Little understood (except to the Tommy Knockers) that hard rock mining is as much "Art" as science. One reason that the Cornish miners were so successful in the Mother Lode.
From Cornwall, England, started off with tin and silver on the Southwest corner of England, then as work dried up, like the Welsh, they spread across the world taking their skills with them@@somsackvongsa7077
Do one sit up today wait a day and do 2 sit ups. By the time you cand do 10😊 your back will stop hurting at 2 or 73! my Grandpa told me that and he unretired and stated being the office janitor at 67, he looked a day over 60 at 82 when he retired again. Back problems start with a week core. Do sit ups
@@michaelbyrnes1822 With spinal disc degeneration failures no luck in doing one sit up as the trouble is not muscle at which your talking about. Tear a muscle rebuild it stronger does not work for these people. Discs are bone, not muscle and if part of society cannot continue to absorb calcium like those without disc problems than this is a disease that has not been solved.
I agree with you. Same age, my back mess going ejection seat training over period of 13 years. Plus major auto wreck I was a passenger.for about three weeks I couldn’t walk was Paralyzed from waist down. This happened 1996-7. My lady, her damage was from me being slammed into her. Seat be,t scar across my chest from right shoulder to left hip. I got pretty broke up. Pelvic broke in 7 places, my tail bone three places, ribs on right all were broke collar bone right side broke in three place compound fracture, mod to severe head fracture concussion . Then I didn’t know me. But they had my ID. Lost my front upper teeth. 5000 dollars to repair and fix. Now I just hurt all over. But Jason I real enjoy watching you have the fun. Like to see more of Washington state mountains and trees. Lost my eye sight in Vietnam
It used to bug me that he would explain the entire process each time he'd display these machines, until it finally dawned on me that is the purpose of this whole channel, to showcase his products. So now I enjoy listening to this very long commercial.
Roast your ore, follow up with quenching in water, run through the system, collect the concentrates, dry and roast the concentrates with carbon on top, then smelt with the equivalent of chapman flux with a little extra borax as a thinner. I guarantee that will yield an ideal smelt with no matt layer and instead of using nails. Use one large flat piece of steel for better surface area. Try it Jason it will work!
Shouldn't he season the crucible with borax before its first use as well? The inside was covered in a coarse layer of material after the pour. That process also makes the crucible last longer.
@@DonariaRegiaDepends on the manufacturer. Some preseason the crucibles for you, you should be able to see if the crucible needs to be seasoned by looking at the inside of the crucible. If the manufacturer says to season it, or tells you that it doesn't need to seasoned; then follow what they say to do.
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but if you're slabing gold ore in the oil saw, you should check the rock slurry after awhile to see how much free gold was "cut" out of the rocks!
That had to be stressful as hell!! Glad you figured it out. I ordered a bag of the ore last month and a bag of the new crushed ore last night! Excited to try my hand at panning some hard rock crush! Thanks Jason
Dude, nice job sticking with it. What a frustrating pour and I don't even know the end result yet but it looks like you got through it. One thing is evident, what a laborious process for an ounce of gold at today's value. That may change soon. You've shown what can be done but without other sources of income, you'll go broke doing it unless you can really streamline the operation and if there's enough vein ore to remove. For entertainment and educational value this is top notch! Hey Discovery channel! This guy is the real deal with no made up drama! Just real life drama.
My timing was perfect. I started watching this series yesterday and watched them all. When I get up this morning I find that the last episode had just been uploaded. Timing is everything
What an amazing adventure Jason. Thank you for sharing it with all of us. I watch constantly, but don’t comment often. This series was worth talking about. I can’t wait for next season. Keep up the good work.😎😎😎😎😎
This was such a beautiful experience in metallurgy, seeing you struggle and still get the pure gold in the end was a real treat. Thank you Jason! The crystalline appearance of the bead was such a fantastic bonus, I didn't even know gold could do that under those conditions. That's a keeper!
Congratulations! It's excellent that you don't edit out the bumps along the road to getting the gold. It's an honest look at how so many things can go wrong and how you just keep trying until you solve the issues. Love this channel.
Jason, glad you got it going and getting the "SHINEY" from your miney😂 Lots of work so windering if youve done a time cost study with the 1 ton vs 1 oz gold & costs of it... 😊😊
Glad you solved the case of the missing gold, been waiting for this episode. More AU in season two is my prayer for you Jason... Thanks for the entertainment! ⛏⚒⛏
I have some glass with some stuff looks exactly like this stuff from a large vein rock I found from my mine. Haven't been able to figure out how to get the gold to drop. I think what you did is what I need to do. Jason you rock. I'm gonna be rolling when this works. I think I'm gonna do the hcl 10% first then add some sand like I saw in the comments followed by some Potassium nitrate.Gonna do it all. I love your videos, keep up the good work!
Just wanted to say that I appreciate the art aspects of gold recovery as much as the physical challenges of minning. I am a local fan. Went to WWU. I know the Bellingham area well. Love to chat about the Oroville area some day. Do you ever do an events?
I have a dumb question maybe. I looks to me like when the chemical process works correctly, there is a visual pattern in the way the liquid cools that is made. I don't know if anyone else understands but as you look at the cone mold as the liquid slag/metal cools, there is like a spider web pattern that occurs you can see? I might just be crazy?
We Love your Mining Videos and GOLD! I have a University of North Carolina Degree in Geology! But I live at the beach So I don't get to see much Mining other than RUclips! Keep up the Good Work...
That’s the biggest gold button I have seen produced thus far on your channel! Holy Cow! That’s great. And hopefully people buying stuff off eBay understand it’s a novelty, for fun, not a scam to make you rich. You have clearly been successful through good old geologic knowledge and hard work. 🏴
I just "binge-watched" all 17 videos for your amazing gold mine adventures, and I can't thank you enough for taking us with you, not only when you brought your mine up to par, but improved on it, as well! Start to finish, I was hooked! Thanks for all of your outstanding how-to videos, Jason; you're the best!
Love watching you work through the entire process from source material to final product. It has to be the best 8-hour long advertisement for MBMM! Incredible!
Hi Jason, If you took the high silica tailings and mixed them with a high-strength cement then use it for cement countertops from gold ore with a few specimen pieces inserted and then polished would sell extremely well and the tailings already are the very best cement sand
Maybe ask Sreetips for some suggestions regarding handling separation issues? I still think you, Dan and he would make for a really interesting combo series!
I love the way you never fail to give the technical details. I'm so excited to see what you get from this run! [resumes watching] I think my favorite part is watching your pet lava seethe in the cone. What a tough run, but that crystalized puck at the end is SO WORTH IT. A specimen piece tbh
Happy to see a golden conclusion to all your effort, with bonus crystal structure that looks super cool. As others do, I like seeing the whole process, the experiments are probably annoying for you to have to do, but it is enjoyable to watch.
I know every ore, and concentrate is different. But I've had the best success roasting first, Then smelting with a 3:1 flux/concentrate mix, with a flux with litharge. I have tried several different mixtures without the litharge and I consistently get a lot more gold from the litharge flux. I've found that even some of the pours that didn't have any matte, still recovered far less gold in side by side smelts with the same concentrate than the litharge flux. Great video though, because it does show how difficult the process can be!
Mmmm, more lead in the environment. There are no safe levels of lead, and when you use the litharge technique you burn off and produce a lot of lead oxide which then gets everywhere in the environment. EPA laws around lead are very strict. Lead smelters for example are required to use air scrubbers, and surfaces in and around the plant must be regularly tested.
I think you didn’t have enough silica. Your early slags were not very glassy. They probably got saturated with sulfur. That left iron in the metal phase, that formed iron metal or magnetite. Your later slags were glassy and behaved well.
just a tip; rename series to just "My Gold Mine". i always see the opening and it makes me think im rewatching a video lol love your content thank you and God bless
That is a most beautiful first button. Thanks for that exciting learning curve. It's in the green mud....only visually observing this comparing a chemical refiner I watch. Love the channel, thanks for bringing us along for such interesting earth science....it's grounding ;] Cheers to a super first result. Awesome.
Yes! I'm so happy to finally see the conclusion if your hard work! Please keep it coming man you guys keeping the dream alive is the best thing on RUclips
I looked through a lot of the comments but did not see anyone who has bought a bag of the rock ore comment on what they found, I have gone through maybe half a bag and only found 1 or two barely visible gold flakes but more under magnification, the material needs to be crushed into a flour then hand panned, I found the gold washed away in the blue bowl and even hand panning required multiple times but there is gold and its so fine it can't be seen until it collects together in the pan. I took a couple rocks and cut and polished them and that's pretty cool some of the sulfides look like tin foil and others have a bronze look. I hope my purchase keeps these videos coming .
I like the fact that you don't edit out all the failures and show people that things aren't always easy. Congratulations on your success.
Little understood (except to the Tommy Knockers) that hard rock mining is as much "Art" as science. One reason that the Cornish miners were so successful in the Mother Lode.
The failures are sometimes the most interesting to watch.
@@Enfield2Awhom are cornish miners.where were they..?
I feel it. Twice now, I botched the cuppelling process, but I'm close. Hoping third time will be the charm!
From Cornwall, England, started off with tin and silver on the Southwest corner of England, then as work dried up, like the Welsh, they spread across the world taking their skills with them@@somsackvongsa7077
At 73 with a worn out back - I prefer watching you do it. Thanks for taking us along.
Do one sit up today wait a day and do 2 sit ups. By the time you cand do 10😊 your back will stop hurting at 2 or 73! my Grandpa told me that and he unretired and stated being the office janitor at 67, he looked a day over 60 at 82 when he retired again. Back problems start with a week core. Do sit ups
@michaelbyrnes1822 Please don't lecture a 73 yr old person. The idea that you're not telling them anything they haven't heard before is ridiculous.
@@michaelbyrnes1822 With spinal disc degeneration failures no luck in doing one sit up as the trouble is not muscle at which your talking about. Tear a muscle rebuild it stronger does not work for these people. Discs are bone, not muscle and if part of society cannot continue to absorb calcium like those without disc problems than this is a disease that has not been solved.
I agree with you. Same age, my back mess going ejection seat training over period of 13 years. Plus major auto wreck I was a passenger.for about three weeks I couldn’t walk was Paralyzed from waist down. This happened 1996-7. My lady, her damage was from me being slammed into her. Seat be,t scar across my chest from right shoulder to left hip. I got pretty broke up. Pelvic broke in 7 places, my tail bone three places, ribs on right all were broke collar bone right side broke in three place compound fracture, mod to severe head fracture concussion . Then I didn’t know me. But they had my ID. Lost my front upper teeth. 5000 dollars to repair and fix. Now I just hurt all over. But Jason I real enjoy watching you have the fun. Like to see more of Washington state mountains and trees. Lost my eye sight in Vietnam
Nice shiny rocks, bro.
So glad I found this channel better than the gold rush shows on discovery.
It used to bug me that he would explain the entire process each time he'd display these machines, until it finally dawned on me that is the purpose of this whole channel, to showcase his products. So now I enjoy listening to this very long commercial.
Ok
@@semoneg2826 thanks bro
Roast your ore, follow up with quenching in water, run through the system, collect the concentrates, dry and roast the concentrates with carbon on top, then smelt with the equivalent of chapman flux with a little extra borax as a thinner. I guarantee that will yield an ideal smelt with no matt layer and instead of using nails. Use one large flat piece of steel for better surface area. Try it Jason it will work!
Shouldn't he season the crucible with borax before its first use as well? The inside was covered in a coarse layer of material after the pour. That process also makes the crucible last longer.
@@DonariaRegia Yes!
@@Southern-A-Ranch Agreed! Researching old timers techniques has some great benefits to it.
@@DonariaRegiaDepends on the manufacturer. Some preseason the crucibles for you, you should be able to see if the crucible needs to be seasoned by looking at the inside of the crucible. If the manufacturer says to season it, or tells you that it doesn't need to seasoned; then follow what they say to do.
Awesome! How do you know so much on smelting? Fantastic advice, I'm definitely going to try it! Thank you! 😊😊
The case of the missing gold! Love the channel! Can't wait for next year's mining!
Edit: just let the jackass be a jackass, hes gonna breh his stupid shit no matter 😂@Fdeubcfhbbjhfd
Stuck to last bit of iron that stuck to cone mold?
The case of the missing dents run gold! Lol if you're not familiar Google it, interesting
Good job Jason. I hope after the helicopter portage off the mountain was Recovered that wasn't cheap. Great video
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but if you're slabing gold ore in the oil saw, you should check the rock slurry after awhile to see how much free gold was "cut" out of the rocks!
Good job!
That had to be stressful as hell!! Glad you figured it out. I ordered a bag of the ore last month and a bag of the new crushed ore last night! Excited to try my hand at panning some hard rock crush! Thanks Jason
My wife ordered a bag for xmas. Now I just need to figure how I am going to crush it when I have the time.
@@northwestgaming4049 making or buying a dolly pot is the cheapest way I found to
@@northwestgaming4049 Google Dolly Pot crushing
Good luck to you both!
It's fun to watch your progress, congratulations
that was exciting, alchemy at its best, Jason the wizard, can't wait to see what happens next.
Been waitin a long time for this video. Woot Woot the FEVER!
Dude, nice job sticking with it. What a frustrating pour and I don't even know the end result yet but it looks like you got through it. One thing is evident, what a laborious process for an ounce of gold at today's value. That may change soon. You've shown what can be done but without other sources of income, you'll go broke doing it unless you can really streamline the operation and if there's enough vein ore to remove. For entertainment and educational value this is top notch! Hey Discovery channel! This guy is the real deal with no made up drama! Just real life drama.
Very informative. Enjoyed your knowledge and letting us hang Along
Sell that gold button as is!!! That crystal structure is beautiful!
Always thoroughly enjoy the videos you do Jason!
Thank you!
My timing was perfect. I started watching this series yesterday and watched them all. When I get up this morning I find that the last episode had just been uploaded. Timing is everything
😊
My man fought hard for that ounce of gold. That piece is worth more than its weight in gold!
It’s always great watching the gold recovery.
What a conundrum!
Mining curve balls. Lol
Thanks Jason 🙏
What an amazing adventure Jason. Thank you for sharing it with all of us. I watch constantly, but don’t comment often. This series was worth talking about. I can’t wait for next season. Keep up the good work.😎😎😎😎😎
This was such a beautiful experience in metallurgy, seeing you struggle and still get the pure gold in the end was a real treat. Thank you Jason! The crystalline appearance of the bead was such a fantastic bonus, I didn't even know gold could do that under those conditions. That's a keeper!
Congratulations, Jason! Hope you’re able to get up to the mine quickly to start your 2024 journey to the *_“Evergreen Motherlode!”_*
Cheers! 🖖😎👍
Congratulations! It's excellent that you don't edit out the bumps along the road to getting the gold. It's an honest look at how so many things can go wrong and how you just keep trying until you solve the issues. Love this channel.
Thanks for the show! I’ve been enjoying the gold in my bag of ore.
Light snowpack so far this year, might get up there sooner than you think!
It is always interesting to watch the recovery process, and to see the re-thinking, and fine tuning required, to recover the metal.
Fascninting trouble shooting,like watching medieval alchemy!
Accept they knew what they were doing 😂
Looking forward to season 2👍
Very satisfying results with this equipment
wow that crystal structure on the gold was beautiful great work brother
I am so glad to have found this channel through watching Brent at Cerro Gordo.
Jason puts out some great very interesting content
Tour always on a great adventure, i love the video's 👊🏼👊🏼
Love the fact that you show both sides of the process and walk us through the whole process
Looking forward to the next one
Nice job, Jason. I had an ore like that last year, that did the same thing on me. I think I'm going to try what you did
Jason, glad you got it going and getting the "SHINEY" from your miney😂
Lots of work so windering if youve done a time cost study with the 1 ton vs 1 oz gold & costs of it...
😊😊
Glad you solved the case of the missing gold, been waiting for this episode. More AU in season two is my prayer for you Jason... Thanks for the entertainment! ⛏⚒⛏
Difficult to access, difficult to mine, difficult to process.....this gold sure is making ya work for it Jason!
NICE GOLD!!!!!! LOVE that rail;/spike/ore sample thingy!!!!!
I have some glass with some stuff looks exactly like this stuff from a large vein rock I found from my mine. Haven't been able to figure out how to get the gold to drop. I think what you did is what I need to do. Jason you rock. I'm gonna be rolling when this works. I think I'm gonna do the hcl 10% first then add some sand like I saw in the comments followed by some Potassium nitrate.Gonna do it all. I love your videos, keep up the good work!
@7:30 "That's what the number two looks like." I would tend to agree. :)
😆 good one !
Just wanted to say that I appreciate the art aspects of gold recovery as much as the physical challenges of minning. I am a local fan. Went to WWU. I know the Bellingham area well. Love to chat about the Oroville area some day. Do you ever do an events?
I have a dumb question maybe. I looks to me like when the chemical process works correctly, there is a visual pattern in the way the liquid cools that is made. I don't know if anyone else understands but as you look at the cone mold as the liquid slag/metal cools, there is like a spider web pattern that occurs you can see? I might just be crazy?
The wait has been tremendous!
Yeah it's been too long since he took the gold out of the mine .
He sold a lot on ebay and Jason may not have had the equipment ie new spiral concentrater.
We Love your Mining Videos and GOLD! I have a University of North Carolina Degree in Geology! But I live at the beach So I don't get to see much Mining other than RUclips! Keep up the Good Work...
30:03 so amount is around 2.2k per ton.... a huge labor of love. now this next season bring home 10 tons of ore
That’s the biggest gold button I have seen produced thus far on your channel! Holy Cow! That’s great. And hopefully people buying stuff off eBay understand it’s a novelty, for fun, not a scam to make you rich. You have clearly been successful through good old geologic knowledge and hard work. 🏴
You are an awesome man, Jason! You find time to go help everyone! An awesome awesome man. Thinking about that, your family, wife and kids love you !!
I am thrilled for You. Sharing..and thank You for doing these good videos.
Awesome job love the hard work cheers 🇨🇦
Seeing those tailings makes me want to make a horseshoe pit, the texture is perfect!!!
Until you smell it, lol
The fun part is that gold doesn't go anywhere. You can keep perfecting processes with little worry about any lose.
Give the man some credit for Pete sakes
16:47 I was yelling "it was stuck to the nails at the bottom of the crucible!"
Has been an amazing season
What a journey. Thanks for taking us for the ride!
I really enjoyed this mining operation and would love to see more of this type of content for sure..
Fantastic recovery on that smelt . Great video and many thanks for showing us your process for gettin the gold .
I just "binge-watched" all 17 videos for your amazing gold mine adventures, and I can't thank you enough for taking us with you, not only when you brought your mine up to par, but improved on it, as well! Start to finish, I was hooked! Thanks for all of your outstanding how-to videos, Jason; you're the best!
Thanks for the update.
Hopefully ahead in the end.
Great adventure.
Wow! You picked a pretty rainy day to pour into your cone mold.
Love watching you work through the entire process from source material to final product. It has to be the best 8-hour long advertisement for MBMM! Incredible!
Nice to see this happening now been waiting thanks for the video
The moment we've all been waiting for! Thanks for wearing gloves!
Jason you could ask Jeff Willams where he gets his tracks that he use in his for his ore cart.
Hi Jason,
If you took the high silica tailings and mixed them with a high-strength cement then use it for cement countertops from gold ore with a few specimen pieces inserted and then polished would sell extremely well and the tailings already are the very best cement sand
Great idea. Creative second use. 👌
What a great video! Can’t wait for the next season
Nice Jason. Can't wait until you guys can get back into your mine. Seeing the resulting gold is something special though. Thanks bud.
Putting in the work (4letterword) to overcome the difficulties and produce the final piece is fulfilling. Well worth the effort, and viewing.
I've been waiting for this! Thank you Jason!
I love a good mystery, this is a very expensive one! Keep on keeping on!!
super interesting episode! even with the issues, it definitely made it more exciting and interesting
My wife and I are both rockhounds, and she wants one or two of those slabs with visible gold in them. Off to eBay I go!
Well done Jason all the hard work paid off, and now ya can get a hundred tones out in the summer buddy good luck
Very good and thank you
Maybe ask Sreetips for some suggestions regarding handling separation issues? I still think you, Dan and he would make for a really interesting combo series!
I love the way you never fail to give the technical details. I'm so excited to see what you get from this run! [resumes watching] I think my favorite part is watching your pet lava seethe in the cone. What a tough run, but that crystalized puck at the end is SO WORTH IT. A specimen piece tbh
That is frickin awesome! I've really enjoyed the journey starting from rehab to a kick ass button of shiny goodness 😍! Awesome job, Jason!
Great video showing gold recovery equipment and gold recovery, thanks!
That was a tough one but perseverance got you though it!!!; )
Learned a lot about the work it takes to refine ore in this video! I'm thoroughly entertained.
Happy to see a golden conclusion to all your effort, with bonus crystal structure that looks super cool. As others do, I like seeing the whole process, the experiments are probably annoying for you to have to do, but it is enjoyable to watch.
I know every ore, and concentrate is different. But I've had the best success roasting first, Then smelting with a 3:1 flux/concentrate mix, with a flux with litharge. I have tried several different mixtures without the litharge and I consistently get a lot more gold from the litharge flux. I've found that even some of the pours that didn't have any matte, still recovered far less gold in side by side smelts with the same concentrate than the litharge flux.
Great video though, because it does show how difficult the process can be!
Mmmm, more lead in the environment. There are no safe levels of lead, and when you use the litharge technique you burn off and produce a lot of lead oxide which then gets everywhere in the environment. EPA laws around lead are very strict.
Lead smelters for example are required to use air scrubbers, and surfaces in and around the plant must be regularly tested.
Wow you had me worried there for a few minutes 😊 I sure you were too. I would hate to see you resort to acids 😊
I think you didn’t have enough silica. Your early slags were not very glassy. They probably got saturated with sulfur. That left iron in the metal phase, that formed iron metal or magnetite. Your later slags were glassy and behaved well.
Wow! That was a rollercoaster ride! So satisfying to see that ounce of shiny. Well done Jason!
just a tip; rename series to just "My Gold Mine". i always see the opening and it makes me think im rewatching a video lol love your content thank you and God bless
Woo Hoo the gold isn't aging in the ore anymore !!! : )
Did you also go back and get the stuff that was stuck to the nails you had originally put in there too?
wow this was a good one
Fantastic watch Jase. Disaster smelt, to problem solving, to end result. Loved it.
Thank you for sharing with us all the gold mining process; May God bless your business!
really enjoy watching your smelting, both wins and fails
That is a most beautiful first button. Thanks for that exciting learning curve. It's in the green mud....only visually observing this comparing a chemical refiner I watch. Love the channel, thanks for bringing us along for such interesting earth science....it's grounding ;]
Cheers to a super first result. Awesome.
Good on you Jason, that's a nice bead of gold! looking forward to the next instalment
Yes! I'm so happy to finally see the conclusion if your hard work! Please keep it coming man you guys keeping the dream alive is the best thing on RUclips
I looked through a lot of the comments but did not see anyone who has bought a bag of the rock ore comment on what they found, I have gone through maybe half a bag and only found 1 or two barely visible gold flakes but more under magnification, the material needs to be crushed into a flour then hand panned, I found the gold washed away in the blue bowl and even hand panning required multiple times but there is gold and its so fine it can't be seen until it collects together in the pan. I took a couple rocks and cut and polished them and that's pretty cool some of the sulfides look like tin foil and others have a bronze look. I hope my purchase keeps these videos coming .
Three cheers Jason! Great result... we're waiting for season two - for sure!!
Love the video. It was a cliffhanger for awhile.
Great video! Can't wait to see more mining!
Thank you again sir! Always an adventure watching your channel. Thanks again
You, chad, and Harry make a great video team.
Absolutely great video series! 👍🏻