Gold Prospecting & Testing My Gold Vein For Gold! | High Grade Gold Vein Testing

[@donmeares3652]

I am not a GOLD prospector! Never have ever been prospecting for Gold! After watching almost all of Jasons videos (several times) I AM SURE I could DO IT & likely FIND SOME GOLD! THIS is about the most interesting & MOTIVATING channels on KZbin! I am absolutely convinced I could smelt & recover any precious metals I might find, ALL, BASED, solely on what Jason has TOLD us ALL! He is (in my opinion) better than any college professor, & HE gives it to us FREE! By the way, I am 85 years old! As soon as my last KNEEE replacement heals! I AM READY to go PROSPECTING! THANKS Jason!

[@outdoorloser4340]

Which state do you live in?

[@1jasonrl]

Yup, love the colab with Dan Hurd. Can't wait to see you use a helicopter to pull down a TON of that good material. Know any pilot friends with a copter you could borrow?

[@Escarii66]

That shaker table is fascinating to watch!

[@MakingUsThink]

Time to bring in the trucks, hammer drills etc. and get that mountain rock processed!

[@joelhiggins6156]

I am imagining a 25 degree slope track down the mountain with an ore cart zooming out of control down the hill LOL

[@mariocontrereas769]

A nice rubber dump shoot will be nice on the bottom of that 6-7 in Harper mill. To not let fin gold dust out that bottom pan 🫡

[@jimmierturner3597]

Thanks!

[@rdaw33]

When you dropped the bead, I thought "easy come, easy go"...........I hope you hit it rich!!!!

[@jtswhitewater4940]

Now we are all waiting for the zip line of gold down the mountain ⛰ 😂

[@krakhedd]

Jason's got that portable milling setup for the back of his pickup truck, maybe we might just see something like that soon :)

[@tonyloechte9994]

Thats a great idea 😊

[@BillMulholland1]

Agreed

[@garfieldverdine8777]

Keep an eye on him. He's a treasure and a pleasure to watch. His back is not good for a vertical 🤞🏽

[@Sugarsail1]

Gravity is your friend

[@KentuckyColonel]

I have a feeling that this will be the last Dan Hurd - Jason video.. lolol.. the look on Dan's face @12:35 is like "why am I here..." 😩

[@Michael-rg7mx]

How do you re charge the battery up on your mountain. The old prospectors looked like Dan but had 2 mules that they talked to for years. Take some camping gear and set up nearby at some water source. Star drill the holes and use small bits of jelly packed in as deep as you can along the hanging wall. Then wedge off the foot wall by hand. Make a big pile at camp then concentrate it with a hammer and pan. I've read reports filed by field geologists from the mid to late 1800's. They would stay up on a strike for the summer concentrating samples. Then pack up and head for a town with a post office. He would send out dozens of bags of concentrates back to the main office along with his reports. Restock and relax in town. Then head out to the next part of the fault lines. They did that for a career, all their lives.

[@Pattaya-360]

You left out the part where they mail the other box to their loved ones….

[@Alondro77]

I'm getting a pretty good mass of black sands from my panning in a glacial moraine. I'm finding small gold flakes, and I know there's much more bound up in the black sands, which have quite a bit of what looks like fine galena sand that's so dense it's sometimes hard to pan the flakes out of it. I'm thinking once I get a full bucket of it, send you a 500g sample for an assay. It's heavily weathered, so there shouldn't be much sulfide remaining except for galena. There are possibly some tellurides, as this material was dragged out of eastern Canada 10k years ago. I find quartz with green stone, quartz with rust, quartz with visible hematite granules, and quartz with many small empty pits where sulfides weathered out.

[@XxelmokillerxX1]

Cant wait for the BIG VIDEO! KEEP UP THE CONTENT!!!!

[@rikspector]

Jason, That's awesome. WE need more people like you and your Dad and cohorts in Whatcom County. Sorry I missed the chance to shake your hand and wish you the best! Chewers, Rik

[@loniwulff1151]

Boy Dan missed his chance when you said, "The redder the better" 😆

[@Uriel_222]

Awesome. Thanks Jason

[@AMProspecting]

Great video lots of information...Dan is a trooper!

[@GSProspecting]

Just amazing day out fam. Loads of great info fam. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream fam. Gold Squad Out!!!

[@rorywiley76]

Nice Jayson thanks for the informative video. Keep up the great work.

[@ronhollis157]

Very cool that you two are working together. I wished that I could join you.

[@jayhac3803]

Thank you for killing Dan, lol. I'm excited to see what comes out of this sample

[@wrxs1781]

Good video, waiting with anticipation for the next one.

[@daz41262010]

great update video Jason :)

[@historicshearersquarters252]

Fantastic to watch this, loads to learn and ypu make it super interesting 👍

[@pikepoke]

take all the dust from drilling, put it in a pan with a bit of water and you can see if there is any gold in it for a bit of onsite fun for Dan. a small tarp to capture the broken rocks and dust would have been helpful as well. gravity is not our friend when carrying heavy rock! 8mm screen seems a bit course for fine gold? cool stuff, thanks for sharing.

[@bentationfunkiloglio]

Nice! That is some valuable quartz.

[@richardainsworth7052]

The two of you could write several books with what's in y'all's heads. Keep these vids coming and thank you for sharing!! 👍

[@nicevideomancanada]

a big Drone would be helpful to carry your ore down. I love all of your videos, viewing from Calgary Alberta.

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

Nice was waiting for this!

[@JimFinlayson]

Thanks…I look forward to seeing the next videos.

[@xtctrader1467]

Love watching you and Dan working together.

[@rockman531]

Hi Jason, Awesome video! Enjoyed watching you & Dan again prior to the processing segment. The amount of gold & silver (or maybe plat & palladium) is very encouraging! The bead looked great! If you get the bead checked with an XRF gun - please let us know the results. Stay safe! Looking forward to your "crazy" next adventure. Jim

[@m80wulf]

I like how your videos are now including the first video at the beginning

[@jamessparks1625]

Idk how hard rock works except a little but it almost looks like the foot wall is where the gold is in a line running perpendicular up the ridge which is good i think and like you said red oxidation near a quartz vein with 2 diffrent host rocks is good correct me if im wrong im just guessing.

[@redditfm4578]

What a team! Very nice to see you guys have fun while finding gold!

[@paraglidingprospector]

Wow, it’s wild to see the trek you both made! 🙌🏼✌🏼 Great work!

[@krakhedd]

Love seeing Dan on your videos. You guys have really different but both great personalities 🤘 Jason, I'm curious - would tungsten hammers be better for the hammer mill, or just too expensive/difficult for the additional hardness?

[@SouthpawDavey]

Been looking forward to this I saw Dan has had a great result from his claim and got a mining company in on the deal. Great result from your sample.

[@nocapyoulackn3594]

Love Dan such a free sprit nice guy.. you guys make a good pair lol great video.

[@carroll-w7wxv]

Jason, Thank you for all you do, love the videos!

[@frizzlefrack253]

Dan Hurd shoutout! That's how I found your channel :D

[@bhutjolokia6990]

Look forward to the next video, nice sample!!👍😁

[@masterofcents.8175]

Been waiting for this processing video. You guys together are so entertaining to watch it is incredible thank you for all you do.

[@stanleybennett8879]

The feather and wedges look like fun!

[@jaquigreenlees]

old school rock splitting, Demolition Dave has used larger models to split some pretty big rocks on his channel, though he most often drills holes and blasts he does occasionally use other methods where blasting would be a problem.

[@kencarbon2346]

Enjoyed watching your video nice work. Yous really had to go up high and work for the material you needed for a good sample.Thankyou for sharing your experience with us and nice gold button.😀

[@BillMulholland1]

Love the videos with you and Dan. Subscribed to both of you guys. Would love to see you guys do more videos together. Thanks Jason and Dan. ❤️🍻👍

[@anonymostoxicmale3241]

nice watch. what happend to using bismuth instead of lead as collector metal?

[@jackkollman9683]

Dude your adventures in finding all this is amazing. Thank you for the videos.

[@xenaguy01]

24:00 The real questions are, 1) How much of the surrounding rock would one have to dig for each ton of paydirt? Looks like a small vein, and you pretty much took most of the surface (easy) stuff. 2) How much effort would be required to get that paydirt down the mountain? It can't very well be done by hand.

[@UltrEgoVegeta]

Man I love watching you and Dan together

[@talldave1000]

I'm learning quite a bit from your videos Jason. Keep up the good work

[@NewNormac]

Bring in the whirlybirds, nice watching your adventures, can’t wait to see what next~Smile oN

[@RJ-zm3tr]

My favorite! Love the processing and smelting videos.

[@rastaralph7154]

Nice vein! ❤️💛💚👍

[@MrMunkyMeat]

So, am I the only one that rotates between mbmmllc, Dan Hurd, Pioneer Pauly, and sreetips? These guys really are fantastic at entertaining and educating.

[@fogogin]

I like how you paused right before the hammers clanked, I assume you knew that was about to happen.

[@greg2658]

I love the sound of the jaw crusher!

[@angusmcnaughton4570]

Great video, you covered just about everything in one shot 👍 ....and you didn't kill any Canadians

[@kenjohnson3412]

What is the brand name of the feather and wedges you like?

[@rambozo_fpv176]

NGL I get excited when I see a new mbmmllc video!

[@ghilasbouzidi9182]

Hello, does just heating silver oxide is enough to reduce it?

[@nickolasplasterer4194]

Hey Jason, could I just keep reusing my lead button or am I ok to keep using the lead and collecting my gold till I am ready to cupel? You have probably already told us this but I have forgotten. I believe you said we could but only for a few times. Thanks Brother, your videos are awesome and so very valuable! You simplify the processes with us and share so much. This is one of the best channels on KZbin. You are a great person for sharing your knowledge with us, bless you!

[@pazuzutru-truluv7094]

I just gotta say I love your videos as I also love San Hurd’s. I recently watched a large scale operation that had great shots of a massive shaker table with a band of gold dust inches wide. They also used electrolysis on this grey slurry. From what I could tell they had carbon attach itself to the gold in the slurry and then use cathode/diode to grab the gold before cupelling. Do you and your great company do any of that as well as your shaker tables etc?

[@panhubvanisland]

Awesome bro!!!

[@evandawkins4805]

Dang boy now that is a nice return 👍😯😁

[@ericrullo1102]

Im living vicariously through your videos Jason. Can hardly wait to live the next one 👍 👍

[@HansFormerlyTraffer]

If I have 20+ new videos on my youtube thing, Jason's is the first I watch. Rich Rich content. Thanks Jason.

[@johnhunt1725]

Drill some holes...load some sticks...KA-BLOOEY! Can't wait!

[@davejohnson9867]

When you're working up high like that, if you ran a zip line for a good length, you could zip your bag down. And then pull your steak up and do it again, at least that's what I would do, but I'm old and feeble I guess that's my problem LOL

[@kccorliss3922]

Jason needs a cargo drone to carry down material…. Or cargo blimp?? 🤔

[@NET-POSITIVE]

The silver is manganese oxide.

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Nice, I'm looking forward to what you come up with! My guess is it involves a helicopter! Best of luck my friend!

[@donaldtayloe4406]

For testing purposes would it be worth running some sand stone or something light into the machine to clean it out in-between batches and run it with the material to "flush" the system?? If your trying to get more accurate tests sand stone is light so it shouldn't contaminate the batch

[@josephcormier5974]

Can't wait for this five stars my friend

[@danielmcgrath7519]

Kool as thanks mate 👍

[@d.t.4523]

Good luck!

[@mrgreenswelding2853]

When smelting how do you keep the collector metal out of the flux? I'm having trouble with the bismuth getting caught in the flux.

[@RealJoshMisner]

Good morning ☀️

[@aaronweiss5587]

How do you separate the gold from the silver?

[@TheCainsie]

Yeah I don't think you've ever shown us past the cupel

[@bhutjolokia6990]

Could be done with acids.

[@TheGayestPersononYouTube]

Inquart it with more silver or a base metal and dissolve with nitric acid. The gold will not dissolve in the acid so you can filter it off from there to further purify. There are different methods as well.

[@bryanmatthew6194]

Awesome 👏🏼

[@freddking4389]

Nice. Looking forward to next video.

[@debztully1339]

Love the content.

[@StirlingLighthouse]

I so enjoy your videos. Thank you Jason. 🙏

[@Yngvi_Barran]

Awesome. Love your work. There is a slight blurr when you move your camera though. Are you using a GoPro like Dan?

[@mandybrown7758]

Really cool video I always enjoy 😉

[@MegaSilverStacker]

Hello Jason, Helicopter ya say🤔 Sign me up! You and Dan are on the Gold!🤗 commenting early so 🤞 on an Awesome assay! Thank you for the video

[@tylergarcia7176]

whatever happened to the video processing the gold from the ultra rich pocket you drilled like 2 videos ago?

[@dodgeit3014]

Can’t wait

[@stormrunner0029]

Just for the sake of asking, would panning the drill dusts dust give you an indication of viability of that area of the vain. Would it result in a faster test, though a narrow one.

[@rubusroo68]

it's definitely true that they took all the "easy" gold back in the day, but you've got the advantage of hundreds of years of experience + a ton of new technology that simply didn't exist back then.

[@kengilmore4384]

Very cool! Would love to go up there and explore with you

[@Michael-ex9uo]

Do you think it would be worth it, financially to use an induction heater?

[@GalenLeRaaz]

I kinda want to see a buddy movie done with characters based on Jason and Dan. I can be situated during the Californian Gold Rush, as a western, but with main focus on prospecting.

[@Orbacron]

Zipline is great idea since 4wheelers are frowned upon

[@PigeonPortal]

Can’t wait to see you helicopter onto that mountain and how much precious metals you get from that!!!

[@PigeonPortal]

Great video today 🎉

[@KubotaManDan]

I see your back using lead again as a collector, what happened to using Bismuth as a collector or does lead work better?

[@SenorQuichotte]

Why dont' you use XRF technology? It might be expensive to buy upfront costs but could save you from smelting all the time.

[@outdoorloser4340]

Because he's trying to see how much gold he is able to recover, not just what is in the sample.

[@michaelpass2176]

All the dust you push off. Ight have flower gold with in.😊

[@ANS56122]

I found black sand in copper statue is it gold ore

[@markg3025]

You need to bring Dan’s kids along with you next time you go to harvest quarts and gold in that vein.