Gold! - Melting, Smelting and Playing with fire!
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2023
- What better way to stay warm out on a cold winter day. Let's play with FIRE! Today we are investigating a mineral collectors sample of "Gold" to see what is in it. Also melting some Silver, and refining some Gold shavings from a jeweler. All sorts of fun with the smelting furnace.
And yeas I know I needed more lead. I found that out when I researched what was happening.
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And before you tell me I needed more lead, I know.
Prospecting with DAN! That would be cool!
they call it a learning curve for a reason
Don't sweat it. You're an entertainer, prospector, and videographer. You're not a laboratory technician.
You could try using MAPP Gas instead of propane in your cupelling furnace. It burns a little hotter and the tanks don't frost up as easily.
Propane burning temp. = approx. 1970 C
MAPP burning temp. = approx. 2050 C
Could you add oxygen with a blower or from a small O2 tank? Like a jewelers torch does.
Dan, you are the most humble of all of your competitors! I don't care if you make a mistake! I just appreciate your absolute honesty! Thanks so much for sharing this video my friend!
As a headphone wearer I GREATLY appreciate the “loud” warnings!! Thanks so much!! Much love from Maine!
Been watching your videos for over 2yrs and love every bit of content I watch! Can't wait to go and find my own gold! Thank you Dan for all the educational videos!
I wish YT had an easy way to check when you subscribed to a channel. With all the data google harvests on us, you would think they could share a tiny tidbit like that with us "human data products."
Good Morning Dan and Labe
Good Morning :)
nice job for just playing around with it. thank you for sharing the adventure and information 😀
Dan you do a great job learning and educating yourself and taking us with you. Love all your videos. TYVM
Inside your shop reminds me of when I worked at Tony's rock shop. Buckets, boxes, bins, coffee cans, jars and pill bottles with all sorts of stuff. Takes me back :) and damn that Jason for making the smelting look so easy. Even if you're not learning what makes the perfect bead, you're learning what doesn't. Cheers Dan!
I miss Tony. I still have my Estwing 22oz Pick that I bought from him.
Your enthusiasm is infectious love the videos
Been loving the 2023 videos Dan - I've Gotten a little bored with panning videos but I love learning about melting and smelting!
Hi Dan, that is neat to see how the silver & gold are separated. TFS! Blessings to you!🕊✝🙏🏼💖
Awesome video Dan. Thanks for sharing both you successes and challenges. Very educational and fun as usual.
I can not wait till I get to this level of experience! Thanks Dan for sharing! Always looking forward to your new content!
Nice. Always find your videos informative, interesting, and entertaining. Can’t wait!
Another great video Dan! Appreciate it that you show the good, the bad and the ugly! A great learning experience!
"This video showcases the exciting process of melting and smelting gold! The visuals of the fire and the transformation of the metal is truly captivating. Well done!"
Great job all around fam. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream fam. Gold Squad Out!!!
Excited to see it. love your content Dan!
Dan, your a good man, very informative, with a slant of humour, and self micky taking, keep up the good work, as its always enjoyable watching your videos
😁👋👍👍👏👏💕🙏🏻
Thank you Dan. It was nice getting outside with you.
I really love how you include your thought process instead of editing it out.
Good morning Dan!
Wow, the patience... You Da Man! Thank you Dan.
More smelting please. Probably my favorite videos of yours.
Thanks Dan,
I learnt a lot from your video.
Hi Dan maybe you should use MAPP gas on the smaller smelter? I do watch and enjoy all your videos keep up the good work!
Thanks for all of the great content, much love and respect from Colorado!!🙏🍻
Thanks Dan !! Stay warm !!
Wow I had no intention or expectation that I was going to be interested long enough to get through the whole video but I watched the whole darn thing! Really good video man
Best way to spend a early Sunday morning. Thanks again Dan.
one thing about your respirator, as someone with beard i would reccommend getting a overpressure system like the 3M Versaflo. you wont get a proper seal when you have a beard ending up with a lot of the air you breathe in not going through a filter.
Im hoping that watching both your videos and Jason's i will learn more of the science so I can start my own journey into panning and refining.
Nicely done Dan! So it wasn’t perfect but that just means you’re honest. As always can’t wait for the next video!
Dan love your smelting explanation I could not have explained it better myself. I have been a smelter rat all of my adult life and currently run a secondary lead smelter in the states. Keep up the great work and love your geology lessons.😎
Thank you Dan, you do a great job!
Great stuff Dan love it!
Awsome educational vid Dan ✌️
Loved watching it. Watching mistakes are a learning curve as well. It shows things can usually be overcome with patients
Patience?
Great fun vid Dan. Thank you
When I was working with silver I very quickly changed my torch from propane to mapp gas. Works much faster.
love your rock wall in the back yard!!
Dan, thanks for this video on a cold snowy morning.
In joy listening to you I have so much to learn
Love the intro Dan!!
Great to meet you is Tucson Dan!
Glad to see you outside and enjoying your adventures with finding those precious metals. I love the videos, keep them up and stay safe and warm. Until the next video, happy hunting
Sorry I don't do apps. I only communicate by telephone or through comments. Sorry I did but got scammed.
😍 the rock wall. Thats your backyard? Sweet
Ur gem videos r amazing. Starting to love ur smelting videos a lot
There's only one way to get good at what you want to do,and that is experience,you just gotta get out there and do it over and over again without judgement on yourself through the learning experience,great job Dan thank you
Turn it up, you rock Dan.
Boy Howdy. Educational and fun. Students should watch this.
Cup o coffee and watching this amazing man.*life is good.😌😌😌
Interesting video! I enjoyed watching!
Kewl episode, I like watching dirt turn into gold
I love looking at the surface of the sun look when you pour.
Good job Dan. Yes don’t breath the fumes
Congrats on reaching 1 Million subscribers.
Thanks for the video it answered all my questions
Beautiful work ❣️
I like gold
Good day Dan,
Having been watching Jason's smelting activities, The first thing I looked at was the colors of your mask filters. Purple and yellow,. I painted fishing boats for a while, using the nastiest of thinners. Well in the mornings before light, I'd be working with mixing and preparations. Never smelled anything through the mask,. Except the smell of baking bread, as there was a bread bakery near by.
Wow that's awesome 😎. You need some Sun 🌞. From sw Florida. Love your videos
I think your having way to much fun!
Hello Dan, First off I must say I am a fan of your videos! I found them maybe a week or two ago, but mixed with my hobby of mineral collection and my career working in a Fire Assay metallurgical laboratory, its begun to help foster some interest in hobby prospecting. Keep up the great work and I enjoy not only learning a thing or two, but also seeing some of the amazing finds you have recorded.
Now, I know you are having fun, and you know a heck of a lot of the science, figured I would give you a few technical points that I know from the lab end of Fire Assay end of things.
Starting with safety, we all know lead is toxic, however a good way to help reduce your actual long term dose is to take Vitamin C. It prevents the receptors thinking the lead is calcium, and uptaking it into the brain/bones. It does nothing for past doses, and must be loaded into the system before expected exposure.
Building off of the topic of lead, within the cupellation phase, you are right in that a majority of the lead is oxidizing and remaining in the cupel, however, that is about 98% of the lead mass, the other 2% does vaporize. Its very noticeable when the lead button masses are in the kg range for a single furnace load. A fun fact is copper in your lead will cause the cupel to turn green. That's how we use visual tracers for racks to not be swapped due to human error.
My last little tidbits on lead would be that for your flux and flour ratio, 1 gram of flour results in the formation of 11g of a lead button in a lead oxide flux outside of carbon in the sample. Ontop of the roast, what I would have added in the flux stage would have been some litharge and silica dust to help clean up the sample. Small amounts of potassium nitrate can also help clean that up as well but that that causes gassing where you need more of a slow temperature control increase to properly fuse, we usually have it at least 1 hour for fusion and the extra time should help with your gold recovery especially on the thicker slag pours.
Hope you dont mind me nerding out a bit, figured if anything you would find it interesting as well. I just got home from the labs so still in that mindset while I give your videos a watch.
Take care, and I look forward to your next videos and your next geology lesson!
So much fun to watch. That’s what I seem to end up doing. Jason has started using bismuth instead of lead.
Great fun as usual Dan. I am fairly sure that the problem you were having with the propane torches was tank freeze, I see alot of this with my blacksmithing forge the longer the forge runs the colder the tank will get I would suggest getting a larger tank with an adapter to run that style of tip (more bang for your buck as it were)
And running the tiny torches on a day that is ALREADY freaking cold ain't helping, I'm sure.
Around Hatton Garden the centre of the Jewellery trade in London they used to say that when the workshop floor needed to be replaced the gold recovered from the floorboards would pay for the new floor.
Svo hlýr gestur!
This guy is the coolest dude. I wish I lived in a gold area.
The cold temp's are lowering the pressure of the propane in the tanks I've had the same problem with my smoker. A tank heater is available but kinda expensive.
Awesome video. Damn, thank you very much.
When you can't go to the river to look for gold because it's frozen, you start to melt gold while you warm up, very smart Dan
When using crusher indoors, get a towel and high power magnets. Put it over the back end, out spout side. Use a towel big enough to cover the pan as well. Maybe use rocks to keep the towel snug around the pan. You might wanna do it all the time.
Don't burn your self Dan, this is going to be a great video
I love smelting videos.
Great way to just have fun smelting and practising!
In my experience..Usually rock collectors, collect for natural specimens not for smelt value. Rock collectors can make a fortune acid etching and creating natural rock specimens for display purposes. Tons of different reasons why. If he was processing samples(the collector) he would have tons on hand!
Awesome to see you smelting or melting!! I always learn something watching your videos. Now if I would just learn how to pan for Gold without getting frustrated!!
Patience and persistence will get yu everywhere. Look at Vo-Gus for sampling methods and why it's a necessary evil.
Hey Dan! That smelt pretty good way down here in Nebraska.
Great video Dan, Yeah mate you need to get rid of those blue gas bottles and use the yellow ones I think it is called MAPP gas and have a migher higher temp output 😁
Suggestion: if your wife has any used hose that she has no more use for, take one of those, cut the toe off it, tape the hole where the toe used to be to your output and stretch the rest of it over the pan.
That will massively reduce the dust and make it easier to see inside the room.
Another option is a sock hat, or a shower cap, or even a pliable plastic bag.
Interesting ,fun to watch
I will begin to prospect the river close to my home as soon the dry season begins in a few days,hope I find something but doing all you do in this vídeo is something I didn't expect to have clean gold...hope I find a good quantity so I have only to melt it...nice video and lot of information about the proses I didn't know.
Hi Dan, always appreciate your videos! , propane bottles tipped over flat sometimes messes with the flow through the valve. maybe a table setup where the propane bottles aren't laying over flat would give a better performance, cheers!
Great video. Very typical of what we all do or try to do with our fines. May I suggest MAPP Gas bottles. They get higher temperatures than Propane gas
That is a beutiful rock face behind the workshop.
Map gas in the yellow cans burns much hotter. I love smelting, done a 1 Kilo bar of .999 last spring and a few small bars. Love watching the sun swirls as it's cooling in the molds. Hot , hot, hot molds and a little borax for lubrication with the silver and they turn out pretty nice. Awesome video, like the variety.
Hi Dan, we have the same propane here in Australia in the blue container we also have propane in a yellow container that is ment to burn hotter for your krill. Kind regards Tony
Propane flux time one hundred dollars😂😂😂.❤
Cool stuff love "playing" with fire. Check out the Paragon electric kiln Dan...nice table top enameling kiln which should work nicely for you for the cupeling process they have all sizes and prices from $1k US up. Hope that helps.
Was in Tucson a couple of weeks ago
Wondering if the yellow MAPP gas cans would be better instead of the blue propane cans? It burns hotter.
@Dan Hurd can you do a video on the macerator you built?
Nice info and fun to watch, what was the name of your big smelter furnace you were using here?
Thanks, Clinton
After your intro. The first thing that popped into my head was “uh oh Dan is doing witchcraft”. Love your content. Have fun and stay safe.
Actually, whatever the outcome of the day, you are always entertaining, and your natural exuberance is a delight to watch and makes me want to rush out and... stop and realise I'm in North Wales where a guy was recently fined £3000 ( $3600 USD) for panning in the river near the Clogau gold mine- Britain is a FINE country... your even fined for chucking fries to the seagulls in a McDonalds car park! + other silly stupid rules!
Thank you
Do you use dolly pots,we use them a lot to check ore in australia,very easy to transport.anyway great vid dan.cheers
Hello, thanks. Nice.
Thank you for saying how much the gold and silver was at the end
Oh? Here's a good question! How do you dispose of a lead filled cupell?
Brilliant
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