Do you need an 1oz/Ton of Gold to be Profitable? "No"

Añadido: 2026-05-30

[00:00:01]Welcome to the channel. Today we're going to talk a little bit about do you have to have an ounce a ton to make a profit?

[00:00:11]And uh also I'd like to show a little bit of what the old-timers went after and things like that. So uh let's uh get into it.

[00:00:23]Okay.

[00:00:24]So we're talking about profit and gold.

[00:00:28]All right. Um, here's a uh graph that shows what high-grade, lowgrade ore, and things like that actually is.

[00:00:54]Okay. So according to that high grade ore is actually what 5 g plus per ton.

[00:01:00]Pretty crazy, huh? And another thing is that like um me doing this whole gold thing when I first started out like a lot of the things I heard was just constantly ounce a ton, ounce a ton, ounce a ton, ounce a ton. And and then when I started doing the research on the place, it's like on the old-timers and stuff, they didn't even really worry about an ounce a ton.

[00:01:25]What they really worried about was an average of an ounce a ton. And what I mean by that is you see this vein right here. There's places in this vein that is the average of this vein is half ounce a ton. There's places in this vein that's a little bit over. There's places in the vein that's a little bit less. But the whole average of this thing is a half ounce a ton at the average. That means when they blew it out, all of this at an average/ ounce a ton and they tore this place up. So, pretty wild, huh? Let me show you another example.

[00:02:02]One more thing before I leave here on this vein here. Uh the average was a/ ounce a ton and then once they got underground, they were hitting shoots that were like 5 oz a ton. So that did help, but they didn't know it was going to be there. They just happened to run into it. So it's not like they came out here looking for an ounce of ton and found it. Okay, let me show you guys another example real quick.

[00:02:30]Okay, here we are at another vein.

[00:02:32]As you can see, there's here and then it quits here. And if you go down in here, there's another vein right in there. But this whole thing is only a half ounce a ton. the whole thing. There's no hot spots underground. It stays half a ton all the way down. And they got thousands and thousands and thousands of tons out of here. And that's another thing is tonnage is very important. If they didn't have the tonnage to pull out of here, the mine ain't even worth messing with. But like I said, you can see across through here. It stops here. Then you come down through here and there's another vein as you can see right in here.

[00:03:15]But the whole thing is a half ounce a ton.

[00:03:18]There's no hot spots in this, nothing.

[00:03:20]And they dug it. There is no ounce a ton anywhere near this. Pretty wild, huh?

[00:03:27]Let me show you one more example.

[00:03:29]All right, I'm almost to the area, but check this out. Nice, beautiful, thick green trumpet plant.

[00:03:37]Pretty cool, huh? Well, there's a cave right up here.

[00:03:42]And inside this cave is a bunch of stringers. Well, not a bunch, but a couple.

[00:03:48]And uh on my way back here, I'm going to put up a uh piece of document from back then, back in the I think it's from like 1908.

[00:04:00]Here's the cave from like 1908 that uh pretty much shows the um what they paid per ton. And then on the top part of the paper, it'll show what they uh blew out, what it cost them to blow out, which was like $3 and something per ton. And then the bottom part of it is what it costed to run that. Look at this place. I've been here before. This is a really cool spot.

[00:04:31]But altogether, it costed them a little over $5 to run a ton. So, as I'm walking back here, I'll leave the graph up for a minute so y'all can check it out and really see what they did. So, check this out.

[00:05:06]Okay, here we are in the back of this.

[00:05:09]And as you can see, there's a bunch of small stringers in this. Look at the colors in that. You see all that blue and stuff right there? Ain't that so neat? As you can see, there's a stringer there. There's one there.

[00:05:22]One here, one there.

[00:05:26]I mean, they're just all over. There's even one going up through there. So, and look up there. Look at all that going on up there.

[00:05:36]But one of these veins is ounce per ton. The rest of these are anywhere between a half and a quarter ounce a ton. And you've seen how much they had to blow out here.

[00:05:51]So, and it's quite a bit.

[00:05:54]So, one of these are ounce a ton.

[00:05:57]And as you seen on the graph, it costed them $5 a ton to blow. But once they blow this out, that ounce a ton that's in here drops because you see how much uh material that's here that don't have gold in it. As you can see, there's no alteration in this host rock.

[00:06:18]So, and then these veins, you can see there's some green in that one.

[00:06:25]Pretty cool. But they're small. The biggest vein in this one is this one right here. It's a good size one for sure. Really cool looking, man. Look at the colors, though. Look at that blue purple. Isn't that neat?

[00:06:42]That is wild. And it's all over the place out here. It's even right there.

[00:06:46]Right there.

[00:06:48]beautiful area. But yeah, once they blow this area out, that half that ounce a ton drops. So you see how big the veins are. How much do you think on average, which what they really went by, they went by what they blew out? You know what I mean? Because that's their cost.

[00:07:08]So, ounce a ton, blow it all out, average of maybe half ounce to possibly 3/4 of an ounce a ton on average. So, rich vein, but once they blow it out, it drops that average. So, and maybe if that ounce of that one ounce wasn't here, they'd have never done this. You know what I mean? Yeah.

[00:07:32]Look at all that.

[00:07:36]And just imagine, let's just say it was only that vein right there, the only vein in here. That's an ounce a ton. And imagine you how much you would have to blow out just to get to that ounce a ton vein right there. That right there would not be worth it to them. So even though it's an ounce a ton, you see what I'm saying? Pretty wild, huh? Man, this is a crazy cool place.

[00:08:00]Yeah, these colors. I'm going to show it one more time and then Yeah, that's really cool. And look what went on inside there.

[00:08:09]Look at all that.

[00:08:12]It's crazy. And you got a small vein beside it just throwing all kinds of colors out.

[00:08:17]Isn't that neat? Got a little spot.

[00:08:22]Neat area. Neat area. But like I said, it was all about the average to the old-timers. It didn't have nothing to do I mean, yeah, ounce a ton. Everybody wants that, but they didn't always come across that. So, pretty cool.

[00:08:40]So, the uh old-timers did not rely on an ounce a ton. They relied on the average per ton. And as you seen, it only costed them $5, a little over $5 to run it. So, a half a ton back then was $10. So, if they were doubling their money, they were running it. I promise you they have I mean an ounce a ton yeah it was great but they didn't rely on that which brings us to today. Can you do you have to have an ounce a ton today to make profit? And as I'm just explaining this right here is one of the biggest showings of quartz that's actually like coming out of the ground right here and it's massive. So I'm going to show this a little bit as I'm discussing this. And no, you don't have to have an ounce a ton if you're a big operation. Sure. Or do like the old-timers did and go buy the average that you're blowing out. But an ounce a ton, you don't have to have that to make a profit today as a small scale miner or even a hobbyist. There's actually a uh mine around here that uh they're blowing out the whole side of a mountain. You know what they're getting?

[00:09:48]Two grams a ton. I'll say that again.

[00:09:51]Two grams a ton. and they're making money or they wouldn't be doing it. You know why they're able to do that?

[00:09:56]They're blowing the whole side of a mountain out. They got the tonnage to do it.

[00:10:02]That is one example. Another example, everybody has seen Frank and Crusher that's been following my show, they've seen the jaw crusher that I got on the claim and they it's quick. So, the uh ore on my claim is like I said before, a half ounce a ton at an average.

[00:10:25]And uh let's just say it's 2 g like that other place. Okay. Um I know that me and Chris, we can run probably if we really sat there in an eight hour day, I guarantee you we can run four ton a day. And I've got probably 200 ton just sitting around on the south side of my claim. So I got plenty of material to run. But anyway, let's just say it's two grams a ton.

[00:10:56]Man, look at all these areas. Isn't that neat? Okay. And let's just say I can only do two ton a day. Okay. With both of those machines that I have running six gallons a day at $5 that's 35. No, $30 a day I'm spending on gas. So, if I'm running two tons at 2 g a ton, that's 4 g, right? Let's just say here the gold's about 80%. So, that makes it about a$125 or so, $120 a gram. So, let's just say $100 a gram. So, that's $400 in a day I can make and only have to spend 60. So, is that profitable? You see what I'm saying? So it all depends on the person and the equipment you got whether you can really make something profitable or not. You see what I mean?

[00:11:45]So you don't absolutely have to have an ounce of ton. You just need a lot of tonnage and you don't need if you're a small scale miner, you don't need big equipment. Look at that. Ain't that neat? You don't need big equipment to get what you need out of here. Like I said, you've seen my equipment. I can run all day, four times a day if I wanted to. I ain't trying to work that hard, but I could do it if I wanted to.

[00:12:12]So, to say that only an ounce a ton is profitable is not true at all. You can make profit on uh small t or small uh ounces a ton, like grams a ton, and as long as you're doing it right and stay steady at it, you're going to make money. So, oh man, look at all this stuff. But I kind of wanted to get that out there because nobody talks about this. Everybody always talks about a half a ton and a half a ton and then go back and look at what they show is a half ounce a ton.

[00:12:47]It's an area this wide. You know what I mean? So, and you got to remember you got to get around all that and get that out. So, a small scale miner, yeah, something that small is worth it. But big scale, yeah, you got to have the tonnage. So, I'm gonna get on out of here. I hope everybody enjoyed the show and I'll see you next time.