hey guys my name is Jason with Mount Baker mining metals and I just got a rock saw so what I want
to do on this video is I've got a bunch of gold ore laying around I'd really like to get some
slabbed up in this machine and see if we can find any free gold in quartz I've got bags and bags of
gold over here behind me these four in front are the helicopter or I flew off the mountain
last year I want to look at some of that and then these other bags are from another property that
I've been working and so really what I want to do is I want to take some of these bigger pieces get
that nice smooth surface so we can take a look at it and that gold hopefully will reflect back
in the light it'll be real obvious we can take a look at it with the microscope and then some
of this other stuff has some really really rich sulfides in it so I want to slab that open see
if we can get some sulfides here's some stuff from our helicopter project and I've got an 18
inch saw so I can cut about a nine inch piece I don't know if I can get this one in there
but you know maybe some of this stuff here would work I can certainly cut that piece
here's some of the other stuff I got and obviously this piece is way too big but you can see the
orange Rusty sulfide veins in it here's another piece over here that looks real nice in this bag
see all those sulfides veins in there so I'll see if I can find some smaller pieces and we'll
cut those up and see if we can get some really nice sulfides we're gonna go big or go home on
this first one here this is that big one I think I can get it clamped in there I hope
and get it run through that saw and I'm going to start kind of out here I think and maybe
take a couple slabs it's clamped in there I should have enough clearance for the blade
and for those of you have seen the channel before I really like these banded lines right
here I don't know if this is the foot wall of the hanging wall but oftentimes
you'll get some enrichment zones kind of those bands so I'm I'm going to cut across the Bands
that'll be interesting to see so I'm going to take my first swipe right through here and then
I can move this Vise over half an inch or an inch and take another slab and I'll get two or
three slabs off and we'll just Whittle our way down through this rock and see what we can find
all right this is real time cutting here rock is on the right blade is on the left there
and it's just gonna worry its way through that Court
let's take a peek in here it's like Christmas every time I open this saw oh yeah
so I use a mineral oil as a lubricant and so it makes everything all oily
and at first I was trying to get them cleaned up with kitty litter and that
didn't work very well it's stuck all over the place but it seems like if I get it in
the kitty litter and a little bit of soap and water afterwards it cleans it right up
but oh man let's let's get that thing cleaned up we'll take a look it's reset I've moved it over
an inch so we'll get a one inch thick slab coming off in this next cut so let's close the door here
turn it on we're going again here's that first slab off our big rock
and I've seen some pretty good looking stuff down here it's pretty small but right along the
foot wall or the hanging wall there I don't see anything up in here but I see little tiny flashes
down here when I tip it in the light so let's get our microscope and check that section out I'm
going to use my little phone microscope to check out the little pieces of gold in there and if
you're interested in this thing this is a really cool little thing I put a link in the description
below you guys can go check it out on Amazon okay we're right down there's the edge of the Rock
the foot wall and I'm going to just go real slow here because the gold will show up right at the
edge but look at all that gold sell that little shiny yellow gold in there right along the edge
there's more of it there's a whole bunch of it
and this is again this is from the helicopter stuff that I flew off the mountain
there's more coming in there's a nice little pocket of it right around that orange band look
at that big old bug of it it's right right along the foot wall or hanging wall one of the walls
but it's just everywhere it's just right along that edge everywhere
there's a little bit there and then there's a there's that big crack right here
and once you get past that big crack there's nothing
there's just nothing up here
and so I believe we have a two-stage vein emplacement
so you're you're and I'll show you when I zoom out here once I get the microscope off but
this crack that runs right along the bottom here we're going to call it the foot wall
from that crack all the way down to the edge down here is a separate infusion of quartz
so let me take the microscope off and show you the rock kind of as tell the whole story here
so here's our rock this is that crack I was talking about so I believe that this quartz
was in place first or second it's a different character it's got these chunks of wall Rock
in it it's much more milky quartz and where we're seeing all the gold was right down along this Edge
so what I think happened was there's a second band a second squirt of quartz up in the same fault
Zone but there's two distinct different Quartz in placement eras and this one down here had all the
gold and that's why we see from here to here that was that super rich goal is just it just speckled
all through there I don't know if I can get close enough there's a little piece right there see it
shining in the in the light another little piece right down there
but you can real I mean it's like flashing you with a mirror it really really shows up
but even on this piece there's just a ton of a ton of gold right down in here but I can't
see it because it's not big enough but once you get it big enough to where it can Flash at you
just like that piece right there you can pick it out easy with the with the naked eye
well that's a problem probably a rookie mistake my saw made some weird noise and I shut it off
and it's binding here so I can't get all the way through I don't know if I want to adjust it oh
boy let's see what I got here well once I took the bind off it the slab actually broke off and then
the pay layer down here broke off of the slabs but then there's some gold down in that bug there
some gold down there I just I can't believe how much gold there is and how fine it is it's so fine
it's crazy I keep cutting on this big hunk and I've got one flat side
two flat sides and the Bottom's flat so now my plan is is I got it pretty much centered
on there I'm gonna cut it right in half and then I'll have a set of bookends that's that's the plan
gold ore quartz bookends okay let's see what we got on our bookends here
oh nice
look at there
let me get them cleaned up and we'll take a look well look at those beauties I've
got rough on the outside and the top cut both edges in the face on both of them
nice set of gold or bookends here's another one I found I'm really excited about
it's got this huge band of sulfides right through there so I think if I can take a
couple slabs off of here we'll get a look in there and hopefully see some
really nice nice sulfides right through there this was that one with all the sulfides in it
and man is there a lot of sulfides in it so all this gray stuff here is puritite
there's a little bit right up here the brassy looking stuff is calcopyrite
but it's just laced all through this piece
and I'm hoping I thought I saw on one of these
I thought I saw some gold down right on the edge of the pier type crystals so this is just massive
pure type with a little bit of quartz crystals around it
it's going to be a little bit hard to see any gold
because it once it gets in the middle of the frame it gets white but what's that little speck right
down on the bottom there is that a little piece of gold a little bit different color in the puritite
it's right about the center of the frame now I'll move it over to the left
I think that might be a little piece of gold yeah a little yellow piece of gold there
might be some more right in that brown
crack there
but man it's so cool to just be able to cruise around on the surface of this rock and
see what's going on
oh there's another piece maybe right there in the courts top top of the circle there
I want to find some big pieces we're going to leave the massive pure tight now
get over into the more quartz stuff Let's see we can find that Calico pyrite over here somewhere
a lot of nice parotite there's a big old pyrotite chunk
and now there's a little calco right there kind of greenish working almost see where am I can't
tell where I'm at oh here we go there's some yeah now we're getting into that calco streak
and oh and there's a little piece of gold see it right there oh that's a nice piece
right at the bottom of the calco or right at the top of the of the circle there
that's cool
so maybe calco is an indication of gold oh that's pretty neat let's see if I can
get this to focus it looks like there's a big pyrotite Crystal then the calco Crystal
and then is there a little bit of gold right in that right in the edge of that Calico pyrite
it looks like there's a flock of gold top and a Fleck of gold at the bottom of that little
calcopyrite chunk [Music]
so there's a piece of gold right in the center and the one thing I don't like
about this is the light is very white but once you get it over to the edge you can see
the gold a whole lot better the gold color so there's a little flake of gold right in
the left hand side there right in the courts let's Zoom around here so we can find any more
but it's really nice this microscope's really nice
on these slabs because it's a nice smooth flat surface there's a nice little flake
looks like you can even see the saw cut in that one
and it's in an area where there's all these little tiny pieces of rock looks like they broke off
when the quartz was in place and got entrained in the quartz Matrix along with the gold there it is
there's another little piece same thing you've got these chunks of quartz around it
and then the gold is in The Matrix super fine grain quartz Matrix [Music] so this thing really
it really helps to have this rock saw so I can get a really good idea what was going on in the vein
and where the gold where the gold is so now I can go up and hydrate it so here's that
rock we're just looking at see all these little pieces of quartz looks like it got ripped off and
entrained and then there's that little piece of gold we were looking at under the microscope
so pretty interesting to see where the gold comes out of the courts it's not just evenly
distributed out throughout the courts it's in these little bands these little high grade
zones and there you go we got some gold War cut we made some nice pieces here each one of
these slabs has a little piece of gold in it so that's pretty cool I got the sulfide stuff
here which is really really cool sulfides laced through the quartz and then I've got these two
bookends here that I made out of that piece of gold ore I flew off the hill of the helicopter
so if you guys are interested in any of this stuff it'll be on eBay so check it out find the
link in the description below otherwise thanks for watching and we'll see on the next video