Mining Gold From Sand? Mining Rich Canadian Gold W/
Join us on a golden adventure as we journey to Vancouver Island for a captivating gold mining escapade! In this episode, Jason teams up with his friend and fellow prospector, @ANDYTHRAXX to unearth the treasures hidden within the ancient river banks of Canada. Their quest kicks off with Jason diligently cleaning up placer gold concentrates, a glimpse of the golden possibilities yet to come.
But the central question remains: is there enough gold in these concentrates to justify further processing? Jason takes us along as he investigates these rich remnants from Andy's past mining expeditions, piquing the curiosity of every gold enthusiast. As the video unfolds, we venture to Andy's mining site, offering an exclusive glimpse into a medium-scale placer gold mining operation. Witness the impressive machinery and methods employed to extract gold from the sandy riverbanks, providing a rare insight into the world of Canadian gold mining.
Discover the secrets of the trade, from the initial cleanup to the ultimate quest for gold in the pristine streams of Vancouver Island. The pursuit of these golden treasures promises an unforgettable journey through the heart of rich Canadian gold mining.
Stay tuned to find out what these dedicated prospectors uncover and whether their endeavors are rewarded with the precious metal they seek. The adventure is about to begin, and the gold awaits!
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Really been loving the consistency of your uploads lately, Jason. Its lots of work to film while youre doing anything, let alone MINING. Appreciate the content, keep it up
$400.00 for a whole day three man work doesn’t pay off..
His paydirt is pretty consistent too. Haven’t even broken the rocks up(no stampy tool yet) and there’s flakes in the dust.
Uploads of Old Clips before the new stuff?
Mencari emas di indonesia tidak perlu lagi alat2 yang canggih cukup dengan tangan dan menyelam dalam air, maka emas besar pun akan kita dapatkan dalam jumlah banyak
@@FransBlaas1why you think they do KZhead?
Incredible Jason, I’m so surprised how little gold was left yet you still made it into a little bead, that was so awesome to watch. Thank you!!!
I am glad you are doing well Andy! I thank the KZheadr friends we have that have checked in on you this summer. I love seeing your operation going!
Thanks Jason for the update on Andy's claim I just wish Andy would post some new content on this channel so come on Andy please 🙏
Fun to see that Andy has fine tuned his process and the results he’s getting! Such a relief that all his hard work is paying off!
Love seeing everyone work with each other, Dan, Andy, Pauly, mine operator, Jeff.
I don't comment much on youtube. I wanted you guys to know that I really enjoy watching small mining operations like yours, it's really cool that you cut your own trees. The crossover content is very interesting as well. Good job Jason.
This is the type of gold mining video that just makes your heart melt. Well done boys! Keep crushin it (literally and figuratively!)
Jason’s a fun guy seems like a really hood dude and you always see him helping others witch helps him I’m sure he learns from them as they learn fr him and that’s what it’s all about . Learn something new everyday
And today Jason is hanging with Andy Thraxx. What a treat.
Andy is a great guy. I really admire his commitment to regenerating the natural landscape after the mining is done. He's showed his test pit remediation work during and after a year. It's one thing to remediate the works to meet the minimum standard but putting that extra effort in is something to be proud of. I spent a lot of time at the Scout camp near his childhood home where us kids were indoctrinated with the concept of Leave No Trace. It's great how he's brought those practices into mining. So much of this Island is wild and although its been logged several times over, it's stayed a wild and unmodified landscape. Strip mining gets a bad name but Andy is really showing how to do it correct.
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Exactly what I was going to say
@@Obshowersyndicatelol your username
Strangely enough this was the sort of "deep dive" into shaker tables that makes stuff seen on various gold hunting tv shows make a lot more sense now, thank you.
Hi Jason, Very nice of you to run the material from Andy's clean-up trommel! His little modified machine does a great job getting the gold! Always fun watching your shaker table pull out the goodies!! Great video! Thumbs up! Stay safe. Jim
My two favorite miners in the same video! Always good stuff!
I have to admit your impressive because you never seem to stop doing stuff and have that energy to back it up and that system of sifting all with one motor blew my mind
Absolutely brilliant Jason and team. Loving your videos. Very consistent, well explained and captivating. You do not cut corners. Well done team
Jason, you are a real resource for small miners. I admire you competence in all areas of small scale mining. Really like all your videos, especially your most recent 125 year old mine restoration. Hope you do well, you are a great inspiration
Great Trommel,best wishes for continued innovation!
Andy is the man!!!! Great video Jason!!! Absolutely killer.
This shaker table is such an incredible tool, I'm so impressed everytime I see it work 👊🏼👊🏼
Worth mentioning: At gold's current price of $62.33 per gram (USD), that little speck of gold is worth about a $1.50 if it's pure (which it probably isn't, it's probably like 80% gold)
$1.24 of gold in 3 buckets heh. That shaker table is amazing- not only does it work well but it's cool how it spreads the whole process out so you can see the different trains of minerals. It's good for teaching on the video as well as getting gold
Heck yeah! Nice to always see Andy!
You guys are amazing with the creativity with your gold recovery. It’s fun to watch
Your table is amazing. I like that you did a placer test. Those black sands are tough to pan
Awesome day. Jason is a busy body. He's all over the place. Keep em coming bro and please stay safe out there
Back when I used to dredge in Northern California, we brought home about 50 pounds of our concentrates after removing the gold. We proceeded to grind and leech that material that was left and recovered a half ounce of gold. so I know that’s it’s not 100% when you use gravity concentration. I’ve never went back to dredge since Arnold decided to make it illegal in California which sucks. I always wanted to go back with my son and dredge, but that dream is long gone now.
Andy is a friggin' Genius. Excellent video Jason, thanks for making the content you do, I've been watchin' religiously.
Hey Jason, noticed the white, silvery looking sands. Canada is known for platinum ores. I dealt with some similar sands from BC years ago and finally figured out it was PtAs2. Often called Sperrylite. Think that's spelled right. It's described as tin white and usually crystallizes in the isometric system. Specific gravity is 10.58 on average. Depends on arsenic to platinum combination. Extremely hard to convert in a melt.
Nice job! Way to go Jason and Andy Thanks for sharing 🙏❤️🌲
Jason knows how to work everything what a champ
Jason, a genius superstar in the guise of a regular guy....Magic!
Good to see Andy, he doesn't post often enough.
Sounds like Andy knows what he’s doing!
Really good to see you work with Andy.
Absolutely love the shaker table 👌
Very nice setup Andy! Very efficient and fast processing of the gravel for a one person operation!
I'd sit through a physics lecture on what, exactly, is happening when a bead of gold 'flashes over' and becomes solid. Such an interesting thing.
Love to see Andy and Jason mining together should definitely let Andy fisit Jason's mine think his reation will be priceless, anyway Jason love the content keep it up and keep safe, much love from South Africa 👍👍
I bloody love this channel, thanks again for another great vid Jason!
Those silver coloured heavies might be worth a lot of money! Maybe more than the gold. I would also go over them with a radiation monitor because Uranium is found in sand deposites. So it could also be dangerous.
What a cool video. You guys are good people to watch.
There are very few things that can be if it has to be around the specific gravity of gold. Platinum, osmium, iridium come to mind. A natural alloy of those does occur in the American west and canada.
That trommel is awesome. Rube Goldberg would be proud of whoever designed this.
Jason ! A good vid. It is good to see Andy doing well in his process procedure with the minuscule weight that passed through on his sample..
Nice job, Jason. Love gold claimers. The reciprocating sluice action helps settle out cons, plus overall vibration of the mill itself. BTW, I have the same gray line on my Wilfleytable , out of N W Arizona
Thank you Jason
Great job Jason....I definitely appreciate the amount of work and time you put into your productions 🤝🍻
Cool video! Glad his system is catching so much!!
Great video Jason thanks for sharing this six stars
Always fun to see things in action
Great video. Thanks guys for sharing. Best regards.
I was fishing on the Nooksack river, around mosquito lake road and came across this graphite with quartz veins rocks. I’m not a geologist so that’s my best guess that it’s graphite and of took some samples home. I see there are graphite deposits in the area. This is my favorite KZhead channel.
I dont think graphite would be very heavy like lead or galena .....graphite is quite light
Doing a research level fine toothed combing of the tailing is a great idea. I'm glad he now has verification that his process is extracting such a high percentage of the gold. Now to see if he can simplify the concentration method and maintain the efficiency. Maybe running stuff through a hammer mill then the shaker table would skip a few of his steps.
Great! Gold, gold, Au! 💕
thank you for sharing the adventure and information
Awesome!
Pumping out the quality context recently!
You rock ,thanks for all your work
Your videos are so beneficial and simply spoken for the amount of knowledge you bring in a short video clip is outstanding.. easy to learn and understand ...you share greatly valued information in a simple welldone youtube video ....thank you kindly for your time
would be worth testing the grey material, maybe something worth collecting, cobalt, platinum, podium. 100% worth getting it tested. never know what other minerals could be hiding.
If it was platinum it wouldn’t be absorbed by the cupel
23:08 where that bucket's dropping material, you could weld a steel hopper for the length of the belt. I noticed the ones on there are kinda narrow and you have to angle the bucket to line it up.
Very cool!
I often see grayish sands in my cons here in NC also. Suspiciously heavy. I'm not sure what all might be in that mix but xrf scans of my nuggets have shown pgms like rhodium, palladium, indium. I'm learning that in known mining areas where mercury was used, the pgms are also in the amalgam if near copper/gold deposits
Another excellent video
I have a fair amount of that fine super-dense silvery-gray 'sand' in my black sands from a glacial deposit in NJ. It's as dense as the gold flakes I find, so I'm thinking it's a platinum-group metal. Makes sense since the glacial material is partly composed of minerals from the eastern Canadian gold-platinum veins. I'm building my smelting furnace, so sometime next year I'll do a smelt and see what emerges from these sands.
We’ve found the same heavy gray material associated with fine placer hold here in Montana. I believe what we have is lead with magnesium in it. Given exposure to oxygen and moisture the magnesium migrates to the surface of the lead. It mostly stays with the lead, coating each particle, oxidizing into that pale color.
@@geraldbrunckhorst8291 Magnesium, or manganese? Magnesium is highly reactive, an alkali earth metal. In nature, it will ALWAYS either be a salt, or bound up in complex minerals. As a salt, magnesium is highly soluble. Manganese, on the other hand, I could see becoming partly reduced in the right circumstances, as it is a transition metal. The super-fine sand I'm seeing is shiny, pale silvery gray that glistens in sunlight. I've found small lead birdshot in the surface material, and it's all heavily oxidized from exposure. Not shiny at all. The dust-like shiny sand must have something in it that resists oxidation.
You are my new favorite channel
I love this design! Trammel
I really enjoy every upload, thanks for sharing. I know nothing about gold mining, other than what I've picked up from your videos. would be of any value to run the larger screened material through the hammer mill and shaker table? Thanks again.
Truly, awesome video💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥
Nice that a Drywall expert gets to live his dream of getting gold and they both get a tax write off if living in the USA which is the bonus that we get to watch and enjoy another MBMMLLC Jason upload. Very Enjoyable 40 minutes.
Your cleaning table is the best table I have ever seen. Just to think that of the thousands of pounds of tailing that placer mines run that 2 to 4% more gold would really make a significant difference.
Watching from the UK, we have to work silly hard for tiny amounts of gold here, enjoying your content, have you checked that grey line on the shaker table for platinum group metals yet ? I say this because i had a mystery mixed metal bluish looking lump a couple of years back from the quarry & it turned out to be a mix of osmium & palladium with trace amounts of platinum when i had a friend run an XRF on it. When i went thru the fines there was quit a bit of it as fine sand in with the sulfides. It was one of the largest finds ive ever had from my hill that i very nearly missed & it payed off all my tools.
Also way to go Andy doing a great job
30:10 I'm no professional, but seems a 20' conveyor feeder would help that plant alot, keep it running more consistent, maybe use two smaller excavators if there is two to run it. Give it more time to wash the large rocks.
Lovely little strip of gold on the Shaker table. Question, would it be worth the time to run the half bucket of material that you screened out through a mill? Seems logical that that material would be nice and heavy since it made it through several sorting steps. Who knows it might have something worth the effort.
Face First Engineering (FFE) from the school of 'Hard Knocks' at 'OJT' University! good job, guys!
Looks like that one buckets lived it's life think yah going to need a new one... That mini trommel is super damn cool
great content!
Hey Jason. I have run across that grey/whiteish concentrate on the Azusa River in Southern California. It is not magnetic, I always called it the "ghost white cons". In the pan, I would have quite a bit from my sluicing for the day. I want to think that the ghost white cons are like a ground up white sapphire or even ground up diamond. I used it once to scour my old metal gold pan. It worked really well as an abrasive. That stuff is really hard on the hardness scale I think. I have never found any of the white cons larger than a grain of sand to streak test it out on a tile. Good luck on your new mine. A mucking tip, try using a sheet of aluminum siding the same diameter as the muck floor to walk on and catch all the diggings and muck. Then, fashion a hole into the muck floor siding to mount a hiking carbine and a pull chain/ cable to a mounted winch to pull all the muck out to your mine cart to be bagged. I really like that your team bang on all the tunnels testing for the dreaded widow makers. Be safe working in there.
I think ASU will have a geologist/mineralogist that could tell you what that gray material is. It won't be diamond and probably not sapphire. My guess would be platinum or one of other platinum group metals.
Sapphire and diamond have relatively low specific gravities. They wouldn't wind up at the head of the shaker table.
I love Andy's mine and the incredible sluice he built. Just like you, Jason, you both have engineering minds! To be able to dot every I and cross every T is hard to put into one, whole system. Furthermore, Andy sure appreciated your help. The only bad thing was really getting down to the awesome looking gravel layers! By the way, do you have to be licensed to run heavy equipment in Canada? Just wondering. The gold you recovered on the shaker table was a surprisingly nice amount. Even if it was flour gold, it all adds up. No one wants to lose out on any of their gold! Just like the recovered gold from the other man's driveway 'tailings dump' so to speak. I've never got to pan anything in my lifetime, but I have learned one thing about the gold mining business: patience. Got to have a lot of patience to clean up every single bit! Thanks for sharing, Jason! I can't wait to see your results out of your mine! Blessings from Alabama ❤️
The classified tailings seems like they would be great for concrete. You might have a market for the tailings.
My guess is the Grey heavy stuff on the shaker table is gold alloyed Telurides something I have over looked when prospecting. Teluride is sometimes found right along side the gold in Hard Rock gold mines and can be alloyed with gold.
When Gpa had lead to be melted in buckets, those buckets got a gray dust in the bottom, and that dust was super heavy! That may be the gray band of material you were seeing going along with the heavies!
Fab!!
What a great clean up Jig. I have a couple friends that bring their cleaned up placer to me to flucxed and with a couple og Hank Chapmans' flux I can get it to right around 22 K and make them little KitKats. I never charge them much as it is soooo nice to do and they bring the beer, LOL. I am in Vanderhoof, just an hour west of Prince George BC.Up until 3 years ago I was really active in the field but losing my R leg my bush tromping and old pan have come to a reaal no more for me. We have the Upper Fraser and all its tributaries with fine gold EVERYWHERE. Platinum and silver too. I remember many days bringing silver concentrate home to semi refine that was in every pan. Oh how I miss those days long passed. Great post my friend. Stop by my channel if you have time. Andy's operation is nice and compact. With all the available water he has a great thing happening there. Great post my southern friend. I checked and I am still subbed and loving PM's
That is a cool little unit that he has.
23:45 It cost more than $125 a day to run/rent an Excavator, fuel/cost for Tremel and water pump, hourly pay for employee etc. I would estimate about $300-500 per day operating costs.
I really enjoyed the physics of how the shaker table works. I'd like to learn more about why the dense material can climb the hill but lighter stuff can't.
I haven't watched the video, but heavier metals like gold stay in the deep grooves while lighter materials like waste get washed downhill.
Haven't seen a post from Andy in a long time. Either he hit it big and has gone secretive or things aren't going well. Hope he hit it big!
He's been dropping new content ever 3 or 4 days all m9nth
Nice little gold brother
Grease up those chains and sprockets on that mini trommel Andy......!!
Jason we see the same heavy concentrates in our cleanups. I believe it is scheelite. Check with a black light.
Andy has a pretty nice little wash plant, all things considered . I wonder though , if his recoveries would improve if it could get the bigger rocks cleaner ? The other question is if the recoveries would improve enough to justify a better set up ? But that's part of the gamble of mining ... Those Alaskan road cons sure look pretty with all that garnet in it .
I had the same thought while watching that wash plant in operation.
Jason, You need to take a crusher and a machine exactly like this down into your mine. Why go thru all the trouble of taking all the Muck out of the mine. just bring out your cons.🤔🤔👍👍 Heck with it..bring your table on down..
Not enough o’s in smooth to describe that operation you have. Cool to watch.
i think andy can still add it, but i think his washplan setup had a hopper, can just dump it, material can get a little bit of a pre wash befor dropping down into the grizzly bars. Then he could dip and dump and not have as much time slowllly feeding it
your videos make your life seem so much more fun than mine
Would totally love to get hold of all the iron in your tailings!
Have you ever thought about getting ahold of Freddy Dodge and having him come visit your shop
Good morning from Southeast South Dakota.