good job on the mill ......looks like it is up and running like a champ...we will have to bring some ore by and give it a shot ....keep at it you guys are doing great
Your team has done a tremendous amount of improvements, and it shows - your system is running really well- the dust controls you implemented are a huge step up. Some really nice videography there, great job MO :)
It's great to be able to crush rock again and recover that yellow metal. We have a lot of samples to get through. That may point us in the right direction 😉.
I have no doubt that you guys will do really well in the near future. And it's better to go slow when starting up as big of an operation that you guys are working on so no problem on the wait, just glad to see you running and it looks impressive.
Terry, we've really had to lean on each other through these ups and downs. Teamwork has been the key 🔑. Takes a lot of patience when all you want to do is run ore. Thanks for your comment.
Thanks, Sid! Maybe one of these next few samples we have. We have one mine we want to get back into. We've been clearing the plug on and off for years. Historical grades are 8opt. That would be incredible. Hope we can find that and share that experience.
Absolutely fascinating. Been watching Jason's gear at work for a few years now, at one point was toying with the idea of restaking some old claim and run a buttload of tailings thru. Wouuld be fun to come help out and watch and learn in the processing shed. I'd be like a little kid, with 10,000 annoying questions.
Much love to you guys, man! Mine Operator is the real deal. So good to see your rig up and running again. I know it took a lot to get that bearing sorted out, but you did what miners have always done…persevered and overcame the obstacle. Theres plenty of good gold in your future, cuz y’all have what it takes! Ya gotta kiss abuncha frogs ‘for ya find thet thar prince!
That messed me up when that rock appeared to jump out of the jaw crusher and right into your hand. 😮It wasn't until I looked down in there and saw there were no shards of rocks still in there, and the rock was the same size as it was when you dropped it in at first😂😅You got me🤣
Nice mill set up. Good job. I have a similar mill set up in Az.. replaced the two Stut. Mills with a 3 / 4 scoop feed ball mill. Table is a 5 /12 Wilfley Richard B. Helped me re do the table top. I know a few mods that may help you fine tune your table and deal with the mags. Love your attitude, mining is hard...😊
would be a interesting project to have a look in to automating or improving some parts of that system you have, just one thing i noticed is that your hoppers might benefit from a air hammer mounted on the side to help move the materials down to the bottom instead of using the rake, and some more small augers for the collecting of the different fractions from your shaker tables would let you collect them more or even move them over to a separate system for even better separation of concentrates ready for melting. I am a process engineer that tends to fiddle around with designing automation systems for things like this.
It's looking real good guys, good to see you up and running 👍🙂 I have some ore, that I would like to get tested with the FXR. I got it from a friend of mine in California. It is from Don, at the Red Wing mine. He sent it to me for testing and analysis to what I would get out of it. The quarts is encapsulated in this black matter, it seems to be a carbon substance. After putting it through my crusher and panning it out. There is a black oily scum that rides on top of water. I have saved two hand size chunks. Could I send them to you to get a reading ?
Im a big fan of the areas you work. It was those old mines out there that got me to be a geplogy major in college. I hope to see you out there one day.
Really great work guys 🎉 Did you know that crushed and washed quartz makes the hardest Cement? Your tailings running quartz are worth selling or using yourselves. In fact, you could use the material to make gold ore polished countertops too😮 Heck of a way to get rid of tailings 😂🤣😅 An infrared temperature gun is really cheap and a better gauge for those bearings. Put the normal Temps for the machine on the caps in paint. If it starts to rise, giv'er grease and make sure your equipment especially has a purge hole for the grease so it flushes out silica contamination 😉
Alright jaw is chomping again. Luv the mill setup. Dialing it in and getting some gold. How do you like your shaker table. It looks like a silver springs from rich.
Yes, it's a Silver Springs shaker table. It's taken some getting used and adjusting to the ore. There are differing options on the team about it. Have you operated one before?
Been too busy of late. Been prospecting a canyon not too big in which a 60 ounce nugget and a 30 ounce nugget of hard rock was found. No work has been done in 60to100 years in the canyon. all the literature I’ve only found a little bit to tell me what I need to know. I found some cool stuff but I still have not found any gold. I think that makes it even more exciting you’re gonna find it.
I'm very sorry to hear about your brother. The entire Mine Operator team hopes that these videos make you smile and we send our deepest condolences. Thank you for supporting our team.
@me5768 that is extremely generous of you. If you're willing to, please email me at info@mineoperator.com and we can exchange contact information. Thank you.
@@mineoperator it is me who should be showing the thanks. You guys put out intelligent videos that show just how important science is in mining successfully. I loved the tool porn when the jaw crusher got rebuilt. You guys impress me tremendously. Thank you for keeping it smart. Thank you for not dumbing it down. I would love to speak with you about a working vacation.
We're working on that. We're screening to -1/16" and the screen has to be constantly cleared. The Stutenroth mill doesn't have a fine screen inside so we screen after the mill but before the table. I'm working on hydrocyclone designs that will feed either -30 mesh or -50 mesh to the table via the overflow and send the underflow back into the mill for regrind. I'd prefer -50 mesh so that's what I'm aiming for.
Hey guys love your hard rock ore processing operation. I am a hobby gold miner in the process of reopening a old hard rock gold mine just north of Victorville. As I am sure most hard rock miners do I fabricate/modify alot of my equipment in my modest metal fab shop. I have built my own shaker table based largely on the MBMM design but I am looking at changing up the table suspension and I like the simplicity of the suspension on your table. I am also interested in what the table drive mechanism is, does it impart any other motion other than the rocking back and forth? I was wondering if there was a way I could come up and look at your table so I could see what your groove profile is, table slope and the many more variables. As always you are welcome to stop by my place.
We actually picked up tailings from a mine that used 6, 130 ton tanks back in the 1930s to leach the gold ore using cyanide. We have several mine dump samples as well. I'm looking forward to 3 different head ore samples we have. Let's see if they produce 😉.
nice video, need to fix your lighting, esp that tungsten light yellow balnaced microscopy shot, cant see the gold for all the yelow bias, white balance or get grey card and zero out
Sir I checked Aqua Regia in stannous chloride indicated presence of gold and palatinum group metal i used copper powder to get gold I got some pale yellow powder. but problem is after some time it Turns into a completely black powder
I see you sticking your hands in there to check the temps. You might want to get yourself on of those laser thermometers. They would safer and you could get the temps of the actual bearings instead of the housing.
I miss having someone describing what is happening as the ore moves along, not just some unjointed videos of rocks moving around. Good luck on your processing.
Time stamp 16:05 U used a hoe in the wheel barrel i saw a large area of tinted yellow.. camera optics or lost gold in sand screw somehow🤨😳 mind you i make pizza for a living..😬🤨😳 dont worry tho i basically run @mbmm from my iphone as well💪🔥🤨🤣 great set up great job thanks for content
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!! CRUSH EM HARD!!! Just like Jeff Williams always likes to say! Oh... Wait... That's 'Smash it hard' [HOP HOP HOP!] 🐰🐇 Either way, so glad to see y'all making progress! \(^_^)/
Wow, Frank! Your support is greatly appreciated and will be put towards a project we are currently working on. I am contacting our team to notify them personally of your contribution and interest in helping us out in the field. We could use another set of hands out here. Please email me at info@mineoperator.com.
We're working on it 👍. I have the MSHA's guide to Equipment Guarding manual. We've been going through our system and adding guards. Not done yet. Thanks for your comment.
We have one. It would be faster. Harry likes to use his senses with machinery. Sound and touch for excess vibrations and heat. I can feel excess vibration in a bearing and check the heat at the same time. I don't touch things that can burn. 140 deg is the temperature most people can touch without pain. if you cant bear it its hotter than 140 F.
good job on the mill ......looks like it is up and running like a champ...we will have to bring some ore by and give it a shot ....keep at it you guys are doing great
Thanks Jeff. One bite at a time. Num num num num. Our table is in need of thicker lines of gold 😉.
nice to see yall up back and running again.
It's great to be up and running again! We have some gold to find and recover.
Your team has done a tremendous amount of improvements, and it shows - your system is running really well- the dust controls you implemented are a huge step up. Some really nice videography there, great job MO :)
Today is a Great Day to be a Mine Operator !!! Feisty miner says ENJOY !
Great. Video! If anyone deserves success it’s all of you. Hard working crew. Probably ready to take a vacation and go back to Jason’s mine again.
That's what we do in our off season, we go mining 😆.
Man that's one sweet setup.
Thanks Alex. Many hours have gone into that setup. We're very happy it's running!
What a blast fam. Great job all around. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠
It's great to be able to crush rock again and recover that yellow metal. We have a lot of samples to get through. That may point us in the right direction 😉.
I think that jaw crusher looks to run better than when we first saw it. Nice job, guys.
Back to crushing. Num num num num. Thanks!
Love the closeups at the end, good luck for a big strike!
Awesome so see you back up and running.
Thanks 👍
I have no doubt that you guys will do really well in the near future. And it's better to go slow when starting up as big of an operation that you guys are working on so no problem on the wait, just glad to see you running and it looks impressive.
Terry, we've really had to lean on each other through these ups and downs. Teamwork has been the key 🔑. Takes a lot of patience when all you want to do is run ore. Thanks for your comment.
Great video. The magnification at the end was icing thank you.
Thank you Brodrick. Glad you enjoyed it. We did too.
Awesome guys..wish yall the best
Congratulations your back running again !!! Excellent walk through of your system!!!
We're so happy to be running again. We love getting tours of other plants/mills as we're still learning. Glad you enjoyed. Thanks for your comment!
Man you have some tough hands to be putting them in that water. Stay safe and keep the videos coming and give the boys a hug and treat for me
loved the microscope images at the end. great work Harry.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome machinery! I can’t wait to see you find a really rich patch and run it.
Thanks, Sid! Maybe one of these next few samples we have. We have one mine we want to get back into. We've been clearing the plug on and off for years. Historical grades are 8opt. That would be incredible. Hope we can find that and share that experience.
Absolutely fascinating. Been watching Jason's gear at work for a few years now, at one point was toying with the idea of restaking some old claim and run a buttload of tailings thru. Wouuld be fun to come help out and watch and learn in the processing shed. I'd be like a little kid, with 10,000 annoying questions.
We'd be ok with all those questions because we're like that when we visit and tour other operations. We get excited for the smallest of details.
Much love to you guys, man! Mine Operator is the real deal. So good to see your rig up and running again. I know it took a lot to get that bearing sorted out, but you did what miners have always done…persevered and overcame the obstacle. Theres plenty of good gold in your future, cuz y’all have what it takes! Ya gotta kiss abuncha frogs ‘for ya find thet thar prince!
We really appreciate your comment! We keep chugging along throughout each obstacle. Hoping we'll be able to show a nice gold recovery soon.
Nice looking samples 👍be safe everyone
Thanks Ray 😊. Will do.
That messed me up when that rock appeared to jump out of the jaw crusher and right into your hand. 😮It wasn't until I looked down in there and saw there were no shards of rocks still in there, and the rock was the same size as it was when you dropped it in at first😂😅You got me🤣
😆, gotta watch for the surprises. Have you seen the backwards clock?
Nice mill set up. Good job. I have a similar mill set up in Az.. replaced the two Stut. Mills with a 3 / 4 scoop feed ball mill. Table is a 5 /12 Wilfley Richard B. Helped me re do the table top. I know a few mods that may help you fine tune your table and deal with the mags. Love your attitude, mining is hard...😊
I'd appreciate a conversation if you're down. Feel free to email me at info@mineoperator.com.
Nice job brother great recovery
Hey MO! Checking in on the test results, keep it happening, lets hope production soon! 🤔⚖️💪⚒️🤠
We hope so too!
Keep up the good work...
Hi Guys...Chad & Harry...Nice to see you going at it again....the race is not for the swift but those that endure....keep it coming❤❤
Well said. Thanks, Semone.
Very cool! Nice to see the G :)
Sure is! Nothing like finding grades worth running. Sticking with it.
Great video, you guys have put a lot of time, and dedication into your setup. Keep up the hard work 💪
would be a interesting project to have a look in to automating or improving some parts of that system you have, just one thing i noticed is that your hoppers might benefit from a air hammer mounted on the side to help move the materials down to the bottom instead of using the rake, and some more small augers for the collecting of the different fractions from your shaker tables would let you collect them more or even move them over to a separate system for even better separation of concentrates ready for melting.
I am a process engineer that tends to fiddle around with designing automation systems for things like this.
You'd have fun tinkering at our millsite. We're working on hydrocyclones and a clarifying tank right now.
It's looking real good guys, good to see you up and running 👍🙂
I have some ore, that I would like to get tested with the FXR. I got it from a friend of mine in California. It is from Don, at the Red Wing mine. He sent it to me for testing and analysis to what I would get out of it. The quarts is encapsulated in this black matter, it seems to be a carbon substance. After putting it through my crusher and panning it out. There is a black oily scum that rides on top of water. I have saved two hand size chunks. Could I send them to you to get a reading ?
Copy that Rick. I'll give you a call.
Im a big fan of the areas you work. It was those old mines out there that got me to be a geplogy major in college. I hope to see you out there one day.
I hope so too! We appreciate learning from others and sharing some great historical data that has come across our desk...so to speak.
Really great work guys 🎉
Did you know that crushed and washed quartz makes the hardest Cement?
Your tailings running quartz are worth selling or using yourselves.
In fact, you could use the material to make gold ore polished countertops too😮
Heck of a way to get rid of tailings 😂🤣😅
An infrared temperature gun is really cheap and a better gauge for those bearings.
Put the normal Temps for the machine on the caps in paint.
If it starts to rise, giv'er grease and make sure your equipment especially has a purge hole for the grease so it flushes out silica contamination 😉
Great recommendations. We have an infrared gun. We just got to incorporate as you suggested. Thanks for your comment! We listen 😉.
Alright jaw is chomping again. Luv the mill setup. Dialing it in and getting some gold. How do you like your shaker table. It looks like a silver springs from rich.
Yes, it's a Silver Springs shaker table. It's taken some getting used and adjusting to the ore. There are differing options on the team about it. Have you operated one before?
@@mineoperator i went up to see rich quite awhile ago. He ran some ore for me. I like his tables but i have alot of sulphides to deal with
Been too busy of late. Been prospecting a canyon not too big in which a 60 ounce nugget and a 30 ounce nugget of hard rock was found. No work has been done in 60to100 years in the canyon. all the literature I’ve only found a little bit to tell me what I need to know. I found some cool stuff but I still have not found any gold. I think that makes it even more exciting you’re gonna find it.
The hunt is part of the fun. Thanks for joining us on our adventures. Hopefully, we both make big finds.
"Jaws" sounds good a munching away.
Heavy pans my friends, thank you. Till the next⛏⚒⛏🍻
Wishing you heavy pans as well OG Rocker 😉.
Your processing facility is pretty slick.
Can someone else like the video real quick? I don't wanna be the guy that got them to 666 likes. I don't wanna jinx these hardworking gentlemen
Great vid, love the 🔬 view.
Looks like fun can’t say that I’m not jealous. I used to do this stuff with my brother, but he passed away so I quit.
Sorry to hear about your brother... Your joy would return
I'm very sorry to hear about your brother. The entire Mine Operator team hopes that these videos make you smile and we send our deepest condolences. Thank you for supporting our team.
@@mineoperatorI have some equipment I would be willing to give you guys if you would like I live in Las Vegas.
@me5768 that is extremely generous of you. If you're willing to, please email me at info@mineoperator.com and we can exchange contact information. Thank you.
Do you run auto oilers on your white metal bearings?
Just a helathy amount of grease
maby some fine water sprayer to keep the dust down there must be way to work with out dust mask
Always a big thumbs up
Big thanks! We always appreciate your comment Frank 😉.
@@mineoperator it is me who should be showing the thanks. You guys put out intelligent videos that show just how important science is in mining successfully. I loved the tool porn when the jaw crusher got rebuilt. You guys impress me tremendously. Thank you for keeping it smart. Thank you for not dumbing it down.
I would love to speak with you about a working vacation.
Praying for you guys to hit it big this year. Even if thats money from youtube rather than gold.
Thanks! We'll see what happens. We're giving it our all.
Not mine to judge, but is there no way to crush your ore finer before you run it over the table?
We're working on that. We're screening to -1/16" and the screen has to be constantly cleared. The Stutenroth mill doesn't have a fine screen inside so we screen after the mill but before the table. I'm working on hydrocyclone designs that will feed either -30 mesh or -50 mesh to the table via the overflow and send the underflow back into the mill for regrind. I'd prefer -50 mesh so that's what I'm aiming for.
Hey guys love your hard rock ore processing operation. I am a hobby gold miner in the process of reopening a old hard rock gold mine just north of Victorville. As I am sure most hard rock miners do I fabricate/modify alot of my equipment in my modest metal fab shop. I have built my own shaker table based largely on the MBMM design but I am looking at changing up the table suspension and I like the simplicity of the suspension on your table. I am also interested in what the table drive mechanism is, does it impart any other motion other than the rocking back and forth? I was wondering if there was a way I could come up and look at your table so I could see what your groove profile is, table slope and the many more variables. As always you are welcome to stop by my place.
Hi Robert. Feel free to email me at info@mineoperator.com. Let's talk.
Why not mount a magnet over the chute to the table to filter out the magnetite and iron?
Love the idea! We'll install a magnet soon and test that out.
Awesome, but those do not appear to be tailings. They appear to be mine dump ore. Tailings come from milling leftovers, 'eh?
We actually picked up tailings from a mine that used 6, 130 ton tanks back in the 1930s to leach the gold ore using cyanide. We have several mine dump samples as well. I'm looking forward to 3 different head ore samples we have. Let's see if they produce 😉.
I bet you get literal TONS of IRON out of that ore!
Keep at it, you will get there👍
Thanks Peter.
That Pyrite contains Au, 4/8% it can be chemically refined out of it.
Copy that Richard. How do you recover the gold from the pyrite? Pyrometallurgy?
nice video, need to fix your lighting, esp that tungsten light yellow balnaced microscopy shot, cant see the gold for all the yelow bias, white balance or get grey card and zero out
We'll work on that. Thanks for the suggestions. That helps.
Sir I checked Aqua Regia in stannous chloride indicated presence of gold and palatinum group metal i used copper powder to get gold I got some pale yellow powder. but problem is after some time it Turns into a completely black powder
Interesting
Jaws of life are hungry for more Ore!
Thank you
Num num num! Thanks for your comment!
Nice video!
The only way to find gold... is to keep looking for it !!!
Exactly❤❤
Absolutely. We're working on being as stubborn as gold is to find and recover 😉.
@@mineoperator hahahaha, see, it's a fine relationship then !! Both won't give up
QUESTION: @mo
Can you boil the gold out of the hard rock..
Yes or no?
Not that we are aware of.
It looks like you have a lot of oversize coming across the shaker table. Need a finer screen on the hammer mill perhaps?
Yes sir. -1/16th as that's our screen size after the mill and before the table. Working on a solution. We're aiming for -50 mesh. Good eye 👁 😉.
Are you running your chevrons backwards
The conveyors came like that! Old sun rotted belts we did not want to remove and repientate them. When we replace the belts that will be rectified.
Watching jaw crushers is so relaxing. Or maybe I'm just weird.
Well, call me weird too 😉.
Nice smile in the pan guys!
Thanks Mike! 😊 Better pans to come!
I see you sticking your hands in there to check the temps. You might want to get yourself on of those laser thermometers. They would safer and you could get the temps of the actual bearings instead of the housing.
I miss having someone describing what is happening as the ore moves along, not just some unjointed videos of rocks moving around. Good luck on your processing.
Hi Jim, we can incorporate that on a future video. Thanks for letting us know.
Waiting to be in a position to buy the waste metals you're not interested in some day.
Copy that. Thanks for reminding us. So many moving parts. Here's our email address: info@mineoperator.com.
Time stamp 16:05
U used a hoe in the wheel barrel i saw a large area of tinted yellow.. camera optics or lost gold in sand screw somehow🤨😳 mind you i make pizza for a living..😬🤨😳 dont worry tho i basically run @mbmm from my iphone as well💪🔥🤨🤣 great set up great job thanks for content
Great video, and hard workers deserve a big strike.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!
CRUSH EM HARD!!!
Just like Jeff Williams always likes to say!
Oh...
Wait...
That's 'Smash it hard'
[HOP HOP HOP!] 🐰🐇
Either way, so glad to see y'all making progress! \(^_^)/
Keep hacking away testing analyzing one day you'll hit a big pocket maybe 50 oz to the ton thanks for the video
Thanks John! We believe that is possible as well!
This video was good...however you missed an opportunity to do some great voice over work and explain what you where showing us. Thanks for sharing
@@robanderson4137 noted. I'll keep that mind. Thanks for your comment.
Thanks! I’m almost as charming as Dan Hurd if you ever need a hand. I’d be more than willing to work for free for a week.
Wow, Frank! Your support is greatly appreciated and will be put towards a project we are currently working on. I am contacting our team to notify them personally of your contribution and interest in helping us out in the field. We could use another set of hands out here. Please email me at info@mineoperator.com.
@@mineoperator you betcha… love what you guys do. Wish I could toss out more
not MSHA safe no gard on sand screw
We're working on it 👍. I have the MSHA's guide to Equipment Guarding manual. We've been going through our system and adding guards. Not done yet. Thanks for your comment.
Get yourself a Lazer heat gun and you won't have to be touching the bearings and motors. They don't cost much
We have one. It would be faster. Harry likes to use his senses with machinery. Sound and touch for excess vibrations and heat. I can feel excess vibration in a bearing and check the heat at the same time. I don't touch things that can burn. 140 deg is the temperature most people can touch without pain. if you cant bear it its hotter than 140 F.