Hey guys my name is Jason with Mount Baker Mining and Metals, and on today's
video I wanted to talk a little bit about the opportunities and advantages
of gold in these economic times, as well as how anyone with a gold sight, gold
claim or who's interested in getting into gold mining, can take the equipment
behind me and turn rocks into gold, This is our one ton per hour turnkey system
and we've designed it so the operator can take large amounts of material in
the form of ore or tailings and dump them in this primary hopper and never
have to touch them again until the gold is recovered by the shaker table. So the
whole process starts here with a primary crusher, this is an 8 inch by 12 inch jaw
crusher, it crushes the material down to about 3/4 inch minus where it's then
discharged into a fine or holding bin.
The material in the final holding bin is metered out by a magnetic feeder which
is adjustable to control feed rate to the hammer mill, and once it gets on to
the conveyor it's transported up to the hammer mill for secondary crushing or
fine grinding. In the chamber in the hammer mill there are lots of chrome
iron hammers that swing around and break up the ore down into very small pieces
and, by grinding the ore, it liberates the gold it breaks the gold out of the rock
and then it's delivered down onto the shaker table where the shaker table is a
density separator, and gold is very very dense, so when it gets onto the shaker
table, the gold comes across to the left-hand side under the white water bar
and down into the number 1 and number 2 concentrates. The table makes four
different classifications: there's a high grade fraction which is the number one
and number two high grade and where all the free gold is going to go. Then
there's the concentrates or middlings fraction that goes down we call, this the
number three. It may have values so you want to save those and then the final
fraction or the number four is the tailings, or the waste, and this goes down
to the final tailings pond.
So one of the important things to understand about gold is for the last
10,000 years it's held value. It's always been important to human society
throughout history and that's as important today as it was during the
time of the Egyptians. The second thing is that there are lots of opportunities
out there as the gold price increases and most people think that gold mining
you have to go underground drill and blast and it's a lot of hard work,
which it is but as the price increases a lot of the old mining sites throughout
the western US as well as the rest of the world become valuable again because
when they were mining back 100 years ago, the grade of gold that they needed to
produce a profit was really really high because they were doing everything by hand
and the price of gold is fairly low. But in today's prices you can go out and
remine some of their old tailings and dump piles and actually produce gold at
a profit because all you have to do is dig it up and put it in one of our
machines. There's also a few other misconceptions, one being that only big
companies can go gold mining that's not true at all. We have lots of customers
all around the world that are producing gold on a very small scale, a couple
three or four people, or even some sites that have one person operating alone.
If your ore contains gold, the sugar table concentrates it out very efficiently. As
you can see here, the gold works its way right up under the water bar and because
it's so dense it stays up under the water bar while the rest of the material
is washed away by the water. And the material, the gold especially, is
concentrated and reports down to the number one concentrates. Okay here's the
number one bucket that we got off the table. I panned it down a little
bit but you can see in the sun it's a pretty good showing there, a lot of fine
gold. Again this was from about 3500 pounds of ore and this is the number one
So now you're probably thinking "okay great, I've got gold in the pan now what
I do with it? How do I get it into a gold button?" That's really not too hard either
you take some flux as shown here and you mix it with your gold concentrates and
once you have mixed it real good you put it in a furnace and heat it up to a very
high temperature. You melt all the gold the flux pulls off all the impurities
the black sand, the rock, everything else you don't want in there. And the idea is
is that when you pour the molten material in it all the densest material,
the gold, or the other collector metals that you have we're going to go right
down to the bottom of that cone mold.
There's our gold chunk on the bottom yeah there's a little bit of slag on it
on the surface so I can get it knocked out of there and chip some of that slag off.
All right there it is, all cleaned up.
We've seen the larger equipment that we built for more automated processing but
we also make equipment for really any size operation. And here we're
demonstrating some small individual machines that can be fed by hand by a
single operator or a couple of guys and we start here with our 6 by 10 jaw
crusher. And just like the larger one we saw earlier, this takes your run of mine
material or your dumps or tailings crushes it down to half-inch minus and then
can be fed into the hammer mill. Once the material has been crushed it can
manually be fed into one of our 16 inch by 12 inch hammer mills and this machine
has a 0.8 millimeter screen in the bottom and so the ore gets ground
up until it can pass through that screen and down onto the shaker table. And there
again the advantage to this is it's all manual, it's designed for miners on a
budget so it doesn't have a lot of initial capital expense and you can be
processing and sampling ore and gaining very important information about your
grade and the locations of the good ore on your property.
All this equipment can be transported to the site via pickup truck and it's all
very easy to operate and it can be powered with a three-phase generator or
we're actually working on some gasoline operated options as well for all the
equipment. And here you can see that nice fine gold line coming right down under
the water bar. It's fairly clean it's going to go right into the number one
concentrates. And by manually feeding a couple buckets or a bulk sample you can
actually be getting gold that same day and get some cash flow going. And here's
a great example of some gold that was recovered literally from three or four
buckets of ore that some guys brought from a property they have and we produced
gold in less than twenty minutes. It didn't take very long to run the sample
and we produce gold. Really it's that easy. And here's just another example of
some quartz or that we got from a customer or run in a sample for him. But
you can see the characteristic of the stuff you're going to be looking for
and if you actually can break open and get some fresh surfaces there's a real
good chance, if your ore is rich enough, that you might find some free gold as
shown here. And if you can find some free gold in your samples that's a really
good indication that you have a good valuable resource that you can mine at a
profit at today's prices. So just a little more background on our company, we
actually have equipment in over 55 countries and so whether you're mining
in far north or down in the jungles of South America or in the deserts of
Africa, there's a good possibility that we actually have gold mining equipment
in your country. So I hope you guys learned a little bit more about gold
mining in general as well as our equipment on today's video. And you know
I talked a lot about the opportunities in gold and I wanted you guys to know
that we're actually in the process of leasing a mine site ourself and so
hopefully in upcoming videos you can see some of our operations in action. If
guys have any interest in any of our equipment or would like more information
you can visit our website or give us a call. All of that information is in the
description below. So thanks for watching and I hope to see you guys in the next video.