well we're back with Dan herd down here at the uh demonstration system Dan what are we doing today I
brought five samples for you to run for me uh one sample is quartz from a plaster a plaster claim
in the river but the river is loaded in Gold so I want to see if the quartz has anything in it okay
then we've got uh a sample from my dream claim the added I found on my dream claim had a whole
lot of mineralized quart so I brought a couple bags of that down we have some stuff I collected
at the Gold drop mine um I have a video of that on my channel if you want to check that out gold
and silver both free and then the exciting one my new Apex mine really high assay results for
Gold Silver and copper allinone and uh it's brand new to me so I want to see what's in it it'll be
an interesting video today and we're wrapping up like five or six videos it sounds like maybe for
you yeah yeah so if you want to see the first part of these videos check out Dan's Channel Dan herd
prospecting here's a little look at these samples these must be the ones off the claster claim you
were telling us about looks pretty good there's some mineralization in there and they're really
juicy looking samples for sure yeah and these are two separate samples or we're going to run them
together no two separate two separate okay this is from my dream claim that's from Ladner Creek
awesome all right and here helping us today is Harry from mine operator hey Harry don't mind
feeding some buckets Into The Crushers today do you no I don't all right I'm actually excited to
see the uh the plaster quartz go through the system I've heard stories of guys up in the
north doing plaster and they just leave the Hard Rock and no way to process it and they
knew there was stuff in it but they couldn't touch it so I'm curious to see how that turns out nice
and this is the first time you've seen the system run right oh yeah I've never seen your system run
yet in person cool awesome well we'll get it done today oh yeah and we're going to start everything
through our 6x10 jaw Crusher as usual it'll Crush down through the Jaws fall right down into
a bucket we will transfer the bucket over to the 16x2 Hammer Mill we're going to run it wet with
a little bit of water it's going to make a nice slurry to feed right down that orange chot onto
our shaker table all the gold is going to migrate across these grooves here up under the water
bar and down into our number one and number two concentrates here we have a midling trough that
we usually don't save and then the tailings go into the buried tank here and we recirculate the
water
well there we go lader Creek Blaster Boulders no gold let's move on okay green FL Hard
Rock
know
don't
now we'll run the gold drop Stu watch should have some nice Galen on the table with
this supposed to have free gold and some free 3 mil silver as
well now we're running the gold drop sample from Dan had some really really
nice Galina in it so I expect to see a nice big band of blue kind of gray blue
Galen on the table just brush down the table and there's a really nice
band of Galina here there's that blue gray Silver Line there that's Galina which is a
lead sulfide fits deep and it's washing out everywhere oh lots of gold lots of gold and
silver we'll concentrate that one spot for a good picture but it's through out lots of
flakes very nice that's a pretty good ore that's it's everywhere in there cool a gold
drop here's some stuff Dam brought from the Apex mine it is incredibly heavy in
sulfides so we're going to get a nice sulfide band
on the table on this one I think look at that full of ptite calco
pyite panning down the
Apex lot of
sulfides a lot of gold in there there's a lot of gold in there it's so hard to
pan with the sulfides especially we're just looking for a quick and dirty look
here was it wash it all the
way we'll get her smelted down SM thing's going to tell us what it really is yep Dan is panning
down the Apex samples we're going to reduce them in volume a little bit and then we are here in
the smelting lab we're going to put them in our smelting furnace smelt them down pour them into
our cone mold and recover the precious metals from his sample this is the pan down concentrates from
the Apex there are still quite a bit we have a little over a kilogram of ore there so what I'm
going to do is mix it up I think we're going to have a matte layer I'm going to use this number
10 Crucible and we're going to try and get as much flux in as we can and absorb as much of
those sulfides as we can so I will work in a flux recipe and let you know here in a minute here's
our recipe we have about 700 g of soda ash about 700 g of borax and 200 g of silica sand going to
put a lid on this shake it up and hopefully I can fit it all in this number 10 Crucible it is going
to be close here's our number 10 Crucible it's a little bit too full but I've added
some bismuth as a collector and now we will put it in our furnace over there and get it heating
up and here we
go kind of hot
yeah
okay
you know if I need to get out of your way you're
good
yay I see a CO the
metal there m there yep
there's the metal we want there's a lay mat on
top anyone ever tell you you need a bigger Hammer all the
time well Dan always brings me the hard samples so we took our cone that had the
mat on it and the mixed bismuth metal and we put it back in the hot Crucible and I'm
trying to melt the metal off the mat and it seems to be working pretty good you can see
the pool of metal there underneath the bismo has a very low melting point so we're going
to get the bisou melted the matte layer should stay solid so once the metal is melted out I'll
just reach in and pick out the mat and then we can pour the molten metal right into the cupel
this is the mat that the Bismuth was held on to but the Bismuth has mostly melted out of
it so now that idea
eyeballs really very hard still iron sulfite has a very high melting point
and it looks like what happened is there was some sulfide that came
down first and the bisou couldn't displace it at the bottom of the
cone yeah a little bit definitely beads of uh the bisou still left in it still
on there yeah but we're not doing a you know scientific assay here so if we lose a little
bit to that it's not a big deal so what are you about to do I'm about to take a very
hot cupel out of the furnace and pour liquid mouth into that hot cupel from a very large
Crucible watch your step
will it will it
work I'd say that worked well worked worked okay and we now put the Bismuth
gold silver mix in a cupel in a furnace let oxygen do its work and oxidize the
Bismuth oxidized bismuth will absorb into Capel leaving just the precious metals
behind having to go at
it hey that
worked that's a hammer isn't it yeah sure Hammer right inside
me and I don't have gloves on so not touching anything yet
there it is there it is that looks nice there you go that's what a bead's supposed to look
like gold drop button the gold drop button how hot is it oh yeah I can touch it it's nice and
cool how much does that weigh add 20 20 gram to what it says there I can't see what it says
there uh it's 100 130 gram so we'll need another big cupel for that one we will okay here's Dan's
gold drop bead right about 09 G quite silver in color but I bet there's some gold in there as well
Dan's little collection of gold from today all those beads in there you got from a stuffy ran
today well Dan is getting the table cleaned off don't tell my wife I clean things we're going to
take a look at this sample over here that I'm very excited about these are some pler cons that this
guy has worked really really hard he's run them like three or four different times over various
Shaker tables and he still thinks there's quite a bit of gold in here and so we're going to Dan
brought down half a bucket he's got tons and tons of this stuff and we're going to run it
on our table and see if we can recover any more of that flat flaky fine fine plaster gold that
other tables and other methods have such a hard time with so I am very excited to see how this
runs been running a few minutes now Harry's feeding the table for us and
we're seeing some gold come down not a lot he's run it three or four times
through his tables it sounds like but here's a piece of gold coming down right
here and we've seen several flakes similar to that but it's going to
March its way right down the table at this point the pyrites are pretty
much cleaned away and it's going to go right into the number one
concentrates most of the pyate is coming down into the number threes there's pretty
much nothing going into the tailings and it's taken some this is obviously much denser than
what we normally run in the table so it's taken a little bit of trial and error to adjust the water
adjust the feed rate we're feeding in the first or the the the back half of the trough here so
we're not using the the long grooves hardly at all we're using it more as a finishing
table at this point but we're kind of getting the hang of it and we're catching all the gold
that we've seen and all the gold that's still in this material has has just come right out of the
number one groove right under the water bar here and straight down into the number one now at the
end here we may have a full bucket of number one that we can take and rerun back onto the
table and clean it up further we'll just see what we get at the end I've turned the water
up quite a bit now and almost all the sulfides are getting pushed down into the number twos they
coming but even these small little pieces of gold they every time they hit a a spot of water they
go around it and then they just bounce right back up to the top whereas the pyite does not
and you're seeing the gold come down pretty much clean right into the number one a little bit of
pyite still but now the only pyate is the big Co stuff which probably should have been classified
out before we ran anyways correct here's what we ended up with for number one after we ran I know
that's probably about 3 gallons worth and we were playing with the table and playing with the water
and so we got a lot more than we had anticipated but now we're just going to take the number one
here and rerun it on the table one more time and clean it up quite a bit more and all of
our gold will come across under the water bar and here's the paned out concentrates off the Shaker
table you have quite a bit of gold in there and this has been through their cleanup table two or
three times is the report I got so having 2 to three gallons of stuff produce that much gold
is pretty impressive I wanted to give a quick big thank you both to Dan from Danner prospecting and
Harry from mine operator I have so much fun doing these collaborations with these guys
it is so fun to get together with other YouTubers other like-minded people and do stuff that we all
really enjoy it is so much fun and it's always fun when Dan Harry around so thank you guys and
I really appreciate you coming down and running my equipment running samples it's always a great time