As I watch you push your cart along the rails I couldn't help but think "I want to hear him sing 'hi-ho hi-ho it's off to work we go.'" Great video.

Please make more of these. It’s really hard to find videos of small scale hard rock mining underground. Really interesting to see what the old timers would have done compared to modern mining Mostly the mining part not the crushing ect.

Jason is a great narrator. MBMMLLC makes amazing gold processing equipment. Kudos 👍

oh man ....that looks like fun.... good job on the returns ...keep'em coming sonny Jim.

@danhammon2521

3 жыл бұрын

Of course my other favorite channel watches this channel👍👍👍🇺🇸

@KowboyUSA

3 жыл бұрын

Someone call Slim and we'll have a full party.

@chibigon01

3 жыл бұрын

Come on!!! Let's go!!!

@slimpikens

3 жыл бұрын

@@KowboyUSA I'm here

@Wess-S

3 жыл бұрын

Gotta see a collab between you two.

My back and body aches just watching this. You should be proud of your strength and determination

@20PINKluvr

3 жыл бұрын

Miners would definitely have to be physically fit to endure this kind of work

Great work, I like how you showed everything from start to finish

Nothing gives you more appreciation for efficiency, than having to move TONS of dirt and rock.

Thanks a bunch for the walk through the mine and a well thought out mill my friend. As a steel machinist/fabricator I can appreciate a good machine. Very smooth flow and control.

Loved the details you put in this video, you did an awesome job! Loved every part of it, you guys rock, and keep up the good work ;). Lifetime subscriber here!

Truly enjoyed being brought along to get the complete processing tour.Great job on the narration made it easy listening and informative.Keep it golden David out.

I really enjoy the learning process. Thanks for taking us along

Hi Jason! I know that you have been working so hard on and dying to show us all the beginning to the end of gold mining. From extracting to ore, moving it to your truck and then bringing it back and processing it from the very beginning on your system to the end, I love this video you did a great job and I am just as impressed now as I have been since I discovered you on KZread Jason thank you very much! Sincerely Dave Johnson

Thank You for the full run thru, A string of Led's & some fine tuning & You'll be all dialed in !!! Be Safe & HH

You the man . I've been watching and waiting. So sweet you getting help . This is going be good. Nice watching all your smelting stuff. Lots of information. Love it. Keep it up.

This is an excellent , all inclusive video really nicely done! I link your content to others.. Thanks again!

Thanks again for sharing life with enthusiasm and passion for the mines

Wow that's a lot of work I like the facet you came up with not using no wheels on your cart

Thank you for this travel from prospection to raffined metal ,first time i see all process .

I've been watching your videos for over four hours. Awesome.

Hello from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👋

I just stumbled on your video today. This will be the fourth one I’ve washed in a row. I did a little gold panning in Idaho back in the 60s with my dad. Later on in life I tried it with my kids but I never found any gold to speak of. Of course I was told by somebody there was a little bit of gold dust in the bottom of my thimble size bottle. Probably wasn’t even true. Anyway very interesting keep up the videos I’ve really enjoyed them. Maybe I’ll give it a try again one day.

I would like to say that I am learning so much from your channel. Keep up the good work.

What a consistently good channel. Thanks for the effort mate.

all the very best from Australia, I am sure we can use some of your gear, love your narration and so well explained.

Brilliant tramp n trolley system, loved how you showed the hammers n the mill n jaw crusher setup! Thank you

Nice Project Jason! Hope you and your crew get a lot gold out of there! Regards from Germany

You really know your shit man. I'm truly impressed. Thank you for sharing. Keep up the great work my friend!

Great video start to finish, good to see that famous old mine is still producing!

Great info, thanks for the tour and maintenance

Thanks for giving me gold fever again!!!

I really hope the bullion dealers pay you well. The amount of work that you put into this process is really appreciable and needs to be highly rewarded

@ChrisPBacon-yz6nk

3 жыл бұрын

If it was four 9’s pure then that was about $1,000. But it’s not so probably around $800. He only showed a glimpse of the backside of that button and it looked nasty. 3 men and that equipment, he needs more than that. If he could process 3 tons per day he would be making bank.

i love you showing the whole process.

Yeah... 1 of my favorite channels 👍👍💰🇺🇸. Good job

You should use the energy of the bucket going down to the truck to pull the other buckets up out of the mine.

Very helpful and detailed video. I think you spent at least 4 days to make this video.

@dennisjamieson3328

2 жыл бұрын

Good information video

@dennisjamieson3328

2 жыл бұрын

Hard pushing

I saw both vids on either side of this one, How did I miss this when it came out?? This is some good content.

loved this video great viewing and content

Man you are a credit to the old timers, and an inspiration to all us wage slaves dreaming of a better life.

Love the set up. 😊

Badass brother working hard good work keep it up 💪

Your videos are fascinating 👏.

You have what I call "Heart". That's what made me healthy wealthy and wise. Thanks for sharing your ❤

So cool! Thx for sharing!!

Cool video! Good job dude.

Can’t wait to see this work. James in Australia 🇦🇺

You make it look so easy!

awesome video. nice lighting would be great. love to see what it actually looks like in there:)

I had the same problem with my jaw crusher, wear. I used grader blades eventually. I switched to a pulverizer after. The jaw crusher went to 1/4 in then pulverizer. Good luck

It good to see some Washington state gold still coming out of the mines. I’m on the Eastside and prospect the Metalline & Northport areas- mostly all placer though

Hey Jason. The barrier to entry even in a small operation like this is just too great for most artisanal or small miners. Everybody seems to have lots of ore but the cost to process it is time consuming and money consuming. The people and groups that buy your equipment should be some sort of consortium, like the old day. Somebody owns the equipment and you bring in your ore and put it through the process for a fee. probably make more money than mining the gold itself. A flat per ton fee.......

A dust mask please, mostly when shoveling. You don't want to problems later in life, like I have.

awesome video never seen anything like this before

Very simplistic rail system

I seen where an old mine had used wood rails they took metal slats an aid them over the edges so the cart don’t wear the wood down 👍 cheap and efficient

I like the rail and trolley system very cool

Hi Jason !!! great job friend

For the downhill run, have the full bucket pull the empty bucket for you. Check out a guy in England that does demo of chimney's, his loaded bucket raises the empty bucket.

This is awesome!

New subscriber. Very nice set up.

Sweet video m8s, Cheers, HnC

Man that’s a sweet button, wish I lived in your area, I’d offer you my refining services, see how much gold , silver and platinum group metals are in that...

That's a lot of work for so little. Labor of love

That's amazing!!

Looks like an interesting place to work on this mines returns. Let’s find lots of gold

You’ve got it , great explanation! Good job sir!...I mean sonny Jim...

Wow this is too cool

Best channel ever.

If you can run your pulley horizontal one side can function as a in while the other side an out. Slow motor outside. Might have to run a line in for a remote stop start. Plus you can wax your 2x4s to reduce friction

Fascinated by this

That’s my ring. Lol great videos

The strength in wood framing is in compression. We stack one piece on another. The only time we hang a piece by the end is if it sits in a hangar made for that purpose. Around 5 minutes it is clear that the whole weight is hanging on a couple of screws. Put blocking under the rails, not just in the side. By the way. Nails are way stronger than screws. Screws break often just from vibration and the wood swelling and shrinking.

nice mine

I guess your still at it. Didn't notice newer updates😭. It helps to have all the free help I bet. Good luck guys.

I always enjoy watching the full process, it would be nice to know what size machines you are using as you are using them . Like is the rock crusher a 10-ton per hour Rock crusher? Thanks again, as usual it's very entertaining, and as everybody else feels, hoping to need some of your equipment one day soon.

Thx awesome info!!!!

Thank you

Right on you guys....

Your best video yet! Looks like you did your final cupelling without adding any lead or litharge? Stay thirsty my friends and keep makin' gold.

need to do a tilting part to allow both buckets to stay level as you pull it up. also look into doing a small battery operated winch. itill save your back.

Jason, it’s been awhile since this installation ;) would love to see the advancement of the face ⛏⛏⛏

Nice 🥇

Enjoyed watching your video very nice operation for finding and recovering and extracting process of your gold great job.🙂 Was curious though why you didn't go with overhead rail system like old barns have for moveing hay bails?

Hey sorry one more tip I’ve seen mills each hammer has a rubber washer made with tire tubes some have bought neoprene but it doesn’t work as well and the reason is that the rubber actually cuts down on vibration or the harmonics and it will cause the hammers and all the other mill parts to wear much slower. I get this is a comment insinuating it’s a opinion. However doing this will cut down on wearing components and mill much faster better and cleaner. However the rubber that’s added cannot bind the hammers they still need to be free moving. Having these rubber washers type pieces on both sides of each hammer and not preventing it free motion will greatly increase your production of its task. Believe it or not it’s simple and worth a try. It will save you so much. Vibration or the wrong resonance will have a huge negative effect.

Just thinking out loud here.... but for safety, I think one of the best investments you could make would be some LIGHTING for inside the mine. Then, install a small winch system at the adit. You could run both on a generator of sorts. I mean, you could either get a small generator for your truckbed and charge up some car batteries in your truck on the way to the mine, then transport the batteries up your tram system each time you work at the mine, or better yet, bring a small gas generator with battery backup TO the mine and run it just outside the adit and run wires down into the mine for lights, and plug the winch direct into a 12V port. That way you aren't worried about fumes from the combustion of gasoline or the sound. And you have a slow steady pull for the ore carts and lighting througout. LED lighting would use far less juice vs. incandescent.

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Hi Jason,im from London England ,ive been enjoying many of your videos ..im just watching you replace the hammers and of course this is an expensive and quite time consuming job..I am thinking that perhaps you could deisn a way of either an external screw that would cause the internal plates to move closer to the hammer head blades ,perhaps a bit like a book press system.Or alternatively when they wear a slotting system where you could fit a secondary internal plate when required ..I know you manufacture these machines and im sure your customers would love these cost savings and make them more saleable due to cheaper running costs ...best wishes Murray

That works very well

@jessicawiley9592

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry for writing you, just out of curiosity your page come up on my suggested friend lists so I was just wondering if I knew you from somewhere???

Looks like a lot of work, hope you find a big gold rock few pounds worth.

That same Teflon technology comes in wheel bearing form, so you don't have to slide your stuff on kiln-dried pine, hoping to prevent the effects of degradation over the off season. Also, for your bucket-decending system, use a large-diameter axle, fixed so it won't rotate, and wrap your control rope around it a few times. This will give you low-stress control over it, and you won't have to worry about it obliterating the cab of your truck. The wraps around the axle will multiply whatever friction you put on your end. This system also works in reverse, if the axle is spun. You just pull on the rope, this causes it to grip the axle (capstan, I think it's called), and the axle provides the bulk of the pull, but under your easy control.

Hello from a fellow miner lightning ridge NSW Australia opal is what we mine here

Have you assayed the tails to see what is being left still captured in the rock?

Install water injection sprayers above the hammers the prevent the build up on the walls of the mill. The water now in entering at too low of a depth in the mill and will come to a trickle when build up is too much.

I was impressed with the efficiency of the jaw crusher. I have operated jaw crushers for years and have found they produce best when the jaws are full of material (but not overflowing of course).I am curious to know if your jaw crushers implement a safety so that if a chunk of steel is accidentally dropped into the jaws the damage is minimized?

You should use buckets going to truck to pull equal amount of buckets up slope. like a counterweight. Develope a little friction brake for rope going to truck.

You guys are doing a good job on your new ones have you thought about hot facing welding rod on it I worked at the bake mine and that’s what we used to do to make things last a lot longer but this is totally up to you I’m just making a suggestion

Based on the insides angle & steep outside angle, a short haulage tunnel at the truck should get your tons/day way up.

It's been years but I always enjoyed running a slusher. Guess you'll just hand muck it though.

Well old son, I found your lighting could be a lot better....This is so very impressive....Like you video... Never seen a set up like this before.....NICE..................Thanks for bring us along........................JB................

Question. Why don't you throw all the stuff from bucket 1 and bucket 2 over the vibrating table again? It seems to me that you can clean all the gold from the sand if you put all the material back on the vibrating table. Two three times and the gold will be pure.

Making all needed maintenance. Accessible even enclosed and quiet appeal to many