Gold Smelting, Is It Worth It? Part 2!!!

[@OpenSpaceWellness]

Thanks for the hard work. 🙏❤️🌲

[@bobhoward6676]

It's all about the fun. All hobbies cost money. At least this has value when finished. I love learning how to do this. Been following for years.

[@Red9GearHead]

Jason many of us greatly appreciate everything you do. The rest of these Karen’s would still complain if you ship them the gold directly. We are living in a world full of unhappy people. Please keep it up brother! I’ll always be here appreciating what you do.

[@juanlui284]

Jason is a genius

[@richardlincoln8438]

Just commenting to feed the algorithm Jason. Best Wishes to everyone.

[@dakartoffel]

Hi Jason, your rock crushing equipment looks nice and is very professional. I hope you can set up a similarly professional smelter someday. This overflowing cone-mould; furnace heldt together by wire and flimsy tools stuff is a stark contrast to the rock crushing equipment of yours. Greetings from Germany.

[@lotharschiese8559]

You noticed, you are paying attention.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thank you Jason, To me You are not what I would class as a " KZbinr" you are a genuinely talented and knowledgeable individual who shares his experiences for us all to enjoy. This is way beyond gold panning but it puts everything in to perspective as it is all part of the process. Thank you buddy 👍

[@NoahMask]

I've really been enjoying this channel, would love to see a collab w/Cody's Lab!

[@kahnfu-zhin8627]

It’s always worth watching you at work, because you’re always experimenting and trying new stuff. We all get to learn about the intricacies of gold recovery, the most fascinating process in the world.

[@chicagovasko]

Jason I appreciate you teaching me this stuff I'm not good in school but with you I learn a lot thanks bro.

[@DavidLittleBird]

Jason, you treat us so right!

[@danje748]

These videos are always interesting to watch, really enjoy them. =)

[@KevinAxt-om5on]

I'll probably never mine for gold or even hobby prospect but its fun watching the videos. Thanks for putting these together. Like the argyle socks!

[@nonosumarno5441]

Nice to meet you... great... hopefully this knowledge will be useful for the benefit of humanity.

[@mikehalvorsen4788]

Hey Jason. A while back you mentioned if you could use chemicals to refine your gold. Not really sure, but I think you still have to go threw the process you go threw first before you use chemicals. Love your videos. Thanks. 😎👍🇨🇦

[@JCTaylorinAZ]

Jason. Love watching your experience with mining. Instead of using bismuth is there a reason you don’t like to use lead. For the mine samples I smelter. To this day we still use lead to absorb the precious metals instead of bismuth. I would also try adding a small amount of silver spool wire to capture the precious metals. Wonder if you would have better success absorbing the lead with boneash rather then the bismuth method. Let me know what you think?

[@izzyburgos9648]

Hey Jason, Im 20 and I stay in Bellingham, Wa. I love your content and would to like to work with you. I’m open to learning and I would greatly appreciate it to learn some of your great knowledge. Thanks again for the great content!

[@davidoconn9352]

Thanks Jason A very interesting video for sure thanks again.

[@JesseJames83]

I'd like to see a part 3 where you show us a worth-while smelt; something that makes a nice profit after time and materials.

[@retselyarrh3895]

How do you separate the gold from the silver???

[@charlesmerfield1322]

Jason, could you use the XRF on the concentrates to better understand what's in them?

[@dewardtaylor4192]

Jason thanks for the great video. Looking forward to you opening your mine this season. Stay safe

[@jamesdetrick6035]

Your videos are very very informative and very entertaining. Thank you for all your hard work well I just sit around and watch

[@petepal55]

Learning has a great deal of value as it can be used for the rest of your life if you document it well.

[@coinjunkyag1626]

Jason! Hey hey buddy love the vids thank you for sharing ✌️

[@CrestoneColorado-yj4we]

I learned, I enjoyed. Thanks Jason

[@markbottcher9623]

Thanks for all your hard work,and mistakes we can learn from. I may not be doing any smelting anytime soon ,but i have learned alot from these vids.

[@TB-zw7dt]

Sounds like it's time to upscale if you have a good supply of rich ore and get your smelting formulations down pat.

[@littlejonathorn6860]

25:45 Jason, is there a way to polish the dirt off or to shine or remove dirt? Would it even be worth it to fix it because its such a small sample?

[@boredtexan]

Great video as always! I'm always excited to see new ones pop up.

[@rikspector]

Jason, I feel the heat:) from here:) Cheers, Rik in Ferndale

[@georgetucker2171]

I appreciate that you show us your mistakes as well as your successes -- thanks!!

[@timothyodonnell8591]

Thanks for the informative video!

[@reddmuldoone7738]

Have been watching your adventures for a while. I haven't got the fever but I do have a sore throat. Is it necessary to use that much flux in your smelts?

[@smokeyandspikeproductions]

If you coat that fire brick with kiln wash your crucible will be less likely to stick prior to pouring.😁👍 Excellent job all around Jason, keep up that great work and good content!

[@zackfalin7266]

You may have done this before, but I'd like to see a detailed cost analysis- how much does the fuel cost for x amount of material, how much does the electricity cost for the cupel, how much do cupels cost and how many times/how much material can you run through them, etc. Kinda boring math, but interesting when all put together.

[@GSProspecting]

Great job all around fam. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠

[@apertureonline9566]

I think I've destroyed gold multiple times, that's what it looks like :( idk why. It's difficult

[@vicferrari9380]

Keep up the great effort.

[@me5768]

Now you should do an Acid removal test to compare with the recovery from the smelting. But I enjoyed your video very much. Thank you.

[@rockman531]

Great videos, Jason! Thank you for taking the time to educate us! Thumbs up - as always!! Be safe! Jim

[@josephcormier5974]

This was a very enjoyable and informative video thank you for sharing this six stars brother

[@mattlevesque5927]

Great video brother 🎉

[@I.Live4oldcars.prospecting]

Interesting video Jason

[@Shaboynga]

Could you crush up old cupels to refine out the copper?

[@المعادن_و_الأحجار_الكريمة]

Thanks

[@jeepin4on4]

Thanks Jason.

[@davidanalyst671]

since when did you start doing clips for business insider??? I had no idea I was watching a star!!

[@semoneg2826]

He was always a star

[@cblock81]

Hey Jason, not sure if anyone has mentioned, but if you put a piece of cardboard under the crucible it won't stick to the firebrick.

[@lotharschiese8559]

A layer of carbon makes it nonstick.

[@varjen018]

Would it be possible to cut the slag into slivers or is it just too brittle? I think it would be epic pieces to display if one could get them thin enough.

[@ahbushnell1]

any advantage of using iron powder? If it all dissolved then the maybe it would reduce the loss.

[@johncasebeer179]

Great video!

[@sahabuddinbuddin667]

Memiliki ilmu melebur dgan resep kimia yg pas bisa menikmati keyaan alam di. Sekitar kita

[@johnkatakowsi9907]

Thanks for the time you took showing your formulation on your smelting!!!!!😀

[@1944chevytruck]

good job!

[@rigel1176]

True true ...... ...like I thought ....... Thank you Jason ,- lot of info !

[@kenchappelle816]

Jason to keep things simple and inexpensive can I use Baking Soda and 20 mule team borax ? Potassium Nitrate is becoming a problem to obtain also because it can be used to make explosives.

[@TheVillageGreen]

Jason, you said it takes a couple hours start to finish for a smelt. I was wondering if you could give us an elapsed time indicator on one of the videos, or maybe you have in the past and I missed it? Also, you often comment on the colour of the button, but it’s difficult to see on video sometimes. It might be helpful to see the buttons next to a pure gold and pure silver button so whatever’s happening with camera/lighting/display we get a feel for the comparison you’re making.

[@josephescott3263]

Is it possible on the first couple of tries that there was no gold in the sample because even though it was wet material, maybe the gold particles settled during shipping and the sample needed to be remixed and possibly dried before testing?

[@Alondro77]

Really want to send you guys a sample of my heavily weathered black sands from an ancient glacial moraine here in central NJ. I've found gold dust and small flakes from panning, but this material comes from eastern Canadian deposits where it's known that flour gold is held inside the hematite and magnetite grains worn out of the quartz ores. I was lucky enough to find a quartz pebble with a broken hematite grain on the surface, and there in the middle a tiny speck of gold could be seen shining brilliantly in the sun (with a magnifying glass to actually see the little thing). From panning various samples, including black sands from marine deposits that don't have any appreciable amount of gold, I can tell these glacial black sands are MUCH denser. The ocean black sands easily wash around with even light swirling of the pan, while the glacial ones are so heavy that it's often hard to separate them from the gold dust. They also possess the ultra fine 'silver sand', which can be anything from lead ores to PGMs (and the ores in eastern Canada are known to have platinum). It'd be a simple smelt too, since any sulfides are long gone. This material has been ground down by glacial action and weathered in the open for at least 10,000 years. I often find quartz stones with cavities where you can see the imprints of the pyrite crystals and masses that oxidized and washed away over time.

[@lotharschiese8559]

Do a SG of these black sands and do a SG of black sands totally removed. Should help answer your intuition! Then crush in a dolly pot to flour and carefully pan, Eh? Look for Au stuck to the steel on the thumper and inside the pot!

[@lotharschiese8559]

Don't ya love nature's mysteries?

[@whateverX7]

Are the black sands magnetic? If you measure the density and it is significantly greater than 5g/cm3 then you might have something interesting

[@frontiervirtcharter]

Hydrochloric or sulfuric acid will dissolve hematite. Might be worth reacting a small sample of your sands with an appropriate amount of hardware store muriatic acid (HCl) to see what's left when the hematite is removed

[@Alondro77]

@@lotharschiese8559That really would be very cost-prohibitive. I'd have to buy all that equipment to test a few pounds of black sand. It'd be MUCH cheaper to send Mount Baker a sample and let Jason smelt it. He has the expertise to do it right and get a result I can have faith in.

[@miketheminer2023]

Always good info Jason

[@AminAlwily]

Please Jason, u add oxidize Oxidize of what, please? I'll be grateful to you 😮😊

[@TechGorilla1987]

@20:52 - Very few things make me say "Whoa" like I was in a Bill And Teds Excellent Adventure movie, but that reaction to the steel is one of them.

[@Khusringoldminers]

Amazing very good, good luck

[@anotherluckydad]

Thanks for the brain food Jason. That was a great example of techniques.

[@CrushTheRocks110]

Nice brother

[@cigie2]

I feel like there has to be a more efficient way to extract the precious metals from the concentrate. Have you ever considered using acids to fully dissolve the concentrates, then precipitate out specific metals and separate them that way?

[@timhenson4815]

Always enjoy all the information you give us ! Great content!

[@candui-7]

I found what I believe is a pure acanthite vein Jason! Can I bring it over?

[@lotharschiese8559]

Mail it him.

[@thomasgalpin5506]

thanks for such good info

[@mickeyfilmer5551]

You have a fabrication shop there- why don't you make yourself a decent sized smelter? There are loads of videos online on how to do it and from what I have seen of your equipment, you have the necessary tools and skills set to fabricate one. Then you could smelt larger volumes and make it cost effective- also buld a larger pyramid pouring jig and some properly forged tools for holding and pouring the melt- the set up you have currently is not safe for pouring - watch some videos online of people smelting and you will see the tools they use- easily made in your shop.

[@lotharschiese8559]

Yes, I have concerns also, there is plenty of info on how to be more functional and safer. Build up over your furnace, a fume hood, much like a blacksmith had with a good size exhaust fan. Metal poisoning, whether it be air or water is not fun and it will creep up on you, it accumulates in our body!

[@tominthebox]

GM from Montreal.

[@bradical2723]

Jason im in MT! New to gold panning and such, can i come visit your mine???

[@scruggsbuster9458]

Maybe if you put your samples on black paper you might be able to see them😂 but thank you for the video and all your hard work making the videos for us we will see you on the next one😂❤

[@apertureonline9566]

Well when I used silver for my smelts, i ended up gaining around 2-5 grams of what should be like 93% pure gold. When I use lead, I lose about 2 grams of the lead. I was gonna try these cupels you used in the video, I havent been using nails just because theyre slightly annoying, idk if thats gonna cause a big issue. I got some stuff to try, if I keep failing then I guess ill just have to try and figure something else out

[@markae0]

I would like "sreetips" opinion on dissolving - extracting the gold in - from an acid.

[@derrickseymour6775]

I wonder if it would be worth trying to suspend the iron bar while smelting to avoid it sitting in the bismuth. Just a thought

[@Sauspreme]

instead of adding big chunks of iron to get eaten away to reduce the collector metal, what would happen if you figured out a ratio and weighed out an amount of iron to add to the mix? that way you don't have excess chunks of iron covered in collector metal. Or at least it would seem you could reduce the size of those excess iron chunks and the loss of collector metal maybe. Or would that cause some other kind of contamination issue?

[@garrethill1332]

Are you allowed to use a very small trackhoe?

[@anthonyrstrawbridge]

Would a hybrid fire assay chemical refining be beneficial?

[@harvesteasternedge]

Great

[@scott2296]

Why not roast the samples in a campfire (make some hotlinks while you're at it), then use AR instead of smelting? I'm new here, sorry if this is a dumb question.

[@Ethan-xm4fv]

Jason looks like your getting the work out with pouring #12 s

[@donaldfitzgerald8950]

Jason, alchemists are like magicians, but you understand what's happening and that's what counts!... I'm lucky if i can remember my name sometimes!? Lol! But spring is coming, wouldn't a horizontal drilling machine help you with your mine, that's what's needed at the mine at Cerro Gordo, ya think? Keep it all happening...⛏️⚒️⚖️👍✌️🤠

[@jimgriffiths9071]

All interesting, but what we really want to know is the values from your mine samples. Will there be a season 2 up on the mountain?

[@Sean-q1k]

I was thinking the same thing

[@rooftopv4664]

He sells all the high grade stuff on Ebay and crushes the low grade stuff that's left. We will never know the real value of that ore...

[@bentationfunkiloglio]

Rebar might be better than flat bar. Less surface area for bismuth to fuse to.

[@gregwaters944]

When you have gold and silver together how do you separate the two?

[@markpashia7067]

Have you ever scratch/acid tested the beads/buttons to get a closer number on the percent gold? Seems that would be an easy way to value them. Is the button 22k, 18k, 14k or 9k? That info with the weight would give you a real value number. Of course that does not value the silver content though.

[@markramone69]

What kind of temperature do you recommend to smelt a 1kg bar?

[@markbrown6236]

I like the math done on a piece of cardboard, very down to earth.

[@domonikoldham7387]

was this a reupload or am i mistaken i think this was posted 2 weeks ago

[@AlexWalford-jm3mg]

This make me want to buy a gold mine and do the same thing Jason is doing

[@williamp2359]

I think you messed up. I haven't watched all of this, but the first 3:58 are the exact same as part 1.

[@semoneg2826]

It's a recap

[@fishinarkansas3348]

You watched the first 4 mins. But missed the first min? How my brother in christ is your brain mush?

[@mikehartman5326]

Sometimes, I think using plain old Lead might bring better results.

[@scotthultin7769]

38 👍's up mbmllc thank you for sharing 🤗

[@SirHackaL0t.]

I was surprised that you filled up the first crucible so high as you were worried about boil over.

[@idiggold]

Maybe the flatbar gives more iron surface area compared to the nails

[@patmccrady6063]

I would’ve like to see the comparison of a lead collector

[@greenfrog12428]

Is he reposting the same videos? I thought I watched this already

[@phlomix]

Yeah, seems like a remix of part 1, with bits of new mixed in.

[@barrybrehm3555]

I still don’t understand why you don’t dry your sample like you used to. It should make it better.

[@levimichael1136]

The bismuth that fuses to the steel, couldn't you heat the steel up to 1000°F and the bismuth would roll off and the steel wouldn't melt? Same thing as you did with the matte at the end.

[@frontiervirtcharter]

Depends if bismuth and iron combine when they melt .. The part of the bismuth that soaked into the iron won't just roll off.

[@levimichael1136]

@@frontiervirtcharter it looked like the bismuth was plated on the outside. Iron doesn't melt until a lot higher Temps. That's why I was thinking the plated bismuth on the outside would run off if heated up

[@robo6590]

Bachman Turner Overdrive must have watched a lot of Jason.