hey guys my name is Jason with Mount Baker mining metals and on today's video we're back in the shop
we're gonna be playing around with our Rock saw I've got some really cool really special rocks
they're gonna be slopping up today here's a look at the victims today this is a huge piece of gold
ore from our gold mine and as you've heard from me in the past I believe this is one of the walls
the gold typically hangs out right along the wall so we're going to try and get this in the saw and
slab it up along this way I don't know if this is another wall so if this was The Binding walls
football and hanging wall or vice versa but I'm going to slab off some on this side too and we'll
see if we can see gold on either side this is some really cool stuff that A friend gave me this
stuff has sapphires in it and so they're little tiny blue it's hard to see but there's some blue
sapphires right right in there maybe if you use your imagination you can see them so I'm hoping
we can slap this guy up into pretty thin little sections and see that Sapphire coming through
if we get it some light behind it and then these three are nephrite Jade that I got from the Fraser
with Dan Hurd so I'm going to be cutting these guys up and seeing what the Jade looks like from
the inside and this one is a really really pretty really dark green color actually all
three of them are so I'm really excited to get get those cut up as well we're going to start with the
sapphire Rock and I'll see if I can do this while you guys are kind of looking over my shoulder
and then take our slabs off of there
all right this thing uses oil as a lubricant so it's a little bit messy that's why I'm wearing my
gloves this is a diamond blade and it just goes real slow and worries its way through the Rock
Sapphire is actually the mineral corundum which is very hard it's a nine on the Mohs hardness scale
but diamond is a 10 and the difference between a nine and a 10 is greater than the difference
between a one and a nine so the diamond should have any problem cutting through this I'm going
to get the thing adjusted so we're right up against the blade we'll close the lid
turn it on and the rest is automatic [Music]
I'm not sure if you can see in there but the blade is on the left it's doing its thing and
there's the Rock and that whole device and table and everything is just self-feeding through there
oh cool we're getting out in the light well I don't know anything about the geology of sapphires
but I'm shocked there's so many sapphires in here there's there's blue all through here
all the way along over here there's a really nice big chunk right there there's some down this way
so there I thought there was going to be like oh there's a little blue on there there's a little
blue in there but there's just kind of almost a vein of sapphires right through here I don't
know how well this shows up in the camera but let me let me try my microscope on this thing and see
if the microscope gets a little bit better view of the blue color here's this little microscope
we're going to be using I really like this thing it Clips right on my phone and it gets me 200
times magnification so if you're interested in it I got a link in the description for you
so here's a look close up and all those kind of light blue things in there I think are Sapphire
let's get over let's get over here yes oh yeah see there's some really good
ones I don't know good ones but a lot more blue
so there's definitely sapphires in here and a lot more than I thought there was going to be
here's what I'm just cleaning up and there's just really nice deep blue sapphires
all over it especially up near the top third
I don't know if the sunlight's the best way to look at it maybe if I turn it like this
so it's backflip see right there those nice blue sapphires all across there
man that is cool so this this piece is four turns thick which is about a sixth of an inch and
if you hold it up to the Sun you still can't really see through it
so I'm gonna try and go thinner but this rock is just so opaque
well here's another one of our Sapphire rocks and this is about as thin as I can
cut it that's about it's about two turns or you know maybe a tenth of an inch
and it's just so delicate so fragile I can't really do anything with it and it's still
can't see through it even against the Sun so it's just too dark of a rock to cut thin slices out of
but it's got some really nice blue sapphires in it all right I got this big Bruiser clamped in there
I think I have enough height on the saw blade to make it work we're gonna find out
we're going to run this through and take a couple slabs and like I said
see if we can see any gold right here along this wall
oh yeah
that worked just barely made that cut look at that
very cool all right we're all reset
we'll take about an inch thick slab off of there
here's that slab of goldhorn I am really impressed with this one watch what happens
when I turn it into the light look right up here and right down here
see that see the gold Flash
that is amazing there's gold down here there's gold over here there's some more smaller stuff
but when you can I mean I'm two feet away and when you can see the gold flash in the Sun at you
that's that's pretty impressive the other thing that's surprising to me is I think these are
chunks of wall Rock and I I don't usually find gold right up next to the wall rock usually I
would find it over here in these sulfide lenses but I don't see any large gold over here in the
sulfides it's these two or three little pockets over here by the wall Rock so that's kind of
unusual for me that is just amazing and it goes down into the courts you can see the gold
kind of dendritic arms down into the courts this is the one uh that was farthest away from us
when I showed it to you now let's see if we can cruise down here and find that other one
it was it was ah here it is look at that one
also you can see it on the surface but it goes down into the courts there quite a ways
which is just awesome there's the other little piece just bright shiny yellow gold
right in the courts right next to the gray rock I think those are wall Rock chunks there's a piece
of sulfide but man it's just beautiful yellow gold well my saw it wasn't quite big enough
and I just pop it down here and it'll break off let's see
hey that works pretty good oh that's pretty but there's not a lot going on in there as far
as mineralization we'll have to take a closer look well I've got these two little tangs here
is this gonna work
I did okay
any suggestions on how to do this would be appreciated
let's see what our gold ore is looking like here oh yeah see I didn't have enough
dang I don't have enough blade height to make that work well I don't really know where I'm going with
this thing I've got two parallel Cuts now when I knock this off it it the the piece all went fell
apart broke up in little pieces and I didn't see any gold on this face so now I'm not sure what
I'm gonna do I'm gonna I got these two I'm just kind of whittling away at it now I'm going to cut
a a parallel side here our perpendicular face maybe I'll turn it into kind of a
big huge Cube or something I don't know we'll see how it goes the problem is this takes forever to
get through this it takes like more than half an hour for for each cut so it just takes a
long time but it's going to be whatever it comes out of it's gonna be pretty cool well
we're getting somewhere with this corpse or block here I've got three sides smooth and both ends
so I'm going to turn it one more time take this off nice and smooth and we'll have a gold
pillar gold or pillar and we're going to clean up this end that corner's broken so I'm just gonna
clean right up through there and we'll have our finished up gold ore pillar see what we got here
mm-hmm cool big gold or block now we're going to start on our Jade here I guess
I'll start with this big boy we'll get him clamped in and again I'm going to cut some
really thin slabs to start out with and see if I can get them so the light can shine through
them they've got our clamps in there and start slabbing it this way let's see how this goes
yeah that's gonna be pretty stuff look at the color of the rock now it's got the oil on it
nice okay let's do this we'll crank it over one two three four
and we'll cut a fairly thin slice out of it
see if we can get some light through it well here's my piece with uh four turns of the vise
and it's pretty thin I think it's less than a quarter
but I still can't see any light through it right on the edge Maybe
so this next I'll do two and see if we can get a real thin thin sliced piece but man
it's really really dark inside really really dark green [Music] I was looking in this light this
flashlight and it actually does come through it four turns look at that pretty dark green color
so this next one should be really translucent
oh here's our little wafer thin piece of jade look at that just very very thin
look at it against the light
that's cool
let me get all the oil off in here beautiful piece of rock look at that
I don't know does this work
very cool it's interesting how it's not All Uniform it's darker in the middle and way more
transparent out on the right side where I'm holding it Here's the final haul I've got our
Sapphire stuff here there's one rock I didn't cut but once I got to the found out I couldn't see the
light through them I just cut that piece into kind of a little puzzle there so that's kind of cool
got some bookends or something and then there's gold ore stuff man I got all kinds of pieces I
got our our stand up gold pillar there these are the these are the coolest pieces I think you've
got this matchbook or book Matched uh with the gold in the face on both of them that's awesome
then look in the back you got all these gold ore stand-ups I think they're called they're
rough on the back side and then smooth cut on the face a couple more of them up there
a little more Rusty or and then we've got the Jade over here the the thin pieces I cut
you can see through and then I cut that one piece into three little stand ups I cut the one Boulder
Rock into just two halves that's kind of cool and then I got one here that I didn't cut at all
so that's a quick rundown well I'm having so much fun with this rock saw cutting all this different
stuff checking out what's inside these rocks I wanted to give a huge thank you to my patrons
uh you are the reason why I'm able to buy this rock saw and with your support we're doing all
this cool new content and cool new stuff so if you're interested in supporting us check out our
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page so thanks you guys for watching thanks for all your support and we'll see on the next video