Milling Blue Chip Gold Ore with Dan Hurd - Mining, Crushing, & Smelting Gold

nothing in the final revelation. What we have? here Dan, we have

gold

, we even have

gold

, yes, some nice thick pieces, yes, there is definitely not an ounce of gold in there, but it is enough, yes. Yes, I think we can melt it into a little button. I think we should do it safely, pretty easy. Yeah, there's some rougher stuff in there. It's good if that was in court. You have small pieces of gold and quartz for free. Yes, now we smell it. Dan is working on cleaning up the gold here and this is what your fourth or fifth fourth line fourth line I'm not uh yeah um I'm turning off so there's quite a bit of gold hidden in all that sulfur material absolutely let's go see if we can find a Fifth Line, yeah, but once we get it all in our Snuffer bottle here, I'm going to uh, we've got it clean enough that we can put it in the cup oven and we can get a little bill for Dan, if I can focus this, which I can't, the gold is right down there at the bottom of the Snuffer bottle, if you can see we're going to clean it out, melt it into a bead and then melt it down. rest, take the gold out of the Snuffer bottle, wrap it in a little filter cloth to get most of the water out, we just burn the cloth, yeah, it just burns, yeah, and this is, look, I do it on the left.

By hand, I'll do it with my right hand, so you shake all the gold on the tip of the Snuffer bottle, it gets caught on my finger there, and then you drip it onto the bottom of the fabric so you can look down. there, that looks like gold to me, there's gold, look, can I see it?, there's the gold and you do it two or three times just so you don't make sure there's nothing stuck in the seals and things in the Snuffer bottle exactly exactly. I don't want to be accused of stealing your gold here, so thief, yes, and this is a very good way to take a bunch of fine little pieces of gold, whether it's plaster, Hard Rock jewelry, whatever, you don't need a big foundry, you don't need. a lot of crazy chemistry and flux and stuff, you just clean up the gold quite a bit and then I'll take some of my bismuth flakes and this is a high surface area business that we're going to use for our melt, but I'm going to put If you've seen any of our smoking videos in the past, we've used lead as a flex metal in these things.

Lead is very bad for you and you know it has health problems. Commercial bismuth works the same and is a lot. A safer metal, it's a little harder to use in a cast, but as far as convincing goes, it works just as well, which is why we use bismuth so we don't breathe lead fumes. Yeah, it's much better, so we'll take this now. You've got our bismuth in there, a little bit of water is going to evaporate, squeeze out what water we can, a couple of drops, take our little bag of gold here, packet of gold, cut off the excess so that all of our gold and precious metals are left, bismuth, right? there now we will go put it in the oven excellent our oven is at temperature here I like to preheat my glasses so that they are very hot oh so we will take our bag of gold my hand is very hot oh I don't know how was your camera the last time for just so you know it dries very quickly now it's starting to burn and here and not for long you should see some liquid bismuth coming out of the bottom of that thing the added carbon from the rag doesn't hurt anything it just burns right away , yeah, starting to see the little bismuth beads on the rag, that's cool, yeah.

I'll collect all that gold to make an alloy and then the bismuth oxidizes in the furnace, leaving only the precious metals, well, you're going to look over my shoulder while I do this, these are all the number one and number two concentrates of the Dan's Blue Chip mine, there's 1.2 kilograms, so when you take the weight out of the bucket and all the water in there it's probably about a kilogram. I've got my big number 20 crucible here, so I'm going to mix up a bunch of flux, mix all these sulfides together and now we can do it all with a great smell.

Another cardinal sin that you're not supposed to do is smell wet material, that's a No-No, you're not supposed to smell it wet, no, I'm not supposed to, but I've done it many times and never had a problem. , so let's do it. Do it again. I switched from lead to bismuth, as you've seen in some of my previous videos. I switched to this big box business. I made this by melting bismuth, which is fun in itself, and pouring it into water, you get this super result. high surface area I'll pour that in, that's going to be our collection metal which should gather up all the little bits of precious metal and take them to the bottom, there it is, let's go to the big number 20 here, which is definitely excessive. okay, borax on top, here we go, there's our crucible in the oven, let me light it up and then we wait, okay, let's get your bead, here we go, that's not even an ounce of gold, man, I don't believe it, but it is good feed, it's a beautiful bead, nice color, let's see if I can melt my close up camera there's Dan trying to melt this camera Blue Chip mongold I think I'm trying to melt my fingers too there's a lot of radiant heat on the way from that and It also comes out 0.24 of a gram, a quarter of a gram of gold is the free ground component of 300 pounds of foreign ore that goes to a very hot coopell.

I hope the qpo doesn't overflow. That's a lot of metal. That's let's see what happens, it will stay, it's oh. , that's all that coupel can take, look at that absolutely now, as it rusts, it will start to absorb and that puddle of metal will shrink in size, wow, that was that, that was close, that was very close, no . Another 10 grams, let's see what we have, oh, there's something, there's something, there's a little button now, I think it's been too cold. I think we need to turn up the heat and get what you think, so make it shine a little.

Yeah, okay, let's give it a little more, but that's encouraging, there's something there, we have something, okay, let's take it out of here again with the left hand and I can see from here that it's gold in color, nice gold bead, it's okay, let's lift this weight. let's cool it down, put on the weight and take it home, take it out, don't drink some water, oh, it turned a little silvery, oh, a little more silvery, yes, yes, and its weight is 0.46 grams, so almost double, yes, quite a bit in the sulfides. More silver, although you can really see the color difference now when I place the shiny gold bead next to it, so we may have had some silver or something else in that bead, but the convincing process was completed, so that now they are all precious metals. three quarters of a gram and three quarters of a gram for 300 pounds that doesn't make a gold mine no we don't need to find a better one once to find a better gold mine that's my job for this summer well I'd call it a good Day Dan, I I had fun, yes, it was a good day.

We didn't get as much gold as we expected. Will we ever have that much snow? We never do it, we never do it, but I really appreciate you putting me on the Blue Chip. make the trip to a completely different country to shred and melt with me so yeah I really appreciate it it was a lot of fun thanks for having me here thanks for all the help testing my work absolutely yes absolutely anytime come back anytime, so thanks again for watching. Everyone, if you haven't watched Dan's channel yet, I'm sure you will and make sure to subscribe.

Otherwise, thanks for watching and we'll see in the next video.