How To Identify Gold In Rocks

In this video we learn about finding and identifying gold in quartz vein gold ore. Jason takes us on a journey into the world of mineral identification and gold prospecting, to uncover the hidden treasures within quartz. Watch as Jason cuts the gold quartz vein ore into slabs, revealing its textures and other sulfide minerals. With the aid of a microscope, he examines the freshly cut surfaces, searching for the presence of free gold and other minerals associated with gold.
Learn valuable tips and techniques as Jason shares his knowledge on how to identify and find free gold in quartz and other rich gold ores. Discover the telltale signs and characteristics that can guide you in your own gold prospecting adventures. Unlock the secrets of gold identification and indulge in the excitement of prospecting with us. Join our quest to uncover nature's golden treasures and expand your understanding of gold-bearing quartz veins.
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Keywords: Gold quartz vein ore, Cutting slabs, Mineral identification, Free gold in quartz, Gold prospecting, Rock saw, Microscopic examination, Identifying gold ores, Gold-bearing quartz, Gold prospecting techniques.
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[@jasonhowarth6789]

I have an 8" slab saw and cabbing machine combo. I also use mineral oil as a lubricant. I find that using a blue huck cotton rag works great to get the majority of the oil off. If you have several different rags, you use the one with the most oil first, then another. Also. You can reuse the mineral oil. You just drain your saw well into a container and let it sit for a month or so. The pure mineral oil will separate and form a clear layer on top.

[@ALYoung-wj8td]

FASCINATING!! THANK U FOR SHARING!!

[@chrissmith-rw8ei]

If your "new toy" has the capability to cut 1/8inch slabs or thinner to allow the passage of light through them to see the gold, you can sell them as cut and polished "specimens" for way more than the gold value in them. Just a thought.. Chris.

[@I.Live4oldcars.prospecting]

Fantastic video. Very interesting. Love what you do Buddy.

[@davidkahtava447]

Thanks Jason for teaching us about gold bearing ore

[@james.j1066]

Awesome. That saw has opened a view into prospecting that I had never seen.

[@johnolsen7073]

I like your rock saw, you're giving me ideas. Thanks Jason.

[@northeastexpanse]

The curiosity of exploring and learning comes out great In your videos. We have a similar chalcopyrite mix on the taconic zone of Massachusetts into Vermont. There seems to be a theme there as gold is found with Chalcopyrite and copper in this region.

[@GrouchyHaggis]

Great video Jason. Great looking samples.

[@jamesriggsdds2337]

Jason, After cutting the slabs just put them into a kitchen dish washer. Add a little extra soap. The slabs come out really clean and dry. And no oil residue is left in the machine! It works really great and you don’t have to use any toxic chemicals to boot!

[@dionh70]

Damn fine suggestion.

[@lotharschiese8559]

@@dionh70 Spock says that is quite logical.

[@chrism4008]

I bet an old used restaurant dishwasher would work really well

[@kendradawn369]

I thought about doing that but then I thought about all the gold I would be losing in the dishwasher so I changed

[@666Bails]

​@@kendradawn369depending on the dishwasher you came make your filter even more filter-savey with a coffee filter 😅

[@krockpotbroccoli65]

Run concrete blocks through the saw every few cuts to treat the blade and increase cutting efficiently and blade longevity. -From a stone fabricator. I dont know how or why it works, but it works.

[@kerrihansen2413]

Wouldn't that dull the blade? 🤔

[@henryraab3111]

highland park recommends tapping along the blade with a file to break the glaze. the concrete will wear the soft diamond matrix in lapidary saws suuper fast

[@jackkonnof4106]

I believe it is called Dressing the blade. When I made silicon wafers we used 220 and 400grit stones for dressing. You could also control the direction of the cut or straightness of the cut just by blade dressing on one side or the other.

[@Donkeygoldminer37]

Awesome stuff you doing. You getting it. Smart and very inventive. Love all your stuff

[@jeanmariewilliams4140]

Thank you for sharing your experience with us First-time to know what happens and how Thank you again

[@Teddycawaling73Cawaling]

Thanks you for sharing this way you are the best ideas sir,

[@SLBLADE]

This is totally awesome man thanks buddy 🙏

[@key4us2c]

Love hearing the saw going in the background, while describing the curse after the book ends. Sounds of so familiar! Just like my saw.

[@reekgoesoutside]

Great content. I just found your channel from searching for gold in quartz. I was doing some quartz hunting up near Mariposa County Ca this morning and just interested in what i was brining home. Alot of valuable information, my son and I appreciate it.

[@faisomohamed629]

Please may I know how I can understand If their is golden in my place like is their any machine that I can use?

[@michaelhebert7196]

Hi Jason, I just walked an old Copper mine and have some ore samples I would like to smelt down. Do you have a flux recipe for copper ? Thank you, M

[@silverspikeprospecting]

That microscope for the phone is actually pretty awesome, I would definitely recommend purchasing one. Another recommendation is run those slab pieces on a flat surface over wet dry sand paper with water. Go from 800 grit up through 5000 grit after that you will have a near mirror finish.

[@robertsmith4681]

I'm into coin collecting and really interested by this kind of product, would make spotting certain things so much easier.

[@donnataylor9032]

Thank you kindly.

[@danbrent4618]

Thank you Jason, excellent learning tutorials! Happy Father’s Day! Dan Brent

[@christophermundwyler5796]

So my question is all the yellow in the quartz what is that? Could you use hydrogen peroxide after powdering the quartz to recover very fine gold?

[@norandois]

Really like this way of studying ore, this way you can have witnesses slab and the rest, the mud and cutting could been go in the hammer mill as well, perfect jason!

[@matterbach6200]

Ahh, spring in Whatcom County! Reminds me of my childhood. Rock sawing gold ore is an awesome idea

[@izysly6924]

Thank you for uploading these videos . Could you do a video of you crushing up your furnace slags and then, panning them out, to see how much gold might be still in them ? Thank you.

[@kurtremislettmyr7108]

love your vids, learning allot. can you go deeper in how to know if it's gold or fool's gold

[@oldinuselesshancox5194]

Thanks very informative post 🤙🖖

[@Alondro77]

Oh yes indeed, I have seen rusty quartz veins like that here in NJ, deep in the hills up north along a series of ridges known for having unusual minerals in one location. There are bands of material scattered all about with confirmed pyrrhotite and hydrothermal quartz filled with hematite grains. I know where they are, and just need to get time enough to sample them!

[@ladishoneyin]

Thanks Jason great insight

[@markvolker1145]

It would be awesome to get some thick gold baring quartz counter tops made!

[@psychscope378]

this video reminds me of some samples of marble i was given a few years ago that was brought from a site for sale in nigeria, i think the site had marbles, quarts and kaolin..and maybe some other minerals, either ways, i was shown alot of gold veins in the marbles..and prior to that i did not know gold could grow in between marble..your video jst confirmed this.. thanks, for the insight

[@kelterskelter1969]

What a great new toy. Will be fun to see what colour can be recovered from the filter sludge when you finally need to clean out the oil.

[@KD0CAC]

Dang you Jason ---- now I am going to have to start looking for a rock saw ;) Thanks again

[@chuxxsss]

Hey Jason, you need to come outto Australia. My son found a 15 grammar yesterday in quarts.

[@carroll-w7wxv]

I am glad you seem to be having fun with your new equipment! It seems that the rock saw is one that Dan Hurd had (I may be wrong). Is it hard to keep the saw cleanish?

[@meMiner]

How do you confirm that the microscopic gold isn't pyrite or chalcopyrite?

[@billkahl1147]

For us with limited knowledge of minerals, could you explain what it means to hydrate?

[@amandaporter1706]

Lol that's funny, a bunch of gold. Then cuts to bags and bags, ♥️ it. Can't wait to see more 😊

[@user-ct9ts2oj1r]

What frequency was the year of the gold rush The mines? Does the environment have to be an out side or like a diamond coated in carbon peanut butter or Dr. Pepper? Sorry for silly question

[@1944chevytruck]

WOW! AMAZING! CONGRATS!

[@waltertodd4479]

Jason, thanks for your comments that visible gold occurs in ribbon rock or in the latest deposition age vein quartz, adacent to wallrock, in rusty red or orange colored quartz...

[@ThomasGray-sd9ed]

use dawn dish soap its designed tp repeal oil, good stuff

[@mohammadhughes1561]

Cool effect , when he’s moving the phone microscope across the surface of the quartz if you sit back and look at it as a whole ,it looks like he’s spinning a sphere or some wired planet in space …lol or rotating a really cool marble! And yet it’s actually the lens moving over a perfectly Flat surface.. haha.

[@NotSoCrazyNinja]

That first one you cut with all the specs at the bottom, is that considered a lot of gold? I ask because where I live, we have various rock quarries and I have fairly often found quartz mixed into driveway gravel with about as much gold specs. Always thought it was pretty but figured it must not have been worth much since they literally use it for driveway gravel lol. To the best of my knowledge, there are no active and producing gold mines anywhere near me. There are some gold claims but nothing apparently producing.

[@theeddorian]

High school chemistry, add a small amount of liquid dish detergent. Drop it on the rock and work it and the oil with a small brush - even an old tooth brush. Scrub until it looks milky. Then add hot water, and scrub. Effectively you are turning the oil to a water soluble substance as it combines with the detergent.

[@Experiment_In_Color-kn4ed]

I Need help with ore that runs at 3 1/2 oz per ton need set up with equipment

[@seanb3516]

I would suggest removing the oil with Acetone Vapour Deposition. Basically hang the rock on a wire in a container with heated acetone vapours. Great for cleaning metal parts and other things as well.

[@richardrobertson1331]

Looks like it's time for an assay. That silvery metal could be electrum or any number of salts of metal and arsenic, or example. Very interesting video. If the tiny specks of gold were all the gold it contains, all you have, then, is simply an interesting looking rock. I certainly do agree that this specimen has far more value as a display piece (bookend, for example) than going to all the work to process out its meager gold values, unless, of course, that silvery metal happens to be electrum.

[@josephroosen9701]

Did you buy the microscope without the CPL filter or the one with the filter? I wonder if that is why you are having problems with the light without the filter.

[@rockman531]

Hi Jason, Your new toy is doing a great job! You'll learn all the do's & don'ts with the saw as you use it more. After about 30 cuts - put a house brick or piece of a cinderblock in the saw and cut about one inch. This will clean out the garbage in the blade & sharpen the exposed diamonds. The kitty liter will work better if the rocks sit in it for a day or two. Good Luck on eBay!! Thumbs up! Stay safe. Jim

[@mbmmllc]

Thanks for the tips!

[@rockman531]

@@mbmmllc You're welcome, Jason.

[@frontiervirtcharter]

​@@mbmmllc How much powdered rock comes off as a byproduct of cutting those slabs? Once you have a bucket or two of it, it'd be worth while to run it through the shaker table..

[@Obshowersyndicate]

Simple green will clean those up nicely

[@magicone9327]

Where should gold move to when it’s being laid down under heat when it’s melted? Does it go to the bottom as it does when smelting? If so would that define the foot wall location when looking at a specimen?

[@williamlogan2447]

Hello my new friend. I have rocks similar to what you have on your show and I was wondering where exactly can I take them and Cash in? My mortgage is behind almost $10,000, I live in Tucson Arizona. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

[@iankinamun5764]

Hi Jason, I am interested to know about your gold wash plant.

[@ThomasAndersonbsf]

with the blade going that fast, how many cuts do you normally get from a single diamond saw blade?

[@josephcormier5974]

Well Jason this rock saw is going to be a very nice machine to make many nice things from the ore that you have thank you for sharing this six stars

[@mbmmllc]

Thanks 👍

[@raheelahdar1741]

Thank you Jason. Good stamina😅

[@hardworkingamerican8847]

I have been meaning to find your channel and it popped up on my feed . I have about 13 pounds of gold filled scrap from 15 years of storage locker finds . Looking to have it smelted . There is a place near me in the Bay Area but they want some vague paperwork on top of my driver's license social security number seller's permit . Anyway was thinking of seeing if you could help me out with this ?

[@davidlove456]

Nice saw! Great video. Are you going to smelt the sawdust?

[@timbrubeck4212]

Man that blade makes a slick ass looking cut 😳👍

[@jasonflatearther]

Do you keep the shavings from the cuts and pan them?

[@ElectricPoliville]

That's some nice looking ore

[@octosquatch.]

Cutting rocks is so much fun. I don't know if you're the artistic type, but making cabochons is pretty fun too.

[@AlPatronLHeffeHAJRomeroMerO]

We would go to garage sales and get kitty litter clumping . Put it in a bin after they are slabbed get slabs and totally submerge each but gotta push and pull side to side while applying some pressure so each side even edge is touching the clumper stuff. Works really great ever get engine oil on your driveway or accidentally spill a half quart trow that kit lit on it don't be stingy it will absorb so much of it I stood in absolute awe as well as corrected at just how well it worked. Dish soap the good stuff dawn or other name brands generic just lost its suds and magical props too too fast. Dawn dish soap wasn't just great in oil take off it works extremely well as well for grit removal not only from tumbled stones but for barrels also.

[@cosmicgem357]

I know nothing of all this. So curious. How would one go about processing this to get the gold out and about how much gold would it be. Can you make any money from those amounts

[@hunnybunnysheavymetalmusic6542]

Cool stuff!

[@PresidentOfFun1]

I have tons of quartz but we also have a lot of pyrite in this area. When looking at a specimen like this how can you tell the difference?

[@illmsg77]

Gahhh that saw is awesome!! One of these days.........

[@RosafelBanayat]

I have 2 big stone but ithe inner like asilver metal it is agold with weighing of 2. 1/2kls

[@jackfrost3560]

Interesting question once you find it how do you get it out of the rock. Never looked into the rocks have found some gold dust in Maine. Not much but I found it with a cheap meal detector. The Land is on a river now a highway at the bottom of the hill but I think that it probably has gold in the river I know 30 miles away there is a silver mine years ago.

[@paraglidingprospector]

Have you seen his other videos? Jason is the owner/operator of MBMMLLC and they offer a wide variety of ore-processing solutions including a complete turn-key ore-processing plant: jaw crusher, shaker table, de-watering screw for removing tailings…. Check out his turn-key ore processing plant videos to see how he extracts the gold. Also, he’s a metallurgist and smelts his own gold too.

[@jaymortensen642]

Jason when I was working in a papermill we used a small camera to see defects in the paper that had a USB for a computer or lap top so I bought one for home use it was pretty cheap and goes to 1600X and can take stills and by using the lap top or computer you get a way bigger screen than a phone not so handy for the woods but would be great for your shop.

[@raydowdy6914]

Where can I find the microscope your talking about?

[@Algoldprospecting]

Cool. I need a bigger saw. I have some gold ore . I found. Lots of sulfides and chunks of pyrite.

[@johannesdesloper8434]

Great video Jason, cool idea, I love science. I think a Canadian who calls himself "me miner" also makes slabs of dentritic native Silver in ore. very cool

[@ryanfriars545]

Try really hot soapy water. I use a heavier concentration of plain sunlight and it really helps pull the grease and oil out of automotive parts

[@nguyentin100]

Loại đá có chứa bụi vàng này máy dò gold monter 1000 có bắt được không bạn?

[@Chuxgold]

Along the hanging wall, haven't it had more time to redisseminate out pure. While further in was still forming as the process repeated along the first to be deposited on the wall of the crack it was hanging on.

[@user-xt9it4si6i]

Cut the slabs thinner and mount a light and look through them you can see inside the slabs

[@arissunandar4376]

What kind of material the white rock, sir? I wonder... Because i cant identify the different between marble and quartz

[@mikesalm5053]

Wow that is incredibly rich

[@williamasdurian2307]

Put a board under the rock to clear the hub. It's a rookie learning thing. You are doing great...

[@rickybobbi631]

Is it possible to extract the tiny dust particles of gold? If so, how?

[@chorpolash]

I want to know how to gold search in Red Soil underground. Pls reply me.

[@robertwynn3453]

Worth panning the slurry from the cutting table

[@valeriebarnett4547]

I could not find a link to the saw... Any other saw recommendations?

[@nsa_surveillance_orb-42b]

Arent you ever gonna process that stuff? Lots of totes with ore there, would love to see all that processed sometime. Some pretty ore for sure! Thanks for creating content and videos for us wanna be rock hounders, we live vicariously through your many adventured. Peace Happy hounding!

[@jasonhowarth6789]

I liked seeing the plants starting to grow in the bags waiting for processing! 😂

[@Obshowersyndicate]

Really cool

[@edrefeen4006]

Is the gray color silver? I would really like to know.

[@teamsignal17]

Man, all you do is run up and down that mountain getting ore. Jason: " I will take this this this that those and these". "MB to base over, "India-Golf-Golf, send the chopper" Helicopter guy: "That's a good copy, Echco-Romeo out" I mean damn, I want to play! Put me in coach , put me in!! Thanks for the amazing shares Jason! Keep up the great work!

[@integralintervention6323]

It almost looked like you were cutting steaks from a roast. Very nice marbling!

[@jerrybunker3612]

Doesn't appear to be enough for refining correct??

[@Rezin_8]

Amazing how quarts with veins can outprice the actual gold

[@ThomasAndersonbsf]

I still have to test some ideas for 3D printing gold nano particles since I have had so much success with titanium dioxide modding to print stuff from the black crystaline dititanium trioxide and both black rust from red rust (iron oxide) as well as some iron metal deposition from red rust, onto plastic with out damaging it and no electricity or conductive nonsense, (had some success with copper oxides too but really need to bust the lab out and make some uniform super small nano particle copper oxide vapor dust, to get clean results) 3D printing with gold would be quite cool and I am betting people would love the results being the new thing in gold jewelry and such, for sure LOL

[@mikeconnery4652]

Cool little gadget and if you find a really nice rock maybe Dan Herd can get that sphere maker to make a sphere for you.

[@AJShiningThreads]

I don't do eBay, will you set up a traditional website, do you think? ❤❤

[@vaguelysober]

Yay rock saw!

[@moejoe4070]

Hey bud where are getting those ore bags from

[@13fyrefli]

There are tons of hand held microscopes that connect to the phone. I love mine. I look at everything with it.

[@93matarl]

i think saw dust does a better job than kitty litter to remove the oil, as you can just burn the saw dust after wards, but you might still need to still wash it off

[@brendonfulgham2178]

How do you sell stuff like this? I got a whole bunch of red and pink and black granite with gold flakes and quartz

[@user-pn2le2qj4g]

You mentioned the ore from the helicopter project, do you ever plan to process any of that? I've been waiting to see what happens with all that.

[@donaldfitzgerald8950]

OK Jason! I can see you'll be advertising some lapidary equipment in the near future! Lol! It does open the color scheme that mother nature provides! 💎🤑