very good.

Brilliant!!!!

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Hahaha.... Magnet attracts iron not gold, whom you are making fool

@@SecretDaytrader I think you never work as a gold miner

Glad it was helpful! Feel free to comment as I do respond to them.

No problem, glad it was helpful .

Excellent! Glad you enjoyed the video.

What makes up the heavy sand concentrates does vary from place to place....Glad you enjoyed the video.

Here in Canada I am struggling with Diamonds. Microscopic heavy greasy blobs of indestructible-ness. DOH!

Glad you enjoyed the video.

Hey thanks for the kind words.

Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Yep. Very true.

I usually use a plastic bag but didn't for this video. Glad you enjoyed the video.

Yes I have a big land full of gold

Glad you enjoyed the video.

There will definitely be some trial and error in working with your black sands, but I am confident I can make it come out one way or another.

Ha ha i am confident in you too! Just remember the gold weights the same as the black sand..."Hydraulic Equivalent" and that is why it is so hard and takes time to get it all cleaned out.

Please look at the other videos on my channel. There is lots of information about gold detecting.

OK.

The plastic bag thing is a good idea. I do that sometimes.

OK.

glad it was helpful.

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you, I will

glad it was helpful! Best of luck to you.

Thanks. Glad you liked the video.

Glad it was helpful!

Good idea. I will do that. Glad you enjoyed the video.

Max, I am sorry you are having difficulty with this, but more than 13 thousand folks have listened to this video and no one but you thinks there is no sound. I think some of the sound is in mono and you may be listening on the wrong speaker. Give it a try.

Yup, half video has no sound, mostly the sitting outside with the black tub.

You're welcome! I'm glad to hear it was helpful.

Its been done, but the gold gets caught in the black sand. Not that the gold is magnetic but the shape of the magnetized sand catches the gold too.

Oh well, another of my great ideas hits the sand. I just wonder if the well known electrostatic attraction of gold could be utilised in combination with magnetism. Say the dry gold/sand mix was gently blown into the air between magnetic and electrostaticly charged surfaces?

Im new to this but been doing my homework. Going to order a sluice soon. I'll experiment with the magnet installed in the sluice. Cool! 😉

Glad you enjoyed the video.

My next video will be getting gold out black sand from some concentrates I got at ElDorado Bar near Helena this last fall. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

What about the stuff the size of dust? just wash that gold back into the stream?

@@ChrisRalph I'd do it with magnets and some other stuff like you mention but very rarely, only once I'd have like a whole tub of gold dust-laden black sand. I just do this as hobby, and the nearby river I'd do this had dried up since a few months ago so I don't really go out looking for gold anymore, but before it did usually there would be milimeter large pieces that I could just pick out.

OK.

that would work.

Glad to help

Happy to help!

There are some light colored minerals that are heavy.

Glad you enjoyed the video.

just out of curiosity, what are the Cons You speak of?

Glad to help, check out my other videos too, I am sure you will find them just as valuable. and I have more to come in the future.

I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Glad you are enjoying it.

Glad you enjoyed the video.

@@ChrisRalph sometimes I shake the Black sand in a large ball Mason jar with soapy water, and a powerful magnet stuck to the metal lid of the jar. That way I can just unscrew the lid after shaking it up, take the lid off and over something, take the magnet off the lid and the stuff just falls right off 🙂

@@SunTzuLao Fantastic idea!

We have a language problem. What is the "gold finally"

Repeatedly heating and cooling the ore will not do a good job of crushing the rock. You will be disappointed in the results.

@@ChrisRalph I don't have money to buy a crusher. Any other suggestions I'd love to hear about it. 👍 I also do not live like others do. I don't have electricity. I do have a generator. I live similar to the 1800's. I just saw heating the quartz one time and cooling it rapidly in water once made it easier to crush and then I can grind it up in a mortar and pestle. I'm all ears and want to find a way to get this gold out of this rock. It tests around 2oz per ton. I could quickly buy equipment if I can ever get that gold out. I'm at wits end if the heating method is a bad thing to do.

It's my pleasure!

OK. Best of luck to you.

Where are you located (what state?)

Gotta say I really like mine! Glad you enjoyed the video.

What? Are you asking me to use English slang, gov'ner?

@@ChrisRalph This is IRS did you file taxes on you last years gold nugget blacks sands extraction finds!

Sometimes loads of black sand will cover beaches in northern CA after heavy storms. These three videos are all related content: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/msB7hbeYycCznXU.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pc-kedh_mrrZp4U.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fZmWiZOZs566YGQ.html

Glad you enjoyed the video. Part two will be soon, but I do have a life beyond KZfaq.

Thanks!

That's unusual. Can you do much with screening? Glad you enjoyed the video.

So says the man who has never panned super fine gold before and just dumps the fines on the ground.

@@ChrisRalph nice assumption, but no. I don't need to play with magnets, I have a ball mill, classifiers and a shaker table! But that's for buckets not pans of sand.

Glad it was helpful!

We have a language problem.

Because I cannot see what you see and see what you've done its really hard for me to know - pyrite - iron sulfide - is not black sand - they are not the same thing. I don't know what magnets you tried, etc. so I am far more in the dark than you think. So I have no guess. I do talk about pyrite in a video I made just on Pyrite - see: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/idCgZ8SAyNemnmg.html

There are thousands of copies at the distributor, but sometimes things get messed up between Amazon and the distributor. It will get ironed out. It does this once or twice a year for a few days.

Glad it was helpful and you enjoyed the video.

Its available on Amazon.

Yes, I have seen his and a number of ones similar to his. The problem is that even gold screened to the same size won't necessarily settle at the same rate. You only get great recovery if all your gold is the same shape. Flat flakes settle at a different rate from rounded spheres - even when the same mesh size.

The black sand clogs up on the magnets.

paper tears when it gets wet, but you can use a plastic bag for the same purpose.

black sand is iron minerals and iron is common, gold is very rare.

Until very recently I got paid nothing from Google for these videos, and I have been hesitant to invest a wad of cash for the privilege of making videos for free. I just got a new camera, and the technical quality will improve over time. However the value of these videos is not the pretty sound track, but the verbal content.

I agree with Chris. I noticed the audio thing right away but got over it quick because there's so much info. Looking forward to the beach sand video, as I'm planning a trip to that beach this fall.

@@ChrisRalph The cost of a camera isn't really a "wad of cash" in 2019. I just bought a great camera g pro knockoff for 50 cad. That's less than one gram of gold! They give out cell phones with amazing cameras for free and the monthly cost is very modest and part of the upkeep of having a device to make calls. You could also make a Patreon page in a few minutes and have your subscribers pay for whatever you want and probably also fund prospecting adventures you wouldn't be able to do otherwise that would benefit your channel in the long term. Saying the value of your work is in the verbal content and not the presentation is like playing really obnoxious sounding music and then being like: "It's all in the lyrics, man." That may very well be the case, but you will find a much larger audience and more success if you take a slightly more balanced approach. And yes, I agree it is a privilege to speak to your audience from your platform and spread the ideas you think are important while selling your books. Even from a strictly financial perspective, I think if you put in a few bucks you will probably make more sales. I hope this gives you some ideas.

I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

It can be sold either way, but I prefer to melt it down as it's just easier to handle in bar form.

@@ChrisRalph I see. Thank you sir for the great content 👍🏼

I assume by the term "mustard gold" you mean fine flour gold. That will be dealt with in part 2 with the beach sand as it is gold of a size like flour dust.

You probably dont lack for dirt, just gold and gold in dirt.

Not really worth doing unless you have tons of it. A few pounds will not pay for the shipping. Its not super valuable stuff. Its iron ore, and may have traces of other metals.

You are welcome.

The water helps to minimize the amount of free gold collected by the magnet.

I like your videos. Keep it up!

Tiny gold particles will float, but also easily sink. Hard to recover the gold that way.

No, that will not work, most black sand has no RH or only tiny, tiny traces. You will spend $100 to get $1 worth of PGM.

@@ChrisRalph True but I'Ve tested black sand from one of the Sacramento sand and gravel plants and it assayed $12.50/ton in pgm metals. There are new mthods to extrct the platinum but you'd needs tons of black sand to make it worthwhile

Sorry, but I do not speak Arabic.

The guys at Sluicefox who make the product would be a lot more familiar with their own product......

@@ChrisRalph okay thank you for the information.

Yes, best of luck to you.

I am taking it that you mean the liquefaction bed in a jig. Jigs use steel shot and that is the best to use.

I have just been looking into panning as a hobby and have watched your videos for some time. I am talking about creating vibrations in a saturated mix of placer material and heavy sand. You could use vibrations alone or inject water from below. The purpose being to cause the solids to act like a liquid to facilitate stratification. Since gold comprises the heaviest particles they should sink to the bottom(unless they are small maybe). It seems that it could be made into a continuous processes. I have zircon sand, garnet sand and tungsten granules for testing purposes.

There is a device called a jig that does pretty much what you are saying with a liquefied bed. Google gold jigs and take a good look a the designs. Companies have been making them for over 100 years and they have the design pretty well set. They use a pulse of water coming upward, which is necessary to keep the bed liquid and not have it just settle and pack.

Yes that is the idea. Thank you

Tiny gold particles will float, but also easily sink. Hard to recover the gold that way.

@@ChrisRalph I found it quite unique in the process of a small gold pan with my material in it and a larger one toopoor the float off one little pad at a time it was time consuming the very effective I recovered almost all pure gold dust without any platinum or Black sands make sure you keep your pan wet if you're gold that you're floating hits a dry spot it will automatically stick to it it was interesting to see the outcome I will use that system again I do a lot of beach mining southern Oregon

Glad you enjoyed the video.

If it all floated with perfect reliability, yep that would be the way to go. But only some floats, and a lot floats for a while then sinks - a lot depends on the size and shape of the gold particle. Scientists have tried floating gold to recover it, but it just does not work reliably. Flotation is actually a common method to collect sulfide minerals which float better than gold. So great idea, its been tested and does not work very well for gold. But its used all the time for collecting sulfides.

Which weighs more - a pound of fine gold or a pound of nuggets?

@@ChrisRalph neither but the fine gold often has a greater purity.

Part 2 of this will be using the blue bowl centrifuge to catch really fine sized gold. Glad you enjoyed the video.

I was thinking of more like a medical centrifuge. Put the black sand in a heavy fluid like oil so it's suspended.

because of the density of the black sand, you find it almost impossible to get a fluid that dense. Glad you enjoyed the video.

No, its not smarter - there is a reason why no one does it your way, because it wont work. You have to concentrate the gold down to the point where its mostly gold. If you smelt raw black sand the gold will not come together onto a single piece, it will be stuck between the particles of solid black sand as a mess.

Which process are you talking about? I did a video on cyanide - it can be viewed at: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8uXh7SmqKu1nJ8.html

Sorry, no, I get many, many requests.

Congratulations.

Sure you do...

@@ChrisRalph somehow I don't think you believe her ;)

Its been tried and does not work very well.

check your system settings. Thousands have listened to this with sound.

Yes, garnet can be weakly magnetic, but normally not strongly magnetic enough that you can pick it up. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

It is recorded in mono and you are listening to the other channel in stereo. SO you are listening to the channel with nothing when the sound is on the other channel.

right.

the black sand will not smelt.

yes, when I send it to the refiner I use.

That is what I show in the video.

Worth cleaning up black sand if you get some nice gold.

I do not speak Arabic.

I am trying to be more dynamic in the videos and less deadpan. Glad you enjoyed the video.

I'd pan the black sand you remove just to test and confirm that you are not losing gold.

@@ChrisRalph I tend to hang on to the black sands, cons, ect , as I'm in the designing stage of a miller table - and I've built a sluice that i havent tested yet. So yeah, ultimately i will rerun Everything and acquire the answer to that question. So far it's all been panning in a river that doesnt have but flour gold and not much of that. Central Texas doesnt offer too many prospecting opportunities.

Glad you enjoyed the video.

I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

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