@@nhragold1922 Yeah no excuses, there is a guy out here in the Mojave out by Randsburg who is 96 who metal detects for gold with his geriatric walker .. seriously!
When I was a little boy, I used to love going on tours of old mines preserved as museums, and I always thought it would be cool to be a miner, even though I knew it was very hard work with often small profit margins. I guess that's why I love these videos so much and always eagerly look forward to the new ones. Thanks so much, Jason -- it's not very often that a 65 year-old man gets to feel like a kid again!
To protect the anfo, get a roll of that trash bag material but in long tube form. When you buy metal furniture the steel pipes are usually bagged in it. Fold the end over and pull it over the air hose so you blow the prills into the tube. That way as you fill the hole the bag fills, and keeps it dry. For super good stemming go to a construction site and grab drywall cut offs from their trash. Smash with a hammer a few times. When it gets wet it swells and seals the hole tight. Just wrap a few handfuls in newspaper and use a rod to shove it in the end of the drilled hole. It can also be used to seal water seepage.
I'd BET he could find those poly bags on ULINE cheap, in quantity.....I just looked ;) Bags, Poly / Plastic and i put in 2 X 18 and it came up with a bunch.....2 mil...3 mil...4 mil!!! and cutting up a sheet of drywall would be simple enough!!! SCORE!!!!
Both poly bags and hotdog casings are good ideas but *not* from ULINE. They are entirely too expensive. Nothing against their products, it's simply a matter of being able to get identical things elsewhere for less, and in most cases a whole lot less.
When I worked in a quarry many years ago we used plastic tubing to put our Nitropril into, making long sausages that we'd carefully put down the holes. We were mostly drilling and blasting vertical holes in benches. We mainly used the plastic when there was a lot of water.
Love your videos, been watching for over a year, yourself and dan hurd are top feed on my youtube, love the videos you guys have done together. I'm an amateur prospector and we've learned so much from your videos. You speak clearly and explain geology very well with terminology and showing examples.
I feel it! As a apprentice carpenter I rock drilled 5' columns. 12 hour nights, 13 floors. 6 hole pattern for #1 structure rebar. 20 years ago now, found I had crippling wrist pain. Carpal tunnel numbness to elbow. Viva union labor. Carpenter local 22, SF
The crackling in the microphone during the blasts in very interesting. Quartz generates a lot of electricity when subjected to high forces, it may only be a weak piezoeletric compared to the commercial ceramics used in tech, but you have tons and are shocking it with explosives. Those two facts might well be related.
@@danielvannuland2681 Distortion sounds different. Nobody is expecting an explosion to sound anything like reality in a recording. No, it is the crackling static following after a blast. That sound is suspiciously similar to what you hear when your sound related equipment is close to microwaves, ignition systems, power converters and other stuff that generates wide spectrum emi
@@danielvannuland2681 P.S. and i have never heard such crackling in any gun, fireworks or military footage i have seen or taken myself either. That it what made me think about the subject at all
Its a good theory. But in previous videos it did not do this. I thought it may have been due to the altered acoustics, because they have opened it up more to give headroom at the end. Explosive pressure is filling that round pocket and then accelerating at the restriction point and shooting sound back to the mic. Whereas previously it was more even. Or his mic gain is higher and causing clipping.
@@Zonkotron with a decent microphone that isnt a phone, and some audiophile hobbies, the best part is when people dont expect it, but it happens. Apparently youve never had a professional grade subwoofer. The reason you dont hear is is because your playback device is mediocre and cannot reproduce such minute details, most of the time skipping right over it. This time it didnt. Every one of his detonations has this crackling, he records from the same spot. Not trying to be mean about your speakers, just truth.
For your wet holes in the pattern, use the newspaper stemming but go get some clay or just make it, its soil without sand and rock, so a sieve and white bucket will do. Roll it into a ½stick size and when rammed in place the clay will deform plastically making a watertight seal😉 ..and of course, for the stemming too I love the content ❤
At 18:30 that's the reason why you don't use Anfo when you have wet ground. I could tell that when you shot the round that you were going to have problems. It really doesn't take much moisture to screw up Anfo. I used to work in a lead,zink, and silver mine and the main powder we used was 60% Cigel in 8-inch sticks. The only other powder that we used, I believe was 80% or possibly 90% Exactec and it was in 18-inch sticks. That stuff was amazing when the hole was loaded you put in a stick then a 4 inch spacer then the next stick and so on. It was only used in the parrimeter holes when making safe-rooms or winch areas etc. When it went off there was a real crack to it and it cut the rock like a knife through butter.
Look up the US version of Powerfrag (Aus) The blast from the first holes can travel through the water course and take out slower detonators so consider double priming wet holes with one half way up the hole. Firing a wet face with a water course at the back is problematic at best without water resistant bomb so taking the time for stemming could easily have made it even worse. Next time when you do stem it wet, which will possibly hold the water in to pressurise those holes and can flush them out entirely under pressure, or simply redirect it out previously dry holes and ruin those and it comes out rough what will you blame?
11:35 My Father worked on a job (he was an Operator) , where they were widing this road through a deep cut and they hit a water vien that was spraying our a FOOT in diameter. It was rumoured to be a giant Underground River or "Aquifer", that fed dozens artesian wells and springs in the area! They routed the water away to drain, and finished digging, then had to hauks in dozens of trucks of clay to seal it up!! It added an extra week or two on the job.
You could make a tripod out of tobacco sticks and put it right under where the leg connects to the drill and that might help hold some of the weight when getting it started. Btw this has become one of my favorite channels to watch recently great videos 👍
The setup isn't that heavy that they'reusing. I used a lot bigger hammer underground, a Toyo 240, and still have 6 of them that used to mine uranium, lol. The same hammers my dad used as a contract miner in the late 70s and early 80s.
You guys must love drilling in the new spot where you can stand up. Once you finish your shortcut to the raise, will you come back to the 4' tall room and work that seam wall, or widen your shortcut along the seam? Lastly, how do you decide when lumber posts aren't enough support and need to leave a gold bearing rock pillar for ceiling support, how do you pick where those pillars need to be placed?
Jason love the channel,much wisdom and step by step explanations gotta love it as a kid in 90s looking and checking out those mineral books seeing your work and path you take makes me wanna have the same experiences one day ,stay safe and the friends as well, enjoy we all cant do this ,but seeing your work gives me the satisfaction ..😎👍🏼
there is a good chance a gopro would shatter that close to a blast, its not like a blast above ground, its all concentrated by the rock and even the sound waves do nasty things to tech....having said that it would be interesting to see what it does do to a gopro
I was told when I was younger by the "old timers" that there was more gold left in the California Gold Country than was taken out in the 1800s. Congratulations Jason on finding that vein. It is impressive.
Howdy from Montana again Jason, all your great videos have helped educate me about this amazing process. Thanks for the efforts bringing us everything and the “fun you guys go through” doing it. Stay safe!
Jason it would be interesting to see a couple plan maps of you mine workings. It's hard to visualize the geometry of the situation from short video clips.
Hello again Jason & Mine Operator. Great explanation of the laborious process. It would be an interesting video at some point where you wash all of the walls Diana second time and vacuum up everything with a wet vac then process the collected rock and sand.
A loud blast is often a bad sign. It’s possibly overcharged but usually rifling. All the explosive energy should go into breaking rock and give a dull crump. Sound is the explosive energy not being converted into real work which explains the chunks. Sounds cool and feeling the pressure wave might be fun the first time for newbies to experience but it’s pretty ominous for the charge crew…
DRILL BABY DRILL! But seriously I love your channel. Did you improve the lighting? I sure could see that seam better than I ever could before. Or maybe it’s just me. Thanks! 🇺🇸❤️🏴
Hey thanks Jason for showing us and giving us a lesson on it. Never seen it up close, and explained that way. Usually with the mine explores, the ore body has been taken out.
Rule of thumb. Never use anfo where water is present. Stick powder. You need 20mm aluminium blowpipe on the end of the anfo hose. 6 to 8 feet. It helps to pack the beads very tight so you wont need stemming or tamping. But to each his own
God I love these videos! Coming along with you as you work your way toward the raise is an unparalleled adventure! I am so excited for you guys. I think this time I'm going to bid on one of your ore bags. That's beautiful stuff you're hauling out of there!
Really like the informative bits in the videos! From my minimal training of explosvies in the military, I would have put 1/8 of a stick in the bottom hole and maby 1/4 in the top ones to just crack the corner of in chunks. 😅
I used to deal a lot with gold, and gold in the host rock... Once you have seen actual gold in the host stone, you will never confuse pyrites for gold ever again, it is obvious what gold looks like after seeing it in person.
I have a suggestion: When you sell a slab or a specimen, include a mineralogical explanation with your signature. That would make much more special to your customers.
OK Guys, I know you're eager, so are we, but remember, Hast makes waste! Take the time to lay down something to catch all thats blasted and stemming seems to get it done properly! Can't wait to see some very nice slabs, at the end of one of the videos .... Keep it happening, be safe and get 'er done! ⛏️⚒️⚖️💪👍🤠
Another great video, thank you. The lessons with the flash tube are quite interesting. Way safer than the old days where you're using fuse length to try to get the timing you need. I had two outside charges go at once and they blew out the centre fuse. Not fun digging it out the next day and setting a second charge off.
so, Jason, i was reminded of an old plumbers trick for temporarily stopping dripping pipes in order to solder....if you brought a loaf or two of bread with you and stuffed the hole real good, pack it nice and tight...i promise you it'll keep that hole dry enough to get whatever your doing done. thanks for the great videos, incredibly helpful for me in my new found hobby lol...
I enjoy watching your progress. Best to use stick powder on wet holes. However, you can get good results with anfo and stingers in wet holes if you also use bore hole liner. Cheap alternative to expensive stick powder in wet environments but you need to learn how. Also, stemming is always best, hands down, unless you want to shotgun. Plus, use less powder next time to trim out your specimens so you can find them after the shot. God Bless and best of luck to you. JZ
Jason , You and Harry make an awesome team. I really hope your successful, lots of gold per ton. You and your family have an amazing work ethic. Cheers, Rik Spector
You have a crazy amount of work load. The old timers never had jaw crushers like MBMM back at your office, those small units could be used here. Would it not be better to bring in a jaw crusher to the mine quartz location, then add some of that water and flush it down a 2" water pipe right to a shaker table at the mine entrance.
You're absolutely right about scaling in. I had an injury investigation a few years ago where a crew was drilling a tunnel through a mountain on Kodiak island in Alaska for a hydro plant. They were experienced guys who knew what they were doing, and they scaled their way to the face every shift, but unfortunately while one guy was standing behind the jumbo drill as it was running, a large chunk of scale fell from the ceiling and hit him square in the shoulder blades. Last I heard he had some permanent paralysis, this stuff is no joke. Stay safe in there.
Wow the gold keeps getting better! Would really love to see a few hundred pounds crushed and run on the shaker table. I'm sure we would all enjoy seeing a nice golden button sitting in the cupel! Also interested in seeing what's trapped up in those giant sulfide pieces. Great work, looking forward to the rest of the videos
Maybe you could use some crafting clay to put in the back of your drill holes that produce water. It would be cheap and easy to keep in the blasting kit.
43:52 - Wow - that is hard rock to give that much in just 18 holes, you could think about getting a bit grinder to sharpen these, normally you would sharpen when the flat if 1/3 of the button diameter. I got a Chinese grinder and it is worth it's weight in gold!
bro .... so fuckin amazing... correcting every little error ... educating every little bit... the safety and stealthiness of this operation between 2 people is unbelievable well-done sirs you both are masters in your field.
Can’t wait to watch this stuff get processed !!!!!! Kinda curious have you or are you checking for any pgm’s. ? Swore in a few of your specimens you showed that I seen something that looked different than the pyrrhotite ! More gun metal gray with almost a bluish tint !
I from Pennsylvania coal country. Once made it to the top (12,500 ft) of a Rocky Mountain in Colorado, near Vale. I like to collect an interesting rock from my adventures to remember it by, my favorite being a black chunk of basalt. So, I thought to take a small stone from the very tip of mountain, and folks at the time, I was very unimpressed, a crumbly rotten thing it was. I was expecting some great hard rock that made it all the way up here, but no. Now I'm looking at it, its rotten quarts with sulfides (learned form this show)! It's gold! I'm rich!
I didnt realize how rare pyrrhotite is?! Wow! Cool to see it in our cascades! Especially since the rest of the newborn cascades have very little precious metals
I mentioned once about the steming we used, wood pieces 1.5 ft long and 2" tapered to allow it to fit in the drill hole about 6" deep. Did most of the tapering with the bench grinder. They are reusable in most cases, unless they became splinters Owell
Loud bang due to unstemmed holes = lost energy. I really think that it is worth the extra money to skip the anfo and just use all packaged explosive when you see that much water. Good work guys.
Jason those plug fore stemming are important I realize you wanted that shot as fast as possible, but if you have some plugs made up you will get better results ,plus put down some muck plates before the shot Ben there and I learned some great tricks !!!
In the salt mines in Louisiana the drills used vacuum suction and compressed air through the drill steels so the bore holes were dry. No wet anfo. 1 ton per 100 x 28 faces drilled 2inch holes x 15 feet. 20 holes 5 ft apart, 5 horizontal rows. The face floor was cut by a undercutter with a 20 foot bar. Extra holes along the ribs between the horizontal rows
Wouldn't it be awesome to go in after a blast. And see the new wall with only a few large chunks of quartz, and the rest just a large wall of gold! Only in dreams and movies!
Jason, you should look into a power broom. Echo makes a good battery-powered one as well as makita i move gravel all day, from #72's up to #34's. It looks like your ore gravel would be easily moved with the power broom. If you could just figure out a way to arrange your buckets to sweep into. I woukd use tarpaulin landscape super sacks. This tool will save you a tremendous amount of time! One last thing you will need the rubber paddle broom, not the bristle broom. Hope this helps. Great content, buddy. really exciting stuff.
You cam move all the small rock with a large vacuum system, like a VAC Truck for cleaning lift stations. I have seen them remove large rocks, 5-6"rocks off of roof of hotels in Florida. Large PVC pipe running long distance on a flat roof, then down to the VAC truck. The rocks going into truck was very loud, but worked great. The back of truck opened up to dump solids out. If you can put it in a sand bag you can surely move it with large suction system. Running PVC pipe may be fairly easy compared to digging through rock. It would also suck a lot of air through the mine / ventilation. Some of those VAC trucks are smaller than others, could drive up to mine..
Dang, that's the most beautiful vein I've seen on my internet prospecting career. This is so exciting Jason.
“Internet prospecting career” lol 😆 I’m right there with ya brother 🤠👍
Tha k you 😅
Well get yourself out there and make it happen in real life. Best of luck to you on your journey if you do!
😂😂😂😂 your fuckin funny 😂😂
@@nhragold1922 Yeah no excuses, there is a guy out here in the Mojave out by Randsburg who is 96 who metal detects for gold with his geriatric walker .. seriously!
Jason, could you please set up a gopro for one of your blasts?
It would be awesome to see the fury up close
Donate one. They are expensive!
I thought they did one last season, but I could be imagining that 😂
Just put it in a plexiglass type case to protect it as a shield
Harry is a “one-in-a-million” colleague! Great enthusiasm, work ethic, knowledge, and just a good person.
When I was a little boy, I used to love going on tours of old mines preserved as museums, and I always thought it would be cool to be a miner, even though I knew it was very hard work with often small profit margins. I guess that's why I love these videos so much and always eagerly look forward to the new ones. Thanks so much, Jason -- it's not very often that a 65 year-old man gets to feel like a kid again!
To protect the anfo, get a roll of that trash bag material but in long tube form. When you buy metal furniture the steel pipes are usually bagged in it. Fold the end over and pull it over the air hose so you blow the prills into the tube. That way as you fill the hole the bag fills, and keeps it dry. For super good stemming go to a construction site and grab drywall cut offs from their trash. Smash with a hammer a few times. When it gets wet it swells and seals the hole tight. Just wrap a few handfuls in newspaper and use a rod to shove it in the end of the drilled hole. It can also be used to seal water seepage.
I wondered the same thing. Blow the empty bag down the hole then fill it?
I'd BET he could find those poly bags on ULINE cheap, in quantity.....I just looked ;)
Bags, Poly / Plastic and i put in 2 X 18 and it came up with a bunch.....2 mil...3 mil...4 mil!!!
and cutting up a sheet of drywall would be simple enough!!!
SCORE!!!!
I was thinking cellulose snag/hotdog casings. Cheap, and can take the ramming without puncturing.
Both poly bags and hotdog casings are good ideas but *not* from ULINE. They are entirely too expensive.
Nothing against their products, it's simply a matter of being able to get identical things elsewhere for less,
and in most cases a whole lot less.
When I worked in a quarry many years ago we used plastic tubing to put our Nitropril into, making long sausages that we'd carefully put down the holes. We were mostly drilling and blasting vertical holes in benches. We mainly used the plastic when there was a lot of water.
Love your videos, been watching for over a year, yourself and dan hurd are top feed on my youtube, love the videos you guys have done together. I'm an amateur prospector and we've learned so much from your videos. You speak clearly and explain geology very well with terminology and showing examples.
Ask Jeff Williams and Flour Gold Wizards are 2 others that I watch regularly
I feel it! As a apprentice carpenter I rock drilled 5' columns. 12 hour nights, 13 floors. 6 hole pattern for #1 structure rebar. 20 years ago now, found I had crippling wrist pain. Carpal tunnel numbness to elbow. Viva union labor. Carpenter local 22, SF
The crackling in the microphone during the blasts in very interesting. Quartz generates a lot of electricity when subjected to high forces, it may only be a weak piezoeletric compared to the commercial ceramics used in tech, but you have tons and are shocking it with explosives. Those two facts might well be related.
Sound is pressure. Explosives are mega pressure changes. Microphone simply distorting, happens to a phone in my living room around 110 db.
@@danielvannuland2681 Distortion sounds different. Nobody is expecting an explosion to sound anything like reality in a recording. No, it is the crackling static following after a blast. That sound is suspiciously similar to what you hear when your sound related equipment is close to microwaves, ignition systems, power converters and other stuff that generates wide spectrum emi
@@danielvannuland2681 P.S. and i have never heard such crackling in any gun, fireworks or military footage i have seen or taken myself either. That it what made me think about the subject at all
Its a good theory. But in previous videos it did not do this. I thought it may have been due to the altered acoustics, because they have opened it up more to give headroom at the end. Explosive pressure is filling that round pocket and then accelerating at the restriction point and shooting sound back to the mic. Whereas previously it was more even. Or his mic gain is higher and causing clipping.
@@Zonkotron with a decent microphone that isnt a phone, and some audiophile hobbies, the best part is when people dont expect it, but it happens. Apparently youve never had a professional grade subwoofer.
The reason you dont hear is is because your playback device is mediocre and cannot reproduce such minute details, most of the time skipping right over it. This time it didnt. Every one of his detonations has this crackling, he records from the same spot.
Not trying to be mean about your speakers, just truth.
This is the stuff I love from this channel just nothing but pure knowledge. Every video is a goldmine no pun intended
For your wet holes in the pattern, use the newspaper stemming but go get some clay or just make it, its soil without sand and rock, so a sieve and white bucket will do. Roll it into a ½stick size and when rammed in place the clay will deform plastically making a watertight seal😉
..and of course, for the stemming too
I love the content ❤
You can make a dandy set of feathers and wedges out of old drill steel and have somthing that can be effective with a sledgehammer for specimens
At 18:30 that's the reason why you don't use Anfo when you have wet ground. I could tell that when you shot the round that you were going to have problems. It really doesn't take much moisture to screw up Anfo. I used to work in a lead,zink, and silver mine and the main powder we used was 60% Cigel in 8-inch sticks. The only other powder that we used, I believe was 80% or possibly 90% Exactec and it was in 18-inch sticks. That stuff was amazing when the hole was loaded you put in a stick then a 4 inch spacer then the next stick and so on. It was only used in the parrimeter holes when making safe-rooms or winch areas etc. When it went off there was a real crack to it and it cut the rock like a knife through butter.
Look up the US version of Powerfrag (Aus)
The blast from the first holes can travel through the water course and take out slower detonators so consider double priming wet holes with one half way up the hole.
Firing a wet face with a water course at the back is problematic at best without water resistant bomb so taking the time for stemming could easily have made it even worse.
Next time when you do stem it wet, which will possibly hold the water in to pressurise those holes and can flush them out entirely under pressure, or simply redirect it out previously dry holes and ruin those and it comes out rough what will you blame?
11:35 My Father worked on a job (he was an Operator) , where they were widing this road through a deep cut and they hit a water vien that was spraying our a FOOT in diameter. It was rumoured to be a giant Underground River or "Aquifer", that fed dozens artesian wells and springs in the area!
They routed the water away to drain, and finished digging, then had to hauks in dozens of trucks of clay to seal it up!! It added an extra week or two on the job.
You could make a tripod out of tobacco sticks and put it right under where the leg connects to the drill and that might help hold some of the weight when getting it started. Btw this has become one of my favorite channels to watch recently great videos 👍
The setup isn't that heavy that they'reusing. I used a lot bigger hammer underground, a Toyo 240, and still have 6 of them that used to mine uranium, lol. The same hammers my dad used as a contract miner in the late 70s and early 80s.
You guys must love drilling in the new spot where you can stand up.
Once you finish your shortcut to the raise, will you come back to the 4' tall room and work that seam wall, or widen your shortcut along the seam?
Lastly, how do you decide when lumber posts aren't enough support and need to leave a gold bearing rock pillar for ceiling support, how do you pick where those pillars need to be placed?
Jason love the channel,much wisdom and step by step explanations gotta love it as a kid in 90s looking and checking out those mineral books seeing your work and path you take makes me wanna have the same experiences one day ,stay safe and the friends as well, enjoy we all cant do this ,but seeing your work gives me the satisfaction ..😎👍🏼
Was interesting to see Harry and Chad on Freddy and Juan's Mine Rescue last night!
Really appreciate you explaining the drilling use and process.
Please set up a GoPro near the boom so we can watch up close!!
there is a good chance a gopro would shatter that close to a blast, its not like a blast above ground, its all concentrated by the rock and even the sound waves do nasty things to tech....having said that it would be interesting to see what it does do to a gopro
Ordered some coarse ore yesterday. Hope I get some of this material! Beautiful stuff.
Part 3 Smelting it?
I do hope so. Selling the bags is no fun for us Europeans, as we can’t get them.
I hope so too. I'd really like to see how he processes the Telluride ore.
He probably makes more money than the gold is worth with far less effort selling it
@@zmblion Sure. But it is less fun for us.
@@Magurae I agree
You are so incredibly good at explaining as you go along. I feel like I learn so much each time I watch you.
Congrats !!!! It has been an adventure just watching you guys I have been moving dirt 100 million tons at a time
The hard labor of love!!! You guys are gonna be Rich!!!
I was told when I was younger by the "old timers" that there was more gold left in the California Gold Country than was taken out in the 1800s. Congratulations Jason on finding that vein. It is impressive.
Way to go Jason! Thank you for sharing your mining adventures with us! Love you have teamed up with Harry, he is a great person!
Howdy from Montana again Jason, all your great videos have helped educate me about this amazing process. Thanks for the efforts bringing us everything and the “fun you guys go through” doing it. Stay safe!
Jason it would be interesting to see a couple plan maps of you mine workings. It's hard to visualize the geometry of the situation from short video clips.
i really don't think that would be a good idea ^^ last year someone broke in already, so making it easier for those people is probably not smart
@@robertgross9518 But it would be interesting to understand HOW exactly they aim for the raise......and i dont think thieves care about that ^^
EVERY piece has gold 😮🤑🤑🤠👍
Compared to some of the abandoned mines i run across out here in Maine this looks like what a mine should look like.
Hello again Jason & Mine Operator. Great explanation of the laborious process. It would be an interesting video at some point where you wash all of the walls Diana second time and vacuum up everything with a wet vac then process the collected rock and sand.
A loud blast is often a bad sign. It’s possibly overcharged but usually rifling. All the explosive energy should go into breaking rock and give a dull crump. Sound is the explosive energy not being converted into real work which explains the chunks. Sounds cool and feeling the pressure wave might be fun the first time for newbies to experience but it’s pretty ominous for the charge crew…
This is awesome to watch, great story telling and educational. Will be interesting to see amount of golf in a season
DRILL BABY DRILL! But seriously I love your channel. Did you improve the lighting? I sure could see that seam better than I ever could before. Or maybe it’s just me. Thanks! 🇺🇸❤️🏴
I can hardly wait to see you processing that material. Very nice stuff!
Love that you do things the right way. Its hard to do things the right way, and is worth it everytime. Much respect, keep doing you love watching.
Hey thanks Jason for showing us and giving us a lesson on it. Never seen it up close, and explained that way. Usually with the mine explores, the ore body has been taken out.
Rule of thumb. Never use anfo where water is present. Stick powder. You need 20mm aluminium blowpipe on the end of the anfo hose. 6 to 8 feet. It helps to pack the beads very tight so you wont need stemming or tamping. But to each his own
Yes 💯 that's the go
Oh man this is hard work.. I would love to see a giant bar of gold at the end. That would be so satisfying
Nice work fellas, thanks for taking us along with ya. 👍💪🍻💚
God I love these videos! Coming along with you as you work your way toward the raise is an unparalleled adventure! I am so excited for you guys. I think this time I'm going to bid on one of your ore bags. That's beautiful stuff you're hauling out of there!
Thank you so much for sharing this venture. I appreciate it.
You can plug weeps with bread. Trick used in plumbing with pipes that don't stop
Really like the informative bits in the videos!
From my minimal training of explosvies in the military, I would have put 1/8 of a stick in the bottom hole and maby 1/4 in the top ones to just crack the corner of in chunks. 😅
STANDING IS AN AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENT AND DRASTICALLY IMPROVES THE BACK AND THE BACK OF THE HEAD
Jason this is a great mine you guys are killing it thank you for sharing this with us six stars my friends
I used to deal a lot with gold, and gold in the host rock... Once you have seen actual gold in the host stone, you will never confuse pyrites for gold ever again, it is obvious what gold looks like after seeing it in person.
I get all excited just watching your videos, I can imagine how exciting it must be to be there with your hands on the ore.
I have a suggestion: When you sell a slab or a specimen, include a mineralogical explanation with your signature. That would make much more special to your customers.
OK Guys, I know you're eager, so are we, but remember, Hast makes waste! Take the time to lay down something to catch all thats blasted and stemming seems to get it done properly! Can't wait to see some very nice slabs, at the end of one of the videos .... Keep it happening, be safe and get 'er done! ⛏️⚒️⚖️💪👍🤠
Another great video, thank you. The lessons with the flash tube are quite interesting. Way safer than the old days where you're using fuse length to try to get the timing you need. I had two outside charges go at once and they blew out the centre fuse. Not fun digging it out the next day and setting a second charge off.
Your camera is amazing!!! Best photo work in a mine I’ve ever seen
Oh a great fantastic compliment....GREAT equipment and I respect you overall knowledge more than mine :)
so, Jason, i was reminded of an old plumbers trick for temporarily stopping dripping pipes in order to solder....if you brought a loaf or two of bread with you and stuffed the hole real good, pack it nice and tight...i promise you it'll keep that hole dry enough to get whatever your doing done. thanks for the great videos, incredibly helpful for me in my new found hobby lol...
That would be exciting to dig through! So much gold!
Fun video! Your sore back will be worth it. We r waiting to see u break through.
That's Amazing guys! Well done🍻👍
I enjoy watching your progress. Best to use stick powder on wet holes. However, you can get good results with anfo and stingers in wet holes if you also use bore hole liner. Cheap alternative to expensive stick powder in wet environments but you need to learn how. Also, stemming is always best, hands down, unless you want to shotgun. Plus, use less powder next time to trim out your specimens so you can find them after the shot. God Bless and best of luck to you. JZ
Hey Jason, Nothing better than the sound of dynamite early in the morning!! Phenomenal video! Thumbs up! stay safe! Jim
Thanks lads... I love spending time with you in that gold pit!!!
I can honestly say I had a blast watching this video 🤣😂🤣 keep up the good work guys and i will see you in your next video 👍
Imagine the gold laying on the floor when they wash the walls down. 😮😮😮😮
I was just thinking how much I'd love a bag from the floor
@@jessecastonguay168Wet vac it up.
I think they panned out some of the blast grit on the last episode...possibly the one before
Always loved the blasting. Hearing it through the rock first. Then boom.
It's what dreams are made of, finding the good stuff.
Jason ,
You and Harry make an awesome team.
I really hope your successful, lots of gold per ton.
You and your family have an amazing work ethic.
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Thanks for sharing stay safe good luck from Australia
The gray waste rock with the quartz stringers is really pretty rock itself! It would make a beautiful countertop if it could be cut as a big slab
I’m so excited to see how much easier mucking is gonna’ be once you hit the adit.
You have a crazy amount of work load. The old timers never had jaw crushers like MBMM back at your office, those small units could be used here. Would it not be better to bring in a jaw crusher to the mine quartz location, then add some of that water and flush it down a 2" water pipe right to a shaker table at the mine entrance.
That Blasting just makes me smile!
Dang --- you guys have all the FUN ;)
Thanks again
29:18 the red stuff might be proustite, which is a silver mineral. Really cool stuff.
You're absolutely right about scaling in. I had an injury investigation a few years ago where a crew was drilling a tunnel through a mountain on Kodiak island in Alaska for a hydro plant. They were experienced guys who knew what they were doing, and they scaled their way to the face every shift, but unfortunately while one guy was standing behind the jumbo drill as it was running, a large chunk of scale fell from the ceiling and hit him square in the shoulder blades. Last I heard he had some permanent paralysis, this stuff is no joke. Stay safe in there.
Wow the gold keeps getting better! Would really love to see a few hundred pounds crushed and run on the shaker table. I'm sure we would all enjoy seeing a nice golden button sitting in the cupel! Also interested in seeing what's trapped up in those giant sulfide pieces. Great work, looking forward to the rest of the videos
Maybe you could use some crafting clay to put in the back of your drill holes that produce water. It would be cheap and easy to keep in the blasting kit.
Exciting find and video!
Congrats!
43:52 - Wow - that is hard rock to give that much in just 18 holes, you could think about getting a bit grinder to sharpen these, normally you would sharpen when the flat if 1/3 of the button diameter. I got a Chinese grinder and it is worth it's weight in gold!
bro .... so fuckin amazing... correcting every little error ... educating every little bit... the safety and stealthiness of this operation between 2 people is unbelievable well-done sirs you both are masters in your field.
Awesome boys looking forward to see when you process the ore top effort
Great video Jason. Its alot of work. Cool lookin rocks. Cant wait 2 see the crush??
Could hear that ! Really enjoying this series .
so awsm to follow your journey man, this is my dream aswell some day!
hopefully Norway has some gold hidden somewhere, starting prospecting next year!
Very nice great job you too always great watching you getting that shiny 👍
Good deal guys great work that vein face looks amazing too. It looks like that left edge is getting richer or at least more mineralized
Can’t wait to watch this stuff get processed !!!!!! Kinda curious have you or are you checking for any pgm’s. ? Swore in a few of your specimens you showed that I seen something that looked different than the pyrrhotite ! More gun metal gray with almost a bluish tint !
I from Pennsylvania coal country. Once made it to the top (12,500 ft) of a Rocky Mountain in Colorado, near Vale. I like to collect an interesting rock from my adventures to remember it by, my favorite being a black chunk of basalt. So, I thought to take a small stone from the very tip of mountain, and folks at the time, I was very unimpressed, a crumbly rotten thing it was. I was expecting some great hard rock that made it all the way up here, but no. Now I'm looking at it, its rotten quarts with sulfides (learned form this show)! It's gold! I'm rich!
I didnt realize how rare pyrrhotite is?! Wow! Cool to see it in our cascades! Especially since the rest of the newborn cascades have very little precious metals
I mentioned once about the steming we used, wood pieces 1.5 ft long and 2" tapered to allow it to fit in the drill hole about 6" deep. Did most of the tapering with the bench grinder. They are reusable in most cases, unless they became splinters Owell
I love those videos. Keep on the good work guys.
Loud bang due to unstemmed holes = lost energy. I really think that it is worth the extra money to skip the anfo and just use all packaged explosive when you see that much water. Good work guys.
Jason those plug fore stemming are important I realize you wanted that shot as fast as possible, but if you have some plugs made up you will get better results ,plus put down some muck plates before the shot Ben there and I learned some great tricks !!!
Heyyy I've been waiting for the new video Jason!! Lets go !!
Stoked for the new season ahead!! As always, great stuff Jason.
In the salt mines in Louisiana the drills used vacuum suction and compressed air through the drill steels so the bore holes were dry. No wet anfo. 1 ton per 100 x 28 faces drilled 2inch holes x 15 feet. 20 holes 5 ft apart, 5 horizontal rows. The face floor was cut by a undercutter with a 20 foot bar. Extra holes along the ribs between the horizontal rows
Wouldn't it be awesome to go in after a blast. And see the new wall with only a few large chunks of quartz, and the rest just a large wall of gold! Only in dreams and movies!
Jason, you should look into a power broom. Echo makes a good battery-powered one as well as makita i move gravel all day, from #72's up to #34's. It looks like your ore gravel would be easily moved with the power broom. If you could just figure out a way to arrange your buckets to sweep into. I woukd use tarpaulin landscape super sacks. This tool will save you a tremendous amount of time! One last thing you will need the rubber paddle broom, not the bristle broom. Hope this helps. Great content, buddy. really exciting stuff.
the way you read the rock formation amazes me... great video 👍
You cam move all the small rock with a large vacuum system, like a VAC Truck for cleaning lift stations. I have seen them remove large rocks, 5-6"rocks off of roof of hotels in Florida. Large PVC pipe running long distance on a flat roof, then down to the VAC truck. The rocks going into truck was very loud, but worked great. The back of truck opened up to dump solids out. If you can put it in a sand bag you can surely move it with large suction system. Running PVC pipe may be fairly easy compared to digging through rock. It would also suck a lot of air through the mine / ventilation. Some of those VAC trucks are smaller than others, could drive up to mine..
Thanks for sharing good luck stay safe
This stuff looks like so much fun, I'd love to be a part of mining someday. Also some of those pieces of quartz are like bone white, beautiful.