Jason, while not a geologist, as a mechanical engineer, I would think you would have better luck drilling at edge between hanging wall and vein in softer bull quartz areas. Then repeat vertically below at edge between footwall and vein. With vertical and hopefully horizontal cracking at edge with country rock, break out with hammer drill chisel bit or single jack as you were doing. Drilling into highly mineralized spots in vein is causing extensive heating on your carbide bits, without being lubricated, for sure. Love your vids!
To drill small holes like this without water coolant we keep a handful of bits (like at least 6) nearby and change bits every 30 seconds or so. This does not make the quartz any softer but does let the off duty bits cool and extend the life of the bit. And maybe try to drill your holes in the quartz instead of the band of sulfides, I suspect that the properties and high metal content make them even worst to drill than the quartz.
I will have to watch more of your videos to start understanding the process of refining your mineral in order to extract Gold. Seems like a lot of work for little reward. I enjoyed this immensely; thank you.
He is prospecting to see if a site would be profitable to do larger scale mining. With today's gold prices mines that were closed due to low yields maybe reopened with the new technology he is using. Not many videos will actually show profitability.
Hi Jason, Enjoyed watching the mining part again. Thanks for another great smelting lesson! Always learning something new! You're an awesome teacher! Any more mining trips scheduled? What ever happened to the helicopter mining ore? Take Care, stay safe! Jim
Jason you had me on the edge of the chair when you were moving through that cave all I could picture is a big black thing sprawled out in a corner and then the camera dropping and hear oh sh** LOL good video
High Grade, High Interest - Low Grade, High Interest - Jason at the shop, High Interest, Jason in the Mine - you can have those tight spaces - too tiny for this ol boy. But there I was - right with you - in my office chair, viewing full screen with Very High Interest. An Interesting Feller doing Interesting things in Interesting Places with Interesting gadgets - Shoot - I'm Hooked! Thanks MBMM.
Might want to check the grade of carbide. Some are for soft, some for hard rock. As usual, a harder blow, and slow rotation, works best in hard rock. Opposite for soft rock. You definitely smoked those bits. An 80 grit silicon carbide bench grinder will touch those up, if the carbide isn't ruined. A hot bit and water is a no no for carbide ( for the other people, not you ).Good luck, and always fun to watch. Thanks.
Poverty is one heck of a performance enhancing substance 😂 hammers get swung a bit longer and a bit harder when you and your family relies on it and you don't want your kids doing the same
That's a great video I came across a building that some small scale miners use to own and found some black glass looking rock that had little bubble looking holes and what looked like gold in some of them now I think it was slag Have a great day and prospect on
What about using a water spray to cool your bits? Or a diamond wheel on an angle grinder to cut a slice above and below the vein then hammer in some wedges to cause the rock to split? Cordless cold chisel setup. Failing that just hack away with your pick like a Welsh slave down a Roman gold mine lol.
Yeah I enjoyed that one I like how you go to the extreme to show us things that we never see and I paid attention you had me glued to my computer screen I thank you for all the hard work that you do to show us and please be careful when you go into those places I wouldn't go in there so thank you for the video and entertainment🆒😃😄😁😍🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲⚖️⛏️⚒️
I enjoy watching these videos. What is most fascinating is how people were able to do all this without modern equipment for millennia. The other thing I enjoy is the detailed breakdown of the process, as well as the math and science that goes into recovering the metals.
Love your video's kinda met you from watching Dan's video's and you crushing some of his finds. Just wish I was younger so I could look for gold myself as I am 65 now and have bad hips can't do the walking no more!
Very interesting to watch, been involved in gold mining at 1 point in my life but never ever got into learning about the extraction process; now I have a better appreciation for the process. Thx for the education!!!!??? So now again I realize I am even more ignorant.. eheheheheh cheers
If your drill allows lower RPM with higher torque while applying more then average weight will save some batt life and drill heads, and a bottle of water with a nail sized hole will get the job done.
Thanks!
You bet!
3:55. Into the depths of Moria. Another great vid from Jason.
Been missing MBMM. Good to see you!👍
Was beginning to thing he had picked on one of those support columns a little to hard tbh..
missing one month since this video
is he alive and ok?
Jason, while not a geologist, as a mechanical engineer, I would think you would have better luck drilling at edge between hanging wall and vein in softer bull quartz areas. Then repeat vertically below at edge between footwall and vein. With vertical and hopefully horizontal cracking at edge with country rock, break out with hammer drill chisel bit or single jack as you were doing.
Drilling into highly mineralized spots in vein is causing extensive heating on your carbide bits, without being lubricated, for sure. Love your vids!
Hello Jason. Arne from 🇳🇴Norway here. Thank you for all the great clips, and your passion. God bless you🇺🇲
Arne
Greetings from the BIG SKY. Found you through Dan Hurd.
To drill small holes like this without water coolant we keep a handful of bits (like at least 6) nearby and change bits every 30 seconds or so. This does not make the quartz any softer but does let the off duty bits cool and extend the life of the bit. And maybe try to drill your holes in the quartz instead of the band of sulfides, I suspect that the properties and high metal content make them even worst to drill than the quartz.
Burn it 🔥 flame it first we use that way in some cases
Excellent video. Learning is always fun when presented by such a knowledgeable and personable person. 😊
I will have to watch more of your videos to start understanding the process of refining your mineral in order to extract Gold. Seems like a lot of work for little reward. I enjoyed this immensely; thank you.
He is prospecting to see if a site would be profitable to do larger scale mining. With today's gold prices mines that were closed due to low yields maybe reopened with the new technology he is using. Not many videos will actually show profitability.
Always interested in what you are doing. The process is intriguing . Thanks
Jason,
That was fascinating!
Cheers,
Rik Spector
Thank you Jason for another awesome video and sharing it with us six stars brother
Thank jebaz, something worth watching
Fantastic video. I enjoyed it very much. I'm finding it very interesting. Thank you
Great vid Jason.
JASON Have you tried cooling the Drill bits down with water ?
Have a cup of water to dip them in . I can see the tips are getting
to hot :-))
Hi Jason, Enjoyed watching the mining part again. Thanks for another great smelting lesson! Always learning something new! You're an awesome teacher! Any more mining trips scheduled? What ever happened to the helicopter mining ore? Take Care, stay safe! Jim
I think of all your smelting videos, this one was the roughest of them all! Momma said there’d be days like this!
Jason you had me on the edge of the chair when you were moving through that cave all I could picture is a big black thing sprawled out in a corner and then the camera dropping and hear oh sh** LOL good video
I just love watching your shakertable do its thing. Oddly satisfying.
I think your video's are awesome. I've learned alot from watching them. Keep on making them your doing great.
Hope you haven't learned that picking on the only thing keeping 1000s of tons of rock off your face is good.
Very Interesting and great to see you wearing Brents Cerro Gordo top too 🙂
Great video. It was fun to watch the whole process.
Cool stuff! Diggin the Cerro Gordo hoodie.
Been waiting on this follow up video, the mine looked ultra rich!
Always a good watch,great schooling and always informative videos!
High Grade, High Interest - Low Grade, High Interest - Jason at the shop, High Interest, Jason in the Mine - you can have those tight spaces - too tiny for this ol boy. But there I was - right with you - in my office chair, viewing full screen with Very High Interest.
An Interesting Feller doing Interesting things in Interesting Places with Interesting gadgets - Shoot - I'm Hooked!
Thanks MBMM.
You do a great job explaining the how and why. Thank you for your efforts, always pure gold videos!
I always love watching the smelt cool when it is all golden and orange, how it resembles quickly moving tectonic plates.
Well like you said the sulfides are like pure metal try drilling in the more quartzy stuff near the sulfides
these are my favourite videos
Doggey dew , I was expecting more than that .
Thanks again
Might want to check the grade of carbide. Some are for soft, some for hard rock. As usual, a harder blow, and slow rotation, works best in hard rock. Opposite for soft rock. You definitely smoked those bits. An 80 grit silicon carbide bench grinder will touch those up, if the carbide isn't ruined. A hot bit and water is a no no for carbide ( for the other people, not you ).Good luck, and always fun to watch. Thanks.
@14:28 ⛏️ Underground cracking sounds. Makes me want to run!!
Always love watching your videos.
Like the surface of the sun..love the pouring .
I learn more from your mistakes than anything else. Thanks for showing everything, Jason!
If he keeps picking at supports nobody will learn anything, least of all, him.
I find this unbelievably fascinating.
Another great video. Thanks Jason, keep it up please.
Jason is lucky getting the nice weather, I'm froze out on my side of the country.
You wonder how the old time miners got as far as they did if newer technology has trouble getting into it. Great show…thank you. 😁👍🏻🇦🇺
Poverty is one heck of a performance enhancing substance 😂 hammers get swung a bit longer and a bit harder when you and your family relies on it and you don't want your kids doing the same
Watching you adapt to the mishaps is just as informative as when it all goes perfect. Thanks Jason!
Good video Jason, I find this a very interesting subject.
Thanks for showing how things go wrong and how to fix it .
That's a great video I came across a building that some small scale miners use to own and found some black glass looking rock that had little bubble looking holes and what looked like gold in some of them now I think it was slag Have a great day and prospect on
This kind of research is great! At minimum, it shows what kind of precious metal reserves are availabe to those keeping track of such things...
I've been waiting for another upload!
We don’t skip Jason’s videos people! don’t listen to him. WE WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO AND LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE
3:30 Guy Fawkes is in the mountain, top of the screen
Jason, looks like you nailed it 😅
Start with a smaller drill bit and a very small hole in a water bottle lid for cooling. Grate video keep'em coming 💯 👍
Thanks for sharing this. I am a completely new to Mining . Great information 👊👍
Great video 👍 that mine that was hard to get into was the best so go back there! ❤️💛💚
33:33 looks so cool!
Always interesting 👍
Thank you Sir
What about using a water spray to cool your bits? Or a diamond wheel on an angle grinder to cut a slice above and below the vein then hammer in some wedges to cause the rock to split? Cordless cold chisel setup. Failing that just hack away with your pick like a Welsh slave down a Roman gold mine lol.
Awesome, thx so much for sharing, really enjoyed it!
Always enjoy your work!
Thanks Jason
Peace Prospector Tripp
I really enjoyed your shows it's fun to watch you thanks for your show 😂
Always love these videos! Thanks for sharing brother 🙏
Love all these videos, like seeing start to finish with math
Yeah I enjoyed that one I like how you go to the extreme to show us things that we never see and I paid attention you had me glued to my computer screen I thank you for all the hard work that you do to show us and please be careful when you go into those places I wouldn't go in there so thank you for the video and entertainment🆒😃😄😁😍🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲⚖️⛏️⚒️
I love your channel with Dan,Paulie, and what you are can we get a video? On machines you have left to sell or preferred toyu.
Great video!!!!
تحياتي لك والف مليار سلام ربي يطول في عمرك على نشرك للعلم وتعليم
Great leading by example wearing the respirator 👍
super great video.....learning a lot from ya, Mate....thank you
As Mr. Spock would say, "Fascinating!". Thank you Jason.
I enjoy watching these videos. What is most fascinating is how people were able to do all this without modern equipment for millennia. The other thing I enjoy is the detailed breakdown of the process, as well as the math and science that goes into recovering the metals.
how exciting, another sample tested. another small bead of gold. wow.
Nice Jason I had hoped for bigger results but hey an outdoor adventure is good for the soul if nothing else it was scenic
Love your video's kinda met you from watching Dan's video's and you crushing some of his finds. Just wish I was younger so I could look for gold myself as I am 65 now and have bad hips can't do the walking no more!
Pretty cool stuff, I don't think you would be going bananas on that vein
Thanks for the video 👍🤓✌️
Very interesting to watch, been involved in gold mining at 1 point in my life but never ever got into learning about the extraction process; now I have a better appreciation for the process. Thx for the education!!!!??? So now again I realize I am even more ignorant.. eheheheheh cheers
Diablo bits are real good! Might give them a try. Good luck. I need to find something like this here in Wyoming.
All of that work and time for that ,nice hobby bud 👍
I love these followups.
Great trip dreisen love watching you work keep finding shiny
Looks like so much fun
Enjoyed the video 👍🏼
And right after I commented. You started suing a maul and chisel. Lol. Awesome 👌 good video Jason!
Thank you Jason great video
Amazing stuff..... I'm positively jealous man.....
Damn about time!
Very informative, ty
Hilti makes bits that are for drilling in concrete with large rebar in it and they drill through rebar maybe they would work in that iron laden quartz
Love the content!
At 4:43, that is about the most nervous laughter I've ever heard.
What happen you ok hope so . I like watching the mines you go in .
I really enjoy your videos. thank you for doing this.
Love your content man, keep up all these awesome videos. You're so through in your explinations, just excellent content sir. Thank you
Dude you are teaching good stuff. Hats off to you for taking the time to teach on the next level. Ryepatch mike.
If your drill allows lower RPM with higher torque while applying more then average weight will save some batt life and drill heads, and a bottle of water with a nail sized hole will get the job done.
Great work!
A question, you mention sulfide, is that iron? Metal was also stated
Woo-hoo. Let's go mining!
Start with a narrower gauge bit. Then step up one size at a time. Faster, too.
thanks for the video
Excellent video thank you 😊 🙏
awesome !!!