I Can't Believe This Worked So Well! | Vinegar Gold

I Can't Believe This Worked So Well! | Vinegar Gold
vinager was used by hanible to cross the Alps. after super Heating the rock it would be rapidly cooled using vinager, causing thermal shock and a small chemical reaction, that destroyed the host rock.
I'm using the same method to clean up this beautiful gold specimen I found metal detecting
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[@jnorton772]

absolutely brilliant and since i was going through the specimens i collected from being homeless and travelling round living in my car i tried it the Neighbours got pissed ; I found almost 2.47 ounces just in the quartz rocks , the Neighbours get a decent bottle of wine and a sorry , I get to laugh at those that sneered at me picking them up .

[@dogodogo5891]

hi great did you use any sepcial metal detector or just using common knowledge?

[@itatane]

I've said it before : the old timers generally speaking, were crafty buggers who knew what they were doing. They may not have given a crap about nature or their own health (Cyanide and Mercury, anyone?). But we can do similar things, building on the old knowledge, adding modern equipment and techniques to finesse the gold they left behind. Cheers Chris!

[@DreidMusicalX]

Well this guy is not to worry about his health either, crushing quarts without a mask and all that dust flying up he is breathing in.

[@kienhwengtai8113]

Maybe they used vinegar to attack the iron pyrites in the ore.

[@koltoncrane3099]

Mercury isn’t to bad if you take precautions. Yes the Spaniards clearly wasted it and polluted some water ways still today, but if mercury stuck to copper and then you used a mercury retort you can boil the mercury off and still retain the mercury separating it from the gold. Ask Jeff Williams channel shows how old timers used a mercury retort.

[@ScottishGoldHunter]

The old timers definitely knew what they were doing Chris! Thanks for sharing⛏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@piratescrew1869]

Also great to see the safety squint coming into play🔥💥☄️

[@gadzee506]

I've been waiting for this video crazy how well.it worked. Firesetting is a ancient practice that has been found in very old mines the Romans also used it on a industrial scale. Just incase anyone get the idea for conglomerate be careful as riverrocks explode when heated

[@secretstreamsandfeverdreams]

Good point on the river rock gadzee. Interests me how early man started mining the earth

[@bradleysanderson9928]

Rock go BOOM 💥

[@gadzee506]

@@bradleysanderson9928 yes that's why you don't use them around a fires

[@kenneely7899]

It is the thermal shock that makes then explode. If you build a fire pit with river rock it will be OK if fired up slowly. Giving a chance for moisture to evaporate.

[@gadzee506]

@@kenneely7899 I'm not too sure I always got told river rocks will explode when heated. Better to be safe then sorry

[@northwind7409]

It might be worth trying a sample where you use plain water after heating, instead of vinegar. You would likely get some thermal fracturing either way, but it would be interesting to see whether the acetic acid actually does anything. You could reheat your tailings after panning, treat them with vinegar, and pan to see if there is more fine gold released.

[@ingo8366]

Hi. I tried it out myself with a MAPP gas torch and industrial produced vinegar (ca. 12.5 % acid) it worked out fine.

[@robertkeable1627]

Thank you for making these and your time in doing so. When I finished with the stuff here in UK I might take a look at the world with a prospectors eye. Be well.

[@mannyruseriousfriday171]

great stuff Chris with the vinegar who would of thunk it!!!!i must say the old timers had the best the most original ideas ever i also watch a guy do the same thing heat up the quartz then just added water instead of vinegar it had the same effect on the quartz that's why i say to my two sons if an old bloke has something to say just listen and learn helped one of my boys when he started working in the gold mines in WA but his abstract way of speaking now from listening to the old timers well i should of warned him about that . he comes home with some colourful language some ripper stories but he forgets that he can not speak this way to his mum and dad gets him in trouble all the time but he can call me Big Horse

[@curlymaplebandit3107]

Hannibal used this when he crossed the Alps in 218 BC. Heat the limestone and pour vinegar on. Carved a path for his elephants to get down the other side.

[@hobbyadventurer583]

What a good presentation that you showed us.Thanks and keep up with the good vids !

[@jodydorsett8726]

Forget how much the gold was worth, the proof of concept is priceless.

[@kompressahdnb]

love this one man. The slow mo moments are fantastic! This would make a nice series. Like mythbusters for prospecting!

[@piratescrew1869]

Thanks Chris. Great Idea to collect your ore in summer and burn and crush when it’s too cold to prospect, love ya stuff!

[@longnamenocansayy]

just a suggestion: instead of burning wood on a fire, try using a fresnel lens to heat up the rock. it would be a good thing if you're in a desert that doesn't have fire wood, or in a place with a lot of firewood, but it rains a lot.

[@mr.giggles4995]

Or the solar death ray.

[@nathancarmichael7050]

That is so awesome, thank you have a wonderful day!

[@christinebiggurlstuff7128]

Awesome video 🤣named tools & sound effects!

[@Teddycawaling73Cawaling]

Thanks you for sharing this way to discover true 🇮🇹

[@N3gr0bitch]

Looks like a really good method.

[@wftoney1]

So cool! Tbe slow-mo shots of panning may be the most effective way ever to show how the process works. Thanks, and ; carry on, bro

[@Tsunseyu]

Safety glasses 🥽 would be a great idea 💡

[@VoGusProspecting]

Saftey squint was on

[@hasmeadali7316]

Well good morning sunshine..... Thanks for the smile on a gloomy morning.. truly appreciated that.much love always

[@ferdburphel2076]

Crushed it! Cool experiment and some specimens to boot!

[@bayougoldguy7337]

That was an awesome demonstration and excellent gold👍🤠🐊

[@albertcab]

This system of softening quartz did not know. Next time I'll try it and let you know how it went. Greetings from Catalonia

[@shahmohshafi6103]

I have used this technique n it is working like you said.keep it up.

[@goldsucheselbstdarstellung]

What beautiful pieces very beautiful 👍 Congratulations and have fun in the future 🍻

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

Thanks for the insight brother! 💪🏻👍🏻

[@ottergrotto5850]

That just looks like fun! What a way to spend a day.....

[@rebeccaroseannanderson8790]

oh my goodness ! thank you for sharing as it confirms I was right...super excited! wanna see my gold from Butte County California? Ive been at it for 9 years and I seriously just now can say I never stop learning as I have trudged forward and love everyminute...Even broken fongers and toes from time to time...safety first

[@bryonmason6330]

Learning more every day. Good job Brother. You're a good teacher, Keep it up 😜.

[@shaunhall960]

Way cool! Thank you for sharing.

[@ItachiUchiha-br8ig]

For everyone saying why use vinegar- it's true it did nothing to the gold except cleans and brightens it and that is the point because if it were a substance that can be mistaken for gold like pyrite, old brass, chalcopyrite or mica they would react with the vinegar changing the color atleast and can alter the color of impure gold.

[@impicklerick8370]

What if it altered the color of a gold and someone threw it away?

[@mikegonzales6910]

Like a beacon for fugazzi's...Helps to fool proof your valuable work, time and ultimately your final goal, right?!

[@tommynoel9929]

Thanks Chris!

[@willamettevalleycryptids164]

You have rediscovered an ancient form of smelting. Cool

[@kathleenjensen4848]

You’re having way to much fun with this

[@VoGusProspecting]

All the fun

[@joebasaliso2118]

I dig it! First time seeing some process it at the convince of their home lol.

[@josephwilliamson6878]

I bet you can do this with water. The vinegar comes in if the ore is dissolvable with acid, therefore releasing, potentially, more gold. For me, with my layman's brain, the "trick" is to get the quartz red hot and shock cool it so its crystalline structure shatters, releasing the gold. FUN VIDEO!!!

[@DesertTuna]

Legendary thanks for showing us

[@pauliegee78]

Great show !

[@kurtisengle6256]

HANNIBAL !!! Used fire and vinegar( spoiled wine ) to carve a trail through the Alps for his elephants. It was limestone, so acid and carbonate in addition to heat shock. Add hammers.

[@user-kk8rb2px6y]

The same rock breaking method was used by Hannibal's military engineers to break rock in building a path across the alps in some locations, much quicker then with sledge hammers and pick axes..

[@marcussmart3275]

Your sinister laugh is awesome!

[@richardcoulson7483]

Very interesting and something that I will be trying myself. thanks for the video, Cheers Chris

[@VoGusProspecting]

Hope ot works well for you

[@user-cp8pi4gs1h]

​@@VoGusProspectingسلام اين اجد اله تكسير الحجر التي لديك

[@dionbritten5777]

Good morning man. Brilliant video as always stay humble stay hydrated and enjoy the day.

[@Algoldprospecting]

Very cool. I need to try that

[@Earth-Chiming]

Gold melts

[@frankhammer6795]

Hey Chris, nice work. Ive been using a similar method, just not with vinegar. And it has a rough element of 'assaying' the ore, to see if it's worth working I've been collecting a bucket of sample quartz from reefs I find. Then I cook the rocks for several hours in a kiln I made - get's to 500c or so, so I want to make one bigger & hotter (of course) I then shock the rocks with cold water from the hose (I'll give vinegar a go next time, to see if there's a difference) Next I take them out to a lonely place in the middle of no-where, (so I don't shit my neighbors to tears with the noise,) and crush the hell out of them in my dolly pot, by using a concrete facing bit on my hammer drill. I seive the contents of the dolly pot through a kitchen seive anything that doesn't go through the seive, goes back into the 'to be crushed' bucket and I repeat till I run out of material to be crushed, and end up with a bucket of pretty fine sand ( I gotta make a hammer mill to speed this bit up) At this point I can weigh the bucket of crush to give me a 'Before Processing weight' Then I run the crush through the blue bowl to get to the gold, which gives me a very rough 'ore to gold' ratio to see if the reef's worth working further It's a work in progress, but I have found gold with this technique Just not enough to shout 'Yippeeeee!' yet

[@waynoswaynos]

I made a version of Stampy a couple of years back but instead, used a 4lb sledgehammer head that I welded a 4 foot bar to, onto one of the hammering faces. I call it a Whumper. I scavenged a 6 inch thick disk of steel from a metal profile cutter and welded a tube above that to whump into. Works good. And quenching your hot rocks in Water works just as well as vinegar.

[@robertshappenings5481]

u started a fire across the world, literally !!! ha

[@johnjacobs1625]

Very Nice Chris!! CHEERS JJ

[@Pinjamiini]

That was so awesome!

[@robertoescobar007]

Nice video man.. 5hank you 👏👏👏😊

[@insimplebeing]

Great info!

[@cooperpannach621]

Very interesting and informative vid mate keep it up 👍🏽

[@mkvisser]

Oooh interesting. I just picked up a few samples today i have to crush that are promising. I might try this method on half of it and see the difference. 👍🏼👍🏼

[@699hazard]

You should burn your ore more often plus it's always a bonus to have a beer around the firepit afterwards 🍻

[@VoGusProspecting]

This 🤌

[@VideovigilanteUSA]

This is how Hannibal drilled holes and poured vinegar in holes to cut through the alps. For his elephants

[@VoGusProspecting]

That makes sense. Thermal loading rock works.

[@Dreamhelmet]

But did he find any gold?!

[@victorrodriguez5590]

Thank you

[@DireWolfForge]

Love the channel, brother

[@austdom]

Heard about burning reefs and quenching with water before but never seen it done. Awesome.

[@brucejohnson863]

The leaf blower is a survivor tool for fire starting in our family

[@VoGusProspecting]

How good is it!

[@Tsunseyu]

Great video! Way cool!

[@Arkangel1966mc]

That is awesome 👌, I think your show is really cool 😎.

[@leighanncronin6905]

Very COOL way to get da gold outta rocks!

[@seanpreston3653]

I very much enjoyed the old school way you just showed and will use on my quartz. Altho I use a post hole driver and flat end of a digging bar. Lol. Older school

[@ehrenkrause9861]

Cool can't wait to try it

[@leonbarber8650]

GREAT video .MORE please.😁👌

[@joebacus8763]

i love your videos buddy. thank you

[@mikeplant9163]

great video and results mate,looks like it more than halved the effort needed to crush your rock samples.

[@rossdickens]

Blacklight shows blood in rocks. Blood=Gold.

[@robertpayne7957]

That was a cool way of doing a crush. Well done.

[@VoGusProspecting]

Was a bunch of fun

[@RPHelpingHand]

Never heard of this method pretty cool

[@VoGusProspecting]

People have told me to try heating it for years. Never the vinager quench though.

[@goldennuts9590]

Thought you would've known this already,the old timers would light massive fires over quartz reefs and douse with water to crack into smaller pieces to send off to be crushed

[@ryanpoirier2215]

The Romans did the same thing to create roads in ancient Rome. To create passes through mountains they would drill holes into the mountainside and then pour boiling vinegar into the hole, and the rock would generally crack apart along the line the holes were drilled in, making the rock manageable to be removed.

[@TheHoney_Badger]

Also acids can dissolve alot of Rock when left in solution and leave behind the good stuff, much less separating needed

[@roberthouston9657]

Good on ya' mate.

[@Mr.P.Griffith]

Would be cool to see a side by side comparison of your traditional crushing method vs. boiling vinegar. Maybe a couple buckets per, mixing the rocks together to avoid concentrations and see how economical the vinegar method is..

[@nathanielgarcia7768]

that was cool as heck good 1

[@ogNOOTNOOT]

I’m just here for the support

[@nickdntwrrybutt7744]

That jus shows how much those old timers knew & what things never got passed down to us today. Old school techniques that they took to their graves.😢

[@johnmead8437]

Openly known information, simple. Like a lot of things progress has displaced and made complicated and expensive enough to need highly skilled graduates to operate. Or to know where to find consultants to hire when something fails.

[@kaningraja869]

Love you bro. God bless you.

[@nigelaubrey7743]

Great video Chris. I'm going to try this on some species I have at home that my stampy just bounces off.

[@jim69215]

Your awesome man.

[@joshuajackson6442]

Oh…..the possibilities! *wringing hands while grinning maniacally *

[@ericswain4177]

Vinegar is a mild Asid which makes sense in degrading rock to process. Fire is an old method going back thousands of years for processing rock even directly in mines and rock faces making it easier to fracture and dig out before the advent of explosives.

[@matthewswan9961]

That's so cool mate! just found a specie and might have to try this 😯

[@ralphmcculley2085]

Will be trying this soon . Are Monsoon is finally here in Arizona looks like rain for the next week.I have 5 maybe 6 buckets to try . sure will help speed things up thanks

[@Rasulkarteron]

Love staying up late and catching your videos minutes old. Lol. Keep up the awesome videos

[@Rasulkarteron]

Oh I am in Ny Lol

[@donhoughton271]

Very cool way to do the ore.

[@joshsmith9558]

Wood coals get hot enough to melt steel if you have a forced air supply. Just a heads up from someone who does blacksmithing as a hobby

[@VoGusProspecting]

Found that out afterwards lol

[@joshsmith9558]

@@VoGusProspecting yeah I found it out the hard way myself back when I first started blacksmithing. Couldn't find a coal supply so I used hardwood charcoal with a 100cfm fan as a blower. Left a railroad spike in the fire, got distracted by my phone and suddenly it was a fireworks display in my forge.

[@mikeford963]

@@joshsmith9558 By that point, you may as well throw that spike in the trash. Those sparkly bits are the carbon burning out of the steel.

[@joshsmith9558]

@@mikeford963 I'm well aware of what it was. I've been a welder for 17 years. Been doing blacksmithing for nearly 10. Railroad spikes are on the very low end of the "high carbon" steels. Granted the ones used in turns tend to be of better quality because of the sheer force put on them but they are still junk steel. Great for practice and making tongs and the like out of but useless for knives. When I first started I didn't expect charcoal to reach those temperatures. After that incident I started doing research on blacksmith and found that charcoal burns hot enough for forge welding.

[@mikeford963]

@@joshsmith9558 Also a welder, red seal in Canada. And yeah, proper charcoal, as opposed to briquettes, can get that hot with enougg forced air flow. That's how mankind did it before we discovered coal.

[@leannkennedy6568]

That was interesting. I've often wondered what the old guys went through to learn. Purty smart fellers..

[@MrMann703]

I really like that method, I'm new to gold and have collected lots of black sand full of fine gold, a fellow mentioned salt and vinegar to extract as much out as possible and that's how I ended up here lol. Thank you for the video, very interesting stuff

[@sirkriskringle]

Now that's some Hot Gold :) . SKK .

[@jamiewatkins4178]

When you ran the water on the pan you should have added some dishwashing soap in the pan to stop any gold flakes floating away.. Good video tho, iv never thought of doing that

[@oneoflokis]

Amazing! 🙂👍

[@ashsimpson108]

Water is does the same effect as I previously mentioned in another video of yours. I always heat up my big gold ore rocks and drop them into a bucket of water, it either breaks apart then or like you've noticed that aka stampy loves it haha... keep going Chris love the videos, give ferny a scratch behind the ears for me

[@AnArmAndAGreg]

Wow! That really worked. I may have to give it a shot. Thanks for another fun video.

[@longnamenocansayy]

it was very interesting to me. i am reminded of the great pyramid of egypt. as we all know, for centuries the great pyramid was closed off entirely to the world. the entrance way having been forgotten, and it could not be found. so this arab king had his men heat up the rock and they poured vinegear on it, and they made their own entrance. then once they got inside and rummaged around until they found the real entrance. so long story short, it's a old well known way to crush rock when you don't have dynamite.

[@2HighNoon]

I get why the ol’timers built fires on the vein. Weakening the vein would make it much easier to dig out and it’s prepared for crushing. 👍🤷‍♂️ Smart.