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You commented about not believing the palladium content. Many copper mines profits are from the noble metals sludge after electroplating the copper refining process. My father found several areas with high PGMs, very less silver and gold. And he held the mineral rights to the old Palmer Mine on the west face of Superstition Mountain that had native silver and gold as well as minerals in the copper porphyry mix. After the government made it Wilderness Area, he held the claims for a few years. Sold the mineral rights, and the government wouldn't allow that guy to mine it. In the 1980s, dad had assays of that ore done in South Africa, and PGMs were pretty good. Farther west around Sugarloaf Mountain and Sycamore Creek, he discovered the decomposing hydrothermal impregnated granite had very high osmium and ruthenium above 20 ounces,per ton, with iridium, smaller amounts of platinum, palladium and rhodium, very little silver, gold in several ounces per ton. This was caused by hydrothermal impregnated waters and gases from deep in the earth that went between all the feldspar, apatite, magnitite, and other mineral grains of the softer granite. The harder granite left boulders covered in the blackish mineral rich matrix that is between the grains in the softer granite. This area is nearly identical to the South African platinum mines of precambrian era granite. Sugarloaf Mountain is an ancient volcano.
😲 That tarantula gave me sub-zero, arctic-frozen chills, even during the current, triple-digit heatwave! Certainly an unusual way to stay cool, but as an arachnophobiac, I'd probably have a heart attack before anything else. Yikes! 😲😵
@4seasonspix I was a little surprised to see him by my feet. I was grateful that I didn't accidentally step on him. A few years ago, I was drilling into a vein at night. Several holes in, I thought I'd look around me while drilling. There was a huge scorpion 🦂 😳 right by my boot. I kept drilling but I kept my eyes on him. I was shocked but I didn't show it. I just kept on. He eventually lost interest in me 😆.
@@mineoperatorOMG x 2 😳 What if the tarantula brought its family? Did you check the area? That's a horror film in the making... 👀 While reading your stories gives me chills, you seem rather chill about them. I don't know, how you do it. And if that was my mine, I would have made a dash for the exit and sold the mine, including the scorpion, to the first bidder 😆😂
Please tell me you guys installed a positive displacement pump on the fines discharge and you're not relying on gravity. You're gonna have a nasty plug in that valve area. 😬
Interesting results on the samples. One concern or problem that I can foresee is if the gold is locked up with the sulfides or oxides that you are missing a good portion of the metal just going after free-mill gold. Have you tested the idea of gold in the sulfide and oxide material? You might have more gold than you are just recovering from the table and panning it out. Just thinking out loads of here. Great content as always guys keep it up!
Does sulfuric acid effectively react with sulfide ores? I thought that sulfide ores must be roasted first in order for the sulfuric acid to do it's trick. Please enlighten me with your experience and knowledge and apologies for bothering you. Im just a bit too invested in this stuff mentally, it so satisfying and entertaining XD
@savvy.dispatch Great question. Unfortunately, not. If you're looking to oxidize copper sulfide ores such as chalcopyrite, bornite, covellite, or chalcocite, an alkaline solution will prevent passivation. Acidic lixiviants will be consumed rapidly and require more maintenance. Roasting is an option for small-scale applications that I am aware of. I have a technical report on alkaline lixiviants. I'll review it again and provide further guidance. I need a refresher on this topic.
Wicked cool MO Team 😎 wouldn't mind hearing a aqueduct yarn Ron 👍if you want to learn to weld anyone just get some of that dry rain 😅and build a clarifier you'll be a master of 10 ,000 2" stitches
Great video, good to see hard working guys and I wish you luck in the gold processing. Also Ron and Con-Man are great assets in you endeavor's. Richard from Canada.
Hey guys! Jason said on his channel that you guys have a video on your channel where you came up with making stemming using wrapped newspapers but I can’t find it on here.
@@mineoperator ok thanks so much! And good luck on this coming years mining season! If I was closer I’d DEFINATELY help u guys out on whatever I could do! 👍🏻
All right! Glad to see progress, even when shit happens and the weather is iffy, that Murphy character is always present! As long as nobody got hurt/injured everything else can be fixed or replaced...your tiresome tank project will save your AU in the long run... keep it happening... ⚒️⛏️⚖️💪👍🤠
That's a beautiful Tarantula. I do believe you're Father was correct you put all the weight on the one leg and it couldn't handle it. But its coming along can't wait to see it in action.
Starting from 26:20, you show the inlets into your clarifying tank. I wonder if the incoming water/slurry/flocculent mix will start to foam when it hits the water surface. Then you might have some foam going over the edge of that "inlet column" directly going to the output. Maybe you can extend the PVC pipes to go below the water surface to reduce that? Only if it is an issue in the first place, of course.
I'm sorry to say this, but whoever told you that manufacturing and loading a clarifier is not as interesting as mining gold from a drift... It's about the GOLD... Not the process.
@@debcamp2359 Hi Deb! Harry and Jason have been blasting and hauling ore and will be publishing their videos really soon. I stayed behind this year as we are making some major changes to the millsite. We want to turn on the mill at the beginning of October. We're almost there! Thanks for your comment!
