Mining California Gold

@djdan890says:

What is this new thing with YouTubers and getting them to do their content for them, ask the audience how to do something I’ve been doing for years and acting dumb stupid like you don’t know what you’re doing ohhh want is this oooo what does that do how stupid are my audience

@virginian7317says:

If I may suggest, if iron is what you want, don't use nails. You control your fluxes to the gram but do you really know what's in those nails? A lot of old cars I suspect. Go to your local welding supply and get you 20 lbs of 1/4 inch square cast brazing rods. Snap them to lenght and try them.

@skeeet5758says:

I've got a question why don't you have a detector for that au aka gold. Let's get rid of the guessing game anybody that serious about precious or gold is going to have a gold detector you can run them beads over the Gold detector and it'll tell u. I thought gold out west had silver mixed in with it too what's the essay report on the gold how pure is it do you guys send that out to a refinery to actually see what kind of purity u have..? I know you deal with a lot of third world countries selling equipment to them and you kind of do things like they do simple you like to keep it simple you're trying to train them on a better way or even maybe figure out a better way to do it on the cheap and it makes sense you can't put a lot of money into all those solutions. Just all the places that you know I've been around they had to use solution they had to use acid that's just the way they showed us how to do it too even with the catalytic converter extractions you know we had to use bleach an acid to get it in solution. Palladium platinum and rhodium has a really high melting point and you've got to use to actually u oxygen and acetylene to make it work to melt it down. Those precious metals you've got a filter them through a pump with beakers and they got to be heated there's a lot do that and it takes some special equipment and like I said in the past it has a methane gas to it too so you got to be careful with the vapors. You know I've met people at the scrap yard try to tell me they were gold in the catalytic converter I know exactly what's in that catalytic converter yeah you can probably pull out $700 worth of precious metals but you'll have $300 in solutions to just get like you know final price of everything after you add up all your time and everything you know unless you know time don't mean nothing to you. The ones we did were the honeycomb type of catalytic converter. You know it's even harder now that you know you got people out here taking cold medicine trying to make some kind of drug out of it it looks like the same equipment an uneducated person would say that's what it and it's not you and I know that but somebody that don't know what you're doing you know they get curious they get nosy they assume things. when you gas that solution off you got to take a chlorine tablet and take muriatic acid and make a smoke bottle and it'll take and make it separate in the solution it's the same thing that they do to gas off cold medicine. All the people that were making drugs are using a plastic bottle with batteries a fuel some kind of medication with the contents of a cold pack and then once they cook it off they got to make a gas bottle to separate and all they're using a candle warmer and a Pyrex cup and then they filter through a coffee filter just like you would do to get precious metals. Like I say there's such a process to pulling out all the precious metals a lot of folks just are not into it. Just like the Platinum bead you made they're still platium and rhodium left in there but it would take a solution in my opinion to make it all come apart and separated it. Then he still have to sell it to a refinery to get paid they got to take and make sure that it is exactly what you're saying is and what the purity is

@asjamuir5534says:

Maybe chemical extraction from the iron is needed if you have alot of contaminated iron a few nails maybe a tub that u get round to once u have enough material to run a streettips style extraction process

@TacticalCaveman997says:

These videos make me want to dig 😂 also you can use acid to get the gold from the nails.

@oldinuselesshancox5194says:

Thanks for keeping me company while I drink pot of coffee always a learning experience, love how The lessons in geology from your friend help explain your work
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🤙🏼🤟🏼🖖🏼

@gsellissays:

50:26 – there was a piece in that slab. On the contaminated nails, turn them into powder and magnetically separate it?

@sfbfriendsays:

I enjoy watching the process, from mining to smelting. It is quite a journey. Thinking on the contamination aspect, I see you run a lot of different material through both crushers, do you clean them in-between different runs? Looking forward to more this coming season from your mine. I have enjoyed going through the two bags of muck I bought from you, I have found many pieces of free gold.

@RJ-zm3trsays:

Instead of iron in nail form, could you use iron powder?

@JimNicholssays:

@35:47 something really fluoresced off by itself to the left on the rock when all the lights were out.
Edit and add… I think you have become quite proficient at the oration and writing of the scripting. The videography was spot on and I just think you have become a powerhouse of how 'work related' videos should be.

@laskey2175says:

Does anyone else find it funny to ship the ore through the mail?

@menlikegods363says:

Dan Hurd is gonna come for you to get his GOLD! your nails stole from him! 😂🤣

@WhyamIstillwatchingyoutubesays:

I would maybe use newer nails every time. Not already used ones.

@aaronstrunk4136says:

maybe use powdered iron instead of nails.might be able to be more accurate than chucking a hand full of nails in, might help with inconsistencies in the smelt? investing in a xray gun to narrow down sample composition for a more tailored smelt recipe? just some thought's stay positive and thanks for another awesome video!!

@WhyamIstillwatchingyoutubesays:

Just watched a video from a guy who bought some paydirt from you. 0.6g from 25lb paydirt bag? Whoa! Didn't see that coming. The guy didn't know what to say. lol

@briangroom2755says:

I had a rattle snake sitting on a upper self on my mine in New Mexico and didn’t see him until I was coming back out side I didn’t mine for the rest of the day

@gramos6615says:

I am a person Look for rattlesnakes I enjoy eating them.They are very delicious 3:44

@jeffreywhitmoyer860says:

Metallurgy is often 50% black magic regardless of how much science you put into your process. Put another way, Murphy drives the bus, we're just the passengers! The great thing is that you share the failures along with the successes and the thought process that goes into correcting the failures.

@geilkindmachen820says:

Time for some HCL on low heat, dissolve that iron out after chopping those nails into small pieces, then just add a little more bismuth and recover your gold , if any is there. Just a suggestion but I’ve had same problem in the past and worked for me. P.S. my claims are in the same Valley as MO’s😎

@jereclements9373says:

The problems you had with this experiment is because it is a new ore to you. You have got ore from your mine all figured out with what works. Not all ores are the same and it will take quite a bit of experimentation to get the southern California ore dialed in. I would suggest using the potassium nitrate in your flux recipe (like you did) but leave out the iron nails, this is because as you mentioned this ore is oxidized much more than what you are used to dealing with. Another suggestion,,,,,,, get better pouring tongs for your big crucibles and no not the large channel lock pliers.

@OpenSpaceWellnesssays:

🤔🤔🤔
Got me stumped
🙏❤️🌲

@curtisw831says:

I could've sworn this is a repost and he's posted this entire video before.

@MikeBaxterABCsays:

29:49 Isn't it unusual to find Limonite in the desert?? .. It usually forms in marshy and boggy areas …

@edwardwright6961says:

would it be better to use smashed up cast iron instead of nails that are steel

@snarky_usersays:

My first thought is to stop adding so much iron. Ideally, you'd only add just enough to be consumed. If you don't have any leftover iron, there's nothing for the bismuth to plate to.
Also, if you're adding an oxidizer to break down the pyrites, you're also oxidizing your added iron AND your bismuth. Bismuth also has a blue flame — but bismuth oxide fumes are yellow.

Maybe you're just trying to do to much in one pot, and need to roast the pyrites before you smelt.