You tube.... a blessing and a curse! I love everything gold but since I watched a few cave diving disaster videos on another channel I watch vids like this with my heart in my mouth! Thanks for the videos, been fun watching you work, rest and play, 😅
Ha ha finally the wild man is back!!! We missed you or at least I did. Keep going you're gonna strike the big one. Thank you for taking us along with you.
Отличный фильм про тяжелую и опасную работу! Дружище ты молодец, хотелось бы чтоб твой труд был более эфективным. Желаю тебе найти богатую жилу, с содержанием 1 килограмм золота на тонну!
Love your show ! I wish we had the freedom to do what you can do , here in qld , detcors ( useless for fine gold ) pans , no yabbie pump no digging banks. As soon as state forests were forced to let us in we were stepped on
Thanks Dennis! Yes the red tape issue is getting worse, right across the country unfortunately. With some states worse than others. That's why it's important for us all the exercise our rights to ensure they remain! Things will change eventually, we can't keep going down the path we have been, for much longer. ✊🏿
Just wanted to say I respect you making a mistake and showing us, that shit almost never goes right! Determination is what drives whether you hit it big/bust you gave it all you had. Right on man⛏️⛏️⛏️✌️✌️✌️
Thanks heaps Aug, great to receive the feedback. Also, thank you for being a solid subscriber to my vids. There is a good number of returning names that pop up in my comments. Yours is one 👌
Entertaining as always mate. Jo freaks out for your wellbeing every time i watch one of your underground videos and is always relieved when you get back topside.
Hi m8 Glad to see you back, really enjoying your content, I’ve learnt a lot from you and really impressed with your wash plant set up, and the new shaker, top job I always say your only ever one pick or shovel from being a millionaire Keep up the good work All the best from Cornwall uk
Thanks for showing so much of the work.. maybe a little shorter episode is good, but I value the effort you put on those prospecting trips... 4-5 g/t surely is not bad but I think you need scale for the operation. In a industrial mine it would be more than enough, if you have 4million ounces :D. Lost of snow here in Finland, Only few months until gold trips :D
Consistent free mill gold of 4-5g/t is fantastic for any mining company with a decent crushing plant. Great little income to keep the bank account topped up between chemical treatment batches. Hopefully the owners bring some equipment over soon and get to work!
Great to see a video from you Goldman. I don't know if I have missed any, but the shaker table is something I don't remember from beforehand. 😮 You definitely need to have more rope with you next time. Personally I would prefer to see you in a proper harness system but I also understand your comments about too much rope being a hazard. I have to harness up when cleaning gutters on some of the buildings at the school I work at and the hazard is when you are trying to back away from the gutter and stand up again. You can guess what the rope is trying to do! 😮 Those old time guys must have been skinny little buggers. I certainly wouldn't fit in that mine! 😅 Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks Mark! Cheers for being a reliable viewer of the channel also brother, I appreciate it! The shaker has been in action for a while now, first video featuring it was 8 vids ago! So you must have some catching up to do 😉. It's such a ripper, soooo happy with how it all turned out up at the plant. I'm glad you understand what I mean about the harness thing, the only close calls I ever had in my 6 years of roof work (comms work and later electrical and solar) were due to my fall arrest systems. I'm not a fan of using it unless absolutely necessary. If I were still a 98kg bacon monster like I used to be, that may be a different story. But I can support my own weight with one hand on the rope now that I'm a bit fitter. So it's perfect for this type of confined space work. Very lucky in that regard 😁😁😁
That was bloody hard work mate ! That stope you went down onto had some nasty looking plates hanging from the walls, and the ( think you called them stahls ) were rotted out and on the floor of the adit 😳 Your a braver man than me.
Cheers mate, much appreciated! As I mentioned in another comment a minute ago, the wide angle of the GoPro makes every small crack in the wall and roof appear much larger. The area I was working in was actually really good, I didn't have to scale back much dangerous rock at all. The old stulls are certainly worse for wear though. Judging by how many are laying around on the adit floor I'd say the had heaps of them right the way up through that rise at one point. Which is sensible, as that ground is quite soft and likes to peel back in sheets, just like you said.
55:38 you know what would be sick? If the tailings tub was instead a big container that you could use to leach the super fines out with Eco Gold X. I dont know if you are familiar with that product but it is relatively safe. I love your setup as is though.
Agreed Levi! I am familiar with the product, and others similar. So I've been piling up my worthy tailings for quite some time now, it will be a ripper pay day once I finally get around to leaching it all 😁😁😁
@@TheGoldmansChannel Nah ground work first, exactly what ya doing. Got to catch a little fish before the big ones. I do think however your grades would be much higher than what ya seeing, Is there much left in the mill after running a sample run or do you hose it out clean? An Armstrong crusher straight onto the table would be awesome to see.
Thanks Gavin! The highly mineralised ore that gave me trouble from my 3rd last sample sure was some nasty stuff to deal with! I've still got about 5kgs of the concentrates here to experiment with, dilute nitric helped but wasn't a complete success. If its Galena, hydrochloric acid would have been a better one to try based on previous experiments. But in all honesty, I'm still not certain what that mineral was! I best play around with it some more soon. Just a real shame it interfered so much with this last sample. I had no idea where was still so much of it stuck in the ball mill 😅
Best not to mix HCl and Nitric if I still want to see that gold. That's aqua regia right there, my man. 😜 Sulphuric is good for certain tricky metals I've heard, but mostly only good for metals more reactive than copper. This is all something I need much more practice at! I'm prone to making a mess of my chemical experiments, lol.
@@TheGoldmansChannel yeah, can be a bit harsh if you add too much nitric, maybe start with NaOH at 85°c ,at least that should remove any tin and brake down any quartz...all trial and error 🤣😅
Love your work as usual . The plant worked a treat. Im wondering if that super heavy mineral might be galena . if so there should be quite a bit of silver in the ore as well. maybe time for a fire assay.
You could very well be right Jethro! I've still got heaps of that mineral put aside here, so I'll experiment with it some more soon. It did have a little gold in it also, perhaps a gram or 2/t. Not the 10 ounces it sounded like with the SDC though 🤣
Woo hoo! Love watching lode mining videos. You sure as heck have balls of steel to go into some of the adits I've seen you sample. Well done. Also must add I've enjoyed watching the evolution of your processing plant. Looking awesome now.
Thanks Garrett! The mines always seem to look more dodgy through the GoPro. Tiny cracks in the walls appear as gaping voids on camera, thanks to the wide view. 😂
It's pretty rare for me to have the harness on, it would want to be a very deep hole for me to bother. Having done heaps of roof work over the years, I came to realise the harness and ropes were more of a hazard 90% of the time. Funilly enough, just having the rope slipping through one hand while I'm climbing around is enough to make me feel 100% safe. Just knowing it's there if I need it lol 🤣🤣
@@TheGoldmansChannelI actually understand completely what you mean. Confidence in yourself and your equipment makes all the difference for sure. Excellent work by the way. Really like your processing plant, before you know it you will have all the kinks worked out and will be running smooth. As long as you remember to replace your chains lol
Yes, absolutely mate, I've definitely got plenty of confidence when it comes to climbing. Spent most of my childhood in the tree tops. Never broken a bone either, but that may just be dumb luck, haha. Cheers mate! And thanks for how much attention you pay to my videos. It's great when people pay enough attention to see the plant and everything slowly improving over time. Such a silly mistake losing track of the chains life span like that. I'm normally pretty good at knowing when to do them. They turned a 2 hour sample into a 5 hour job 🤣. And of course, once its all running, you can't just shut it off and replace them mid way, you've gotta ride it out at that point lol. Never again!!
Thanks Greg! Hopefully I'll be helping these blokes set up some machines there soon, certainly plenty of potential there. For the right sized crushing plant.
looks like your shoulder is doing better again? wicked gloves Mate 😏 the wood didn’t look good. you‘re right.. I guess that if the reef would be worth it you could make sure that the fault isn‘t acting as a natural drainage ditch on the surface. Maybe a bit of clay would do the trick to cover it up. What else is in the rock next to iron? hope someone lends you a X-RF for a few months! the last hole I went down was sandstone. sandy, decomposing sandstone. it contains bits of wood that are like coal but not yes fully transitioned yet 🫣 take care, hope to update you on the shaker some day..
Hey Ralph! Yes, the old shoulder is much better. Back to 100%. I've been very quiet on here of late sorry, we've been having some great success detecting some beautiful nuggets over in the Golden Triangle region of Victoria. It's a long trip over there and back for us, but the gold has been incredible. Making it well worth the tediously long drive. The best thing is, it's all on private property! So we have exclusive access to an absolute bonanza. Very very lucky 😁
do you have issues with the quarz not separating from the heavies? not sure if it is the width of the table or the stroke/frequency that could be optimised after the mill?
It can be an issue when dealing with super super heavy minerals, but typically the table does an amazing job. It needs to be fine tuned to suit each ore I'm processing. But overall, it's a bloody ripper. A little quartz in with the number 2 cons isn't a big deal, saves having to add it later when smelting. All in all, the plant has never run so well! Just need to get back out and do some more sampling now.
Absoulutey love it one question though why hard rock mining and not other types of prospecting? like when you go out and use the trommel. Love the videos
Thanks heaps Sam! Fair question, the main reason is I'm just not as interested in the small time alluvial prospecting anymore. Like most prospectors, I started with a pan and worked my way up slowly, bit by bit, having enjoyed pretty much every form of alluvial work along the way. It sort of feels like I've done all I can with that. Where as my hard rock journey is really only just beginning. Just over 10 years into hardrock now, and I'm still well aware I know very little about it, and still have tons of stuff to learn!
@@TheGoldmansChannel Going to enjoy this journey more now stay safe out there man. thank you for the response as well prospecting is something else everyone has there own journey and processes.
Great video! Love the length and the real life look at the amount of work and errors that would happen to everyone! Awesome work and nice results. What state are you in Australia?
Make sure you filter off the nitric acid as it may have silver in it. Filter and put some copper in it. Try using hcl to get rid of the minerals instead nitric acid.
Smart chap Mr.Green! That's exactly why I used dilute nitric. I havent had much experience with free mill silver, but I thought I'd test the theory with this stuff seen as it was so heavy. There is precipitated metal from the addition of copper to the waste solution from those experiments. But it does not appear to be silver. It certainly didn't act in the way silver has in the past when ion swapping with copper bars. Strange isn't it!
@@TheGoldmansChannel seems as there isn't much silver in it. I refine gold from ewaste, I have done a bit of silver and found if it doesn't act like silver it probably isn't, or isn't worth it.
I've slightly dabbled in the same myself and have found silver to usually be the easiest bit. One thing I haven't tried with these concentrates yet (assuming it is galena as I suspect) is dilute nitric to chew it all up, filtration to remove junk and any released gold, and then the addition of HCl to perhaps get the silver to drop out as a chloride? It makes sense in my head, but i haven't tried it yet. Seen as copper is quite reactive, I'd say whatever the precipitant was in my beaker last time was pretty contaminated with whatever else had been dissolved. HCl should only react with the silver in the Nitrate solution hopefully. But I'll let you know how I go when I try it mate 👍🏿👍🏿
You know, for a very low price, you can buy a harness and an ascending/decending rig instead of putting your body or life in jeopardy for dirt and 20 dollars gold sample!!
Yes NP, I do know that. I've got all the gear, but I don't use it very often. A rope or 2 is usually plenty enough to make it safe for me. My original plan for this one didn't work out, hence the extra climbing and effort. Probably an AUD $60 gold return, plus the info that gets recorded, plus the revenue from the video on here. It all adds up 😁
How are the chunky bits bypassing the ball mill? I didn't understand how the ball mill pick-up bin was setup to allow the big heavies to flow out the channel. I have watched all of your videos and don't remember you going over that add-on (maybe you didnt). Still though, very beautiful setup. Looks like paradise.
Howdy mate! First off, thanks heaps for your support, in viewing all of my videos. I sure appreciate that 🤟🏿. To your question, the chunky gold doesn't bypass the ballmill, it's almost all caught in the little ribbed matting tray, just before it enters the ball mill hopper. That tray was only added early this year I believe. Before that, it would end up either staying in the ball mill hopper because it was so heavy it found its way into the deepest cracks. Or it would be picked up by the ball mill scoop and end up being obliterated by the steel balls (very slowly may I add). Hope that answers your question mate, cheers!
My pleasure mate, it's only possible thanks to the viewers. I'm just glad people are interested in the hard rock side of things also, not just the alluvial work. I personally much prefer the hard rock, despite it typically being 90% investment and only 10% return 😝
try sampling that purple/maroon looking material. I have seen mines in the US deserts where most of the gold is in there for some reason. It looked like the previous miners had left that behind in this mine, since it was all over the walls in your video. PS. get yourself more rope and a roll of yarn, then you can tie loops around the bags and pull the rope through once it reaches the bottom. You are doing many times more labor with all that climbing.
I definitely should have bought more rope, just didn't expect to need to do it that way when I planned the trip. Things rarely go perfectly to plan though. So I should have been more prepared! Have tested the funny coloured stuff, rarely has a speck in it. Strange isn't it!
Some of the finished cons were meant to be sent off for assay, like they usually are. But I contaminated the sample this time, so there's no point sending it off. It will just display minerals that aren't actually from that location. My mistake, I should have let the ball mill run out for much longer before I ran this sample.
All is well, thanks Shiney. Have had some good fortunes lately, so havent had time for making videos. Should see the rock sample I crushed yesterday though. I might upload a short, it was a bloody nice sample!
You tube.... a blessing and a curse!
I love everything gold but since I watched a few cave diving disaster videos on another channel I watch vids like this with my heart in my mouth!
Thanks for the videos, been fun watching you work, rest and play, 😅
The good thing is, if I post a vid, you know I'm still alive and nothing bad is due to happen 😆. Cheers for tuning in!
@@TheGoldmansChannel that's very true!
Спасибо, брат! Отличное кино! 👍🤝🙂
Нет. Спасибо, брат! Я очень рад, что вам тоже понравился этот фильм. Это был отличный день, хотя к концу дня мне было очень больно. 🤣
Ha ha finally the wild man is back!!! We missed you or at least I did.
Keep going you're gonna strike the big one.
Thank you for taking us along with you.
Haha, I missed you too, Shiney. Your enthusiasm is like sun to my solar panel, brother 💪
Отличный фильм про тяжелую и опасную работу! Дружище ты молодец, хотелось бы чтоб твой труд был более эфективным. Желаю тебе найти богатую жилу, с содержанием 1 килограмм золота на тонну!
Спасибо брат! Должно быть, с каждым образцом я становлюсь немного ближе к успеху. В один прекрасный день в ближайшее время!
Great job, a lot of work and what’s mining without drama. Thanks for sharing, loved the video.
Thanks heaps Jeff!
Right on, great video. The bigger your problems, the better the video. cheers
Love your show ! I wish we had the freedom to do what you can do , here in qld , detcors ( useless for fine gold ) pans , no yabbie pump no digging banks. As soon as state forests were forced to let us in we were stepped on
Thanks Dennis! Yes the red tape issue is getting worse, right across the country unfortunately. With some states worse than others. That's why it's important for us all the exercise our rights to ensure they remain!
Things will change eventually, we can't keep going down the path we have been, for much longer. ✊🏿
Just wanted to say I respect you making a mistake and showing us, that shit almost never goes right! Determination is what drives whether you hit it big/bust you gave it all you had. Right on man⛏️⛏️⛏️✌️✌️✌️
Thanks heaps Aug, great to receive the feedback. Also, thank you for being a solid subscriber to my vids. There is a good number of returning names that pop up in my comments. Yours is one 👌
your work is awesome plus explaining as you go is what we/l watch for thanks mate
Thanks Rod, for being a top bloke as usual by tuning in and dropping a comment. 🍻
Entertaining as always mate. Jo freaks out for your wellbeing every time i watch one of your underground videos and is always relieved when you get back topside.
Thanks BD! And it's great to know Jo is thinking of my well-being. The good thing about it is, if the video gets uploaded, you know I'm alive 😆.
Screw that 😂 great episode 👍
Keeps a bloke fit, at the very least 🤣. Cheers for tuning in Graham 🍻
Hi m8
Glad to see you back, really enjoying your content, I’ve learnt a lot from you and really impressed with your wash plant set up, and the new shaker, top job
I always say your only ever one pick or shovel from being a millionaire
Keep up the good work
All the best from Cornwall uk
Thanks heaps Cousin Jack! I appreciate the kind feedback 😁
Thanks for showing so much of the work.. maybe a little shorter episode is good, but I value the effort you put on those prospecting trips... 4-5 g/t surely is not bad but I think you need scale for the operation. In a industrial mine it would be more than enough, if you have 4million ounces :D. Lost of snow here in Finland, Only few months until gold trips :D
Consistent free mill gold of 4-5g/t is fantastic for any mining company with a decent crushing plant. Great little income to keep the bank account topped up between chemical treatment batches. Hopefully the owners bring some equipment over soon and get to work!
Хорошая жила! 👍
Спасибо! 😁
Nice work
Thanks boss!
Great to see a video from you Goldman. I don't know if I have missed any, but the shaker table is something I don't remember from beforehand. 😮
You definitely need to have more rope with you next time. Personally I would prefer to see you in a proper harness system but I also understand your comments about too much rope being a hazard. I have to harness up when cleaning gutters on some of the buildings at the school I work at and the hazard is when you are trying to back away from the gutter and stand up again. You can guess what the rope is trying to do! 😮
Those old time guys must have been skinny little buggers. I certainly wouldn't fit in that mine! 😅
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks Mark! Cheers for being a reliable viewer of the channel also brother, I appreciate it!
The shaker has been in action for a while now, first video featuring it was 8 vids ago! So you must have some catching up to do 😉. It's such a ripper, soooo happy with how it all turned out up at the plant.
I'm glad you understand what I mean about the harness thing, the only close calls I ever had in my 6 years of roof work (comms work and later electrical and solar) were due to my fall arrest systems. I'm not a fan of using it unless absolutely necessary. If I were still a 98kg bacon monster like I used to be, that may be a different story. But I can support my own weight with one hand on the rope now that I'm a bit fitter. So it's perfect for this type of confined space work. Very lucky in that regard 😁😁😁
That was bloody hard work mate !
That stope you went down onto had some nasty looking plates hanging from the walls, and the ( think you called them stahls ) were rotted out and on the floor of the adit 😳
Your a braver man than me.
Cheers mate, much appreciated! As I mentioned in another comment a minute ago, the wide angle of the GoPro makes every small crack in the wall and roof appear much larger. The area I was working in was actually really good, I didn't have to scale back much dangerous rock at all. The old stulls are certainly worse for wear though. Judging by how many are laying around on the adit floor I'd say the had heaps of them right the way up through that rise at one point. Which is sensible, as that ground is quite soft and likes to peel back in sheets, just like you said.
55:38 you know what would be sick? If the tailings tub was instead a big container that you could use to leach the super fines out with Eco Gold X. I dont know if you are familiar with that product but it is relatively safe. I love your setup as is though.
Agreed Levi! I am familiar with the product, and others similar. So I've been piling up my worthy tailings for quite some time now, it will be a ripper pay day once I finally get around to leaching it all 😁😁😁
BALLS OF STEEL Great work mate, there is no effen way would do that. 45 ton excavator and mow my way down and through hahaha
That would be the dream right there! I'm still using manual labour like a fool. Need to get myself a big old digger! 🤑
@@TheGoldmansChannel Nah ground work first, exactly what ya doing. Got to catch a little fish before the big ones. I do think however your grades would be much higher than what ya seeing, Is there much left in the mill after running a sample run or do you hose it out clean? An Armstrong crusher straight onto the table would be awesome to see.
You do it because you love it
Cool stuff....maybe try a mixed acid or smelt ??
Thanks for sharing your video 👍🤓✌
Thanks Gavin! The highly mineralised ore that gave me trouble from my 3rd last sample sure was some nasty stuff to deal with! I've still got about 5kgs of the concentrates here to experiment with, dilute nitric helped but wasn't a complete success. If its Galena, hydrochloric acid would have been a better one to try based on previous experiments. But in all honesty, I'm still not certain what that mineral was! I best play around with it some more soon.
Just a real shame it interfered so much with this last sample. I had no idea where was still so much of it stuck in the ball mill 😅
@@TheGoldmansChannel a mixed acid of nitric,hydrochloric and sulphuric may do it
Best not to mix HCl and Nitric if I still want to see that gold. That's aqua regia right there, my man. 😜
Sulphuric is good for certain tricky metals I've heard, but mostly only good for metals more reactive than copper.
This is all something I need much more practice at! I'm prone to making a mess of my chemical experiments, lol.
@@TheGoldmansChannel yeah, can be a bit harsh if you add too much nitric, maybe start with NaOH at 85°c ,at least that should remove any tin and brake down any quartz...all trial and error 🤣😅
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Thank you, Brother 👍🏿
Love your work as usual . The plant worked a treat. Im wondering if that super heavy mineral might be galena . if so there should be quite a bit of silver in the ore as well. maybe time for a fire assay.
You could very well be right Jethro! I've still got heaps of that mineral put aside here, so I'll experiment with it some more soon. It did have a little gold in it also, perhaps a gram or 2/t. Not the 10 ounces it sounded like with the SDC though 🤣
Woo hoo! Love watching lode mining videos. You sure as heck have balls of steel to go into some of the adits I've seen you sample. Well done. Also must add I've enjoyed watching the evolution of your processing plant. Looking awesome now.
Thanks Garrett! The mines always seem to look more dodgy through the GoPro. Tiny cracks in the walls appear as gaping voids on camera, thanks to the wide view. 😂
@@TheGoldmansChannelI get it lol but still climbing up and down a raise without a harness is something I sure couldn't do lol
It's pretty rare for me to have the harness on, it would want to be a very deep hole for me to bother. Having done heaps of roof work over the years, I came to realise the harness and ropes were more of a hazard 90% of the time.
Funilly enough, just having the rope slipping through one hand while I'm climbing around is enough to make me feel 100% safe. Just knowing it's there if I need it lol 🤣🤣
@@TheGoldmansChannelI actually understand completely what you mean. Confidence in yourself and your equipment makes all the difference for sure. Excellent work by the way. Really like your processing plant, before you know it you will have all the kinks worked out and will be running smooth. As long as you remember to replace your chains lol
Yes, absolutely mate, I've definitely got plenty of confidence when it comes to climbing. Spent most of my childhood in the tree tops. Never broken a bone either, but that may just be dumb luck, haha.
Cheers mate! And thanks for how much attention you pay to my videos. It's great when people pay enough attention to see the plant and everything slowly improving over time. Such a silly mistake losing track of the chains life span like that. I'm normally pretty good at knowing when to do them. They turned a 2 hour sample into a 5 hour job 🤣. And of course, once its all running, you can't just shut it off and replace them mid way, you've gotta ride it out at that point lol. Never again!!
Your determination as amazing.
Solid results from the samples 👍only need x ton to be commercially viable let the games begin
Thanks Greg! Hopefully I'll be helping these blokes set up some machines there soon, certainly plenty of potential there. For the right sized crushing plant.
looks like your shoulder is doing better again?
wicked gloves Mate 😏 the wood didn’t look good. you‘re right.. I guess that if the reef would be worth it you could make sure that the fault isn‘t acting as a natural drainage ditch on the surface.
Maybe a bit of clay would do the trick to cover it up.
What else is in the rock next to iron?
hope someone lends you a X-RF for a few months!
the last hole I went down was sandstone. sandy, decomposing sandstone. it contains bits of wood that are like coal but not yes fully transitioned yet 🫣
take care, hope to update you on the shaker some day..
and that stuff is dense and heavy! thought so myself the other day when panning.
Hey Ralph! Yes, the old shoulder is much better. Back to 100%. I've been very quiet on here of late sorry, we've been having some great success detecting some beautiful nuggets over in the Golden Triangle region of Victoria. It's a long trip over there and back for us, but the gold has been incredible. Making it well worth the tediously long drive. The best thing is, it's all on private property! So we have exclusive access to an absolute bonanza. Very very lucky 😁
love the hopper, your metalworking is impressive in general!
boy that just is a sweet setup! really enjoy the segment with the details of the machinery 😊
do you have issues with the quarz not separating from the heavies?
not sure if it is the width of the table or the stroke/frequency that could be optimised after the mill?
It can be an issue when dealing with super super heavy minerals, but typically the table does an amazing job. It needs to be fine tuned to suit each ore I'm processing. But overall, it's a bloody ripper. A little quartz in with the number 2 cons isn't a big deal, saves having to add it later when smelting. All in all, the plant has never run so well! Just need to get back out and do some more sampling now.
Absoulutey love it one question though why hard rock mining and not other types of prospecting?
like when you go out and use the trommel.
Love the videos
Thanks heaps Sam! Fair question, the main reason is I'm just not as interested in the small time alluvial prospecting anymore. Like most prospectors, I started with a pan and worked my way up slowly, bit by bit, having enjoyed pretty much every form of alluvial work along the way. It sort of feels like I've done all I can with that. Where as my hard rock journey is really only just beginning. Just over 10 years into hardrock now, and I'm still well aware I know very little about it, and still have tons of stuff to learn!
@@TheGoldmansChannel Going to enjoy this journey more now stay safe out there man. thank you for the response as well prospecting is something else everyone has there own journey and processes.
Thanks mate, and my pleasure. Cheers! 🤟🏿
Great video! Love the length and the real life look at the amount of work and errors that would happen to everyone! Awesome work and nice results.
What state are you in Australia?
Thanks JPH, I can always rely on you for some prompt and honest feedback! 😁
I'm in the state of Victoria. Chiltern/Beechworth area.
@@TheGoldmansChannelYou must be tripping over Gadzee from Buckshot Prospecting channel, he is from Beechworth!
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Haven't met him Mark, but I am quite antisocial in the real world. My small circle of good mate's keep me on my toes as it is 😆
Make sure you filter off the nitric acid as it may have silver in it. Filter and put some copper in it. Try using hcl to get rid of the minerals instead nitric acid.
Smart chap Mr.Green! That's exactly why I used dilute nitric. I havent had much experience with free mill silver, but I thought I'd test the theory with this stuff seen as it was so heavy. There is precipitated metal from the addition of copper to the waste solution from those experiments. But it does not appear to be silver. It certainly didn't act in the way silver has in the past when ion swapping with copper bars. Strange isn't it!
@@TheGoldmansChannel seems as there isn't much silver in it. I refine gold from ewaste, I have done a bit of silver and found if it doesn't act like silver it probably isn't, or isn't worth it.
I've slightly dabbled in the same myself and have found silver to usually be the easiest bit. One thing I haven't tried with these concentrates yet (assuming it is galena as I suspect) is dilute nitric to chew it all up, filtration to remove junk and any released gold, and then the addition of HCl to perhaps get the silver to drop out as a chloride? It makes sense in my head, but i haven't tried it yet. Seen as copper is quite reactive, I'd say whatever the precipitant was in my beaker last time was pretty contaminated with whatever else had been dissolved. HCl should only react with the silver in the Nitrate solution hopefully. But I'll let you know how I go when I try it mate 👍🏿👍🏿
@@TheGoldmansChannel cool, keep up the great work.
You know, for a very low price, you can buy a harness and an ascending/decending rig instead of putting your body or life in jeopardy for dirt and 20 dollars gold sample!!
Yes NP, I do know that. I've got all the gear, but I don't use it very often. A rope or 2 is usually plenty enough to make it safe for me. My original plan for this one didn't work out, hence the extra climbing and effort. Probably an AUD $60 gold return, plus the info that gets recorded, plus the revenue from the video on here. It all adds up 😁
How are the chunky bits bypassing the ball mill? I didn't understand how the ball mill pick-up bin was setup to allow the big heavies to flow out the channel.
I have watched all of your videos and don't remember you going over that add-on (maybe you didnt).
Still though, very beautiful setup. Looks like paradise.
Howdy mate! First off, thanks heaps for your support, in viewing all of my videos. I sure appreciate that 🤟🏿.
To your question, the chunky gold doesn't bypass the ballmill, it's almost all caught in the little ribbed matting tray, just before it enters the ball mill hopper. That tray was only added early this year I believe. Before that, it would end up either staying in the ball mill hopper because it was so heavy it found its way into the deepest cracks. Or it would be picked up by the ball mill scoop and end up being obliterated by the steel balls (very slowly may I add).
Hope that answers your question mate, cheers!
@@TheGoldmansChannel ok that explains it. You do an excellent job with the hard rock videos. Thank you for the content.
My pleasure mate, it's only possible thanks to the viewers. I'm just glad people are interested in the hard rock side of things also, not just the alluvial work. I personally much prefer the hard rock, despite it typically being 90% investment and only 10% return 😝
try sampling that purple/maroon looking material. I have seen mines in the US deserts where most of the gold is in there for some reason. It looked like the previous miners had left that behind in this mine, since it was all over the walls in your video.
PS. get yourself more rope and a roll of yarn, then you can tie loops around the bags and pull the rope through once it reaches the bottom. You are doing many times more labor with all that climbing.
I definitely should have bought more rope, just didn't expect to need to do it that way when I planned the trip. Things rarely go perfectly to plan though. So I should have been more prepared!
Have tested the funny coloured stuff, rarely has a speck in it. Strange isn't it!
You know the rules about plans! Always plan to use plans A through to Z and then some! 😂
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
The way I run things, Mark. I'm going to need to learn a second language to gain another 26 or so extra plans 🤣
ОГРОМНЫЙ ПРИВЕТ 👋😁👍, ХОТЕЛ СПРОСИТЬ БРАТАН А ТЕБЕ ПОМОЩНИК НЕ НУЖЕН СЛУЧАЙНО 🤔, ТЫ ТОЛЬКО СКАЖИ Я СРАЗУ ПРИЕДУ 🤝
Эй, брат, я думаю, ты, возможно, слишком далеко, чтобы прийти и помочь. Спасибо, что предложили! 😁
Why don't you do a proper assay on each concentrate you get? Gold can be marginal to other metals hidden there or as oxide in the rock even.
Some of the finished cons were meant to be sent off for assay, like they usually are. But I contaminated the sample this time, so there's no point sending it off. It will just display minerals that aren't actually from that location. My mistake, I should have let the ball mill run out for much longer before I ran this sample.
I hope all is well with you.
All is well, thanks Shiney. Have had some good fortunes lately, so havent had time for making videos. Should see the rock sample I crushed yesterday though. I might upload a short, it was a bloody nice sample!