Recovering Gold from Black Sand and Mercury - Butch's Mystery Concentrates 

Thanks Shane for doing this for me. Very nice video. thanks again.

Thanks to everyone involved in helping make this happen, and this video is in Honor of BUTCH!

Wow that's awesome of you to do Butch's paydirt and my condolences to his wife and family. 🙏 R.I.P BUTCH YOU'LL BE NOT FORGOTTEN..AS LONG AS WE ARE ALIVE YOUR MEMORY WILL LIVE ON.....

What a cool opportunity, and what a nice way to showcase Butch’s hard work. Also, I could watch that black sand separator all day.

Shane, forgive a boneheaded question: Why not fabri-cobble a simple mercury retort? (They are only like 180 bucks ready made, if you want) Just seemed like a bad idea free venting boiling mercury nitrate fumes. With a retort you didn't have to worry as much about the fumes, and the mercury could then be sold/disposed of. Anyways, I highly enjoyed the video, and good on you for doing this for Butch and his widow.

God bless the late BUTCH, RIP my friend, these treasures should bring your family some joy and a little wealth I hope, and thank you Mr Klesh

Gold recovery if fascinating, Sreetips here on RU-vid refines a bunch of different metals using chemicals, I could watch it for hours 😀

Shane as always your one class act in helping out Butch's widow.

You are wonderful!! I’ve helped finish quilting projects and it means so much to have these things finished! And I love how you put people first!

Shane, I have been a follower for a long time. Mercury begins to vaporize at room temperature. So When working with mercury you always do it under water otherwise you run the danger of inhaling toxic fumes. When you were using the Miller table you had the water running way to fast(its not a sluce). Run it low and slow. If you see one piece of gold moving, it's to fast. A miller table is for cleaning concentrates to 99-100%.

Just a suggestion for cleaning the mercury sample. Get a large needle from a plastic/fiberglass store, with or without the needle remove the plunger push a wad of cotton ball into the bottom of the needle barrel. Add the mercury, replace the plunger, add distilled water to a beaker, submerge the needle point and push it in. The mercury will flow out, will not splatter and when submerged will trap mercury vapours. It is a bit safer for you that way. Great video, good of you to help the lady, sorry Butch is no longer prospecting here. Cheers

I’ve been following for years and I really have a great appreciation for how much you enjoy what you do. I’m so glad your life fulfills you. We can see through your videos that you are a kind hearted person yet strong enough to maintain and persist and work hard. Thank you so much for showing us all of the interesting ways we can be involved in prospecting and treasure hunting

Great work Shane. Very generous putting your time toward recovering Butch's gold for his family. 👍👍

That magnetic material separator is FREAKING AWESOME

You can also use the hex end of a wrench to synch the shop towel. Just feed the towel through and do the same as you did with your hand.

I am so glad I'm here it makes a guy feel pretty good to see you helping out and that you have a good heart. God bless.

Enjoyed the video Shane, you know your 💩 man, and it was a great thing to do for a fallen Brother Brother prospector and his widow ! Thanks for what you do man ! PEACE 🙂🌞✝️

I spent many summers in Oregon digging black gold and gold panning. It was especially fun to go to the old dried up river beds remove some of the old rocks and dig through the black sand. We never left empty-handed. I wish I could go back and do it all over again. I love these videos.

Great job fam. Keep on having fun getting that au. Gold Squad Out!!!

That is awesome you did that for that lady and in memory of her husband. Also thanks for the cool video! Gold panning looks like so much fun but I live in Florida and I also had an above knee amputation so it's not like I could go do it but I think it would be awesome. I know to some people the gold you recovered from Butch's pay dirt may not seem like much but to his precious wife that will always be a cherished memory. Once again thanks for what you do!!

Been following you for years, every video is a new venture.

great video, love to see her reaction when you retun the gold

This was a very very excellent video of kindness and generosity, what a great learning experience and a cool thing to experience to get to witness 😀 Thanks for sharing

This shows how diverse you are. Way to help that lady, she is gonna be surprised. That was great hunting Butch!!!!

I used to do this with stainless steel sintered filters, and I would say that if your apparatus is giving off brown nitrous oxides, you've got the hotplate a little bit too high. Doing that doesn't do anything except create gas pollution, so turn it down a tad. When you're getting rid of acid, add the acid to the water and use plenty of water. Oh, and two pairs of gloves, one on top of the other. Doing this always scared me worse than pipetting phosphoric acid.

That was extremely kind and thorough of you! Excellent gold!

AUsomeness! Keeping the dream alive! Thanks to all who helped make this happen for her keeping memories of Butch alive for us all to share.

I remember reading about this in the group!! So cool you did this!!

Watched that whole convo go down on the Facebook page. Glad you could help her out!

Wow there was a lot more gold in that mercury than I thought there was gonna be!!

Klesh...While sitting in your truck at the beginning, ORBs everywhere!!

I saw this thread on Facebook. I'm glad this was able to actually happen. Knew you'd do right with her. You're awesome.

Dude that was super nice of you! Love your gold panning videos! Was waiting for you to fill crusty Rusty love the song 🎵.

GREAT JOB. IT WAS VERY NICE OF YOU HELPING PHYLLIS OUT.

One of your best videos. You are a good man, Shane Klesh

Awesome video! Man that was a cool of you to do that in his memory. That means alot to his family. I have to check out the slayer miller table.

Love your vids. Cool on helping someone out honestly. I have the most respect for you. I have ham amateur radio license and often a spouse will die and my radio friend and his buddies will go and take a 40’ or 60’ tower down along with antennas and such at no cost, sell it off and give the proceeds back. Not easy. But the right thing to do.

Very Awesome gesture of kindness brother Klesh

Thanks, You did Phyllis a real solid. That's why I subbed a long time ago. You are honest and it's not how much gold but how to find it that makes your videos so great to watch. This was just on another level. Butch is smiling at you Bro.👍

Interesting video. Mercury is such a weird metal to see it react with gold is interesting. Thank you Phyllis for sharing Butch passion.

Living here in East anglia in England we don't have much gold to find and I have never done any paning myself but I love watching your vids, thanks 🙂

I'm an old ac guy of 40 years and the old t stats were mercury bulb stats. The Mercury is very magnetic and conductive. I wonder if your machine would separate the amalgam from the mercury. It all bonds together in a ball on a magnet. My old boss used to save the mercury from the old stats and spilled one, He took a magnet and it picked it all up and it made one ball, very cool video. As always I'm one of the 98 percent still watching!

Gotta love pay dirt videos!

nice loved seeing you using the different tools

Well done Shane. Butch would be proud.

Followed for couple years now, they picked you because you seem like an honest good person, keep up the great vids bro!

always something To look for. I accidently started To watch and now im hooked!!

I'm still here. Huge thank you for doing that. you're a great guy.

very informative video. it's neat to see all the methods you used to recover the gold.👍

What a pleasure to watch an interesting video with zero hype. You restored my faith in humanity.

I think that is so awesome of you to do for his widow. A true act of kindness for sure Shane. Thank you!

Love this! Doing good work, Shane. Sweet to see the legacy of Butch’s work. After watching you for a good while now I finally got some Krums which I’ll be sharing with my dad (who got me interested in gold panning) when I visit for Christmas!

Add 50 more Cool Points to your already stellar record, my man.. I like the little things you do for others. It speaks to your kind personality. 😉❤️

We used a wet sheep chamois like your paper towel but non tear tough. The new neodymium magnets change the whole game. The magnetic sand can be caught before it plugs the riffles and in much larger quantities. Grinding the black sand under water with lab grade gloves in an amalgamated copper pan will get the maximum values out of iron stained gold. A retort is always a big plus and in some areas additional mercury may be recovered. I would hesitate to use any acid outside a laboratory environment because the fumes can be deadly, excepting 5% vinegar, under cool temps to keep the mercury free of oils. You can get very good at this and there is a lot of gold to be had in some old mine dumps. Gold fever is very real, better watch it!

Nice video of the steps for recovery. Well done.

Awesome video!! I enjoy your content, thank you!!👍😁

This is such a cool video! Shoutout to Butch

Instant like 👍 cheers Shane 🍻

Really cool video.... like the different ways of separating gold from material......It will cost me because now I want a sluice box, magnet separator, and and more pay dirt......

As always another great video 👍👍 .. that was really cool of you to do that for her ... Well as always until next time I'll be looking forward to your next videos (both channels) .. Don E. in Denver

Your a good man sir! Nice of you to do this!

Interesting Thanks again, brother

This video was epic I loved this one as I love all your vids was chuffed this one was Friday lol but yeah this was awesome to see different ways and had a tidy lil bit put back.

Thanks for all of your content. Could you possibly do a video of the miller table setup?? Thanks again

The idea that you can ust squeeze mercury through paper towels feels so weird like it's a heavy liquid metal and it's getting filtered like coffee lol

That’s so lovely what u did for her keep up the great work I love all the videos and work u do

Nice. Thanks for posting.

Great video....Loved it. Ya I watch the whole video to the end like always. LOL

This was awesome, you must have had a lot of fun and been very excited!! 😮😎😁 Sorry, it wasn't better circumstances but it was good in honor of. 😇

you are truly a kind soul :)

Wow that was a lot of work for free but we got big hearts ❤ your awesome brother i know she will be happier now how much her husband got and a good memories of what he loved doing. Thats for showing love brother 😊now i got some little gold i got to deal with i leaned alot for you in this video i had gone so far with what i have now i can finish it 😊

I was a gold diver in Northern CA for ten years, learning to get the flour gold out of black sand (often 1/3 of the values) was the difference between hot dogs or steak.

Nice looking gold ore Chris I really enjoy your energy and happy demeanor keep up the great videos and don't forget to give fern a good rubbing

Shane, I somehow missed this video even though I was cooling my jets in my recliner while recovering from my ongoing “parts fixing and replacement project (this time left hip replacement and heart surgery). This was a 5 Star video! It was extremely informative, interesting, not too long, and done gratis to help out the widow of one of ore (pun intended) gold panning brethren. It’s no wonder that you have bragging rights for having one of the most popular webcasting sites. PS: Don’t think I’ve ever seen your hair chopped off so short as on this video. Are you thinking of re-enlisting. 😅

I wouldn’t just assume that the magnetic material is devoid of gold. I’ve read papers that successfully extract locked up gold from “Barron black sand” already extracted with mercury. It may not be worth the trouble considering that this material came from Alaska. But, it’s well known that black sands from tropical regions contain significant gold values. For example, in Brazil, they call it black gold and I’ve seen prospectors find black gold nuggets from sluicing material in virginia. In tropical environments the gold is often concealed by organic debris & iron, which is why the 17lb gold nugget found by Conrad Reed in North Carolina in the late 1700’s was used as a door stop for several years. It simply didn’t look like gold because it was likely a consecration produced by bacteria in a tropical environment.

Great video! Good work

On the Miller table brush up from the bottom. It breaks the surface and moves the black sands faster.

Loved this one Shane!

I would vote for Shane in the Most Wholesome Channel on RU-vid contest

super video Shane I liked seeing all the tools and or equipment you used it was great to see :)

That was probably one of my favorites. That was way cool of you

From sad to totally awesome video can't wait to see your next video !

I really like that your doing this for her

Good video 📸 keep it up injoy watching them all!!!

Love your channel mate and I will be buying your paydirt soon....feeling the pinch right now in the UK. Crack on and I will buy as soon as I can 👍🏻 Lee, Liverpool.

I imagine you doing the panning stuff on the computer parts and it made me laugh

What a good thing to do for someone. I realized I wasn't sub'd, now I am. Keep up the good work and making awesome videos!

Love the music and your channel

Good on ya Shane!

Love the Emperor sticker on your rear window

Dude that's awesome great video.

Love Crisson Gold Mine pay dirt! So awesome

Nice video brother.....it's very kind of you to help

Great job! You have a good heart.

Awesome video and thanks for sharing klesh

Thank you ❤️

Very good feel good moment for you I bet 😊 nice of you to do that for her in memory of her husband…you had the mercury already wouldn’t it have been easier to process the remainder of the concentrates using Mercury?

Nice job klesh

Very cool.

A most fun episode.