Struggling Mine Was Cleaning By Hand AND Throwing Gold Away | Gold Rush: Freddy Dodge's Mine Rescue

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Жыл бұрын

Freddy comes to the rescue at this mine that isn't even close to breaking even, and he quickly sees several fixes that can be made, including making sure gold doesn't get left behind in the first step of the mining process.
From season 1 episode 4.
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@wbwright79 Жыл бұрын

Freddy's knowledge is worth millions. Still he would rather help others succeed than fill his own pockets. Few like this left in today's world, truly.

@OutsideHuman Жыл бұрын

Finding gold is finding gold, it doesn’t belong to anyone of us 😁

@williamwest5079 11 ай бұрын

He's getting paid off the show. It's a spinoff

@thegary6023 Жыл бұрын

Just like in the old gold rush days the people that sell the equipment are the ones who get rich.

@danielweston9188 Жыл бұрын

and "ideas"

@PrattsDrywallPaintCo Жыл бұрын

I wish these were longer and showed more of the work that went into fixing it and getting it to where it is now

@uwillnevahno6837 Жыл бұрын

How is it these guys don't think to do these basic troubleshooting efforts on their own? They've been doing this for yrs at this site w/o any idea they should monitor the various steps in their process and check their sluice for level and its angle?

@johncuervo3019 Жыл бұрын

Its all for show

@bobroberts2581 Жыл бұрын

Because that’s what the script required?

@bif24701 Жыл бұрын

Well it’s how some people become rich and other well, you know

@ryanreedgibson Жыл бұрын

It must be easy to get tunnel vison when mining.

@Tagerrun Жыл бұрын

It’s what happens when you make your money in a different field and don’t get the right help

@Starrmiller Жыл бұрын

Awesome job Freddy & Juan

@commercialelectrician133 Жыл бұрын

More Freddy and Juan videos

@BigKeithDog Жыл бұрын

Might as well re run the tailings.

@danielweston9188 Жыл бұрын

for sure!!!! At least the bottom half . . .

@urnotfromvictimville2543 Жыл бұрын

This is when someone who knows nothing about mining starts to mine.

@edsloan8535 Жыл бұрын

Hobby miners with commercial gear is usually a bad idea.

@robertearhart8349 Жыл бұрын

Ya, money and no experience

@evandawkins4805 Жыл бұрын

@@robertearhart8349 nah bro no money and no experience and no brain's

@jiminatorx Жыл бұрын

@@evandawkins4805 buying abandoned equipment from previous guys with no money, no experience and no brains

@Fastxfords99 Жыл бұрын

@@edsloan8535 my thoughts exactly 💯

@lnr12241 Жыл бұрын

Freddy is the man. It's not what you know it's who you know lol in this case it's both

@PeteThecurious100 Жыл бұрын

That was interesting entertainment ;) Appreciate the miners letting us see... A lesson for would-be miners; pan, pan, and keep test panning.

@jk-76 Жыл бұрын

Gotta learn sometime. I am hopeful seeing people who may not know much give it a shot.

@mary-ruthflores4107 Жыл бұрын

Why aren’t you using a Miller / Finishing table?? Are you going to run the tailings again to get what was lost?

@fullpushmetals6711 Жыл бұрын

Keep Pushin!

@breckfreeride Жыл бұрын

If Freddy sets it up it will work. Leveling is important, still didn't look like it was level

@DrDeez69 Жыл бұрын

Why do they always let the guy with the most shaky hands, count the gold? Stressing me out.

@tobereed Жыл бұрын

Alcoholic shakes

@mikes252 Жыл бұрын

The saddest part is these guys are bankrupting themselves scratching in the dirt in the middle of nowhere for less money than working at walmart. $500 bucks for 24hrs work for 2 guys is like $10 per hour.

@Seedyrom247 Жыл бұрын

Yep. A classic side effect of gold fever.

@justinklaassen7190 Жыл бұрын

I know im not the greatest at math but they said 1.44 ounces worth around 2.5k in todays terms. 2,500 x 5 = 12,500 a week or 50,000 a month. Operating cost was around 1k a day, im assuming thats just his costs of fuel/etc not labor. So that leaves 7,500 a week in profit to split however, or 30,000 a month. Now im not sure how many guys it actually is taking to run this operation but it seems decent money just not get rich quick money?

@shannonp4037 Жыл бұрын

@@justinklaassen7190 That is after the fix. Before the fix is what was referenced.

@naikvanderW Жыл бұрын

FREDDY THROW SOME electricity through the water before the flowing .

@blakedurham3241 Жыл бұрын

Awesome scripts

@danieltello1179 Жыл бұрын

Only Freddy And Juan!!!❤️😳🪙

@avgjoeshow4208 Жыл бұрын

Why did they let the shakiest person weigh the super fine powder gold

@ge2719 Жыл бұрын

$20 of gold, gone with the wind :p

@breckfreeride Жыл бұрын

Lol blue bowl setup is great for small stuff.

@JohnMac3837 Жыл бұрын

Guys need honest gold pricing. Get rid of central bank price manipulation.

@franciscojuarez4749 Жыл бұрын

You're the best Friday

@kevinmiller5467 Жыл бұрын

4:13 "We need 300% more gold to stay in business" "I can help you get 10% more or 1/30th of what you need" "Ok lets do it!"

@bobbruan1413 Жыл бұрын

Is there any new videos, this has been shown a long time ago 😄

@samroberts8365 Жыл бұрын

Yeah the boys!

@nicholasdial8213 Жыл бұрын

Hope it works for them

@yessir7147 Жыл бұрын

even the hoffmans do better than 0.2 oz. cmon guys

@willpgarrett2940 Жыл бұрын

I wish I had these 2 Dudes in 1995 in N.M. at my dig site. Took me 16 months to break even. Then I effin quit. Too hard for little pay.

@tsumbonethamba5672 Жыл бұрын

You can't use Dence medium concentrators for fine gold

@mattashford3508 Жыл бұрын

I would not be cheering with that result I would be crying at the wasted time and money prior to the fix.

@tracysellman1562 Жыл бұрын

Matt Ashford, I hear ya buddy, but it is still there they just need to rerun all their tailings pryer to Freddy and Juan's fixes. I would just mix it in with the new material.

@Tagerrun Жыл бұрын

I mean the old guys just an employee he’s happy to be making a pay check again 😂. The owner was not happy lol

@danielweston9188 Жыл бұрын

why weren't they checking the tailings everyday????

@qwerty112311 Жыл бұрын

Why cry about things you can’t change?

@stuartbeard966 Жыл бұрын

You can't look back you can only look forwards.

@builderpj Жыл бұрын

Gold mining is common sense. Which is why it's so hard for most

@rickeybaker1610 Жыл бұрын

Freddy and company they know what they're doing

@Stevesbe Жыл бұрын

I thought Australia was full of gold

@ToIsleOfView Жыл бұрын

Great work. Raw gold is not worth $3,000 dollars. This gold has to be refined into 24k boulion. That costs money. I would be supprised if a refiner would give $1500 for this amount.

@korgothkillings2032 Жыл бұрын

Spoon man come together with your hands

@SephBane Жыл бұрын

Save me with your cleanup table.

@jerrywelch1370 Жыл бұрын

Freddie & Juan for PRESIDENT & Vice President 2024👍👍👍

@matthewwilkes8054 8 ай бұрын

Id be putting the tailings back threw

@glentreasure2466 9 ай бұрын

There you go you can wait a year later next season and go back and see how all these guys are doing on every video. See if they’re making money now.

@jeffkoehne4852 Жыл бұрын

A Miller table needed

@donwright3427 Жыл бұрын

Stonehaven eyewitness decide

@NobleViking4 Жыл бұрын

It's a tablespoon, not teaspoon.

@sunshinevalley0 Жыл бұрын

Why can’t you just get glass jars and shake the glass jar and look at the bottom

@DTGTDetectingTheGoldenTriangle Жыл бұрын

Haha I get more gold than they do in a clean up in one day detecting if not more 😂 and that's just me a pick and a detector

@kelly916 Жыл бұрын

$2 a litre fuel yep I’d take up fishing

@__-bz7wh Жыл бұрын

Ok so just re-run all the tailings. ????

@ge2719 Жыл бұрын

Well his screen has been taking gold with it too so he needs to re run everything that's was ran already. Meaning running it all the first time was a waste of money and he's got to pay those overhead costs all over again.

@joetuktyyuktuk8635 Жыл бұрын

You would think, dealing with gold that fine that adding a biodegradable soap into the run, to lower the water tension might pay off.

@LD-mu4eg Жыл бұрын

with the amount of water being used i think that would end up costing more than it benefits.

@joetuktyyuktuk8635 Жыл бұрын

@@LD-mu4eg True they aren't getting that much to begin with, but we are talking about a couple of drops per gallon here... given the fineness of the gold, it might be worth a try.

@ge2719 Жыл бұрын

If it's super fine gold held onto of the water by surface tensions then could they not divert the top cm or two of water off at the very end, send it off I to a barrel then then empties back into the cycle from the bottom. That way all the gold stays at the top of the barrel, eventually it would build up, maybe get one of those circular rotating separators that pulls the gold upwards off the surface. I'm sure there's options beside surficant.

@Mavstang73 Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry but having the guy with shaky hands panning your concentrate just doesn't seem like a great idea. My hands aint what they used to be either. So I try to avoid things that require high precision movements.

@russell7489 Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry they know how to pan gold but didn't bother panning their tailings. Don't deserve to be saved. Yeah I'm tough, it's why when biz decided I was too old at 50, I was able to survive.

@Nightowl_IT Жыл бұрын

Maybe switch to solar and electric machines it can lower costs but with a high up front cost.

@tsumbonethamba5672 Жыл бұрын

Cyanide leaching

@toejamr1 Жыл бұрын

I know these shows are 100% scripted but still fun to watch for some reason

@shannonp4037 Жыл бұрын

Seems many miners are penny wise and pound foolish. They all should get professional advice before wasting a ton of money.

@Eddi3xBac0n Жыл бұрын

All fake

@NoTaboos Жыл бұрын

Why don't they just get real jobs.

@Indian0Lore Жыл бұрын

Mining is a real job

@NoTaboos Жыл бұрын

@@Indian0Lore It's not mining. It's opportunism.

@ro-robican2762 Жыл бұрын

Sorry I make $400 a day on 10 hr shift easy construction. This is shameful

@theexperiment8498 Жыл бұрын

Worst acting

@anubis7630 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely stupidity I make 10k on gold yet puts zero money into equipment...

@danielfilkins1785 Жыл бұрын

Two words only Jet-Dry.. now why are these idiots even out trying to mine gold?

@ge2719 Жыл бұрын

You going to buy a metric ton of jet dry?

@rodeoclownobama5796 Жыл бұрын

the main problem is peter

@moist5717 Жыл бұрын

I've got some Peter for ya👍🏻

@whatyousaidbud Жыл бұрын

So one minute they need $1000 per day to break even, then $250 is half what he needs????

@jasonpatterson8091 Жыл бұрын

They said that they needed 1/2 oz per day, about $1000, to break even. They got about 1/4 oz (0.26 or 0.27, I can't recall), so about half of what they need.