How To Identify Gold In Rocks
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- In this video we learn about finding and identifying gold in quartz vein gold ore. Jason takes us on a journey into the world of mineral identification and gold prospecting, to uncover the hidden treasures within quartz. Watch as Jason cuts the gold quartz vein ore into slabs, revealing its textures and other sulfide minerals. With the aid of a microscope, he examines the freshly cut surfaces, searching for the presence of free gold and other minerals associated with gold.
Learn valuable tips and techniques as Jason shares his knowledge on how to identify and find free gold in quartz and other rich gold ores. Discover the telltale signs and characteristics that can guide you in your own gold prospecting adventures. Unlock the secrets of gold identification and indulge in the excitement of prospecting with us. Join our quest to uncover nature's golden treasures and expand your understanding of gold-bearing quartz veins.
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Keywords: Gold quartz vein ore, Cutting slabs, Mineral identification, Free gold in quartz, Gold prospecting, Rock saw, Microscopic examination, Identifying gold ores, Gold-bearing quartz, Gold prospecting techniques.
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this video reminds me of some samples of marble i was given a few years ago that was brought from a site for sale in nigeria, i think the site had marbles, quarts and kaolin..and maybe some other minerals, either ways, i was shown alot of gold veins in the marbles..and prior to that i did not know gold could grow in between marble..your video jst confirmed this.. thanks, for the insight
If your "new toy" has the capability to cut 1/8inch slabs or thinner to allow the passage of light through them to see the gold, you can sell them as cut and polished "specimens" for way more than the gold value in them. Just a thought.. Chris.
Jason, After cutting the slabs just put them into a kitchen dish washer. Add a little extra soap. The slabs come out really clean and dry. And no oil residue is left in the machine! It works really great and you don’t have to use any toxic chemicals to boot!
Damn fine suggestion.
@@dionh70 Spock says that is quite logical.
I bet an old used restaurant dishwasher would work really well
I thought about doing that but then I thought about all the gold I would be losing in the dishwasher so I changed
@@kendradawn369depending on the dishwasher you came make your filter even more filter-savey with a coffee filter 😅
Run concrete blocks through the saw every few cuts to treat the blade and increase cutting efficiently and blade longevity. -From a stone fabricator. I dont know how or why it works, but it works.
Wouldn't that dull the blade? 🤔
highland park recommends tapping along the blade with a file to break the glaze. the concrete will wear the soft diamond matrix in lapidary saws suuper fast
I believe it is called Dressing the blade. When I made silicon wafers we used 220 and 400grit stones for dressing. You could also control the direction of the cut or straightness of the cut just by blade dressing on one side or the other.
11:17 😊@@jackkonnof4106
Thanks for the info. I have the exact same saw. Bought mine at an estate auction. $15
I have an 8" slab saw and cabbing machine combo. I also use mineral oil as a lubricant. I find that using a blue huck cotton rag works great to get the majority of the oil off. If you have several different rags, you use the one with the most oil first, then another.
Also. You can reuse the mineral oil. You just drain your saw well into a container and let it sit for a month or so. The pure mineral oil will separate and form a clear layer on top.
Thx for posting!! Great samples..appreciate your time to make this!
The curiosity of exploring and learning comes out great In your videos. We have a similar chalcopyrite mix on the taconic zone of Massachusetts into Vermont. There seems to be a theme there as gold is found with Chalcopyrite and copper in this region.
Awesome.
That saw has opened a view into prospecting that I had never seen.
Love hearing the saw going in the background, while describing the curse after the book ends. Sounds of so familiar! Just like my saw.
Thanks Jason for teaching us about gold bearing ore
FASCINATING!! THANK U FOR SHARING!!
I like your rock saw, you're giving me ideas. Thanks Jason.
Fantastic video. Very interesting. Love what you do Buddy.
Awesome stuff you doing. You getting it. Smart and very inventive. Love all your stuff
Ahh, spring in Whatcom County! Reminds me of my childhood. Rock sawing gold ore is an awesome idea
Thank you for sharing your experience with us
First-time to know what happens and how Thank you again
Really like this way of studying ore, this way you can have witnesses slab and the rest, the mud and cutting could been go in the hammer mill as well, perfect jason!
Thanks you for sharing this way you are the best ideas sir,
Oh yes indeed, I have seen rusty quartz veins like that here in NJ, deep in the hills up north along a series of ridges known for having unusual minerals in one location. There are bands of material scattered all about with confirmed pyrrhotite and hydrothermal quartz filled with hematite grains. I know where they are, and just need to get time enough to sample them!
That microscope for the phone is actually pretty awesome, I would definitely recommend purchasing one. Another recommendation is run those slab pieces on a flat surface over wet dry sand paper with water. Go from 800 grit up through 5000 grit after that you will have a near mirror finish.
I'm into coin collecting and really interested by this kind of product, would make spotting certain things so much easier.
Thank you kindly.
Great video Jason. Great looking samples.
Thank you for uploading these videos .
Could you do a video of you crushing up your furnace slags and then, panning them out, to see how much gold might be still in them ?
Thank you.
Great content. I just found your channel from searching for gold in quartz. I was doing some quartz hunting up near Mariposa County Ca this morning and just interested in what i was brining home. Alot of valuable information, my son and I appreciate it.
Please may I know how I can understand If their is golden in my place like is their any machine that I can use?
This is totally awesome man thanks buddy 🙏
Thank you Jason, excellent learning tutorials! Happy Father’s Day! Dan Brent
What a great new toy. Will be fun to see what colour can be recovered from the filter sludge when you finally need to clean out the oil.
love your vids, learning allot. can you go deeper in how to know if it's gold or fool's gold
Thanks Jason great insight
Lol that's funny, a bunch of gold. Then cuts to bags and bags, ♥️ it. Can't wait to see more 😊
I am glad you seem to be having fun with your new equipment! It seems that the rock saw is one that Dan Hurd had (I may be wrong). Is it hard to keep the saw cleanish?
For us with limited knowledge of minerals, could you explain what it means to hydrate?
It would be awesome to get some thick gold baring quartz counter tops made!
Thanks very informative post 🤙🖖
Looks like it's time for an assay. That silvery metal could be electrum or any number of salts of metal and arsenic, or example. Very interesting video. If the tiny specks of gold were all the gold it contains, all you have, then, is simply an interesting looking rock. I certainly do agree that this specimen has far more value as a display piece (bookend, for example) than going to all the work to process out its meager gold values, unless, of course, that silvery metal happens to be electrum.
Dang you Jason ---- now I am going to have to start looking for a rock saw ;)
Thanks again
Jason, thanks for your comments that visible gold occurs in ribbon rock or in the latest deposition age vein quartz, adacent to wallrock, in rusty red or orange colored quartz...
Hey Jason, you need to come outto Australia. My son found a 15 grammar yesterday in quarts.
Man that blade makes a slick ass looking cut 😳👍
Cool. I need a bigger saw. I have some gold ore . I found. Lots of sulfides and chunks of pyrite.
WOW! AMAZING! CONGRATS!
I would suggest removing the oil with Acetone Vapour Deposition.
Basically hang the rock on a wire in a container with heated acetone vapours.
Great for cleaning metal parts and other things as well.
Simple green will clean those up nicely
Man, all you do is run up and down that mountain getting ore.
Jason: " I will take this this this that those and these". "MB to base over, "India-Golf-Golf, send the chopper"
Helicopter guy: "That's a good copy, Echco-Romeo out"
I mean damn, I want to play! Put me in coach , put me in!!
Thanks for the amazing shares Jason! Keep up the great work!
Cutting rocks is so much fun. I don't know if you're the artistic type, but making cabochons is pretty fun too.
Did you buy the microscope without the CPL filter or the one with the filter? I wonder if that is why you are having problems with the light without the filter.
Nice saw! Great video. Are you going to smelt the sawdust?
Hello my new friend. I have rocks similar to what you have on your show and I was wondering where exactly can I take them and Cash in? My mortgage is behind almost $10,000, I live in Tucson Arizona.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Cool effect , when he’s moving the phone microscope across the surface of the quartz if you sit back and look at it as a whole ,it looks like he’s spinning a sphere or some wired planet in space …lol or rotating a really cool marble! And yet it’s actually the lens moving over a perfectly Flat surface.. haha.
I know nothing of all this. So curious. How would one go about processing this to get the gold out and about how much gold would it be. Can you make any money from those amounts
That first one you cut with all the specs at the bottom, is that considered a lot of gold? I ask because where I live, we have various rock quarries and I have fairly often found quartz mixed into driveway gravel with about as much gold specs. Always thought it was pretty but figured it must not have been worth much since they literally use it for driveway gravel lol.
To the best of my knowledge, there are no active and producing gold mines anywhere near me. There are some gold claims but nothing apparently producing.
Hi Jason, I just walked an old Copper mine and have some ore samples I would like to smelt down. Do you have a flux recipe for copper ? Thank you, M
That's some nice looking ore
So my question is all the yellow in the quartz what is that? Could you use hydrogen peroxide after powdering the quartz to recover very fine gold?
Hi Jason, Your new toy is doing a great job! You'll learn all the do's & don'ts with the saw as you use it more. After about 30 cuts - put a house brick or piece of a cinderblock in the saw and cut about one inch. This will clean out the garbage in the blade & sharpen the exposed diamonds. The kitty liter will work better if the rocks sit in it for a day or two. Good Luck on eBay!! Thumbs up! Stay safe. Jim
Thanks for the tips!
@@mbmmllc You're welcome, Jason.
@@mbmmllc How much powdered rock comes off as a byproduct of cutting those slabs? Once you have a bucket or two of it, it'd be worth while to run it through the shaker table..
Cut the slabs thinner and mount a light and look through them you can see inside the slabs
Gahhh that saw is awesome!! One of these days.........
Where should gold move to when it’s being laid down under heat when it’s melted? Does it go to the bottom as it does when smelting? If so would that define the foot wall location when looking at a specimen?
Try really hot soapy water. I use a heavier concentration of plain sunlight and it really helps pull the grease and oil out of automotive parts
Jason when I was working in a papermill we used a small camera to see defects in the paper that had a USB for a computer or lap top so I bought one for home use it was pretty cheap and goes to 1600X and can take stills and by using the lap top or computer you get a way bigger screen than a phone not so handy for the woods but would be great for your shop.
Where can I find the microscope your talking about?
with the blade going that fast, how many cuts do you normally get from a single diamond saw blade?
Thank you Jason. Good stamina😅
Cool little gadget and if you find a really nice rock maybe Dan Herd can get that sphere maker to make a sphere for you.
Well Jason this rock saw is going to be a very nice machine to make many nice things from the ore that you have thank you for sharing this six stars
Thanks 👍
Great video Jason, cool idea, I love science. I think a Canadian who calls himself "me miner" also makes slabs of dentritic native Silver in ore. very cool
use dawn dish soap its designed tp repeal oil, good stuff
I have tons of quartz but we also have a lot of pyrite in this area. When looking at a specimen like this how can you tell the difference?
You mentioned the ore from the helicopter project, do you ever plan to process any of that? I've been waiting to see what happens with all that.
Cool stuff!
I have been meaning to find your channel and it popped up on my feed . I have about 13 pounds of gold filled scrap from 15 years of storage locker finds . Looking to have it smelted . There is a place near me in the Bay Area but they want some vague paperwork on top of my driver's license social security number seller's permit . Anyway was thinking of seeing if you could help me out with this ?
Do you keep the shavings from the cuts and pan them?
Wow that is incredibly rich
Worth panning the slurry from the cutting table
Hi Jason, I am interested to know about your gold wash plant.
Really cool
Arent you ever gonna process that stuff? Lots of totes with ore there, would love to see all that processed sometime. Some pretty ore for sure!
Thanks for creating content and videos for us wanna be rock hounders, we live vicariously through your many adventured.
Peace
Happy hounding!
I liked seeing the plants starting to grow in the bags waiting for processing! 😂
Put a board under the rock to clear the hub. It's a rookie learning thing.
You are doing great...
OK Jason! I can see you'll be advertising some lapidary equipment in the near future! Lol! It does open the color scheme that mother nature provides! 💎🤑
High school chemistry, add a small amount of liquid dish detergent. Drop it on the rock and work it and the oil with a small brush - even an old tooth brush. Scrub until it looks milky. Then add hot water, and scrub. Effectively you are turning the oil to a water soluble substance as it combines with the detergent.
You might want to invest in a small digital stage microscope. I bought one when I was selling coins on eBay and it paid for itself within a few months, my customers were complimenting me on the quality of my pics. I'm sure one would do the same for your videos.
i think saw dust does a better job than kitty litter to remove the oil, as you can just burn the saw dust after wards, but you might still need to still wash it off
I still have to test some ideas for 3D printing gold nano particles since I have had so much success with titanium dioxide modding to print stuff from the black crystaline dititanium trioxide and both black rust from red rust (iron oxide) as well as some iron metal deposition from red rust, onto plastic with out damaging it and no electricity or conductive nonsense, (had some success with copper oxides too but really need to bust the lab out and make some uniform super small nano particle copper oxide vapor dust, to get clean results)
3D printing with gold would be quite cool and I am betting people would love the results being the new thing in gold jewelry and such, for sure LOL
Running the sawdust (sand?) on the shaker table is the Jason thing I expected.
What kind of material the white rock, sir? I wonder... Because i cant identify the different between marble and quartz
What frequency was the year of the gold rush
The mines?
Does the environment have to be an out side or like a diamond coated in carbon peanut butter or Dr. Pepper?
Sorry for silly question
There are tons of hand held microscopes that connect to the phone. I love mine. I look at everything with it.
Amazing how quarts with veins can outprice the actual gold
I wonder if there's a chemical solution that you can use to blacken the sulfides to make the gold stand out more clearly when inspecting like this.
Along the hanging wall, haven't it had more time to redisseminate out pure. While further in was still forming as the process repeated along the first to be deposited on the wall of the crack it was hanging on.
I just found your channel from Dan Hurd!
I don't do eBay, will you set up a traditional website, do you think? ❤❤
Jason! You sure are a busy busy Man! I live in Port Orchard and I would love to stop up and see you sometime and just pick your brain.
Yay rock saw!
Is it possible to extract the tiny dust particles of gold? If so, how?
That's so dang cool!
Why is water not used as a lubricant?
I could not find a link to the saw... Any other saw recommendations?
Is the gray color silver? I would really like to know.
We would go to garage sales and get kitty litter clumping . Put it in a bin after they are slabbed get slabs and totally submerge each but gotta push and pull side to side while applying some pressure so each side even edge is touching the clumper stuff. Works really great ever get engine oil on your driveway or accidentally spill a half quart trow that kit lit on it don't be stingy it will absorb so much of it I stood in absolute awe as well as corrected at just how well it worked. Dish soap the good stuff dawn or other name brands generic just lost its suds and magical props too too fast. Dawn dish soap wasn't just great in oil take off it works extremely well as well for grit removal not only from tumbled stones but for barrels also.
That's a hell of work for gold sand specs! You want to find at least a millimeter wide vein . . My quarter size rock has more gold than those rocks there. Just have 2 of em as a collection of show.
Loại đá có chứa bụi vàng này máy dò gold monter 1000 có bắt được không bạn?
I wonder how many rocks you're going to cut to make it worth refining the cooling oil for all the gold that's in there