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@hiddentruth1982 2 года назад

I suggest watching mount baker mining and metal if you want tips on smelting gold and sliver. He does a lot of testing and adjusting. also he tells you what flux he is using in what amounts. well worth watching for information. If you want a link to Jason's youtube I can provide one.

@VoGusProspecting 2 года назад

Thats where I learnt most of what I've been putting into practice. Knowing and doing are two very different things.

@johnhunt2390 2 года назад

@@VoGusProspecting In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.

@Uriel_222 2 года назад

Here’s his link

@Uriel_222 2 года назад

ru-vid.com

@hiddentruth1982 2 года назад

@@VoGusProspecting true. If I find anyone else I will let you know. I know one for chemical purification but I don't think it's as good for ore.

@dr4x388 2 года назад

heya, former precious metals foundry operator (current PhD student looking at gold hydrometallurgy) here. when i came across sulfides on my bars (that silver coating you're looking at) i just added some soda ash (sodium carbonate) to the flux and repeat smelts if it still lingers. you shouldnt need too much - i was using maybe a table spoon or two for a 1kg bar. might take a few goes depending on how much you use. i was also using sodium nitrate as an oxidiser. careful if you use it. it burns hot and bright and will put holes in your crucibles if you're not careful. i found the fumes pretty irritating on the skin, and you certainly dont wanna breathe any in.

@poopinpainz166 2 года назад

Hey Chris, Jason from the channel mbmmllc does alot of smelting and other stuff, but you probably already know that lol. Love watching you expand your horizons as you continue your journey.

@aarondemchak5559 2 года назад

You beat me to it! I love how Jason takes you step by step through the refining process. Definitely a good place to start.

@MrRadioFloyd 2 года назад

yeah he used sawdust as an oxidising agent

@dark_angel_don9766 2 года назад

Same here you beat me to it... lol

@VoGusProspecting 2 года назад

Thats where I got most of my information. Doing and knowing are very different things. It's been a learning curve.

@bhutjolokia6990 2 года назад

Also using the cupel process can remove that lead. Jason is cool to watch too.

@stupidminotaur9735 2 года назад

yea mbmmlc is an expert on smelting gold/silver/copper and gold ore. some people say if you smelt your gold ore you'll get 2x gold but it costs more.

@audigga4396 2 года назад

Thanks for another great adventure Chris. Learning and remembering are also two very different things!

@emilmanyarski536 2 года назад

Very cool vid mate! Cant wait to see how you guys are doing another smelt ! Keep up the good work.

@roberthayward9299 2 года назад

Great effort Chris. Thanks. Three points: 1. Ventilation. You were sort of outside... That's good but remember the off gases will be both toxic and corrosive. 2. Flux. From memory I think potassium nitrate added to the flux will oxidize out the lead crushed glass will collect silicates and sodium carbonate will make the mix more fluid when it's melted, helping the metal to separate out. 3. The silver. Smelting won't release this metal. It needs hard core refining and because you hate chemicals, I can't see you doing nitric acid boils any time soon. Love to see you prove me wrong! If you're planning to send dore bars off for refining, You won't want so separate out silver anyway. Love your work. Thanks again for sharing.

@Tacticalll 2 года назад

Nice chunk of alloy! Can't wait until upload the refinement process, It still is really unique with the Galena in it though!

@MadMarlin1964 2 года назад

A great Friday afternoon surprise and a Mick appearance too! Another awesome episode.

@Joeybagofdonuts76 2 года назад

Dan Hurd will be a wealth of information on smelting.

@michiganprospectors 2 года назад

For some reason your videos are some of my favorites. Your video is to the point and shares a lot of information.

@piratescrew1869 2 года назад

Thanks guys, I have recently ventured into a local forgotten mine and collected a few samples to add to my collection for later crushing. Although I love detecting, High-banking and panning it’s hard to hike past an old mine and not venture into it. … so thanks for the ore sample testing refresher! 👍👍👍

@bobbylong2202 2 года назад

Awesome stuff just watching you get the rocks is awesome showing us what to look for is fantastic thanks mate

@mouldytbags 2 года назад

Damn chris, i wish you was my neighbour but your the otherside of the world. What a legend to live next door to.🤗

@robertkeable1627 2 года назад

Awesome. Got to use what you've got that's for sure. Thanks for sharing your learning curve. Be well. UK.

@SuperNmolnar 2 года назад

Nice... refining is fun.. it comes down to a lot of fun. Great video Chris .. Cheers from One of your oldest Subscribers 😎 .. Cheers from Canada!

@breakawaybooks4752 2 года назад

Fern's always smiling.

@nuru666 2 года назад

Oh God I would lose my mind seeing this, Chris! You're the reason I have gold fever even though I've never been out! I'm in the wrong part of the country anyways, I'd have to go to Pauly's Town to even have a chance

@johnjacobs1625 2 года назад

Very enjoyable video Mates!! THX JJ

@goldnsilver6717 2 года назад

Really interesting to see your progression into smelting! Would be great to see you collecting more over time to make a nice bar or something to keep.

@danrogers9945 2 года назад

Love learning all this gold lab stuff!thanks Chris

@marksexton4860 2 года назад

Awesome my friend love that you are doing this smelting I can learn with you

@matthewswan9961 2 года назад

Great video mate!

@insidebendprospecting 2 года назад

Awesome work man, love seeing that lode gold get freed up! I always enjoy watchin your channel as you experiment and learn new skills

@jerrydesgranges8294 2 года назад

Wow Chris. Very cool video. You did a entire video on from crushing, panning and melting down the gold. 👍

@billdewaine997 2 года назад

Woohoo new video, keeping em coming, love your vids

@phickleprickprospecting 2 года назад

Love that little rock crusher. Good to know not to bother busting up some types of rock and which ones are worth a go. Thanks for the info, see you on the next adventure.

@skwervin1 2 года назад

There is a RU-vidr called sreetips who refines gold, silver etc from jewellery etc and he has a lot of info on both chemical and smelting techniques. He built a decent sized home smelting setup and he gives you all the details, sizes, reasons etc and isn't afraid to show you when things fuck up. I'd get in contact with him for advice, he seems to be a nice guy and I've chatted to him a few times over chemical techniques since that is the industry I used to work in. Love your vids and just waiting for the weather to lift above freezing to go give prospecting a go!

@johnoakes6772 2 года назад

Very interesting. Thank you 😊

@diggindumbsht9525 2 года назад

Good stuff!

@LEBANON707 Год назад

Yes Buddy We learn from failure & PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT. I have invested countless hours in refining gold from electronic waste Moreover I have invested heavily into a heavy duty melting furnace up till 10 Kg as well as borax (reducing agent NOT oxidizing) and all sorts of crucibles big & small (1-2 Kg) Still I was getting exactly the same endproduct viz greyish or white nuggets instead of a yellow golden luster cast. I was about to give up in despair until I stumbled by chance on your video & you fired me up again. Now I understand what mistakes I have done. RESPECT & Greetings from France.

@LEBANON707 Год назад

Sir, let me give you one tip or advice = Send a sample of your cast (nugget) to the nearest lab for XRF spectrometer analysis You will get to know the titer (say 14 or 18 KT) as well as a precise identification of undesirable contaminants (nickel or lead) or else associated precious metals (platinum - palladium - rhodium or silver). and you can adjust your flux recipe based on that. NB Suggestion might also on a raw gold dust sample.

@jbowerman50 2 года назад

Good info!

@Nico_Pesdem 2 года назад

super video my friend👍👍 ⛏️⚒️🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨

@CORE1.8MINISTERIES 2 года назад

I have to say that was really interesting

@bcurrie9511 2 года назад

Really liked the quick clip of driving down the bush track/road in the morning with the fog is so, makes me miss camping and binging in the bush. May I also suggest put a tarp down as the odd small rock you are dropping could take out a window/shin when mowing.

@firstnamesurname1743 2 года назад

Great video, would be just as interested seeing your smelting/refining work as your gold hunting efforts!

@rvlifestylelivin 2 года назад

Love your vids man! like subbed commented ;) GL with your prospecting ;)

@escoladegarimpo4529 2 года назад

Very good my friend

@TheFrog767 2 года назад

Excellent information more on this melting the Gold and what with 🤔👏👏👏🥂

@stevenglover9956 2 года назад

Awesome!

@inthedirtprospecting1144 2 года назад

It toke me 3 goes to get my first melt right. I used Borax, 3x more Borax than gold, get it has hot as you can and pour straight into water and the flax basically shatters off the gold. Hope this helps.

@gyvren 2 года назад

That old Aussie gold magic… 😉

@glentimmins7560 2 года назад

Now that is a big silgold booger nuggy⛏️⛏️

@marklexus27 Год назад

You can use cupellation technique to separate galena from gold and silver. Since gold has the highest melting point in your smelt, lead will melt away first since it has a lower melting point.

@cjm2441 2 года назад

I've seen gold smeltered in a dug out potato and it seemed to work fairly well

@SandhillCrane42 2 года назад

I'm so jealous. You can cupel with an open flame on portland cement crammed into a container using fishing weights or musket balls, but that'll leave you with a PM alloy still. OwlTech has videos showing it. It works, just hold your breath (wear a respirator). I suppose you could just do it in the little kiln too. With the lead and base metals oxidized out it can go to the refinery.

@sirkriskringle 2 года назад

Can't what to see the it become Gold Button 😁 . SKK .

@lineinthesand663 2 года назад

Good to see you having a slap at in situ hardrock veins. There is strong evidence to support the idea of gold concentrating colloidially, with peizoelectric energy from the qtz veins as the mechanism.

@alexkaring 2 года назад

Can you explain in a bit more layman terms? I'm always looking to learn more about the gold deposition processes.

@lineinthesand663 2 года назад

@@alexkaring Gold travels up from depth(~20-30km) as a weakish HS- complex, where it deposits at the reef as a colloidal suspension. This suspension is later redistributed by peizoelectric forces generated during seismic activity, into discrete nugget-like clumps.

@asjamuir5534 2 года назад

excellent Chris now u almost have start to finish process will u be doing some jewelry learn then u have from ground to product and a channel that backs up your amazing story

@doug8525 2 года назад

If King Midas was still around, he’d be jealous of you guys!

@moonstarer55 2 года назад

Looks good Chris. A lot more gear now than you had back when I started following you. Smelting now as well? Well done mate

@22SAMURAJ 2 года назад

Good, Good, Good. 👍👍👍

@MrRammsteinforlife 2 года назад

I'm going to be starting to collect ewaste to do chemical gold refining. Looking forward to it, because I do like chemicals but I also like fire haha.

@canaan5337 2 года назад

I don’t know if you can buy it in Australia but Spectracide Stump Remover is potassium nitrate that’s a good oxidizer to add to your flux to burn out those sulfides.

@annebayford4198 2 года назад

You can remelt it with Borex, it should pull the impurities to the outside of the gold, also melt it a bit longer so it becomes a button that should help, you'll then have to black impurities on outside the button, tap will a hammer and they will fall off leave pure gold behind

@StirlingLighthouse 2 года назад

Hey Chris. 👋 MBMMLLC - Jason is my go to smelting guy. He's learning and experimenting too but has a firm grip on the processes. Edit - lol. Looks like Jason is pretty danged popular. 👍

@Pa.PatriotProspecting 2 года назад

Really cool bud...got a link for that little kiln

@MakoRuu 2 года назад

Contact Cody's Lab. That guy is a literal Master at extracting gold from ore.

@redmist6131 2 года назад

One suggestion is to get some kupels and add about the same amount of lead as your gold alloy by weight and just get to the point it molten but not boiling hot when the process is finished you will have at least 20 kerat gold and one more tip before smelting let your sulfides and other gold bearing cons soak in vinegar far a couple days it will break down and oxidize alot of your sulfides to more easily purify your gold

@jackus217 2 года назад

Hey Chris you might need a little more than a cupell to separate the silver the easiest way is with aqua regia not sure if you have easy access though

@cliffyoung5712 2 года назад

Good on ya Chris. Glad to see you taking the next step. Check out Mount Baker Mining for some tips and sreetips on getting to 99.9 @ pure gold. I would never play with the kinds of acid he uses to refine the gold but its interesting, and Scary. Without the proper fume hood and training its pretty much instant death of you breathe any of that.

@walkthroughguru 2 года назад

If you have lead in that button you can drive it off by using an flame heavy in oxygen and portland cement to absord the lead oxide that forms. Easy way is to get a crucible and put a layer of cement in it and smooth off and compress with a spoon.

@epicname1549 2 года назад

MBMMINC... that channel is a decent start

@wolterbijleveld205 Год назад

Yes, Jason puts iron in the flux to break up the sulfides.

@MrDickfish 2 года назад

Chris you just need a Dan Hurd🙃 Or a big red beard and bald head🤪. Keep up the good videos bud and be safe out there.

@hiddentruth1982 2 года назад

oh yeah you dirty quartz. give daddy your gold.

@MadMarlin1964 2 года назад

Winner! Lmao

@VoGusProspecting 2 года назад

Clear comment winner 🏆

@gnomespace 2 года назад

Actually, galena is lead sulfide (PbS) which often occurs with and carries silver.

@williamwinters1180 2 года назад

Maybe try a Bluebowl to clean your concentrate

@deamonsoul1 2 года назад

Check out Dan Hurd and mount baker both have full instructions on smelting.

@rebelonemarkgold4532 Год назад

Hello Chris when you compel gold nuggets you use roofers lead on top of your gold just cut it up the lead melts with the gold and the lead absorbs into the cupel taking with it all other minerals except silver and gold You will have to use aqua regia to separate the silver from the gold Yes chemicals It says you put this video up 2 months ago but I hope you get this comment my name is Mark

@OG_Wakanobi 2 года назад

I have my Dad Headphones on. 10:15, I said out loud "Galena". My son was so confused. No worries, @Sreetips will clean that up for you.

@melvinroehm821 2 года назад

My only advice for beginning smelter,s.start small..little bits at a time.

@wendymaybury6329 2 года назад

You mentioned Sulphites, is that the Sulphites they add to wine???

@Scotty2hotty-69 2 года назад

Idk if you have dan hurds contact but he seems to be good at smelting

@chrisschilling5864 2 года назад

Hey Chris there is another RU-vidr in Australia that goes by the name of bigstackd and all he does is smelting videos you should reach out to him about refining your gold

@adamdonaldson6270 2 года назад

bigstackD is a fellow Australian that does a load of smelting

@chadnoel3280 Год назад

Hi I been trying to get the just of this whole precious metal thing for 3 months now I’m at my families homestead and they have a lot of rose quartz and clear. A lot chocolate coloured rocks which suck for panning seems it not vey good but I had a lot sulphides show up on 90 percent of the stone I picked. Lots have rust but not the ones I assumed would. Going by the old way. So question is is rose quartz a good kicker. How about uranium 😂. I have a massive stone in me yard that is shiny green when wet and glitters

@jeremycanterohioprospecting 2 года назад

Is that regular map gas here in the States we can only get pro map which doesn't burn as hot I tried doing it this exact same way and the pro map doesn't burn any hotter than using two regular propane tanks for soldiers lol thanks for sharing least you can get it done 👍⛏️

@danieltaylor6489 2 года назад

you can use acids to refine the gold down to 999 fine gold, I've been watching Sreetips gold refining he has lots of videos on gold & silver refining might be good to know

@weekendwarriorprospecting817 2 года назад

Did I hear a ding 🔔

@tobieTyler6007 2 года назад

Me too a big fat line 😁

@48thstateprospecting 2 года назад

Can you not get oxidizer over there? Great video thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏻👊🏻

@VoGusProspecting 2 года назад

Sure can, just more money 💰 and for now 🤷‍♂️

@hasmeadali7316 2 года назад

Oh boy oh boy oh boy and I have to go work now and I have to wait to see what's up. Boo hoo hoo.much appreciated thank you

@TarnishedViking. 2 года назад

🤘👍

@kylewatson952 2 года назад

@6:44 put some sort of heap filter or something to catch the dust coming out of the crusher i know it is light stuff coming out but if there is microscopic gold in there you said you could use chemicals if its that small a filter might catch it if over a long enough time you could catch some gold like that or see how much if anny you are loosing (keep a filter on the end of the crusher for a year or something ny them it would be more than caked up maybe you need more than one filter.) (edit: it whould also be safer to breath arond it)

@charleshanschke8973 Год назад

Shake your dog food with the screen and pan, then feed him!😆

@lonewolf1401 2 года назад

Great video Chris why don't you try making that gold in potato like I've seen other people do on there in Australia

@poopinpainz166 2 года назад

His buddy mick hood does it with potatoes 🥔

@carolmatthews5459 Год назад

How much is this rock crusher?

@robasquith1352 2 года назад

Could you possibly reach out to bigstackd? He does weekly smelts of different metals.

@buttkikkus 2 года назад

Ever thought about trying to capture the dust coming out of the crusher to see if it has any micro-fine gold?

@VoGusProspecting 2 года назад

Yes! I've put a bucket of the air discharge and caught it. Not a speck. Inside the bucket there's a Ubend. And no direct path for the dust to come out. I guess that's stopping the gold.from exiting.

@buttkikkus 2 года назад

@@VoGusProspecting makes sense to me, the bend would act like a rifle in a sluice box.

@hunterrawlings886 Год назад

Get a cupel and it will take any metals that can be ozidized out of your melted button

@adams13f 2 года назад

Chris!!! Where can I get a mini furnace like that???

@VoGusProspecting 2 года назад

Hobos gold

@adams13f 2 года назад

@@VoGusProspecting thanks brother 🙏

@MrJacob1981 2 года назад

Is it possible to melt the gold straight from the rock without all the crushing?

@VoGusProspecting 2 года назад

Gold melts out at 2000c. To get en entier bucket of roxk to that temperature would be very difficult. To compound that it would be very dangerous.

@krakhedd 2 года назад

"I don't like chemicals....but I do like fire!" I think you blokes would say, "legend, mate, legend" 🤣🤘 we Yanks of my age would say, "hehehe....FIRE!!! hehehehe" Also Chris, I'm curious what you're planning to do w/ the Ag Cu Pb etc? Any PGMs in there (especially considering how rich the ore is and how quickly your precious metals accumulate)?

@Brad656 Год назад

Bugger all the cost of cupelling. 67% nitric acid-100ml Demineralised water- 200ml drop the button in, warm it up. Do it outside !!! Fumes are deadly. Silver and lead will come out leaving the gold

@nhragold1922 2 года назад

Cupel will still leave the silver. I usually only use lead To absorb the base metals. Either way still good job.

@stevepratley 2 года назад

Don't worry about buying cupells, nip down to Bunnings or Mitre 10 and buy a bag of ordinary Portland Cement and mold your own.

@joshuajackson6442 2 года назад

🎉🎉❤❤❤🎉🎉

@geradkavanagh8240 2 года назад

Find a good gas supply place get some proper nozzles and pipes to run off a big LPG or LNG bottle and get rid of those little gas burners. They cost a fortune to run and replace. Can make your own gas nozzles though I wouldn't recommend it as it kind of screws with a number of laws regarding gas fitting. Alternate is the old charcoal/coal burner with a blower to get it really hot.

@VoGusProspecting 2 года назад

This entier set up cost me $200 including 4 map gas bottles. And for the 1/2 to 1 gram I melt its all I need. I've done 5 melts and haven't even burnt through a bottle.