Gold Mining, New Gold Vein Discovered!

[@CaptainDansWanderings]

I've been watching gold videos for years and this is the first time I've seen someone walk up to a mountain, identify and discuss a potential seam of gold bearing ore, drill, (blast), muck, crush the ore, separate, pan, melt and produce a chunk of gold.. .from start to finish! It was great to see the entire process. Thanks! Can't wait to see more.

[@realzug]

Yeah, this is so awesome!

[@davidcarella64]

@SubvertedWorld Ditto!

[@kellymichaud6442]

Ya , just like you said . Good job guys. Nice equipment

[@hyloward7907]

Perfect lmformitve. video.

[@johnramirez5032]

I agree! Facinating! A whole lot of work!

[@johnh8615]

Keep it up. Between you and Sreetips I get so much satisfaction watching.👍

[@doomedalready]

Thank you for making a very informative video on mining and processing gold, yours is the very best i have ever seen.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

would have liked to see you explaining the hole pattern you picked , delays used, charging the holes and then firing the round...... clean looking hanging wall ... nice looking button ....love it when they come out like that

[@mbmmllc]

Thanks Jeff! Next time more info. Can't give it away all at once! :)

[@Askjeffwilliams]

@@mbmmllc good point .... really love what your doing with this new portal and potential adit

[@butziporsche8646]

@@Askjeffwilliams You know what Jeff, it's too bad KZbin doesn't have the ability to create channels so we can watch stuff by category. You, Jason, Dan Hurd, Pioneer Pauly, VoGus, etc.

[@napoleano2748]

@@mbmmllc Hey Jason, was gonna say the same thing as Jeff. Would have loved to see that old Drill doing it's job, blowing the holes and seeing some mucking. I think it would bring a whole lot more viewers for sure. I watch other mine explorers, fun stuff to watch when you can't get in and do it yourself ;) Nice gold bead for sure!

[@spagsketti]

@@butziporsche8646 I am a Patrion supporter of @Ask Jeff Williams and he does have some of this available to us on the Patrion end of things as well. plus multiple chance giveaway at gold nuggets he finds, if you guess the closest weight you get the nugget each month. @ a $10 a month pledge no one else comes close. So come on lets go!!!! Plus if you got a question you would like to ask Jeff you message him and get a decent honest reply. I never figured I would ever donate to Patrion for anyone but I like what Jeff stands for and contributes to the mining community.

[@mikemullenix6956]

Great job! A wealth of info .enjoyed

[@sku32956]

Did a lot of drilling and blasting for my dad in construction during the 80s .

[@anaksarolangun]

The location is great bro, greetings to Indonesian miners

[@thecomander466]

Now this is interesting U-tube channel, I am former U/G hard rock stope mining electrician in Australia who can relate to what you are talking about, will be watching with enthusiasm how you progress, am now subscriber

[@thecomander466]

I worked in a silver,lead, zinc mine, our stopes were massive approximately 100 meters in height,we had seams of quartz everywhere that carried fool's gold, sometimes copper and alluvial gold, gold was too minute to see and was only identified after milling process, seams of quartz ran through the silver lead zinc ore body, apparently it is all volcanic rock that the ore is found in, apparently our mine produced the purest form of silver in Australia or maybe the world ever mined called "Super Gene" at 96% or 99.6% pure silver (not sure which one it was),our ore body was a vertical ore body and the super gene sat on top of ore body like snow caps on the Swiss Alps,it looked like steel wool

[@thecomander466]

Ore body was over a kilometer in height when I last worked there but the heat at that depth is too intense and is going to prevent mine going any deeper even with the assistance of ventilation

[@davebeckley2584]

To get the gold wrapped in the shop towel drier without tearing it surround it with the dry part of the shop towel moving it to another dry area regularly and gently squeezing. The dry towel sucks nearly all the moisture out of the little dollop of gold. I find it ironic that after all the blasting, and crushers, conveyors, separators, and other mechanical equipment it still comes down to the same technology uses for hundreds of years - a pan. This was really cool except for the part so many want to see - blasting solid rock to tiny bits. It was still a cool video.

[@nickitoff9629]

I love this! I could watch you and those machines work all day long. And I do while I'm panning in the house. Great video!

[@antientdude1100]

great video, thanks for sharing.

[@lagniappe7303]

Excellent content! You and Jeff Williams are showing us what it takes to build gold mines from scratch. A lot of us prospectors are interested in hard rock mining, not panning or sluicing. Thank you for taking the time.

[@Stevesbe]

I watch both of them as well great channels. But I also realize it doesn't seem with it for the amount of work unless you get lucky

[@DR.DYE.420]

Dam freaking awesome

[@TheKoderius]

The best explanation of the process on the net. Thank you!

[@corso4547]

Very Nice 👍

[@Madnikodemus2]

Fascinating.

[@slickwillie9526]

One of the few end-to-end videos of this process. Thanks.

[@BillMulholland1]

Wish we could have saw the 💥.. 🍻👍

[@ericprater4017]

I love what you are doing! Great job, keep pumping out the vids!

[@jeffmatson2046]

That's awesome job I'm impressed. Excellent Job.

[@geoffc1694]

The romans discovered that they could drill-chisel deep holes into large boulders and rock faces, leave them to fill with water and freeze over winter. By spring the water freeze and expansion would cause cracks n fractures along entire rock faces theyd bored into. I dont know if thatd be any good to do across exposed veins on your claim if youre drilling to blast anyway at some point? But blowing things up is too much fun to spoil lol. Is that a epithermal quartz deposit along a fault with a secondary deposit i assume taken place after maybe an earthquake has shifted the original fault? I wonder if the golds displacing copper in the sulfides as the mineral rich fluids pass through the quartz deposition. Thats a nice button btw good result!

[@diplomaticcommunity4738]

Hey really like all yer gold rigs!!! Thanks for sharing this

[@croatiansensation6062]

Another great informative video by Jason. MBMM has excellent customer service and will take great care of you! Customer focused and their experience is world class.

[@TheMilwaukieDan]

Great upload. Can’t wait to see the mine development. Thankyou

[@rg3412]

Can’t believe you didn’t show the explosion. Fantastic work, no one else has documented this type of mining work that I could see on KZbin

[@angelogatia3583]

I love this job

[@williamjohnson5777]

Excellent video showing the promise of some hard rock mining. Thanks for sharing. Subbed!

[@VendettaProspecting]

Hey Jason! Good to see you getting back on some ground! Love your videos and information! Smelted my first gold button ever with your guidance! 31.5 grams brother!

[@MB-bt9km]

that's amazing, congrats!

[@teamsignal17]

That's awesome! Congrats!

[@tristenshumway6999]

When the hammer bounces like that it will Brad a steal, stick the Chuck and steal together and lose the water needle... I loved underground mining!! Thanks for sharing brother much love and respect from Colorado!!💪👊🍻

[@aaronkeeth651]

no.... get some water

[@muleskinnermining8661]

@@aaronkeeth651 , what are you doing these days Aaron?

[@thejll]

Can we see the boom next time, please?

[@freeroamer9146]

Fascinating! Nice job with the play by play! 👍

[@donaldking8288]

Interesting , hope you find many more places to get gold, thanks for video and best of luck 👍

[@paulskopic5844]

Very interesting and educational. Excellent video.

[@GSProspecting]

That's how to get it done fam. Gold squad out!!!

[@GuyMassicotte]

Nice work, thanks for thoses videos, love your tools, you are awesome !

[@Red9GearHead]

Sweet! Nice to see ya back. Love that shiny

[@bigdlawrence]

Lets watch some mining, to much other stuff the mining and finding gold is much more fun to watch.

[@richardoconnor7162]

Great to see back at it, was wonder if all was good, great videos keep them coming.

[@danielfmyers]

I like that you showed the process through the crushing machines 🙂

[@daz41262010]

these videos from start to finish are so good to watch :) full of useful information :) and great to see the button of gold at the end :) nice job Jason :)

[@scottdawson7805]

I always learn something new watching your approach to processing and refining. In reading through the other comments I noticed others wanting to see the bang go off, I missed seeing it too.

[@bonks4395]

Watching the bang go off is a risk to camera equipment and to the memory card. Shock waves will or may damage your gear, something most KZbin vids don't talk about

[@spannaspinna]

@@bonks4395 I work in mining and every single blast here is filmed doesn’t hurt the camera at all

[@joshuajackson6442]

Thank you, love your videos and hard work.

[@kevinsteve9453]

Excellent

[@robtathome]

Wow - those machines are clearly dialed in

[@adamkittok]

How does the gold leach out of the rock though? Its a metal and no heat was applied since it was formed.

[@teddyrosa8970]

Man I've watched for 25 mins I think I learned more than 100 hours of random hard rock video watching

[@CanadianDirt]

Great video, thanks for the introduction to using bismuth.

[@bryontharp5790]

Dude you got it down. Great camera work, and narrating 👍👍

[@bradleypidge7812]

First video I've seen of yours content really well put together thank you for the breakdown

[@petermckinnon7102]

Very interesting

[@glennplatvoet7111]

I see you going to old mines climbing up hills good for reminding me I'm not going to do anything like that . Today not for older kids like me.Good stuff it's educational knowing what to do see it cool thanks 👍

[@danielakers9711]

You definitely peeked my interest and earned a sub thank you for being so informative

[@UtahGold]

Wow! Keep us up to date on your progress. Great video.

[@sagarugolden3798]

Nice,, fans from Indonesia

[@richtyler8034]

That was the most informative and interesting video I have seen on the beginnings of a mine. I’ve never before seen anyone so and explain this before. Awesome job bringing us from the exploration to discovery blasting and explaining we’re and how to start the portal and going all the way through to the refining. Thank you so much

[@lincolnstovall9471]

Seems you would have drill above the portal and drill down to a solid face just to see if it’s workable minerals. Plus it opens a bit more for staging at the portal, then clear away all that over burden. Then you can work directions on the face. Just me put nose in it!! You no what your doing!!!👍👍👍

[@jessicawiley9592]

Sorry for writing you, just out of curiosity your page come up on my suggested friend lists so I was just wondering if I knew you from somewhere??

[@kencarbon2346]

Enjoyed watching your video

[@madshephard2boots157]

Question.. When you pull the Cupel out of the furnace how long do you have to wait before you can remove the button safely??

[@alastairwilliams9550]

Please make more of these videos! There so hard to find good videos of small scale hard rock!

[@davidcarella64]

Jason, Your channel is one of the "only" YT mineral prospecting subscriptions that present the industry knowledge/information in a logical/methodical understandable format that is thorough. As a fellow WC, Maple Falls neighbor, I’m hoping our mining paths cross/meet in the Future. Wishing you and your team much Success!

[@darcam]

I truly appreciate these mining videos

[@jfoss1974]

When water is short… have respirators ready. I wouldn’t risk any exposure.

[@weekendwarriorprospecting817]

That's an amazing setup. Cracking video 👍🏻⚒🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@jeffmoore3751]

Wow! For sure subscribed.

[@johnramirez5032]

Nice set up! You mudt have quite a large investment in processing tools!

[@jdeluisa]

Nice job!

[@dewardtaylor4192]

Thanks Jason great video glad to see you again

[@jasonhawks2225]

Nice! Almost $850 worth of gold. Works out to be close to $1100/ton ... Very impressive. Great job.

[@davidtimo429]

That is the sweetest setup ever! Subscribed!

[@MB-bt9km]

Love these videos! It's so cool to see a mining operation this up close and personal, thanks for showing the inside of the operation, it's so interesting

[@Wedget]

Love the small size of your operation and man the hard work involved, keep it up brother!!

[@Porty1119]

Adding bismuth to oxidize it? That's certainly interesting, makes sense for free-milling ores. Our ore has enough sulfides to supply its own lead for cupellation, though a respirator is advisable!

[@robertsnyder5149]

The terrain lookslike you are up the Skagit or Baker river?

[@hardrockuniversity7283]

Nicely done video. Decent grade for that width. Not Bonanza grade, but probably doable.

[@mbmmllc]

Yeah, I'm a small show so low overhead, but that also means I can't make a lot of tonnage either :)

[@rdaw33]

Here's hoping that the vein gets even richer as you get into the hill!!!!

[@johnramirez5032]

Thats a lot of hard work!

[@GrooberNedJardine]

Great stuff Jason , that's from go too woe in one video , lol , awesome , can't wait till the next installment , cheers .

[@rljpdx]

great video. i enjoyed watching the whole process from vein ore (?) to final gold button. pretty cool. this video puts in perspective what it takes to get gold; not just some old timer finding huge nuggets in the river (which is just as good if not better heheh) but i like how you show the tens of thousands of dollars worth equipment you need just to make that little button. now i realize there's no such thing as little gold but still cool.

[@mrglasecki]

Kool operation 😎

[@davidbixler6532]

Clean water would help with your recovery

[@bobcatman3844]

Alway enjoy your video from Western Australia

[@TrevsOutbackandGoldAdventures]

Absolutely bloody brilliant!.This is the second video of yours I have watched and you now have a new student and avid subsscriber.Well done all round.

[@jeremykastrup6907]

So what you saying is there is gold in them thar hills !!!!

[@firefox2716]

Jason that's a nice large quartz vein, Good chance you will discover large nuggets at some point...Great Work

[@scotturquhart4311]

I can't believe you guy didn't show us how you load the holes, and I really can't believe you didn't film the blast!

[@stanburton6224]

I'm sure youtube would have objected to that.

[@scotturquhart4311]

@@stanburton6224 Naw... several miners on KZbin film their blasting...

[@Pye422]

There was probably no where within safe distance to prevent damage to the camera.

[@gwolfeman]

Would love to see more details on processing the concentrates, can’t wait to see what you find further in…

[@johnramirez5032]

Love your show and appreciate you mentioning that dangers like silica dust.

[@AlanSlyter]

Great video

[@ProspectorTripp]

Nice work Jason Thanks ✌️PT

[@gingerdude94]

Always look forward to these video's👍

[@DR_SOLO]

Cool video from the earth to the gold buttons birth. 🇺🇲🙏❤♻️🌎☮💯

[@earitfx]

I like your camera work. Thanks

[@jimwednt1229]

Awesome dude! I want to get into mining and prospecting .

[@SilverScorpion]

Cool video

[@GoldfieldsGoose]

That's Just Impressive

[@jamesbailey452]

Good info on preheating cupel

[@outdoorloser4340]

Another great video! 👍

[@LUTHERJ304]

Look like Parker off gold rush

[@dynomania]

Small scale mining without using any nasty chemical's. Way to go 👍

[@wayneplaza9007]

I wonder how much it cost to set up the processing plant

[@JimmHprospecting]

He owns the company that makes the whole processing equipment. They have a nice website with prices