Hard Rock Gold Mining With Jason Part 2

[@icebluecuda1]

fun getting both perspectives from MO and MBMM.

[@mobiledoj]

Thanks Harry for putting into perspective the hard work that goes on. I wanted to show your channel some love instead of everything going to Jason 😂. The saga goes on and it’s fun watching!

[@RangieNZ]

It feels like MO brings all the safety stuff and MBMM brings the adventure. Together, it's an amazing story. :)

[@laurahaaima1436]

Freakin love these series.. Learning so much..

[@sfbfriend]

Love watching both perspectives, thank you Harry

[@RICDirector]

Really loving having both of you filming, as youve different viewpoints and emphases. Thank you!!!

[@auMr.Pocket]

Thank you, Harry, you alone with your videos have convinced me to devote all my gold prospecting to eluvial and alluvial gold deposits. God Bless you and your Hard Rock miner buddy's, Prayers for your safety every day.🙏👷

[@wes11bravo]

I was an English Writing major but reluctantly took a geology class. I ended up loving it and took two more. These classes began a low key obsession that has lasted decades, to the point where I can absolutely see myself starting a second career in mining someday. These videos are enthralling - thanks!

[@Patvk8]

You guys are amazing workers! The GOATS of the muck piles 🤯 Thanks for bringing us with you on your most awesome adventures 🤓

[@Richard-g3q]

Loving the two different perspectives from both channels..

[@harvesteasternedge]

Thanks !! It’s really great to see all this footage. I like seeing all the work you and MBMM did, but to see it from a different angle. Thanks !!

[@mineoperator]

More Comin.

[@donaldfitzgerald8950]

OK Harry, I just mentioned on Jason's closing up the mine about that beautiful piece of ore on the console, the fact being it should be a hood ordiment! Orediment!Lol! You and Jason are a great team, we, along with Jason appreciate you teaming up together and taking us along... Keep it happening ⚒️⛏️⚖️💪👍🤠

[@orophilia]

I get a real sense for what it’s like being there. I think the filming is good. It catches the feeling of being a miner. A difficult job even for young men.

[@HarryMO81]

Thankyou

[@OGRocker1]

Thankz Harry... Take care. ... ⛏⚒⛏

[@JayHobson1]

For that hump Jason was working on, would some of Dan Hurd's feathering wedges work on that?

[@marcozwarionato3509]

thats for splitting it when it has fallen down may be

[@chrisfleming701]

@@marcozwarionato3509 that’s what Dan uses them for all the time. That’s the main tool Dan uses to get his ocean picture stone out of the ground.

[@RICDirector]

Sure should. Was wondering why they werent using that method on tbe escapeway rocks, too....

[@bryanbradford2742]

Great to see the other perspective Harry. Glad you guys are sticking with it through the tough times 🙏🏻💪🏼😉

[@phillipswain4942]

Looks like a whole lotta hard work and rewarding we hope

[@etarheel1]

Love it thanks for sharing the experience !

[@catmanx]

Jason's videos are great, but you also show details he does not. The combo makes a great series. Thank You for the extra effort to video and show us.

[@scuss2]

Mine Operator University, and Harry's videos could be used for learning. There is so many things to do before and after a blast. Professor Harry is doing great.

[@scuss2]

Harry, your videos are very detailed on all the things you have to do before and after blasting. 05:13 to 05:30 the energy drink wore off and I thought I heard the chipmunks talking, lol! 09:21 Let the Miner show us how easy this is. 22:42 I did that to my Crescent wrench and now it won't open all the way, and it was made in the USA. I could find a lot of uses from that waste rock. A person has to have a creative mind to think of the uses it can do. The finer stuff is good to put on the road to and from the mine. If I had to be hunched over moving bags, I would invest in a $600.00 Battery powered wheelbarrow. I'm sure creative minds could buy 2 and make one a flatbed. The operator stands behind or buy the fancy model that you the tired miner can sit on. No emissions. I saw a 60 volt that was impressive. Some sites will show a video of the machine at work. Cash in some of that gold and work smarter not harder. You could rupture a disc in your spine lifting hunched over then the rest of your life after a fusion is pure hell. Be aware of your body mechanics and practice proper lifting. Can't you blast so that you can stand up in your man cave? Can you blast in a pyramid shape? Point at the top and fat at the bottom so you could stand up straight and chase your vein where you need too. Would that work?

[@ferdinandoesposito8088]

For a moment I genuinely thought you had a dog in the mine. Love the MO perspective!

[@captaincrunch5878]

Make Book ends and slabs about 1.5 inches thick 8 to 10 inches round or rectangle for hot pans on the dinner table.. Id love 2 of them if the price is right...

[@oldduffergolf]

I love your videos. Between MO or MBMM the storyline is awesome. I will mention this again. Both you and Jason need a much stronger in lumens flash light. The headlamps for distance video don't cut it. His Milwaukee lamp is good for background lighting. Best wishes. Mike

[@paultodd3497]

love this

[@halfwayfarmsandoutdoors3550]

I think I’d do tamping before connecting all the holes up in case something happened and only one hole would go off instead of all.

[@mineoperator]

The shock tube can not be initiated by accidentally crushing it.

[@RICDirector]

Harry, but why DO you tamp after hooking up? Was wondering that, and thinking you guys did other way round before?

[@UncleBildo]

Always interesting and educational. 30 years ago, I'd have popped over the mountains and be bugging you guys to come help ya. I never avoided labor, especially if I could learn some stuff in the process. Now, when's Jason's next vid hitting? heh heh heh I'm ready for it.

[@stupidminotaur9735]

suggested 31:49 mine/micro blasters are pretty good/easy/cheap to use them. been awhile since i last saw pricing but i think pricing was 5 bucks for 100, just drill small hole put them in and then put another rock ontop of them. if they are legal

[@thestickflicker]

This is my favorite couch sport

[@jamespowell7302]

Lovin the Canadian seat there MO ! (the Home Hardware bucket...)

[@billoc1255]

Rock on !

[@trevorwhat]

Really like the way you put this one together. Great content aside, the style gives a sort of third person perspective, as if we were there, too. In the background. Something like that. 🇺🇸

[@mineoperator]

Thank you, the feedback is nice to see.

[@ralphmiller9503]

Subscribed

[@mineoperator]

Welcome to MineOperator Ralph!

[@ramblin_wreck]

Great video Harry but it sure seems like a heck of a lot of work for minimum wage.

[@ManMountainMetals]

So Jason is such a hard a$$ that he only pays minimum wage? Made like 40k in eBay sales last season if my math is anywhere close to right. Where did you get your information from? Was it your butt?

[@mineoperator]

The pay is good, get OT, food, gas covered. The knowledge I gained is more valuable to me than money.

[@wes11bravo]

​@@mineoperator- I'm just going to take a wild guess here and assume that there is no need for a gym membership!

[@ramblin_wreck]

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean minimum wage literally. It just seems like a lot of labor, danger, and long days for such a small amount of gold. However, I do agree that the knowledge gained is invaluable.

[@darryckrobinson1303]

It would be cool if we could watch a "Go Pro detonation cam" set up in a safe place , if possible.

[@scuss2]

A trail camera is a lot cheaper. Maybe enclose the camera in a thick metal box. Does anybody have cheap blast proof camera?

[@RangieNZ]

I would think visibility would just immediately disappear, probably for hours.

[@chrisfleming701]

Did I hear a dog bark @ 12:11 or was that a ghost too?

[@mineoperator]

We have a foul mouth and this is a way bleep it.

[@chrisfleming701]

@ that’s awesome! I’m a farmer, I have one too.😂

[@brentsmith981]

Ok gotcha.

[@kensmith8832]

Did they train you in the shockwave frequencies for breaking soft and hard rock? This is the timing of the shots to break the rock into a given size. There is a science behind this. If you have clay in your area, this comes in handy to stop the water flow in your drilled holes. It looks like you have enough training to have this process worked down to a science.

[@TrumpedUp888]

You should add the theme song from "The Bionic Man", when you were scaling at fast play speed😂 Enjoying the footage. Be safe, Brothers.

[@SpecialDeFX]

That's encroaching on Jeff Williams gig! lol

[@TrumpedUp888]

@SpecialDeFX 🤣

[@Ratbait9]

I've seen a lot of fine gold in this mine. After a blast and washdown is there any way to recover gold off the floor?

[@Dan_Hall]

Where do you get the paper tubes you use to make your "stemming sausages"?

[@mineoperator]

I use a tube or pipe 1/8" diameter smaller than the drill hole and roll up very thin paper (1'x1') and put a small strip of thin masking tape.

[@scuss2]

Harry was asked this question in the video and In the paint section and where the masking tape isle is located there are paper tape rolls in various widths. Thin but workable brown paper rolls. Masking tape is applied to one end of the paper roll and the contraption is used to mask off areas you don't want to get paint on that surface. Blue masking tape can be used for easy removal but I always use regular masking tape. They are fun to use and give excellent results.

[@EastBayFlipper]

Is that a mucking scoop I'm seeing 👀 at 31:34 😮

[@mineoperator]

That is a slusher, although small may see it again if we are slick enough.

[@EastBayFlipper]

@mineoperator mega-cool😎👍

[@mineoperator]

Next year the GoPro will get mounted on it and get a front row seat of the Slusher bucket.

[@wtf1234ification]

Just a question but could expanding spray foam be used as stemming instead of gravel?

[@mineoperator]

Yes, I know of mines that do use spray foam but there there will be foam turds everywhere, its expensive, MSHA will make us keep an SDS on it, more paperwork hell. 3/8" minus stemming is almost free, and easy to make.

[@markg454]

I'm curious why you use headlamps rather than room lights? Thanks for the great adventures.

[@mineoperator]

We don't have electricity in the mine, and very limited ability to charge our Milwaukee batteries. These headlights last 10 hours from 2-3 hours of charging

[@wrxs1781]

Have you processed any of the high grade ore?

[@MCW1955]

How’s the clarifying tank? Is it operating? It’s a fascinating piece of equipment.

[@mineoperator]

Stand by, MO got that done, video pending.

[@brentsmith981]

I'm curious how much gold do you think is being discarded as waste and how do you determine it is waste

[@mineoperator]

The old timers blasted the waste and ore and ran it all in a production mill as we would. The issue is the gold came from a secondary intrusion and the standard quartz is too low grade without the Telluride/gold pay streak. If you build a mill at this mine, expect to build it every year as the snow will wipe the Mt. clean every year. If you trucked in a mill you would not make enough money to pay for the dual operation. At a poor boy scale you can make money as this mine is doing at our scale.

[@lotharschiese8559]

Stemming, make some clay sausages for best effect, breakage.

[@JayC-kj7ls]

you,guy,,need,,light!!

[@frankyensan]

Can the drill be flipped over for a left handed person? Standing to the left would be for a right handed drill operator.

[@mineoperator]

I don't know, but the drill rotation would have to switch as the right side of the drill is in the bite.

[@frankyensan]

@ I understand it’s the rotational bite that gets you. I would just have to learn to do wrong handed like almost every tool out there. I wouldn’t mind drilling some holes

[@chriss8206]

Jason, how do you separate the ore from the muck. You guys really need to look at alternative ways to move your waist. Rock electric operated vehicles are cheap and easy to make. D I y these days look at a georgia buggy

[@mineoperator]

We split shoot the ore. We drill and blast the ore, muck that. Then drill and blast the waste. A tiny bit of hand sorting but not much. We will have a slusher next season.

[@chriss8206]

@mineoperator you guys really should look into some electric. DIY machines to do some of the heavy lifting for you? Electric motors and electric carts are very affordable. These days Also, conveyor systems might be worth looking into d. IY electric conveyor systems if possible? I know you guys are getting the gold but I hate to see you breaking your backs. Looks like very hard work.

[@scuss2]

@@chriss8206 I have a fused spine from stooping and lifting and ruptured 2 discs. 1 in each direction. When I was young and got excited over something fun and profitable to do is when the unexpected happened.

[@richardservatius5405]

on Gold rush whitewater they use these blasting devices to crack open big rocks. why not use them to bust the big rocks that are in your way?

[@mineoperator]

Rock blasters are awesome.

[@Mrbfgray]

I get a BS ad about "ear ringing". Seemed appropriate but I get that annoying ad all the time.

[@MickNailZ]

Does jason have cats?

[@HarryMO81]

I don't know

[@MickNailZ]

@ the buckets you use are liter. Thanks. Love the content. Keep it up!!!!!

[@HarryMO81]

@@MickNailZ yeah I have cats, these buckets are awesome for keeping things dry.

[@RectalRooter]

I don't understand why you 2 are having such a hard time blasting. Last winter I was drilling 9 holes - 4.8 inches deep and filling them with 1 M80 fireworks each. I was driving the shaft - 6-6.26 feet tall X 5 feet wide X 7 feet deep. I was able to remove 11 Tons of ore in 5 days. I thank Jason Garber allowing us channel subscribers to work his mine during the 2023 winter off season. I'm still processing the ore I extracted, but I'm already smelted almost 1 pound of gold. Jason has told the subscribers he plans to allow us access to the mine's 2024 winter off season. That man is a true Saint.

[@robmarshall5100]

If you ain't getting four to five ounces of tan here wasting your time but it's cool to watch you guys blow things up

[@mineoperator]

I would love to work a 4-5 oz't vein!

[@wsjessee68]

Nice operation! 💰⚒🧽