Hey guys my name is Jason with Mount Baker Mining and Metals and on today's video
we're going to be running one ton of ore through our one ton per hour turnkey
system here behind me. We're going to run it through the jaw crusher, the hammer
mill, and then onto the shaker table for final concentration of the gold. And then
after the shaker table we'll take our concentrates and we'll take them over
and we'll refine them into our final gold buttons. But let's get started here
running our material and we'll see how much gold we can recover.
We sell three different sizes of turnkey systems, a one ton per hour, a two ton per
hour, and a four to five ton per hour system. Also we have an option for a ball
mill or a hammer mill depending on your grind size and kind of what your your
project is and what it entails.
Okay guys we've cleaned up the shaker table, finished running our one sack, or one ton of ore.
We have our number-one high-grade concentrates as well as our number-two
high-grade concentrates. And so I'm gonna do something a little bit different
rather than smelting these I'm gonna try doing a little bit quicker method where
I'm just gonna pan down the number one, clean up the gold as best I can, and then
straight cupel it with lead and that way we want to smelt it screw
around waste a bunch of time and energy we can just cupel it directly, clean
it up and get our gold button. Well we're gonna recover 95 plus percent of the
gold out of these number one and number two concentrates, and then the panning
tailings I can just rerun back through the system so I'm not spending a bunch
of time screwing around smelting then for a half a gram or one gram of gold, we
can just recycle it and keep running our equipment. So that's the plan let's get
panning here we'll see how much gold we have in our number one. Now we've got to
be pretty careful when we're panning down concentrates because that's where all
our gold is and that's really quite fine, but I'm thinking in five or ten minutes
here I could have this pan down pretty much to pure gold and we'll take a
look and clean up the gold out of there, but you can see all the gold right along
the back edge here, so there's a significant amount of gold in this pan.
We've got a gold pan down this is our number one concentrates. There's
there's quite a bit of depth there as well so there's some pretty good gold
there. But now this is clean enough, I'm gonna suck it up with a pipette and put
it in a little paper towel and get it kind of dry and then we can put it in
our cupel with a little bit of lead and run it right in our electric furnace
and recover our gold bead. All right so I'm going to take our little snuffer
bottle here and I'm gonna suck up as much gold as we can
and just run it down here like a like a coffee filter, oh the gold's clogged the
tip there there we go... And then our Gold's in our little blue towel there
and then we're just going to wad that up and put it in our cupel and put some
lead on it, the paper will burn away, and we'll be left with our gold button. So
I'm just gonna work down this this pan here a little bit, get as much gold as we
can, I'll have to redo it probably two or
three times and then we'll take a look at our towel and we're done. All right
here's our rag and there's our little gold, our fine gold blob down there. I've
rung out the water, so it's actually really similar to how they do with
mercury but I'm not using any mercury I've just run out the water. And now I'm gonna
wad it up and a little wad and cut off the ball at the end and put in a
cupel, put a little lead on it, put it in the
furnace and we should have our gold buttons. Okay here's our cupell here,
it's a little bit warm, I just warmed it up in the furnace a little bit is
probably three or four hundred degrees. I'm gonna take our little sack of gold
I guess, We'll put it in there, I'm gonna put it back in the furnace and let that
dry out and burn off and then I'm gonna add, this is about 12 grams of lead, I'll
just put that on top of the ash when it's all burned off and melt the lead
and cupel away the lead, oxidize it run it in to cupel and then we'll be
left with our gold button gold and silver. That's probably hard to see but
there's our little sack and it's drying out, it's actually starting to
burn a little bit starting to smoke. And hopefully as that gold dries and the
thing burns I don't just splatter gold all over the inside of here of the
furnace. All right we got the gold from number one in the furnace so now let's
work on the number two high grade. I'll get this pan down and see how much gold
we have in here. Here's the results from number two, and
I'm gonna focus here... There's there's hardly any gold in there
at all, so it was a good check I'm glad I did it and panned it down but I'm in the
future I'm not gonna waste the time I'm just gonna put that number two and the
number three right back through the mill and only screw around with the number
one and we'll just keep upgrading them and we don't have to screw around
smelting them, panning them anything else. But all I'll suck this out of here put
it in a cupel, get it in the furnace and see exactly how much gold we have but I
I'm guessing 95% of the gold ended up in the number one high-grade. All right
there's our a little bit of gold from the number two and I just put it right into
the cupel with the pipette so it's a little bit wet. I'm gonna put in the
furnace with about 10 grams of lead. I'm gonna put another cupel right on top
of it upside down so as that dries out it might spit a little bit or pop and
the cupel on top will shield it from spitting all over the furnace we can
still recover our little gold beads from the spittin and popping. So
we'll get that in the furnace next to the number one and see how much gold we
got. And here's our panning tailings from the number one and the number two and I
know what you guys are going to say, I absolutely did lose some gold I'm quite
sure when I panned out our material. So we didn't get a hundred percent recovery,
but there's probably less than half a gram of gold in here and hopefully quite
a bit less so it's not worth the time and effort to go after it by trying to
smelt it all down or refine it or, you know, worry about it. So we've got 95% of
our gold out it's in the furnace it's cupelling. This stuff is just going to go
right back through the system, we'll recover whatever a little bit of
residual gold I lost from panning on the table and it'll go into the number one
or number two and then we can try again to recover it on our next go-around. But
that's the important thing on this video I want to get across is when you're
sampling and trying to find out the best recovery of your gold, it's really important
to get all of it so you can get your percent recoveries but when you're in
production every hour counts, especially if you have a short season and you
don't want to be screwing around for hours or days up at the site trying to
refine every last little bit of your gold, you want to get your throughput, get
your concentrates, get the gold out and for the cash flow so you can keep your
operation going. If you want to you could even save this in a barrel and then
bring it down at the end of the season or at a later time and process it then,
but you you really don't want to spend all your time and energy when you're on
site trying to recover every last little bit of gold. Alright guys I wanna try
something a little bit unique, I don't think I've ever seen or heard anybody
doing this before. I, here's our gold button, I'm gonna focus there we go, and
you can see it's it's not gold it's it's froze because there's too much base
metals in there and it's got a skin of oxides that are above the melting point
of our furnace so they've just formed a skin and and froze the bead. So what
I'm gonna try is adding just a little bit of borax to it, I need to keep the
button exposed on the surface but if I get a little bit of borax on there you
see what happens look at that! Almost instantly pulled those oxides off the
surface absorbed them into the borax and turn to gold. Okay here's our two
beads, the number one, and the number two. All right number one is 20.23,
had to go up to my bigger scale that goes past twenty grams. And the
number two is 0.76 grams. When you put them all together you get 21 grams
even, so not too bad. Alright guys so what'd you think of the video?
We recovered 21 grams of gold in a little under two hours, it took me about an hour
and 10 minutes to run the one ton of material, took me about 10 minutes to pan
it out, took me about 10 minutes to get it cleaned up and in the furnace and then
it took me about about half an hour a little bit less to cupel it and
recover the gold bead from the lead. But I hope you guys can see the difference
between my strategy on production versus sampling. When you're sampling and you
want to figure out you know your percent recovery and how much gold you have,
it's really important to get it all and the timing isn't really a concern at
that point. But when you're in production and you only have a very limited amount
of time on-site or your season is really short, every hour counts and as you can
see if I ended up spending an hour cleaning all that stuff up, it's an hour
that I could have spent getting another 21 grams of gold through the system. And
so if I had a pile of gold ore sitting around like that it because to me about
a thousand bucks an hour every hour I wasn't running material through the
system. The other point though is you have to recover your gold and sell it
and get paid, you need that cash flow, so you you have to process the gold as fast
as you can so that you can get your money, pay for your equipment, pay your
employees, whatever you need to do, so... But you need to make it as fast and as
efficient as possible. If you guys have any questions about the equipment you
saw today, you can find more information on our website or you can give us a call
or send us an email and you can find our contact information in the description
below. So thanks for watching, and we'll see on the next video.