How To Find Gold

Part two of How To Find Gold series. In this video Jason continues working with the rich gold ore he prospected from his new gold vein. First taking the rich gold quartz ore it is crushed through a jaw crusher and then Jason looks for gold in quartz samples. The remaining ore is ground to dust through a vibrating ball mill and then panned and run on a shaker table. The gold is removed from the final gold concentrates pannings and smelted down to recover a pure precious metal bead. By knowing the starting weight of the ore and the final weight of the gold a calculation is made for how much gold there is in a ton of rock.
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[@mbmmllc]

Hi Everyone. Lots of people have asked about the wood in the background in a few of the shots. Check out my other channel here for all my wood/logging projects: kzbin.info/door/TdPTXTKNC0BzFK9n1SmbbQ

[@funkdubayous]

really interesting video. thank you

[@xwang4483]

hello

[@andrewgivens5070]

I saw that thats pretty cool. Make me a small shaker table with the wood 😜

[@punkinhaidmartin]

What do you think about using shapes like M&M balls, or equilateral pyramids, or large and small balls at once?

[@outdoorloser4340]

What a great series! Loved seeing you get the ore straight from the source.

[@StratRider]

Since you are taking a separate step of searching the quartz pebbles - I seriously would have done that on a wood table then used a metal detector and a pinpointer. Always love your new videos - seem to learn something every time. Thanks.

[@CharlesCherryWatercolors]

I thought the same thing.

[@Only1English]

Wish I lived near you. I'd love to have a good friend like you. Super smart and know how to make value from nature while still preserving nature. Jason your a good person man.

[@johnpappe3289]

This guy is a no-nonsense hard worker. My kind of people.

[@richardrobertson1331]

Jason, just a couple of observations. 1. A mix of sizes of balls will eliminate your rounded stones. 2. Almost no iron staining in your original samples so I suspect all your metal filings picked up by the magnet were parts of the tube wall and balls. 3. Visible gold in quartz is far more valuable as jewelry than as gold dust. 4. High grading (selecting promising rock) destroys any ounces per ton consideration of the mine, itself. I always enjoy your tenacity. Keep up the good work.

[@twisttwister8254]

You are one strong and hard working dude..

[@homesteadingusa]

Very Interesting and fun to watch. You did a fine job in description and your knowledge kept my wife and I following along like a tutorial. Thanks for sharing your journey and we look forward to more of your explorations in hopes of you hitting the mother load. Peace

[@michaelleighton3130]

Love this show ! Did this stuff in Baker Ca.

[@EdwardSiame-md6rl]

Hi Jason ,thank you for the informative vedeos I personally really learn alot .

[@douglasramsey1303]

I saw more gold right there in a piece right next to the rock that had gold in it! I wouldn't have given up so easy.. those small rocks needed another go thru of a hammer mill and ran thru your water shaker table to see what you found! 😉

[@EddieSchirmer]

haha, looking through piles of rock is something ive been doing for years now. (recently with a bit of sapphire ore out of Montana, Yogo dyke, and some diamondiferous lamproite form Arkansas. i found over 150 sapphires in the boxes of ore i bought, one was found in my 1/4 inch screen while wet sifting haha. i kept all the silt that the material broke up and or polished off the material while using my rock tumbler to break it all up. pretty epic volume of sapphires form 5 boxes of ore for $99 each haha. i also have over 150 yards worth of Slate that i am sorting by size, by hand, and or via a 3/4 expanded metal mesh i put o a frame that fit over my tractor bucket i coudl just shovel right in to soft out the small sizes and the dirt form my pile. still got a huge volume to go through haha, but it works great. its a heck of a process, but i find some nice samples in my pile for my sample collection, but the stone is being used to build slate terraces using steel and concrete for structure. got many more similar projects to go for my property haha. but i think by there end, i will have handled every single stone of the pile. how ever many Millions there are, from 200 pound slabs, to half inch grains or less lol...

[@andrewvermeire6125]

Some steel buckyballs, instead of spheres, in that vibrating mill may give you a more consistent break down.

[@oveidasinclair982]

So you're basically getting 1 dollar a pound for going up that mountain, hiking down 2000 pounds of rock, spending the next entire day extracting the gold from the rock. Then you have to take into account you equipment costs, wear and tear, up keep. I don't know Jason, I think fry cook at the local McDonalds is still a bit more profitable and less risky occupation, but I did enjoy watching the two video's on this operation.

[@BackyardProspector]

Looks like some valuable samples from your prospecting location. Hopefully more comes from it. Thanks!

[@matthewcauthorn9731]

Thanks Jason for the show,great work.

[@richardservatius5405]

try adding 1/3 size steel balls to the vibrating crusher first, then the bigger size on top. might eliminate the bigger rocks?

[@mikecollins8763]

Research cupellation losses using bismuth. The loss can be significant depending on the alloy composition of the gold

[@antonio690069]

Love to see the tube mill in more details

[@Blackwood_gold]

Jason any chance on the next video can you show us how you wipe down / clean the table after the run??

[@robinwells8879]

I hadn’t fully realised how much energy is involved in extracting gold much the same as bitcoin mining as I understand. I admire the streamlining of the process to minimise this energy consumption and improve the economics. I have a place in Scotland where I am keen to experiment with the knowledge that you have given me. I know a location from a geologist that stayed with us way back in the eighties.

[@abasnordine382]

greetings, i am your fan. the ball mill works well when is rotaty, not when shake. you can build a small device where the drum turns.

[@brentsmith981]

I think the larger rocks that remain in the ball mill are getting stuck in the voids between the balls in the bottom layer..showing that they are basically locked in and inert. The solution might be to install the screen on the bottom. Discharging the concentrate and freeing up space so the balls can more effectively move

[@dewardtaylor4192]

Great video Jason thanks

[@JustSterugglin]

Where do you guys buy your hats? I picked up one of those in Pulbridge Montana. It’s my favorite hat. I’d love to find a few more. Maybe a MBMM version?

[@stoplieing2530]

thanks for all your effort great video

[@MartinD9999]

Excellent video!

[@maverickbryan7579]

THANK YOU for educating me, but what WAS the exact weight of the bead.

[@rosewhite---]

the gold grains got into the solid quartz when both were liquid during The Flood 4,370 years ago. as some gold obviously became locked in the quartz when teh quartz precipitated out and solidified into cracked rock wheer you find it today. It logically follows that much more gold would flow out in the Flood's hot water and go flowing downhill and settle out in the flood sedimenst in teh valleys. Now you have found a quartz vein with gold you need to do some drilling in thde valley bottom to check core samples that actually might be many hundreds of feet deep. South African mines go down a mile or so ...

[@spudnikholyghostroller7314]

It's said that when you can see gold in the quartz it is visible only when it is more an ounce per yard.

[@magicone9327]

There is going to be space between any balls as they come into full contact with each other that can allow material to settle into those open spaces and not be crushed.

[@robtathome]

Great video Jason!

[@victorjubinville5720]

You may need some smaller steel balls, a variety of sizes or just run it thru a sive

[@Baronstone]

Please tell me you filed a claim on that entire area and if you didn't, please tell me where it is so I can go process that deposit????

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Given how much individual inspection and prospecting is needed to get ore with that much gold, is that assay very meaningful?

[@daleross2771]

What do you do with the powder cristals? Can you melt it?

[@mikehartman5326]

Could you use lead instead of the bismuth. Also it would be interesting to see a full ore melt in a huge crucible.

[@ContrarianExpatriate]

Now I understand why gold is so expensive!

[@grayem76]

I have a few questions what happened to the silver lead you were going to show us how to separate and other question is once you qupell can you recover the lead or bismuth back to reuse

[@xenaguy01]

He has a video on recovering lead from used cupels.

[@S13402]

I bet the rocks that are hard to turn into powder have the most gold and maybe other things,, hard areas of a rock are where most metals are,, hard to break,, as for machines; a big chain mill (50 cm diameter) will turn all that bucket into fine powder in less than a minute, saving time and effort. Anyway,, Jason, such videos are highly enjoying … best wishes 👍👍

[@stephenpaul6839]

I'm watching your gold videos and I'm all set to go gold panning but at 1 curious question. What is the number on your palm of your hand? I assume it must be important if you wrote it down on your hand while you are crushing stones

[@EarthenExplorer]

I never knew how much work it was to process gold. Sheesh

[@AUMINER1]

excellent video Jason :)

[@arthurc1971]

Turn the reverb off

[@BullProspecting]

Hello Jason! Just wondering if you guys sell a small shaker table?

[@mbmmllc]

Yes we do. We have a 2x4 shaker table. Please send us an email at [e-mail] thanks

[@BullProspecting]

@@mbmmllc Thank you sooo much! I have been a subscriber of your channel for many years! Every morning when I am having coffee I watch you and a few others! Love your channel bro! As for equipment I almost have everything I need to start production! Last thing left for me to buy or make is a jaw crusher & shaker table! After I get these I can start production and then save up to purchase that nice turn key system you guys got! Man that baby is sweet😃😃😃! You guys should make MBMM calendars! That Turn key system could be the center fold!😍😍lol I'm serious! That would be the bees knees bro! Each month can be a different piece of equipment! I would buy one right now!💯 I'm heading over to check your store out now! Thank you again and keep up the Great Work Brother!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🇺🇸

[@andrewgivens5070]

Id like a small and affordable shaker table

[@rosewhite---]

nice slab wood in back...

[@jonathansonnier3078]

It’s probably like when u are mashing up anything like say potato’s. Some get stuck up and away so they DOBT get smashed like the rest. Probably the same principle on that ball mill material finds its way to an area wher it gets stuck and without your intervention. It can’t get smashed You would probably need that tube to tumble like a rock polisher does to fix that. So if it shook like it already does and constantly tumbled or spun slowly so the material would fall out of those areas and gets properly crushed by the steel balls

[@whogivemethishand]

Did you go to welding college 1990?

[@SjMk1.]

Wouldn't you be better off just panning for it from steams/rivers/beaches?

[@rocketman13f51]

Is two ounces per ton a profitable process with all of the overhead costs?

[@xenaguy01]

One ounce per ton can be profitable, depending on operating costs. Remember, an ounce of gold is worth $1635 at today's gold prices. With fairly minimal equipment (one loader, one dozer, two trucks, a one ton per hour system like in Jason's videos (crusher, hopper, hammer mill, shaker table), a team of 10 miners can process easily six tons of ore per day. That's nearly $10,000 per working day. If 50% of the total take goes to the ownership, that leaves $500/day for each worker. Worth it?

[@richardscarlett7942]

come on super genius. The rocks look to be the same size as the spacing in between the steel balls. Mystery solved heheh

[@filiplaskovski9993]

Cool Channel dude

[@garyjohnson1757]

That was cool

[@phoule76]

rated VG!

[@vivianbond7449]

Would gold glow in the dark with a torch on it

[@HUNTINGNT375]

Use a pin pointer

[@ziadahmad2108]

How many times did he say stuff

[@CharlesCherryWatercolors]

56 grams per ton is incredible, if you can mine it affordably.

[@jonathonpigott564]

10:05 going balls deep!

[@samirmoslim]

احسنت يا سيد عمل جيد

[@philmoorehouse8064]

Complete novice question, could you not just melt the gold itself?

[@curlydave7689]

Jason: I would be very wary of the 56 grams/ton analysis. Not because you did anything wrong or because of a math error, but because when I watched the previous video, you only took the best-looking samples back down the mountain with you. Those samples undoubtedly were 56g/ton, but the vein as a whole is unknown and probably a lot lower. 60 years ago when I took analytical chemistry about half the course was spent on sampling. Great videos by the way.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

That's exactly what I was thinking. This isn't a random sample so to speak.

[@user-lb8do4ew6k]

Isn't that kind of a wash? Sure, it was the best-looking samples, but they also came from a discarded tailings heap.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

@@user-lb8do4ew6k I thought he knocked the samples directly from a formation in the side of the mountain.

[@cyborgar15]

@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 He did..

[@user-lb8do4ew6k]

@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 yeap, you're right. My bad.. I thought he was hoping those surface samples would be roughly representative of the veins underground.

[@willgriffin3490]

Outstanding way to start my morning with a cup of coffee and mbmm and Jason. Great content!

[@lordeverybody872]

Thats how I ended my day!

[@danddiversified8477]

Heck yeah

[@barthanes1]

You need to weld those nuts on the back of the flange of your tube mill. So you don't have to use two tools to remove the bolts.

[@96dragonhunter]

Or just thread the thing. then you have no need for nuts.

[@derekclement7323]

You definitely have the best videos in explaining things best and showing how things work best ...

[@loyalkuhn5778]

I would expect a better result from the tube mill could be obtained by using mixed size media (3", 2.5", 2", 1.5", and/or 1"). That would allow the smaller media to fit the gaps inherent with the larger media and result in a more uniform result from the crushing. Also, loading your mill with about 25% solids you get better life from the media and more uniform crushing. Here is a good rule of thumb: The starting point for ball mill media and solids charging generally starts as follows: * 50% media charge * Assuming 26% void space between spherical balls (non-spherical, irregularly shaped and mixed-size media will increase or decrease the free space) * 50% x 26% = 13% free space * Add to this another 10%-15% above the ball charge for total of 23% to 25% product loading Most solids will decrease in volume as the particle size is reduced, so you may have to add more solids and check the solids volume again after a few hours. Once the quantity is finally determined, you can simply load the mill with the total amount of solids during the initial mill charging.

[@johnramirez5032]

Jason you are awesome . Hope you find some free gold too. 2 oz per ton is a great find ! You seem to have a huge amount of equipment. Have you any idea how much momey you have invested? I know you have to pay for electricity also. How much per ton does it take money wise? Operating costs. Plus wear and tare? Alot to figure out i know. As a small operation i assume you have to consider the costs. I assume you are doing well with the value of 2oz per ton. It must take some time to process a ton of ore also. Any idea of how long it takes to process a ton of ore? What do you do with your waste rock? There are tons of people in California who dont like miners. They say there mining messes with drinking water. I assume you dont have those regulations that plauge hard rock gold miners in California.

[@MartinD9999]

@Loyal Yeah you’re right. He needs different sized balls to fill in the gaps created by the large balls and keep missing the pebbles that make it through.

[@CabinOnTheWater]

These videos gives one an appreciation of just how much work it takes to produce an ounce of gold. Not as easy as it sounds.

[@siriusleigh24]

Or two ounces

[@beckyelliott2871]

Run a pin-pointer or larger metal detector over the table of crushed rocks and you will get a quicker find of any gold. Use your processing time wiser with the right tools!

[@mazzg1966]

Thanks for the video....seems like an awful lot of energy goes into making these videos for us to witness. thank you for doing what you do we appreciate it!

[@ja5onl6]

This is the morning content I needed. Love the channel and the knowledge shared. Waiting for more of your mine videos.

[@nelsonx5326]

That was very interesting. Now I know why gold is so valuable. Hauling a ton of rocks down a mountain is just the beginning. Wait, climbing the mountain to see if there is gold is the beginning. Wait, killing the crazy old guy to get his map is the beginning.

[@ronaldharvey4629]

That slab of quartz with the specks of gold would sell in rock shops in Colorado for about $200.00 , if the gold was confirmed.

[@utahavalanch]

Great video. Like getting to see the total process. I do something similar when spreading on the table but I use my little Falcon MD20 metal detector and it finds those very small pieces quite easily. Great work.👍

[@G4RR3TTJ]

Did the iron deposit trip the sensor?

[@utahavalanch]

@@G4RR3TTJ yes they did. However on the Falcon, they read exactly opposite of what the gold does so it’s easy to tell them apart.

[@johnsaucerhunter]

Hey Jason, great presentation of what one goes through to find those AU 'values'. And yet the 'peanut gallery' offers their suggestions (tho most have probably never milled any ore at all). I'd like to know what's the smallest viable 'vibrating mill' that could be constructed for a very small operation? So.. I'm off to your site with my query. Thanks for a great video!

[@HUNTINGNT375]

I’m a concrete tester you’re giving me flashbacks of what I do every day

[@waynelacroix8870]

You have the coolest job in the world! I would love to do this for a living!

[@d.t.4523]

Go to his website and apply for a job! 👍

[@QuartzCowboy]

I think you should try making your Mill balls like 20 sided dice, the big rocks are making their way though the shape of the spheres!

[@normdoty]

there are still rocks because you need more time for the crusher todo its work. and btw it is still considered a ball mill weather it rotates or vibrates. put a small mesh screen on 1 end only about 20% so you can collect the dust and add more material ..

[@jaymortensen642]

Cool video I love the smelting explanation , I wish I was not so old and broken down or I would be out banging rocks

[@treborupp]

Great Video, Nice Slabs of Wood,

[@mbmmllc]

Check out my other channel here for all my wood/logging projects: kzbin.info/door/TdPTXTKNC0BzFK9n1SmbbQ

[@pendopendo7166]

This is an awesome video, so much in it. Your time and knowledge is invaluable. Why you don’t have more views and comments is strange.

[@micphoenix8200]

Been hanging for this follow up vid. Cheers Jason for taking the time to put this together.

[@bobcansee]

Love watching and listening to your knowledge. Thanks for doing what you do!

[@colleenvankesteren563]

can I have that we are buying a house and that could help

[@autotek7930]

The fine powder protects the smaller rocks once the ratio gets to a certain point. I think your idea of letting the talcum powder size stuff flow out will solve that problem

[@ziomkris1]

Hi! I'm here thanks to Ghost Town Living. I decided to look on your channel and first thing that I saw was searching for gold... that's EPIC! I love that kind of stuff, and I really enjoyed watching both parts of finding and melting it. That gold piece in quartz looked very cool, if I was there I would just put that quartz with gold on my shelf :D Few weeks ago there was my "debut" in finding some small quartz crystals here in Poland, nothing spectacular but I was very happy with all small thing that I was able to find. Greetings!

[@johnosman8971]

I think, that perhaps, keeping the sawn slabs might sell really good at the flea market/holiday craft shows type of thing, …

[@butziporsche8646]

Hey Jason, you have some nice wood slabs behind you there buddy.

[@mbmmllc]

Check out my other channel here for all my wood/logging projects: kzbin.info/door/TdPTXTKNC0BzFK9n1SmbbQ

[@UtahGold]

Nice! Looks like you got yourself a profitable mine location there! Thanks for the video.

[@josephsmith9374]

Your videos are very enlightening. Thank you for all the great information and tutorials on hard rock mining! 👏🙏👊⛏⛏

[@gregsecord625]

This is the first of your videos that I have watched. Very interesting and well explained. Thanks!!!

[@julie79au]

That was very interesting! Great video, very informative and just what I am looking into right now! Thanks for the awesome content!

[@peterwiley4383]

Thanks for the tour. Super interesting and very informative. Your setup is awesome.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

I like the phone# you wrote on your hand @17:37 lol

[@orsud1890]

Salut mon ami très bonne vidéo du début jusqu’à la fin bravo bonne continuation

[@sanfranciscobay]

So much effort, time and energy required to process so much material and then arrive at such a small amount of Gold. If it pays out in profit at the end, I guess it's worth it.

[@deeeeeeps]

Wow that was a lot of work for 3/4 of a gram. Not to mention hanging on a cliff side, smacking your hand with a sledge, sitting in rain. I understand you are just exploring but imagine what the gold price would have to be if it had to be done manually like this.

[@chrisellertson3352]

Thanks for all your efforts and teaching. Learning a great deal. We are all on edge these days but you are actually there in some videos and right at it! Keep it real in an unreal world

[@StirlingLighthouse]

Lazy rainy Sunday... Fresh coffee... MBMM video! Sweet! Thank you Jason 👍

[@999DusanGoldrecovery]

Wow that mill is hungry!

[@rockbutcher]

Given that the table is more efficient than panning and can handle more throughput, why bother with panning? What's the point of a ball mill that doesn't turn? Angle iron lifter bars and a rubber lining to prolong the life of the tube will prove far more effective. That's why you get fines and coarse after only an hour.