Help On Ore Processing

[TheKID]

Hello everybody, I'm KC.

I have a lot of stuff to show you guys and hope somebody can help. I'm looking for somebody in the Washington area to process some ore for me. I have a silver gold and I believe Platinum. If there's anyone who can help that be great I really don't want to crush and go through any more of the process than I have to I'm willing to give a percentage of it to somebody for doing it or to sell them the ore altogether. Thank you, and I look forward to meeting you all

[jasong]

I don't see anything worth processing there, but pictures can be deceiving.

Lookup MBMMLLC (Mount Baker Mining and Metals) on Youtube, he's in Washington State. He manufactures commercial ore processing equipment, does assays, and does (or used to do) ore milling and refining. They might look at your stuff in person. But I wouldn't get your hopes up in terms of values there, unless there is something I'm not seeing in the photos. 

[RickUK]

Welcome onboard,must admit from looking at your images i cannot see it worth folks doing all the hard work for a very very potential small return....of course i could be totally wrong and hope you find someone who will take the job on for you,pure gut feeling tells me i could well be right in my assumption.

Good luck and hope you find the holy grail.

[rvpopeye]

I can't help IDing + processing those rocks but welcome aboard KC !

Good luck , hope you are about to be rich ! 😎 

 

[TheKID]

On 1/5/2024 at 3:39 AM, RickUK said:

Welcome onboard,must admit from looking at your images i cannot see it worth folks doing all the hard work for a very very potential small return....of course i could be totally wrong and hope you find someone who will take the job on for you,pure gut feeling tells me i could well be right in my assumption.

Good luck and hope you find the holy grail.

I understand my camera is really bad but the hours I'm showing melt without being crushed mostly silver but I have pulled some gold I'm just not very good at it I'm just trying to find somebody who will trade some work for a portion of what is recovered.

[TheKID]

On 1/4/2024 at 8:37 PM, jasong said:

I don't see anything worth processing there, but pictures can be deceiving.

Lookup MBMMLLC (Mount Baker Mining and Metals) on Youtube, he's in Washington State. He manufactures commercial ore processing equipment, does assays, and does (or used to do) ore milling and refining. They might look at your stuff in person. But I wouldn't get your hopes up in terms of values there, unless there is something I'm not seeing in the photos. 

Well I've already melted over an ounce of silver and about 3 g of gold from rocks that weren't even crushed first so I'm fairly certain there's a large amount of gold in these ores

[Steve Herschbach]

If you are getting that much gold then it seems it would be worth your while to keep at it. In any quantity you'd be making a fortune. However, I can't imagine anyone on these forums being interested based on the photos you are showing, so no point in starting any new threads about it. jasongs answer was about the best I think you will get here but if you wait maybe somebody will respond more positively.

[Gold Dust Ernie Jr]

1. You need a map.

2. You need a whiteout pen and india ink pen to put a number on your rocks.

Then GPS number where the rock came from, then put the rock number on your map and in your notebook with gps/and rock description and photo.

Other wise you will just have a box of very nice rocks and some very  nice rock pictures.

When you have your rocks assayed the (which is very expensive)... you will know where the best rocks came from (were they were picked up from). And their data set will be in your notebook.

To get the metal out of the rocks in the photo display they will have to all be crushed to powder (which is very expensive), then the metal will have to be chemically extracted from the powder.

All beyond the scope and ability of the weekend miner.  The rules and regulations prevent all small operators from developing new mining projects in most all of the 50 US States.

I would look for mechanically seperatable course gold in surface gravel instead that you can either sluce or dry wash to seperate from the host stratum and even at that we are all getting rulled and regulated out of business by the governments.

I asked the BLM in Wyoming if I could use a gas powered auger to drill 2" inch holes for my claim marker posts and they said no. No operating of mechanized equipment without a bonded permit.

[Redz]

1 hour ago, Gold Dust Ernie Jr said:

To get the metal out of the rocks in the photo display they will have to all be crushed to powder (which is very expensive), then the metal will have to be chemically extracted from the powder.

All beyond the scope and ability of the weekend miner. 

Not true. See all the posts on crushers people have made. There are also a range of them commercially available. It is not expensive to crush the rock even in reasonable quantity, just depends on whether the values are good

[TheKID]

5 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

If you are getting that much gold then it seems it would be worth your while to keep at it. In any quantity you'd be making a fortune. However, I can't imagine anyone on these forums being interested based on the photos you are showing, so no point in starting any new threads about it. jasongs answer was about the best I think you will get here but if you wait maybe somebody will respond more positively.

I don't want a more positive response. I know where to find Jason I'm going to take it to him personally so he can see what I have and I will bet a hundred on it he is amazed. Also what I have is known as Washington electrum