I live in granite belt in Nc. I have been prospecting for only a week and I am finding bigger and bigger gold every day. I have noticed too I have been getting more on gravel beds on outside bends than inside. I hoping this isn’t beginners luck. Not a empty pan yet
Loving this !! Thanks .. Lots of good information.. im actually starting to do a series like this on my channel for my area of BC.. Love the pinch point lesson, very true !! .. Keep em coming!Take care !!
Nice video. I like it. I'm a recent subscriber. I live in Linn county Oregon and spend most of my prospecting time around the Quartzville Creek area. I'm still learning how to read the creek and the old channel. It's a beautiful place to go play. Do you know if LIDAR is available for Linn county Oregon? They say that the source of the gold up there has never been found. Sure would like to find it lol. I know of a few spots that I would love to see how they look on a LIDAR map. I have run across rounded rock on a flat area of a mountain top at over 3,800 elevation. Have not sampled it yet. Looking for a good pard to hike and sample with. Not easy
Very interesting, thanks! At what depth were you finding the old pay streaks? And, what was the name of the technology you mentioned at the beginning, which indicated the depth of overburden? Thanks.
The old pay streaks are on bedrock. I didn’t talk about anything that tells the depth of overburden. But I did talk about OSL (Optically stimulated luminescence) which is how the age of the flood plains was determined.
This was my line of thinking exactly. We're further west in the NC mountains. There has been a lot of gold found along the main river since at least the 1800's, but I want to use LIDAR to find ancient river paths where the old-timers may have missed. Wouldn't the bank directly before the pinch point have hard pack and potentially contain a lot of gold?
Lidar is only going to show you more recent river features such as oxbows and abandoned recent channels. The river has meandered around in its current flood plain area for probably the last 10,000 years. This video is about how to locate the old gold bearing channel via sampling. Lidar will only help a little bit. Going to need boots on the ground to find where the current channel crosses the ancient gold bearing channel
Matt, now you need to to a hands on video. What I mean by that is, find a spot like this that you have access to then go out in the field and do a video showing how exactly you are translating that lidar/topo information into the real world sampling, if you get what I mean.
Yep I understand what you mean. Won’t be happening anytime soon. I was working on that method in that spot in the video but don’t have access any more and to do the method correctly means days and days in the field. And none of my near term areas can use this method. Unfortunately.
Hey man whats up. Thanks for the info, ya gave me some more to think about. Your Bigfoot encounter was probably the owner of the neighboring property haha. Btw...ya basically pinned the location of that spot lol. Not sure if you are concerned or not.
No one has access to that area anymore. The club lost access to that claim so. And even if there was it was super difficult to get to. Glad I could help though.
@@theprospectinggeologist4347 dang that is unfortunate. I do have a question though pertaining to this. Is there any potential occurrences in Pennsylvania where this technique could prove useful? I am not asking for specific places, just curious.
Hey man how's it going...i'm the guy you welcomed to the group the other night on Fb...we were talking about Pittsylvania County i showed you the two flooded gold mine shafts. Anyhow have you ever had much luck in gullies or do you just stick with the water? I got some gullies and creeks around the farm where i live at. Thanks dude!
Yes there are a few wet weather streams that I’ve found and panned out some good gold on. They are more difficult to sample due to lack of water most of the year.
Hey bud I have another question for you.. I've only been to claim #1 and claim #2 a few times.. I have a 1194 4-wheel drive Dodge Ram and I was wondering is there any other claims that I can access with my truck?
Hello my friend im from north carolina and do a little prospecting my self from the charlotte area I love your videos of u have any info of my area u can she with me please let me no
There are plenty of meandering channels like that out west. Washington State comes to mind, draining the Cascades to the east. Blue Mountains in Oregon. Etc. And out West, such areas are quite likely on BLM or NFS land. :-)
@@theprospectinggeologist4347 - There seem to be more of them as you move north of Oregon into Washington, and then way more up in BC. Hmm. Maybe more extensive alpine glaciation, or something. I often find myself, when checking out a stream, scratching my head trying to figure out what to make of those high-water channels that cut across point bars -- so I mean way before it cuts off an oxbow, when it's still more of a bend with a point bar rather than a meander with a narrowing neck (but I guess it's going in that direction). Would you expect some fine flood gold to fall out on the upstream side of those cut-through, high-water channel-things? There's usually really big piles of sand and gravels behind any stumps or boulders sticking up in those channels -- I suppose because when the water is cutting through those, it's always carrying a lot of sediment. ... or does even really fine gold fall out _before_ it gets into those channels?
I live in granite belt in Nc. I have been prospecting for only a week and I am finding bigger and bigger gold every day. I have noticed too I have been getting more on gravel beds on outside bends than inside. I hoping this isn’t beginners luck. Not a empty pan yet
Loving this !! Thanks .. Lots of good information.. im actually starting to do a series like this on my channel for my area of BC.. Love the pinch point lesson, very true !! .. Keep em coming!Take care !!
I really want to learn more about Lidar very exciting technology
Great video! Thanks.
Great information my friend. I also tend to find better gold either side of the sharp bends, in the river. Nice and well thought out 🏴☠️⛏️⛏️👍💙
Excellent 👌
Nice video. I like it.
I'm a recent subscriber.
I live in Linn county Oregon and spend most of my prospecting time around the Quartzville Creek area. I'm still learning how to read the creek and the old channel.
It's a beautiful place to go play.
Do you know if LIDAR is available for Linn county Oregon?
They say that the source of the gold up there has never been found. Sure would like to find it lol.
I know of a few spots that I would love to see how they look on a LIDAR map. I have run across rounded rock on a flat area of a mountain top at over 3,800 elevation.
Have not sampled it yet. Looking for a good pard to hike and sample with. Not easy
Thanks! I looked up lin county and my sources don’t have it as being covered with Lidar data yet.
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Thank you for your time!
Very interesting, thanks! At what depth were you finding the old pay streaks? And, what was the name of the technology you mentioned at the beginning, which indicated the depth of overburden? Thanks.
The old pay streaks are on bedrock. I didn’t talk about anything that tells the depth of overburden. But I did talk about OSL (Optically stimulated luminescence) which is how the age of the flood plains was determined.
This was my line of thinking exactly. We're further west in the NC mountains. There has been a lot of gold found along the main river since at least the 1800's, but I want to use LIDAR to find ancient river paths where the old-timers may have missed. Wouldn't the bank directly before the pinch point have hard pack and potentially contain a lot of gold?
Lidar is only going to show you more recent river features such as oxbows and abandoned recent channels. The river has meandered around in its current flood plain area for probably the last 10,000 years. This video is about how to locate the old gold bearing channel via sampling. Lidar will only help a little bit. Going to need boots on the ground to find where the current channel crosses the ancient gold bearing channel
@@theprospectinggeologist4347 Thanks!
Matt, now you need to to a hands on video. What I mean by that is, find a spot like this that you have access to then go out in the field and do a video showing how exactly you are translating that lidar/topo information into the real world sampling, if you get what I mean.
Yep I understand what you mean. Won’t be happening anytime soon. I was working on that method in that spot in the video but don’t have access any more and to do the method correctly means days and days in the field. And none of my near term areas can use this method. Unfortunately.
Hey man whats up. Thanks for the info, ya gave me some more to think about. Your Bigfoot encounter was probably the owner of the neighboring property haha. Btw...ya basically pinned the location of that spot lol. Not sure if you are concerned or not.
No one has access to that area anymore. The club lost access to that claim so. And even if there was it was super difficult to get to.
Glad I could help though.
@@theprospectinggeologist4347 yeah well just lookin out man
@@theprospectinggeologist4347 dang that is unfortunate. I do have a question though pertaining to this. Is there any potential occurrences in Pennsylvania where this technique could prove useful? I am not asking for specific places, just curious.
Hey man how's it going...i'm the guy you welcomed to the group the other night on Fb...we were talking about Pittsylvania County i showed you the two flooded gold mine shafts. Anyhow have you ever had much luck in gullies or do you just stick with the water? I got some gullies and creeks around the farm where i live at. Thanks dude!
Yes there are a few wet weather streams that I’ve found and panned out some good gold on. They are more difficult to sample due to lack of water most of the year.
Hey bud I have another question for you.. I've only been to claim #1 and claim #2 a few times.. I have a 1194 4-wheel drive Dodge Ram and I was wondering is there any other claims that I can access with my truck?
Should be able to access all of them fairly well with that.
@@theprospectinggeologist4347 oh cool.. I didn't know that.. Thanks again man.. I owe you one man..
Hello my friend im from north carolina and do a little prospecting my self from the charlotte area I love your videos of u have any info of my area u can she with me please let me no
There are plenty of meandering channels like that out west. Washington State comes to mind, draining the Cascades to the east. Blue Mountains in Oregon. Etc.
And out West, such areas are quite likely on BLM or NFS land. :-)
Awesome! This could be put to use there then as well.
@@theprospectinggeologist4347 - There seem to be more of them as you move north of Oregon into Washington, and then way more up in BC. Hmm. Maybe more extensive alpine glaciation, or something.
I often find myself, when checking out a stream, scratching my head trying to figure out what to make of those high-water channels that cut across point bars -- so I mean way before it cuts off an oxbow, when it's still more of a bend with a point bar rather than a meander with a narrowing neck (but I guess it's going in that direction).
Would you expect some fine flood gold to fall out on the upstream side of those cut-through, high-water channel-things? There's usually really big piles of sand and gravels behind any stumps or boulders sticking up in those channels -- I suppose because when the water is cutting through those, it's always carrying a lot of sediment. ... or does even really fine gold fall out _before_ it gets into those channels?