High Grade Ore Hiding In My Gold Mine Season 2 Episode 11

Jason embarks on a final high-grading trip to his gold mine before snow halts operations for the year—and uncovers a groundbreaking discovery. He identifies calaverite, a rare mineral composed of gold and Tellurium, hiding in plain sight within his ore. Using simple, but affective, chemical experiments, Jason reveals the gold chemically locked in this silvery mineral.

First, he roasts the sample in a high-temperature, oxygen-rich environment, burning off impurities to expose vibrant, free gold. Then, Jason uses a second method, dissolving quartz with hot sodium hydroxide, inspired by @VoGusProspecting This innovative technique uncovers beautiful, gold-rich specimens of calaverite or krennerite.

Join Jason as he unveils some of his most valuable finds and shares insights into identifying hidden gold locked with rare elements. If you’d like to own a piece of this historic discovery, check out his eBay listings for these remarkable specimens of gold and Tellurium!

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[Darrin-zu]

Jason, this is Darrin from Colorado. About 20 yrs. ago, I was handed a piece of Cripple Creek Colorado gold Telluride ore that had been assaying around 30 ounces per ton. This piece that I was holding was heated also
and had gold all over it and through it. You may have a massive amount of gold that you didn't realize, in that Telluride ore.

[krakhedd]

Very much looking forward to a new smelting video from you, and roasting your cons to release the gold - it would be super interesting to take a sample and split it in 3 or more, to figure out how much gold is held up in the Tellurides vs other sulfides and to see how much is liberated using the different methods

[kylemajewski]

Hey Jason, It's Kyle. I think you would have good luck with 2 flat headed screw drivers, they're small but great for high grading like this. I always also bring news paper to wrap specimens so they don't break in my pack.

Thank you for sharing your mine with me. I bought one box and I found about a gram just washing the rocks and then almost another gram after smashing and smashing.

You gave me my first gold in quartz specimen and I really appreciate it.

One day I would like to visit the mine, I'm a work horse and will get that stuff loaded.

Keep up the good work. Heavy pans!
-Kyle.

[JohnLadan]

In your calculation at 41:00, since you're assuming everything is one or the other, x+y=1, so you can replace y with (1-x), for a direct calculation without guessing and checking.

[Yngvi_Barran]

Imagine the amount of gold still on the floor of this gold mine.

[davidkahtava]

Telluride is a gold, and silver ore. Calavarite contains gold, sylvanite, silver. Cripple Creek is famous for this, specimens are highly sought after. They occur in in California gold rush country, and other areas of the world but are rare it is one of the only times gold alloys with other metals.

[kevilrpm]

Ordered my first 25lbs of ore from Jasons mine! 💪🤠🪨🔨Looking forward to it! I'm only about 5 hours south so I should see it pretty quick! Merry Christmas Everyone! May your pans always be heavy and bright!

[seasonspix]

I'm 20 minutes into the video and can't believe you're unsure about whether or not to expose the gold.
You purchased a gold mine. You, Harry, and Chad spent countless, backbreaking hours blasting, mucking, lifting, and sweating - It's high time to reap the benefits of your mine - ROAST THE DARN ROCKS and let the gold shine in all its glory 💛

[infinus]

wow look at that visible gold with tellurides and galena! absolutely stunning material!

[lucdaigle]

Use oxalic acid to remove the iron oxide staining, far safer. Playing with the caustic chemicals is fairly hazardous and don't contemplate using hydrofluoric, a drop on your skin will kill you, we used to etch our specimens by exposing the specimen just to the vapour (in a fume hood). Quenching your hot specimens will shatter the quartz, as they did. Very nice mineral specimens.

[Bekspacemusic]

This was awesome to be a witness off. The way the gold revealed it self was beautiful to see.

[TexasVeteranPatriot]

You need a diamond cutting wheel on an angle grinder and/or on a 4-5" dewalt or other battery powered circular saw to cut out samples with. A lot faster than the hammer drill. As for the quartz and tellurides; grind it, run across the table, roast the hell out of the #1 and #2 in the furnace, then smelt at higher temps.

[etarheel]

Hope you get to feelin better Jason! Thank you for all you do and teach. Big inspiration !

[cosgrovemanning]

I am a math teacher in Oregon. Desmos graphing calculator is free online. In seconds you could graph that equation and find possible answer sets. Just a quick way to get it done.

[gregorybrown]

Jason, I always love your science and math lessons in addition to the adventures. Takes me hours to look up the furnace model and temps for melting, the elemental lists and chemicals. Thanks to you and Dan and Harry for all the hard work this year.

[davidbillington]

Calaverite (cal-uh-verite) was named after the wonderfully rich mines of Calaveras county, California.

Be careful when roasting as the chemical bond between the AU and the tellerium can cause the finely disseminated gold to volatize.

Also be careful when assaying as this chemical bond can cause up to 40 percent of the gold to be absorbed into the cupel.

The telluride ores of California and Colorado were often measured in pounds, not ounces per ton.

Keep following those telluride bands, i hope you find a ton or two!

[SCPadventures]

Congratulations Jason, got to be really exciting having your own mine. Stay golden and grand sharing.✌️💪👊🇺🇸⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️

[rockman]

Hey Jason, Get well! We all want to see you pour gold bars and the whole process! This video was awesome! Love it when you decide to 'experiment'!! Thumbs up! Get better real soon! Thumbs up! Jim

[JoelDymond]

You should get yourself a set of feather and wedges so you can drill and knock out nicer square chunks

[GraemeWight-wxxz]

It was a real treat to see that shiny shiny AU in the face. Thnx for showing us.