hey guys my name is Jason with Mount Baker Mining and metals and on today's video we're
back in eastern Oregon we're going to gold mining back here underground in this old abandoned gold
mine so in a previous video we were in here we were taking some samples and we found a really
really hot spot really really high grade gold it's averaging 5 to 10 ounces we got one assay that was
over 20 ounces a ton I think so we're back and today our goal let's go down that hole there
back to our high grade area I'm going to knock down as much of that high grade as
I can onto a tarp get it bagged up bring it back to the shop and run it through the system
so let's go check out what we're going to be working on today and see how much we can
get all right here's our first little obstacle we got to go down this ladder
down to the second level here it's about I don't know 15.
feet herself so get down here onto the lower level
and it looks like there was just a heck of a rain event here not too long ago
because there's a bunch of stuff it's all washed down here
so there's a bunch of water running down these creating little
gullies and all this organic matter and junk washed in here and then here right above us
if you look straight up oh there's daylight so that's for the old miners onto the surface
and we're going to be working up here today I'll put a link for a card or whatever up in the corner
if you want to check out our first video where we took these samples
but we're going to be working right up here this is the really really rich spot
and I've been looking and thinking about this since we were in here and I don't know if it's
going to show up very well but there's the vein is striking more or less East-West and then I don't
know if you're gonna be able to see this but I'll try and show you up here on the wall right there
running down that way is a fault and it kind of offsets the vein right here
but there's where the vein comes back and then there's a little hole up to the first
level and that's where we're going to be working now I pointed out that offset fault
right in there because oftentimes and more and more what I'm finding is where a vein and a fault
intersect or two veins intersect like that it becomes very very rich and I don't know if that's
where the original mineral fluids came up and then they squirted off in this vein or if there are
something happening there so typically when these veins are forming if you get a change in pressure
temperature or chemistry oftentimes the minerals will fall out at that location
and what better place to do that to the intersection of the fault
you can see there's some copper staining here
the owners told me that the copper staining is a really good indication of high grade he's done a
bunch of slab work on this stuff up here you can see there's very little copper staining
is pretty much isolated to this side the football side of the vein and the vein here is probably
about 12 to 16 inches wide across there we're gonna and it's really nice because I got this
big overhang I can work all the way up I've got a little Roto Hammer chisel thing I've got my hammer
and chisel I got a bunch of fun stuff we're gonna use today but I'm gonna lay out a tarp
down here and I'm just going to start wailing away on that thing and see how much we can get
well I'm disturbing all kinds of wildlife in here there's a bat flying around let's
see if we'll come back again and then there's a pack rat sitting right there in that stall
baths in here
hmm all right I've got all sorts of tools here today got that battery powered Roto Hammer
I think what I'm gonna use first though is just a good old hammer and chisel
see how much I can knock off there easily I'll get worn out pretty quick on that I'm sure of it
give it a shot see what I can knock off there I'm gonna be wearing a respirator for the quartz dust
there's a bunch of pack rat we'll call it poop for the video down here so I don't want to be
breathing a whole bunch of that stuff so I'll be all ppeed up and uh we'll see what we get
we're about 30 seconds into it here and
I've already found a huge piece of gold
right there and I should have got in the face when I was sticking the face but I was
so excited to get it out and show you guys but that's a pretty dang nice piece of gold there
and then looking up here at the face
see if I can get this uh there's kind of gold sprinkled all through it
there's a piece there's some there's some more up here right up here I can't I can't
see the camera so I hope I'm getting it here but it looks like there's a little swath
right right here here to here that's just loaded loaded with gold and and I'm in the copper area
where the owner told me to go so I'm just gonna oh boy I'm just gonna start working right in here
and uh there might be a little bit more up in here too a bunch of Galena maybe that gray Galena
but yeah that's that's really really nice looking stuff holy smokes all right well
I like the hammer and chisel just because it's a little more delicate
and allow me to like I'm gonna I'm gonna try and pry this piece out right here
I want to save a bunch of these specimens for the owner he's coming a little bit later today
um but let me work that hammer just a little bit more see if we can find some more specimens
well I better get some on video here before I hand cob all this out of here
um right up in here see the gray I think that's Galena I'm finding it right along with that Galena
here's kind of that first strip we were talking about where I saw it all at the beginning I don't
see a whole lot here right now um there might be some right up in there I don't know if you can
see it right there and there maybe um but it's breaking up really nice and easy I'm hardly I'm
I'm I'm spending more time looking at it than I am hitting on it
um but after I don't know five maybe ten minutes I probably got 50 pounds in the ground
I want to work on this big knob here so I can work it all the way back there's some really
good looking stuff back over here but I don't want to be under there hitting and this is all kind of
ravely ground in here and all these big knockers I don't want anything to come down to my head
especially as I open up this hole bigger because I don't know what's going to happen
so I'm just going to be careful and just kind of not work with anything over my head
the ground up above looks really good and competent so
I'm just going to work this back a little bit and but there's man there's some really
really good stuff in here I hope we get a bunch of Goldman to run the equipment
all right
well I've got quite a bit of a knocked out of there now
and I'm gonna work on getting this big doniger right here out of there I don't
like that over my head so I've got this is the second tart full I'm gonna put this in sacks
but a lot of nice looking stuff in there I've got a couple pieces that's a nice gold on them
the tarps working really well I can just kind of get it all into a nice little pile get it
up I probably got 75 pounds there so I'll get this cleaned up put into a couple sacks
and then we'll come back I'll knock a bunch of that waste off of there and just put on the ground
then I can keep going in that vein that'll open up that vein a little bit more for me
foreign
down has to come up
it all comes up this ladder
one sack at a time
oh
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spot here so I can get up and and chisel down from the top and man that is making a huge difference
look at the pile of muck I got here it took me about 15 minutes I probably
got four or five sacks there and uh oh really got a big old chunk out from the
upper section of the vein there and there's a level above me
and I think what happened is when they were going through and putting in this level above me
uh their blasts shattered the courts down about a foot into the foot not the football
but the floor of that upper level and so I made it all real loose and it was super easy chipping
but now I've got this big knob here that uh is real hard and I've got this little
bottom of around here and the foot wall I think I may try and take out some of that foot wall
and then I've got somewhere I can slab this hard vein into um but I'm gonna get all this
muck off the floor first and get it bagged up and then see about getting the rest of that big
chunk of rain out of there it's good looking stuff the veins really pinching fast up here it's only
about I don't know eight inches wide up there and as you can see underneath it pinches down so once
we get this big chunk out of here we'll see what the veins doing and what it looks like also up
there I'm kind of running out of mineralization so uh we'll see we'll see what happens
well I dug a little bit around the foot wall that vein goes back in there maybe
enter 10 inches and I really don't like to be picking on the walls much because
there's a big slab up there that worked its way down and all this is just kind of hanging here
but it's on the foot wall I'm not too terribly worried about it uh so I'm gonna work on this
chunk if it was if it was up in the hanging wall you know and hanging over your head like down that
Big Slab that's that's no good um but now I can try and just kind of slab that that big chunk
into that hole that I made I got my tarp cleaned up we got eight bags of mock out of that
and uh that ends up being about 400 pounds that hole up there that I made is roughly a foot and
a half deep two feet long and about a foot wide or so uh and so I think for 400 pounds I think
that's about three three and a quarter cubic feet so we're right around 125 pounds of cubic
feet which I think about what quartz weighs um so anyway that was that was kind of an
interesting little calculation but let's get going on this big chunk and see if we can get out of it
well it's still pretty hard it's I've knocked a little bit off of there but
I'm gonna try one of these Feathering wedges and there's kind of a natural little seam there
Dan Hurd introduced me to these thanks Dan he gave me a few as well
so I'm gonna try and drill a hole right in here somewhere
and put that wedge in like that and see if I can wedge this just big old knob off this wall
so I'll show you after I get the hole drilled and see if I can video as I hammer that thing down
all right I got her in there let's see if I can do all this at the same time kind of
I'm kind of perching the ladder over a hole sideways in a anyway let's see this works
oh it broke something up I need my hammer Drilling chisel away what I broke up there and take a look
maybe I should have tried to wedge it off that crack all right let's try it this way
something happened there
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pretty good I'll do that again
thank you Dan
I got my chisel right in the hole
and it's coming
nice well there's our vein I got that big old knob knocked off of there
got a big old pile of muck here I got a bag up and uh I don't know how many bags I got
but I think I can carry about 20 or so back with me I got my little pickup today so I
don't want to do a whole lot more work and have bags that I can't take with me
so I'm gonna get this bagged up and we'll take inventory of how much muck we got
all right guys there's all 18 sacks in the back of the truck every single one of
those had to come up that ladder through the underground workings up the ladder and then
across to the truck and man oh man am I tired but we're all loaded up so I'm gonna head home
be sure to subscribe so you can check out part two and I process all this stuff through our equipment
and I hope you guys enjoyed the video thanks for watching and we'll see on the next one