Silver Mining & Smelting Cerro Gordo Ore - Exploring an Abandoned Silver Mine & Refining Rich Ore

If you look up beta male in the dictionary that guy is standing right there OMG .....lol I've seen 10 year old kids swing a hammer better than that

Awesome

The mines I go to are some of the richest in the world. Upwards of 27,000 ouces of almost pure silver to the ton.

How can I buy some of your silver

whare do you get the Furness and how long does it take to make a Butten

Would it make sense to get a 500 gallon propane tank and hook up a permanent system for running your furnace? What is the cost per lb difference?

Nice stack of bars !!

You have to heat your molds up at least double hot

Should of used the bigger cone mold

The TM bar will be the most valuable:)

Love your videos. I do worry about you guys breathing in all that mineral dust. I know a respirator would kill the entertainment value of your narration, but what is that doing for your lungs...? Stay safe and may the precious metal gods smile on you!

Just think you too can buy an old ghost town like this guy for only one million five hundred thousand dollars just like him and play silver miner!

Not bad it dent go like explode on ya

It's mistake it's a mistake.. 😆😆

silver is not like led,you should pour it in one swoop not slowly like when you pour aluminum or led.

Weird rock in a mineralized area sounds good to me.

That pattern of molten metal cooling looks neat.

Thanks for the new journey

I googled Galena and read : Galena is toxic to inhale or injest. However you can handle the mineral safely if there is no lead dust present. It also said: if you were a mineral collector small amounts of Galena are okay if you store it in a case. Now I just watched you go down hundreds of feet surrounded by this stuff and enough lead dust to choke a horse and no breathing apporatice was used. Whats up with that ? What should I believe,? Really curious.. great show enjoyed every minute. Thanks.

I'm wondering if he checked in on time, as it seems like it is taking forever to get down there.

Zinc fumes very dangerous too as every welder knows about welding galvanized metal !

Next time, let the temperature get closer to the melting point of lead before skimming the zinc. You can always reheat the lead after skimming.

After the second melt -keep it hot longer, you had a lot of zinc left in the silver. It will make the cupel step go more quickly.

When using a cupel, isn't it standard practice to have the door open a bit and place the cupel(s) near the front door so you get oxygen into the oven to speed oxidation of the base metals?

I would love to see a keel made from the lead. I know it outs the least valuable mineral compared to the silver, but as a sailor and boat builder, I’d take the lead over the silver any day!

Duck shaped ingots!

I mean, if you have to then maybe but given the choice, nah. Mining is NOT for me. Even just watching this my chest is pounding and my skin itches. I admire and respect anyone who could do this with just ropes and a prayer. For want of a better word on this channel, flipping, scary as flip...thanks for the fear.

Lmao, way to go!!! You are awesome to watch....

Amazing you never find a metal pyramid lying around in the ground from the old days. One thing no smelter has ever left behind is a pyramid of precious metals.

So cool!

#44 will be the worth the most! Same as pennies and other coins with typos and defects!

Miner to old desert prospector "I need a huge air compressor hauled 7000 feet up a mountain....

Old desert prospector: I know a guy that found borax..."

Do you have a shop in the Belles Fair Mall?

Spray paint in 1935?

XD the TM bar will be worth the most ;)

Pretty sketchy mine work. Hearty bunch back 150 years

The start of the video could be the beginning of a great horror movie, hoist only way down, no other way up and out, Zombies take out the hoist operator and other things start slithering through the caverns, lol

Why don't you run a rope & pully to pull the ore up.

You need a Hammer about 2lbs not nail hammer!

The walkie should go with them.

What a great video. Very informative, excellent. That’s amazing that much lead out such a small amount of ore. If that’s what they for richer ore imagine what the old timers were getting.

I think your pour failed because the silver wan't hot enough. I use a metal mould with very little preheating and it works every time

WOW NICE JOB !! NEW SUB !!

Safety glasses? Definitely not professional.

Remembering the legendary ship that was hauling a load of silver across owens lake for shipment to LA capsised. The silver bars were never recovered. In mid 1980s someone got a permit to fly over the lake in a helicopter with metal defecting equipment looking to find the spot where the ship went down. To this day I don't know if he was successful. Interesting.

What that work out to? 2,000 grams Ag per short ton? That's actually really good.

Cool. Well done. Me Miner up in Canayda does ok with his silver. I bet you know his chanel.

Wrap it around so both