After watching the hard work that goes into mining and extracting precious metals like gold and silver, I understand why my old man always said that the stock market is the closest man has gotten yet to alchemy. Creating stupendous amounts of money out of thin air. Humanity always wanted it easy lol!
@@johnnyellis8928 Not so fast. I have done my fair bit of prospecting in there. Lost over $30,000. I can conclusively say that it didn’t PAN OUT well for me :)
@@gemmabarese2483 Lol. Tell that to the Warren Buffet’s and Charlie Munger’s. Actually some others are good. Cathy Wood predicted a rise in oil prices due to the Ukraine situation. My own adviser Mary Elizabeth Huxley also predicted that precious metals will go up during a recession after the pandemic. My portfolio has grown over $400,000 in 8 months so I guess some are better at prospecting stocks than others
I really enjoyed this video. When I was young I learned that my great Aunt & uncle bought a silver mine out west and did pretty well. I think maybe Arizona, was a long time ago. I didn't know anything about silver mining till your video. Looked like Beau was enjoying himself. Thanks
Enjoyed watching. I like how that silver polished up. Thanks for sharing another great adventure you had with a couple great people and one awesome dog. Take care.
I bet it is hot detecting there in the summer. I remember sitting on a seat belt in a car that was parked outside one of the casinos in July. I think I still have the mark.
I read about how to make an industrial tumbler out of a rear axle of a big semi truck with the rims and tires in place. You want to cut an opening in the highest part of the rim to load rocks. The article said a cover is not needed but I always thought if I was going to do one I would have a hinged door sealed with inner tube rubber. The idea is to set up a motor geared down so the tires rotates slowly and all the rocks stay in the lowest part of the tire at all times tumbling over each other. Each tire can hold about 100 lbs of rocks and you have 4 tires going at all times each one with a different grit. Always use same tire for the same grit. You rotate the rocks once a week and you have a 100 lbs of polished tumbled stones each week. I have been wondering if you could use quartz sand as grit for the first stage to do the rough rounding off? I am posting this on all videos about rock hounding to spread the idea, if this is you channel and you do not like that let me know.
That's a terrific video !! I really enjoyed seeing you and Daisy again - she is looking good. Greetings to the family, I hope you all are doing well !!
Wow that's some neat looking specimens out of that tumbler. I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever get to locate a producing vein ? Awesome man Thanks for the video
@@meMiner Yeah I'm new to all this prospecting stuff. I'm in a area that has nothing but junk Cretatious fossils and have been studying the hell out of everything prospecting. I'm planning on going to Alaska from Texas. Drive my butt up there next year. Was supposed to be this year but "Life" happens so fingers crossed for next year. If I come across anything in my adventures I'll definitely get myself a tumbler and put some specimens through it. That looks like a good way to sell them.
@@meMiner come on.. you know how much I looooove digging lmao I'm the guy that stands around cracking jokes hahaha But if you wanna go on the most ridiculous adventure of your life, I got you lol
Wow! That's a awesome place, now I know why you and the Chigg were playing in the water that day in your truck, 😊 that silver came out beautiful. I shined up a peace of stone for my wife, because she likes the color of it, and it has a small vein of silver in it. It shines so beautiful, but she said I can't have it back now. Lmao I really enjoyed your video, and I hope you have a great day.
@@meMiner Dude! That's my kinda day, FISHING! Lol For real, that really sounds like a great day, you can have lots of fun...... and bring home dinner too. Y'all have beautiful water, clean and clear. We have dirty water, but lots of fish, I don't swim in the water down here, because of all the flooding up North, we get all their drainage. It's probably polluted. Y'all have your great day, and we have ours on the 4th. I hope you catch a really big 🐟. Happy Canada day! 🇨🇦 🏊 🐟 😊
so much heavy stone , gives me the Willys just being in those areas, like I can sense the weight, thanks for being such a great teacher ! be safe up there h.h.
What a cool place! There is just so much to explore there. Is that open to the public, or did you need special permission to go there? It looks pretty dangerous.
That looks like so much damn fun. Why don't we have anything like that down here in Texas? Urrggh, damn Canadians with their free health care and free rockhounding.
There's this stuff called Dexpan Expansive Demolition Grout. You can drill a hole in the rock and put the stuff in. 24 hours later it should have expanded and broken the rock up for you. I have never used it but read about it. Also, you might invest in a demolition hammer. They make smaller electric ones. I'm looking at getting one myself.
One cannot do either here legally. Hand tools only, unless you own the claim and have necessary permits. Dexpan works well, but you wouldn't want to set it up in a place where rocks will fall on someone else when you are not there.
Great video, looks like a lovely place to spend an afternoon hunting 😃 I have a few pieces of dendritic silver ore with a little bit of pink staining on it, I guess it could be cobalt 🤷♂️
I was pleased with the results. Usually, I am not sure what to do with small pieces other than stack them up for melting. Now, I will rethink that approach as I really like the look of them after a short tumble.
Great video, thank for sharing. When you find silver I broken rock you can always tell by feel.run your finger over the rock and there will be a catch. Like little barbs grabbing you skin.
The great thing for the hobbyist is that, most mines aren't abandoned because there's no gold, silver, etc. left there. It's just that it's not "commercially viable". Again, for the hobbyist, this means *nothing,* because we don't have the overhead of a large operation! 😁
Great video what a amazing place. What is the best way to get the silver from the rock and to separate it from lead and zinc at home can it be done without using any chemicals.
I Love Have Some Farming And Mining Business. Like Almond Orchard, Cherry Orchard, Lemon Orchard, And Orange Orchard. Like Copper Mines, Silver Mines, Gold Mines, Steel Mines, Graphite Mines, Lithium Mines, And Uranium Mines. Two Businesses I Will Have.
And now the rest of the story: I left my hammer/chisel in the truck, assuming I would use Beau's, but then we separated when the climb was too much for Daisy. I thought I would be detecting loose rock and didn't expect to find veins to extract. You can only carry so many tools or when rocks are found, there is no room and too much weight. I now have a reason to go back.
meMiner Uummmm, I think that was a deliberate ploy so you could go back on your own and claim all that bounty, poor old Daisy used as an excuse because you were scared of going higher and worried about doing something childish in your pants. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂
Nice I did t no that old cleaner could be used in the burnish stage. I new dish soap but not the borax. I think I am going to attempt to build a lap plate for polishing the cuts of larger pieces. But I might put the old cowboys and Indian figures instead of hockey cards;-)