After watching the hard work that goes into mining and extracting precious metals like gold and silver, I understand why my old man always said that the stock market is the closest man has gotten yet to alchemy. Creating stupendous amounts of money out of thin air. Humanity always wanted it easy lol!

I really enjoyed this video. When I was young I learned that my great Aunt & uncle bought a silver mine out west and did pretty well. I think maybe Arizona, was a long time ago. I didn't know anything about silver mining till your video. Looked like Beau was enjoying himself. Thanks

Wow, the scenery is breathtaking ..like postcard material..love the shiny shiny...thanks for sharing!

The video is beautiful and the explanation is clear and the photography is classy thank you friend

Thank you for the demo. I recently took up this addictive hobby.

this is super helpful because I live in vegas and I'm surrounded by abandoned silver mines and my friends and I get really bored during summer break

Enjoyed watching. I like how that silver polished up. Thanks for sharing another great adventure you had with a couple great people and one awesome dog. Take care.

These are gorgeous tumbled and polished. Love the Celtic music too.

So cool! Everyone is looking for gold when silver is probably much more fun

Another great time out in the wilds. Very kool area. Thanks for sharing. Keep having fun. 🙏👍❤️🍺

Pioneer Pauly brought me here. Nice channel.

Always a knowledgable interesting show. Thx for sharing, shawn!

Always amazing adventures.

Very nice...enjoy your creations....the tumbling does the trick on silver rock for sure!

I read about how to make an industrial tumbler out of a rear axle of a big semi truck with the rims and tires in place. You want to cut an opening in the highest part of the rim to load rocks. The article said a cover is not needed but I always thought if I was going to do one I would have a hinged door sealed with inner tube rubber. The idea is to set up a motor geared down so the tires rotates slowly and all the rocks stay in the lowest part of the tire at all times tumbling over each other. Each tire can hold about 100 lbs of rocks and you have 4 tires going at all times each one with a different grit. Always use same tire for the same grit. You rotate the rocks once a week and you have a 100 lbs of polished tumbled stones each week. I have been wondering if you could use quartz sand as grit for the first stage to do the rough rounding off? I am posting this on all videos about rock hounding to spread the idea, if this is you channel and you do not like that let me know.

Nice hunt. Great specimens. Thanks.

Thank you so much for bringing us along!

I really like seeing metal & minerals attached in a matrix. Those are really cool finds. Super jelly!

So this is actually how to play minecraft in real life.

Man! That raw silver is beautiful! Great vid. Stay safe, enjoy yourself and please keep sharing. 👍

Wow that's a decent amount of silver you found. Such a cool place too !

Awesome silver! Thanks for the video!

Wow that's some neat looking specimens out of that tumbler. I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever get to locate a producing vein ? Awesome man Thanks for the video

Very cool video, thanks for sharing!

Loved watching your video, looks like a lot of fun. Stay safe, keep making videos!

so much heavy stone , gives me the Willys just being in those areas, like I can sense the weight, thanks for being such a great teacher ! be safe up there h.h.

Those rocks are mesmerizing.

Glad to see you hooked up with the chigg!!! Maybe you can teach him something or he can learn what a great miner you are!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

What a cool place! There is just so much to explore there. Is that open to the public, or did you need special permission to go there? It looks pretty dangerous.

Great adventure meMiner. The landscape looks a bit harsh but it's beautiful...and treacherous. Those specimens turned out NICE.

That's a fair amount of silver! Very nice!

That's a terrific video !! I really enjoyed seeing you and Daisy again - she is looking good. Greetings to the family, I hope you all are doing well !!

Mr.MeMiner Nice Tumblers you fine work!!!; )

The Chigg really gets around , he’s every where !

Great music choice for this video😀

NIce, especially that one with the white stuff on the top !

Super cool video!

That looks like so much damn fun. Why don't we have anything like that down here in Texas? Urrggh, damn Canadians with their free health care and free rockhounding.

I swore I heard drums from the depths after the rock hit the bottom

Loved the video! Gonna watch more later! Thanks and subbed

Too cool! At least I know I'm not alone, I'm always forgetting my something! Lol. Great video. Thanks for sharing

Awsome video, love the end results 😍

Awesome adventure sweet looking area daisy would have not liked that area wow some beautiful finds to fantastic be safe

Excellent specimens

Nice video,,, love the music at the end... which you well!

Lol! I got kinda dizzy when you tossed that rock in the hole. that natural silver is soooo beautiful tumbled out like that. great video man.

11:35 dude, there's definitely a skull-shape piece there! Awesome video man! 👍👍👍

The place looks almost medieval..Nice work mate

I love you, Chigg, Daisy! Cool video 👌😎👍

Wow! That's a awesome place, now I know why you and the Chigg were playing in the water that day in your truck, 😊 that silver came out beautiful. I shined up a peace of stone for my wife, because she likes the color of it, and it has a small vein of silver in it. It shines so beautiful, but she said I can't have it back now. Lmao I really enjoyed your video, and I hope you have a great day.

Good to see Chigs and Ty, too.

Very nice find

Love that place :)

Always enjoy your vids! Your easy, laid back attitude is relaxing :) hey, do you sell any of your nuggets? I'd sure like to buy one :)

I recently sold 5 bars of 5 kilos each...took me years working on my grandpas ranch to process silver in my family's ranch

Super cool!

Awesome video

Well that’s awesome to hear good daisy she is one smart dog

i really like this video

Great video, looks like a lovely place to spend an afternoon hunting 😃 I have a few pieces of dendritic silver ore with a little bit of pink staining on it, I guess it could be cobalt 🤷‍♂️

That's awesome!!!

Chigg & me miner out detecting silver! This is gonna be a good one!

There's this stuff called Dexpan Expansive Demolition Grout. You can drill a hole in the rock and put the stuff in. 24 hours later it should have expanded and broken the rock up for you. I have never used it but read about it. Also, you might invest in a demolition hammer. They make smaller electric ones. I'm looking at getting one myself.

Good job! Those the time you put into those specimens should fetch a lot more than the melt value of the silver. 👍

Nice cleanup

Wow! Just subscribed

Your working the chigg hard, he looks stiff...great vids, keep em coming!

Huge open stope.....cool!

Great hunt more Silver !!!!!! 👍

The Chigg! Hey meMiner, I finally sent you my edited video to your email. THANK YOU so much again!!

I Love Have Some Farming And Mining Business. Like Almond Orchard, Cherry Orchard, Lemon Orchard, And Orange Orchard. Like Copper Mines, Silver Mines, Gold Mines, Steel Mines, Graphite Mines, Lithium Mines, And Uranium Mines. Two Businesses I Will Have.

Another awesome video me miner! Is this colonial mine? Or someplace else

Great video, thank for sharing. When you find silver I broken rock you can always tell by feel.run your finger over the rock and there will be a catch. Like little barbs grabbing you skin.

That's awesome I want to do that too 😉

Shined up kinda nice , I like.

A essas coleção muito boa dessas Pera aí viu

Great video. So you have the "bo ty" team .lol have a good day.

😮OH!!! THIS LOOKS FUN!!! 😊

The great thing for the hobbyist is that, most mines aren't abandoned because there's no gold, silver, etc. left there. It's just that it's not "commercially viable". Again, for the hobbyist, this means *nothing,* because we don't have the overhead of a large operation! 😁

Great video what a amazing place. What is the best way to get the silver from the rock and to separate it from lead and zinc at home can it be done without using any chemicals.

Pretty neat.

I love the way silver looks Daisy told me she has a paw in the way silver shines but she wouldn't tell me how,,, ,,yeah.🤔

Do you know how rich those ore claims had to be to make it a profitable mine, before modern times. Nice stuff.

You have the best luck.

Hehehe more tips and tricks heheheeeeee oh my 😆 cheers mate

There is a big rock like this in my town but no one know how to do with it

Not much I can say about that really, some real beauties there, very impressive.

I LIKE!!!

This awesome place looks like Dark Castle of mighty ores king...

Cleaned up nicely, wonder how some copper ore would turn out.

That my friend is very very true I used to have a part job as animal control officer and got to see that

Re: forgetting your hammer and chisel, leaving behind good samples. You need to get back in touch with your inner MacGuyver.

Could you get an audit in an adit?

Is this mine every mountain

*garageband music intensifys*

Garimpar numa montanha dessa é uma verdadeira aventura aí vai o joinha do Francisco stones Brasil retribua se poder

what is the orange tester your using called, id never seen those before.

Background pipes?

Just found your channel! Interesting stuff, you're showing here! One question, from somebody living in Central Europe: Do you need any legal permits where you live, in order to be able to go metal detecting? Where I live, it's super regulated and unless you paid the state, there's nothing to do...

For getting that ore out you want a five pound sledge and a steel pin