How Much Gold In This Gold Ore? Crushing, Concentrating, & Smelting Gold from an Abandoned Gold Mine

Join Jason as he takes you on another exciting adventure into an old abandoned gold mine. In this video, Jason extracts gold and silver from a rock sample using a jaw crusher, hammer mill, and shaker table. He then smelts the gold concentrates down into a button to determine the amount of gold and silver per ton of rocks. Watch as he shares the exciting results and learn how to do it yourself!
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Keywords: Gold mining, abandoned gold mine, gold ore, crushing, concentrating, smelting, gold extraction, jaw crusher, hammer mill, shaker table, gold concentrates, gold smelting, gold assay, gold panning, gold melting, gold prospecting, gold vein.
Tags: #goldmining #goldore #goldextraction #abandonedgoldmine #crushing #concentrating #smelting #jawcrusher #hammermill #shakertable #goldconcentrates #goldsmelting #goldassay #goldpanning #goldmelting #goldprospecting #goldvein #jasonsgoldnuggets.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:42 Getting A Gold Sample
00:04:52 Exploring The Old Gold Mine
00:14:23 Taking An Assay For Gold
00:18:05 Exploring An Underground Gold Mine
00:34:18 Crushing and Concentrating The Gold
00:47:40 Panning The Gold
00:49:59 Melting The Gold
00:56:56 Smelting The Gold

[@sless6928]

It's not often that I will sit through a 1 hour + video, but that was fascinating.

[@earlysda]

Watching that stuff cool down at 1:01:00 was very relaxing.

[@oldmanpatriot1490]

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[@jopike7574]

Same I have ADHD and can’t tell you the last time I managed to sit still to watch something 😂this had me sat still the whole time totally fascinated!

[@jacobkuykendall9325]

I don't care what anyone says, the shots of the cooling smelt were beautiful. Always enjoy liquid rock and metal

[@jimpullman-sr2525]

Hi there Jason. Thank you very much! You do an excellent job explaining the whats and hows of what you do! Plus, has an added bonus, you're a neighbor. I bought my house about 30 years ago about 1 mile from your place. "I've survived the Guide" many, many times. :) It's cool that one of my favorite youtube channels is done by a local. Keep on keeping on...

[@jayjames7502]

How much gold? None of your Bismuth! Sorry couldn't help it... great video, thanks Jason

[@rastaralph7154]

Was just about to say I really like the look of that mine and the veins then you started saying 11 Oz per ton then 21 Oz per ton so no wonder I like it so much. It doesn't take very much quartz to make a ton when you have so many heavy metals throughout it so that's just amazing! 💚💛❤️👍

[@JustinQuilling]

I always like watching you smelt your concentrates. Good viewing. Thanks for this and so many earlier vids.

[@Spudscave]

Your set up is fantastic and your gold recovery is second to none also your knowledge and the way you explain what each stage entails makes this the perfect viewing experience keep up the good work Jason and all the best from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@MakingUsThink]

Jason does have a sweet setup. MBMM creates and builds these. I am sure Jason can even ship & build one in Scotland as well > :) Cheers to our friends over there.

[@rikspector]

Jason, It was a pleasure to meet your Dad and the folks who work with you'all. What a fantastic operation, I don't know where all your energy comes from!!! Sorry I missed you:( Cheers, Rik Spector

[@SMOBY44]

Jason, it would be awesome to see your mobile system at work down at the Oregon mine. Would be interesting to see what a days work on site could produce from all those old mine tailings.

[@NJOwens-ep3hf]

YES !! YES !! If it's feasible to haul it there and ya got water - Jason, please show us what a moderately priced MBMM Complete system can do in that situation, please? Can't imagine that guy would tell ya "no way". ✌🏼

[@samuelsanders9666]

@@NJOwens-ep3hf 👁‍🗨 and you have a good day R2-D2 e

[@maytagmark2171]

I would wonder that the oldest tailings may be the richer.

[@HanstheTraffer]

Easily one of the most interesting channels on KZbin. Thanks for teaching us you great knowledge>

[@blkmamba19]

Good job sir. I mainly kept watching because of your enthusiasm and how informative you are. Good luck on your channel!

[@guybaker5313]

This was well worth the time watching "a mad chemist". Good work!

[@rockman531]

Hi Jason, Great video with great results! Certainly looking forward to your return trip! Best of luck & be safe! Jim

[@talldave1000]

Hey Jason. Great video. I've been waiting for your new video. How exciting it is watching them. I can't wait for the follow-up video

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

Awesome videos brother, thanks for bringing us along and showing us what to look for!

[@murlbailer3755]

I’m not going to remember any of this but I like watching 😂. 🐎🌻✌️

[@johnoconnor4941]

The freeze after the pour is just beautiful. Its just so mesmerising to watch the amazing shifting patterns from the bright yellow to deep reds and, I'm assumpting, yes I said assumpting, I like the non word, black. The valuable metals, to me, are a byproduct of this incredible process. That would make a seriously good screen saver...cut me in if you do this. 5%

[@landofsaguaros8330]

Thank you for the very interesting and educational video. You are a great teacher Jason.

[@patrickc.allenlive4373]

Interesting & exciting ore discovery. Thank You! Jason

[@garyschlagel995]

THANKS, JASON YOUR VIDEOS ARE VERY EDUCATIONAL! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!

[@jeffholmes1362]

Great video Jason, was waiting to see how that ore went. Thanks for sharing

[@underpar3250]

Thanks for posting this. I really enjoyed seeing the whole process.

[@damianstasek8946]

It would be cool if you made a smaller system and marketed to the average hobbyist that could invest and turn some profit on smaller scales. If you could make a system around 15-20k i think a lot of people would jump on it to gwt their foot in the door processing ore and pcb's. Love your vids!!

[@s.d.iprospecting4359]

I cant get over how good this equipment is.

[@johnslugger]

*Note: I used to live in Nome, AK and I used to assay the dirt in the street and garden dirt in peoples back yards. Just the average dirt runs 1/3rd to 3/4 OZ per ton!!! Nome is the richest place on earth! Just amazing. The place should be turned into a 100 mile round open pit mine. At the 500 Foot level it could produce enough Gold to crash the Gold price for 200 years or more. GO THERE ONCE IN YOUR LIFE! All dirt every-where has 10 to 50 colors and flakes per pan full. One spring day after 5 days of hard rain I was driving down the road and in a washout with lots of back sand streaks I picked up 17 ounces of large flat Gold nuggets with my fingers in just a few minutes. RICHEST PLACE FOR GOLD ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH!*

[@blacklabelonthebedrocks]

Hi Jason, Just out of curiosity, wouldn't it be better to moisten the ore a bit and maybe put an old sack (open on both sides, like a hose) at the outlet of the crusher? This would reduce the dust covering the entire neighborhood (at 38:00).

[@VigilanceRifles]

I subscribed. Fascinating. Finally someone showed the whole process. Thank You.

[@RJ-zm3tr]

Love these kind of videos! Great work!!

[@ewaste-jd-preciousmetals3723]

Nice to see how gold is in the tailings of an old mine they left behind.

[@rogerdavies6226]

thanks, you sure changed my learning curve

[@brentsmith981]

...also i find your videos to be the most informative and interesting of those ive viewed..a suggestion: have you considered testing a replaceable hammer mill tooth with a wedge- type impact surface a la a replaceable stamp shoe held in place by a pin? Though it might cut into your profits initially i ll bet more units could be sold if the entire hammer package didnt have to be scrapped or changed out frequently...just the actual worn out impact face. What do you think?

[@StirlingLighthouse]

Excellent. Not bad at all for surface material. Thanks Jason 🙏

[@johncatania2084]

ONE OF THE BEST KZbin VIDEOS IVE SEEN IN FOREVER!! nice work man! your an artist!! ❤

[@markhenderson4204]

Thanks for staying safe and using an air meter!

[@alfredodiego3920]

How do we go in? “Feet first never go in head first” solid advise 😂😂😂😂

[@deerdrickprancer295]

love this, I live in ny an only recently been livin an travelin in north west. seein all the smeltin towers, mines, etc, has had me fascinated with learnin more about topic. so lookin for info found ur videos and truly appreciate u sharing with us wat u know in well articulated, entertaining videos. that gives useful info for those new to topic or well advised in topic

[@AutarchKade]

That view of the molten metal was mesmerizing

[@mattburke4343]

I learn more watching this channel, then I did in school :P Thanks for all the great information.

[@shawndinterman2219]

The precision of that table is crazy. I suspect it needs a lot of fine tuning with each different sample but has to be worth it's weight in gold

[@peedeeaerialproductions]

Absolutely love all your videos brother you do such an amazing job explaining about all this stuff you are very well talented with all the things your capable of keep up the hard work and the videos you post greatly appreciate all of them you share! Take Care, God Bless!

[@thomasackerman3995]

Wow! Thanks for the talk about the cupel. and for taking us along!

[@nevadaminer5977]

Time to start milling some dump material!

[@EastBayFlipper]

I've done some machine design for food production and something occurred to me, if you had a high grader on site, you'd be able to reprocess that discarded quartz and and country rock using optical recognition and mass to discriminate so it would literally run all day and a horn can call the operator to clear any jams. The optics can be trained to direct rock at speed😉👍 The box work quartz in the sweet spots is amazing

[@bacongrz]

Another great video, Jason. Can’t wait to see the video of you scraping your driveway to run through the system one day 👍🏻

[@bfd1565]

That's an acceptable amount of precious metals from the surface talings. Cool stuff.

[@iguanaamphibioustruck7352]

In 1955, I had graduated from Utah State with degree in Aero Technology a pilot and mechanics license. Broke, I got a job at EIMCO in SLC running a drill press. Lee Hansen, a cousin of my dad, was a geologist for Rare Metals Corp and he needed a sampler. Looking at your video I can see you need me. You are probably better at making videos than sampling or geology. And, at 88 I can no longer hump those bags, which were twice that size (around 100 #), I typically used a two pound coffee can (probably Folgers) which you could form to fit the contours of the line. Later I had an aluminum container from a cannister set which was perfect. "The dust you spill could be the difference between Go or No Go" In America because of our government we are known for being innovative. WW2 was won by innovation or "Yankee Know How). If II screwed up a sample i did not get fired, my boss said; " you did it wrong, now you know how to do it right": just don't make the same mistake twice.". That probably would not happen in a country controlled by communists. President Trump probably made some mistakes in his first term but, we can get the benefits of his second term. GET SMART, GET TRUMP. Iguana

[@downyourtube]

Question. If you take a precious metal and put it in liquid form (with acids).. can you take that and stick it in a blast furnace to recover the metal? / Will the metal be left after the acids burn away?

[@BillMulholland1]

Great video Jason. Can’t wait for that future video. 🍻👍

[@michealklonowski5267]

nice thank you for sharing the adventure and information 😀

[@MrJansenenjansen]

Looking forward to part 2!

[@JhonDiamond2021]

Wow... good job mate.

[@jmgoldrush656]

Amazing process

[@wrxs1781]

Good video, thanks for posting.

[@craigdutton6072]

That was a great video 👍would take yrs to get that sorta knowledge 👍thanks fir explaining it all straight forward ✅

[@josephcormier5974]

Excellent follow up video great content thank you for sharing five stars my friend

[@zahoorkhan3698]

Great job Jason keep it up

[@genedavis759]

If you ground the ore finer before processing would that alter the end result significantly?

[@AnthonyMartinez-pd2cj]

Hey pal I have PTSD. THANK YOU for the heads up to turn my volume down. You rock!

[@joshuajackson6442]

Nicely done!

[@professorfalken4600]

Nice work, very informative

[@chrisstrobel3439]

I appreciate this channel and have learned a lot about hard rock mining here. Question .. so who do these small scale gold miners sell their refined gold buttons/bars too, and do they charge some kind of premium on top of the spot price for gold on any given day? Thanks 👍

[@trevorlawrence9427]

Great stuff!!

[@Penrodyn]

Amazing convection cells at 1.01, very interesting to see.

[@dabonemarrow5337]

That first vein looked like abalone in spots!! Pretty Kool!! Godspeed

[@johnnewton8017]

Wow that crusher is efficient!!

[@citylotgardening6171]

Great video and explanation 👍

[@copperkingrecycling634]

Awesome equipment.

[@anthoneyking6572]

Wow some of them OLD Mines would be really worth it for a one man band with your Equipment could make a living Great Vlog thanks

[@ANDYW031084]

You are the best thank you for doing this for us be safe !

[@frantiseklaluch6605]

Hello Jason, I tried cupelation 3 times so far, all with bismuth... The first cupel looks like No 8, my favorite... 🙂

[@JesseJames-rq4ee]

I will say after you pour it into the Cone mold it is a beautiful sight watching it cool down.... The variation to red and yellow and Orange are outrageous

[@automedoniliad3269]

Good video man,no silly reaction face in the thumbnail and you even mentioned and pointed to a timestamp where the results are shown

[@alexanderfenning4441]

Hey, Have you ever done anything with arsenopyrite gold ore? i live up north, there is a mine long closed and abandoned with bits and pieces of ore kicking around in the tailings, some big some small. just curious if this is something smeltable or if it needs to be leeched? you would know more then me! and it was a hard rock underground mine. i know they were high grading the arsenopyrite because i found multiple pieces in the old ore bins that fed the aerial tram to the crusher.

[@RexSkittles]

Jason doesn’t reply to comments. I’ve been trying for years. Bummer I know.

[@orixxboy]

That would be super cool Jason! To see you put some super high grade multi oz ore through your system! I don't think I've ever seen you put anything that amounts to x amount of grams per tonne through it?? And what is the difference between a US gallon as apposed to a European one?? And as always love the content and send much love and respect from Ireland 🇮🇪 👏 ❤️

[@pshattuck1]

Jason - did you study Mineral Processing in college? If so, where did you go. I’m a retired Mining Engineer that graduated from Colorado School of Mines and took several classes in Mineral Processing.

[@fuggnut]

Great video. Can't wait to see what you get from there when you make that video. How do you separate the gold from the silver, just wondering? Best view of a mining tunnel I have seen. I went in a few in AZ. but not that far, no oxi meter. Lot of copper.

[@williamscoggin1509]

This entire video makes me feel like I'm taking a semester at a mining Junior college. 👍🏻

[@tomheater6149]

You gotta love your job!

[@johnslugger]

*You should tell people YOU CAN'T CUPEL in a gas furnace very well, only ELECTRIC works fast since the Cupel LOADS with CO2 in a gas furnace and the Cupeling process dies! Good info just to put out there AND you should run a side by side Demo just for a GREAT DYI video,,, "CAN YOU CUPEL IN A GAS FURNACE?". Would make a great video*

[@sanchopanzaandsonnycrockett]

Excellent, Jason🎉💯🤩🤩🇵🇷🇵🇷

[@brentsmith981]

I was told by a mining engineer to never mount a jaw crusher on metal but use timber mounts due to harmful vibration to machine..do you agree? Also where is your conveyor feed to the impact mill?

[@dodgeit3014]

Awesome video.

[@011CJ]

Thanks for the vid

[@michaelhallii3322]

nice job!

[@scrapyardprospecting3855]

So wish you had that equipment in fun size!!!!

[@bluecraney1]

i love the auto titiles the machinery speeks forein

[@thems_the_brakes]

I had a feeling that mine owner’s gold estimates were low… very unlikely they would have done all that work for a half ounce a ton

[@dawsonryba2627]

Great content

[@moneymike2812]

Definitely robbing this guy 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@thineownentity]

This time investment might generate another claim if this turns out good. :) Kudos on the plan!

[@physicsonline8853]

Fascinating. What a well made video!! Congrats.

[@calebfast8088]

Hey, I'm about to start a mine in Eastern Oregon! Great mining area. :)

[@bryanbrink360]

Hey jason, huge fan. Any chance you do a video on making aluminum bronze. Im getting into casting art.

[@Pa.PatriotProspecting]

Awesome exploration! Dont know if id be doing it now though with all the earthquakes in the ring of fire right now lol

[@gorillagoldhunters]

Awesome video Jason! I am in Southern BC n would love to have your system. I have 600 tons of material ready to be crushed . Doing it by hand has been tricky. I am averaging 3-7 grams a ton. Definitely would love to get your opinion.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

I like that chunk you showed first. I still think that your original idea was better. At around 19:30, where you measure the vain with your hand and again at 19:34, it looks like you can see a speck of gold reflecting.

[@nocapyoulackn3594]

at 15:20 all the shine stuff was gold ??😮 I find this amazing new sub watching every video 😬 addicted already 😂 my kids like wth you watching.. like go away 👋.. great video man.

[@victorjubinville5720]

Jason you have some Grande Cojones going down & exploring those old mines. How is the assaying process different from gold.

[@williamreffett5862]

You can literally get a lot of gemstones from that material that you're looking at right now

[@talavs-jekabsriekstins578]

The lava cooling would make an excellent music visualizer