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so here's the game plan today so this is
a video i've been waiting to do for a
long time it's one i've probably been
the most excited about for a long time
so
i'll kind of walk you through what we're
doing where i'm at with things um
and hopefully what the end result is so
uh
and if you've seen these videos you've
you've heard me say this before plug
your ears
i gotta say it again it's a lot of new
people watch this so i'm way up in
northern minnesota northeast minnesota
um on the iron range is what it's called
so there's mines
all over up here so this is one of the
biggest steel producing mining areas
um in the country so these mines i mean
really what they're after is
is iron taconite i mean steel
essentially
is what they're after um and
next to these mines and within these
mines a lot of quartz veins
and quartz houses gold so that's the
goal
so minnesota gold so you never thought
you'd probably see that or hear that
but this what i'm going to show you here
holds true whether it's minnesota or any
any state or really any country anywhere
where you find
quartz okay so i'll show you here let me
show you what i'm doing so what i've
done here over the last couple probably
six weeks two months
um is i just kind of as i've been hiking
i've been
collecting quartz okay so
here's quartz if you're not familiar
with it it's a real a lot of times it's
like pure
white the pure white almost flaky type
of rock or mineral
okay what i'm really finding are a lot
of these dirty quartz that's what you
really want to find
some of these quartz if you look you can
i can actually see some pyrite in there
some fool's gold
and some other minerals hopefully some
gold sometimes you can even see
gold in the courts now how you have to
do this how you have to process it how
you have to find
the gold in it uh more silver um
whatever you're after because that whole
silver too
is you really have to crush this into
like a powder
almost almost like a flower or sugar and
then you have to
pan it okay so the problem with crushing
this that i've run into and i've already
tried i
sat through with a three pound mall on a
concrete slab and crushed this stuff
into a powder it's not too bad
but it's really time consuming okay so
the next level up
is you can buy a rock crusher that
attaches to like a dewalt grinder
or you can go the next level get a gas
powered crusher i mean these things get
huge you can spend thousands of dollars
on them but i don't want to do that
i'm in northern minnesota again if i
find a flake of gold i will be happy
so what i'm trying here is after
researching it online
not really finding an easy way to crush
this stuff without buying something
expensive
back in the mid 1800s to early 1900s i
found some articles
in australia where uh to process and
get gold out of out of uh quartz what
they would actually do
is they would heat this stuff up they
would create a bed of coals
and they would essentially turn this
stuff red hot and then it's supposed to
be easy to smash
almost like glass so what i'm gonna do
there's angel collecting some wood for
us um so what i'm gonna do
is i i got as an experiment i got two
different they're like
pie tins is what they are and i just
have one layer of quartz there
from one location this is another layer
of quartz from another location
so one i'm going to do for a half hour
what i'm going to do for an hour
and then i'll show you what you do uh
once you get that stuff red hot
um to to try to try and change it to
make it smash up easier
so i i will fill you in as we go here so
again i'm super excited we're gonna
smash these up by the end of the video
whether we have pyrite only black sand
gold silver whatever i can find out here
i'll show you so
well boo it's starting to rain on our
parade a little bit here
it's calling for about 14 chance of rain
but
might be a little higher winds kicking
up you can see it out there on the lake
or
the river i should say and it's just
gorgeous out here though
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okay so we're gonna see if we can find a
home for these i
got these tongs at a thrift store i
think there were two bucks
i think figured they'd come in handy for
picking rocks up and such so let's see
if we can find a home here for these
guys
getting some nice coals
the only concern i think i have is these
pans potentially burning through
i don't know so we're gonna do a half
hour on one
half hour on the other and let me get
the fire built up a little bit here
now i don't think i need to really be
too concerned about
any of the coals
actually going into in with the rocks
i think it actually might be helpful
because as i'm rinsing them or panning
it
those will that those coals and dust
will just simply float away so
i'm not concerned too much about that
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well it seems to be working so i look in
there and everything is just like
getting molten
red hot that's exactly what we wanted to
get so
look at this you gotta check this out i
don't want to get you too close and
melt the camera but if you look right in
there
you can see even if i'm flipping these
rocks and looking at the rocks
they're red they're actually
red and color reddish i just hope that
pie pin holds up and they don't it
doesn't get melted through the bottom
the other thing too i was kind of i
figured might happen
is um these quartz rocks i have heard
them popping
and i actually saw a piece of quartz
will flinging out out of the fire pit
so i'm assuming that there's some
moisture that's trapped in that quartz
that moisture is boiling and boiling and
it's cracking that quartz open
um and spitting out those those little
hunks of course so so just be wary of
that
i have glasses safety glasses on so i'm
fine but
sure it's cool to see isn't it it's just
red hot let's go look at the other side
yeah it's just molten in there molten
red
yeah i'm so excited man you know like i
said at the beginning here i've been
waiting to do this forever so i want to
pan this
find a bunch of gold so if you don't see
this video probably means i struck it
rich if you do see this video
i'm probably not but hopefully i'll have
a he's a golden
piece or two or at least some medals to
show you
yeah i can't wait man i'm stoked
angel thinks i'm nuts she kind of rolls
her eyes at me she's like it's stupid
no it's not man i want to check it out i
want to see what's inside those things
i'm going to try and see if i can find a
big piece of
of stone a big piece of bedrock
something like that except there's some
huge
hunks around here and see if i can use
my hammer and break them break them
apart on there if not i'll have to head
to the basement and
do it there and pan there i'd like to
kind of pan right there and get it all
all panned out but we'll see if the
weather holds
and i was going to try doing one pan for
a half hour one pan for an hour just to
see the difference but
i don't think so i'm gonna do them both
for a good hour it's just
once i pull a pan out i'm afraid i'm
gonna collapse that that nice coal base
and that fire i have going so
let's just do them both at an hour and
see what happens
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okay so here's the goal here's what
we're gonna do we have those two pans
i bought that at thrift store two for 14
bucks nice metal pot
so we're going to take one pan at a time
we're going to put it in there we're
going to bring it down to the water and
we're going to cool those off as fast as
we can so that's
that's the goal is to get them cool as
fast as we can and
you turn them to like glass i don't know
let's give it a try
this is how they did it in the olden
days
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some of these coals off
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let's see if i can get it in here with
them torching myself
oh look at how oh no it's melting and
coming apart
i might just have to do this yeah so
that cake pan
you ruined your thrift store i ruined my
cake
is hot
i think next time i'll for the next one
i'll ha ha ha
ha i ruined your big tan too i know
see the whole thing is just coming apart
i think i got them all here's one big
one
all right let's go cool these down
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yeah those are hot now what are they
gonna do when you put them in the water
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so i'm just trying to cool everything
down as fast as i can
and then that way too is sold some of
these rocks might split
so by keeping it in here anything that
splits still going to be in the bottom
of this pan
i'm just kind of almost using this as
like a bowl pan and just getting off
some of the
let's keep it cooling
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i can just hear a bubbling in there
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yeah see they're already starting to
shatter and break apart i can see
look at all the small pieces in there
problem i'm gonna have
is that when i'm panning i'm gonna be
seeing some of this metal in there so
that's a lesson to learn
it's the next time you use a thicker
metal i'm going to rinse this off in
case there's any
gold particles on there
i'll make sure and bring that home with
us
it'd be interesting to know so they're
cool to the touch
now oh they just break apart
oh yeah
yeah they just kind of shattered oh i
bet we can take the hammer to them
yeah well
let's go ahead and put the other one in
here see the thing is now is that with
the rock breaking apart like that
because of a crappy pan
i'm gonna have to mix the two batches
together all right that might make it a
little easier at least get some of these
big ones
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okay so we're all ready to go here so
here's where we're at let's take a look
so these are the clean rocks that we had
cooked
there is our cooked pan so as you can
see
i mean it just everything just got
mushed
it just turned to a lot of it just
turned to sand
so there are some still some metals in
there from that
pan that fell through that's okay i'll
pan that totally separate but i
did rinse these hunks of quartz off
so and they were they were breaking
apart in my hand look at that
just as i'm grabbing them so they should
be pretty easy to
get munched up all right let's start on
that
now you might lose some it might scatter
off
i'm okay with that wow man that breaks
up easy
so we need to get it to that wow that's
great
that definitely works i need to get it
that nice flowery
sugary granular consistency that is
awesome
night and day works no question
now we just have to do it on a larger
scale don't we
all right guys check this out this is
where i'm at so there's our product
right there but pan you got to see this
so this is just a big hunk of quartz
here i'm getting down there
all right so i'll just show you how much
easier let's let's do this
i got one handed so it's almost like
mushy clay it's like this quartz
actually sucks up the water and turns it
into this mushy clay which is
absolutely perfect and you don't have
pieces spitting everywhere and it's just
so
easy yeah so it definitely works
so i'm just cleaning up my last little
pile here make sure we get
every little piece
that's what we've ended up with that's
quite a nice haul
an amount of time spent compared to what
i was doing just crushing it with a
hammer i would say it's
gosh it's got to be ten to one faster
by doing it this way definitely so
really it's just a good way to test an
area to see if there's anything there
or in my case i'm in minnesota just to
test to see if there's any gold in
minnesota
so let me finish cleaning this up head
to the house um
like i keep saying it's supposed to rain
it's been sprinkling so we might have to
pan this in the basement all right so
let me finish cleaning this up and we'll
be back in a minute
all right so let's give this a whirl so
we're learning together here i'm a
flatlander man i'm from minnesota
not exactly known as the best gold
panner in the world but hey man i'm
having a ton of fun so this is the part
i've been
waiting for forever and ever
and ever and ever and ever so there is
what we're gonna pan
so i'm going to did put some jet dry in
there i see
everybody puts jet dry in there and
their water when they're doing it like
this
helps to keep
flanks of gold from floating out of your
pan so i'm gonna get this
nice nice and wet
get everything settled down so the goal
is to keep all the heavies
uh to the bottom like black sands or
gold or silvers or any metals pyrite
get the heavy settled out of that quartz
dust and then pan off
let's see where we end up there's about
50 million ways to skin a cat
panning gold there are a lot of you that
can do way better than me but man this
i i i can't wait i want to see what we
got here
it's now in minnesota from what i've
read
i mean a large piece of gold in
minnesota historically
is about the size of a grain of rice
right our grain of wheat so we're not
gonna be expecting anything
huge so we're just looking for some
maybe gold flowers some gold dust
whatever we can get huh
come on
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you guys suppose you get the more you do
this the faster you get
just like anything else but hey man i'm
learning
i love to learn it's what makes me keep
doing this channel
it's constantly doing new things right
big rocks in there
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don't see much
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nothing nothing nothing nothing it's
okay
all right here we go
pan number two by looking at this you
know
seeing some of it seems kind of big
i could have pounded it down further
right you could even classify it you
know run it through a classifier and
get those bigger pieces down a little
bit more
people are probably yelling you're doing
it wrong
you're losing all your gold maybe you're
right
still having fun
see anything
and i painted my pant and i panned and i
panned and nothing but it is minnesota
so i
didn't totally expect to find anything
um
although i do have a bunch more quartz
back in here
i can play around with i think i have
about a half of a five gallon bucket
left too
so um i'll pan out this little bit that
i do have left i
am not holding my breath or anything uh
that's okay we know that quartz can
easily be broken up if you heat it up at
to an extreme temperature
um maybe i'll get lucky next time i do
this so
i don't know hit subscribe this is the
type of content that you
like to see um we'll see you guys in the
next one