Smelting Gold Mine Sample - Processing Abandoned Underground Gold Mine Ore
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- I explore an abandoned underground gold mine and process a gold ore sample I took from it. In this video, you'll see how much gold is left in this mine and how I extracted and smelted the gold. Starting with the exploration of the mine, I'll show you the gold vein that I discovered and how I mined the gold. I'll then take you through the crushing and pulverizing of the ore before smelting the gold. Finally, I'll test the tailings and reveal the results. Don't miss out on this exciting journey to discover the riches hidden in this abandoned gold mine!
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00:00 Introduction
00:23 Abandoned Mine Exploration
05:18 The Gold Vein
11:30 Mining The Gold
29:17 Crushing And Pulverizing The Ore
33:09 Smelting The Gold
42:15 Testing The Tailings
49:12 The Results! - Věda a technologie
Jason, I've been a mine Geo for 32 years and your explanation for the laymen about multiple intrusive events was spot on. I must say that I've never heard of the final mineralising event being described as a 'wet fart' 🤣🤣🤣but I shall include that in my talks when educating newbies in the future. Cheers Partner and stay safe. Happy New Year.
u dont need a collector metal
way too much extra stuff... nail soda ash sand all could be eliminated
ya bro that aint normally lol havin all that slag n stuffy.. love the channel tho
Jason, it is great that you not only show your successes but also show your faults. Not everyone shows what happens if you have to redo your work. It is great to hear you admit when you make a mistake. Good job and I always look forward to watching the next episode that you come out with.
...all while asking for for suggestions along the way.
Jason, if you plan to visit this mine again, please be careful. That slab of rock may be simply waiting for some nearby wall hammering. I know you are very aware of the dangers, but speaking purely from my selfish view, I learn a lot form your videos and don't want you injured.
He cut timbers for it recently.
@@spirit_wolf123 As a Mine Geologist with 32 years under my belt I can assure you that what you just posted was a truckload of hooey. You seem to embrace martyrdom and for that you would never work on one of my crews. The most important thing to come out of any mine is the Miners themselves. I'd rather go home to my wife and kids in the evening, but you be you.
@@rockbutcher thank you. You said it better than I could have done 😉👌🙏
@@nonsequitor Thanks Matt. Have a happy and safe 2023!
@@spirit_wolf123 🥱
FINALLY!! Great job!!
Love how you keep trying and never give up, and failure isn't an option. Metaphor for life in general.
metaphor
@@whiskeytangofoxtrot5057 Thanks
@@jcvigh8453 that's what built this country.
@@jakebrakebill 😂
You need to get diffusers for your lights. Temporarily a piece of printer paper would help out a bit, basically you want the light to be more ambient and omni-directional rather than focused. Hope it helps!
He needs a petzl headlamp
Its crazy where them ole timers punched in those mines. Been looking forward to seeing what that material produced. Keep up the good work bud.
How TF did those old timers do this without the power tools and the crushers and the pulverizers?
Really good episode!!! Love how you give us insight into your processing the ore. Very good results from what you pulled out of that mine.
This is easily one of the best gold mining channels on YT. No gimmicky giveaways or Patreon pitches. Just great information and experiences.
Watching Jason use every new tech tool he has to chip away at quartz with limited success really makes me appreciate the hard work our predecessors did to mine out that whole cave by hand! I’m sure there’s some lost technology and methods they used back then. I wish we knew all of it!
I don't think there's any technology that's been lost per se. If anything newer technologies are making the yields much higher than they were back then. Makes you wonder if there's any wisdom to processing just the tailings...
@@randallsmerna384 The 120 year old gold mines in my area have had the tailings reworked several times as new processes came about but the reworks of the last 10 years leave absolutely nothing behind.
These are forreal my favorite videos on CZcams
Your second smelt of the slag looks more like 40 to 45% gold.There is a jeweller on CZcams,Sreetips who does very detailed analysis by acid,electrolysis and smelting,he is very thorough.
Sreetips is a wizard! I love him.
Jason, you should try applied heat to the cone mold to slow the cooling process and allow more time for the heavies to settle to the bottom.
@UCWPd57qVP0c5Is8-2g4hEWw The heavies are already at the bottom of the crucible and are actually the last out. If you delay the cooling of the cone mold, it gives the heavies more time to settle. This is the technique my grandfather used.
Your grandfather's method sounds totally logical.
Each time I watch Jason pour hot content into the cone and see the remaining liquid in the crucible not making it into the cone, I can't help but wonder about any possible heavy (precious) metals being left behind; or how much harder it must be for them to reach the tip of the cone since the cooling process has already set in.
Here was also the first time I saw him thin (re-smelt?) that bottom leftover in the crucible, which is good, but it was then poured into an already cooling mass, which might have prevented any remaining heavies from reaching the tip of the cone.
@@vernowen2083 You should try the oil and water in a clear glass demonstration. The heavies are at the bottom of the crucible after the melt but they are not the last out during the pour as they sink through the molten solution very quickly as you tip the crucible over while pouring.
Jason, i really appreciate and enjoy your very thorough videos and the manner in which you present information. Of late (Nov. 2023), i also find the video sequence numbers are very helpful in order that I don"t continually re-watch those videos I've already seen.
It's therapeutic watching these!
Jason,
You and Mauna Loa, perfect together:)
Cheers,
Rik
Excellent video, very educational. Your process alone is one of the best and informative here on CZcams. Thank you Jason!
Thoroughly enjoy watching the process and the thinking behind it.
Crazy gold!
Thanks for the shiny trip Jason!!
Happy new year Brother! 🎉
Yuppers! Been waiting for this
Hi Jason!
I work in granite industry many years as driller and also stone splitter with those same wedge, I strongly recommend you at least 3-4 more wedge 4 inch appart, don’t dip to much in the face also, and last trick is smash just a little the wedge and let pressure build up, drive wedge straight into didn’t often work, it drive the crack often to the easiest way than take big chunk 😅 and for removal of the wedge drill close along one feather than will loose the pressure of the wedge easily. Drive pop hole throught natural crack is the best. You should absolutely put the chisel away you done well the feather and wedge man! The wedge was the piece you smash and the feather was the two piece you have to point into direction you want the pressure. Here in quebec we name it Coins & Jumelles 😁
Merci beaucoup! 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸🍀🔥🌲🥓
Never get tired of watch the full process & results. The old mine was a bit scary in the stope area.
Great video. I love watching your process and some of the mines you work are amazing.
Thank you for the video Jason. We love watching you doing what you love to do. Most of us couch-quarterbacks will never have the skill, passion, desire or hutzpah to climb into a situation like that! We are lucky to watch you do your thing!! Happy New Year to you and your family!
As others said, thank you for including things that don't go as planned in addition to the stuff that does. I've never smelted gold but interesting to watch you do it.
Another great episode!
Happy new year mate. Keep doin you , love it
Great work Jason.
The Super fine grinder is a great looking machine.Totally enjoyed the video 🛎keep'em coming
Been waiting for this one! Very cool man! Congrats!
Awesome results! Can't wait 'til you go back for more.
Another good video ! Love it
Thanks for another video Jason! I hope we get to see a big ore crush soon, like you've done in the past so we can see those big gold buttons :)
OMG Jason! That's some awesome ore!!! Watched you at the mine, I was drooling over the potential! 🧐 The richness is attested by the final results... GREAT results. I would make a plan to grab some more (please be watchful of those stalls and hanging rock). Don't want to lose an awesome miner! Thank you for sharing. Warm hugs from Alabama ❤️
Yet another Great video! Happy New Year Jason and MBMM with more experiments and more gold in 2023! I love your approach of continuous learning, many experiments and helping us grow our understanding and learn new things.
Excellent gold. Thank you for all the great information Jason. Happy New Year to you and yours.
I came across you in watching one of Brent Underwoods videos and the two of you combined give an excellent overview of what underground mining was and still is all about - Thanks!!
Great video 👍👍
Thank you Sir
As for lights go, when I was a photographer we used what's called "daylight" bulbs. Normal bulbs tend to be on the warmer side of the spectrum IE- yellows to orangish light as where "daylight bulbs" are on the blueish side which makes light that is more like sun light and also it's easier on the eyes. Hope this helps Jason.. Can't wait for the next video.. Chris..
Question for you. What is the photographers term for those silvery-white "umbrellas" used to provide even diffusion of light ?
@@John-ir2zf umbrella diffuser...
@@John-ir2zf We called them chimera's as kind of a blanket term as it was the company that made them. If you go to a photography store you can find the "daylight bulbs", diffusers, light heads and tripods. A cheaper option could be to swap out the blubs on you shop lights with the led bulbs, either was it will help the video. Regards. Chris.
Regarding lighting: A lot of light is being reflected back to the camera when you look right at a sample and it overwhelms the sensor. Having the light off to the side at a different angle than the camera may help.
@@MrPhillip2 Yea, what's going on is the quartz being a bright white reflecting a lot of light and everything else being dark. He just needs to change camera settings to at least center-weighted metering for exposure setting. This way the camera shortens exposure to what he's trying to point out in bright center.
I love you video's on hard rock mining, prospecting and crushing ore to release the Gold. Thank you Jason for sharing your knowledge, Happy New Year. Cheers Kev
That was the best pour yet🌋
It was just a fumble. You recovered it. Good one thanks Jason
Great job 👏
Happy New Years Jason!!
LOL, I smiled big when he said he was going to re-process the slag.
Looking forward to that super rich and sketchy mine results from a few vids back. Happy New year Jason!
Excellent video Jason, always really enjoy watching your explorations, some of these mines look a “little” sketchy from here so be careful, anyway I wish you and your family an excellent New Year and all the good luck possible, later mate !!!
Happy New Year! Good luck.👍
Very interesting and informative. Ive been enjoying learning about something interesting. I live in Montana and have known a few miners growing up. Like a tip toe through the tulips. Spending my childhood at mines in the 70's. Thanks
Great video Thanks for sharing
Earth sharting gold is a great visual.
Awesome, stay safe and Happy New Year to you !!
These videos help a person to see why precious metals are so precious. Thanks
Happy new year, Jason. When I'm tunneling, I use a Fenix HM65R, LED rechargeable headlamp. I have tested many and this is by far the best and reliable. It's a little pricey, but you get what you pay for.
Great video. Really interesting to see the process start to finish.
It's very amazing no doubt
Thank you Jason for another fun filled educational video on hard rock mining and smelting. Nice litte pulverizer you have there, with that material i would've tossed it right on the shacker table. Happy New Year brother can't wait to see what you bring to us in 2023! 🎉
Always waiting for new video from you.. nice gold Jason 👏👏
Fascinating. Thanks
Merry Christmas and happy new year my friend
Great video
Awesome!
So fascinating. Thanks.
Thanks Jason great video,looking forward to seeing you figure out what went wrong and Happy New Year
Those feather and wedges come in real handy for this. Great tool to have. The wedge is the part you hit with the hammer.
Thanks Great Video
Jason, great video. I love the underground stuff. I've called them pin and feathers, so your wedge is your pin so to speak. Keep them coming.
Happy new year from Vancouver Island. 🇨🇦 let’s go Turdo
West of Las Vegas, I found a mine called the “green monster mine”
Wonderful specimens laying around, rich copper ore
Happy new year Jason I hope you find tons of gold and be careful out there
As someone that was offered a job at a smeltering company lab, over a half centurty ago, and I passed that up to finish my degree in chemistry and go to work in the petrochemistry here on the Texas Coast, I am learning from you the things I missed. But in the mean time I was given advice to become a grad student by my Geology prof. And I was able to take an advanced course by a hard rock geologist who had students mapping the precambrian strata in the Llano uplift region. I left UT Austin conflicted but since I had grown up with a father who was cut loose from a WWII & post Korean war oil boom job in the vast Corpus Christi region oil fields, plus the geology lab teachers, were all layed off mineral hunters, working on post grad degrees, I got the picture of the boom or bust geo- exploration cycle and got a job with a growing chemical company that later merged with Du Pont and became the largest in the US. And I could drive to The Houston Gem and Mineral Society meetings mineral section mettings twice a month. But they hated mineral chemistry, only euhedral crystals. Love your smelting experiments. I spent almost 20 years in petrochemical research and never got a chance to do any of that, but we had a blast, litteraly, some damn big ones, unplaned too.
Jason, i dont think anyone on youtube is covering the subject's that you are covering and your getting good at your presentation, and I really like watching you on your channel.
Cheers, Gene
Foghorn leghorn in the back ground..🤪😆👍👍
Always enjoy your video's and do be careful young man...
thank you
A happy New year health and happienes in 2023.
Greetings from Germany
Great job I really love your content I also dabble in refining gold.
Thank you
Milwaukee should sponsor you, Jason. Also Milwaukee has some nice work lights that would use the batteries you run.
I love the honest realism that is naturally shown here in the mining and refining. Stuff like cost to reward ratio, I mean I'm sure Jason could slap his home depot card down and go it there with 8 batteries :)
But he doesn't, it'd not just a show its him really highgrading to see how much gold is there! :)
Hi Jason u earn my subscription today thank you for your explanation, I am working in the watch industry and use gold for cases bracelets and other mouvements parts. I take you as an example to motivate people in the factory and to make them aware of the effort it takes to collect a gram of gold from earth. Keep going I get a lot from explanation from mine to the little piece of fine gold
Comment 2: Even though your thing is crushing to recover gold,I reckon it would be interesting if you were to select one or two small specimens which display multiple pieces of visible gold and recover any gold by dissolving the quartz and sulfides.Maybe you could do a separate video on that.
He already did that video with several chemicals, but he needs a good suggestion to have better success.
great video Jason :) a nice amount of gold per tonnage weight :) also a couple of nice beads to boot :) happy new year :) and I hope you had a fantastic Christmas :)
I thought you might show off the small shaker table. Congratulations on the excellent "on the wing" assay.
Nice
Hope you had a really nice New Year's celebration with your family.
Jason
Let me begin by saying Ty for all of your videos on you tube. We are almost neighbors.
I am looking forward to seeing more.
Ima his rock lover. I love the exploration in prospectingaz well as learning how the earth creates itself. I'm interested in lowering a claim will as freeing my RV from all the specimens stored in my journey .
I WILL BE getting back to you for some advice and your best opinion. Hopefully you will find find to see me seriously in my development. 3 solid year in research and findings.
Very exciting stuff.
Looks like fun to me
Facinating.
Nice up close camera work 14:39 next to the feathered wedge on the newly opened seem. Nice to see up close all the different colors and types of rocks and minerals. It looks beautiful.
Olights great company amazing lights
If the need for new lighting comment was made due to the viewers unable to see said gold in the ore due to brightness than some day try filters and diffusers to minimize your dropping the light output yet reduces the glare picked up on video as well as remember to just point them up or not at your actual target because the quartz will reflect it for you being such a light color and the sheen being so shiny. Love watching ya man! Thanks for all you do and be safe always think twice should I do this and if you ask 3 times it's a no usually lol.
Always awesome videos. Had no idea you’re based in the same town as Grizzly tools. I live near their second location in MO.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year all the best regards from here on the West Coast side of Australia 🌏 Batavia Coast 🙏🖖🤟🇦🇺
Wet farther enrichment, technical term in geology,look it up,lol,great video Jason!
Your crucibles will last a lot longer if you use rings to handle them. Cool project though. I'm glad you show the refining of the previous video's finds
Jason, you should try working with diffused light. Your shots will be much better illuminated. To test it out, you can simply clamp a layer of toilet paper with a rubber band over your light, a cloth, kitchen paper or something similar should also work.
Jason thank for this video cause we ignored lk mines like these in filabusi in zimbabwe
So is this the mine that you made the post for? Excellent return for your labor. Outstanding video great content thank you for sharing this with us six stars brother
Cody from Cody's lab used a white Tshirt over the light to help it diffuse better in one of his old mine videos
Hi Jason
Dear teacher, your works are very scientific and with complete explanations that leave no room for doubt. The question I had is that we can't extract gold better with Aqua Regia. And secondly, you do not add lead oxide in the flux, what is the reason for the lack of lead oxide in the flux? Also, you used to put an iron rod in the melting pot to absorb sulfates, but you didn't do it in this clip, why? I really enjoyed your mining and extraction work.