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.
Yes, I was thinking about that myself. When I was a wee lad & visited the Molly Kathleen tourist mine in Cripple Creek, my mom bought me a nice $5 ore sample (wonder where it is now?!). It (the gold flecks) was silver-colored, and they told us that that was normal for Cripple Creek ore and, if you roasted this Cripple Creek ore, it would turn into yellow gold. I don't remember them saying anything about tellurides, but then I WAS just a WEE lad, and that was long-long ago now! In any case, this video really struck a chord with me, and I'd REALLY like to learn more about this whole subject. Thanks so much, Jason! - Tom
I concur. I worked on Cripple Creek, Colorado ore back during the early 80s and the gold assays where extremely high. Crush, leach, gravity concentrate, melt (high soda/borax flux)...I look at the overall gold recovery and not the individual Te:Au ratios.
I think he’s already done the research and he is sitting on a bunch of garbage or he would be mining that garbage and he’s thought up a better you than me get something for my time scheme I hope I’m wrong but I’d be careful buddy this seems fishy
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
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.
I'm 20 minutes into the video and can't believe you're unsure about whether or not to expose the gold. You purchased a gold mine. You, Harry, and Chad spent countless, backbreaking hours blasting, mucking, lifting, and sweating - It's high time to reap the benefits of your mine - ROAST THE DARN ROCKS and let the gold shine in all its glory 💛
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.
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!
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. EDIT: As others pointed out dredging and sluicing the floor was the goal but they didn’t get around to it due to equipment needs.
Jason, I always love your science and math lessons in addition to the adventures. Takes me hours to look up the furnace model and temps for melting, the elemental lists and chemicals. Thanks to you and Dan and Harry for all the hard work this year.
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
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!
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.
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 👍👍
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 🎩
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.
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 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.
This is one of the most incredible videos Ive seen from you Jason and super impressed with the gold hiding in the tellurides! Then you must decide to keep the larger crystals or melt down. Your gold mine just became way more high grade!!!! Would love to come pay you a visit someday. I’m in southern oregon do a lot of sluicing and beach mining.
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.
Have you done any experimenting on electrolytic separation of minerals? I find your enthusiasm for the hunt for minerals wonderfully engaging. Keep it up.
If you suspend the wire gold into a small amount of clear epoxy, you could make a beautiful pendant out of it. Just a thought. Really nice results in this video. Thanks for sharing. You really do a great job!!!
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 ❤🙏
some juicy stuff going on in those samples.....I didnt know Tellurium was associated with gold to that extent thats a cool learning moment Jason so thanks for that and thanks for sharing. Have a great holiday season
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!
Jason, I love your mining & experiments & want you to be successful, safe & healthy. From an experienced chemical engineer whti has worked around a lot if nasty stuff including hydrogen fluoride: - please put on PPE *before* you handle sodium hydroxide (lye) or strong acids - insert new PPE filters before starting this kind if experiment with strong boiling lye. - Dont attempt to use hydrogen fluoride. Its extremely difficult to work with & requires a specialty antidote to neutralize if get it on your skin. It will eat thru flesh, bone, the table, etc. it wont stop. Be safe & succesful & get well soon!
Wow! That is awesome gold! Glad your hard work is paying off. I think you should clean some more gold in the kiln, but at the lowest temp possible so the gold keeps the character it had in the host.
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
Stay healthy Jason. I still have 50lbs of your muck from last season that I have been going through, well trying to. Looking to buy more, I do lapidary work and want to make some cabs. Looking to buy more :) Thank you Jason, Harry and all those who have helped you...Wish I could have been one.
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
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?
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.
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.
@@Y2KNW Actually Te goes for about $90.00 per Kg not per oz., if you divide out the ounces in a Kg (35.27) into $90. you get the 2.55/oz. I quoted above
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 Jason, I think it would be a good idea to keep some specimens as is, and some with the tellurium oxidized away! I would also maybe do some of the larger specimens that you think would be nice for showing as well. I just thought of an idea. What if you were able to get a big enough kiln to do this on a larger scale to eliminate the tellurium straight away. May be less efficient than just doing it in the muffle furnace, but just an idea I had.
You ever hear the saying: "There's never enough time to do it right but there's always enough time to do it over."?🤪 Good thing I know you're not about turning out unique decorative Au pieces. Slabbing's the way for your ore. Or on-site crush-and-recover. And of course the bulk bags for those of us who don't happen to have a gold mine on our mountain in the back yard. Nice shout-out to Chris Bogusis too, btw. Been following him ever since he & gadzee first shoveled for bedrock in the kiddygarden sandbox lol ^5!
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!
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.
@@happycamper4thewin A couple of years from now you will be eating crow, because this does work only if you know the physics involved in dowsing are the same physics that energizes the alarm on electronic metal detectors, except when a 9999 fine gold dowsing rod load is tapped onto the ELEVATED acetylene welding rod that is free spinning on ball bearings, only gold will energize the dowsing rod. Electronic gold metal detectors require digging up trash instead of gold, with that being the only thing found for most prospectors on an average day. The rest of us will have the uneducated prospectors leaving the high concentrations of gold left for the prospector using physics in dowsing to find the gold that is bypassed by others. By the way, you can dowse gold deposits that are buried under hundreds or thousands of feet of cover. Go Figure !
@@michaelfercik3691 look, you can believe whatever pseudoscience you want, but don’t come here spamming trying to sell your book. Good grief, what a load of tosh
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.
You might be sitting in on waaaay more gold than you think! You might want to roast all the ore bags you have too! It seems, you have a literal gold mine here! Good job!
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.
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...
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.
Yes, I was thinking about that myself. When I was a wee lad & visited the Molly Kathleen tourist mine in Cripple Creek, my mom bought me a nice $5 ore sample (wonder where it is now?!). It (the gold flecks) was silver-colored, and they told us that that was normal for Cripple Creek ore and, if you roasted this Cripple Creek ore, it would turn into yellow gold. I don't remember them saying anything about tellurides, but then I WAS just a WEE lad, and that was long-long ago now! In any case, this video really struck a chord with me, and I'd REALLY like to learn more about this whole subject. Thanks so much, Jason! - Tom
I concur. I worked on Cripple Creek, Colorado ore back during the early 80s and the gold assays where extremely high. Crush, leach, gravity concentrate, melt (high soda/borax flux)...I look at the overall gold recovery and not the individual Te:Au ratios.
Roast it !
The math seem correct to me.
I think he’s already done the research and he is sitting on a bunch of garbage or he would be mining that garbage and he’s thought up a better you than me get something for my time scheme I hope I’m wrong but I’d be careful buddy this seems fishy
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!
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.
Atta boy Kyle
I'm 20 minutes into the video and can't believe you're unsure about whether or not to expose the gold.
You purchased a gold mine. You, Harry, and Chad spent countless, backbreaking hours blasting, mucking, lifting, and sweating - It's high time to reap the benefits of your mine - ROAST THE DARN ROCKS and let the gold shine in all its glory 💛
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.
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!
What price? How much gold do u need to get to actually make it worth it?
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.
It was a real treat to see that shiny shiny AU in the face. Thnx for showing us.
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.
EDIT: As others pointed out dredging and sluicing the floor was the goal but they didn’t get around to it due to equipment needs.
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
Jason, I always love your science and math lessons in addition to the adventures. Takes me hours to look up the furnace model and temps for melting, the elemental lists and chemicals. Thanks to you and Dan and Harry for all the hard work this year.
Hope you get to feelin better Jason! Thank you for all you do and teach. Big inspiration !
Incredible calaverite crystals!
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
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✨️🧐
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?
love the shoutout to vogus prospecting, i love his videos
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.
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 👍👍
Woohoo! Love an early Saturday mining video, thanks Jason! ⛏️
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 🎩
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.
A petrol powered demolition saw
14inch cutting disk water cooled grid it in 3 inch an into it with chisel to pop them out
Fantastic video Jason. . It's great to see the gold in the quartz in the mine.
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.
I’ e been to Telluride, CO. I was for winter sports clinic for disabled and blind veterans. Had a wonderful time. Many years ago.😊
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
Awesome video. Interesting to watch all the different methods of trying to figure out exactly what minerals these rock are made of. Fun stuff.
Really enjoy all your wonderful information of videos and explanations on how to find the gold want to look for and how to smelt it. 😊😊😊
Hey Jason, I hope you and your family have a merry xmas, from your #1 fan from Nova Scotia, Canada! 😀👌👍✌⛏
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.
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.
This is super interesting Jason. How much Tellurium have you already passed up???
How much was left in the dumps?
This is one of the most incredible videos Ive seen from you Jason and super impressed with the gold hiding in the tellurides! Then you must decide to keep the larger crystals
or melt down. Your gold mine just became way more high grade!!!!
Would love to come pay you a visit someday. I’m in southern oregon do a lot of sluicing and beach mining.
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.
Thank you for this one! I really wanted to see it done this way! Peace!❤😊
Greetings from the Big Sky of Montana. I am reminded of my kitchen stove seeing your hot plate.
Have you done any experimenting on electrolytic separation of minerals? I find your enthusiasm for the hunt for minerals wonderfully engaging. Keep it up.
Awesome video Jason thanks for sharing this with us six stars brother
Fun video Jason. ❤ learning and discovering along wth u! Whatever u do will b beneficial. Knowledge and wisdom.
Great video Jason you never disappoint. Hope you feel better it sucks being sick
If you suspend the wire gold into a small amount of clear epoxy, you could make a beautiful pendant out of it. Just a thought. Really nice results in this video. Thanks for sharing. You really do a great job!!!
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 ❤🙏
Hey Jason! Cool experiment! Very interesting video!
Congrats. You've certainly paid your dues. I learn a lot about geology and applied metallurgy from your shows. Best kk
some juicy stuff going on in those samples.....I didnt know Tellurium was associated with gold to that extent thats a cool learning moment Jason so thanks for that and thanks for sharing. Have a great holiday season
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!
You guys are so fun to listen to
Jason,
I love your mining & experiments & want you to be successful, safe & healthy.
From an experienced chemical engineer whti has worked around a lot if nasty stuff including hydrogen fluoride:
- please put on PPE *before* you handle sodium hydroxide (lye) or strong acids
- insert new PPE filters before starting this kind if experiment with strong boiling lye.
- Dont attempt to use hydrogen fluoride. Its extremely difficult to work with & requires a specialty antidote to neutralize if get it on your skin. It will eat thru flesh, bone, the table, etc. it wont stop.
Be safe & succesful & get well soon!
This video was awesome!! I love it when you do these experiments.
Wow! That is awesome gold! Glad your hard work is paying off. I think you should clean some more gold in the kiln, but at the lowest temp possible so the gold keeps the character it had in the host.
Great vid Tyty. Looking forward to some actual tons crushed and ran to see how viable the mine actually is.
Way cool all the methods you did great experiment. Beautiful. Blessings
Cooking with Jason 😂 29:00
But maybe not dinner....! 🤣
Gracias maestro por tus enseñanzas saludos y bendiciones
Smelt it all! That's a most interesting part of your content!
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
I'm glad you did this!! Now make a huge furnace lol
Stay healthy Jason.
I still have 50lbs of your muck from last season that I have been going through, well trying to. Looking to buy more, I do lapidary work and want to make some cabs. Looking to buy more :)
Thank you Jason, Harry and all those who have helped you...Wish I could have been one.
Great video Jason !!
For safety reasons add sodium hydroxide to cold water and heat it up afterwards. It will heat up the water anyway.
Got that right.
I'm so interested in this, Jason! You do an excellent video. Thank you.
I freaking knew it! Absolutely amazing news Jason! 👍👍👍
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!
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
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
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.
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
Paliss 1000 6 wel ❤
Amazing show ❤🎉
CRUSH IT ROAST IT GET THAT GOLD!!
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.
Merry Christmas!
I think you should rost more of it. Very cool indeed.
Holy cow! Wish I had one of those furnaces to check out some of my own.
Very impressive... Great find.
Awesome video, so very interesting discovery
That is a beautiful specimen. Shelf piece for sure
18:55 Do the dissolving the quartz first to expose the metalics and then experiment with roasting! Great fun!
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.
Would be interesting to see you smelt out those tellurides. Or maybe soak them and oxidize them out first?
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.
@@ManMountainMetals Is there a way to recover the Te from the nitric for later sale. This would give Jason another income stream.
@@Y2KNW Actually Te goes for about $90.00 per Kg not per oz., if you divide out the ounces in a Kg (35.27) into $90. you get the 2.55/oz. I quoted above
@dennissheridan1550 Yes, and it is super complicated multi stage process but eventually, you drop the tellurium with lye.
14:00 I commented before I realized you were doing the exact experiment I was hoping to see. Thats amazing stuff!
I hope your whole mine produces like your 2 ounce sample. Very interesting, thank you.
Nice job Jason!
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.
Thanks again
Hey Jason, I think it would be a good idea to keep some specimens as is, and some with the tellurium oxidized away! I would also maybe do some of the larger specimens that you think would be nice for showing as well. I just thought of an idea. What if you were able to get a big enough kiln to do this on a larger scale to eliminate the tellurium straight away. May be less efficient than just doing it in the muffle furnace, but just an idea I had.
You ever hear the saying: "There's never enough time to do it right but there's always enough time to do it over."?🤪 Good thing I know you're not about turning out unique decorative Au pieces. Slabbing's the way for your ore. Or on-site crush-and-recover. And of course the bulk bags for those of us who don't happen to have a gold mine on our mountain in the back yard. Nice shout-out to Chris Bogusis too, btw. Been following him ever since he & gadzee first shoveled for bedrock in the kiddygarden sandbox lol ^5!
😲🧐😲😩Gotta love it when the gold is just sticking out of the dang wall
Your number 2 on your shaker table should be awesome.
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!
Id leave as is, just perfect knowing whats inside, hold it, love it🌀✨️🧐
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.
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@@happycamper4thewin A couple of years from now you will be eating crow, because this does work only if you know the physics involved in dowsing are the same physics that energizes the alarm on electronic metal detectors, except when a 9999 fine gold dowsing rod load is tapped onto the ELEVATED acetylene welding rod that is free spinning on ball bearings, only gold will energize the dowsing rod. Electronic gold metal detectors require digging up trash instead of gold, with that being the only thing found for most prospectors on an average day. The rest of us will have the uneducated prospectors leaving the high concentrations of gold left for the prospector using physics in dowsing to find the gold that is bypassed by others. By the way, you can dowse gold deposits that are buried under hundreds or thousands of feet of cover. Go Figure !
@@michaelfercik3691 look, you can believe whatever pseudoscience you want, but don’t come here spamming trying to sell your book. Good grief, what a load of tosh
@Jason MBMM @18:50 I believe you are absolutely correct. Wire brush it as you roast to bring out the gold to sell on ebay :)
You get to do some of the most exciting things in these mines
Man so cool seeing those tellurides move like metal!
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.
Cheers
You might be sitting in on waaaay more gold than you think! You might want to roast all the ore bags you have too! It seems, you have a literal gold mine here! Good job!
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.
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...