You rock Jason! Your channel is the best tool I've found for learning practicable, real-world methods of hands-on ore refining. It really has been more helpful than I can express. Thanks again man-

Gold is Gold, If I can see it I'm all for it! Keep the videos coming, love them.

Thank you for another great informative video!!! I've learned more from your Chanel than two years of high school in metallurgical class

I am your new biggest fan , I live in Leavenworth and have been studying blewett pass for the last twenty years and I am currently looking to filling a hard rock claim but I needed to figure out how to process sulfides this video has taken me to the next level too realizing a dream , thank you very much

Good to see ya back for the spring, Jason!

Science on Saturday with Jason. I don’t have any input on the smelting results but you are rockin’ the Cerro Gordo hoodie!👍🏻

Thx I am so glad you made a video on this subject

The go/nogo is a function of the cost of energy as expressed in Au/Ag weight. Jason's method appears to have a very stable cost (once the Flux recipe is determined) profile.If the energy cost, in gold, is less than the Au/Ag yield, then GO, else NOGO.

cool videos all around ...the number of skills you need is remarkable to do all of this. Keep up the good work!

Jason great content. just watched the video where you prospected up in the mountains and then assayed the gold .you do a great job

Great video Jason, thanks for sharing

I love these videos though, ur really the most educational videos on topic, uve been anwsering all my questions an curiousity on topic in ur videos

I love your videos mate i have learnt so much watching. cheers

Thank very much for your explanation in this video. 👍

Awesome and love the birds

Nice Jason. Great professional .

Dude, I love your channel!

Great work. Very interesting.

Nice hoodie! Another great chemistry lesson! Slowly but surely I'm figuring out which fluxes to use when smelting computer components. Mostly MLCC's (palladium & silver) & Thick Film resistors (Ruthenium). Just ordered some Kaowool to make a furnace similar to yours. Thanks for taking the time to share your expertise with us!! Stay safe! Jim

@tech-e-cycle2608

Жыл бұрын

Hey @rockman531 - would be very interested to learn what Flux recipe has been working for you

@rockman531

Жыл бұрын

@@tech-e-cycle2608 Not smelting any more. Doing all my refining with chemistry.

Hey Jason first off I want to say that your videos are awesome especially how you are able to explain all that your doing W/ Out only leaving people confused or unable to follow what your doing & explaining . . I'm not sure if I'm even doing this right or not but I was wondering & or more like REALLY HOPING that you would possibly be willing to help if someone were to need some advice about how (if infact possible) understand what they may have done wrong during their FIRST actual attempt at refining gold with the cupel method & how I might be able to still recover all the gold because I have no idea what I did wrong but I obviously did do something wrong LoL . . Thanks buddy Steve .......

Cerro Gordo! Love that episode 👍

Great video!! Thanks!!!

Your awesome Jason. I seen where you made a huge mess by accident and you was not mad at all.

Awesome video man thank you for the great lesson. Could you make a video of you separating the silver from the gold?

Nice it may be just a little but if you have plenty then go for it excellent video thank you for sharing five stars

Realy Nice exprince .. TY

Thanks Jason great video. You can do video of any smelting and I’ll watch.

Lol the birds were pissing Jason off.. super funny, they was cussin you out bro.

Dude! I get excited when I pan a snicker!😁

nice like it how you do it . keep it up

Had an interesting idea, inspired by your inverted pyramid jig; build a much larger and lighter one out of aluminum, like, 3 or 4 feet square, with a screen and opening at the pyramid tip that only water can pass through, and then fix a couple of those super "massage" vibrator guns with lots of speed settings to vibrate against the metal. Fill the giant inverted pyramid with a bunch of bone dry paydirt from a place like Arizona, cover the top and then turn on the vibrators on their highest setting. Come back after some time, and wet the pyramid enough that your whole load will be damp, and turn the vibrators on low as the extre water drains through. Once everything has settled, put strong magnets on the pyramid sides around where the black sand has settled to (you'll feel it in the magnets) and have a buddy help you flip and smack your load onto a table top. In a perfect world, all your gold has settled at the tip, separated from the dirt by a layer of iron sand. After dumping out all the dirt, there should be only black sand and gold dust left in the pyramid. Remove the magnets, and collect your super concentrate.

I prsonally enjoy all your videos Jason, they are very informative & experimental. I say it is useless to smelt any concentrates or ores that gives less than 0.25 g of gold per 100 grams of material. Another thing is that borax attacks crucible if there is much. The most important thing is to have your opinion on the best recipe to be used with a gold bearing quartz vein, I just want to smelt the whole ore without any other processing method for that -as you mentioned- it is better to collect all gold once,, any advice ??

Thanks for another informative video Jason! I am curious if you could use your electric Furnace in place of the propane furnace, or vice versa? It looks like the electric furnace has room for the larger crucible, but I may be mistaken. I'm just curious if I were to only get one furnace, would I still be able to experiment with this?

The birds sounds were nice!

Great video Jason. As a lifelong idiot I appreciate your ability to convey information. Greatly appreciate it

Wait until Au goes to $5,000 or $7,500, which I think it is sure to do, and then your process will be worth the effort. Your video was really helpful to me to learn some of the basics of fire assaying, and some of the things that are done in traditional classical fire assaying that really aren't necessary under all circumstances. Thank you for this really helpful, hands-on demonstration of what can be done with minimum of equipment in a small building.

@travisduggins

2 ай бұрын

How soon?

That ore from Sierra Leone looks like prime candidate for froth flotation. First, you could run through ball mill to make very fine,

@goldminer49niner42

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you

Nice Cerro Gordo hoodie!

Thank you for all your videos. Very informative and well presented. What colleges courses would you recommend to attain more knowledge in this field?

What you recommend to assay out Microscopic gold from super fine black sands. They are so fine that even a shaker table doesn't' want to separate them very well. Yet if you take some of it out into the sun the golden shine is visible. Birds sound like European starlings.

The Cerritos Gordo hoodie 🎉

BOOM,,in again

Always interesting! Did you dry the sample before weighing? It looks damp/wet on the video.

A little tip for cutting your rockwool lid for your furnace. Don't cut a square hole in it, a square hole has 4 weak points where the heat can concentrate and eat away at the rockwool starting in the corners. Cut a circular hole instead and the rockwool will last a lot longer as a lid. I'm sure you've seen how the corners melt and disintegrate first.

In my opinion, the amount of precious metals collected would have to more than pay for the costs of the materials, energy and labor of smelting for it to be at all worthwhile. Maybe on a larger scale it might be, but not on the small scale you did. Do you think other methods like flotation or cyanide leaching would work better on this material, Especially if it is ground much finer?

So what if you get little beads throughout your slag. why are they dispersed through everything? Great video, everything I needed to know in one spot!

But i did love the vid . thanks

What happened to all the computer waste that you run through did through did you melt that down so it kind of gold was in it didn't and it took you a long time and a lot of work don't understand how to do what you do I think you're very smart individual keep it up doing great work I've learned so much from you

Yep - another great video - feel like prospecting yet?

Waiting for you to do a BIG smelt!

is the process just bigger when you smelt 1 ton of concentrate? id love to check our land for this also!! my granfather was using mercury and mining out there years ago.. he passed away in 1980 so i was far too young to understand what he had been doing.

I think getting a large crucible and smelting larger batches would help reduce costs and maximize extraction. Trying to source better prices on refining materials and thinking of ways to preheat the crucible with the material can be a way to lower production costs as well. Right now I'm looking into using a concaved mirror to heat up to some extent the crucible with material. I'm just looking into it. Also thinking of making my own graphite clay crucibles.

@74KU

Жыл бұрын

Maybe slightly but it takes so many joules of energy to melt the charge. bigger or smaller it wont change much except maybe for the preheat of non charge components such as the crucible.

Superr topp

hello brother, your videos are very good, I congratulate you very much, I have a question, can you help me, I think you mixed the soil with borax, why did you put nails in the mixture, how does it separate from the iron in the square furnace? 

Cerro Gordo hoodie!

@alanl.simmons9726

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks to Jason's vid on Cerro Gordo, I very watched old westerns that referenced CG and knew what a major town it was in old Calif.

Instead of using lead or whatever else, could you not use a small amount of sterling silver as the collector metal? Or would it create more work with separation and refinement the the bead?

Thanks very helpful! And the check assays you sent to the lab??

Hey Jason! Love you stuff. Try soundproofing the workshop a bit. Keep teaching us! David

@mturallo

2 жыл бұрын

Any suggestions on how to soundproof a workshop? That sounds expensive

@TechGorilla1987

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's an open barn so wild birds are regular visitors.

@davidandersen228

2 жыл бұрын

@@mturallo compressed and recycled paper maybe? - eggtrays sort of? I'm just saying that, it would be awesome to numb the sound, if that makes sense.. - Ofc only where he would record his regular shots. And at the end of the day, whatever works for Jason 😎

@davidandersen228

2 жыл бұрын

@@TechGorilla1987 it wasn't the bird I had in mind though 😊 More the screaming of high pitched sounds 🙈 whatever may work, it would be nice to cancel it out, to make it even more enjoyable to watch 😊 I kinda like the birds, even though they were a bit annoying 😁

Thanks for all the useful info in smelting!!! It's come in handy for sure!!! One question tho..... I've got an orenwith high copper values. How can I get rid of the copper, its proving hard to get rid of by smelt and cuppelation. Any ideas?

@nunyabisnass1141

2 жыл бұрын

You may want to add a different sulphide like lead sulphide to bind with the copper to make copper sulphide and lead metal.

Ahoj Jason, I am sure, if this scales up, 10 oz per ton is realy good. In Sierra Leone (no offense) they will have no problem to roast all the ore to oxides, smelt like 50-100 kg at once with collector metal and repeat with the same collector metal...

A wonderful teacher question, does it need to roast the soil

That reaction to the birds xdxdxd

Wanted to ask your opinion if it js okay with you. Outcrops grabbed from on top of the reef on the ground surface fire assayed 0.22g/t and 0.19 g/t respectively. What is your general opinion of this?

I've got an ore that you ought to look at. And play with. Some of the hardest crap I've ever run against. It is very interesting in the fact that I do believe it's high in silver. Somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 G per ton. The assay say .03. I'd be interested in knowing what your opinion is of it

What unit is the temperature in ? C or F? He did say 2100 to 2200 degrees f.But when he shows the infrared meter it had two readings.I assume the larger reading is the current temp in f? Whats the buttom one?

I see you get gold in the end result but at times silver is mixed how do you separate good and silver to have pure gold ? Or can you?

Hiya Jason

It's probably harder to make an actual cone mold that is round I like to see how that would work when you're collecting your lead

Love the info and video!! Are you able to check a possible porphyry deposit? If so how much? & how much materials? I think I found a deposit and I'm unable to process properly.

@jocinthebox

2 жыл бұрын

Is that a whole bunch of iron pyrite?

Hey Jason, what are some of the safety measures you take while working with Arsenopyrite concentrates?

@nunyabisnass1141

2 жыл бұрын

Safety squints and up wind on a windy day it appears.

great presentation

How do you keep the metals from sticking to the iron?

In the end did you get the assay lab grades to compare with???

I enjoy your videos very much. I always learn something new. I respect that you welcome feedback from your listeners. As a math dude, I would highly recommend you tighten up your estimations while extrapolating the results of your experiments. Your estimate for the actual PMs after burn was 6% (0.05 vs 0.047) off and your 1000 kgs per ton estimator is a full 10.3% off the actual mark of 907 kgs per ton. This yeilds a potential 17% error when extropolating the potential mass of pms per ton. That's unecessary and significant inaccuracy imo. Done scolding now. Great work otherwise!

I am born raised in Nickel and Copper mining town. You have the best presentation with demonstration I have seen. Sulfides but otherwise rich ore. You got me thinking if this could be profitable for small scale. I like your complete process and equipment with calculation . Would Platinum Group metal be different?

@nunyabisnass1141

2 жыл бұрын

In other videos he does a work up on paladium from Catalytic converters, so just scroll through the library. But keep in mind that the methods hes using are only to determine what the concentration is to know if its worth refining with other means.

@bcubed5724

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the reply ... I am 40 min from Two separate world scale smelters. They do accept concentrates for cash. I am having trouble finding a reasonably priced supplier of Capels in Canada. And as a side would like to provide crushing (turnkey) service for area.

@nunyabisnass1141

2 жыл бұрын

@@bcubed5724 oh, premiere français parlez?

@bcubed5724

2 жыл бұрын

@@nunyabisnass1141 je parle tres peu ... Mon mere en Frances. Large french family on mother side 13 brother/sisters

So If there is not enough gold/silver in the sample to get a bead without lead how about adding gold/silver as the collector metal? It seems this might help save on processing materials and time not having lead to remove. Just keep adding to the next batch? I have no idea what I am talking about just a thought.

@mturallo

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know the answer to this, but this is a great question!

@cecilforbes3034

2 жыл бұрын

Yeh I was thinking the same just throw that prill back in the next,I have 20 kg of sulphide cons,think I shall do a few and see if it works 👍

You said lead button, so did you add lead to it? And how much is it that you added

what is minimum maximum wight gold in 100g of ores....in your experience... Thank you

How similar is the glass-like slag to obsidian?

Great video! I just hope you don't run into some arsenic when fire assaying, make for a real bad day.

roast, grind, and remove magnetics first?

How much smoke is caused when melting gold with Borax?

I would like to see a collab with Sreetips (YT Channel name) and Jason. They use different methods.

How do you assay a graphitic gold ore?

Jason, How do you separate silver from gold? I'm not a chemist. Just wonder if possible. Thanks P.j. Carpinteria Ca

@simple8mind8

10 ай бұрын

Nitric acid

Hey did you know you can use Pepto bismol tablets instead of lead

How close were you to the one you sent off?

👍🙏

Curious question if you have time. What temperature would someone roast sulfides like Galena before smelting it if one wanted to use that process. I can't seem to find if there is an ideal temperature for roasting Galena anywhere for some odd reason

@Rick-The-Relentless

2 жыл бұрын

1200 degrees Fahrenheit. For a couple of hours, or until the sulfide are reddish brown. I am an Assayer. That was taught in my course.

@stephenvanburenmusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rick-The-Relentless thank you very much that was one of the last things I needed to be able to start pulling the silver out. I just don't have the money to invest in all those fluxes

@stephenvanburenmusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rick-The-Relentless I appreciate that a lot and I will be sure to subscribe to your channel. We own a Galena mine in New Mexico that had a historical assay that's about a hundred years old saying the ore was pulling 305 Oz of silver out of the cons. I've already harvested about 2 or 3 tons of ore that are at least a third solid Galena and will be investing in an automated or crusher this year sometime to start processing it down so I can pan it out or throw it through a sluice box. I had already bought a smelting system off of Amazon and test ran it to get some lead silver alloy bars but I haven't gone any further than that

Jason another great video, I have a question, when I’m smelting my ore and I use apiece of iron as a collector metal my piece of iron , at the end, looks all shiny and bright with different colors of metal on the iron ….it’s like the iron attracted all the metal antit stuck to the iron wtf an I doing wrong. Also is lead a better collector metal? cupeling is the way to get the pure gold soooo. Oh the iron I’m using is some rusty rebar. And thank you for sharing and thanks for your time

So roughly 10oz AU per ton… of concentrates. I’m curious how many tons of ore it takes to generate a ton of concentrates.

As a fun experiment, I saw another video using pepto bismol as a bismuth source. I know you've used bismuth instead of lead as a collector metal. For fun, can you try pepto bismol?

@jakospence

2 жыл бұрын

Ha- i saw the Cody’s Lab video too. Nice.

@user-lb8do4ew6k

2 жыл бұрын

Cody said using pepto bismol was only a proof of concept & really expensive alternative to just buying a chunk of bismuth

I literally was looking up at my trees going what is wrong with my birds they never squawk like that lol

How can I get clear gold bars without oxidation and gemstones

Awsome

Why is the lead button black?

Wouldn’t it be prudent to roast all samples to burn off all sulfides first. That way it’s less material to deal or work with?

How come you didn’t cook the material to get rid of the sulfur in a fryer pan

You could get a better estimate of gold vs silver by measuring specific gravity of precious metal bead. If on the cusp of profitably, a correct percentage of gold is critically important, IMHO. In the end, go/no-go call boils down to cost/return ratio. Not sure enough info is available in video to form a useful opinion.

Hey Jason I got some quartz and stuff that contain gold I believe I don't want anything for it but I think it's a good video would you be interested in me sending you the stuff and you can smell it and see if there's anything there