Today we got some gold here, that we crushed up from some hard rock ore, ran through our
milling process that you can see on our website: www.mbmmllc.com. And there’s just shy a
half an ounce here, you can see it there in the scale. There’s about 50 grains there.
And in the stainless steel pan there, we’ve got our little crucible we’re going to use.
We’ve got some Borax sprinkled in the bottom. The rest of our gold is in the vial there;
there’s another 150 or 200 grains there in the vial. And then some buttons we’ve
melted previously.
Okay so we’ll just take the gold out of our pan here and pour it into the crucible.
And it’s all hard rock stuff so it’s real fine and dry. Here’s the rest from the vial.
A little bit more borax. We’ll take this over and heat it with the torch, and melt
it into a button.
I like to start this real slow. Get everything evenly heating. If there’s any moisture,
drive the moisture off. You also want to be careful you don’t get
your tip down there too fast, you’ll blow your fine gold out. I learned that the hard
way.
Its a molten button now. We’re going to take the heat off, and you’ll see it gloss
over. There it goes. So the crucible broke earlier because we heated it up too fast,
and unevenly, the top broke off. And those crucibles are really used for a furnance instead
of a torch.
Break the crucible out, and there’s your button.
Okay we got our scale zeroed again. Take our gold button. Slider, 100 grains, 150, 200.
So 190...
191.3 grains