hey guys my name is Jason with Mount Baker mining metals and on today's video it's going to be all
about rocks so I got a chance to go up to a friend of mine's place and he has a nice big rock saw we
sliced up a bunch of this gold ore so I want to go through the gold ore I want to take a look at
it with a microscope see if we can find any free gold talk about some of the minerals in them and
then later in the video I got another couple big announcements I want to share with you guys but
first let's take a look at our rocks I grabbed a few rocks out of the box and I think I can get
zoomed in here so we can see but all the white is quartz from the quartz vein and when they get
cut and Polished like this you can really get a good idea of the minerals that are in here
and this gray stuff is puritite
there may be let's say I find my pointer here
there may be a few pieces of gold right up here I'm going to get the
microscope out we can take a look but a lot of times in this order the gold
will be Associated right on the edge of the puritite like that
and so this really helps by being able to see where the gold is what minerals associated with
and gives you a lot of information on how to how to identify it out
in the field because pulling out here wide view in the field looks like that
it's really hard to identify anything like that even when you break it on a fresh surface it's
still pretty hard to see anything but once you get it nice and cut and Polished like this you
can really really get a good idea what's going on so here looking at this rock so we'll zoom in here
and right in this band right here is some gold let's see if I can get up close so you can see
there's some really nice small little Flex right there there
are some even back or oops right here but right in through that zone there's some
really nice free gold you can see that's a good spot to get the microscope on later
and I'm looking now that it's cut and Polished here's that puritite that's that gray
kind of metallic I don't know it's called it's just dull Gray but I think this is a different
mineral right here it's much shinier white almost on the polished surface and then you're getting
the gold associated with that that white shiny mineral versus in this one this is that dull Gray
so that is really interesting and a really nice showing gold right there that's pretty cool
here's a little microscope I'm going to be using and this is I'm going to try something different
this Clips right onto my camera on my phone and I supposed to zoom in 200 times so we'll give this a
try and if it works great I'll leave you a link in the description so you can check it out all
right well let's see how this thing works here's my I think this is my finger there's my finger
so I don't seems to magnify stuff let's see if we can get it down on our Rock and find some gold oh
there's gold look at that there's a bunch of gold unfortunately I can't point to anything
but right there in the middle of the screen is a bunch of gold associated with that white
sulfide oh and there's a bunch of code look at all that gold a little streak there there's some
more gold wow this works really well actually that's cool so there see I think it's focused
there's our gold in this big slab I think that I think that gold right
there is actually in the quartz so the stuff right there in the middle the bigger stuff
right around that sulfide I think it's exposed but then see that kind of Dusty
yellow stuff there that I think is in the courts oh there that's better now you can really see
it's over here we're just cruising around in this rock
see what we can see now we're in a little bit different spot
and I don't know if all that see see right there all that yellow stuff looks like it's
in the quartz I don't know if that's gold or not but it sure looks like it
that's what it that that right there is what I would expect
gold that dendritic angular gold looks like in the quartz man this piece is loaded there's a
little piece right right there I think it's focused that it looks like it exposed in the cut
but I think this piece is loaded with gold there's some more right there
right there is gold super fine stuff right at the boundary of that sulfide
so it's like as the sulfide was coming out of solution the gold the sulfide crystal is
growing and then the last little thing to grow on the end was the gold the gold pieces there's some
more little pieces right right at the right at the interface between the sulfides and the quartz
that's where the gold shows up
so that is very cool let's look at our other piece here's another one we found some gold
on there's some right there I'm hoping as I bring the camera across you can see
the yellow come out there's some right up here in the corner some right here 's that spot down
there again Flash and there's some over here this thing is really just loaded with gold
right near those little brown bugs
so that is a really nice piece
and like you say when they're cut you can see them but when it's not cut it's really hard to identify
any small little pieces of gold that would be on here I'm I'm
sure there's pieces of gold here on the surface that I can't see
because they're oxidized on the surface a little bit from the iron or they just don't show up all
bright and shiny but when you get this nice fresh polished face that yellow metallic gold
reflects the light really well and you can see it Flash in there it really stands out especially
in the sunlight now we're looking at that other quartz piece doesn't have nearly as much sulfides
but you can see that the light on this microscope is a little bit deceiving
because that's a piece of gold right right up there in the kind of in the middle of the frame
there but it doesn't flash in the light the light the light only reflects the gold kind of
right in the edge see down there on the lower left there's another piece in the lower right
so unfortunately with this piece it doesn't reflect the gold as well and it makes it harder
to see so now as I cruise around I'm looking for the gold right on the edge of the frame
and and I want to see it flash there there's some right there how do I focus this thing
there we go right there on the edge is a little flash of yellow
I have another microscope not with me but I'll try and get that in a future video and it was one that
you could place on the flat surface and then shine a light and you could really see the gold reflect
see there like on the lower part of the screen it works better when you can shine a light and
reflect it so it's really cool being able to take these gold or pieces cut them polish
the sunlight a lot of you guys have been asking over the years if you could buy samples from me
and so far I've resisted but I think today I want to put these two samples up for sale I'm
going to put them up on eBay you can find the link in the description so if you're
interested in either of these samples click the link below and you can check them out on
eBay well I have some terrible news this is the piece with that gold right up here
and this piece is has a little crack here a little hairline crack that's starting to form so I just
wanted to get that on video and let you guys know if you buy this one on eBay it's got a crack in it
and hopefully it doesn't separate in shipping well now I'm all excited
because I was laid out here from that trip I took down to Nevada with Jeff Williams where we
went into a super high grade underground gold mine and we chipped these off the wall and I'll leave
a link to that video in the description but let's take a look at these samples here these are really
actually really cool I haven't looked at these in a while but we'll get up here and take a look
look at that big chunk of gold sticking out there actually a bunch of little pieces as well
but there's a nice big piece of gold on that one it's kind of spongy
here's another one I really like this one it's in a Vogue down there
with the quartz crystals but look at that just dendritic natural gold there
and I think I'm going to be in the same boat with this one a lot of you guys in that video
came out you wanted to buy some of these samples well now's your chance this one's really cool
really fragile but look at all that gold there on the tip of that one
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I think we'll list these on eBay as well and we'll call these Jeff Williams sample one through eight
so it's a double you get gold from Mount Baker mining of metals it came from Jeff Williams
but these are really really cool and there again we'll leave links in the description below
on our eBay listings for these well let's look at a few of these Jeff Williams samples here
see if we can get a get this in Focus there we go
oh look at that gold
whoa that is cool crystalline gold there in that little bug
wow wow how about another one how about this one this work there we go look at that
gold there it's really hard to focus this thing
a little bit of gold down there see this one if I can hold it
oh yeah
look at that gold sticking out of there
wow that is impressive
that's really cool let me try another one how about this one this one's down
in the crystals oh I can't get it close enough to focus
I'm gonna kinda
how about this one can I get this one close enough this is two pieces again this is a Vogue a little
pocket in the quartz vein and this is where all this gold came out
of solution and grew these gold crystals
if I can get it yeah there we go look at that just a whole a whole cave full of gold
oh look at this one see this one up close
yeah it's more over here
this microscope is pretty cool I would recommend it for looking at these specimens
very cool Nevada Gold from Jeff Williams so it's taken me a couple weeks to shoot this video and
I keep coming up with more and more ideas and more and more stuff I want to add into it and
one of the things that has occurred to me is a lot of you have asked me through email and
comments about the helicopter sample that I flew off the mountain last fall it's still here in
these four bags behind me and it occurred to me that I went up to my friend's house we cut those
slabs why don't I just get a rock saw for myself we can slab up some of this stuff and see if I
can find any free gold in it before I crush it all up and run across the Shaker table so what
I've done is I've started a patreon account I'll put a link to it in the description below if you
guys are interested check out the patreon page and if you would show us your support all that money
is going to go to a rock saw and a polisher so we can get these things slabbed up and see if we can
find any gold in it and I want to show you guys what I found well I'm rock saw obsessed now I'm
just coming up with all sorts of stuff I can cut with a rock saw here's a bag of stuff that's super
high grade that I went underground and chipped on that pillar if you guys remember that video I've
got a bag of that stuff that I would love to cut some slabs off of and see if I can find pieces of
gold on that because that stuff was super rich I could see it underground in my light really
well also I was up with Dan Hurd a couple months ago and we went and collected some nephrite Jade
off the freezer and that would also be really cool to get slabbed up through a rock saw well
we're trying something a little bit different with this video and so I hope you guys can support us
through our eBay listings for our samples we're selling and our patreon account so that we can do
cool new things go on interesting new adventures and bring you guys more exciting content so
thanks for watching be sure to check out the links below and we'll see on the next video