I have been watching your videos for the longest time but I did not no how to do the comments ! My daughter just showed me how to do these things and now I just love it . I’m old school at the age of 59 and I’m sill in the nineteen seventies era ! But I just want to tell you that I love watching your videos and keep them up they are truly interesting . Pennsylvania mike 🙋♂️
Chris, I enjoy all of your presentations, but i think this one is the best! Simply beautiful! Great research! Hope to see you again some time soon. Philip in Reno
Great Video Chris! Bought your book last year and read it, so when I saw your RUclips channel I subscribed and have enjoyed watching the content. Also read your articles in ICMJ magazine. Keep ‘em coming!
Did New England ever come out with any big nuggets big nuggets? Northern New Hampshire? I know The state of Maine on swift river has produced nuggets but I was just curious
@@ChrisRalph was likely found in the early 1900s, was the largest ever found in Ontario and was on display at the ROM Royal Ontario Museum. Was wondering what happened to it, Google doesn't know much about it.
Yep, have heard of the welcome stranger and some other very large Australian nuggets. This particular video is about big nuggets of North America. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph Yes mate did realised it was about Nth America nuggets, just wondered if you had heard of it. I have seen the anvil that it was cut up on for transport, sadly enough. Dennis
I do have a couple of questions for you Chris. What is the average composition of placer gold? what is the average composition of native copper? AND What is the natural composition of raw silver?
"It was found roughly 100 ounces after Montana became a state..." I can tell where your head's at Mr. Ralph! Great work. I didn't know that Swift Creek story was true.
One good lesson from this video.....large targets are not always junk especially so in the goldfields :>) Thanks for the videos Chris and Merry Christmas to you and yours!
@@ChrisRalph I purchased Your book and love Your Videos, along with the time You take to be very educational, Therefore I have Multiple Nuggets I have accumulated, DO You I refine it a few times? does the nuggets and payloads have to Mineralized again to Refine it again? Any ways This is a hobby and never thought i would so much interest in NOT just the Money Side but the geology part of it. Heck I hated it in school, LOve it Now! SO Thank YOu for the great teachings! May God Bless You!
Some of your videos are recorded in mono while others are in stereo. The stereo is much better and doesn’t make me feel like I’m deaf in one ear when using headphones like this video does. Just some constructive criticism.😉 Weird,@ min 8.33 it switches to stereo when you aren’t standing in front of the camera.
It is stereo, my balance may be uneven but there is sound on both channels. At the point you specified and beyond, its not done with a camera, its a screen capture. same microphone, different recording system.
Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector sorry bud but you are not in stereo. You might think you are but you aren’t. This isn’t the only video either.Three different sets of headphones 🎧, one set wireless,one set $400, 2 different devices,you only come through the left side when you are standing in front of the camera. There are points that the video comes through in stereo like when you are NOT in front of the camera or when there is a commercial but other than that you are only coming through the left side. It’s ok to make mistakes. It’s ok to be humble and admit to being wrong or making mistakes. If you aren’t actually going to do some testing to fix the problem such as watching your self on a different device with headphones, or ask some friends or family to watch on their devices”with headphones” then why argue with me? You can have sound come through both headphones if you are listening in mono.
look at the ring the lady in the high viz had, i bet that 24 carot gold with a very expensive diamond on it.. looks very unique :O wow they make big money i see
I research gold prospecting,history of areas,soil geology and tons of maps past and present more then I’m on the creek prospecting lol it’s all very interesting and the more you know the more gold you’ll find 🙃
I like your videos. I live at the foot of the mountains in N.C. The creek has lots of really black, dry looking garnets(?) I haven't found any gold yet, just lots of mica. It's a bummer!
I also have a question for you ? They say that gold was created by a supper nova ! Is this true ? And if so how can a supper nova make a nugget like the size of that Alaska centennial nugget ?? Please let me no if it’s possible . Thank you mike rossi 🙋♂️
Some Scientists think that is where gold came from but not all agree. What was created was dust. I have videos on the geology of coarse gold - see: ruclips.net/video/fhIJdj6NbBY/видео.html
Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector ok thank you so much i think that I may have seen those videos but I just don’t remember . I will look them up again and I hope that you have a great Christmas and a Golden new year 🙋♂️
the biggest gold piece in quebec (beauce ) 45 and 42 once and they still haven’t found the main source where all the gold recover in this region come from. many square miles are claim by differant mining compagnie and many of them have found big placer or gold vein but the regulation are so hard on mining compagnie that nothing goes forward . event buying action from these mining compagnie is useless because they lure you with their discovery but they just dont star any mining operation
Great show I'm from Australia and it's true Gold is almost everywhere. Plus there have been some huge huge nuggets found in history. And there are plenty more just waiting for the next Armature to find his or her 25kg/150kg. Gold nugget often holding 18 karats to 22 karats in purity. Just waiting for the taking. My best find was all pickers but weighing 89grams in 10 of extremely hot weather with a detector. The best hobby in the world. Also I've been informed that only .0003% of the ESTIMATED Gold in Earth has been found. So get out your pickaxes. Cool.
Life in California and them days was extremely rough and dangerous. We're all very spoiled and live like kings in Queens and whatever else it's politically correct .
Well if your wishing then ill wish to be in California in 1830 get all the gold I could get then hide it and go back to present times and discover the gold
How big's your biggest nugget Chris? I don't think many nuggets will sell like a Butte nugget. The guy selling the Nugget wasn't the finder of the Nugget and you got to remember taxes and several other fees must be paid there's a good Market out there of private collectors that like to invest cash. Yes there are big nuggets still left in all you do is have to run your detector over them and dig. They're not in your closet or in your backyard they are where other nuggets have been found. Don't waste your time anywhere else unless you have lots and lots of experience.
My biggest piece is nowhere near the size of the Butte nugget. The finder had an auctioneer sell it for him, as happens with many types of collector items. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector not sure if you got the whole story on the Nugget Maybe. I was thinking earlier that you were in on that patch kind of by Mill City . I don't know approximately 2004 remember I commented on blasting I think you did the year after. The chunk in the Colusa area was like 208 lb and just the metal detector for making sure metal didn't go into the crusher they weren't even mining for gold. It was like in clay with a black carbon layer on it that was coated with this layer of gold so you could soak it and it would the gold would come right out of it in these big gigantic flakes. I got a 4-oz chunk of that same stuff that very same weekend in the same area beautiful stuff I might even have some somewhere. Real thin and spectacular I did know her whole bunch of it was but no it is Gold Fever and everybody was fighting over and I didn't want nothing to do with it and I found it. By accident thought my detector was screwed up I couldn't get it to balance or do anything sit-down had through my detector on the grounds that had lunch with my dog. Started messing with my detector fresh stood up said what the hell is ground is blank in my detector out it's a gold bug picked up a chunk of this clay looking material and smashed it and rinsed it off in the water and low and behold gold is like aluminum foil maybe a little thinner. That was the last day I got to detect on that spot and not because of the owner well Gold Fever and they wanted me to go find another spot I wasn't allowed to detect there anymore oh well. You do a good job of explaining things nice and simply for the new people. Gold mining is not easy. Hiking is not easy backpacking is not easy racing cars is not easy racing motorcycles is not easy you got to put work your heart in a lot of effort into any hobby that you have same with gold mining there's no such thing is you're magically going to get rich the more effort you put into it the more you will get out of it. In one big nugget is not going to make you rich it probably will give you Gold Fever so bad you wish you never found it!
I visited Coloma in the late 70s at sitters mill and they had prolly 50 large nuggets on display . they seem to have disappeared.. I visited the site again 10 or so years ago and they were no longer on display. Some were bigger than my hand..most in fact if I recall...in the late 70s I met some people who found on while dredging. It was in a matrix of quartz and the size of a baseball and greenish looking. Pouring acid revealed the truth but lessened its value ...😂
huge gold half way through the book I have 13 days off gonna go prospect for a bit I will call my nugget the heart attack nugget you'll understand why it's called that if I find something like that
So glad that these mineral masterpieces have been preserved
Thanks for the video
Glad you enjoyed it
I have been watching your videos for the longest time but I did not no how to do the comments ! My daughter just showed me how to do these things and now I just love it . I’m old school at the age of 59 and I’m sill in the nineteen seventies era ! But I just want to tell you that I love watching your videos and keep them up they are truly interesting . Pennsylvania mike 🙋♂️
Calvin Chaney thank you and have a great Christmas ! 🙋♂️
Heck Mike, I am older than you are........
Calvin Chaney ok thank you and have a Golden new year 🙋♂️
Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector and if you are older than me you sure don’t look it ! It must be from hanging around all that gold 🤙
Chris, I enjoy all of your presentations, but i think this one is the best! Simply beautiful! Great research! Hope to see you again some time soon. Philip in Reno
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Nice nuggets !!! One day you might find a nugget like that !!!
I mentioned you in the next video.... I'm always looking for a big one.
Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector cool 😎 !!!!
Great Video Chris!
Bought your book last year and read it, so when I saw your RUclips channel I subscribed and have enjoyed watching the content. Also read your articles in ICMJ magazine. Keep ‘em coming!
Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Did New England ever come out with any big nuggets big nuggets? Northern New Hampshire? I know The state of Maine on swift river has produced nuggets but I was just curious
Maine is the only one I know of.
was here looking for the Creosos nugget, found around Matheson Ontario, guess you couldn't find it either
Not mentioned in any of the books I have.
@@ChrisRalph was likely found in the early 1900s, was the largest ever found in Ontario and was on display at the ROM Royal Ontario Museum. Was wondering what happened to it, Google doesn't know much about it.
Hi, Have you heard about the Australian nugget called the welcome stranger. Dennis
Yep, have heard of the welcome stranger and some other very large Australian nuggets. This particular video is about big nuggets of North America. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph Yes mate did realised it was about Nth America nuggets, just wondered if you had heard of it. I have seen the anvil that it was cut up on for transport, sadly enough. Dennis
I do have a couple of questions for you Chris. What is the average composition of placer gold? what is the average composition of native copper? AND What is the natural composition of raw silver?
Gold, 30 to 98%, Copper 80 to 98%, native Silver metal 80 to 98%.
Fantastic video Chris....thanks again...!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Great Video, Ralph. Thank you.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
"It was found roughly 100 ounces after Montana became a state..." I can tell where your head's at Mr. Ralph! Great work. I didn't know that Swift Creek story was true.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you Chris I love the yellow
Merry Christmas! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thanks Chris, I learned tons (or Troy ounces) on this one
bruce tucson
Glad to help
One good lesson from this video.....large targets are not always junk especially so in the goldfields :>) Thanks for the videos Chris and Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Gotta be real careful about walking away from targets. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph I purchased Your book and love Your Videos, along with the time You take to be very educational, Therefore I have Multiple Nuggets I have accumulated, DO You I refine it a few times? does the nuggets and payloads have to Mineralized again to Refine it again? Any ways This is a hobby and never thought i would so much interest in NOT just the Money Side but the geology part of it. Heck I hated it in school, LOve it Now! SO Thank YOu for the great teachings! May God Bless You!
Some of your videos are recorded in mono while others are in stereo. The stereo is much better and doesn’t make me feel like I’m deaf in one ear when using headphones like this video does. Just some constructive criticism.😉 Weird,@ min 8.33 it switches to stereo when you aren’t standing in front of the camera.
It is stereo, my balance may be uneven but there is sound on both channels. At the point you specified and beyond, its not done with a camera, its a screen capture. same microphone, different recording system.
Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector well up until the 8:33 it is only coming through the left side not the right😉
I can hear it in both sides of my stereo headphones.......
Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector sorry bud but you are not in stereo. You might think you are but you aren’t. This isn’t the only video either.Three different sets of headphones 🎧, one set wireless,one set $400, 2 different devices,you only come through the left side when you are standing in front of the camera. There are points that the video comes through in stereo like when you are NOT in front of the camera or when there is a commercial but other than that you are only coming through the left side. It’s ok to make mistakes. It’s ok to be humble and admit to being wrong or making mistakes. If you aren’t actually going to do some testing to fix the problem such as watching your self on a different device with headphones, or ask some friends or family to watch on their devices”with headphones” then why argue with me? You can have sound come through both headphones if you are listening in mono.
Did you skip Georgia?
Gold was found in Georgia, just not the largest nuggets.
Chris lets go nugget shooting do you still hunt???
I still do loads of prospecting but this time of year the weather is not so great. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
How's the weather looking?
Fantastic..👍🤓
Merry Christmas to everyone.
Cheers Famo59 👍🤓🎄🍺⛏
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
look at the ring the lady in the high viz had, i bet that 24 carot gold with a very expensive diamond on it.. looks very unique :O wow they make big money i see
Dizno "lady in the high viz had"
Sir your all RUclips video best experience gold way to 1 day I identify Big gold Nuggets. thank you very much sir.
Best of luck to you in finding gold.
Very interesting video now I need to find one to add to the list 🤪
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I research gold prospecting,history of areas,soil geology and tons of maps past and present more then I’m on the creek prospecting lol it’s all very interesting and the more you know the more gold you’ll find 🙃
If you could do those weights with then and now monetary comparisons it would be more meaningful.
Price changes all the time. A week after I'd finished it it would be wrong. Ounces do not change and you can multiply the ounces by today's price.
I was seeking historical values versus today's values.
I grew up next to Carson hill, fun times
Some really amazing gold was found there!
Just finding one of these would already be rewarding aside of the moneys worth
Yes, indeed.
I like your videos. I live at the foot of the mountains in N.C. The creek has lots of really black, dry looking garnets(?) I haven't found any gold yet, just lots of mica. It's a bummer!
It takes a while to get the hang of prospecting. Maybe join a local prospecting club - there are some in NC. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Good going
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Was the 23 pound nugget from N.C. glacial in origin?
Nope.
Real gold
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I also have a question for you ? They say that gold was created by a supper nova ! Is this true ? And if so how can a supper nova make a nugget like the size of that Alaska centennial nugget ?? Please let me no if it’s possible . Thank you mike rossi 🙋♂️
Some Scientists think that is where gold came from but not all agree. What was created was dust. I have videos on the geology of coarse gold - see: ruclips.net/video/fhIJdj6NbBY/видео.html
Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector ok thank you so much i think that I may have seen those videos but I just don’t remember . I will look them up again and I hope that you have a great Christmas and a Golden new year 🙋♂️
real cool you are the gold guru
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Hi Chris that’s what i am looking for
Gold is a good thing to find.
Cool!
Glad you enjoyed the video.
the biggest gold piece in quebec (beauce ) 45 and 42 once and they still haven’t found the main source where all the gold recover in this region come from. many square miles are claim by differant mining compagnie and many of them have found big placer or gold vein but the regulation are so hard on mining compagnie that nothing goes forward . event buying action from these mining compagnie is useless because they lure you with their discovery but they just dont star any mining operation
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Great show I'm from Australia and it's true Gold is almost everywhere. Plus there have been some huge huge nuggets found in history. And there are plenty more just waiting for the next Armature to find his or her 25kg/150kg. Gold nugget often holding 18 karats to 22 karats in purity. Just waiting for the taking. My best find was all pickers but weighing 89grams in 10 of extremely hot weather with a detector. The best hobby in the world. Also I've been informed that only .0003% of the ESTIMATED Gold in Earth has been found. So get out your pickaxes. Cool.
Sounds like a great find. Thanks for sharing.
I got some pictures nuggets we found in Somalia
Congratulations on your success.
I wish I would have been in California in 1847 ! But I take that back because I would be dead now 🤷♂️
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Life in California and them days was extremely rough and dangerous.
We're all very spoiled and live like kings in Queens and whatever else it's politically correct .
Well if your wishing then ill wish to be in California in 1830 get all the gold I could get then hide it and go back to present times and discover the gold
Oh god I thought that was a big pile of poop 💩 in the cover picture.🤣🤣🤣
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
If I would find something on the claim of a large company, no way I would turn it in. But I don't go on claims.
Sounds good.
👍👍
Glad you enjoyed the video.
yay
You win first place! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
How big's your biggest nugget Chris?
I don't think many nuggets will sell like a Butte nugget.
The guy selling the Nugget wasn't the finder of the Nugget and you got to remember taxes and several other fees must be paid there's a good Market out there of private collectors that like to invest cash.
Yes there are big nuggets still left in all you do is have to run your detector over them and dig.
They're not in your closet or in your backyard they are where other nuggets have been found.
Don't waste your time anywhere else unless you have lots and lots of experience.
My biggest piece is nowhere near the size of the Butte nugget. The finder had an auctioneer sell it for him, as happens with many types of collector items. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector not sure if you got the whole story on the Nugget Maybe.
I was thinking earlier that you were in on that patch kind of by Mill City .
I don't know approximately 2004 remember I commented on blasting I think you did the year after.
The chunk in the Colusa area was like 208 lb and just the metal detector for making sure metal didn't go into the crusher they weren't even mining for gold.
It was like in clay with a black carbon layer on it that was coated with this layer of gold so you could soak it and it would the gold would come right out of it in these big gigantic flakes.
I got a 4-oz chunk of that same stuff that very same weekend in the same area beautiful stuff I might even have some somewhere.
Real thin and spectacular I did know her whole bunch of it was but no it is Gold Fever and everybody was fighting over and I didn't want nothing to do with it and I found it.
By accident thought my detector was screwed up I couldn't get it to balance or do anything sit-down had through my detector on the grounds that had lunch with my dog.
Started messing with my detector fresh stood up said what the hell is ground is blank in my detector out it's a gold bug picked up a chunk of this clay looking material and smashed it and rinsed it off in the water and low and behold gold is like aluminum foil maybe a little thinner.
That was the last day I got to detect on that spot and not because of the owner well Gold Fever and they wanted me to go find another spot I wasn't allowed to detect there anymore oh well.
You do a good job of explaining things nice and simply for the new people.
Gold mining is not easy.
Hiking is not easy backpacking is not easy racing cars is not easy racing motorcycles is not easy you got to put work your heart in a lot of effort into any hobby that you have same with gold mining there's no such thing is you're magically going to get rich the more effort you put into it the more you will get out of it.
In one big nugget is not going to make you rich it probably will give you Gold Fever so bad you wish you never found it!
Gold mining is not easy. You got that right!
A devils footprint in AU
No, it's a rattle snake pointed away from the viewer.
@@ChrisRalph : that too.
And from the bowels of earth too.
Isnt that weird. Much to chew on.
Hello from Edinburgh Scotland btw.
Thank you for all your hard work, thank you for sharing knowledge with all us prospectors.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I visited Coloma in the late 70s at sitters mill and they had prolly 50 large nuggets on display . they seem to have disappeared.. I visited the site again 10 or so years ago and they were no longer on display. Some were bigger than my hand..most in fact if I recall...in the late 70s I met some people who found on while dredging. It was in a matrix of quartz and the size of a baseball and greenish looking. Pouring acid revealed the truth but lessened its value ...😂
Some nice gold at the Los Angeles Natural history museum. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
People are still finding some big nuggets thanks to metal detectors.
That is very true.... I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
huge gold half way through the book I have 13 days off gonna go prospect for a bit I will call my nugget the heart attack nugget you'll understand why it's called that if I find something like that
I hope you do find one....
@@ChrisRalph or I can glue some 20k gold leaf to a rock that would fool everyone that would look real ya I know get lost kenny
Also do a video that does not talk about people metal detecting because I think that's cheating
I do videos that are not on metal detecting. However, metal detecting is WORK and is not easy. Its not cheating.
I have gigantic nuggets
OK.
Cretel
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
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RUclips serch
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.