Very much looking forward to a new smelting video from you, and roasting your cons to release the gold - it would be super interesting to take a sample and split it in 3 or more, to figure out how much gold is held up in the Tellurides vs other sulfides and to see how much is liberated using the different methods
In your calculation at 41:00, since you're assuming everything is one or the other, x+y=1, so you can replace y with (1-x), for a direct calculation without guessing and checking.
I am a math teacher in Oregon. Desmos graphing calculator is free online. In seconds you could graph that equation and find possible answer sets. Just a quick way to get it done.
Hey Jason, It's Kyle. I think you would have good luck with 2 flat headed screw drivers, they're small but great for high grading like this. I always also bring news paper to wrap specimens so they don't break in my pack. Thank you for sharing your mine with me. I bought one box and I found about a gram just washing the rocks and then almost another gram after smashing and smashing. You gave me my first gold in quartz specimen and I really appreciate it. One day I would like to visit the mine, I'm a work horse and will get that stuff loaded. Keep up the good work. Heavy pans! -Kyle.
Telluride is a gold, and silver ore. Calavarite contains gold, sylvanite, silver. Cripple Creek is famous for this, specimens are highly sought after. They occur in in California gold rush country, and other areas of the world but are rare it is one of the only times gold alloys with other metals.
Use oxalic acid to remove the iron oxide staining, far safer. Playing with the caustic chemicals is fairly hazardous and don't contemplate using hydrofluoric, a drop on your skin will kill you, we used to etch our specimens by exposing the specimen just to the vapour (in a fume hood). Quenching your hot specimens will shatter the quartz, as they did. Very nice mineral specimens.
Jason, this is Darrin from Colorado. About 20 yrs. ago, I was handed a piece of Cripple Creek Colorado gold Telluride ore that had been assaying around 30 ounces per ton. This piece that I was holding was heated also and had gold all over it and through it. You may have a massive amount of gold that you didn't realize, in that Telluride ore.
To be honest with you if you After you roast your ore Jason you should clean them up with acid that you know will make the gold shiny So all that yellow that you see you can make sure it's gold And it should clean it up as well Just a suggest a suggestion for a future Just a suggest a suggestion for a future video maybe
You need a diamond cutting wheel on an angle grinder and/or on a 4-5" dewalt or other battery powered circular saw to cut out samples with. A lot faster than the hammer drill. As for the quartz and tellurides; grind it, run across the table, roast the hell out of the #1 and #2 in the furnace, then smelt at higher temps.
Calaverite (cal-uh-verite) was named after the wonderfully rich mines of Calaveras county, California. Be careful when roasting as the chemical bond between the AU and the tellerium can cause the finely disseminated gold to volatize. Also be careful when assaying as this chemical bond can cause up to 40 percent of the gold to be absorbed into the cupel. The telluride ores of California and Colorado were often measured in pounds, not ounces per ton. Keep following those telluride bands, i hope you find a ton or two!
IIRC, doesn't it not "penetrate" the surface that well? So not great for finding pockets, but good for telling us the flake they're looking at is indeed gold?
Can't help you with the technical aspect, but I have about a hundred Tidy Cat pales that I will be willing to give you if you want. Already mentioned them to Harry. My thought is that he can stop by on his way north to your mine. I am in southern Oregon, Just off the 5 on Hwy 99 (the frontage road to the 5) Off at the 35, back on at the 40, easy peasy ... Let me know, if not I will put them out front for free, but if they can help you .... Pales and lids, take what you want....Enjoyed your video as always, thankx for the share.... ~Jekyll the Hyde 🎩
i dont know why, but i just want to take a vacuum to an area of the mine and see what gold you get. i know beggars cant be choosers but id love to see like 20 bags go through the shaker table. the shaker table is amazing. love it have a great weekend!
Ordered my first 25lbs of ore from Jasons mine! 💪🤠🪨🔨Looking forward to it! I'm only about 5 hours south so I should see it pretty quick! Merry Christmas Everyone! May your pans always be heavy and bright!
Hey Jason, Get well! We all want to see you pour gold bars and the whole process! This video was awesome! Love it when you decide to 'experiment'!! Thumbs up! Get better real soon! Thumbs up! Jim
This has been an Awesome journey Jason , I want to thank you for making your God Ore available to the World out there . I just finished panning the last 5 lbs or so that i have left , i'm yet to roast it and get the gold out of it , and then i will smelt the remaining Oxides . I'm seriously tempted to buy some more , it's been lots of fun going along for the ride . Cheers Ned 👍👍
Jason. Use a torch, to art the hell out of these things. Let's you leave the natural beauty of the tellurium, see the gold, and look at the transition. Also let's you science the heck out of the questions that you have concerning the alloy/coating, etc.
Jason, I'm not metallurgist, but I did look up the melting points of Sulphur & Tellurium, which are related and they are both well below gold, so I think your supposition that there is gold locked up in the Tellurium is spot on. Of course Tellurium in itself might, don't know it value, just be worth something in itself, but in your case if gold is locked up in it, then I would sacrifice it for the gold. Just looked up price of Te, it's going for 2.55/oz., not a lot considering they say it's rarer than gold.
I kept hearing him talk about Tellurides in so many episodes that I finally googled it. Says $45/oz and it's got a lot of uses but I don't know what someone would have to do to separate and purify it. Sounds like something for a chemical refiner channel.
Have you done any experimenting on electrolytic separation of minerals? I find your enthusiasm for the hunt for minerals wonderfully engaging. Keep it up.
Congrats, that's a stunningly rich deposit ! It's almost hard to believe there is that much gold in the vein, even though I'm seeing it with my eyes. :- o
Hey Jason that’s some great looking ore. GREAT JOB!!! Would you roast half of that stuff. Maybe the less cool looking samples. Then let’s compare the roasted vs the rest. Keep it up we love your videos. I have learned a ton from watching your channel. Thanks and happy holidays.
Boiling and hot sodium hydroxide is absolutely terrifying from a safety perspective. I use it in the metallurgy industry for processing some ores and it is always my least favourite process. Well, aside from HF stuff.
Excellent video, when we get set up my grandson's and I want to buy some to just play with and see what we can actually remove from the ore. Thanks for sharing ❤🙏
A few of Dans’ feathering wedges might be handy about now, Jason. Bust open some seams, grab the rich stuff and get at the smelting. Banging on hard Quartz is not easy.
Hey boss, you might wanna start taking a black light down in the mine with you. One of those quartz had a turqoise blue green spot on it. Last time I ran across something that looked like that turned out to be Torbernite / Autunite. Long story short, radioactive. Just a thought.
great video as always, keep them coming. one suggestion, your videos are mono (right channel only) with usual scratch sounds on the left channel, maybe while editing get the right channel and copy it over the left audio channel and that way it will improve the audio of your videos drastically...
Hmmmm, now I have to figure out a furnace to roast some of my samples in! That's cool! What a fun pocket to come across. I hope the fuxtix stay out this year.
Jason, you need to have me teach you how to dowse the precious metal veins and ore shoots in your mine. This is no bullshit physics that are the same physics that energizes the alarm on electronic metal detectors. In the 1970's my father and I reverse engineered the physics involved in dowsing and invented the modern light weight ball bearing dowsing rod for using dowsing physics in locating our old core-drill on the exact center of gold and silver veins that are buried under 200 feet of glacier rock and till, which worked out perfectly for us. I wrote the book to teach the world how to apply physics in dowsing. My book: The Art of Dowsing - Separating Science from Superstition ($14.95), by Michael Fercik, explains all the physics involved in dowsing and teaches how to build the modern light weight ball bearing dowsing rod, which is the only dowsing rod that accurately gauges the element being dowsed by pitting the energy of gravity against the energizing of the pure one-tenth ounce dowsing rod load that is tapped onto the ELEVATED acetylene welding rod that is free spinning on ball bearings. This precisely gauges the dowsing of all edges, exact center, depth buried with angle of deposition, and most important is grading or deciphering the amount of the dowsed element that is contained in the elemental mass that is being dowsed. Anybody can become a professional dowser by practicing and mastering my book's dowsing lessons. I hope dowsing enriches your life intellectually and financially.
And I would be running back to that mine to fill some bags and start grinding and smelting!! I look forward to you doing an assay of that wall section.
I think you need to go in with a diamond saw to create relief. Not sure of the logistics on a wall like that but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.
While watching this vid I was reminded of a video by your friend Dan Hurd. One of his vids he was using some kind of micro explosives to break up a vane of quartz. Ask him about it. It may work for you to break up small amounts of quartz in that vane
Well Howdy from Montana Jason! I’m pretty sure I’ve been around those telluride crystals in the high mountains, mostly wilderness areas while mountaineering on sharp, exposed ridges. If so, Canada had some amazing spots I’d like to look at again. Most of the areas carrying the crystals were very inaccessible by any motorized vehicles. I wonder if that’s why they were never looked at seriously or mined? Great videos and information, keep those productions coming, I know you work hard at it.
You should get a 2’X2’ rubber mat so you can stick it on the face under your high grade and catch it better. That gold is heavy and the loose ones will fall straight down. A rubber mat I’ve used because you can form it to the wall under your high grade pocket and it all falls on the mat and into your bucket.
You should take a before and after image of a piece with a lot of Telluride in it. Then, after the heating, see where the Telluride was compared to how much Gold is left in its place.
Jason, you are going to be really busy. I think you are going to have to figure out a recovery process for the type of Ore you have. And like others have mentioned and the old miner you had on an earlier episode, I think some thoughts need to be given to processing the gold left on the floor as waist rock, the amount of gold that is released from the rock left on the floor is a real question in itself. You have a very rich vein I am looking forward to more videos in the future.
Hey Jason, I’m a big fan. I have an idea. My brother in law. Is a core cutter. Can you use a diamond core cutter to first cut a core then break it out , then you can break the quarts into the core hole. This is the way they do it in construction. My in-law does this all the time. Just an idea. You probably would’ve already tried this or discounted it. Once you have a void or a series’s of core holes maybe feather a wedge it out. Anyhow thanks for the great content!
Calaverite = AuTe2. Krennerite = Au3AgTe8. This could affect your assumptions about weight and the ratio of Au to other metals. Still, I agree the real value here is in specimens-very cool!
For getting samples out mid wall I have always wondered if a diamond core drill bit would work. They come in sizes like 6" diameter by 15" deep. Once you hit the depth limit of the drill use a chisel and hope if fractures deep in the hole to get a large sample. Quarts is tougher than the concrete the core drills are normally used on so that could be a challenge.
Tellurium and Tellurium compounds are kindly toxic. I doubt it's anything to worry about as long as you're wearing PPE while chipping out and crushing. Awesome finds man!
Bronchitis you say? I wonder if you didn't have enough air flow in the shelter when playing with the hydroxide... It WILL build up in the air if you don't blow it out!
I was wondering about all the Tellurides you kept talking about and whether there was gold in it. Chris Ralph has a great video on gold bearing Tellurides on his channel. Makes me wonder about all the ore you have in the muck pile, lol. I say roast 'em all and get the gold unless the Telluride specimen is spectacular. Hope you get to feeling better soon!
Is it possible….. to use a concrete say blade to cut a groove on each side if the vein, and break out the larger pieces (whole) that contain the PM. As for the roasted gold sponge…. Use the XRF to analyze it. GREAT POST Jason. Thanks for educating us.
I know it’s more profitable selling specimens but I for one would love to see some of this refined to see what you have. Hell just a couple buckets of what can be shoveled off the floor would mark an interesting video.
Very much looking forward to a new smelting video from you, and roasting your cons to release the gold - it would be super interesting to take a sample and split it in 3 or more, to figure out how much gold is held up in the Tellurides vs other sulfides and to see how much is liberated using the different methods
I would love to see this also!
In your calculation at 41:00, since you're assuming everything is one or the other, x+y=1, so you can replace y with (1-x), for a direct calculation without guessing and checking.
love the shoutout to vogus prospecting, i love his videos
I am a math teacher in Oregon. Desmos graphing calculator is free online. In seconds you could graph that equation and find possible answer sets. Just a quick way to get it done.
Hey Jason, It's Kyle. I think you would have good luck with 2 flat headed screw drivers, they're small but great for high grading like this. I always also bring news paper to wrap specimens so they don't break in my pack.
Thank you for sharing your mine with me. I bought one box and I found about a gram just washing the rocks and then almost another gram after smashing and smashing.
You gave me my first gold in quartz specimen and I really appreciate it.
One day I would like to visit the mine, I'm a work horse and will get that stuff loaded.
Keep up the good work. Heavy pans!
-Kyle.
Telluride is a gold, and silver ore. Calavarite contains gold, sylvanite, silver. Cripple Creek is famous for this, specimens are highly sought after. They occur in in California gold rush country, and other areas of the world but are rare it is one of the only times gold alloys with other metals.
Gold alloys with zinc, copper, nickel, iron, cadmium, aluminum, silver, platinum, palladium, mercury, etc. It’s not as rare as one might think.
Iron and gold are best buddy.
@ , damn skippy. Gold rides an iron horse.
Macassa mine in Kirkland lake ontario also has alot of that stuff in the ore .
So it's not tellurium ore?
Imagine the amount of gold still on the floor of this gold mine.
Id vaccuum it all up, better yet id get my old lady to do it, I'll do the panning
In case you missed it Jason had a guest on who actually worked this mine in the past. They used a sluice and ran everything from the floor through it.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
@CFarnwide actually he flooded it and was going to dredge. But he didn't.
@@CFarnwide they wanted to but never actually got the chance
Use oxalic acid to remove the iron oxide staining, far safer. Playing with the caustic chemicals is fairly hazardous and don't contemplate using hydrofluoric, a drop on your skin will kill you, we used to etch our specimens by exposing the specimen just to the vapour (in a fume hood). Quenching your hot specimens will shatter the quartz, as they did. Very nice mineral specimens.
You should get yourself a set of feather and wedges so you can drill and knock out nicer square chunks
Problem is the quartz is too hard to effectively drill....
I thought he already got those from Dan Hurd
Jason, this is Darrin from Colorado. About 20 yrs. ago, I was handed a piece of Cripple Creek Colorado gold Telluride ore that had been assaying around 30 ounces per ton. This piece that I was holding was heated also
and had gold all over it and through it. You may have a massive amount of gold that you didn't realize, in that Telluride ore.
To be honest with you if you After you roast your ore Jason you should clean them up with acid that you know will make the gold shiny So all that yellow that you see you can make sure it's gold And it should clean it up as well Just a suggest a suggestion for a future Just a suggest a suggestion for a future video maybe
You need a diamond cutting wheel on an angle grinder and/or on a 4-5" dewalt or other battery powered circular saw to cut out samples with. A lot faster than the hammer drill. As for the quartz and tellurides; grind it, run across the table, roast the hell out of the #1 and #2 in the furnace, then smelt at higher temps.
Incredible calaverite crystals!
Calaverite (cal-uh-verite) was named after the wonderfully rich mines of Calaveras county, California.
Be careful when roasting as the chemical bond between the AU and the tellerium can cause the finely disseminated gold to volatize.
Also be careful when assaying as this chemical bond can cause up to 40 percent of the gold to be absorbed into the cupel.
The telluride ores of California and Colorado were often measured in pounds, not ounces per ton.
Keep following those telluride bands, i hope you find a ton or two!
You rock✨️🧐
Congratulations Jason, got to be really exciting having your own mine. Stay golden and grand sharing.✌️💪👊🇺🇸⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️
wow look at that visible gold with tellurides and galena! absolutely stunning material!
This was awesome to be a witness off. The way the gold revealed it self was beautiful to see.
Hey mbmm family... we need to get jason an xrf!
IIRC, doesn't it not "penetrate" the surface that well? So not great for finding pockets, but good for telling us the flake they're looking at is indeed gold?
A dirtbike?? Lol
I believe the man deserves one
Regardless, it would indeed be fun lol
Can't help you with the technical aspect, but I have about a hundred Tidy Cat pales that I will be willing to give you if you want. Already mentioned them to Harry. My thought is that he can stop by on his way north to your mine. I am in southern Oregon, Just off the 5 on Hwy 99 (the frontage road to the 5) Off at the 35, back on at the 40, easy peasy ... Let me know, if not I will put them out front for free, but if they can help you .... Pales and lids, take what you want....Enjoyed your video as always, thankx for the share.... ~Jekyll the Hyde 🎩
i dont know why, but i just want to take a vacuum to an area of the mine and see what gold you get. i know beggars cant be choosers but id love to see like 20 bags go through the shaker table. the shaker table is amazing. love it have a great weekend!
Ordered my first 25lbs of ore from Jasons mine! 💪🤠🪨🔨Looking forward to it! I'm only about 5 hours south so I should see it pretty quick! Merry Christmas Everyone! May your pans always be heavy and bright!
I’ e been to Telluride, CO. I was for winter sports clinic for disabled and blind veterans. Had a wonderful time. Many years ago.😊
Hey Jason, Get well! We all want to see you pour gold bars and the whole process! This video was awesome! Love it when you decide to 'experiment'!! Thumbs up! Get better real soon! Thumbs up! Jim
For safety reasons add sodium hydroxide to cold water and heat it up afterwards. It will heat up the water anyway.
Got that right.
This has been an Awesome journey Jason , I want to thank you for making your God Ore available to the World out there . I just finished panning the last 5 lbs or so that i have left , i'm yet to roast it and get the gold out of it , and then i will smelt the remaining Oxides . I'm seriously tempted to buy some more , it's been lots of fun going along for the ride . Cheers Ned 👍👍
It would be cool if Harry could be there when you do the panning and smelting next episode. It’s always cool to see your hard work come to fruition.
Woohoo! Love an early Saturday mining video, thanks Jason! ⛏️
Awesome video. Interesting to watch all the different methods of trying to figure out exactly what minerals these rock are made of. Fun stuff.
This is super interesting Jason. How much Tellurium have you already passed up???
Great vid Tyty. Looking forward to some actual tons crushed and ran to see how viable the mine actually is.
Jason. Use a torch, to art the hell out of these things. Let's you leave the natural beauty of the tellurium, see the gold, and look at the transition. Also let's you science the heck out of the questions that you have concerning the alloy/coating, etc.
Oh man, congratulations... you strok it rich! The American dream!
When I do the math, we'll have a new Goldrush in the next few years.
Jason, I'm not metallurgist, but I did look up the melting points of Sulphur & Tellurium, which are related and they are both well below gold, so I think your supposition that there is gold locked up in the Tellurium is spot on. Of course Tellurium in itself might, don't know it value, just be worth something in itself, but in your case if gold is locked up in it, then I would sacrifice it for the gold. Just looked up price of Te, it's going for 2.55/oz., not a lot considering they say it's rarer than gold.
I kept hearing him talk about Tellurides in so many episodes that I finally googled it. Says $45/oz and it's got a lot of uses but I don't know what someone would have to do to separate and purify it. Sounds like something for a chemical refiner channel.
@Y2KNW tellurium dissolves in nitric acid, gold doesn't.
Cooking with Jason 😂 29:00
But maybe not dinner....! 🤣
i wored masonry and one of those portable diamond saws would cut 4 inches deep and you could cut long rectangles out of the rock in very little time.
Ayyy, vogus shoutout!
Roast It! When I was in the 6th, my teacher told us about your Orr. That was in Colorado more than 55 years ago. ROAST It!
Would be interesting to see you smelt out those tellurides. Or maybe soak them and oxidize them out first?
I'm glad you did this!! Now make a huge furnace lol
Awesome video Jason thanks for sharing this with us six stars brother
Smelt it all! That's a most interesting part of your content!
I hope your whole mine produces like your 2 ounce sample. Very interesting, thank you.
This video was awesome!! I love it when you do these experiments.
Your number 2 on your shaker table should be awesome.
Merry Christmas!
Have you done any experimenting on electrolytic separation of minerals? I find your enthusiasm for the hunt for minerals wonderfully engaging. Keep it up.
Man so cool seeing those tellurides move like metal!
CRUSH IT ROAST IT GET THAT GOLD!!
Can't wait for the next video
Holy cow! Wish I had one of those furnaces to check out some of my own.
Congrats, that's a stunningly rich deposit ! It's almost hard to believe there is that much gold in the vein, even though I'm seeing it with my eyes. :- o
Hey Jason that’s some great looking ore. GREAT JOB!!! Would you roast half of that stuff. Maybe the less cool looking samples. Then let’s compare the roasted vs the rest. Keep it up we love your videos. I have learned a ton from watching your channel. Thanks and happy holidays.
Boiling and hot sodium hydroxide is absolutely terrifying from a safety perspective.
I use it in the metallurgy industry for processing some ores and it is always my least favourite process.
Well, aside from HF stuff.
Excellent video, when we get set up my grandson's and I want to buy some to just play with and see what we can actually remove from the ore.
Thanks for sharing ❤🙏
That is a beautiful specimen. Shelf piece for sure
A few of Dans’ feathering wedges might be handy about now, Jason. Bust open some seams, grab the rich stuff and get at the smelting. Banging on hard Quartz is not easy.
Hey boss, you might wanna start taking a black light down in the mine with you. One of those quartz had a turqoise blue green spot on it. Last time I ran across something that looked like that turned out to be Torbernite / Autunite. Long story short, radioactive. Just a thought.
great video as always, keep them coming. one suggestion, your videos are mono (right channel only) with usual scratch sounds on the left channel, maybe while editing get the right channel and copy it over the left audio channel and that way it will improve the audio of your videos drastically...
Hmmmm, now I have to figure out a furnace to roast some of my samples in! That's cool! What a fun pocket to come across. I hope the fuxtix stay out this year.
You guys are so fun to listen to
Jason, you need to have me teach you how to dowse the precious metal veins and ore shoots in your mine. This is no bullshit physics that are the same physics that energizes the alarm on electronic metal detectors. In the 1970's my father and I reverse engineered the physics involved in dowsing and invented the modern light weight ball bearing dowsing rod for using dowsing physics in locating our old core-drill on the exact center of gold and silver veins that are buried under 200 feet of glacier rock and till, which worked out perfectly for us. I wrote the book to teach the world how to apply physics in dowsing. My book: The Art of Dowsing - Separating Science from Superstition ($14.95), by Michael Fercik, explains all the physics involved in dowsing and teaches how to build the modern light weight ball bearing dowsing rod, which is the only dowsing rod that accurately gauges the element being dowsed by pitting the energy of gravity against the energizing of the pure one-tenth ounce dowsing rod load that is tapped onto the ELEVATED acetylene welding rod that is free spinning on ball bearings. This precisely gauges the dowsing of all edges, exact center, depth buried with angle of deposition, and most important is grading or deciphering the amount of the dowsed element that is contained in the elemental mass that is being dowsed. Anybody can become a professional dowser by practicing and mastering my book's dowsing lessons. I hope dowsing enriches your life intellectually and financially.
Yes! Do lots of experiments!!!
And I would be running back to that mine to fill some bags and start grinding and smelting!! I look forward to you doing an assay of that wall section.
I freaking knew it! Absolutely amazing news Jason! 👍👍👍
I think you need to go in with a diamond saw to create relief.
Not sure of the logistics on a wall like that but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.
Fun video Jason. ❤ learning and discovering along wth u! Whatever u do will b beneficial. Knowledge and wisdom.
Teluride is mildly toxic so in glad you got ppe on. God bless you Jason
Is it the right PPE though?
I would suggest drilling and blasting over tapping.
I'm so interested in this, Jason! You do an excellent video. Thank you.
Id leave as is, just perfect knowing whats inside, hold it, love it🌀✨️🧐
Always interesting stuff.
While watching this vid I was reminded of a video by your friend Dan Hurd. One of his vids he was using some kind of micro explosives to break up a vane of quartz. Ask him about it. It may work for you to break up small amounts of quartz in that vane
You could also talk to Mike from Gold sales and see what he suggests as far as removing the courts
Well Howdy from Montana Jason! I’m pretty sure I’ve been around those telluride crystals in the high mountains, mostly wilderness areas while mountaineering on sharp, exposed ridges. If so, Canada had some amazing spots I’d like to look at again. Most of the areas carrying the crystals were very inaccessible by any motorized vehicles. I wonder if that’s why they were never looked at seriously or mined? Great videos and information, keep those productions coming, I know you work hard at it.
Very impressive... Great find.
16:48! Wow! What a specimen
get ahold of Screetips and see what he would do to liberate the gold from the sample
Thanks again
You should get a 2’X2’ rubber mat so you can stick it on the face under your high grade and catch it better. That gold is heavy and the loose ones will fall straight down. A rubber mat I’ve used because you can form it to the wall under your high grade pocket and it all falls on the mat and into your bucket.
18:40 great specimen piece, just like it is. I would buy it.
heck yeah new upload!
You should take a before and after image of a piece with a lot of Telluride in it. Then, after the heating, see where the Telluride was compared to how much Gold is left in its place.
Jason, you are going to be really busy. I think you are going to have to figure out a recovery process for the type of Ore you have. And like others have mentioned and the old miner you had on an earlier episode, I think some thoughts need to be given to processing the gold left on the floor as waist rock, the amount of gold that is released from the rock left on the floor is a real question in itself.
You have a very rich vein
I am looking forward to more videos in the future.
Jason. I hammer drilled 10 holes around 2 inches apart in a diamond pattern and 8 inch deep. Then was able to get big sections out in a short time.
That gold on the rock is really cool
Hey Jason, I hope you and your family have a merry xmas, from your #1 fan from Nova Scotia, Canada! 😀👌👍✌⛏
That was way cool seeing them burnt off the amazing mountain of gold! 😮
Hey Jason,
I’m a big fan. I have an idea. My brother in law. Is a core cutter. Can you use a diamond core cutter to first cut a core then break it out , then you can break the quarts into the core hole. This is the way they do it in construction. My in-law does this all the time. Just an idea. You probably would’ve already tried this or discounted it. Once you have a void or a series’s of core holes maybe feather a wedge it out. Anyhow thanks for the great content!
You need a Sierra blaster. They worked great.
Calaverite = AuTe2. Krennerite = Au3AgTe8. This could affect your assumptions about weight and the ratio of Au to other metals. Still, I agree the real value here is in specimens-very cool!
For getting samples out mid wall I have always wondered if a diamond core drill bit would work. They come in sizes like 6" diameter by 15" deep. Once you hit the depth limit of the drill use a chisel and hope if fractures deep in the hole to get a large sample. Quarts is tougher than the concrete the core drills are normally used on so that could be a challenge.
Start cookin' and have a beer. Gold is nice.
Jason
You might want to take a Telluride cluster that has some weight say a 100 grams and process it to determine how much gold might be in it.
Tellurium and Tellurium compounds are kindly toxic. I doubt it's anything to worry about as long as you're wearing PPE while chipping out and crushing. Awesome finds man!
Bronchitis you say? I wonder if you didn't have enough air flow in the shelter when playing with the hydroxide... It WILL build up in the air if you don't blow it out!
Good numbers Jason 👍
I was wondering about all the Tellurides you kept talking about and whether there was gold in it. Chris Ralph has a great video on gold bearing Tellurides on his channel. Makes me wonder about all the ore you have in the muck pile, lol. I say roast 'em all and get the gold unless the Telluride specimen is spectacular. Hope you get to feeling better soon!
Is it possible….. to use a concrete say blade to cut a groove on each side if the vein, and break out the larger pieces (whole) that contain the PM. As for the roasted gold sponge…. Use the XRF to analyze it. GREAT POST Jason. Thanks for educating us.
I know it’s more profitable selling specimens but I for one would love to see some of this refined to see what you have. Hell just a couple buckets of what can be shoveled off the floor would mark an interesting video.
You need a big Grain Vac to vac the Gold off the Floor 😂😂😂😂😂
Yo Jason congrats..
I can tell.
That's the good stuff!!
Give us a gold per pound specimen breakdown.
Jason re invest in bigger equipment and earth movers go parker gold rush big!!