Awesome adventure beautiful area more knowledge fantastic wow some eye catching samples such a great variety of minerals awesome awesome thank you so much be safe stay warm
May I ask if you are sampling staked ground? Or open ground? I do agree with others that your videos are very educational, great job. I lived in Timmins, Ontario all my life. We are known as the City with a Heart of Gold.
Wow, such a nice variety of samples over such a short distance. That area definitely had some serious activity in the past. Very nice, boys. Good luck with it. Lots of potential there! The Ag levels in the one sample were quite high! Au wasn't bad either!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge man I love placer mining but after watching your videos I've started looking at the quartz a lot harder were I pan. Is the site of an old 1800s hard rock mine that all the dump piles are still there in north carolina again thank you for sharing
Was going to comment on your masons hammer but you beat me to the punch! Those things are great for prying and chipping! I also carry a Klein bull pin in my pack love that thing as well!👍🐍
It's good to have 2 Mason hammers using one to hit the head of the other to chisel into the host rock--get those samples..."a lot of nice samples here" he said from the tailgate!.
Can't wait for a total on the whole deposit... I'm sure the ore goes deep and you're only on the surfface. Have you taken any undisturbed soil samples yet ? Looks like plenty of pockets and might get some out of that buffer zone as well. Might be a fissure full of good material
Nice silver numbers. Do you ever see indicators in the color of the soils, even though they are mostly made up from organic materials? I imagine that the makeup of the road surfaces would be a good indicator, if not imported from a quarry.
Yes even driving we can easily see a road area has certain staining usually easier to see on newer roads stuff like sulfide, oxide staining from certian minerals. You can definitely see iron rich areas in the soils if your deposits relatively close to surface.
Is it viable to do XRF tests on outcrops without actually taking the samples out of the rock. I'm considering exploring in Arizona for just a few days and don't really want to have to sample one day and dig the next days. Has anyone used XRF ?
Yes we bag and tag every sample sample ID, date, GPS, what it came from ex..quartz vein, hosted in gabbro. We will often tag an outcrop with a marking in the general area surrounding a bunch of samples or every sample if spread out enough and leave a secured tag hanging from the exposure. All our bagged samples get put in bigger bags based on property and labeled. We have sample form we fill out with notes on every sample, GPS and fill that back at the office.
@@911mining Here's a story on it. It supposed to be a lost spanish cave, gold bars. Its supposed to be on Vancouver Island, near Jordan Meadows. www.bcprospectors.ca/Mullard.htm
No most wouldn't know what they are looking at. If a logging gate has a road building permit they can use whatever material they need if it's in the way. Last year we had a mine dump of ours used to build the road and they even back filled the mine.
911 "would you look at that" hmmm looks like Galena ok so what does It take since "some of these are absolutely beautiful" to widen that road And get the whole showing into trucks and then....patreons arise, I want in too! Sidney Osborne decent samples, good...
911 366.7g of Ag, what?! Patreons rise up, chuckwagons, mules, picks and shovels onwards to bc, let 'me video that as we widen that road and Load up, no more voyuer and armchair living....nothing wrong with some sulfides on your gloves and britches..old guys can watch for bears, raccoons, and skunks while the ladies can get those vittles ready, drive a truck, a bulldozer...no time to be sexist.
Beautiful samples and lots of exposures! Always exciting to see, I could only imagine your excitement flee those kind of samples.
Awesome adventure beautiful area more knowledge fantastic wow some eye catching samples such a great variety of minerals awesome awesome thank you so much be safe stay warm
Very cool great videos.
Looks really promising. What the next step in your process?
May I ask if you are sampling staked ground? Or open ground? I do agree with others that your videos are very educational, great job. I lived in Timmins, Ontario all my life. We are known as the City with a Heart of Gold.
Stacked or do you mean staked? Its staked by us if that what you mean
Wow, such a nice variety of samples over such a short distance. That area definitely had some serious activity in the past. Very nice, boys. Good luck with it. Lots of potential there! The Ag levels in the one sample were quite high! Au wasn't bad either!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge man I love placer mining but after watching your videos I've started looking at the quartz a lot harder were I pan. Is the site of an old 1800s hard rock mine that all the dump piles are still there in north carolina again thank you for sharing
Another quality video ! I would like to know what showed up for sample 16.
Was going to comment on your masons hammer but you beat me to the punch! Those things are great for prying and chipping! I also carry a Klein bull pin in my pack love that thing as well!👍🐍
It's good to have 2 Mason hammers using one to hit the head of the other to chisel into the host rock--get those samples..."a lot of nice samples here" he said from the tailgate!.
Thank you!
Can't wait for a total on the whole deposit... I'm sure the ore goes deep and you're only on the surfface. Have you taken any undisturbed soil samples yet ? Looks like plenty of pockets and might get some out of that buffer zone as well. Might be a fissure full of good material
Yes we have dozens of soil samples
so the burgundy is oxidization, the yellow is sulphides, whats the green-teal stuff?
Malachite which is an oxide of copper.
Nice silver numbers. Do you ever see indicators in the color of the soils, even though they are mostly made up from organic materials? I imagine that the makeup of the road surfaces would be a good indicator, if not imported from a quarry.
Yes even driving we can easily see a road area has certain staining usually easier to see on newer roads stuff like sulfide, oxide staining from certian minerals. You can definitely see iron rich areas in the soils if your deposits relatively close to surface.
seems like bringing along a chisel or spike would help you bust apart boulders in your work to collect samples ?
Yes we have a mess of chisels, sledges. We don't always use them though
Is it viable to do XRF tests on outcrops without actually taking the samples out of the rock. I'm considering exploring in Arizona for just a few days and don't really want to have to sample one day and dig the next days.
Has anyone used XRF ?
Yes there pricey though. I would also take a sample XRF gives an idea of surface but not entire rock sample
good tbanks sommat
Looks alot like around here in new Mexico. Holy crap, that gold is around that blue stuff. I want the blue stuff if it comes with gold so be it.
wow, nearly 3/4 pound/ton of silver just amazing !!!
Justin, Does pyrite have a melting point like gold and silver does?
Similar to iron the sulfur would roast off pretty quick then you essentially have iron.
I am geologist and and like your video
How do you keep track of all the samples and where they came from? It seems almost impossible to me. Could you give us a once over?
They normally bag and tag samples and exposure
Yes we bag and tag every sample sample ID, date, GPS, what it came from ex..quartz vein, hosted in gabbro. We will often tag an outcrop with a marking in the general area surrounding a bunch of samples or every sample if spread out enough and leave a secured tag hanging from the exposure. All our bagged samples get put in bigger bags based on property and labeled. We have sample form we fill out with notes on every sample, GPS and fill that back at the office.
@@911mining Wow! Total organization it's great. Thank you for explaining.
Another awesome vid. What's your opinion on Ed Mullards cave in Jordan Meadows? Have you heard about it?
I have not, do tell?
@@911mining Here's a story on it. It supposed to be a lost spanish cave, gold bars. Its supposed to be on Vancouver Island, near Jordan Meadows.
www.bcprospectors.ca/Mullard.htm
@@911mining There's also a legend of the Lost Golden Bullets mine around Lake Cowichan.
Good.
are there any laws saying loggers not allowed to touch anything but wood? don't they see what they uncover when doing road cuts?
No most wouldn't know what they are looking at. If a logging gate has a road building permit they can use whatever material they need if it's in the way. Last year we had a mine dump of ours used to build the road and they even back filled the mine.
Is this one of your properties? The samples look very intriguing! Good Luck and love your videos.
Yes it is
nice area
Simplesmente fantástico
25.50 looks like could be Hg
Ya you might have to process a ton for a few grams of gold, but you never know if it is rich until assayed,,,,,,
Howdy
911 "would you look at that" hmmm looks like Galena ok so what does
It take since "some of these are absolutely beautiful" to widen that road
And get the whole showing into trucks and then....patreons arise, I want in too! Sidney Osborne decent samples, good...
911 366.7g of Ag, what?! Patreons rise up, chuckwagons, mules, picks and shovels onwards to bc, let 'me video that as we widen that road and
Load up, no more voyuer and armchair living....nothing wrong with some sulfides on your gloves and britches..old guys can watch for bears, raccoons, and skunks while the ladies can get those vittles ready, drive a truck, a bulldozer...no time to be sexist.
Hahaha itu pirite
Main you didn’t even extract the gold what’s wrong with you I can bloody look at rocks all day show me gold!!
Who cares get to work to much talk show me gold and you finding gold not so much talking and you sound like badger from breaking bad bro
where is this? ...cant you make it more entertaining...you smash rocks and dont tell us anything or show scenery...wtf r u hiding? BORING - UNSUBBING!