I'm a miner from Canada and you're doing a really great job explaining all the process behind mining. Running your own gold mine is just the dream keep the series going we wanna see some gold processing !

This video is a classic example of how incredibly smart miners were, and have to be today. Throughout history, there has kinda been the implication that to be a miner was the job of the simple or unintelligent, and that is just simply not the case. The amount of research, knowledge, application and intuition to be a successful miner is immense. This video is a great glimpse into an incredibly complicated field.

I think anyone who starts watching this series of videos with Jason is going to be addicted immediately. Adventure and knowledge is a killer combination! 🤠

@semoneg2826

7 ай бұрын

Yep..I watch him with the jaw crusher all the time

@chess135

7 ай бұрын

yes i did :)

@cdracing

2 ай бұрын

ADDICTED? NOT.

@cdracing

2 ай бұрын

Don't think. Ty

@blakebonnicksen8943

2 ай бұрын

Yup I invest in gold and wanted to see the process! Wow!!! It’s incredibly complex

We're all getting spoiled with all this super interesting content, I hope you don't get burned out working this hard all the time.

@FortuneFinders

7 ай бұрын

I feel like Jason has been working this hard his whole life lol

@williamreffett5862

7 ай бұрын

I really like this cause. This brings me back to my early days when I was in schools and learning about geolegi. And then when I've gotten older and I've seen a salesman. Trying to sell something it really makes me look at everything clearly

@williamscoggin1509

7 ай бұрын

​@@williamreffett5862sales is easy if you know your subject inside out. No one can blind side you with a non answerable question. 👍🏻

@rigel1176

7 ай бұрын

That was the gold fever effect is .....😂

@bacongrz

7 ай бұрын

Most of us work hard every day haha but I know what you mean.

I like the way the puzzle is getting solved! Always nice to hear an expert say they learned something!

Gawd, I love Pacific NW geology. It was the only science class I ever really enjoyed. Lots of interesting field trips. This field trip is done from the comforts of my home with the furnace making it comfey...

@Michael-rg7mx

7 ай бұрын

Over the last 60 years, their understanding has changed. Now, with paleomagnetism, it is refining how the plates moved.

@Rennrogue

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, being warm and dry takes away a bit of the adventure, but it's a LOT more comfortable!

I wish I could turn back time and go to school for geology. Thank you for putting these vids together brother!

@nerfzinet

7 ай бұрын

It's never too late. I went to university when I was 28, and I was far from the oldest person in my class. Best decision I ever made.

@ffsteve71

7 ай бұрын

@@nerfzinet ....well I am 52....the brain's ability to retain info is way easier to do than to fall asleep under the florescent lights of a classroom. Retirement and doing it for fun just sounds, more fun lol. But that's an old guy making excuses lol ;) Oh and I know 52 isn't old but my daughter was saying I way "half dead" 15 years ago!! lol

@Rennrogue

7 ай бұрын

My best friend started school for a new career a few years ago at the age of 50. Watching him go through it made me really proud of him, and appreciate how much easier it was for me at 18. I don't see how I could manage to do it now at 56. @@ffsteve71

@Goldhunter7769

7 ай бұрын

These videos have renewed my interest in geology. I did study a text book once and it was such dry reading I couldn’t do it!

You’re killing me smalls! Leaving us the cliffhanger after the episode 12 explosion!

Great content! Geology,engineering,old fashion experience and common sense with a dose of voodoo witchcraft I love it Jason

Love the video Jason but we have to wait another day to see blast results. Oh the suspense.

Thanks Jason👍most definitely some questions to be answered in due time..

Love this series Jason! Can't wait for what next season holds for you guys

@bacongrz

7 ай бұрын

We still get to see all the processing and smelting. Exciting stuff!

Ooo! A geology lesson I'm excited!

Good to know we may have a bunch more videos coming out. My question is, in the spring is there going to be an MBMM plant on site so you're not dragging anything but gold or saleable rock back home with you?

@Rennrogue

7 ай бұрын

If my mind hasn't failed me again I think he mentioned that the old timers had processing up there, but had problems with it over the winter. I suppose both ways have signifigant difficulties, but if he's just taking rich ore out it might be a lot easier this way.

@Porty1119

7 ай бұрын

@@Rennrogue Processing on-site will cut transportation costs and possibly allow profitable mining of lower-grade ore. Mechanization will cut mining costs and make off-site processing more viable. Personally, I'd be prioritizing getting a slusher into that stope and improving the rail haulage. Muck handling is the main weakness I see.

@Rennrogue

7 ай бұрын

@@Porty1119 could go either way on processing, I don't know, but I agree on the issue of on-site material transport. I assume the bags are a temporary thing, I sure hope so. Moving with carts on good tracks and dump chutes I imagine would come right after the next drift is cut. No matter what, it's fun to watch it unfold in these videos!

@baTonkaTruck

7 ай бұрын

I believe the issue the old-timers had on this site was avalanches wiping out their processing facilities.

Love that beautiful area.

I think having your own mine and the ability to process it is a great combo. Dale was very knowledgeable and learning the kinetics of flow was a plus.

I was so excited this summer to learn about your gold mine saga!! Love all the math you do when smelting… love your enthusiasm!! Cheers from GB, Wisconsin!!

If the geology ends up being as you think, this already-cool video series is gonna get a whole lot cooler next season!! Can't wait to see how this all develops - and I hope you stay personally involved in the work (instead of selling it to somebody) and keep us along as you go through it (instead of quitting KZread cuz you've struck it rich)!!

This is by far the coolest series ever! Thank you so much for teaching us about the geology.

Love everything, from your equipment and demonstrations, to the panning and hardrock mining rehab. Especially enjoy the people you introduce us to. Thank you for the entertainment and the education, along with the great views of everything. As an old flatlander, I love it! Peace.

The geological processes are pretty wild that form these formations and mineralizations.

I learn so much every single video you share with us. This is how I learn, hands on looking at things. Books are great and have their place but to see and touch and think how and why. That’s the best for me. Thank you for the college class I never knew I would love! Like seriously I would come work for free just to learn all of your vast knowledge. Amazing adventure one after the other, I feel very privileged to get to watch these. I bought some of your ore from the vein just to show a little support and who knows, I may find a little gold crushing it up. Saving it for when my grandson is with me so we can learn together. Thank you for all you do Jason! So refreshing seeing real men doing guy stuff! Love love love it ! Until next class.

Great stuff Jason. I appreciate the hard work you’re putting in to work the mine and the videos for our benefit. If this property hasn’t been mapped you really need to get someone to map it for you to better understand the relationships between the veins and faults and the relative ore grades. Good luck in your endeavors and I look forward to future videos.

Awesome content. I’m less dumber after watching. Thanks for sharing this.

This series is going to inspire so many youngsters that come across it to enter the career field.

I'd never get anything done if I had that kind of view from work, such a stunning area.

When I lived on a mountain, I was preoccupied with finding treasure. I was especially curious what gold and silver looked like in the raw. I've learned a lot from this channel.

Thank Jason for a very interesting and educational field trip with your friend. So much stories captured in rock! All the best with your mining activities👍🏻

Really interesting geology! Jason, I think you’re going to be a millionaire.

Thanks for promoting geology science! According to US Bureau of Labor Statistics; Employment of geoscientists is projected to grow 5 percent from 2022 to 2032, faster than the average for all occupations. The median annual wage for geoscientists was $87,480 in May 2022.

Your channel is awesome Jason! keep up the great work, and thank you for bringing us along.

its so refreshing to hear intelligent people talking without telling me what and how to think.. thanks guys.. great stuff,

Huge respect Jason! That as really informative and educational - also confusing and interesting at the same time :) Looking back through time at the clues and historical events of this deposit is truly fascinating

I’ve learned so much from watching your channel. I also live along the cascades.thanks for the geology lessons and your gold mine ROCKS 😂

Thank you for the detailed tour, nearly as good as being there, The folding of the meta-sediments was very clear with the saddle reef gold vein in your stope really standing out. Your Blacksmith portal follows the hinge of the fold and clearly there are stacked roll-over veins. The foliations were mainly deformed cleavage which would be in my view key to mapping out your vein system, I see both saddle veins and shear veins hosted in the steep limb of the fold and in the fold hinge zone. The large 6 foot offset is a reverse fault, likely formed during the folding event and coincident with continued vein emplacement. I would guess the folding event is related to regional thrust movement, which I would think is partly represented by those kinematic striations observed on the low angle surfaces. Anyway....... nothing a good map and some detailed structure analysis could sort out.

You are very lucky to be able to show that on camera and discuss about the intrusive volcanisation and re infilling of the host rock has happened, after two years of Geology at uni plus a field visit to survey the old Roman mine working at Dolaucothi in West Wales we would have seen that more clearly in you geological situation as the veins at that site were very vuggy and in a situation where they were very thin requiring a lot of extraction to get a decent amount of ore to smelt.

Your site and this series is one of the best on KZread. This series is fantastic and packed full of information. Very good job. It amazes me the amount of time and work the old time miners did. It’s unfortunate that in todays world we have so few people that know how to do this type of work and are willing to go into the fields of mining.

Another episode! Awesome sir!

I( just almost live just to see Jasons content. This is the most interesting mining videos that I have ever seen. And how well you explain everything is just wonderful. I know winter is coming but I hope you can do as much as possible till you get snowed out.

You really know your stuff. Did you study geology or how did you learn all that? Blown away how you look at rock differently

@RexSkittles

7 ай бұрын

Jason doesn’t respond to us, sorry.

Loved the geology lesson! Really interesting!

Thanks for that interesting excursion into geology and thank Dale for coming along and contributing. I'm in the Cornwall (UK) tin mining region - also igneous intrusion into a sedimentary "country rock".

Soo much opportunity to extend those working with qualified company that could map you the whole orebody to a greater scale! Nice video thank you! 😊 some of our deposits have 3rd,4th generation that bring out the visible gold, 1st and 2nd pass are barren, that crazy how geology is, it soo complex more than a engine mechanics, when you do 45° stope, drill pin hole to sit a 8x8 timber across floor, so when you blast, the muck will not slide all down, allowing you to get the next round much easier, and drive your stope till you depleted the veins, but i tell ya, its big work to drill back hole, the worse is punching with 6ft rod, but when it done its alright, the loading part should be done with an a pneumatic amex loader, with of course anfo type explosives to carry powder to the hole up here, after the stope done, you have to remove the 8x8 brazes and blow ore down with a blowpipe, recommend you muck scoop to ease the work instead of a slusher! Its soo much mining method involves in this place for sure! Plenty of techniques to ease the mining to the simplest way! Hope to kick some hint to ease your work!

So good I had to watch it twice plus I get to see a different part of the country geology thank you gentlemen 👍🏾🌵😎

I'd say videos where you are blasting rock are still my favorite, but this is pretty awesome too, getting to see how the geology works and learning a bit about why the gold is where it is.

I love these videos

Highly interesting and super entertaining on this Sunday morning! Thanks guys! ♥

Outstanding geology lesson. I can't get enough of it. I an a wee bit Jealous as I love to prospect for that shinny too. I can wait for the next episode

Thanks so much, Jason, for reminding me of my love of Geology which I discovered in college, way back when. I loved this video!

Hi Jason, Great video! Always learning! never boring! Looking forward to next Saturday! Thumbs up! Stay safe! Jim

Cant decide if I am mad or happy. Another cliffhanger yesterday was not fun and was hoping this was a quick follow up. Its always good to have a new video from you Jason, but we watch you anyway. No need for cliff hangers.

@ffsteve71

7 ай бұрын

Disagree...it gives something to look forward to.

@Stopbeingnosyffs

7 ай бұрын

Same was hoping see all that blown up rock 🪨😢

these types of videos are just truly amazing, thank you !

❤❤❤lots of new words or new uses-- kenamatics, entrained, brachiation, chattering, arm waving. What fun!

So fascinating imagining those rivers of quartz moving by each other a long time ago!

The older host rock is 150 million years old or more. It broke loose from the Baja mexico area. It drifted North and pushed against the sea bed when the Cascades were forming about 5 million years ago.

@Michael-rg7mx

7 ай бұрын

@handle123xyz Yes! One of the best online teachers. He regularly has the experts who are doing the research explain it as guests.

Arm waving is a great geology term! Very true I can see how creating the 3-d model of these environments would be very useful. Great work at explaining processes that occurred over hundreds of millions of years. Too bad someone didn’t set up a Timelapse for us to watch back then 😂

That's amazing, you can see at least 4 faults from the outside of that mountain where there's little valleys that nothing is growing there and you can also tell they worked most of them because of the big slack dumps all along the mountain. LOL Dale looks like a Dale.. or a Drew. It'd be really interesting to throw a couple yards of the gravel/dirt out of those faults through a little test trommel and see if there's gold in the surface sluff like how Dan was testing the dirt at his Blue Chip Mine last year. You need to grow a long goatee because you're definitely part mountain goat. You climb up things that most people couldn't. 31:48 there's a nice pocket of sulfides right there at the top by the hanging wall just flashing silver in your light.

Impressive how you experts with your education and experience can look at this Mess of rocks and Trees and point out these Different geological structures and materials and identify them.

Love this series. Super interesting. Thx Jason.

Thank you very much Jason for this amazing video about gold veins.

Ah dammit , this is slowly becoming my favorite channel !

Wow, this was an awesome Video Jason. So appreciative of bringing us up with you and your geologist friend, to look at the faults, and vains, rock formations around the past and your present gold mine. It is so fascinating to hear all about all the ways the old and new vains meet up and slide. This gives me such an appreciation of the work you do to locate the best areas of rich good signs that there is gold in them there walls. You truly have the best gold channel out. You cover every aspect from finding blasting, bringing the rich quartz with gold out in muck and taking it through your process of sleuthing and separating the gold from pirites. Thanks so much. This finished separating on your machine is awesome. This show should be on discovery Channel. Can't wait to see more gold from your latest blast too.❤

Great Episode! Thank you & Be Safe!

This vid contains SO MUCH information I had to watch it twice to process what is so obvious to the two of you! Lol But, it was well worth the extra time invested. I would love to see one of the 3-D maps of your claim (at least the first of the four veins) referenced in the early part of the vid. Sure the logistics would be daunting, but just a suggestion for you to ponder, as it appears you will be working this mine for many years and it would really be helpful to noobs like me. Extraordinary and highly addictive series. Love how you include guests in your vids.

Love your videos so much. Thank you!

Some underground core drilling would be a big help to test out your hypothesis, to understand vein orientation, thickness, etc all to be a big assist in mine planning. Great series. Looking forward to more videos like this! Mining is incredible!

Awesome video Jason, great to see and understand a bit around why and where it’s worth mining. Thanks for sharing

I'm seeing a lot of pyrite especially during the closeups at the end, well not surprised with this epithermal deposit. Thanks for sharing most people never get to enter a mine to see this sort of stuff so thanks for sharing.

Jason and Dale ! Very nice work on the Vid !! The problem i have is the headache following your video. When I am exposed to a learning experience it induces rather severe "Brain Pain'. In this case, accompanied by an irresistible compulsion to go prospecting.

You should have just ran a zip line from the stope down to the road to get the ore down to your pickup instead of zigzagging it down to the blacksmith shop. Awesome stuff you got going on there Jason! Excited for you and excited to see what you all end up pulling out of your mine!

Hell yea! Awesome vid Jason. Every new vid is better than the last.

Thanks for the geo lesson guys!

Really appreciate your sharing the process. 40 years ago I could have kept up with you.. the practical geology is really interesting.

That was very educational! I appreciate you taking the time to make these videos. I am looking forward to seeing your next one. Stay safe, GET THAT GOLD BROTHER!!

Jason your videos are excellent I enjoy the geological mystery

Thanks for the look

Most of that went over my head and yet it was still very interesting!

it would be nice if you made some kind of blast proof camera plexiglass box for your next blasting. love this series of your gold mine.. very good content .. keep it up :)

Thank you again

thank you Jason

Got me waiting for that next episode. Can't wait till you mill it all down.

This is so very Cool, I would travel with my dad, a graduate of Colorado School Of Mines, ...from Yakima WA...ha. He would also describe all the geological features and where Gold could be found. I am so glad you are talking this over with a geologist, More information make a better miner!

This video was much more than interesting. Thanks.

Thanks for the link to tamarack!

Great learning experience! ThNks for sharing 🙏❤️🌲

Great informative video. I can't wait for the progress of your mining and possible new discoveries to come next season

More information around the mine and the ideas your working along to truely helps while watching and makes sense why u taregt areas over others with confidence you have researched enough and tested enough that u can leave low grade pay taking the cream of your crop u really give information even a dumb fellow like myself can understand i love mining and previous material hunting. I appreciate you taking rhe time and forever leaving these videos for future generations... Cant wait for the massive gold bar at the end of this season adventure i hope u cover costs and get a head start on next season from the mines riches and ofc makes enough to pay the boys a decent amount they have been the back done of your mining adventures too

Thank you for this amazing geologie lesson and the overview of your mine

Good morning from Southeast South Dakota

this was very interesting. thanks alot for showing this and sharing your knowledge

34:40 so cool, great little talk.

Jason that was a cool classroom for us. Thanks

Glued, Just Glued to the screen ! I can't get enough of mbmmllc and Mine Operators..............Canonsburg, PA

This... Was a frickin good video

Love the description "hot and juicy" 😂 fascinating stuff!

A fun and interesting geology lesson. Thanks for the video.

Loving the details about what veins you might focus on and why. Cool stuff

This is why I come here!

Super fascinating stuff! Thanks for taking so much of your time to share this wonderful content with us here. Looking forward to seeing you strike paydirt!!

Jason, Let's see the blast results:) Geology is amazing!!! Cheers, Rik Spector

@greggiles7309

7 ай бұрын

i want to see the blast,