Small time recreational Colorado gold miner here... This video was impressive. Thank you.

After washing, the solid precipitate is basically composed of Gold (Gold compounds to be more exact) and other possible metals which present in oxide formation. Since borax tends to dissolve most metal oxides easily in its molten state, Gold particles will eventually sinter into a whole and separate itself from the slag containing impurities. The received gold is not entirely pure and needs further refinement to reach higher degree of purity.

omg ty so much for translating english to english for me. you are on another level!

I put my crushed ore in a bucket with water as the ore flows in, I hit the sides, bottom and in the middle with a concrete vibrator. When the bucket is full, I put a 30 - 40 mesh over the bucket, then flip the whole thing onto a piece of plywood. allow a few minutes for the excess water to run off, then pull the bucket up. Beautiful gold waiting for you. The vibrator runs about $80 at harbor fright with a 20% off coupon.

Use a Frensel lens from an old tv or projection device. It is a large magnifying "glass". The solar circle can reach 3,000 degrees f if focused or the circle size can be increased reducing the temperature to the required level. The sun is free, generally available and environmentally friendly. It reduces labor costs by settingit up to run every day when the sun passes over. It can be readjusted many times a day for more production. It is lite and completly portable.

i used both borax and mercury when im still a gold processor,i feel my body was slowly sick bec. of mercury,after many years i have left my work after 12 years and i feel that my body is not healthy anymore.. mercury is for extracting gold,borax is only used when your processing or cooking the gold

I like & appreciate that you are concerned with the health and welfare of the workers. For that reason alone, I thank you !

Thank you, the people in Honduras need this, they dump tons of mercury in the rivers, such a disaster...

Looking forward to trying this out. Thank you for sharing!

Pure Genius Thank You for Helping Mankind to Think!

This is awesome. It's like watching something out of the 19th century, AND it works.

Thanks for correcting me. The main reasons are still removing impurities and stopping the evaporation of fine flakes of gold

Awesome and interesting video! Instead of wasting time trying to constantly harass and stop these people from mining (which doesn't work), this video is educating miners from all over the world to use a safe method of extracting the gold! We need minerals - can't "throw the baby out with the bath water, man!" And I'm going to link it to my website

I was familiar with the use of Borax as an agent in Capelling. This is good information for some of the DIY crowd to keep them away from trying other more dangerous methods, Bravo....

safest way for our people, we need this in uganda.

I started watching 12/02/2019, and it was awesome,, I'm a Miner too,, proud to be a Filipino,😎

Awesome work in both subject matter and production, an inspiration.

Amazing short film! And very interesting!

Thanks for a very interesting video. Great share for me. I subbed to your channel.

Way to go....check your holes and theres gold under the iron trash too.

This is a good method. It is a type of smelting. I am a small California miner and assayer. WHen they get enough money they should buy a small concentrating table and eliminate the panning step. Thanks for teaching this method to the miners.

Those new magnets they have that stick to gold priceless .

Wow nice.....Thanks Josh

I'm a miner and I'm proud of it..

Very Nice , Thank You for sharing as I want to try extracting Gold for myself...

for purification, it works a treat! iv had gold with steel impurity (i picked up the soft melted gold button with pliers and some welded to the cooling gold) i gave it two more melts with borax and a blowtortch (MAPP Gas) and could watch as it melted and then blew off/away the impurities and left a beautiful gold. the borax clean will leave the gold visibly brighter, than when in its native form with Iron and Silver impurities. for very fine gold i take my time with a pan. even without a magnet i pan down to just gold. its not hard, just takes time and patience. Mercury will catch the very small and microscopic gold but how much $$$ is that micro gold worth vs how much $$$$$$$$$$$$ will illness cost to treat (plus as they say, contaminated environment for generations to come)

Good idea! I know a little about borax (very little) but I'm googling now - before the price of borax starts inflating.

Right on you guys thanks alot it's good to feel good 😊

This is a very well documented video on using "Borax" . I think everyone knows about Mercury poisoning but I wonder how many knows about harming the environment ? This video could possibly save some environment. I know the dangers of Mercury, even a few you didn't disclose but didn't know the Borax process. Again, Thank you ever so much.

(,") I agree with you cords mist, as a i am too a smale scale pocket miner, the mercury and borax are used in two separate ways. Before mercury came, we used that old technique of gathering gold dust' but takes time. Then came the Mercury which made gathering the golddust much easier. I thought i was gonna see a different type of technique, but its still the same type used by our forefathers.

VERY COOL IDEA-THANK YOU

a great method easy and inexpensive 😊😊😊😊😊

very interesting. Thank you.

Borax used when smelting helps stop gold going up in smoke .

I have been mining gold in Ca. since 1960. Worked with Mercury over the years, No health problems, Yet!

Very good! Thank you.

Good stuff.I do this as a hobby in the holidays.only get flour where I go and use a blue bowl for final concentrates then melt with borax

I have a hand crank forge, wonder how well it will work for this application.

This is how you get people to switch. Show them there are less downsides and more upsides.

Many thanks for your video.

Very nice. Thank you for sharring

so the round barrel rotates, its mixing the borax and the gold bearing materials together, when you run it across the felt carpet and it leaves the gold and other metals behind, the carpet is washed off, then they pan the material to get the gold. did i understand the process correctly? at no time was mercury used in this process correct?

Many, many, many years ago, I used borax and high heat to concentrate lead recovered from car battery plates. I found collecting wheel weights was more efficient until wheel weights were modified so that they don't fly off of rims as easily as they did 50 years ago. The lead was used to make fishing weights. That was just one of my one million hobbies.

I think we are moving in the right direction but more research is required.Please continue to help pave the way for a mercury free mining environment. Thumbs up but I do have some questions.

Nice video. Thank and thumb's up bos...

Is this taken from the philippines?

Man, I just can't get enough of that background music!

How much soap do you use? what do you grind it with and for how long?

wow... I love how they dubbed over the workers... whom are all speaking in English..

What if the gold is mixed with other metals? Like lead or iron, what would borax do it how to use it then

i love this video.

Most enjoyed the adventure in borax ...

You are absolutely correct. Interesting how this video received so many likes, apparently no one who watched it actually had any hands on gold mining experience.

Good video mate,

Very effective and more safety for human and Enviroment.

Tq for valuable information

Wonderful Video. I have a question. What material comes into the gold process to separate? How to separate the gold from Arsenic? I have over 1000 tons of arsenic with gold content!!! I am happy if someone is in the position to help me out! Thank you.

thanks for your time,explaining borax uses for gold recovery,do you have anymore information about the subject?

Wow.! awesome...will this borax method work for pgms as well? I have platinum, gold, rhodium,palladium, and iridium. It's already milled to 500 mesh and I have 8 tons already milled. 100 lbs is processed and ready for the fire?

Very interesting.

Which clay and who provide this For other people.

What about LEAD? It’s heavy too.

well i guess this skill would be good if i was planing on moving back to a forest of some kind. come to think of it, can this set up be done in regular neighborhoods with city dirt? the sun shines every where u know...

Can this mining technique als be used for gold mining in the Amazon basin?

how do u use borax and gold flakes and it turned black with little gold flakes in it why?

Obsolete would indicate that mercury is no longer a viable method, redundant indicates that a better method makes using mercury unnecessary. You can still use mercury, therefore it is redundant, not obsolete. A computer that is so old it doesn't run modern software is obsolete. Having a faster computer makes having a slower one redundant. Besides, it's really just a difference between british and american colloquial english.

There was never a need to use borax in any part of this video, it will not get you "more gold" you will actually have less in weight when you smelt it with borax flux however the gold will be purer than using mercury.

thank you

Tnx a lot!

Providing that proper procedures are used, Mercury is both safe and environmentally friendly... In fact Mercury will remove any natural or transient Mercury is comes across, thus increasing your Mercury supply...

Using Borax as shown will only remove "oxidized" impurities. It will not "refine" gold to a pure state by removing alloyed metals mixed with the gold. Borax or boric acid will both produce the same results.

I don't think they are trying to sell borax, which is plentiful and cheap ($2 or $3 a lb at most). This process only uses a couple of ounces for what looks like a fair amount of ore concentrate. In this case the borax is just being used as a flux -- it is used in this role in blacksmithing for making forge welds (and works well). Borax is also a popular home cleaning agent. I don't think it is at all dangerous as long as you don't eat it -- unlike Hg which is just nasty stuff in any form. :)

Fantastic

Wow!!!! so many uses for plain old 20 mule team borax. great to keep insects out of the house too and great in the tub for inflammation. can also be taken internally.

Thenkyo very good 🌹🌹🌹

Excellent stuff.....I teach the borax method to my miners however I teach them to conduct gold smelting in closed cycle and not with open blow torches and charcoal. Supply me your video and I will supply you mine....Cheers.

borax is used to cook a extracted gold from the gold ore,mercury is used to exract gold from the gold ore by mixing it to the ballmil

Great information. Thank you.

Using Borax can reduce the melting temperature required to make the gold pool together. This is true with forging steel as well...if you want the metal to melt and adhere to itself easier...requiring less time and less fuel from the blow torch.

Sir were your location, in the phillipines or outside ph?

Seems to be the answer, may have to try this myself...

I love seeing how other people solve their problems. Did you see his rock crusher? That's genius.🙂

WHERE MINING CLAIMS CAN STILL BE STAKED (MORE PLACES THAN MOST THINK) While the Bureau of Land Management has raised the cost for filing a mining claim, it is not necessarily an entirely bad thing for the prospector and would-be claim staker. It cuts down a lot on frivolous filings and opens up a lot more land to prospecting. Unless withdrawn for recreational or other withdrawals, mining claims can filed on Forest Service and Bureau of Management land and even on private land that was homesteaded under the Livestock Grazing Homestead Act. Claims cannot legally made in National Parks or Monuments or in Wilderness Areas or Wilderness Study Areas. While most of the land available for potential mining claims is in the western States, the list of States where it is possible to do so includes several others. According to the USGS, most of the lands available for claim staking are in the following States: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Mining claims can also be filed on State land in Alaska. www.amazon.com/Complete-American-Gold-Prospectors-Handbook/dp/1535221070/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+complete+american+gold+prospectors+handbook&qid=1582312267&sr=8-1

Borox is used to remove fluoride storied in the bodies i heard, but very very very small amounts used I'm talking 1/4 tablespoon through a day mixed in water. Borox is not the same as Boric Acid.

the interesting information,here, for me, would be: looking at the nugget he obtained (looks clos to 1oz) how many hours of work and how much stone extracted and ground to dust??

carpet rinsing seems lossy. be nice if there were a way to spin rinse them.

the borax wasent used for the extraction just the smelting/refining part. the title is missleading

1.Health and safety first for all the miners. 2.Health and safety.first for mankind and humankind. 3.Health and safety first for our environment. 4.Health and safety first for the Flora and fauna. 5.Health and safety first for our planet earth NOW. 6.Create the wealth and share it too. 7.Enjoy the fruit of your labour.

at the grocery store, in the aisle where laundry detergent is. It's a green box with "BORAX" written on the front.

Without a flux most of your Gold will actually evaporate away. Also borax will make the Gold purer by removing many impurities. They must sell their buttons at a local market for the best price, because a good refiner would take the gold straight from the pan and pay you according to the values in it, minus the refining fee..

Small scale minning is a hard job, i work in that place before

Right on the money

Infornative

Ordinary table salt is toxic at high levels. Do you not understand what an ld50 is? It means thats the level at which it kills. Borax ld50 is higher than table salts. What it basically means is borax plenty safe as long as you aren't eating half a pound at a time. Reasonable amounts as a supplement or in a food are fine. Boron is a trace mineral that is actually very important for the body. Boron is like many other necessary nutrients. Fine in small amounts but larger amounts are an issu

nice video

what's the chemistry behind it?

Take Peter Appel's word for it, he's a "Borax Expert"

nice PSA

the Art of Respect,thanks! Redding Califonia

Maybe they could just get modern mining equipment and even just modern pans. We have a 95% capture rate. Even just new matting