the destination is finding it yourself 😅 but I guess if you enjoy it who cares. even large scale mining is not the best investment, people who think you get rich off gold don't realize their better off looking for change and collecting bottles lol. have fun and experiment. roast those sulfides!
In Jason's mine and many other wide mesothermal gold bearing quartz veins the gold is concentrated in a narrow band of the vein called the "shoot". Crushing all of the vein quartz might have 1oz per ton, but the shoot might have 15oz+ per ton. So statistically allot of the rocks you are crushing have little values and results might vary widely from sample to sample.
I use a manual jaw crusher and a cheap chinese grain mill to grind it down to powder. You want to get it down to 1/8 minus before using the mill. I bought 75lbs and got a little over 4 grams I got it all down below 50-. And a lot of the gold is locked up in those sulfides. I smelted the gold and sulfides together to get that result. Tis the nature of the beast. You have to smelt to maximize values.
Jason is mainly an ore processing machinery manufacturer. Great guy with interesting videos. He teams up with Ghost Town Living, Dan Hurd, and a few others for collaborative shows.
I’ve been waiting for this one! I’m in the same boat you were and life events have kept me from starting this adventure so far. At some point I will come back to this video and let you know my results as well. With the sulfides I have seen others, including Jason take the sulfides and put them in a frying pan and get them cooked up if you will. I assume after doing this you can pound that into dust and maybe liberate a little more. He put out a video in the last week or two where he ran a ton thru his awesome set up. Part 1
That is some stick-to-it-iveness. You earned my subscription. I too am prone to falling down rabbit holes which lead to more rabbit holes. Keeps me out of trouble.
It's funny I came across your video. I just received a 25lb bag of ore dust that he crushed recently. This stuff is powder. I'll have to make a small sluiceor something to clean it out. We'll see!
I got a couple bags of Jason's ore recently. Washed the big stuff off and immediately found a dozen or so nice specimen quality hunks with visible gold and probably silver in them. Those got set aside. Awaiting parts for grinding the rest to dust for processing now. Just putzing around with the fine stuff and a pan, I picked up what's gotta be a gram and a half or so of super fine gold. I saved everything to re-run a few times, I know I blew plenty out of the pan in my haste. A couple of the specimens are probably worth the bogs when it comes down to it. Will have to figure out how to get it all in processing tho, sounds like smelting etc has been a challenge for most. Maybe suspend it all in Aqua Regia and ship it to SREETIPS for finishing!
Jason would be just as intrigued watching your video as I am I’m sure. I would love to do what your doing, but living in the Netherlands doesn’t make that a viable thing….so I watch Jason and a lot of other gold mine related RUclipsr folks. Your video is cool, so much effort and just admitting your just tying to learn…thanks for letting me look over your shoulder….
I bought the same thing and got a few specks out of the dust. Ended up selling the lot to someone else as I didn’t have a crusher that was going to get it fine enough. I’ll stick to pay dirt.
Great job crushing it fam. Need a lot of that to make it worth it. Got to be on some good ground indeed. If you can find it. You're close to the source 😊. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠
Here's how to Crush Rocks as a Hobbyist. Purchase a small Propane Furnace Pot, these are great for Smelting as well. Place some Rocks in the Furnace Pot and stick a Propane Blow Torch in the Hole typically used by the Burner. You can Easily Heat Rocks to Red Hot and then Quench them in Water. This will completely Fracture the Rock Internally. Crushing after that is Simple. And the Dust Levels are much lower when smashing the Rocks with a Hammer. Easy-Peasy.
I think it’s all about the experience when you buy rock like that. No ROI. What a ride man. Great video. Can’t wait to see the next group of rock you crush.
I was surprised I didn't break stuff in the process especially my arm when I was drilling the hole in that steel ring. it jerked my arm while trying to punch through it several times!
Cool video. I just got the same bag and hand sorted it similar to you. I have loads of different colors that stayed in the cleanup sluice from all the dirt powder. I noticed a good amount of fine flour gold so it seems it should be a better yield capturing the metals with a furnace and ending with cupelled gold beads. I still need to accumulate the products needed to do that like flux soda ash etc etc. I did it to learn how to do all said and learn about their mine and hard rock mining. This was certainly way more interesting then hand made pay dirt. Very cool!
when I first started crushing rock; I got a flat piece of steel and a slightly smaller but taller piece of steel. built a hollow box around the flat steel. put rocks on the flat and crushed them with the heavy steel. then gathered the dust in a dust pan. worked with a lot of work. but cheap. then i bought a small crusher for $1000. it sucked, broke parts continuously. got it away. then i bought a jaw crusher from MBMM Jason. it works great. I also bought a hammer mill which worked good, but i've worn out the hammers.
none... I panned everything that came out of that bag.. I even swept the floor where I did all the crushing and panning and panned that stuff to make sure I didn't miss anything. the only thing I did not do is smelt the metals to try to pull out gold from those. I am not there quite yet.
44:40, round and flat? Unless that was a product of the grinder annealing smaller chunks, it looks like placer chunk. If it was lode gold, it was mashed that way from some oxidized/liberated ore. Lode is not round and flat- unless you hit a rich enrichment zone or redeposition area, it is microbits.
Great video. That’s a long process of getting very little gold. I’ve been thinking about getting a bag of it. Since now he sells it already crushed up for I think $100. I was going to do a review on my channel but now since I saw your video, I don’t think it’s worth all that work for .214 grams of gold. I’m going to hold off for now. Thanks for the video.
silver shiny material is probably galena (lead sulfide). There is a mine a mile from where i live. The gold is not visible in the rock. Each dump truck worth of ore is worth about $11k to $17k.
I like this video. It’s a bit funny that you project yourself to be more of a beginner than mbmmc But your humility makes me like your video more than his, I seem to always be yelling at the screen when I’m watching him. Lol
Jason's mine has a lot of pyrite and i believe another mineral called molybdenite? The silver values are alloyed with the gold. The gold is mostly very fine dust and ore must be crushed to baby powder fine if you wanna recover it all.
Nice work. I like how you were up for the challenge! Subscribed. Maybe you can send it back to Jason and he could smelt you a button? I gotta say though.. please cover up that insulation in your shop if you are concerned about dust and your lungs. Great video have a good day!
Part 2. He had a heck of a time getting his smelt to finally work right as far as getting the right mix of agents together. If I remember correct it was just a little over an ounce. It looked to be mostly gold percent wise. I’m sure there is some silver mixed in. Anyway I really enjoy your videos. Hello from NC! Thank you for sharing this adventure. Good job on your rock crusher. Curious, anything you would do different in your build now that you’ve used it some? Thanks again.
You can cut the handle off that manual rock crusher you have and attach it to a chipping hammer. Then you put some rock in the tube, drop the crushing bit attached to a chipping hammer on top, hit the button and push down....ta dah! You have pulverized quartz dust.
4-pounder and a chunk of railroad iron. In a shallow box to catch the frags. Sieve and repeat. If you want a good cheap rock crusher, get a fairly heavy walled (used portable) cement mixer and a bunch of steel balls and make a small ball mill. You wil want to put a spray bar just outside of the barrel as it makes a LOT of quartz dust- hazard to breathing of course, but will also eat your bearings up. And lode gold is usually combined with other stuff where placer is quite higher gold content. And (if you are stil awake) lode gold is generally VERY SMALL.
My son bought me one of those bags to play with.I'll come back later when I've got around completely.Crushing it and running it and I'll let you know what I find in it.Cause They bought me the exact same thing.....
They are not meant to produce a profit for the buyer. If they would, in such small amounts, the gold would be some of the richest hard rock gold ever found - and Jason's mine is far from that.
I think Jason believes that a half ounce per tonne is “payable” return. If you don’t value your labour and other inputs (dynamite, air drilling & humping the ore down a mountain etc - then yes you could consider half ounce per tonne as payable ore. In the old days it was considered payable ore if it went 1 ounce per tonne which is probably a better metric to judge a payable mine. But There are other methods Remember that Jason has his processing plant and can throughout bigger quantities in a time effective manner. If you were to cyanide leach the crushed ore through activated carbon & separate it in quantity you might get higher recovery because your collecting gold at molecular level. Perhaps mercury amalgam is another option. Any way you look at it his mine to my mind is barely payable. It is only payable to my mind in the inventive ways he sells it as pay dirt for one example or as sliced rocks etc. Add in his RUclips revenues & maybe his mine is actually just viable. That would be my summation.
17grams per ton is actually pretty good, but not if you're buying it 25lbs at a time and not for $100 a pop. If it's your claim and the only cost is your time then it's worth it.
Nowadays with eBay and people that are too lazy to dig, or mine for themselves. That is how these miners stay in business these days versus 60 years ago, 100 years ago they didn't have eBay to sell the worthless cheaper oar rocks that may contain a little gold that people buy now because we're too lazy to do it ourselves.
Well you may have some platinum there, hard rock is never fun. No one will talk me into it again. There's plenty of placer from glacier till and decomposed bedrock. I've done both on large scale, from 50 man load mines to Cyanide ponds from super fine ore. Hope it warms up for ya.
You should contact Jason and if you order again,ask him if he could break it done to powder with his machines.That would be easier than you having to work months on it.He can do it in a hour.
I am starting to think he has a small amount of platinum in that mine. I’ve watch a couple of you guy processing the ore. It is rare with gold but does occur.
Wash out the plastic bag shake out and possibly wash the go bag put it into a pan and see how much gold you get out of that how much gold did you get on your hands you kept wiping on your pants how much gold did you leave in that other room
Hey bud,next time u get some big ore take n build u a fire and heat your ore for a couple hrs,then it will literally crumble easy in your manual crusher n real ez in your robi crusher....works great
Because i'm an expert at watching experts refine gold... 😅😅😅 Before you get disheartened, you may just need to smelt your concentrates with the right collector metal, flux recipe and cupell it to get the gold. That would probably be a few more $100 of equipment.
Too bad for you that I only just discovered your channel because I could have made you one for $50 plus parts [about $75 more] and had it done in 3 days. Oh well... Life moves on...
Its not really about getting monetary value out of the ore you purchased. What you bought with your $109 is the experience of liberating the gold from the ore. People like me see that as entertainment value in itself. After all, if i wasn't doing this, I'd either be getting in trouble or being a couch potato.
I knew that going in... I wanted to see if I could do it and I know I didn't get it all, but I just wanted to see if I could do it. Learning as I go....
So at todays prices for 1/2 oz you would get about 1200=1300 dollars worth of gold after doing all the work. Instead he sells the material for 6000 a ton and goes out and buys 2 ounces of gold with the proceeds. So you could say his ore is netting him 2 oz per ton. Plenty of websites out there selling grams of gold and you net way more than what most pay dirts will.
I suggest you watch some more videos! The ‘silver’ is iron csulfste. Green is copper sulphate. What looks like dark yellow rich colored rock is probably fool’s gold… iron pyrite. Watch Dan’s videos when he prospects up on the mountain.
One way to brake rock down is heat it and drop it in ice water. Or if you have a drill get a tiny hammer drill a hole in the end of the hammer put a bolt threw the hole put it in the drill find a bucket with a lid cut a hole in lid the size of your drill chuck put drill threw lid attach hamer with bolt put rocks in bucket put lid with drill and hammer on and theres a crudely made hammer mill
Jason @ Mt Baker Mining and Metals. And he manufactures crushers, gravity tables, material handling machines and prospects/produces precious metals. Get his Channel. Been watching him for quite some time. Very knowledgeable as well. You need to roast those sulfides to liberate precious metals. I believe. Good Luck! GT
Crushing and panning Jason's ore wont get you all that's in it. Jason is chasing a paystreak that was a time zone when the Gold was depositional. The rest of the quartz has much more Gold in it but it's tiny and I saw it in your microscope shots sitting around the one's you focused on. HS zones are rich in smalls, some very very rich too. Low Sulphur zones have bigger Gold because it's not so spread out. You can pan that stuff much better. You crush and leach HS zones. That's why you didn't get it all.
I'd never buy ore, not even sure I'd want it if they gave it to me. I would if it was massively iron stained quartz. But I wouldn't buy any. It's always a bust. They want you to pay like there's gold in these rocks, but there's mostly rocks in these rocks. It's a lot of work and dust just to say, "see, that there's gold", but it's always the worst gold venture I think you could go on. Appreciate the video.
Heh... Round MY parts... You MIGHT find some good SILVER... But ZERO gold. Somehow this specific zone simply is devoid of gold. Lovely iron, amazing silver [in some of the better deposits] but not a speck of gold.
I did it just for the curiosity of it and to see if I could.... wait til the 2nd one I did of gold ore ive already crushed and panned .....it was freaking Awful....made this look like the motherlode!
@@thegroovygoldhunter1728 Gold ore is something so poorly understood that most people could be handed super high grade, and still manage to lose more than 50% of it. Lucky for me, I'm in an absolutely ['officially', based on over a century of USGS compiled data and reports] gold free zone, so any gold I find will turn out to be [in essence] 'faked' or 'magical'. But, seeing as the local silver productions have reported as high as 300 oz/t, and I may have seen some native silver in some of my ore [microscopic, but visible under a microscope] I am open to the idea that I may be able to use some of my 'modern' extraction technologies, which will extract silver, copper, and [should there be any] gold as well. But as I am a manufacturer, if I never find anything other than iron, I'll still make bank.
I had similar results from Colorado gold camp a few years ago. Was absolutely dismal results and totally not worth all the effort it took. I'll never buy that type of stuff again
I purchased 2 bags from Jason. I had the exact same problems you had. I thought I could crush with the little manual unit. Yeah right. Had to buy a crusher and have enjoyed the process. I am not completely done because I realized that the gold I was getting was 300 mesh. So I will need to go back through all my tailings and rerun them. I didn't notice how small the gold was till I got the loop out. The rock I have left is country rock and white quartz. Not sure I will crush it and waste the time. So far I would guess I have maybe .05 grams. I didn't expect a lot.
Crush the quartz - that is where the gold is found. Jason should have a video or two by now on refining the concentrates from that mine. Panning just is not going to be adequate.
The only way your going to get all 100% of the gold out of the rocks is to watch Jason from MBMMLLC An learn how to melt down the fine dust like he dose on his channel. The Capels will sock into the capels an the gold won't. You are losing so much gold you can't see doing it the way you are. Jason owns the company that make the rock crushers shacker tables. He sales they in his web site.
I am in it for 250lbs. Bought a Mighty Mill to help with the crushing. Its about the journey for me, not the destination. Love seeing your video.
That's a lot of ore to crush!
the destination is finding it yourself 😅 but I guess if you enjoy it who cares.
even large scale mining is not the best investment, people who think you get rich off gold don't realize their better off looking for change and collecting bottles lol.
have fun and experiment. roast those sulfides!
What is your zoom?
In Jason's mine and many other wide mesothermal gold bearing quartz veins the gold is concentrated in a narrow band of the vein called the "shoot". Crushing all of the vein quartz might have 1oz per ton, but the shoot might have 15oz+ per ton. So statistically allot of the rocks you are crushing have little values and results might vary widely from sample to sample.
I use a manual jaw crusher and a cheap chinese grain mill to grind it down to powder. You want to get it down to 1/8 minus before using the mill. I bought 75lbs and got a little over 4 grams I got it all down below 50-. And a lot of the gold is locked up in those sulfides. I smelted the gold and sulfides together to get that result. Tis the nature of the beast. You have to smelt to maximize values.
Yeah his sulphides need to be processed.
What kind of grain mill did you get? Hand crank?
Most of these comments like this one are precious learning materials.
Free education.
Don’t expect a windfall ROI on paydirt. Ain’t gonna happen.
Jason is mainly an ore processing machinery manufacturer. Great guy with interesting videos. He teams up with Ghost Town Living, Dan Hurd, and a few others for collaborative shows.
mine operator, pioneer Pauly, jeff Williams, Kasey grey , Jerry Laredo, and Jim Lampman to name a few. all of em great prospectors
Jason & Father owns many gold mines and many thousands of acres of timber!
Face it, you don’t have a clue of what you are doing!
Including panning!
The mystery metal is likely tellurides?
I’ve been waiting for this one! I’m in the same boat you were and life events have kept me from starting this adventure so far. At some point I will come back to this video and let you know my results as well. With the sulfides I have seen others, including Jason take the sulfides and put them in a frying pan and get them cooked up if you will. I assume after doing this you can pound that into dust and maybe liberate a little more. He put out a video in the last week or two where he ran a ton thru his awesome set up. Part 1
That is some stick-to-it-iveness. You earned my subscription. I too am prone to falling down rabbit holes which lead to more rabbit holes. Keeps me out of trouble.
thanks for sub and I have my own holes to worry about. I think I would pan a turd if they said it had gold in it....
@@thegroovygoldhunter1728 hahaha so true. That's when you know you got the fever ! Hahaha thanks for the mental image.
Chickenshit gold, ever heard of it?
It's funny I came across your video. I just received a 25lb bag of ore dust that he crushed recently. This stuff is powder. I'll have to make a small sluiceor something to clean it out. We'll see!
Was it on ebay?
Use jet dry or dish soap so it falls out
I got a couple bags of Jason's ore recently. Washed the big stuff off and immediately found a dozen or so nice specimen quality hunks with visible gold and probably silver in them. Those got set aside. Awaiting parts for grinding the rest to dust for processing now. Just putzing around with the fine stuff and a pan, I picked up what's gotta be a gram and a half or so of super fine gold. I saved everything to re-run a few times, I know I blew plenty out of the pan in my haste. A couple of the specimens are probably worth the bogs when it comes down to it. Will have to figure out how to get it all in processing tho, sounds like smelting etc has been a challenge for most. Maybe suspend it all in Aqua Regia and ship it to SREETIPS for finishing!
Jason would be just as intrigued watching your video as I am I’m sure. I would love to do what your doing, but living in the Netherlands doesn’t make that a viable thing….so I watch Jason and a lot of other gold mine related RUclipsr folks. Your video is cool, so much effort and just admitting your just tying to learn…thanks for letting me look over your shoulder….
Should be about .3 grams in 25lbs if my math is correct. I believe his assay was about an 1 ounce per ton.
I got .41 grams at 1oz/Ton
I know you worked off your hiney for that shiny!
Aqua Donkey Prospecting approved!❤🎉🎉❤
I bought the same thing and got a few specks out of the dust. Ended up selling the lot to someone else as I didn’t have a crusher that was going to get it fine enough. I’ll stick to pay dirt.
Great job crushing it fam. Need a lot of that to make it worth it. Got to be on some good ground indeed. If you can find it. You're close to the source 😊. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠
Here's how to Crush Rocks as a Hobbyist. Purchase a small Propane Furnace Pot, these are great for Smelting as well.
Place some Rocks in the Furnace Pot and stick a Propane Blow Torch in the Hole typically used by the Burner.
You can Easily Heat Rocks to Red Hot and then Quench them in Water. This will completely Fracture the Rock Internally.
Crushing after that is Simple. And the Dust Levels are much lower when smashing the Rocks with a Hammer. Easy-Peasy.
I think it’s all about the experience when you buy rock like that. No ROI. What a ride man. Great video. Can’t wait to see the next group of rock you crush.
Well done you proved ur self wrong. You did the build, congrats.
I was surprised I didn't break stuff in the process especially my arm when I was drilling the hole in that steel ring. it jerked my arm while trying to punch through it several times!
Cool video. I just got the same bag and hand sorted it similar to you. I have loads of different colors that stayed in the cleanup sluice from all the dirt powder. I noticed a good amount of fine flour gold so it seems it should be a better yield capturing the metals with a furnace and ending with cupelled gold beads. I still need to accumulate the products needed to do that like flux soda ash etc etc. I did it to learn how to do all said and learn about their mine and hard rock mining. This was certainly way more interesting then hand made pay dirt. Very cool!
when I first started crushing rock; I got a flat piece of steel and a slightly smaller but taller piece of steel. built a hollow box around the flat steel. put rocks on the flat and crushed them
with the heavy steel. then gathered the dust in a dust pan. worked with a lot of work. but cheap. then i bought a small crusher for $1000. it sucked, broke parts continuously. got it away.
then i bought a jaw crusher from MBMM Jason. it works great. I also bought a hammer mill which worked good, but i've worn out the hammers.
I ordered a box as well. I did it to support him as I love his videos.
Its not a scam. It's a learning experience. ( Being serious)
Thanks for doing that, that's a lot of work! Tells me it's not worth it to go about it that way at that $75 cost.
How much fine gold did you wash off the ore.
none... I panned everything that came out of that bag.. I even swept the floor where I did all the crushing and panning and panned that stuff to make sure I didn't miss anything. the only thing I did not do is smelt the metals to try to pull out gold from those. I am not there quite yet.
Gold doesn't glitter it glows. That glittery stuff is most likely pyrite. Which could contain some gold.
Gold crystals will have flat faces, so should glitter somewhat - depending on how smooth it may be.
44:40, round and flat? Unless that was a product of the grinder annealing smaller chunks, it looks like placer chunk. If it was lode gold, it was mashed that way from some oxidized/liberated ore. Lode is not round and flat- unless you hit a rich enrichment zone or redeposition area, it is microbits.
Great video. That’s a long process of getting very little gold. I’ve been thinking about getting a bag of it. Since now he sells it already crushed up for I think $100. I was going to do a review on my channel but now since I saw your video, I don’t think it’s worth all that work for .214 grams of gold. I’m going to hold off for now. Thanks for the video.
i haven't seen the non crushed stuff on ebay yet.. i saw his video where he said he was doing that but its not on his listing
silver shiny material is probably galena (lead sulfide). There is a mine a mile from where i live. The gold is not visible in the rock. Each dump truck worth of ore is worth about $11k to $17k.
awesome. Is there company mining it out?
@@thegroovygoldhunter1728 yes, they are the ones hauling the ore in big trucks pulling pup dump trucks. even now in winter.
Have been using a hand crusher that i made at my last job...kinda like yours. Need to make an angle grinder box
I like this video. It’s a bit funny that you project yourself to be more of a beginner than mbmmc But your humility makes me like your video more than his, I seem to always be yelling at the screen when I’m watching him. Lol
Did you pan the dirt that you washed off from your ore?
Yes, I panned everyrhing.... even recrushed bigger material down to dust to make sure I got all I could with what I had...
If you got 1/4 gram in 25 pounds that would be 20 grams per ton. Not bad.
Jason's mine has a lot of pyrite and i believe another mineral called molybdenite? The silver values are alloyed with the gold. The gold is mostly very fine dust and ore must be crushed to baby powder fine if you wanna recover it all.
It’s not molybdenum just puritite
Nice work. I like how you were up for the challenge!
Subscribed.
Maybe you can send it back to Jason and he could smelt you a button?
I gotta say though.. please cover up that insulation in your shop if you are concerned about dust and your lungs.
Great video have a good day!
I've considered trying to do it myself just to see if I could....probably my next step in this learning process!
joined the channel...excited to see your up n coming videos!!!...especially this because im quite familiar with jason and dan hurd etc
thank you for subscribing!
You could use CLR and dissolve the quartz..it takes a few days but it works
Part 2. He had a heck of a time getting his smelt to finally work right as far as getting the right mix of agents together. If I remember correct it was just a little over an ounce. It looked to be mostly gold percent wise. I’m sure there is some silver mixed in. Anyway I really enjoy your videos. Hello from NC! Thank you for sharing this adventure. Good job on your rock crusher. Curious, anything you would do different in your build now that you’ve used it some? Thanks again.
I think you should consider the "dust" that came in the bag as just pre-crushed ore. Collect it and pan it out also.
I did and I panned all of it... i cut a hole in bottom of bags and sprayed them in to a bucket to get the stuff stuck in the bags
try and find an old concrete mixer and find some steel balls dont know how much but that should crush the rock!
Hard rock mining hard in a garage and no equip lol😂
You can cut the handle off that manual rock crusher you have and attach it to a chipping hammer. Then you put some rock in the tube, drop the crushing bit attached to a chipping hammer on top, hit the button and push down....ta dah! You have pulverized quartz dust.
Well I just might not bother crushing the rest of mine , lol nice job , great video
4-pounder and a chunk of railroad iron. In a shallow box to catch the frags. Sieve and repeat.
If you want a good cheap rock crusher, get a fairly heavy walled (used portable) cement mixer and a bunch of steel balls and make a small ball mill. You wil want to put a spray bar just outside of the barrel as it makes a LOT of quartz dust- hazard to breathing of course, but will also eat your bearings up.
And lode gold is usually combined with other stuff where placer is quite higher gold content.
And (if you are stil awake) lode gold is generally VERY SMALL.
I find a hand sledge within a metal box works, don't swing the hammer just drop it straight down and save your arms?
Some brilliant rocks there.
We love Jason!
You said that was 25 lb how much did that cost all those rocks are pretty
100 bucks after shipping....
@@thegroovygoldhunter1728what a rip off....
Very groovy effort. Don't you have to smelt gold ore? I LOVE your crusher!
My son bought me one of those bags to play with.I'll come back later when I've got around completely.Crushing it and running it and I'll let you know what I find in it.Cause They bought me the exact same thing.....
Little less talk , more action !
his 25 pound bags of ore are worthless but at least you support his cool lifestyle
They are not meant to produce a profit for the buyer. If they would, in such small amounts, the gold would be some of the richest hard rock gold ever found - and Jason's mine is far from that.
I think Jason believes that a half ounce per tonne is “payable” return.
If you don’t value your labour and other inputs (dynamite, air drilling & humping the ore down a mountain etc - then yes you could consider half ounce per tonne as payable ore.
In the old days it was considered payable ore if it went 1 ounce per tonne which is probably a better metric to judge a payable mine.
But
There are other methods
Remember that Jason has his processing plant and can throughout bigger quantities in a time effective manner.
If you were to cyanide leach the crushed ore through activated carbon & separate it in quantity you might get higher recovery because your collecting gold at molecular level.
Perhaps mercury amalgam is another option.
Any way you look at it his mine to my mind is barely payable.
It is only payable to my mind in the inventive ways he sells it as pay dirt for one example or as sliced rocks etc.
Add in his RUclips revenues & maybe his mine is actually just viable.
That would be my summation.
Lol he sells it crushed now .nice video thank you 😊
17grams per ton is actually pretty good, but not if you're buying it 25lbs at a time and not for $100 a pop. If it's your claim and the only cost is your time then it's worth it.
maybe a 4inch casing manual stamping tube ??? a giant of the little 1 u have
I am surprised that anyone would be surprised that a mining company would fail to go bankrupt selling thier gold ore, for more than it's worth?
Nowadays with eBay and people that are too lazy to dig, or mine for themselves. That is how these miners stay in business these days versus 60 years ago, 100 years ago they didn't have eBay to sell the worthless cheaper oar rocks that may contain a little gold that people buy now because we're too lazy to do it ourselves.
Well you may have some platinum there, hard rock is never fun. No one will talk me into it again. There's plenty of placer from glacier till and decomposed bedrock. I've done both on large scale, from 50 man load mines to Cyanide ponds from super fine ore. Hope it warms up for ya.
You should use a minimum of grade 100 alloy chain and use steel for the holder.
Get the mighty mill, under 400 dollars. You will be glad you did
Do you need someone to install your flooring?
no, I had it done last week... I am doing all the trim work but we had someone come in and do the flooring for us... they did a good job
You should contact Jason and if you order again,ask him if he could break it done to powder with his machines.That would be easier than you having to work months on it.He can do it in a hour.
Great video!
If you can smelt you can "cook" the rock to make crushing easier
I am starting to think he has a small amount of platinum in that mine. I’ve watch a couple of you guy processing the ore. It is rare with gold but does occur.
Wash out the plastic bag shake out and possibly wash the go bag put it into a pan and see how much gold you get out of that how much gold did you get on your hands you kept wiping on your pants how much gold did you leave in that other room
You did better than me. I ended up finding a total of 3 pieces at minus 100 in my box after crushing to powder😢
Hey bud,next time u get some big ore take n build u a fire and heat your ore for a couple hrs,then it will literally crumble easy in your manual crusher n real ez in your robi crusher....works great
I will do that
Because i'm an expert at watching experts refine gold... 😅😅😅
Before you get disheartened, you may just need to smelt your concentrates with the right collector metal, flux recipe and cupell it to get the gold.
That would probably be a few more $100 of equipment.
Buy the mighty mill rock crusher
Lol … was wondering about the magnets alright
buy a jaw crusher from Jason. build the stand and buy a gas powered engine to drive the jaw crusher. mine works great after tons of quartz.
Too bad for you that I only just discovered your channel because I could have made you one for $50 plus parts [about $75 more] and had it done in 3 days.
Oh well...
Life moves on...
Silver stuff could be Galina
Its not really about getting monetary value out of the ore you purchased. What you bought with your $109 is the experience of liberating the gold from the ore. People like me see that as entertainment value in itself. After all, if i wasn't doing this, I'd either be getting in trouble or being a couch potato.
I knew that going in... I wanted to see if I could do it and I know I didn't get it all, but I just wanted to see if I could do it. Learning as I go....
Smelt it it's lock in t🎉 he rock or chemical release the gold. be carefully. Love your determination.
So at todays prices for 1/2 oz you would get about 1200=1300 dollars worth of gold after doing all the work. Instead he sells the material for 6000 a ton and goes out and buys 2 ounces of gold with the proceeds. So you could say his ore is netting him 2 oz per ton.
Plenty of websites out there selling grams of gold and you net way more than what most pay dirts will.
where'd ya get that clock?
Right on Brother thanks alot 🎉😊
Without Jason's vibrating table you will not be successful.
I suggest you watch some more videos! The ‘silver’ is iron csulfste. Green is copper sulphate. What looks like dark yellow rich colored rock is probably fool’s gold… iron pyrite. Watch Dan’s videos when he prospects up on the mountain.
Super beginner here, so this might not work, but could you have sliuced this more easily? Instead of panning?
You should get a small wet saw and cut some of those peices
a little gold i guess
That metallic material is probably telluride, maybe not silver.
I hope this video will make some of that $400/ $700 for you!
Without smelting you cannot account for gold that isn’t freed up by your method.
One way to brake rock down is heat it and drop it in ice water. Or if you have a drill get a tiny hammer drill a hole in the end of the hammer put a bolt threw the hole put it in the drill find a bucket with a lid cut a hole in lid the size of your drill chuck put drill threw lid attach hamer with bolt put rocks in bucket put lid with drill and hammer on and theres a crudely made hammer mill
Jason @ Mt Baker Mining and Metals. And he manufactures crushers, gravity tables, material handling machines and prospects/produces precious metals. Get his Channel. Been watching him for quite some time. Very knowledgeable as well.
You need to roast those sulfides to liberate precious metals. I believe. Good Luck! GT
cool clock
matbe think about buying a cobra crucher or a mighety mite crusher
That is a lot of work by hand. Good Job though.
put the ore in hot fire then hit with water it will go britl and put in hand crusher
@@lesliedawson-zj7se i will try that
Siver ore could be platium!
Its mbmmllc stands for mount baker mining and metals llc
Silver is tellurides
Crushing and panning Jason's ore wont get you all that's in it. Jason is chasing a paystreak that was a time zone when the Gold was depositional. The rest of the quartz has much more Gold in it but it's tiny and I saw it in your microscope shots sitting around the one's you focused on. HS zones are rich in smalls, some very very rich too. Low Sulphur zones have bigger Gold because it's not so spread out. You can pan that stuff much better. You crush and leach HS zones. That's why you didn't get it all.
i follow him too. but not yet eureka moment.
I'd never buy ore, not even sure I'd want it if they gave it to me. I would if it was massively iron stained quartz. But I wouldn't buy any. It's always a bust. They want you to pay like there's gold in these rocks, but there's mostly rocks in these rocks. It's a lot of work and dust just to say, "see, that there's gold", but it's always the worst gold venture I think you could go on. Appreciate the video.
Heh...
Round MY parts...
You MIGHT find some good SILVER...
But ZERO gold.
Somehow this specific zone simply is devoid of gold.
Lovely iron, amazing silver [in some of the better deposits] but not a speck of gold.
I did it just for the curiosity of it and to see if I could.... wait til the 2nd one I did of gold ore ive already crushed and panned .....it was freaking Awful....made this look like the motherlode!
@@thegroovygoldhunter1728 Gold ore is something so poorly understood that most people could be handed super high grade, and still manage to lose more than 50% of it.
Lucky for me, I'm in an absolutely ['officially', based on over a century of USGS compiled data and reports] gold free zone, so any gold I find will turn out to be [in essence] 'faked' or 'magical'.
But, seeing as the local silver productions have reported as high as 300 oz/t, and I may have seen some native silver in some of my ore [microscopic, but visible under a microscope] I am open to the idea that I may be able to use some of my 'modern' extraction technologies, which will extract silver, copper, and [should there be any] gold as well.
But as I am a manufacturer, if I never find anything other than iron, I'll still make bank.
RUclips Gold
I had similar results from Colorado gold camp a few years ago. Was absolutely dismal results and totally not worth all the effort it took. I'll never buy that type of stuff again
Recovering all the gold from rock is not trivial. That is why modern hard rock gold mines have large processing plants to properly process the ore.
I purchased 2 bags from Jason. I had the exact same problems you had. I thought I could crush with the little manual unit. Yeah right. Had to buy a crusher and have enjoyed the process. I am not completely done because I realized that the gold I was getting was 300 mesh. So I will need to go back through all my tailings and rerun them. I didn't notice how small the gold was till I got the loop out. The rock I have left is country rock and white quartz. Not sure I will crush it and waste the time. So far I would guess I have maybe .05 grams. I didn't expect a lot.
Crush the quartz - that is where the gold is found.
Jason should have a video or two by now on refining the concentrates from that mine. Panning just is not going to be adequate.
The only way your going to get all 100% of the gold out of the rocks is to watch Jason from MBMMLLC An learn how to melt down the fine dust like he dose on his channel. The Capels will sock into the capels an the gold won't. You are losing so much gold you can't see doing it the way you are. Jason owns the company that make the rock crushers shacker tables. He sales they in his web site.
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