I Turned 50 Pounds of Silver Ore Into Priceless Coins! 

Make sure you watch to the very end! A few chances to win/find/buy the coins!! Links all below! BOOK Amazon: www.amazon.com/Ghost-Town-Living-Purpose-Chasing/dp/0593578449/ Barnes & Noble (Signed Copies!): bit.ly/3QrzoYb BooksAMillion: bit.ly/3tNaUks BookShop.Org: bit.ly/3rZb5bN COINS FREE - enter to win one of the silver coins (and a free night at the American Hotel) here: kingsumo.com/g/wl3sio/win-a-cerro-gordo-silver-coin-1-night-at-the-american-hotel Buy one of the coins to help support the town here: store.cerrogordomines.com/products/silver-cerro-gordo-store-coin-hotel-certificate store.cerrogordomines.com/products/copper-silver-gordo-store-coin-numbered-to-25

Thanks for having me out, It was a great experience! Just published my side of the video if anyone is interested!

i appreciate that you didnt stop at simply exclaiming about finding old silver from the town then jumping back into the process of making your own but you intentionally reflected on the hard and depraved history of debt bondage. That is a testament to the quality of your content. IMO.

Mining was a horrible, dirty business, so unhealthy. Your mining and reproducing the original silver coins is a true labor of love! KUDOS! 👏👏👏

My wife and myself have watched from the beginning. We are so proud of what you have done. Being from Colorado, we hope to someday soon visit your "ghost town". Thank you for sharing your joy and love. We wish you only the best and success in your quest.

Hard to believe it's been four years. It is crazy how I watched the first video with all the snow.bring from canada and 12 ft. Snow drift is a normal experience. You have become a different person. You are this mountain. You are the strengths, calmness, and showing the beauty. Thank you

This made me realize why the hills around Cerro Gordo have no trees. They were cut down for fire wood. With that in mind have you ever thought of a rewilding project to introduce trees nack around town? There's a channel called "Mossy Earth" that does this very thing. They may know people who would be willing to help, if you ever choose to try. And Im sure you could get a weekend event where people can help spread seedlings.

I received my piece of Galena today in the mail!! Thank you! I have been looking forward to getting it since I pre ordered last year and can't wait to read the book. The galena is so shiny! You don't realize how shiny it is until you actually see it in person. Can only imagine how it looks in the mine when you see a whole wall of this stuff. Loved the video - how on earth did they figure out all that chemistry to refine silver 1,000s of years ago? Must have been a lot of trial and error!

Shows how hard the job was up there, from mining to silver 🥈. Well done.

I just purchased a coin. I am honestly very excited to be able to come out and stay at the hotel, when it’s finished. What an amazing adventure. I’ve been able to live vicariously through you all, through this awesome adventure you’re having. I’ve always dreamt of doing this exact same thing, since I was a kid. I can’t wait to come up and experience the entire area.

Pretty awesome coins. Love the update. The hotel looks like it's boarded up and ready for work. Thanks for sharing.

Insane the amount of work those old timers had to go through.. just for that shiny stuff.. been watching since the beginning awesome watching the town come back to life with just a vision and hard work. Great job!.

It’s really beautiful how much love you have not only for cerro gordo but for your subscribers as well. You respond to more people in a single video, than a lot of influencers that have the same subscriber count do, in a month. It’s an honor and a privilege to have been with you since the beginning. The silver came out beautiful, what a dream life, truly a dream life. I envy you Brent. See you next time 😇✌️✌️

Don’t forget to also say that you narrated the Audiobook!!! It’s on Audible and I’m so excited to hear it in your own voice!❤

Wow those went fast! Well at least I have my copy of the book coming can't wait to read it! Really great video. My G gradfater was a miner in Randsburg in the late 1890s and I have heard many stories from my grand mother about growing up in a mining town and this video really showed the hard work and conditions the miners had to deal with to pull out just that small amount of silver. Incredible. Thanks.

I love hearing from you. It's so refreshing to hear about something fun!

"Sixteen Tons" now playing in my mind.

I got my bit of Cerro Gordo Galena yesterday for pre-ordering your book! Thank you Brent.

Awesome video. Bringing back an important piece of history in a coin is so great. More people should save the history of what made us who we are today. Continue with your great efforts and I look forward to continue watching your updates from Australia.

it's been amazing watching you grow Brent. From a complete novice who maybe at times felt over their head to now being one with the surroundings and totally calm and at peace with everything around you. It's been a pleasure and I love learning more and more about Cerro Gordo.

So beyond belief, a great adventure shared with all of us!!! Please keep up your amazing efforts, work, and dedication to your historic mission to preserve this town!

thanks for all the videos you put out I love what you are doing with the mine I was once a under ground nickle and gold miner in Western Australia I love watching you go under ground brings back memories of my days as a miner

Awesome video! Those coins are so so beautiful and so special! They are priceless for intents and purposes! I will be purchasing your book btw. You're truly amazing Brent! 👌🏼👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😎❤️

Woke up at 5am on a trip to Tokyo and found this was playing. Long time follower. Congrats on finally minting your coins. Native Californian now living in Seattle. Spent a lot of time in the Sierras and drove past on the 395 many many times. I hope to get up there to Cerro Gordo sometime. All the best Brent. Thanks for the amazing stories.

Well that mini explosion was exciting. Hey that shop overhang not for nothing. For many months you have been building up your shop for cutting rocks etc. It will still be a good spot for what you want. Rolling doors might be nice. The coins are beautiful.

Something about watching your channel is just so peaceful .. been watching for few years now and will continue for as long as i can !

Such great story-telling. Very much looking forward to receiving your book!

Thank YOU for the last few years. Finding your channel was the best thing that happened to me during the lockdown. You're funny and informative while all just genuinely looking like you love what you do. Keep being an inspiration and I cannot WAIT till the hotel opens! Partner and I want to visit so badly one day!

16:58 That right there is the moment of moments for you. A true prospector having a little oopsie and discovering as you go. 4 years culminating to a moment of creation and exploration. Thanks for so many great videos and adventures, dude.

So cool to see the entire process Brent. Can’t wait to get the book! Keep up the awesome work!

Awesome to see the process, watching from the other side of the globe but always a blast to see history coming back to life

Awesome episode guys! Nick's restoration turned out amazing, and your coins turned out Top Notch! Huge Kudos to you all for the idea and the work involved in the making of this one.. Masterfully done!

I was lucky enough to get a Cerro Gordo silver necklace and now I get to have a silver coin. Super excited!

This was seriously fun to watch from beginning to end. Keep up the great work!

That’s amazing content I’ve been watching for a couple years now! Look forward to seeing more I’ve been to a few old ghost towns here in southern Utah and have found coins and trade tokens in the past. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

Hello Brent! I've been watching your channel since the very beginning, just over 4 years ago! I must say, after watching your ups and downs , that I'm soooo proud of you to have regained her to the state that she's in! Absolutely fabulous work, my darling! Claire, Berlin, Germany ❤

thanks for sharing your adventure. I am 72 years old and sure wish I was able to join you there. very interesting part of history.

Brett, you have given us four years of memories to carry around, and now a coin too ! I can no longer do what I once loved to do, but I sure love creating new memories through your camera lens. Thank you for doing this for me and for everyone.

As an avid viewer of your show from stumbling upon your first upload, hoping you and your truck would survive the snow to seeing you mint your own coins is truly an inspiration! Anything is doable if we just set our minds to it! Dreams are truly obtainable! ❤❤

Cool to see the whole process from mining to silver coin! Thanks for another great video.

my wife and I have watched you and your adventures since day 1. You have worked your butt off over the last 4 plus years to really do something cool with cerro gordo. I am 75 and all busted up, so there is no way I could go through the adventure that you are. Thanks for letting us come along with you with all of your fun doings. I am going to get your book because it sounds like a great read. Good luck to you on all you are doing up there as we will keep watching. Thanks for the great adventure. Mike and Joy

Wow, what a story. From start to finish, and Nick was very kind to do this one. You are a true story teller sir.

Im also one of the ones who started watching you from day one and at the time, you had only had a few teny tiny subscribers! Lookit you now Brent!! 💖 I also have ordered your book back when it first went on pre-order! I cant wait for that too!! My Amazon says I should have it by March 19!! Woot woot!! You've done such an amazing job here Brent and I am hopeful that one day I too can come visit.. Amazing.. Simply amazing!! 💖💖💖💖

Thanks for your time and ya I have watched since the start. I have enjoyed traveling back in time and seeing a part of history, wish I lived closer I would take on that challenge, thanks man

Love watching all your videos! Keep up the good work Brent!❤

Beautiful silver, wow! & SO interesting to see the entire process!!!

Thank you for taking us along with you on your journey.

Thank you for the last four years of sharing your Cerro Gordo adventure.

I pre-ordered your book on audible and I am very much looking forward to giving it a listen next week! It feels mad to me that I found your videos whilst locked down in 2020 and now you are a bonafide mountain man!

Thanks for another great video Brent. Love seeing all the history that you show and share in each video. Cannot wait to receive your book to read it. Just received my little piece of Cerro Gordo this past weekend. Kind of cool to have a little piece of galena. Thanks for sharing the process of how to get the silver refined, very cool.

We appreciate everything you do

Great video , as always. I have been to Cerro Gordo countless times before you purchased it. I love the history of Calif. Gold and Silver rush indeed. Born and raised in SoCal. The passion that you have is addictive for sure. I will buy one of your books very soon...Keep your passion going my friend...

I’m so thankful I come across your channel! I absolutely love what your doing! Keep up the great work! I’m learning so much about the mine an your town that I had never heard of here in the bootheel of Southeast Missouri! Thank you! ❤

This was an awesome project, everyone involved did so well to make this happen. Man, Brent that was some work digging out the silver ore from the old Union Mine and then refining it down. Nick is a stand-up guy he did a fantastic job of the restoration of The Charles Stecher Co Fly Press, and the result in the end in how the coins came out shows in both the silver and copper coins. Cheers, Nick, Tips Fedora. Thanks, for sharing this special reel Brent.

Looks like we’re going back to California. You can’t just say “here’s a coin, buy one and stay at the hotel” and not expect me to immediately buy one. This is going to be an AH MAZING excuse to take a vacation. At some point. Some day. Happy book release week!

I'm still with you on this journey and how far you have come pretty cool

Brent not sure how i found your channel but im glad you did what you have to do to get where you are now I've seen you learn so much and use what you've learned to continue to make cerro gordo live again

You are the most amazing man! No one could do what you are doing there. You sir, are Cerro Gordo, heart and soul. You were destined to be there, Cerro Gordo has captured your soul, and you are now one with the town. Congratulations, God bless you.❤

Excellent once again, nature is beautiful.

We haven't missed one of your video vlogs and we pre-ordered both the hard back book as well as the audio book. Gosh, will March 19th ever get here!😂. Oh, and this episode on the coin making was so interesting! Thank you

I liked how you explained scrip and how it worked, that's one thing in mining history that's often overlooked or forgotten despite the huge impact it had in mining communities. Very cool that you did your own 12hr shift in the mine! Seeing that helped bring to life all the mining books/stories I've read

This was a fun combination of a few things that interest me, Ghost towns, silver coins, and smelting. Great watch at the end of a long day. Cant wait for more.

You sir what you are actually doing you're taking your whole audience back how many years 160 years maybe, I've been watching you for a good little while you're very entertaining to all of us I'm sure and what you have decided to do is absolutely amazing nobody ever ever has done what you're doing right now and we all know this already what you are doing is amazing I'm sure there might be a better word but that's the best I can come up with a dude I'm seriously documenting the lives of people from decades ago and all I can say is keep going man do not even stop in stay cool that's all you got to do

I love this!

That was so cool! To see how you did it from start to finish!

Thankyou Brent I’m so thankful of you videos they always pick this Aussie up I’m fascinated by your town and your passion to preserve the past I’m still healing the broken leg but you have most definitely made my passing of months a little easier I’m getting you book too can’t wait to read it Now to convince the wife for a coin for my birthday All the best on your adventures BTW love your KTM

That was a long way down but at least it was the bucket and not you take care and have a safe week.🇺🇲🤠🙌🇺🇲

I explore mines vicariously through these vids, cuz theres NO WAY my chicken a** is getting into one IRL!🤭

God this is just so cool. I think this whole experience watching you has been so great! Keep up the great work my dude!!!

What! A handmade coin from Cerro Gordo? Take my money! I got one of each. The Silver and the Copper. I tad above spot but the story is everything. I have been following this journey since day one. It's been quite the ride for us couch cowboys, I can't even imagine living it everyday. You my friend are the true American hero. Full of adventure and discovery and hard work. Thank you.

Just finished watching this great episode (as they all are). Checked the mail and lo and behold...a package from Cerro Gordo! It was the Galena gift from our book pre-order! Looks amazing! The wife is taking it to work to show off to her workmates. Thanks Brent!!!! Can't wait for the book to arrive!!!!!

Hope everybody’s having a good day that sounds old

Hey Brent, I've been watching your journey since the beginning. Love your videos and what you're trying to accomplish. Very inspiring! Can't wait to read the book 😊

Awesome work, massive congratulations to you and Nick and everyone else involved! I hope this is just the first Cerro Gordo coin that you make from silver sourced from your mine!

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Fascinating episode. Love how you hid a copy of your book and a coin. Great idea.

I bought your book for my Kindle and CANNOT wait to start reading it! Thank you for everything you do. I truly love your channel and have been watching since you started it. Visiting Cerro Gordo is on my Bucket List. 🥰

This is my NEW favorite video of yours! What a cool process and cool result and wonderful video. Thanks for all you do! I would love to buy a silver cerro gordo coin if more are made in the future!

Thanks for sharing what you do Brent. I look forward to these updates and I can't wait to receive my copy of your book. One day, I will make it out to Cerro Gordo and I can't wait until that day comes. Can't wait for more updates in the future! Keep up the good work!

Brent. What a fun and exciting year for cerro Gordo. Been watching since the beginning. I gotta pre order your book! Thanks for the exciting videos of restoring history and following dreams.

I just pre-ordered your book from Audible. I can’t wait to hear your voice narrating the book since I WATCHED you doing it in the depths and darkness of your mine. I’ve been enthralled by your exuberance and dedication to Ghost Town and shared in your grief when the hotel burned down. I first heard of Cerro Gordo watching Zak and Aaron from Ghost Adventures investigating the haunted hotel. Wow, that’s some crazy history and the hits just keep on coming. I intend to purchase one of the coins if I can handle the price. I’d like to leave the hotel coupon to my granddaughter to instill my sense of adventure in her…. She’s already showing signs. lol. Wishing you continued luck and blessings as you resurrect CG!

Loved the video 👍🏼 it was a great not only video of things . But also educational about the coin making process .

I am so impressed with how much you have accomplished in only 4 years! The hotel is coming along and looks great! I would love to visit Cerro Gordo with my mother who lives in N California. Congratulations on your book! Definitely going to get a copy! I love that you have created a treasure hunt for locals.

Wow, that’s so cool & amazing, I wish I could get one of those coins but I'm in Australia but that’s still such a great achievement for your content to have affected & changed a life on the other side of the world, thank you for your content & that is just, if not more as valuable as one of those coins, keep up the great work, thanks.

Excellent video Brent , so fascinating, what a lot of thought and work, thank you, awesome 😎👍

Nice work Brent, your videos and story's are awesome!

Incredible video! I pre-ordered a copy of your book several months ago & look forward to reading it.

I love your videos and what you are creating in Cerro Gordo. It’s amazing to see all you are doing and how well you honor those people that worked so hard back in the day! 😊

This is my favorite video yet, this is SO cool! I wish I could get one of these. Absolutely amazing

That coin is an absolute amazing find. It's priceless

Cool idea a lot better than some of the ways other channels have tried to raise funds. I wish you the best.

I really enjoy your videos, I am house bound and I get to see things I would never see, thank you. I would love one of your coins and book.

What an amazing process!! Thank you for sharing the adventure!!

This was one of my favor episodes thank you for sharing it with us

I appreciate you giving us the history behind the silver coin! My 7 year old and I watched this video in one sitting. Now he wants to go find your book with the silver coin in it 😄

This is wild stuff Brad...going to have to figure out what is going on with the program...but I'll be here everyday.😊

I always enjoy your videos on your town! Thank you! A LOT of hard work goes into making all the videos you make so I can appreciate it! I'm wondering if you might have already cover in one of your videos that I might have missed or forgotten about the prices the company set for individual goods in the store or even more interesting I think would be the prices in the Saloons plus what services or interesting products they would have offered in them?? If you haven't please would you consider doing this? Thank You Again!

What a fantastic video! Thank you for showing us how it was.

You guys are so awsome. Bringing back history that you can hold in your hand as a finished product. Thank you for keeping the history ALIVE.

This was really interesting. One of my favorite videos so far.