Crushing gold ore to make gold and then cash in - pour big gold from metal detecting rich gold ore 

Sir..Thank you so much for sharing the awesome video..so much to learn.it is a great video for me..i enjoy most of your videos and explaination.God bless

Chris you are a wonderful teacher, thank you so much for your time to share your knowledge with everyone.!!!!! Happy prospecting!!

A beautiful Video and a great channel. I like this field and I am new. I want to learn. Professor, did you melt the black powder from the quartz ore? Is it gold and we can find it black, please

I've been watching you and I'm learning so much. However I lack confidence in my ability to identify what I'm finding. I'm sure your busy and have tons of people asking you to help them but I would love some information on your willingness to help and how to contact you if you are willing. I'm fairly confident I've found a very rich gold and silver source but need some expert advice. Thank you so much for your service and the gift of knowledge you are offering to us that value your time and understand the blessing of proper education on a subject. I hope to hear back from you. ☺️

Hello Mr. Ralph! I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your patient, detailed teaching style. I am a novice prospector, both of metals, and of gems. Due to circumstances, my education has been entirely what I have found in my area, and on my limited travels, and what I have found online, and in books. I am afraid that I have not yet been able to afford your book, but I look forward to the day when I finally get my hands on it. In any case, despite 7 years of hands-on examination, and hundreds of hours of study, I have no confidence in my identification of anything I find. My ultimate goal, though it may sound silly, is to be able to support myself comfortably, with the precious metals and gems, that I find. Though I have found many beautiful specimens, I cannot offer them for sale, because I would have to put a name to them, and I am unable to do this, with certainty. So, now we come to my questions. The first is, do you give any classes or seminars, concerning prospecting? Then, though I have seen your comments about not being willing to identify minerals from only a photograph, (I can understand that!) Is there any forum where you do instruct on identification, using in-person examination of specimens? I just know that looking at the sort of rocks that I find, with someone who could tell me what they are, and how I could come to that conclusion on my own, would be a tremendous boost to my competence. I predict that you will tell me that all of the information may be found in your book and videos. To be sure, the wealth of information that you have made available is as generous as it is inspiring. However, I do not easily learn from writings or recorded media. It has always been this way for me. One or two questions, answered by a knowledgeable person, provide as much insight as hours and hours of study. I live in southern Redding, CA. There are certainly plenty of treasures here! I will be grateful for any information you can provide. Thanks! Patience tractorhag@gmail.com

Could you roast the quartz first, to make it easier to crush??

This is (for me) officially the BEST VIdeo I've found online. Very informative ,clear spoken, and very understandable. If I get enuff gold I'll 4sho buy your book.

Sounds like someone is into woodworking 😂

Hi Chris... Great job explaining stones, and now this process were just the best. I moved to FL from Fallon, NV; wish I had seen this then. It's sound like great fun to do when it's not so hot right? Do you know of any good places to find gold along the beach aside from people who lose gold rings at the beach? LOL Thank again David

One thing I would LOVE to see added to something like this, is a video of which particular rocks you look for, and a close up view of what those rocks actually look like and why you picked them.

i found a melon sized piece of quartz recently metal detecting. it has sulphides and crystals too the stone is pretty brown on the inside but has quartz all over and mixed through it. so I thought the brown part was mostly iron stone but my magnets don't stick to it gony crack it open soon 👍🏻

Good Job! - It is nice to learn from you!

Awesome video Chris!

Dude your videos are loaded with valuable information, thank you, I bought your book to study to further my prospecting career

That’s one of the best rock to gold videos on RU-vid You sure know your stuff Can’t wait to meet ya and share a pan You do a lot of prospecting in my area Keep up the great videos!!

Great video!! Who is the manufacturer of your crusher and flail mill? Would love to have those in my arsenal of tools. Or is there a website where people sell these used?

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I wanna do this so bad, you don’t even know.... I live in Florida, and I guess I couldn’t be more further away from that possibility. I’m almost ready to move, and live a life of gold prospecting with a possible mobile crushing lab. Lol. Just travel around, and see the country side, looking like breaking bad, in my Winnebago motor home.......Making buttons. 😀

Woow thats cool . I will try do this . The mixture that help for melting is sodium ash and porax and silica . Can you tell what the percentage of each other ?

Just found this gem of a video. I just started trying my luck with hard rock. This video was a super help

at 11:59 can you sell the gold like that as is ?

Thanks that was cool !!!!!

Nice gold button Chris, thanks for sharing this. I too just did 4 lbs of rock that i bought and got a whopping 0.017....well it kept me busy for a few hours.

Nice upload mate 👍 You would be surprised how much flour gold is in your panning tailings, no matter how carefully you panned off. I think this is primarily why the stamper battery's in Australia used copper plates coated in Mercury rather than just a riffle box..... They wanted every speck of colour.

Yummy yummy gold...

What an interesting hobby. The videos are pretty cool. I will go view some of your other videos to see the things you glossed over. Hopefully I can get the idea. Thanks for sharing your time and knowledge.

Chris as always your skills and stories are the real treasure you bring us love ❤️ it friend

Informative video, a couple questions, where can I find list of re-fineing companies, also was your charge "Chapman" flux? and where did you get the plate rock crusher?

Hey why not sell the buttons on eBay rather than a refiner? Right now people are OVERPAYING big time for gold....I'll just bet you would easily get 90% spot price of gold but likely the entire spot price...significantly more paid by private party individuals than a refiner will pay I am sure...I just am not sure what to look for on ebay to find such? I guess just list it as x number of grams and explain in the description that it may be only 90% ....Fractional gold goes WAY over spot on eBay right now ...there are LOTS more buyers than invenory for sale which drives the prices up ridiculously! In fact the less weight there is the more per ounce it goes for....people pay several times the worth for sub gram gold by the "grain" even ...Lots of tiny nuggets on eBay but when I put in "gold buttons" ? Lol all I get is clothing with gold buttons or gold colored buttons for seeing projects

I checked out this video as you advised. I saw that you screened the biggest gold pieces after the first crushing. You said there was a fair amount of electrum mixed. In with the gold. I think I understand from this video that the refiner is the guy who determines the whole value of the button you send him even when it has different minerals of high value melted together in the button. Does the refiner give you the value of both valuable minerals, or just the more valuable of the two minerals? Another question that occured to me while looking at the pretty quartz/gold specimans you crushed, is how is a prospector to determine whether the found speciman is more valuable sold as a quartz/gold speciman, or instead be crushed and melted down into a button? Very intersting to see the processes unvolved in creating a button! Thanks! ❤

I’ve got a buddy that has a few large pieces of ore He says it’s gold. I haven’t seen it yet. There is no essay report on it but he was told by a girl that it was gold ore which does not mean much to me but he is going to give them to me so that I can crush them and hand them down.

Chris, would you please answer my question about how to determine whether the gold/quartz specimn a prospector finds is more valuable as a speciman, or would have more value crushed and melted down into a button? ❤

Chris I misplaced my gold jewelry in my home would a metal detector be able to HUNT it out ? ThanK You MAN I wish I had been born where gold is at I'D never go home'

My name is Jaime Reyes . I’m not the one in this picture that’s my brother Alfonso Reyes . And I’m learning how to find gold crunching rocks and going to the rivers . But I haven’t had any luck at all on finding gold . I’ve Learn a lot looking at your videos thank you for your help . And I wish you lot of good luck and hope on finding lot more gold . Please don’t forget on sending me some good luck also to help me find that gold .

Hey very informative video. What part of the country do you find your quartz in ? I'm I'm new England they say it's rich for quartz here in Maine and new Hampshire

Very insightful! Im impressed with your thorough explanation on the process and also impressed with your routine.ill be sure to check out your website and am interested in what area of nevada your in... Im in las vegas at the moment but hope to get somewhere out the in the more rugged areas

I a West Virginia, woman and I get so confused , because I'm a beginner I know I have gold out of the creek where I live but don't have the right knowledge to melt it down or the funds to buy the equipment but I know it's got gold in it but people just laugh at me I love watching the videos you post ,

Does this crushing method work with other forms of gold ore besides quartz... Like rocks with gold veins in them that are based around other minerals... Or does this method only work with quartz? I have a lot of rocks with very very visible gold in them but like the electrum, there are other minerals mixed within the gold in the veins but the gold is still very visible will this crushing method still work to get a button like that at the end?

Maybe a d*mb questionon, but how do i know if i can find gold with my metal type of metal detector? 😅

My family went to a gold mine in Colorado, and were able to take home some bags of gold/pyrite/rock. We grabbed as many small yellow bits as we could cram in our bags, and now my son wants to melt it. How do we know what’s pyrite vs gold, and what is the easiest way to melt it down?

I'm new here, where did you find all that gold? Did you make a video of it? Trying to teach my grandson's to pan for gold.

You know what I missed the part where you showed me have a Pan for gold and getting to see how you set up your you're heater and you're curious about and what you do do you repeat the crucible before you use it I've been all these little steps like how to Pan you know I feel like we missed a lot of the process cause you turn off the camera because it was too much noise or what it's not I don't have to see it all but I need to say at least every step is there at least in a small amount and it just seemed like you know you failed to give us that but you gave us great idea now do we just need them to reverse Morocco the mind and mysterious equipment that we don't know how to use like cat Pan Or how do you get your heat or go in and melt otherwise it was very good I said I didn't know we'll see how much I'm missing when I try to find it the information I mean thank you

Crazy that we are willing to trade a super valued commodity that takes so much hard work to find, mine, process and refine for some fiat currency

I bought your book, have 80 acres of desert/ mtn land land. Hired Geologist Engineer to survey and send samples of black sand to be assayed. it had 7/10 oz per ton. gold purer than African gold exported company said. there is white quartz all over the place too. my question is do you have to always have to have visible gold on outside of quartz to be worth crushing? and what ballpark figure would your jaw crusher, chain crusher smelting device, flux etc. run me and where do i get them?

i like you alot a great scientist teacher i learn mre frm u than i did 40yrs ago in school,,,,,i guess because im watching an paying attenttion lol,,,,,not playing with the girls,,,,,,weee

How about a powderdust of c gold that is covered eith asphalt how do you separate them...:thank you for whatever tips and input....

I have quartz vein I have started cruising it I am on a tight budget so I use a old window screen. My material is full of pyrite and I can't tell the difference sometimes I really smash this stiff even after paning it. What's the chance the pyrite holds up against the smashing?

please what is electrom?

Hi Chris, thank you for all your videos and time, they are so informative and well spoken.(wirj himor as well)

Check the ridges in your dust vac system. Perfect for gold to drop into just like a sluice

Doesn’t surprise me that your shops a mess. “Just a opinion”

You tend to over explain. This. Idea could easily have been half this length or ,easy and still held the same info.

Cant add to everything good that's been said but excellent information and really enjoyed your video

Just wondering if I could get by with just crushing quartz with the jaw crusher and panning that without the noisy pulverizer step. I don’t need the noise and also it looks like a lot of work panning out all that powder. I’m in Quartzsite Az. Lots of quartz!

What detector did you use for this? I have a Garret ATX Pro. Wonder if that would work on gold ore

Hello chris. I am from Norway. Do you think i could fine some Stone whit gold here? Thank you fore this Great clip sir. Take care, and god bless you😊

hey chris im in poverty dont have much but i know my future and kids future is in geology

What brand and model jaw crusher would u recommend off grid minimal electricity no fuel

I really enjoyed it, I am also mining gold in Iran, pure gold, I hope all the people of the world are happy and free.

You should use jet dry in that pan gold crushed up like that can float out of your pan. use a small amount of jet dry

Would heating the rocks to red make hand-crushing easier? Or is that bulk?

Chris, I really appreciate that you take the time to share your knowledge! In an hour and a half you answered so many of my questions and fueled my excitement for gold hunting! I was absolutely compelled to purchase a copy of your book from Amazon, so the time you took to make and share these videos with us just paid off! I'm a long time custom knife maker located in Oregon with a dream of finding local gold and refining it to use in the custom knives I build!

need tell amounts of flux when melting relative to the weight of gold mix being molten Thanks

Thanks for all the great content, do you have any experience in Canada... more specifically Alberta?

Great video, word of advice never stack wood agaisnt you house, it attracts termites.

I loved this! Thanks so much! I definitely will buy the book, I've been researching and I have my brother's metal detector and lots of places to go. Is the equipment you've used in the video listed in the book? I forgot to look in the description. Thanks again!

how would you suggest processing larger boulders? we managed to get a chunk to take to the assay office and they said that it was the highest content for ALL of the precious metals they had ever seen in our area. was anywhere even close to a river either seems like it must have been glacial drop maybe?

Cool video ralph, I admire you knowledge, someday I'll see you out in the goldfeild metal detecting, hopefully add a new prospecting buddy to your list, awesome video, have a good day

What flux mix is best to get gold out of clay and iron sandstone mix rock?

What country would you move to if one wanted to search for precious metals or stones?

Good video. Thank you. I'm getting your book.

Whooooo hoooooo! I definitely like the rock method better ♥

couldnt help thinking this was codys dad

Is there a way to contact you directly to ask a few questions? email phone?

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Hey mate. You didn't shows the difference in amount of gold between the two lots cheers Graham

Chris, what brand of jaw rock crusher or you using?

I like the hand crank. If it works, hell with the motor.

Wich kind of metal. Gold. Detector. Wich one u recommend

21:57 to 26:10 filming and explaining from that corner of your lovly home is just greet , useful , funny ....and fists full of gold

Great work!

He gets some excited about those spinning chains lol.

Can a person find gold on their own land.

You should have showed us that gold from outer space

Your video is very interesting👍👍, and I want to be friends with you, I'm from "Borneo Metal Detector" Indonesia 🇲🇨, Greetings ... 🙏👌👋

And you deserb lot more to follow you. Thanks

Thank You for taking the time to explain so Much! I have watched prob twenty of Your videos, and I truly Am intrigued with Geology Now. I have been recycling and Melting down to bars, so the videos have become every useful. If I have a very Large Quarts Crystal Rock , I believe almost the size of a basketball, if the quartz crystal is showing all on inside of rock, would this be what I Am looking for? I do not have a metal detector and with a Newborn, finances are at a minimum, Can this be done without one?

Can you tell me where I can buy a hand crank rock crusher like that one. I've been looking but can't find.

Saleeban ahmed orshe thank you very much your teach

How long in the furnace? Do you go to 1945 degrees or is that necessary with the flux? Where do you send your buttons? What words should I look up when searching for a refiner besides refiners? I have your book. It's awesome.

I have a hard rock mine above Goodyear bar in downieville ca. Its all crystalline gold . But mostly barren quarts unless you hit a pocket no 2 addit goes in for around 120 feet or so would sure love to have you metal detect it as me and partner have detectors but like playing a stratavarius you gotta be able to play the violen or its worthless. No 3 addit has to be cleaned out portal is closed. Two 15 ounce pockets came outa no 2 addit. No 3 a 30lb pocket years ago they put a rise on it trying to follow the gold. It's on the melones fault on a serpentine contact on one side mud rock of some sort on the other.

Writing a book now titled "May all your days be Golden". About treasures I've found, mines worked. Assaying throughout the west. Your friend Jeff Williams has a few pages of it.

It seems like your book has run out on amazon cause it’s now like 80 bucks with only two for sale. One positive criticism or a suggestion is something I’ve seen other people do. You can sell it on your website and process it if ya got a Shopify Website or something. And one cool thing is you can link it up to a fulfillment center so they’ll ship the orders. I listened to some online sellers that say fulfillment centers that aren’t amazon are cheaper so if ya sell a lot of books on your website it’s something you could consider if you get super busy. Great video by the way!

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Thank you for the wonderful lessons! I've been studying Geotechnical engineering most my life and I like to treasure hunt sometimes. I've seen and heard many people attempt this explanation of refining the ore but none compare to the simplicity of your helpful guidance through that age old process. Wonderful lessons!

It is too small amount to send to a refiner. They have minimums. It could be dissolved in a dilute aqua regia solution and then dropped out of solution and melted and then you get 24K. Have done that with Ram memory gold. Works fine. For the aqua regia use about 1/10 the nitric listed as the formula. The usual formulal is much too strong and not needed. I do assaying, too.

LOL why do we say "safety deposit box" instead of "safe deposit box" ...literal boxes kept in big vault safes....lol I keep saying "safety" too but I feel dumb when I catch myself....one of those common errors....just saying

Hello. I found an old nickel test mine in the woods, it about 50meters straight in. I think its been a kvarrts ore there. Its a lot of rust in there. Well its difrent kinds of rock there, and pyrit... Do you think its any posybility thre would be any gold,and how to find out. This is in Norway by the way. south east kalled Østfold.

Where's your jet dry? Are you using jet dry?

Thanks for melting the gold. I see guys walking around with little jars of dust. I send my gold to the refiner and take back 24K casting grain instead of a check. It's the least expensive way of taking back gold and it's what jewelers want. I stash it in my bank box until needed.