Were out in the mountains today
and I wanted to make a video showing how to prospect and sample with a micro blaster
I just got a micro blasting system earlier this summer
and I wanted to get up in the mountains and get a video before it snowed here
Right here is a little bit of a quartz stringer
It runs right up of the hump over there
right up through the rocks and under that tree
and up kinda around the corner over there
I got some assays on this and its running about 2 and a half ounce ton gold
Going to go up the hill where it outcrops in a little bit better of a spot
Takes some shot from the micro blaster, show you how it works
and to see if we can find some free gold today
Here are the basic components of the micro blaster system
I am not endorsing this system, I do not sell this system
I just bought one for personal use
I just bought one to go out and do some prospecting
works pretty well and is way better than a hammer and chisel
I just wanted to pass on the information and show you how it works
You can contact them through there website and get pricing and all that stuff
Here are the basic components your going to neeed
This is a hammer drill with a 5/16th'sbit on it.
You can twelve inch or 18 inch or even deeper if you want
I usually go about 6 inch shots
When I am prospecting
This is the firing pin I guess, its not really a firing pin since its air activated
There is a little tip right at the end of the thing
Before you put your cap in the hole make sure its nice and flush
Then as you give it air the firing pin comes out and detonates the cap.
I just use a standard bike pump for firing my shots
and I have 25ft of air hose
There is extra parts and these are the caps here
They are a little bit bigger than a fire cracker
and they work really quite well
All this stuff fits in my day back right there
and weighs about 25 lbs
so you can hike it pretty much any where you want to go
I'm going to drill a couple of holes here and were going to load them and shoot them
I will try to ge thtem on video for you so you can see how it works.
I can't get a real good vantage point where I can film myself drilling
I'll just hold the camera and drill at the same time
So we will just drill one hole right down here in the corner
of this outcrop
and then I will load it and shoot it
That looks like a pretty good hole
took me about 20 seconds to drill it
This is a snuffer/blower, put it down the hole and blow out all the raminaing rock
all your cuttings
So theres your hole
You saw the cuttings change from white quartz to balck sulfite
I always check to make sure my firing pin can go all the way to the bottom of the whole
before I put a cap in there
Because its hard to ge the ecap out once its in there
And if your hole is a little crooked your firing pin wont be able to go all the way down
So you can't fire it
You test the whole with a firing pin than put a cap in
Make sure the metallic side is up and than drop it down the whole
Make sure your firing pin is in
Slide that down the hole
We will string out the air hose and shoot it.
Moved off back into the weeds so as to not get any fly rock
here's my pump
There we go, simple as that
You might have heard some of that fly rock around
It shot it out pretty well
There is the little hoel we made
I forgot to bring an old piece of parpet
that you can lay over the shot
It usually contains everything
Right now im just blowing everything all over the side of the hill
We will do a couple of more shots here
See if we can get some good samples
I'm going to risk my life to see if we can get a shot on video
Here is the characteristic of the ore were shooting
You can see my drill hole right there and stopped there
This is the white quartz with a bunch of sulfides in there
iron sulfides and peridotite
Its not a real fresh exposure
so its pretty weathered
thats kinda the stuff were going after
i'm going to pack some of this out
Then we will crush it up with the system
and see if we can get some free gold out of it
Here is the outcrop after I've taken about 10 shots
I probably have over a 100 lbs
I'm going to pack this out
run it through the system and see what we get
Here is the rock we packed out
from our prospecting trip
I have 110 lbs here
and when I get a change i'm going to run these through the turn-key system
and see if we got any gold
As soon as I have the video of the rocks being run through the turn-key system
I'll put a link up here and you can continue to watch it
and you can continue our segment on prospecting and ore processing