Next: collect samples from the ground you always work on, see how much precious metals were spilled or blown away as dust.

@bacongrz

Жыл бұрын

You read my mind 😂

@Convolutedtubules

Жыл бұрын

@@bacongrz it's something I think about every time I see a little bit of material find its way onto the ground and when I see the dust I wonder is there any gold dust there that's fine enough to fly away!

@jarcher5626

Жыл бұрын

That’s probably the richest pay dirt around.

@sinchrotron

Жыл бұрын

And yes, they do it time after time

@mccom7862

Жыл бұрын

Came here to suggest this.

This channel is very underrated! Great recovery experiment Jason. I'm not trying to lecture as I know you are well aware of the risks, but I find myself worrying about your chronic lead and heavy metal exposure when doing this type of work repeatedly over time. I see that you use appropriate PPE gear when you are doing high risk stuff (dust/fumes/etc) but stuff still slips through even the best PPE protocols. I would highly suggest building a high flow vent hood workbench to work in....would love to see a build video!

@cosmicinsane516

Жыл бұрын

Or just get a regular blood test for lead. Lots of people who work with lead do that already.

I love the efficiency of the “how much am I missing” videos

I may have no idea what I'm talking about, but couldn't you built more of a funnel under the jaw crusher so the material can go straight into a five gallon bucket instead of transferring it from the tray to the bucket by hand? Just a thought :)

The soapy feeling from the caustic is your body oils/fats pretty much turning into soap. It’s a good idea to neutralise it with a mild acid, I’ve found beer is a fantastic neutraliser but working at a brewery so that’s mostly convenience. Any carbonated drink or vinegar would be fine.

You know I swear when I watch your videos you look like you're having absolute ball you're having fun and I have fun watching your videos I'm learning a lot from your videos and I do appreciate what you're doing for everybody you take care and I'll keep on watching you keep on melting and I'll keep watching

Really enjoyed this - especially the chemistry -- more please!! Would also be interested to see how much metal you get back from the spill when you poured into the cone moulds together with recovered material from the crucible leak in the furnace.

Fascinating video! I love the hands-on chemistry. You even brought out the MOLES!

Very interesting way of recycling and reclaiming your mineral. Thoroughly enjoy watching your videos.

Thank you for all of your content. You have a flair for explaining complicated things well.

9:00 "my slag or Flux is really basic" just in time for fall we find out Jason uses a pumpkin spice slag mix. ❤️🤣

Cool video Jason. Never thought about this one. At the very least, you get to recover your 5 gallon buckets ; )

Love your videos! Been watching for well over a year and every video is very entrainment! Keep it up Jason

This was really interesting and appreciated! These videos are really fun and educational to watch. Do your sludge tank next!

Thanks Jason. Really educational and valuable show! That's a cool shaker.

I Always enjoy your videos Jason, Thank you for all you do for us on your channel 👍

Foghorn leghorn in the background 👍👍👍 that's cool 👍👍

I think this was the most interesting and educational video you have done. Thanks for making this video.

Absolutely love watching your videos. Thank you so much for sharing your adventures with us. It's appreciated.

Jason, I appreciate all your channels and all your videos. Thank you so much so insightful so educational.

Just stumbled on your videos after watching your adventures with Dan. Jason I'm hooked! Way cool what your doing!!!

Hey Jason! I just wanted to say that I thoroughly enjoy these videos, and seeing you challenge yourself by trying new and different ideas in order to accomplish your goals. I think it's awesome that you aren't afraid to try things that you've never done before and experiment while you attempt to make it work. Far too often we see people do the same thing over and over again because it's what they're used to and what they're comfortable with. I can't blame them, as I'm guilty of doing that myself far too often, but how are we supposed to learn and expand our knowledge base if we don't push ourselves to our limits and experiment with other methodology and techniques? You're able to both inspire and educate people at the same time, which is admirable and you deserve credit for that. Thank you again for sharing your extensive knowledge and not being afraid to fail while you expand it with us. I look forward to future videos and what they have in store for all of us!

@stumpy31952

Жыл бұрын

absolutely agree with you there

@dangreen466

Жыл бұрын

This was a really great experiment/video Jason!

New member here. I saw the video you and Dan did together. I was impressed. Thanks for posting part of your experiences.

Very cool. And you got that inquiring mind where you did the extra work for fun and experimenting. Fun video thank you.

Better living through applied chemistry. Thanks Jason, this was an interesting video and a great reminder of college chemistry. Wishing you and your family a blessed week, gentle autumn weather and restful evenings. Peace brother

I'm impressed . I've wondered about the content of various materials in the slag .

I love watching these kind of videos. Keep it up!

Jason seriously you are amazing! Thank you for being so freaking awesome!

Blows my mind how you do all that and makes me wonder how they figured to smelt thousands yrs ago

You should try to get ahold of Sreetips, and see if he would be willing to refine it chemically (liquid) for you. He does a lot of experiments in figuring out the silver/gold content of things.

@russellsmith3825

Жыл бұрын

I second this motion, this would be a cool opportunity for a collaborative project

Jason, I have been binge watching your channel more than Netflix. Love your videos and experiments. If I come over to US begginning of 2023 I'll come visit.

Just found this channel from watch Dan your set up is so cool can't wait to watch all your videos 😀

Amazing video, should do a collab with Sreetips on youtube. Maybe he could take your lead scrap and further see if anything is in it? Possibly looking for other precious metals also. Does make you wonder also how much the older timers left behind doing this stuff. I bet there is so much money just lying on the ground in piles probably more money in re-refining old scrap than fresh mining lol.

@ronniewilliz153

Жыл бұрын

It definitely wouldn't hurt to refine the old stuff already here.

@buggsy5

Жыл бұрын

There are companies that rework old mine tailing piles, to get the gold the miners missed. They generally use cyanide leaching to extract the gold.

Awesome video as always! Keep it up. 👍🏻

This was a very good info video for everyone who has interest in keeping the trash that shows just how much we can get surprised!! That was awesome

Excellent video! Thanks Jason.

You were spot on with your Chemistry there you know, even the rooster in the background was telling you, you were right. And yes adding a little more oxidiser wont really hurt things. Love the vids btw !!

Didn’t you used to have a scanner that would give you an idea of the metal percentages in a sample? I haven’t seen that in a while. Really cool to seen how much you can recover from what was basically garbage. Never seen that colour before for the slag. Where did the green come from? Copper?

@kccorliss3922

Жыл бұрын

Scanner is an XRF i think. Xray flourescence.

@micphoenix8200

Жыл бұрын

A mate of his has an XRF. They're a relatively expensive bit of kit.

@nunyabisnass1141

Жыл бұрын

I think he explained in one video that yes copper can offer a different colour and greenish slag, but so can the ph affect the colour as well. So knowing your chemistry is very important because in one of his electronic waste smelts he attributed the green slag to being nickel contamination. Iron can produce a green colour too but only when its unoxydised.

@alfredmolison7134

Жыл бұрын

An xrf gun or scanner starts at around US $15,000 to $25,000, new. I looked them up. I couldn't find estimates on how much used scanners are running.

@HerbaMachina

Жыл бұрын

That particular green is 100% a copper oxide species.

Great video, thanks! Good luck! 👍

I would like to see a sample of around the ground by the jaw crusher. Curious how much is lost in the dust and spills. Sure it’s minimal but would be interesting.

Very cool and informative! Thank you.

I love these kinds of videos from my gold channels. I usually watch wet refinging videos so this is a little different. Good stuff, thanks again. EDIT, your furnace looks like Chernobyl, under the reactor.

@paularmstrong2373

Жыл бұрын

yup essentially what Chernobyl was. molten heavy metals mixing with concrete and slag.. just Chernobyl is much heavier metals not to forget its radioactive

I liked before even watching because I love the idea behind the video so much. Now let's finish watching this 9 month old video :D

Well i do. Love your craziness. Wow. Good amount. Nice

Awesome video @Jason 📹 👏🏻 👌🏻

Awe video Jason, really solid information

This was a great video thanks for sharing!!

Thank you it was exciting! Booyah

I work at an alfalfa plant as the lead sample tech, which is in charge of estimates before cleaning and purity after cleaning. I love watching these videos. It would be a dream job to do that with minerals.

@jeffbybee5207

Жыл бұрын

Is that sample text as a leader or are you sampling for the heavy metal lead? What do you look for what is cleaning and what is done with the product?

@quintonkoepnick

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffbybee5207 I was speaking of Alfalfa Seed aka Hay. With metals I don't know much at all but I want to learn.

An awesome video, great to see you recover that! It pays not to trow away PM refining waste

I think you need to concrete underneath you jaw crusher so you can sweep it up to minimise loss and you should concrete around your furnace to also minimise loss

I really enjoy watching your videos and learning about the processes. I would like to see a video of how you separate gold and silver from a single, precious metals button.

VERY COOL EXPERIMENT, 70 GRAMS OF SILVER IS ALOT, WOW!!

Im so glad you added extra KNO3 because you will lose a lot of it to decomposition before the lead melts, and to reacting with the flux components, as well as the weight being skewed by water content and the result of it simply not mixing properly.

Listen man at first i was on my high horse with all those newish equipment you got thinking kinda down on ya like a sore ass loser.. But dude this entire video was just so fun to watch... Love watching all those pyramid head bashing! First vid i seen of yours and i liked and subscribed.. Cool as hell... Wish you the best, and looking forward to more! (I bet i have alot of vids to look through tho!)

Great video Jason! You are truly The Mad Rock Scientist! If you get a chance see if you can run that bead under an XRF gun see what the actual content is. Thanks much. That is a LOT of work.

Good video, very interesting.

I just bought that exact metal furnace a few months ago, it's small but I love it! It's my second furnace ever

2:20 that dust is precious

I'll put some good studying into the pyrocrafting lessons available. Thanks for the educational videos Jason

Jason, this is very interesting.

Great video i enjoyed

your getting really good at it

Great idea!

quite educational. thank you

Hope to see that refinement soon

that's the cool part about keeping your tailings, slag, and old crucibles, nothing is ever lost if you can remember or figure out how to get it :D

it is good that you take the time to collect the lead. also it is a very interesting chemistry experiment. i know this is an older video but please, get proper poring tongs, it will prolong the durability of your crucibles.

Thank you 🤗

OOOhhhhhh, I've been waiting for this one.

jason thanks for the videos was just watching dans footage of his smelt . when you overflow the cone molds its slag .....have you ever tried displacing more slag from the mold while molten? it would allow the sample to cool faster having less mass ..

This was actually interesting!

Very interesting and knowledgeable video for anyone who needs to do this. ❤️💛💚👍✌️

Thanks for a great video

That Rooster in the background cracks me up.

The rooster in the background had me looking around our place for someone's missing rooster haha!

Great job

Amazing video once again Jason.. what temperature do you run the cupelling process at? 1750?

I live this channel!

In our smelting operation we pour off 120kg of silver and gold mix, send slabs of that off to the Perth mint to be refined, yeah, we make a pretty penny from our dirt :) well... dirt from around the world.

Keep up the great videos

your one of the utubers i dont mind long vids, I would buy one of the jaw crushers if i ever get out of the poverty I am in , I used to make my own glazes from granite

Okay Jason I see were you got the material excellent video great content I wonder if this method would work on c.r.ts to recover the lead? Thank you for sharing five stars brother

Hi Jason, Fantastic video!! I always learn something new watching your smelting vid's! Maybe your buddy with the XRF gun can zap the button for you?? If so, let us know. Fascinating process! Thank You!! Take Care, Jim

Awesome video

Pyro-chemistry is the best chemistry. Also - that "soapy" feeling is the Sodium Hydroxide extracting fat from your skin... so you might want to use a moisturizer.

Don't forget when you processed my silver sweeps. There might have been some from that as well.

Cool video! The whole time watching i was breathing cautiously as if i was nearby the machine grinding up all the material lol. All paranoid. Probly the weed

I just bought the highbanker. I'm leaving Monday to the mountains for a month to look for gold.

My first thought when you finished describing your run for today was "PLEASE wear a respiratory this time! Like, some of those materials in the past weren't too bad but this run looks extreme spicy.

@ronniewilliz153

Жыл бұрын

I was happy to see him wearing a mask too. An I'm getting sick right now respiratory type an I had to cough from just watching it lol take care of it lungs an body you only get one.

@jeffbybee5207

Жыл бұрын

@@ronniewilliz153 well two lungs but that are usually the only set you get as you said

Jason…. The chickens in the background ARE AWESOME to hear.

I'd love to see it after you clean it off & shined up !

You really need a XRF to test the percentages of metals in a bead. That would be really interesting and really help you with your refining.

Nice, very cool.

Really fun hobby. Clean up the shop and get a $50 coin at the end. All I got was a sore back and a pile of sawdust.

You should scoop up the dirt underneath the crush too.. might find some good stuff there

@mbmmllc, do you have plans for using industrial magnets, just to sort the stuff trough? Like iron , steel , and black sand.

Like the videos. A simple plastic skirt would helps reduce oxide in the air

This is better than any NCIS show... If you can get reading on that metal, how much gold is in it... Looks very silvery, but even 2 % of gold is double the money...