. 🙂
Nice, be careful old man.. watch your knees and hips.. get a hiking stick or something. Walking over ground like that, you need the 'L' rods, they will definitely find any tunnels or chambers below your feet, then you can just follow the tunnel to its end point or entrance. Very usefull tool. We generall GPS the start point and then map out with flags and then transfer to paper. I will try to make a video today to give you a quick example, if Kristine is available to help with the camera.. All the best. Also watch out for bears.
Absolutely have a walking stick! I have a yucca stalk 6 feet long and less than half a pound. Used it for years. Thanks for the help.
my phone crashed and I had to poot my 8 year old dog to sleep not doing well but Im getting things done best I can.
lets get rich
I like that plan!
try Gold Phenoms Gravity Panning give it a view
Let me see if I can find it, thank you.
Can't find it. Got a link?
Name of site Gold Phenoms Gravity panning
I had to use the regular search engine to find it. Thank you. Interesting technique. I can easily try it with my material to see what happens.
@@hardrockuniversity7283 you will move 2 3 shovel buckets a min including pan ing to cons
Hmmm... Some of your slopes are steeper than my property.
That is bad enough, but the dead fall can make it a nightmare.
My first thought was powder magazine too.
Interesting excursion Keith . Very steep country , and yes that is a massive hole in the ground , where did what came out of it go to is the question . Just changing the subject a little , i did seem to remember saying to you a while back that 2024 was going to be one hell of a roller coaster ride , Buckle up my friend it just became white knuckle . Cheers Ned . 👍
Already have cinched up the seat belt to max. NOT expecting this to be pretty to say the least. Sigh....
Whats that they say about the necessities for being a gold miner? Strong back and feable mind 😂
My back is under qualified. 🙂