hey guys my name is Jason and behind me are hundreds of bags of gold ore that I pulled out
of my gold mine this last fall so what I've done is I've taken a bag from each one of these pallets
and I'm going to go through and grab a sample from each bag and that's going to be a representative
sample kind of all the pallets I have down here and that's going to help us determine kind of an
average value of how much gold I might have in my ore I've been selling these bags on eBay so if you
want to try your hand at one of these bags and see how much gold you can get you can check out
our eBay listings and a lot of people have been finding some really really good stuff in here
some really nice uh golden quartz samples so you can find that information in the description below
and so for today's video I'm going to show you how I would process some of the stuff and get the gold
out so the first thing I want to do is run through this stuff see if I can find any gold specimens in
it and then we'll get it crushed down and see what we can get for gold I've got this weight at 7 kg
we're going to go with the metric system today cuz it's so much easier well the first thing I want to
do is I want to screen it to 1 in minus this is going to get all the fines through that I don't
have to look for specimens in and I'll leave all the core stuff right on [Music] [Applause]
top if you do this you might want to make it a little bit finer there's still some pretty
good chunks in there that might have gold so you might want to maybe you go to half inch
but right now we'll start with one in see if we can find any gold in the core stuff here's
our core stuff there's a little bit of waste in there just cuz when we're mucking we can't pick
out every little piece so let me get this washed off a little bit we'll see if we can find some
gold and I'm looking around these sulfides here there's some gray stuff in there if I can find
that stuff that usually gives me a pretty good idea and you can take these and actually break
them up further if you wanted to take a look at some of the Fresh Faces well I've haven't
been looking that long and there's a little tiny piece right here there's a couple little
pieces right over here so we found our first gold specimens I'm going to set this rock out
and we're going to cut it up a little later and see if we can find some more gold in it here's
another little piece right here with some gold on it so we're finding it there's two pieces now
I've gone through I don't know a dozen rocks found a couple little specimens with gold on
it we'll put him aside as well I've washed all of our 1in ENC corser stuff and this is the stuff I
didn't see any gold in what you really want to do is take a scrub brush and brush off some of
the dirt and stuff that I didn't get to but this water is really cold I don't have gloves so we're
going to crush this stuff down here's some waste I pulled out this just doesn't have anything in
it you might want to play with it a little bit or crush it down separately see if there's any
values in there but I pulled that out and then I've got our two pieces here that show Gold on
them so now let's go take a look at our fine stuff and we'll run it all through the crusher
we're going to start here with this little 4x6 laboratory jaw Crusher feed the Rocks down the
jaws and they come out in this tray here crushed and then we'll run them through the fine
Presser
here's a look at our stuff through the pulverizer now a lot of the gold has been liberated now it's
been broken away from the quartz so now we can pan it out it's going to take me two or three
pans to get all this stuff panned out but now I'm going to work this down pan it down until
only the densest stuff is left we'll see what we got I've got everything panned out now the black
stuff is the iron Heavies everything yellow in here is gold and there's not as much fine gold
as I thought but the trick to Hard Rock gold is to crush it really really fine the finer
you can crush it the more you can liberate but we've got some really nice pieces here I mean
that's a that's a picker I just picked that one right up out of the out of the pan and they get
kind of rolled up in the disc Mill here's one that didn't another picker that's a really nice
little piece right there I wish I would have found him in the rock that would have been a
really nice specimen so now what we're going to do is we're going to get all this gold out of
here we're going to melt it down and see how big of a bead we have and then we'll take our our uh
rocks over with the specimens and cut those open see if we can find some more gold I'm going to
take my Snuffer bottle and I'm just going to go along and get as much gold as I [Applause]
can and do that a couple
times so I can get all the value out of this I can I got all my gold in
the Snuffer bottle now I'm going to pull out my
straw cap the end with my finger and Shake all of our goodies right down
to the very tip here and then I can get them out in this little blue shop towel
thing and then we can put them right in our cupel
and smelt them down that's actually a lot of gold for 7
kilograms so there we go I'll ring some of that water
out and we'll be left with our little gold packet at the bottom we'll open our furnace
cupels heating up there going to take our little gold packet put it in our
cupel put some bismuth right on top the bisou is going to alloy with the gold and silver as
it gets up to temperature and liquefies the bisou will oxidize absorb into the cupel and leave a
precious metal button in the cupel when it's all done well I wanted to switch gears here a little
bit I've brought some of the coarse pieces over to the rock shop and I want to get these cut up I
really really like cutting them into those pillars that I've done in the past we've got some really
nice sulfide banding here all through here this is going to be a really cool piece as well I'm
working on trying to figure out a name for this stuff I've got some ideas I'm going to share with
you a little later but I'm going to put a poll up on one of my YouTube Community posts so if you
want to vote on what to name this stuff check out that poll I'll put a link to it in the description
but right now we'll get this stuff chucked up in the saws and see if we can one find any gold but
two see if we can make some really nice art pieces out of these coarse chunks of gold or I got this
first long skinny one chucked up here I'm going to cut it right in half and then I'll probably
slab off a side a face and we'll see what it looks like this is really a fun part for me cuz I don't
really have an idea of what this is going to turn into and as I start cutting on it and looking at
it I kind of the rock tells me what it wants to be so it's kind of a a cool thing um but for this
one I think we'll get two different pieces out of it here's our first piece oh good looking stuff
there this will be cool as little stand up all right here's a look at our stand up here
oh yeah let me get it cleaned up a little bit and in the light so we can see it and here it
is in the sunlight man that is cool so I've got two cut faces of base and then I really
like leaving a couple sides natural rough like that so you can kind of see the original look of
it but man that is cool that is so neat I've been cutting some really cool stuff I really
really like the look a lot of this stuff some slabs some standups I've got some smooth faces
I've got some rough faces really really cool stuff but what I'm most excited about I've been saving
these two rocks in particular I think I can fit them in my saw but they've got this one has this
really really nice band I think this is right where the gold is I think there might even be
a piece of gold right there actually and right there too so what I'm going to do is I'm going
to try and get this one in the saw and slab it across this vein and see if we can get a really
nice juicy couple of faces on this one this one I've been excited about cuz here's the hanging
wall Very welldefined wall there's that band of sulfides coming right across so same thing I'm
going to slab this one instead of going across the mineralization this way I'm going to try and slab
it this way and see if we can get some really nice sulfide showing and maybe a little bit of
gold okay I've got it checked up I'm not sure how this is going to go but we're going to give it a
shot I've been whittling through that that big piece with the streaks in it that I liked and
the first couple here didn't have any gold in it but I've been cutting these kind of cabachon
blanks I guess they're about a/ qu in in or 5/16 thick they've got some really beautiful uh ptite
in them that iron sulfide that I have and then here about number five or six I started getting
into a little bit of gold I wanted to show you little bit here I was finding some down along
here there's a little piece and as I started getting further and further into the piece
the gold kept getting better and better once we started getting up to the the spot where I saw
those bands there's some right up in here see there's some of that free gold some more over
here but this last piece I cut off we must be getting into the thick of it CU I'm getting
some really really good stuff here right in here and right down here look at that
big old piece of gold and then as you come up up here you got to get it in the
light just right to see it when the camera but all that yellow right in there is all
gold so I'm really excited to see what the next one comes out as cuz I think
we're right in that band where all the gold is and I'm getting some really really good
showings let's see if we can find any gold in these two pieces I pulled out I've just got
a 10-in tile saw got off Craigslist this is an awesome way to start cutting rocks
first one I cut several different slabs off it didn't find anything and then I looked down in
the saw and I think this came off of there but there's definitely some gold in that one right
there so that's a nice little
piece and then this one I cut it the wrong direction I thought I was going to cut
parallel with these bands and get some some gold but it turns out out every one of these
slabs has a little bit on it nothing fantastic but right up here by my thumb right there and
then on the corresponding face there's some nice stuff all pretty small but what I should
have done is come across this band right here and I would have got some really nice
showing but every face has a little bit on it yeah this one might actually be the best one
up here over there so a couple of nice slabs out of that one well here's a couple pieces
of rail I drug out from the mine this year and what I'd like to do is get this stuff cut up
into about 6in pieces I've got some spikes as well figure a piece of rail a spike and
a piece of ore would be a nice little package for someone let me show you how this [Music]
works
got a nice little stack of them going there and here's what I'm thinking for this rail so we got
a piece of rail we got a spike and then we can get a nice piece of gold or some of these will
have gold in them there's some gold right here here on the face but wouldn't that look cool
just on your little Museum Shelf there here's another one this one has a lot more sulfides
in it this one's pretty cool but there's quite a bit of gold right in here kind of speckled
throughout the sulfides on this one and these are just cut flat faces rough on the outside here's
another option might throw in a few of these where they're slabs cut both faces so they can
stand up there well let's take a look at our bead here it's all finished up we're going to pull it
out nice little gold bead
there nice one very cool let's get it cooled off and we'll weigh it our beads cooled down a little
bit take a look here that is a very very nice little bead there
nice gold color let's get it weighed see how much gold we got okay total comes to 41742 G
out of 7 kilog or about 15 lb and here's our math we have our grams of gold divided by 007
metric tons it gives us 59.6 G per ton or almost two TR Oz per T unbelievably Rich
well here's another question for you guys I mentioned earlier in the video that I want to
name this stuff and I've got a ton of comments from you guys in the last couple weeks about
what I should name my rock here are four of the top ideas so the first one is white iron nebula
Stone the second one is Cascade Cloud Stone I had Cascade iron lace and the last one is Mount Baker
lightning courts so I've got a poll going right now on my Community page I'll leave a link in the
description below you guys can go over there and vote on what you want to name this stuff
I've got my favorite choice but it might not be what you guys vote for so head on over vote and
then we'll figure out what to name my rock well that's going to wrap it up for this video guys
I hope you enjoyed it if you want to support me and support my mining efforts I've got all this
stuff listed on eBay and I know some of you are rolling your eyes like oh man he's sold out now
he's just selling all the stuff on eBay but the truth is I've got to pay for the mining somehow
the whole point of mining was to go up there and get some gold and get some Moree I've got
bags of fine ore I've got bags of cors or if you want to crush some stuff I've got a ton of stuff
that I've cut a lot of it has gold in it I got the rail stuff and all the money that comes from
this stuff is going right back in the whole next year I also have a patreon page you can
check that out I'll put a link in the description below so thanks everybody for all your support
over the years I appreciate you guys watching watching and we'll see you on the next video