You Won’t Believe How Much Gold is in the Golden Griffin Ore! Season 2, Episode 6

In this second round of Golden Griffin mine results, we take the concentrates from our recent hard rock mining trip and put them through the full smelting and cupelling process to see what the ore is really carrying. After scraping veins, sampling with the excavator, crushing hundreds of pounds of rock, running material across the shaker table, and panning out visible gold, it was finally time to find out what the Golden Griffin mine could actually produce. We start with multiple concentrate runs from different areas of the vein system, including the lower-grade first run, @Danhurd's panning concentrates, the larger number 3 concentrate run, and material from the alluvial drift. Each sample gets its own smelt, flux recipe, collector strategy, and cupel test so we can compare where the gold and silver are actually concentrated. Along the way, we work through the chemistry of lead, bismuth, galena, cerussite, sulfides, matte layers, slag, and precious metal beads. The real excitement comes from what we started calling “Dan’s Pocket.” That material produced a large precious metal bead from roughly 100 pounds of rock, suggesting a very rich section on the hanging wall. Even with silver mixed in, the numbers point toward serious gold values, with estimates reaching multi-ounce-per-ton potential in the better pockets. That is exactly the kind of result we were hoping to find on this trip. We also test the panning tailings to answer an important question: how much gold is locked up inside the sulfides rather than showing up as free gold in the pan? The results suggest there is still recoverable value hiding in the sulfide-rich material, meaning the Golden Griffin ore may carry more gold than casual panning alone would reveal. That has big implications for future processing, recovery methods, and whether the number three concentrates are worth rerunning or upgrading. By the end of the video, all the precious metal beads are melted together into one final button weighing 31 grams of gold and silver recovered from roughly 1,200 pounds of Golden Griffin rock. Based on the results, we estimate the overall vein could average around 1 to 1.5 ounces of gold per ton, with richer zones possibly running 2, 3, or even 4 ounces per ton. This was not just a cleanup video. It was a real test of whether the Golden Griffin mine deserves another trip, and the answer looks very promising. With high-grade sulfides, visible gold in slabs, strong smelting results, and more material still to process, the Golden Griffin is shaping up to be one of the most exciting hard rock mining projects we have worked on yet. Music in this video: "Trance Walk" by Lobo Loco, Free Music Archive, CC BY Check out our Shopify and eBay stores for ore, specimens, cabochons, and more from our mines: Shopify: https://mbmmllc.myshopify.com/ eBay: https://www.ebay.com/usr/mtbakerminingandmetals For more info please email or call: Email: info@MBMMLLC.com Phone: 360-595-4445 Website: http://www.mbmmllc.com/ Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/MBMMLLC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MBMMLLC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mbmmllc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MBMMLLC #goldmining #mining #smelting #goldrefining