From Solid Rock to Gold! | Mining Hard Rock Gold Ore
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- čas přidán 2. 07. 2024
- Gold starts its life in a solution of super heated silica, quartz. It floats around this silica and if its lucky it combines with other minerals that allow it to form solid bits of visible gold as the liquid rock cools.
In this video I show you how to identify, visually, potential gold ore. Then how we crush, pan and finally smelt the gold into a button read to sell to a whole seller or for further refining!
Can't wait too watch this after work tonight,..
Guess who just got his prospecting license 🤪
I'm a new subscriber and really like what I saw here!
Hi Chris, a cone shaped mold would be a great thing for small melts like this and you can make one yourself. Get a block of Graphite, then a small step bit out countersink bit for your drill to bore out the basic shape. Remember your drilling into graphite so your gonna make a mess (grin). From that, if the cone shape is rough, a small file or sanding should help you smooth out the shape. I made my own and I love it.
This is a reeeeeee ruuuuuun!!! I'm am sitting on my lounge lazing around enjoying your free awesome content and I DEMAND to be answered by a guy answering THOUSANDS of questions every day. Man people love to write before they read, speak before they listen, teach before they learn. It must get tiresome building this channel in the CZcams managing sense I'm thinking.
I'm sure you have run across Sreetips channel?! Love this stuff!
Great video sir. Educational and entertaining sir. Keep ‘Em coming please.
“Please sir, can I have some ore?” Comedy gold
Thanks mate, very interesting video 👍
Great video, really enjoy your wide range of content & adventures you share with us! Thank you so much
It keeps going through my mind ... When you're crushing your rocks via the dolly pot, I believe I see small rocks flying out. In saying that 50 years from now after you've moved and someone else owns the property, they'll come in and find it is rich ground from all those little escapees. hahahaha ...Love the vids.
Its funny because i think the same thing lol
Looks good
Can you please do another expose of this rock crusher sits on a bucket?
Map gas and Portland cement for cupelling
Borax is also used as a flux I've heard
Awesome country. Have you considers a bone ash cupel and a small electric Prospector Furnace? Cheers!
Man I’d hate to mow your lawn lol.👍🇦🇺
Me too lol
You won't be able to purify your gold as long as you have silver in it. You can add like 4x's the amount of silver and cupel. This can then be parted with a 25% HNO3 solution. However i don't know your stats on purchasing nitric acid in Australia. Here we can pick it up at most prospecting supply houses. A good oxidizer for your flux would Potassium nitrate. You can find it in stump remover at the hardware store, or at your pharmacy commonly called salt peter. Sometimes because of mans laws you have to work around them🙂. When using this oxidizer you don't want to put any reducing agent such as soda ash. Just borax and silica sand. Obviously you don't want to be trying to reduce back to metal what your trying to oxidize out. The fumes coming off you furnace will cause any tools or things made of metal to oxidize or rust. So be sure to do this close to the neighbors house you don't get along with🙂. No nails. Just oxidize the heck out of it. It'll take some lead if not all. So you will be dealing with PbO3 please don't breathe. Good luck! Trying to put 50+ years of experience into a paragraph. Any questions? You can get me back through here. Also, your flux should be at least double the weight of your sample. Many of us prefer triple. You have a chemical reaction in a crucible. Not a beaker where you can add more at your convenience. Peace!
Thanks for the information man
@@SpudEngineering You're welcome! May all your days be golden, And be blessed by the Best. Peace!
I have gold stone, I don't know how to go about this processes. Please reach me.
Some day i'd like to find a place that were i could find some gold just to say i did :) , thank's to you i'll know how to find it :) . SKK .
A larger smelt. You would add some iron nails. To the crucible. It will cause. Iron oxide. Pulls out more sulphides. Cleaner. But that sample was to small.
I have polishing dust and jewelry workshop trash. Could you give me some advice? To recover the gold
I could be wrong, but I thought I saw on Jason's channel that cupeling won't remove the silver. I think some of his buttons from his cupel furnace still contained silver.
What is name of oxidizing flux?
Was these samples taken legally? Hudson creek area possible?
I have seen on a few other gold prospecting videos that when they smelt the gold they use Borax maybe look into this .....
I’ve got tons of gold coming off of these artifacts. It’s really soft, and it’s very dusty. Can I refine that, should I start by panning it? It’s already dust.
8:53 I think I got it. Thank you.
I believe I seen a video where they would throw the Quartz into a fire then,...... into a rock crusher to soften it to get finer material.
Roasting ore can be quite beneficial as it does "soften" the ore making it easier to crush, but it also has the benefit of burning off some sulphides as well which should reduce some impurities during the smelt iirc.
Because the gold is so fine do you risk any of it blowing out of the rc1 crusher?
Not that I've discovered. But possibly
Lol, Chris at 10:26 you mentioned "snow" ? ;)
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boil. boil, toil and trouble. let me see that shiny gold on the double.
LOL! 😁
Salt Peter aka Alum stone will get the other impurity’s out
Wheres ma Spuds at!
If you flux doesn't have an oxidizer you can always wash it with hydrogen peroxide first.
30% if you can get it
Thats a spill idea
Need help its to heavy to bring down.
for some reason this didnt end up in my sub feed. weird.
What's up 911 hey I live in southern Baja and I really enjoy hiking around and looking at rocks I found an old good mine that goes straight down some 100 yards and in the tailing I found all kinds of dirty quartz can I send you some pictures
be careful about arsenic
Hey Cris an fern. Don't you have to chew it out? Of the face? Luv U all
I understand why you created another channel but I'm not sure why you called it Spud " ENGINEERING " ! I don't want to sound rude......but when does that start ? If it's just another platform to rerun videos , you can see then , I'm confused .
Please don't take this the wrong way as it's not meant to be rude . Cheers
I dont understand your question
@@SpudEngineering I'm even more confused than you are now . I thought it made perfect sense when I reread my question. Why you is it then that you're not understanding the question about the " engineering " , and when does that start?
Fair question considering the name of your new channel called Spud " ENGINEERING "
Iron nails.
Busted Knuckles got sooooooo unsubscribed.
Good man, he's now facing a defamation case.
@@SpudEngineering finally.... honestly was waiting for it. Reap what you sow hey. He's now reasonably upset and salty over a little poetry, which is enjoyable to know.lmfao!!
5 smelting only? You didn't actually count as a gold miner let me tell you something about alchemy it well grow your produce of gold how is it happen you don't like chemicals?!!! 🤷🏻♂️ think again for your goodness.
WhereTF is your dust mask?
Look for a channel called mbmmllc he does a lot of smelting, great video thanks Chris
My refining tip?(I don't prospect or refine).. watch Sreetips on YT
You should get in touch with mbmmllc. His channel has a lot on smelting
definitely recommend checking out the channel Mount Baker czcams.com/users/mbmmllc or contacting Jason, i bet he'd love to help with tips and tricks on small smelts, he's made a ton of videos of doing them!