Cody'sLab - 2024-09-28
I extract iron oxide from a dry stream. Channel members and Patrons saw a version of this video that is 10 minutes longer; I got carried away with the geology. If you want to see that you know what to do. https://www.patreon.com/CodysLab SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/codyslab/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodysLab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codydonreeder/
That's an impressive amount of magnetite!
Could magnetite help with the polar effect?
When are you guys getting a collab video going?
It's a Cody amount of magnetite (cody is a unit of measure for an amount of something cody would have)
That's gonna be a lot of thermite.
@@Nighthawkinlight maybe if radiacode sponsored you, you could make an interesting video maybe involving space radiation and how to protect astronauts
"potentially half a ton of thermite here"
can't wait
RIGHT! The only sensible thing now is to go ahead and make the thermite and light it all at once
Well he would also need aluminum to react with the magnetite in a 3.2:1 ratio so it is more like half of a .67 ton thermite reaction.
It's like he wants another fbi visit 😂
@@WestCoastWheelmanLike any good American
ATF is just as thirsty.
Surprised and disappointed that Cody didn't capture a single Magnemite.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
that is how I read it coming into this vid lol
You have to hold the magnet tight.
get a life dork
He got half a magnet ton
I wonder if one of the metal filing collectors they use in machine shops would be useful for collecting the magnetite. It's used like a brush, but has a retractable magnet in it that drops what it's picked up.
That's too Gucci for Cody. Bro, just built an ore refinery in his back yard with a magnet and a couple 5 gallon buckets. Specialized equipment? That's cheating.
I think your problem would still be whatevers under ground. Cody was getting materials at least a few inches below the surface. Your machine has to be small enough to fit the channel and powerful enough to pull them from ubder the dirt that settled on top.
Unless he has someway of automating that for every single different dry streambed... It's probably more efficient to dig it up and move it to a central location for processing like he's doing.
You mean a "nail picker upper?"
I wonder if some of you folks actually watch the video before commenting.
Because it seems like you fks read the title. Watch 10 seconds and then proceed to comment.
THROW YOUR DAMN PHONE AWAY AND LEARN TO DEVELOP A GODDAMN ATTENTIONSPAN
half a ton of thermite is gonna make one really huge pan
Paella pan!😅
or a dutch oven
everyone needs a wok, right?
@@WGG25 Hey! I'm woking here!
Well somebody needs to give Gordon Ramsey a run for his title of "Wok FBoy"
"Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple."
It takes a lazy person to invent something that will make things eazier and fastet
Humans are the best because they're lazy
@@WhiskersWatson Where does he get that amount of DC power at a remote location? A scrapyard magnet of that size would weigh a lot, what about the energy used in moving the magnet?
@@WhiskersWatson Logistics and money. Big uff
@@thewolfinI've seen in one of those shows on discovery channel how they managed to lift an entire car using 4 AA batteries so the power isn't the main concern it is the range since making it big enough to be useful will make it weak enough for it to not matter
@@WhiskersWatsongetting a giant scrapyard magnet
That’s easier said than done while this method uses what he already had
16:00 That's cool, you basically see part of the magnetic field.
Yes! Also at 12:27 you can see some particles falling, some reflected and some are even recaptured, so awesome.
You should add a second magnet under the primary one to essentially automate making a second pass. It will catch the stream of magnetite away from the sand steam. Also adding a lightly blowing fan would greatly improve purity as the magnetite is pulled by the magnets and will not blow away as easily.
Why settle for one more magnet?🥸 when you could do a magnetic field conveyor belt😈
@@BishopGantry diminishing returns
my thoughts exactly
Why not put the magnet in a bag? Then you just remove the bag when you're done?
@@LarryTheStrongsGamingChannel he likes making everything extra difficult since he already has an easy enough life where he can mine magnetite whenever he wants to.
15:50 Cody's on a first-name basis with most FBI agents at this point
Two weeks later, NASA announces astronauts on the ISS could see Cody's thermite experiments.
About as likely as a moon landing
😂
@@bluemamba5317 buh
@@bluemamba5317 So you don’t believe magnets are real, eh?
@@jacksons1010 Magnets? What are you on about?
Funny if the video just ended at 2:11
someone make cody upload more videos please
I thought the same thing, scoop it with a shovel, credits roll!
We need an edit
@@jafogx I'm dying over here !! 🤣😛
As a metal detectorist I really really hate magnetite - please dig up and get rid of it all :)
"Are you a metal detector? No, I'm a detectorist. This is a metal detector" - The Detectorists. Awesome show.
Good one
@@scaletownmodels😅😅😅
@@scaletownmodelsAs a metal detector, beep beep bebebebebe BEEP BEEP bebebebebe
Have You Tried Panning it And Look for Gold?
That is so brilliantly simple! I worked for weeks on a system with a magnetic roller and a conveyor belt for a similar purpose. But just using the weakening of the field of a fixed magnet is brilliant.
Here's an old miner's tip. Get you a sheet of steel to spread that stuff out on. When you throw it down it'll dry faster and won't mix with the dirt already on the ground so your yield will be higher per load.
What were "old miners" doing that required that?
@@CroppedCross3 They would put the plate down when they started mining and chipping away at a wall. All of the big chunks got hauled off in the carts while all of the small pieces, even as small as a spec of dirt, would fall down onto the plate. That allowed them to scoop it up with a shovel instead of risking losing the ore that they were mining for. When they took it topside to sort it, they would dry it out before grading it.
Every body in the comments making suggestions for how he can improve it miss the point that this is a simple solution that is very effective. I don’t think Cody is trying to trade any of that simplicity for extra purity or yield if he already has a system that can get him literal tons of magnetite in hours.
Still would probably be worthwhile to implement the "Put a Plastic Bag over the Magnet" suggestion though, as that's also dead simple to add to the system, and would increase the speed of post-operation cleanup.
@@travispluid3603truly the only worthwhile suggestion
@@travispluid3603 I think having direct contact between the magnetite filings and the metal of the magnet is probably a lot more efficient than having a gap there (the plastic)
Eh, its very easy to underestimate the amount of work one added "small" step of complexity can add. And over-estimate the benefit of what your super clever extra step does. Ive done it many times.
@@travispluid3603but there is no post operation cleanup? He doesn’t need to clean the magnet afterwards, he only did it so we could see how the process works
"Like sands through the hourglass...so are the magnetite of our mines."
😌
"I understood that reference"
I went all soapy too when he said that.
Came here to post something similar but not nearly as clever! I thought I might be the only one to make the connection.
Deflected off course?
and they call it a mine A MINE!!!
Primitive Technology crying in a corner right now
Magnets are op
The poor fella is scaping up slime to make drops of cast iron, meanwhile Cody is just extracting metric tonnage using buckets and a magnet.
Yeah, if he could get a magnet primitive technology could def get a setup like this, but it'd still be tough for him getting the material dry since he lives in a rainforest while Cody is in a desert.
@@theKashConnoisseur Crafting a magnet is probably very high on Mr.Plant's priority list for metal crafting.
But without any magnet to bootstrap the process, making a magnet by magnetostriction is basically art and the reason why magnets were so precious in ancient times.
@@cornonjacob I don't think the iron rich bacteria stuff he uses would be magnetic anyway.
13:35 Use some kind of sheet (paper, leather, polimer etc) like isolation between magnet and flow of debris, u even can make this sheet mowable to redirect flow of magnetite to some point separating it from sand and preventing sticky-sticky situations on magnet.
Love that you walked us through how you came up with the system.
Its always a good day when Cody posts
Nevadan here and I can smell this video. :) We used to just gather it with a plastic bag over a magnet. Your method works really well.
I refer to that as a "magnet condom" and it definitely keeps things cleaner
Does it smell like Vegas👃
Smells fishy
I remember collecting a full sandwich bag of it with magnets during recess in the sandbox in elementary school in Las Vegas in the 80's. It took me a few weeks and I kept it in my desk all year.
Were you doing that just for fun or was there a practical application?
That separation between magnetite and sand is so clean. Super satisfying to watch!
This was a fantastic process to watch. Straightforward, uncomplicated and impressively effective. Extremely so.
Things like this are why I am always glad to see an upload here.
I tend to over complicate and over think things, and this is an example of a simple solution excelling. I was amazed at the sheer volume of magnetite separated from the 'chaff'. The quality of the sand by-product was very impressive as well.
The footage at the end showing the process in slower detail was mesmerizing.
Very Well Done! I'm sad I didn't see this when it initially released.
If you chance to read this, have a great day, and may God Bless You.
(and even if you don't believe whatever the reason I am praying for you.)
I look forward to your next video (well, beyond the one thats already posted that I'm about to watch, hahah).
I have religiously watched your video's since the first beekeeping ones. Keep going Cody, you cannot imagine how many people you are helping with just documenting the things that are interesting to you. I feel like so many creators are just chasing what the audience wants, please just chase what you want. We are here...
For real, while I didn't watch most of the base making videos, I love Cody doing vlogs of just his experiments
Very interesting! I was actually planning on making 100kg of thermite but didn't like the idea of filling a pool with iron and salt for electrolysis lol. This looks so much easier. If I ever do it, i'll shout you out for sure
Mad scientist collaboration when?
Now I'm Imagining if you visited Cody at his Mars base for a month long of Mad Science Camp
NileGreen spotted.
please don't
Love your videos Cody! Please post more
1000%
I absolutely agree 👍
he has over 700 videos lol
Please more mineral mining ❤
I Second that , used to love your mining videos
I have been working on this exact same project separately by coincidence, and I would love to hear your advice on this. I have found that collecting all the sand in the affected area, wetting it and screening it first, and then magnetically separating it, produces very high purity magnetite very quickly since these first steps work in bulk and reduce the amount of junk you have to work with while using the magnet which is more small scale. Another thing I've found is that if you let the magnetite get too close to the magnet, the field strength will permanently magnetize the particles and cause them to clump together and trap impurities. To avoid this, just use a really large strong magnet, and put a spacer between the magnet and the magnetite so you only use the broad medium-strength field for separation which does not appreciably polarize the magnetite. Just for clarity, I do this whole process wet (under water) since it cleans off all the dirt and clay and softens any clumps ensuring that only the actual grain size is being measured and sorted, and additionally, when I'm using the magnet to sift the magnetite out of the cleaned and screened sand, being under considerable amounts of water also keeps the sand from sticking to the magnetite by adhesive and cohesive forces from the moisture either from the ground or from the first steps. The effect of lower relative density in water might be useful to look into, since it can cause the magnetite to float up to the magnet early leaving behind any partially magnetic rocks.
I'm so happy that I'm seeing your content come across my page again! I binged a lot of your content a few years ago and for some reason Youtube stopped pushing your content to me! I saw an interview snippet that you'd done on shorts about nitroglycerine recently and it made me remember your gold chemistry videos fondly. Glad to see you're doing well.
The iron will likely be heavier than the rest of the sand, so you could improve your separation by having a fan blowing from behind, pushing the loose sand further away from the dropping iron. You'd want to add a backstop (frontstop?) to catch the blown sand so that you're not filling the whole area with loose dust though.
I was kind of thinking about the blower assistance thing too.
Crossed my mind as well just a light breeze.
I had the same thought, but some of the iron particles are also smaller than a lot of the bits of sand and debris, so they may still weigh less. I think a fan would just stir up all the fine particles including the iron.
Or just multi-stage magnet filters (several magnets positioned further back to capture more of the magnetite)
@t4thfavor1212
I was thinking the same, just extend the magnetic field back a bit more with a second not so big magnet so that the field drop off happens a bit further back and is more separate from the sand.
However, like others pointed out, he already get significant purity for his needs and usually a second pass does the same, gets cleaner, no need for more magnets or use of electricity with a fan/blower.
Magnetite is also what gives many old gun the "Blueing" color. Iron would be lightly rusted, to form hematite, and then boiled in water or steamed at high temps, and that hematite would turn into magnetite!
At 9:15, due to the almost constant flow of megnetite dripping from the magnet (look carefully at the bottom) it seems like there is still a substantial (yet reduced) volume of magnetite still present within the tailings, rather than it just being eroded from the larger mass of magnetite around the magnet. Still a very efficient system!!
I love how you are able to intelligently use common materials and objects to achieve things that many would only do purchasing expensive and specific tools, you go a step further and start from scratch, teaching us the very basics.
I love your videos, they are very different, mixing two things that I really enjoy, the outdoors, and learning to do things yourself while having fun and learing about the things that surrounds us. Very clever!
Been subed for years now to this channel. Looking for the right time to start a conversation with you, Cody. And even if all the math and science hurts my brain trying to retain it, I'm still very inept at figuring things out through experimentation. For 28 or so years now, I've been expanding on the old-school version of the rockerbox. And I never have lost sight in creating an automated version of it. Around 15 years ago, I was selling self-rocking version, but I was surrounded by jealous family members who undermined me at every turn then. But I never stopped evolving the concept in my head. And now, 15 years later, I know I have invented the go-to machine for the small time miner to mine flourgold. Self feading and with an apron system that looses zero flour gold. Even the smallest of the micro gold is retained. Pluss through how it works, it processes it down into a firable amount of concentrates. That could also be drypaned to take 80% of the top. It now more of a viable income than it is at supporting a hobby with gold now being at 90 dollars a gram. Anyway, I'm hoping to enlist you to help with the scientific explanation of the process. As I was very close to getting Pat Keen on board. But I lacked the explanation to get him to afford me the time away from his business. I also know Kieth from Hardrock University. Both wanted to help but my desperation to make some money when I needed some surgery badly. Still do. I've been in hell for 30 years eating practically nothing. I ate ony eggs for 7 of the last of those years. So, as the world spirals into chaos I'm realy trying hard now to get it delt with. As I've always new this time was coming, and it's when what I've created shines the most. As it could be a wage for a great many in a time when making money will be hard to do. Anyways I've pissed everyone off now. And thought I'd give you a turn at it. Check out my home page I still have a crude video up there that proves how long I've believed in what I can do.
Have you analyzed if you are getting any other heavy metals along with iron?
There could be some Cadmium or Nickle
what other metals are magnetic?
@@basketofdeplorables4253 That's not the point...
gotta be some gold
If radiacode sponsors cody he could check for thorium and uranium
thats pretty smart.. the way you setup is.. dang nice!!!!!
Maybe use another magnet lower down in the stream on the second pass to help more thoroughly separate the streams so that the bucket doesn't need to be so precisely placed? Maybe a longer magnet could be useful to apply the magnetic force over a longer portion of the falling sand stream?
Oh yeah that would surely separate them further, I think the magnets could even just be be right next to each other but just angled away from the stream to carry it further away.
Basically like having a bigger magnet but more width isn't helpful so you just stack smaller ones to get more length.
I was thinking about a multi-stage configuration also!
what might work best is a long magnet mounted at a 45 degree angle, to maximize the shadow effect he was talking about.
My thoughts exactly.
Put another one below and more to the back and make the magnetite drip father away from the normal sand.
Longer magnet at an angle so it has to take a longer concave path, perhaps
Middle of the video answered all of the questions I was going to ask lmao, well done! Running the magnet back over the trailings was something I was curious about and I'm glad you did it
Great work Cody, I have had similar experiences on the shores of Lake Michigan, you can see the dark black magnetite form streaks on the beach. Once, long ago, carried a bucket of it up a 200’ tall bluff and then never figured out how to refine it. Hahah I love these videos for that reason- you would be the best person to run into on a day like that
Best channel on YT
Love your videos thanks for sharing everything you do
5:43 - so are the days of our lives
This was an amazing video find. I live in southern ontario, and the beaches on the Lake Erie side are literally black, from Magnetite. I scooped up a 3gal bucket and did the magnet refining trick... took me a solid 2 days to purify this... you sir, just saved me HOURS or work.
Great video and work Cody, thanks fo bringing us along for the process!
It would be cool to convert an old lawnmower to pick up the iron with an elecrro magnet that uses the switching of the magnet and kenitic force to separate the material into the lawnmower bag. I found that a simple plastic bag over the magnet makes cleanup and / or separation of the iron from the magnet much easier 😁😁
Cody should try this neat idea
Electromagnets take time to turn on and off (after all, they’re the very definition of an inductor) so if I’m understanding you correctly you couldn’t go too high rpm
I mean, a simple conveyor belt with a permanent magnet behind it would accomplish something similar, picking up moving and dropping the particles. What Cody has built does the job perhaps more slowly but with no electricity other than the spark plugs in the transport truck.
I personally like the simplicity of Cody's idea. Its already very pure for the work put in and just requires a bit of shoveling material. The rest is all gravity and a magnet
@Andrew..J Yes, but having to carry buckets of iron is a lot of work. Having an automated system would make an excellent video. This video would compliment it well. 🙂
That intro was therapeutic
I feel like there is an ATF arc in front of us.
Watching the process was so satisfying. Brilliant stuff as always.
i love this so much
i used to mess around picking up random bits of iron from the ground in middle school but i didnt know heck what i was doing and our soil had barely any, i got way more from the garage floor
if you have more magnets you could probably separate sand and iron streams into funnels and run them right away through another magnet separation steps, so that it's even more continuous
@lemonke8132 - 2024-09-28
Cody: refines uranium
FBI: no.
Cody: fine. 800lbs of thermite
@StuffandThings_ - 2024-09-29
Next up: Uranium thermite
@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751 - 2024-09-29
Ukraine calls , we need more thermite for our dragon drones.
@eastonjanecek9802 - 2024-09-29
1600lbs of thermite*
@wargamingrefugee9065 - 2024-09-29
@@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751 You made me do some math. Assuming 45 metric tons per tank and 8860 tanks lost, Russia has provided Ukraine with about four hundred thousand tons of scrap iron. Cody is really going to need to offer some low, low prices. :-)
@mmnootzenpoof - 2024-09-29
@@wargamingrefugee9065 they'd have to grind those tanks into dust to be able to make thermite. cody's magnetite is already in powder form!