hey guys my name is Jason with Mount Baker Mining and metals and on today's video I've jumped across
the border into Canada I'm up in BC today and I'm gonna go look for some old gold mines a friend
told me about so let's go hike up this mountain see if we can find the vein and see if there's
any old workings we can explore well I've been scrambling up through this brush and blueberries
and tag Alders and all sorts of stuff and it's getting pretty Cliffy I gotta I gotta figure
out a way to scramble up some of this stuff and supposedly up here somewhere there's a quartz vein
and some old workings so I'll see if I can I might I might try and go back up over through this way
up that little tree and see if I can get up there so stay tuned hopefully I can make it
up this hill and find that vein well I'm into a spot it's real Rusty I noticed all this rust
oxidized staining there's a little a few pieces of quartz poking up and then I looked up the hill
and there's a little vein vein lit there Inlet there but then look up here and all coalesces into
a little quartz Stringer quartz vein running right up the hill there
so let me let me go up over the top and see what we can see
whoa look here look at this big chunk of quartz that's probably two or two and a half feet across
here's more of it and this is that vein that we just saw seems like it kind of pinches and swells
goes all over but here's the vein that's about nine it's about a foot foot across there
or so and it looks like as you go up the hill it gets bigger so that is a real
good indication look how Rusty it is the red or the better they used to say
so it's pretty Rusty looks like some of this is where the sulfide's weathered out it got
exposed to the air and water and they oxidized away kind of leaving that buggy looking quartz
but this is what this is what they were looking for when they were mining prospecting
let's see if we can find up around the corner well here's a real nice showing of The Vein on
the surface uh wall rock is this dark gray or the country rock is this dark gray you've got
the the streak of white coming across here it Bells out here to about 16 or 18 inches
pinches down on either side but just up I don't know if you can see there's some vein up there
and then just over that little knob I found something that I'm really excited about
I want to show you guys let's go take a look over up around that knob now
and the veins hard to see right here there's quartz here this is all quartzy
but look what I found right over this little hump here
look at that oh yeah that's that's gonna be good there
it looks like they stopped down on it all right guys well this is pretty cool
I'm standing in a stop and what happened here is as the vein dips down into the Mountainside
the miners came in and they mined down on it they still down on it
and you can see behind me there's these big pillars that they left to hold up the mountain
above their head so the only thing holding the mountain up is those pillars behind me
so I gotta go in here and do a little prospecting and not get squashed by the mountain
so I'm pretty excited this is a new mine for me the veins well defined there's some stops which
means that they took some more out of here I'm hoping that I can find some gold and silver today
so let's go underground and see what we can find well I'll give you guys the full meal deal here
we'll just walk down in here and see if we can see give you the first look unveil
gotta get down here without killing myself because it's pretty steep it's probably
I don't know 45 degrees dipping 45 degrees
there we go
so looking back up there's the vein and it's all oxidized there
and then they mined out this area so let's go check out what we got here
looking down Hill it's hard to tell on the camera so I'll just kind of narrate as I go here
oh yeah hopefully there's no bears sleeping in here
but look at that look at that just band of sulfides it's oxidized in that vein that's cool
that's what they were looking for the red or the better they used to say
then I don't know it goes down goes down here
it's almost like it's almost like the van pinched off on him right here
because they didn't stop any farther
let's go down this way
oh foreign there
and it goes down to maybe a little transfer tunnel
down there let's see if I can get down there and see what we can find
yeah no tracks no tracks down here but it looks like the vein it looks like the vein may have
pinched right here there's that little stop we were just in and then they drifted on it here
I wonder if they if it ever opened back up on them
oh there's still some good good mineralization though but I think looking right here
this vein is pinched down to six or eight inches oh look at all the
miles from the wall Flora or fauna I guess it's fauna
now I don't see any vein up there oh and look the drift ends
that vein must have just pinched oh what's this there's a little something that we're going up on
it I can see a little bit of quartz there in the back but it looks like oh yeah look here
see that it just pinches down to about two inches and that's as far as they went on it
let me see if I can find out what they did behind me back towards where we came in there
so I'm gonna go back and we'll keep exploring well we'll go do a little exploring in a minute
but I'm just fascinated with this line of sulfides here so I'm going to get my
hammer and chisel and my hammer drill out and see if I can chip off some of these sulfides
my goal is to take a bag back with me or two however many I can carry and runs through the
system the dry pressure hair Mill and Shaker table and see if I can get some gold out of this stuff
but uh right now I just want to focus on getting some of this high grade out of here
and I won't be able to do it all in this video so be sure to uh subscribe so you can
get notifications when the next video comes out of me running this high grade stuff hopefully hybrid
so let me get the hammered drill out chisel and we'll get chipping on this stuff
huh
hello sir
well here's a few pieces I chipped off and they are solid sulfides just so it's they look metallic
they're like metal it's amazing this one looks like a fine grained gray rock but it's just all
all metal sulfides and then top one a little coarser grain but that's the stuff I'm getting
I'll take you up and show you the face just solid massive sulfides on the bottom there and
then it looks like you get up into a little bit of quartz here with some of that coarser grain stuff
but man it's just it must just be a solid band of sulfides and then where else have I chipped
hold on let me make sure I don't fall over here I got some up here more quartz and sulfides but look
what's Happening Here you've got a you've got your band of sulfides coming up like this and
it's getting closer and closer to the hanging wall and as you come up over here it just pinches out
it just goes pinched out and then there's a little bit of staining down here but whatever
that massive sulfide band was is gone it just pinches right off into the hanging wall and that's
why I expect they didn't do a whole lot more to open up that way because a lot of their metal
went out but yeah I'm just gonna I'm gonna go as hard as I can on this thing it's it's super hard
and I'll see if I can knock some off try a few Feathering wedges hopefully that'll work maybe
down here on that bigger piece it's kind of nice because I don't know if you can tell but
it's almost like there's a false foot wall I think that's vein down there too but it's like there was
there's two veins one on top of the other with a false football there so hopefully there's enough
of a weak spot there that I can get a feather and wedge you know one there one there and pry that
that big chunk of vein out of there that's the plan
thank you
all right YouTube I need your help I burned up two bits went through a whole battery
Drilling one hole and it's not even it's maybe four or five inches I needed about six or seven
so does anybody any company anybody have any idea of a better bit or a better system
now when I'm drilling I'm letting the hammer do the work I'm not pushing on it real hard
I'm trying to clean out my cuttings and I just I don't know if this quartz is just super hard super
abrasive or what but I mean I've used these things with Dan Hurd and Jeff Williams on quartz and
Dan's uh ocean picture Stone and Jeff underground down in Nevada and they work great they chip away
and they do all kinds of stuff but why is my why is my quartz such a pain help me out what do I
what do I do how do I get a hole in this quartz easier better faster leave me a comment thanks
ping it right off the bat
it's not the easiest most comfortable place to work
come on
foreign
hear that I watched it separate right there so that's a good sign
oh yeah
I think I bottomed out
um but I got a crack to work with
oh man check that out that is just metal everywhere
and it's it's interesting you got this coarse grain stuff this fine-grained stuff
goes off into some quartz up here it's heavy man it's heavy but look at that that is just
it's great looking stuff I just wish I'd get more of it off the dang wall
all right well I've had enough of that spot that's just that's the man killer up there so
let's do a little more Explorer and see what else we can find well down around the corner there's
a little bit more stop down here someone's got flags around so someone's been in here sampling
but I'm gonna go chipping the walls a little bit more and see if I find some gold or more metal
see if I find another heavy sulfide band that's a little easier to get all right guys I don't know
if you can see what's going on but I've got my chisel got a big slab in the hanging wall here
and this is not really advisable you don't want to be picking on the wall over your
head but the reason I'm doing it is there's a lot of sulfide stained quartz here that they
left hanging on the wall the Wall's real uh the hanging wall is in really good shape and
also I'm very close to the rib here the the uh the edge of the stove is right up next
to me so I'm not too far away but let's see if I can knock a big chunk of this off here
all right that's good looking stuff
oh yeah a lot of metal in there so here's the face that I was working a lot of sulfides
all through there so I'll load up the chunks I broke off of here and I think it's about time
to call it a day I've been picking around a lot in the stove and I haven't found a whole lot of
really good looking stuff a lot of it's white quartz I haven't seen any free gold yet
but I sure do like that metal in there so let me get a bag or whatever I can carry out of here and
we'll get out as you're looking at a few of these pieces I think there's some real fine gold
right down here along the sulfides it's interesting that they're not in this stuff
and look at that massive sulfide looking stuff there that's pretty good
here's another piece where it's just metal everywhere and
a lot of times if there's gold in that stuff it's real hard to spot because the gold will
get stuck between the crystals of the sulfides and it as the sulfides whether they turn kind
of yellow and brassy and looking and all that fool's gold looking stuff and so it's
real hard to spot visible gold if it's in this mass of sulfides but like with this one where
there's just a little bit of sulfides in there fairly unweathered it kind of stands out right
in the boundary and then I've got this big old chunk here and I'll break up and take a look at
oh I got that Big Slab broke up again just full of metal and man is it heavy I mean that that
slab is is probably all I want to carry out of here I've got a little bit more in the bag but
um I'm gonna I'm gonna get it all I'm not leaving here without it but look at just all the
the massive amount of sulfites there
all the way through that slab
so I gotta get this back to the truck
which is quite a hike out of here so let me get her loaded up in the bag
and I'm excited to see what happens with this stuff through the crusher
all right guys well that's it for me today got our sack of rocks I'll get that down to the truck and
then we can run it through our system draw Crusher here in most sugar table and see this vein up here
behind me has any gold in it and if you want to stay tuned for that one or get notifications
be sure to subscribe otherwise thanks for watching and we'll see on the next video