Mining A Silver Mine For Gold! Cerro Gordo Exploration and Adventures!

It’s not about the size of the button, it’s about the adventure… that’s what my lady tells me anyway. 😂 Love the collab with you all you guys. Great content!

That gold rides an iron horse and wears an iron hat so the redder the better is how an old timer explained it to me 50or so years ago. Liking your channel, I'm too old and weak to chase it anymore so I live through you young bucks. Good luck it's just a foot farther in there.

Gold looks like it's going big this year. I really want to profit from it this year. I have about $240k I want to invest. My brain doesn't do very well in understanding these things. How do I go about it?

Interesting results. The spongy stuff was likely pyrite that fully oxidized. Not all sulfide minerals oxidize at the same rate. Pyrite oxidizes faster and more readily than galena and a lit of other sulfides. The high grade gold reported in some of the materials Brent had were likely pockets of rich gold that were uncommon at Cerro Gordo.

Absolutely loving your channel Jason!! Too cool too see you now!! 5 years ago watching you, allll the way to now. Epic Jason:)

The old timers did a good job of finding almost everything. They didn’t leave much.

I'm with Dan, to hell with being underground! Maybe in my younger healthier whole bodied days, but I'm old fat and crippled! Have always been fascinated with old school mining. Some tough old bastards.

Hello from Montana!! Thanks for all the information and your adventures Jason. The materials at Sero Guordo are so different than here in Montana. Dan’s explanation of the metal detector will potentially help me pass up all the nails, wire and pull tabs😂. Keep up all these amazing videos, we all respect your hard work and skills. I have access to a 300-400 foot (maybe taller) wall of brecciated/conglomerate in proximity to an old volcanic zone. I located it while mountain climbing. It’s remote yet accessible by old abandoned, closed roads and some bushwacking, not unlike one of your older videos. Much of my samples will probably need to be obtained while rappelling or ascending climbing ropes. After sampling I’ll need to begin with understanding the basic principles of beginning a portal in such material. One of my initial discovery samples, taken at the wall’s base, shows promise!😮

2:02:06 Don't forget to reinstall the cover on the terminal box of the electric motor.

Jason, tell Brent he needs to buy one of your crushers !!

1:59:59 You missed out on the nails, but you also missed that old Colt 1873 SAA buried in the dirt.

58:21 😂 Dan sitting in his favourite Pinkerton hat, just like an old timer... hilarious. If he’d have had a candle and turned off all the other lights... he’d have given us all quite a ghostly fright! 😂 😄

Death Valley is one of my favorite places. Been to Cerro Gordo 3 times now. I am looking to get up there again in late March or April depending on weather.

Hey all, .... love the collab's, sub to all three of you, morning Jason.

Fyi: mining from the top down in a underground stope to a haulage audit (purposeful collapsing above) is called blockade mining.

I've been looking for this for over a month, thanks, finally hopeful good outcome !

He should put emergency provisions and extra ropes at certain points inside his mine if some things should go wrong one day.

Wow. Looked into a caretaker job at Cerro Gordo in '86, wound up being a single father and had to give it a pass. Had been working at Bodie, had to leave after the woman ran off screaming through the sagebrush. When the Long Valley quake went off in '86, the Lent shaft gave up a big puff of dust. Given the history of quakes on the east side of the Sierras, you guys are nuts for going down that mine. Hope you do strike it rich in there.

You guys have some admirable enthusiasm for exploring this old mine but you’re crazy going in there under all that unsupported loose rock where there’s clear evidence of numerous recent rock falls. Stay safe guys.

I'm so very grateful to you, Jason for making more collabs* with your pursuit of the good stuff. I also enjoy your host, Brent @ Ghost Town living. making one very adventurous recon for what could be a potential new use from an old mine. Very cool! On with the testing !