I buy 25 lbs. of gold ore from MBMMLLC and crush it all to reveal the gold! 

I am in it for 250lbs. Bought a Mighty Mill to help with the crushing. Its about the journey for me, not the destination. Love seeing your video.

In Jason's mine and many other wide mesothermal gold bearing quartz veins the gold is concentrated in a narrow band of the vein called the "shoot". Crushing all of the vein quartz might have 1oz per ton, but the shoot might have 15oz+ per ton. So statistically allot of the rocks you are crushing have little values and results might vary widely from sample to sample.

Jason is mainly an ore processing machinery manufacturer. Great guy with interesting videos. He teams up with Ghost Town Living, Dan Hurd, and a few others for collaborative shows.

I use a manual jaw crusher and a cheap chinese grain mill to grind it down to powder. You want to get it down to 1/8 minus before using the mill. I bought 75lbs and got a little over 4 grams I got it all down below 50-. And a lot of the gold is locked up in those sulfides. I smelted the gold and sulfides together to get that result. Tis the nature of the beast. You have to smelt to maximize values.

I think it’s all about the experience when you buy rock like that. No ROI. What a ride man. Great video. Can’t wait to see the next group of rock you crush.

It's funny I came across your video. I just received a 25lb bag of ore dust that he crushed recently. This stuff is powder. I'll have to make a small sluiceor something to clean it out. We'll see!

Gold doesn't glitter it glows. That glittery stuff is most likely pyrite. Which could contain some gold.

Jason would be just as intrigued watching your video as I am I’m sure. I would love to do what your doing, but living in the Netherlands doesn’t make that a viable thing….so I watch Jason and a lot of other gold mine related RU-vidr folks. Your video is cool, so much effort and just admitting your just tying to learn…thanks for letting me look over your shoulder….

I’ve been waiting for this one! I’m in the same boat you were and life events have kept me from starting this adventure so far. At some point I will come back to this video and let you know my results as well. With the sulfides I have seen others, including Jason take the sulfides and put them in a frying pan and get them cooked up if you will. I assume after doing this you can pound that into dust and maybe liberate a little more. He put out a video in the last week or two where he ran a ton thru his awesome set up. Part 1

I know you worked off your hiney for that shiny! Aqua Donkey Prospecting approved!❤🎉🎉❤

Great job crushing it fam. Need a lot of that to make it worth it. Got to be on some good ground indeed. If you can find it. You're close to the source 😊. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠

Its not a scam. It's a learning experience. ( Being serious)

That is some stick-to-it-iveness. You earned my subscription. I too am prone to falling down rabbit holes which lead to more rabbit holes. Keeps me out of trouble.

Should be about .3 grams in 25lbs if my math is correct. I believe his assay was about an 1 ounce per ton.

I think you should consider the "dust" that came in the bag as just pre-crushed ore. Collect it and pan it out also.

Thanks for doing that, that's a lot of work! Tells me it's not worth it to go about it that way at that $75 cost.

Nice work. I like how you were up for the challenge! Subscribed. Maybe you can send it back to Jason and he could smelt you a button? I gotta say though.. please cover up that insulation in your shop if you are concerned about dust and your lungs. Great video have a good day!

You can cut the handle off that manual rock crusher you have and attach it to a chipping hammer. Then you put some rock in the tube, drop the crushing bit attached to a chipping hammer on top, hit the button and push down....ta dah! You have pulverized quartz dust.

Great video!

when I first started crushing rock; I got a flat piece of steel and a slightly smaller but taller piece of steel. built a hollow box around the flat steel. put rocks on the flat and crushed them with the heavy steel. then gathered the dust in a dust pan. worked with a lot of work. but cheap. then i bought a small crusher for $1000. it sucked, broke parts continuously. got it away. then i bought a jaw crusher from MBMM Jason. it works great. I also bought a hammer mill which worked good, but i've worn out the hammers.

17grams per ton is actually pretty good, but not if you're buying it 25lbs at a time and not for $100 a pop. If it's your claim and the only cost is your time then it's worth it.

try and find an old concrete mixer and find some steel balls dont know how much but that should crush the rock!

You should contact Jason and if you order again,ask him if he could break it done to powder with his machines.That would be easier than you having to work months on it.He can do it in a hour.

If you got 1/4 gram in 25 pounds that would be 20 grams per ton. Not bad.

I like this video. It’s a bit funny that you project yourself to be more of a beginner than mbmmc But your humility makes me like your video more than his, I seem to always be yelling at the screen when I’m watching him. Lol

I purchased 2 bags from Jason. I had the exact same problems you had. I thought I could crush with the little manual unit. Yeah right. Had to buy a crusher and have enjoyed the process. I am not completely done because I realized that the gold I was getting was 300 mesh. So I will need to go back through all my tailings and rerun them. I didn't notice how small the gold was till I got the loop out. The rock I have left is country rock and white quartz. Not sure I will crush it and waste the time. So far I would guess I have maybe .05 grams. I didn't expect a lot.

Here's how to Crush Rocks as a Hobbyist. Purchase a small Propane Furnace Pot, these are great for Smelting as well. Place some Rocks in the Furnace Pot and stick a Propane Blow Torch in the Hole typically used by the Burner. You can Easily Heat Rocks to Red Hot and then Quench them in Water. This will completely Fracture the Rock Internally. Crushing after that is Simple. And the Dust Levels are much lower when smashing the Rocks with a Hammer. Easy-Peasy.

Part 2. He had a heck of a time getting his smelt to finally work right as far as getting the right mix of agents together. If I remember correct it was just a little over an ounce. It looked to be mostly gold percent wise. I’m sure there is some silver mixed in. Anyway I really enjoy your videos. Hello from NC! Thank you for sharing this adventure. Good job on your rock crusher. Curious, anything you would do different in your build now that you’ve used it some? Thanks again.

Hard rock mining hard in a garage and no equip lol😂

buy a jaw crusher from Jason. build the stand and buy a gas powered engine to drive the jaw crusher. mine works great after tons of quartz.

Well I just might not bother crushing the rest of mine , lol nice job , great video

I think Jason believes that a half ounce per tonne is “payable” return. If you don’t value your labour and other inputs (dynamite, air drilling & humping the ore down a mountain etc - then yes you could consider half ounce per tonne as payable ore. In the old days it was considered payable ore if it went 1 ounce per tonne which is probably a better metric to judge a payable mine. But There are other methods Remember that Jason has his processing plant and can throughout bigger quantities in a time effective manner. If you were to cyanide leach the crushed ore through activated carbon & separate it in quantity you might get higher recovery because your collecting gold at molecular level. Perhaps mercury amalgam is another option. Any way you look at it his mine to my mind is barely payable. It is only payable to my mind in the inventive ways he sells it as pay dirt for one example or as sliced rocks etc. Add in his RU-vid revenues & maybe his mine is actually just viable. That would be my summation.

Well done you proved ur self wrong. You did the build, congrats.

Little less talk , more action !

I bought the same thing and got a few specks out of the dust. Ended up selling the lot to someone else as I didn’t have a crusher that was going to get it fine enough. I’ll stick to pay dirt.

You could use CLR and dissolve the quartz..it takes a few days but it works

You should use a minimum of grade 100 alloy chain and use steel for the holder.

4-pounder and a chunk of railroad iron. In a shallow box to catch the frags. Sieve and repeat. If you want a good cheap rock crusher, get a fairly heavy walled (used portable) cement mixer and a bunch of steel balls and make a small ball mill. You wil want to put a spray bar just outside of the barrel as it makes a LOT of quartz dust- hazard to breathing of course, but will also eat your bearings up. And lode gold is usually combined with other stuff where placer is quite higher gold content. And (if you are stil awake) lode gold is generally VERY SMALL.

Jason's mine has a lot of pyrite and i believe another mineral called molybdenite? The silver values are alloyed with the gold. The gold is mostly very fine dust and ore must be crushed to baby powder fine if you wanna recover it all.

Well you may have some platinum there, hard rock is never fun. No one will talk me into it again. There's plenty of placer from glacier till and decomposed bedrock. I've done both on large scale, from 50 man load mines to Cyanide ponds from super fine ore. Hope it warms up for ya.

Get the mighty mill, under 400 dollars. You will be glad you did

I am surprised that anyone would be surprised that a mining company would fail to go bankrupt selling thier gold ore, for more than it's worth?

Have been using a hand crusher that i made at my last job...kinda like yours. Need to make an angle grinder box

I am starting to think he has a small amount of platinum in that mine. I’ve watch a couple of you guy processing the ore. It is rare with gold but does occur.

Great video. That’s a long process of getting very little gold. I’ve been thinking about getting a bag of it. Since now he sells it already crushed up for I think $100. I was going to do a review on my channel but now since I saw your video, I don’t think it’s worth all that work for .214 grams of gold. I’m going to hold off for now. Thanks for the video.

Because i'm an expert at watching experts refine gold... 😅😅😅 Before you get disheartened, you may just need to smelt your concentrates with the right collector metal, flux recipe and cupell it to get the gold. That would probably be a few more $100 of equipment.

You said that was 25 lb how much did that cost all those rocks are pretty

How much fine gold did you wash off the ore.

My son bought me one of those bags to play with.I'll come back later when I've got around completely.Crushing it and running it and I'll let you know what I find in it.Cause They bought me the exact same thing.....

Its not really about getting monetary value out of the ore you purchased. What you bought with your $109 is the experience of liberating the gold from the ore. People like me see that as entertainment value in itself. After all, if i wasn't doing this, I'd either be getting in trouble or being a couch potato.

I find a hand sledge within a metal box works, don't swing the hammer just drop it straight down and save your arms? Some brilliant rocks there.

maybe a 4inch casing manual stamping tube ??? a giant of the little 1 u have

Did you pan the dirt that you washed off from your ore?

You can use caustic soda to remove gold from crystal mix water and boil see Vo Gus prospecting for video

Silver stuff could be Galina

Wash out the plastic bag shake out and possibly wash the go bag put it into a pan and see how much gold you get out of that how much gold did you get on your hands you kept wiping on your pants how much gold did you leave in that other room

Lol he sells it crushed now .nice video thank you 😊

Do you need someone to install your flooring?

joined the channel...excited to see your up n coming videos!!!...especially this because im quite familiar with jason and dan hurd etc

silver shiny material is probably galena (lead sulfide). There is a mine a mile from where i live. The gold is not visible in the rock. Each dump truck worth of ore is worth about $11k to $17k.

Buy the mighty mill rock crusher

I brought the same amount from MBMMLLC. It is very hard to crush and very little reward. Not what I was expecting considering what he was saying..

You could possibly hear. Them in a fire in a pan and pour vinegar on it. They should break up allot Easter and fee the gold. Hear of that process somewhere and if I remember correctly it works really good

You can get caustic soda and dissolve the rock

I hope this video will make some of that $400/ $700 for you!

Lol … was wondering about the magnets alright

You did better than me. I ended up finding a total of 3 pieces at minus 100 in my box after crushing to powder😢

Smelt it it's lock in t🎉 he rock or chemical release the gold. be carefully. Love your determination.

44:40, round and flat? Unless that was a product of the grinder annealing smaller chunks, it looks like placer chunk. If it was lode gold, it was mashed that way from some oxidized/liberated ore. Lode is not round and flat- unless you hit a rich enrichment zone or redeposition area, it is microbits.

Wait so it’s priced so that he’s the one getting the deal even tho u had to do the work to crush/pan it? I thought that these prospectors sold it cheaper as pay dirt so they didn’t have to process it and ot was a good deal for the buyer. Apparently not?

Hey bud,next time u get some big ore take n build u a fire and heat your ore for a couple hrs,then it will literally crumble easy in your manual crusher n real ez in your robi crusher....works great

RU-vid Gold

cool clock

a little gold i guess

Too bad for you that I only just discovered your channel because I could have made you one for $50 plus parts [about $75 more] and had it done in 3 days. Oh well... Life moves on...

matbe think about buying a cobra crucher or a mighety mite crusher

Siver ore could be platium!

i follow him too. but not yet eureka moment.

With all the respect but you better can buy bags of sand in Home Depot you probably get more gold than out off them rocks😊

I had similar results from Colorado gold camp a few years ago. Was absolutely dismal results and totally not worth all the effort it took. I'll never buy that type of stuff again

Why did you not wash all the ore and pan the dirt just to see some gold to change your attitude

That is a lot of work by hand. Good Job though.

Without smelting you cannot account for gold that isn’t freed up by your method.

Vein not vent..😅

copper sulfates

So…not trying to be a dick, but take ur ass to Harbor Freight and get some cheap power tools. They are actually pretty good for a hobbyist, and the beauty is…for $25 a piece you can get 2 angle grinders…so you have a backup if you mangle one of them whilst building ur rock crusher. Plus they have a bunch of other crazy cheap tools you can probably use to invent contraptions with when u got rocks to crush or whatever. I would probably make some kind of offset motor pulley/sledge hammer power hammer…but theirs more than one way to skin a cat…just sayin.

Hey 👋 I very appreciate your videos. Your crusher worked perfect. You should Proud of what u have done please no more pan bfor run through a BOX PANNING AFTER U RUN IT THROUGH A RECYCLED SLUICE BOX.LEFT OVER POWDER concentrates after you run all your powder SLICE BUILD box. TRY IT 😅😅 build a furnace like Jason , from MMBM Smelt that stuff . SO MUCH EASIER. Yes so only pan your concentrates after u run it through home made recycled sluice box . The Build a furnace. Like Jason and smelt that shit'zv see, u watch it built, u build it Rub that-'"

I own a farm and two feet down was all that kind of rock. Oops

AU for effort

one major issue insee is that you are using ryobi. they make the cheesiest tools. your grinder has very limited power compared to a makita or milwaukee. ive used all three grinding chimneys to reflash them and the difference is astounding. the ryobi is junk.

Melt it to get more....

It would be cheaper and easier to buy some placer gold. You should be able to buy a gram for $75 or less!

I'd never buy ore, not even sure I'd want it if they gave it to me. I would if it was massively iron stained quartz. But I wouldn't buy any. It's always a bust. They want you to pay like there's gold in these rocks, but there's mostly rocks in these rocks. It's a lot of work and dust just to say, "see, that there's gold", but it's always the worst gold venture I think you could go on. Appreciate the video.

The only way your going to get all 100% of the gold out of the rocks is to watch Jason from MBMMLLC An learn how to melt down the fine dust like he dose on his channel. The Capels will sock into the capels an the gold won't. You are losing so much gold you can't see doing it the way you are. Jason owns the company that make the rock crushers shacker tables. He sales they in his web site.

Lol he had to recoup all that lost money, Jason went all in on wood to brace up the mine he kept the most rich rocks got the gold from it calculated what he was still in debt with and made all those 25 pound bags of just gold free rocks and sold them cause he is smart lololololol

Disappointed

Jason is liar

Mbmmllc has a nice scam going....

Placer has a better chance at concentrating hard rock is hit and miss

After watching a lot of Jason and Dan Hurd they're both stand up guys and if you would email him I'm pretty sure he would make it right