Crushing Rocks to Extract Gold

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[@happyface7342]

Who's the knob hitting the thumbs down 😡😡 This is the Top channel for top content, keep em coming Chris 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@VendettaProspecting]

Fosho

[@roymichael851]

Very informative info, thank you for posting this, I liked everything you mentioned but especially liked the tip of you tossing the round magnet in the pan; since the fines are so small I think I would run those over my Miller Table to recover those small specs....great video, I learned stuff from you.

[@rebeccavigil8445]

This was helpful, thank you! I'm pretty new to this but just found some ore with quartz and chalcopyrite and I was a bit disappointed but now I'm gonna process it and see if there's anything in it!

[@captnron59]

Strange, just yesterday I crushed a rock that was smaller than my palm and got three specks of gold. Promising. Good video.

[@noobtify]

Wait i crush my rock and it has gold looking cristal i dont know what it is but it comes from a small rock

[@noobtify]

Btw nice

[@captnron59]

@@noobtify there is crystalline gold, but if it isn't like lead and flattens but crushes its most likely pyrite.

[@noobtify]

Its definetly fools gold😑

[@noobtify]

Btw where do you get your gold??

[@kerrypitt9789]

Chris it is not that cold here but still it has been -11C here so far, but in days to come that will be shorts and T-Shirt weather as we hit -35C or colder. I think I need to live in Australia through your summer then come home for our Summer LOL. So have you seen those rock crushers that work of either a high speed drill or grinder motor? Would that work for you better than the steel pounding tool?

[@johnfercik2870]

Yeah 😊 👍 that sun gets Hot. And the air gets cold. I go out and about and idk why but it's like I look at rocks like that and find them all over the place but it don't look like gold but it sure tingles in my hands when I hold the rocks. So I thing gold is it the rock but must be microscope.?? Just remember drink lots of water 💦 when out and about.

[@48thstateprospecting]

Mmm you found the source eh very cool I reckon your going to need a better crusher than your dolly pot we use my friends air impact tool for crushing it’s a lot less energy spent and so much faster than by hand and getting down to powder is a breeze got an air compressor? Best of luck processing the ore can’t wait to see the vids thx for sharing see you on the next one👍🏻👊🏻

[@revenevan11]

I've seen some rigs to crush for sampling that use angle grinder, drill, or other power tool motors too. I'd love to see Chris get set up with one of them as he investigates this ore's source. So far it makes sense for him to have stuck with the ol' Aussie "dolly pot," since he's mostly on the creek looking for mustard with the occasional hot rock or hunting for the reef gold. Now might be the start of a different story! 🍀🤑👍

[@48thstateprospecting]

@@revenevan11 hard rock gold is the hardest part of mining but definitely worth it when you find a good source

[@ventura9513]

Gday Chris,,, have you ever thought of making a small crusher attached to a grinder,,,,,, i made one like the cobra crusher,,, works a treat hey,,,,

[@tezzasbigbuz3933]

Be careful of silicosis using that all the time. I seen tons of powder dust when you put into the siv

[@trich6242]

Tell me about the floating magnet? that is the first time and probably the coolest way I've seen to remove the black sand!! I live in Colorado and the amount of black sand here is ridiculous.

[@foxmulder7616]

Where do you get a metal bar like that??

[@Ryukai-san]

00:25 Interesting fact - Game disks can only hold about 50 gig of data, for games larger than this it would require multiple disks. So it's cheaper for the game publishers to just host the data on their servers and only put the download program instructions and authorisation key on the single 'game disk' that you buy. 🤑 And yes, I miss the days you could just buy a finished and complete full game and just play it. 😞

[@VoGusProspecting]

They should just sell games on flash drives.

[@lordtraxx4217]

Ah I’m so jealous to see sunshine, tank top & green grass.. it’ll be another 6 months until our weather in Montana is nice enough to go prospecting

[@VoGusProspecting]

Oh no! See i prefer cold weather !

[@markpashia7067]

@@VoGusProspecting But do you like about minus twenty three C ???? That is about normal for a Missouri winter low. Montana is even colder. What is your normal low for your cold season there?

[@rolojones3212]

Love your work Chris.

[@VoGusProspecting]

Much appreciated

[@shawnwolfenbarker3327]

I wonder if you can crush pyrite nodules and get any gold

[@WestCoastGoldProspecting]

I can’t stand how long and complicated it is to play a game now. Bought call of duty 6 months ago and still haven’t played at all. Data pack missing 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️😕

[@aforgottennativeamerica8439]

The black is most likely black onyx or a pyrite

[@williamsnapp2605]

Looking forward to seeing the videos 🤠

[@silverback5033]

Interesting video, thanks Chris, More interesting rocks to keep in mind when out fossicking. Keep Safe & Keep Rockin

[@kirtearney]

I got a ton of really nice material and don't have Any help processing,

[@Crumbcat4life]

Can you find gold in plain quartz

[@meanboycoins6250]

Where is my invite to come move to Australia so I can find BIG gold? 🤞🧐🤓😉🇦🇺 And... dude ... you need a jaw crusher 😳

[@jorojinnomad549]

Good find, cant wait for the videos,,, yay

[@VoGusProspecting]

Me neither

[@dbdbdb1111111]

Yeah for samples its actually good. Theres more you cannot see to recover and it becomes even more important with volume. Only technique that comes to mind is the mercury awful way, (dont do that pls) but im sure in modern days theres safer methods used to recover it.

[@VoGusProspecting]

Fire assay is the way to go for sure

[@shanebehringer7952]

Hey man I'm just here...I haven't gotten the lavish contract grizzly got...so take it easy fella 😂💛which dog was that I dont recall the name?

[@davebudlong7860]

Very Cool video Chris

[@ozisgood8867]

Spalding= tennis ball. Spalling= flake of steel

[@VoGusProspecting]

Well there you go

[@JohnDoe-jv4vn]

Pigs don't sweat

[@samueljames9342]

Is the rubber band around the pot to reduce ringing?

[@tinatomasetti]

Hey good point! I’m going to try that! Thank you

[@CARLOSCESPEDESbiocihealth]

Good Job. !!!!! Excelent.

[@noahgrimwood5936]

Hi I'm a Big fan I would like u to reply to me so you can give me some tips for where to find gold thanks

[@amul81]

Brother God bless you.iam gather many gold recover stones but i do no how take goldseperat.not acids and melted things help me brother.iam poverty family and meteorite stone in my house but which type stone i do no .but i think that it is meteorite stones

[@judsonmototaxi4792]

Será que tem traduzir seus video?

[@laurajohnson2192]

Rodney reed

[@krakhedd]

.....but it had "ore" the right ingredients 🤣

[@khanji6442]

Good 👍

[@grantrennie]

I have some ore that you might like to see, what's your Facebook page for photos in a few days?(am overloaded with things to do just now)

[@AyouGuysProspectingTM]

Nice

[@edwardmcbain5730]

nice.

[@VoGusProspecting]

Thanks

[@hiddentruth1982]

warzone or the new new one?

[@ivannightly1919]

interesting i use a chain saw rock crusher (its very portable) similar to this one, only no drill. made an arm to mount it on and attached my old chainsaw motor to it mine has chains inside I guess if you got lots of battery packs this be an easier idea kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWW4fadoetKpaKc mine was home made from a 6" length of 12" dia pipe and a feeder with two square plates either side and 4 large bolts in the corners not pretty but gets the job done and built from stuff in the shed

[@AgateDad]

Last game I played was "Borderlands: The Prequel" and thats while I was deployed overseas. Miss that game!

[@bcrouch2626]

Why miss it they still have borderland games

[@LarsonProspecting]

Hey vo-Gus and hey everybody!

[@699hazard]

Nothing beats a gaming session in the aircon when its 30+degrees outside.

[@Cripit65]

beer always wins

[@jerrydesgranges8294]

Awesome video here Chris. Lol. I have about a 10 gallon bucket of quartz rocks or (about 120 pounds of quartz) that I have been collecting from different areas here in east Tennessee. Like the 2 first ones you showed in the video then you pulled that third one out. That was nice in the color of minerals. And I have 2 homemade portable hand rock crushers I had made from a flat iron bar and some steel pipe. Lol. I use a small sledgehammer about a 2 to 3 lb to crush my rocks up in my homemade portable crusher.. I like to do fabrication work in my spare time and cut, weld and build different things. 😂

[@frantiseklaluch6605]

Ahoj Chris... Crushing and processing ore... Next level of goldprospecting :-) "Gold in stone" achievement obtained... :-)

[@Diamond-D]

Awesome I live in Connecticut I just found two nuggets weighting .1 of a gram. I just started paning in my creek

[@alexkaring]

Good find, but man that iron can be a pain to break apart. I've got spot called iron mountain where there's tons of it mixed in with a bit of gold.

[@lhajwalou3589]

شكرا جزيلا لك

[@JS-kg3ml]

That rock u crushed looks like the rocks I find in town and lots of pyrite and sliver on the great lakes where sliver harbor is located lol that a half hour drive and the gold is in the Bush the other way lol but as a sample that is amazing to find I think ur on the reff already or very very close cheers Chris and enjoy some Cod

[@jaygresham7633]

Awesome information in all your videos and such a Great Presentation ! 😁 I was just thinking that with "Vo-gus prospecting", "I brake for Bedrock" , "Nugget Shooter journals" and "Ask Jeff Williams" that I have the amazing opportunity to experience the best all around Gold mining and hunting instructional videos in this Hobby/business on the old Interweb. I couldn't ask for a more invested group who's interests cover all aspects and enjoy what they do. 🤔 I've watched hundreds of others ! I live for the new ones and continue to watch the older ones at will no matter how many times I've seen them before. Downtime to de-stress and enjoy ! 😊 Keep'um coming, I'll be Watchin' ! Good luck on your search for the source ! I'm all new to this and have been shutdown because of my health this winter. The Doctors are diligent , with a great prognosis and I'll be ready to jump on the Gold next year. "A heartfelt Thank You for helping me thru this" ! 😉😁😎

[@jaygresham7633]

Thanks so much ! I know there are many other good ones out their, but I think these four provide the best all around content together. I'll check out those others as well. Thanks for the information. 😁😎

[@Qeerty-wb5rl]

تحية وتقدير لجهودك اخي هذه الصخرة يوجد بها أوكسيد الذهب وهذا يذهب مع الماء تعامل معها بالطريقة الكيميائية وستكون النتيجة افضل

[@9in_21]

There are places at km 45 of the sukunka forest service road on your way up to hole-in-the-wall national park, right before km 45 up over a small bridge, going over a creek, if you go there and pan for gold, or find rocks amd break them, you will 100% get gold, i found a rock with alot of chunks of shiny colors in it and one looked just llike gold so go check it out 👍

[@MrStrobey]

Turn off the Cheywynd-TumblerRidge road at Oetco!! Thanks for anything

[@whoknowswhat8180]

IK the feeling same with the Xbox. But if you see Walking Hammy playing that's me bro...

[@michealklonowski5267]

my like button doesn't want to work .but great job as always. thumbs up nice test run .thank you for sharing.

[@VoGusProspecting]

Thanks again!

[@AgusMujiono-ix3jy]

Hai cris ...kiranya anda menambahkan terjemahan bahasa ke tiap vidio anda. Itu akan sangat membantu. Untuk kami yg tidak mengerti bahasa anda ..trima kasih cris ..salam indonesia...

[@republicofcasuals]

I love rock crushing videos at it helps show what has yet to make it's way into a creek, sluice or pan. You gave me a great idea for the summer to GPS pinpoint rock samples instead of loose dirt samples and see if i can find a path back to a source just from rock crushing. Bit of a long shot but you showing your rock samples and them having gold or not is great knowledge to have and therefore a good indicator of what to look for. Please do more or even make it a weekly video and call it (The Weekly Crush) 😁👍

[@FAITHFUL-SERVANT-OF-GOD]

I love finding thiefs who trout fish

[@asjamuir5534]

Thanks for the vid Chris the upcoming videos sound awesome always nice to see ore crushing my fingers are crossed u hit a rich patch that u might have to get a small impacter crusher @danhurd shame Chris’s would have been an awesome vid on ur borrowed crush keep on the excellent informative vids

[@rkb6783]

Hammer mill... Processes a hell of a lot more ore. Very little effort... MORE TIME FORE GOLD PROCESSING.

[@bsfishing7073]

😂here I am going back on my own adventure and skipping rocks that would look like this kind of stuff but it was not a gold bar so I just walked away from it 😅now I’m here thinking damit

[@MrInsaint]

Thank You mate👍 I blazted out a big chunk of pyrite ore that contains 419 ppm of gold🤩

[@dogit1840]

COD call of duty sucks DayZ day one server DayZ 0 server I've been watching for months they're aresome bad players but I think the the good outweighs the bad

[@robertzfindingz3512]

good on ya mate .. always a good vid from vo-gus .. -- ay the games are addictive .. i have a ps3 but dang i dont think i even wanna upgrade if i gotta download multiple dvd's worth !! we all have our vices .. that cod is nothing less than a realistic boot camp training virtual warfare simulation .. and kids under 18 shouldnt be playing it .. but they do .. and u can hear their voices becoming foul, as a 10 yr old shouldnt be doing warfare, much less an adult if they can help it !

[@MOTOMINING]

It drives me nuts not having a dolly pot, there is so much dirty quartz on my claim! What's an X-Box?

[@dewasugiarta1466]

Hi Chris thanks for your videos. I am manylearn it topics to crush rocks can the gold. Thanks for your. From Indonesia.

[@ryanleonhardt674]

Hey man miniscule those were, but how long did that take 15 mins? If you did that 8 hrs a day you would probably make out okay

[@bsfishing7073]

I’m imagining this being done with mineer on the entrance of the mines and this would be after all the work of cheping on the mountain all day long 😅so much work to get to the central gold deposit

[@mrparrehesian1742]

Chris you NEED this rock crusher! 911 kzbin.info?search_query=dewalt+powered+rock+crusher

[@seanb3516]

When breaking rocks you must ensure that the equipment you are using is mounted or placed on a NON-DEFORMABLE surface. If the surface can deform, such as soil, or if the surface can reshape such as with cobbles or gravel then energy is lost to the Plastic Deformation. This also includes springy surfaces such as rubber mats that are used to mitigate the noise of the process (PONS or Pissed Off Neighbours Syndrome).

[@Asif-d9u9c]

Guys what if i crush stones in grinder?? Or we have to follow manually crushing rules.

[@loganmadeley4252]

Thank you so much for making these videos. My partner and I learn so much. Always look forward to your videos mate!

[@VoGusProspecting]

Great to hear!

[@krisdoyle3031]

Dan Hurd has a pretty cool rig for crushing ore ,some type of angle grinder type thing .check it out👍

[@PrincessKeonna]

Went to a water fall and thrown a rock that cracked open had clusters of geode and gold idk what to do with it toke all the parts and each section sparkles

[@asagutierrez390]

Hi, Cris have you ever heard or tried drowning those powdered stuff to what they've called "AGUA REGIA"to dissove and drain all what ever solid gold in it then precipitates it w/SODIUM META BI SULPHITE ,then dried the powdered gold for smelting then dipping the button gold in NITRIC ACID to dissolve every base metals still left in that button🤓😎🤔

[@WHAMaTRON]

Cold War sucks bad 😒. Like if you agree

[@graysonhicks3701]

What's your gamer tag would love to game and talk rock I do ip and have been looking to expand an learn more of the other areas

[@audigga4396]

Hi Chris thanks for your videos. I have learnt so much in just watching a few of your videos and increased my pan gold returns. Your videos and my dogs help to keep me sort of sane.

[@VoGusProspecting]

Thanks mate, great to hear the video are helping.

[@komsatunabdulhadi3089]

Thanks you.. please bahasa Indonesia 🙏🙏

[@foxmulder7616]

Get it red hot then put it in cold water and it'll be much easier to crush. Quartz ore anyways.

[@mspencley164]

Great vid Chris! Might be time to bring a portable crusher with ya on your next trip there, looked like a really good spec count. Who knows, maybe you’ll be a hard rock miner soon too!.. Good. Luck and stay safe! Ps. I liked that smash button!..lol

[@VoGusProspecting]

I'd love to do more hard rock stuff

[@mspencley164]

@@VoGusProspecting It sure would be sweet if you found a sustainable mine there for sure!. Might be time to put a claim on it before someone else jumps it on ya!.. ( that would suck!)

[@jenzabell79]

Did the other rocks in the video also have gold? Or did you not end up crushing them? I have several that are similar looking to the first one you show... Not sure if I want to crush them or if it would be worth the time. :) TIA

[@brendanbradford3867]

Whats ur psn big fella if u dont wanna put it on here u can send it to my Facebook messenger

[@katrinadavis2730]

So like do they actually buy your gold dust? Or is that just a pipe dream To?

[@hightargetsuppliesco.884]

Bro.. I have that item in my hand. But, i need your help to teach How to proses

[@dogit1840]

I play heroes and generals but I haven't played in months not like I used to

[@IanBrodie-bg1lu]

Encouraging,at the back of my house about 400 metres away,I have 3 ironstone reefs at the head of old gold workings.I have collected some stone and have nearly finished an ore crushing machine.Hope i get results.

[@VoGusProspecting]

That's super cool

[@FAITHFUL-SERVANT-OF-GOD]

Was there iron rods on thise high banks huh. Babylon beware

[@RogLotHotHoW]

Hi, do you think getting it through 0.1 mm size sieve is good or too hard by hand and 2nd question, what is "dry washer", is this liquid soap, or? (Sorry, not native speaker)

[@johnmead8437]

Dry washer is a system to extract gold from dry material, as opposed to wet material being washed in a gold pan. Can use gravity (dry panning), shaking dry or blowing the lighter material away etc. There will be examples on YT

[@dave5litre462]

Use a hammer drill with a modified chisel bit,example weld a piece of round bar on and you will cut the time down by 2/3 and won’t get RSI even though you’re a gamer

[@VoGusProspecting]

Ypu mean like the this bit we made a year ago? kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGKZfpears10rpI

[@squizitzithatsitalianforyu4782]

Squizitzi that’s Italian for yummy 😋

[@montanatreasurehunter9600]

That was a nice sample. I hate new games also having to download them. Thanks for the video Chris

[@allanansaan1382]

Hi gd morning myron po aq ganyan bka pareho

[@WASRT001]

An ad every 2 mins? Don't have the patience for that. Moving on.

[@VoGusProspecting]

Unlucky, I only added 2 ads. KZbin adds the rest

[@subramanyamraju4413]

Dear friend use seives astm and bs seives last seve 230 mesh size is better.

[@dsamontefamilia999]

i have a stone..i dont know if gold in this inside? please help?

[@dontask8979]

Time to crush about 10 tons. 😉

[@caseykelso1]

Isn't black sand 99% magnetic Why didn't it pick up all the black sand

[@VoGusProspecting]

Because it's tin. And it's not magnetic

[@naturelover1274]

Please pick me, lol. Like the content!

[@dewasugiarta1466]

Hi...where the state you stay...thanks.

[@BullProspecting]

#BullProspecting