Not a lot of people know this History of this place and why there was so much Gold that was pulled out of the ground here. We thought you guys should know more abut it and understanding why this place is here will help you discover your own Gold mine and with so much Gold still in the ground just waiting to be found, you have a great chance to find it. For more vids on using Geological maps to find Gold just watch this video ruclips.net/video/7Cw1OMU7ZyA/видео.html and smash that like button ....smash it HARD
Next Time your in Bullhead stop by Bullhead Hobbies in The Walmart Supercenter aera I'm starting to stock gold prospecting stuff its a small amount but would like to get back in to it for next winter. I enjoy your work thanks, Brian
You can always count on the gubment to make life "easy" on miners. Just imagine the total tonnage that's in flooded and blocked mines. We could give Africa a run for their AU.
Jeff, this mine seems to be very rich. In some parts, I saw alunite mineral, which is probably secondary. And you should see weak sulphide silicas that are more inclined to oxide in the form of holes. In my mine, we also have 2,000 ppm of sulfur mixed with gold, with the method of sulfur sterilization before the eutectic formation of sulfur with gold metal in heat. I was able to prevent the gold from being accompanied by gas by roasting the sulfur soil three times and extracting all the gold. Dear Jeff
I watched twenty videos of Jeff Williams gold hunting, this is the best. He made one mistake when he said you can spend winters exploring Google Earth on a computer. The area he explores average 70 degrees F in the winter and +100 F in the summer. Come to Nevada deserts in the winter and see hundreds of miles of accesible roads in the desert in perfect weather. Visit in the summer and feel a few dregrees away from world record heat.
Before they were metal balls for ball mills, they used to use the ballast from ships. That’s why you can find river rocks from Norway in Goldfield, Nevada. They have a special name that I forgot
This is neat! I’m 64 when I was 20 I worked as an assay and production chemist in a gold refinery. We used the Crow Cyanation process. We used a cement mixer truck as our reaction vessel. We would load it up with electronic scrape with gold on it plus some hot water and a few cups of potassium cyanide. Then very very carefully we would add a tiny amount of concentrated hydrogen peroxide. Then we would filter the fluid out and salt the fluid with powdered zinc dust. This would remove the gold from the cyanide and form a precipitate of gold, copper, silver, nickel and lead. We would then in a fume hood and wearing gas masks dissolve the precipitate into aquaregia then add sodium sulphite to burn off the nitric oxide and a substantially more pure gold would precipitate out. The AR step was repeated twice more to get to five 9’s fine gold to pour into bars. Very exciting job. Very VERY dangerous. I’m retired now and work as a quant on wall street. Much safer but I get out gold pan or snipe when I can.
@@terra_world Thankyou Terra. Ya being a quant is part luck, part gut instinct, part psychologist, part math and statistics but mostly it is having faith in the Lord that he will guide me. But it is safe work and it makes me use my brain a great deal. Good luck and heavy pans, God be with you in all you do.
Jeff, please do a long detailed video on timbering a mine. Show us the different techniques and how the old timers have done it. In particular, how do you know when you need to timber a mine? How do you install stalls? What size timbers? Thanks, Jeff! I never miss a video!
I've been watching Jeff's videos for years and they're all awesome. He's a fantastic(and passionate) educator and a natural lecturer. If he teaches classes, I'm sure they're great. Thanks for another great video. One of these days we'll cross paths in the field and I look forward to it.
By the way, some experts are saying there might be a renewed rush on the old uranium deposits that we abandoned for higher quality ore in Austrailia. Got any videos on Uranium?
When i was a younger man in the 80's i worked at a foundry in te.pe arizona called Capital Castings and we would manufacture wave castings ti line the ball mills , we made different size ball , impellers and housings . Very cool to see some balls still around. Of course the stuff we made was for the massive copper mines of our era. Very cool to see a warn ball that escaped the ball mill
I love this channel. So so few channels help people find sites with open source information of genuine value. Jeff does it while being knowledgeable and entertaining! Thank you Jeff 🙂
Great videos! I worked years in the exploration business. One company I worked for would by up a bunch of claims and I would do a lot of surface and underground sampling and mapping. The Mojave was one of my favorite places because you just never really knew what may be around the corner. Fun times.
I have a 3 1/2” ball from the ball milling they did in my area. Was metal detecting one day and hit a large target. 😅 Did some research and found that they commonly used these as a cheap substitute because they were left over stick cannon balls from the civil war era.. The miners could buy a box of them cheap and used them often apparently.
Trap Rock, blue basalt bedrock found here in Dresser Wisconsin, is used to make rebar. It's great. Rebar made from trap rock doesn't rust. Doesn't expand. You can coat electronics with trap rock and make them water proof. Almost all asphalt shingles are made with trap rock. The shingle rock, dust. We have pot holes along the St Croix River in the Trap Rock. It's a nice area, St Croix Falls. You'd like it Jeff. Lots of Geological History. Especially the ice age trail, we have 1600ft tall sand dunes full of sea shells and fossils along the St Croix River that sits on top of the trap rock. Every cubic ft of sand probably has 20 sea shells in it. There's that many. You can see what was dug out from the glacier melt off.
At the top of the basalt you can see frozen fizzy looking bubbles where gas came out of the rock. I wonder if there is any gold trapped in those potholes. Probably stays frozen year round in some of them. Climbed on both sides a lot 18 years ago.
Where's Dressor, I was born in Kenosha, really only lived there for college and worked a few years. I didn't even hear about gold until I moved back West, but never made my way home, Juneau, Alaska. I would have stayed longer had I known there was even glaciated gold, but not even a peep. Makes me want to go back, knowing what I know now! Wisconsin has some pretty defined geological areas, but I never thought, or heard about the things that most interest me. That was 40 some years ago!
Jeff, i've been following you for many years now "as you know" and your videos still hit that spot in my brain that wants more input, mining and geology grab my attention like no other and your videos are the best, keep em comin brotha.
JW: Interesting place! Reminds me of very "odd" ground work remnants from pre-history in South Africa, Channel I've seen them on thought they were cattle fences/barns etc but SA is full of gold and prehistoric peoples chasing gold would need similar but more primitive systems. Look them up sometime and you may identify a lot more detail than archeologists have with your specialized background.
Man, I just can't stop watching your amount of crazy. Love it. Patreon takes the fun out, but the videos will do just fine. I never have luck in give aways anyway.
Always appreciate the education! Ths one video off handed answered my lingering question of "What if I can't or don't want to mine my claim?" Thank you!
This is the first time I've watched one of your videos in a couple a years. I always knew that you gave good knowledge, but I couldn't stand hearing it at the top of your voice. This was a great video with lots of important information and you're trying to teach. I understand being excited about this hobby/business, but there's a difference between excited and obnoxious. I'm glad you just gettin excited, because you're a pretty good teacher.
Thanks Jeff! I grew up here and worked for the NPS at Katherines Landing. This place is my home that I moved away from. Wandering these exact ranges is what gave me the gold bug many years ago and I want to thank you for bringing me back in time. They've done an amazing job at preserving the area as I hardly remember a difference at all. Just over the mountain range toward Kingman is Golden Valley. Makes you wonder what's in them thar hills ;) Thank you again Jeff you're a LEGEND!
We live next to the black mountains, in Golden Valley. We go out on the Rzr and have found many mines along with an arastra. We love metal detecting the area.
I'm still amazed how the old timers got this done by hand. Thank you Jeff for sharing. Please leave the old mines alone so other people can see the history as well. Be safe my friend 🙏
Let someone toil away for decades in those old mines, it’s gotta be just a few more feet deeper, it has to be! Can’t give up now, spent too much fortune , blood, sweat , tears and years. Those old timers couldn’t have found it all, they gave up too easy!
I was living in Searchlight and an older couple came to me looking for the Homestead (?) Mine sight in NV. We looked on a map and just above Davis dam on the Nevada side was the old mine sight. Incredible area out there. Also I've heard that there's a big mining company mining for gold at or around the Katherine. So definitely check land status out there.
This is very informative as those oldtime prospectors were really cool dudes wandering freely over the wilderness in the Good Old Days seen in all the westerns WE loved to watch growing up in the 50's & 60's
I appreciate you so much Jeff. You're such a great teacher. And the adventures you take us on are so cool. I haven't seen any videos of the drift mine in a long time. GOD bless you and keep you safe brother!
Jeff that was Slim s lost shoe. 😂😂 Thank u and Lila for another massive find o the history that the miners worked so hard to support and protect their families from hardship.😊
I use to go Wakeboarding in Lake Mohave for 12-15 yrs. every week Peak Season and REMEMBER always seeing a sign saying Katherine's Mine as I was heading down to the launch ramps! So cool to see this Jeff. Thx for making this Video for us. George
If you find a couple of rusty iron balls, you can wrap one of them with aluminum foil and bang them together. The rust and aluminum will react from the heat of the impact and make a miniature thermite reaction. The sparks can be used with a bit of tinder to make a fire.
What caught my eye was the deposits in the arroyo that have the color of concrete leading away from the mill site. Is that caliche dust, Jeff? Pretty cool
All stuff came from the west are soo interesting, I have never see the desert, but those landscapes, history turning around mine and mining town are crazy, and all those dry mine too, you gotta get wet next to the panning station only 😁
I started saying it at random times - going into the shower, washing hands, getting water from the spring... YEAH, You're GONNA GET WET! SO COME ON, LETS GO!
Jeff is an artist. The enthusiasm seems real to me! Keeps my attention. He is fun, zany and very informative. I find myself overjoyed when I find minerals and remember what Jeff said in a video. He's not deceiving us! Maybe more miners would be good for US!
Cool how everything they needed, other than wood, was around and under. I'm in north Georgia just south of Dahlonega. Do you ever prospect or show how to read the land in wooded terrain?
As much as I love hearing your voice, that was surprising and equally educational to hear the narrator describing the site. Well done, great video as always my good sir!
Sweet Video Jeff! I want to know more about the rhyolite because I mine Geodes out of the Dugway Geode beds and there is a lot of Iron oxides near and in the geodes and the white clay on the outside of the geodes has little gold flakes stuck in them. I know there's gold somewhere there but would love to know more about the rhyolitic domes and stuff. The clay looks just like in your drift mine...wouldn't doubt if it's the same layer on a big scale.
My dad bought into an old mine.they were just processing the old tailings… they weren’t making any great money but it was usually break even…he used to go down a couple of weeks a year playing on the equipment
Never heard of this mine until I saw this video. It's about 45 minutes from where I'm building a house. Thanks Jeff, I'll have to go check it out someday soon.
Hey Jeff! I and a few friends are big fans of yours! I met a guy in Parker and his name is Buck. He does a bunch of mining with some guys up in the kingman area. They have a RUclips channel also. I told him how much I enjoy your videos and he said he knew you and talked very highly of you. Its such a small world! We all love your videos and that you share your extensive knowledge of the subject..Thank you!!
I've been there 3 times. I have a vacation home in bullhead city. I go to all the mines I can find. Oatman has one just like this one. Lots of silver and gold . But copper is the main finding.
Yes. I worked in a SAG mill where they used those metal balls for grinding ore. They start out about 6" and wear down and get washed out of the mill when they get around 2" - 3" in diameter. They get hauled away for recycling after a while, but as you could imagine, there will be some that don't make it there.
7:18 That was my first thought. Why are all the piles not run through a biosolution. There must be tons of gold, just laying around, wating to be picked up by a skid loader. And to add a bonus, after the stuff is leached out, it can be mixed with bentonite, pump it down and refill the mine.
This is great content for the serious amateur, but the main thread of wonder is how close are you the the Reef? Let's get back into Wormtown and find that connection to the caverns of wonder and awe!
When I listen to you, Jeff - I regret that I didn't do as I planned, to study to be a geologist. It is so exciting to listen to you tell about the gelogy in the areas you visit. Maybe in my next life...😅. Take care, and keep this interresting videos coming. Greetings from Norway.
Thank ye thank ye Jeff, I like your videos on the Mining history. Great job, thanks mate. Oh and the steel ball mill bollocks, great find.👍👍 Cheers Kev
Hi you too! Nice to see you living and loving the dream! To find a vien with 1oz per ton seems feasable but not from my couch in California the Katherine mine seems like a dream. Once the production halted everyone moved away..its intresting to note that that also happens in towns across the world. It doesnt gave to be a gold mine but just a way to make a living.
I've always wanted to prospect but never had the opportunity. I enjoyed the video and learned a little. Appreciate you taking is along on your adventure. Thankyou.
I’ve always wished I studied geology instead of graphic design and computer graphics. My dad and I did a lot of dredging, placer mining, and panning. I worked my tail off just because the excitement of finding a nugget or pocket of gold, I was young and had gold fever. Did it for years. Now I am to old and broken, I still dream about it and for a moment it makes me happy.
Im seein a lot of potential for both high and low tech equipment that would take the person out out the risk for the more dangerous areas. Drones, remote control equipment, that sorta thing. Would def work better for wider mines though. Really amazed a bunch of these havent been widened and modernized now that steel, concrete, and cabling is more ubiquitous.
You did it again. You lured me in with something and ended up teaching me about rock nerd stuff. :( I always fall for it! And I low key love it, thanks Jeff!
This is really interesting. I grew up down the ravine from the Shaw Mine and Mill. The mill was a cyanide process mill, and all the buildings and facilities were still in place. I used to have a couple of discarded iron balls that had been worn into regular tetrahedra with rounded sides. I always wondered about how that could happen. I still have one of the unused balls and a crucible. Tailings from the mill ran down the ravine and into a large(ish) settling pond. Water from that pond provided water for a swampy area below the reservoir. Interestingly, nothing, not even algae would grow in the water running in the actual stream, or in the tailings. It had to filter out through the soil along the sides of the stream.
I have seen hundreds of thousands of mill balls working at Homestake. They even have one on display in Hill City at the Dinosaur place calling it a meteor, it was stuck in the ball mill and was pounded into a weird shape. I have seen them before when replacing the plates in the ball mills.
Spent a couple of summers in Needles and my uncle would take me all over that part of the Mojave, sometimes when he was on duty, he was a deputy. Had to ride in the back of the car those times. 1961&2. Standard Mine and Mill at Bodie used granite imported from Italy for their ball mills, the granite was denser and stronger than that from the Sierras. At the top of the Lent Shaft, there is a piece of the same granite sticking out over the shaft, if you want to look down...
Jeff Williams is my best friend. We've been hanging out since the summer of 96. I've learned so much from this man, that I too became a geologist. Jeffs favorite beer is Corona. So if you ever see him? Now you know.😊
Be careful... You say you're 🤠 Jeff's best friend, but once long ago...Skeleton Guy 💀 was his best friend and was in every episode ⛏️🪣🪙and on every adventure🦂🏚️... On day, for no apparent reason, Jeff did not say "Com' on, let's go!" to the Skeleton... He left him behind...⚰️😥 It's not like he died or something... Skeleton was already dead! Nope... just abandoned for no reason. 😢 Just brace yourself for that possibility 💔 (It's been so long ago, I forgot what Skeleton Guy's name was!)
I grew up wandering this area thank you for this video it was so interesting to know more about it. I just recently enrolled in school with geology as my major hope I am as great as Jeff is
I found a softball sized chunk of lapis lazuli that must have washed out of some hills near there. Hiked that aria all winter and never found even a fleck the size of a penny. My guess is the outcrop the lapis broke off of eroded away completely maybe thousands of years ago. Any lapis now must be under the surface somewhere but who knows where.
Happy St, Patrick's day Brother! Thank you for making this video! Its perfect with my morning coffee!!🏆🏆🏆 I use that same zinc process to recover gold from Computers! It works great but there is a learning curve to get it perfect. Also, I found a spot that looks very similar to that area.. I didn't get any samples because I didn't think it had anything in it. I'm going to go back and get some samples to see how it pans out. 1 Mile from this spot a man in 1852 found a 9 oz,8 gram Nugget. Im wondering if it came from that spot!
Happy St Patrick's my brother ...... you know its always our pleasure to do that for you guys ....yes ...time to go sample ...it definitely has gold in ther area
They are cannon balls. I found two sizes a few years ago in a dry lake where a former Army dumped its castoffs. One size was exactly 3 inches and some, which I gave to a friend, were abou1.5 inches. All solid metal.
Not a lot of people know this History of this place and why there was so much Gold that was pulled out of the ground here. We thought you guys should know more abut it and understanding why this place is here will help you discover your own Gold mine and with so much Gold still in the ground just waiting to be found, you have a great chance to find it. For more vids on using Geological maps to find Gold just watch this video ruclips.net/video/7Cw1OMU7ZyA/видео.html and smash that like button ....smash it HARD
Next Time your in Bullhead stop by Bullhead Hobbies in The Walmart Supercenter aera I'm starting to stock gold prospecting stuff its a small amount but would like to get back in to it for next winter. I enjoy your work thanks, Brian
@@montanaior7714I’ll definitely keep you in mind the next time I’m in Bullhead.😁
You can always count on the gubment to make life "easy" on miners. Just imagine the total tonnage that's in flooded and blocked mines. We could give Africa a run for their AU.
@@montanaior7714 you wouldn't happen to carry crucibles would you?
Jeff, this mine seems to be very rich. In some parts, I saw alunite mineral, which is probably secondary. And you should see weak sulphide silicas that are more inclined to oxide in the form of holes. In my mine, we also have 2,000 ppm of sulfur mixed with gold, with the method of sulfur sterilization before the eutectic formation of sulfur with gold metal in heat. I was able to prevent the gold from being accompanied by gas by roasting the sulfur soil three times and extracting all the gold. Dear Jeff
I watched twenty videos of Jeff Williams gold hunting, this is the best. He made one mistake when he said you can spend winters exploring Google Earth on a computer. The area he explores average 70 degrees F in the winter and +100 F in the summer. Come to Nevada deserts in the winter and see hundreds of miles of accesible roads in the desert in perfect weather. Visit in the summer and feel a few dregrees away from world record heat.
exactly
Spent some summers in Needles when I was a kid...Had a great time.
@@aebemacgillat the riverside.
Before they were metal balls for ball mills, they used to use the ballast from ships. That’s why you can find river rocks from Norway in Goldfield, Nevada. They have a special name that I forgot
They also used to use portland cement as ballast in ships. Fun fact.
This is neat! I’m 64 when I was 20 I worked as an assay and production chemist in a gold refinery. We used the Crow Cyanation process. We used a cement mixer truck as our reaction vessel. We would load it up with electronic scrape with gold on it plus some hot water and a few cups of potassium cyanide. Then very very carefully we would add a tiny amount of concentrated hydrogen peroxide. Then we would filter the fluid out and salt the fluid with powdered zinc dust. This would remove the gold from the cyanide and form a precipitate of gold, copper, silver, nickel and lead. We would then in a fume hood and wearing gas masks dissolve the precipitate into aquaregia then add sodium sulphite to burn off the nitric oxide and a substantially more pure gold would precipitate out. The AR step was repeated twice more to get to five 9’s fine gold to pour into bars. Very exciting job. Very VERY dangerous. I’m retired now and work as a quant on wall street. Much safer but I get out gold pan or snipe when I can.
thats pretty cool..... thanks for sharing that
@@Askjeffwilliams Thank you, and you are most welcome!
@@terra_world Thankyou Terra. Ya being a quant is part luck, part gut instinct, part psychologist, part math and statistics but mostly it is having faith in the Lord that he will guide me. But it is safe work and it makes me use my brain a great deal. Good luck and heavy pans, God be with you in all you do.
The Good old days, when on the job training was on the job training!
The process he described is how lead and mercury got in the water
I grew up around there and would find those steel balls everywhere! It's cool to see this. Thanks again Jeff!
you betcha ....did you ever get a chance to get inside the mine .....
Not the one you're at. I have found some others that were pretty interesting.
Jeff, please do a long detailed video on timbering a mine. Show us the different techniques and how the old timers have done it. In particular, how do you know when you need to timber a mine? How do you install stalls? What size timbers? Thanks, Jeff! I never miss a video!
great idea
Metal spheres…sounds like they had a Ball Mill there
Ancient astronaut theorist say Yes.
I am not saying its Aliens ......but its Aliens . Lol
@@AskjeffwilliamsLmao!
Pmfsl 😂@@Askjeffwilliams
I was thinking they could be from mercury processing of gold
I've been watching Jeff's videos for years and they're all awesome. He's a fantastic(and passionate) educator and a natural lecturer. If he teaches classes, I'm sure they're great. Thanks for another great video. One of these days we'll cross paths in the field and I look forward to it.
By the way, some experts are saying there might be a renewed rush on the old uranium deposits that we abandoned for higher quality ore in Austrailia. Got any videos on Uranium?
Very cool my brother and yes I use to teach classes and seminars out at Las Vegas
How about geology 101?
When i was a younger man in the 80's i worked at a foundry in te.pe arizona called Capital Castings and we would manufacture wave castings ti line the ball mills , we made different size ball , impellers and housings . Very cool to see some balls still around. Of course the stuff we made was for the massive copper mines of our era. Very cool to see a warn ball that escaped the ball mill
I love this channel.
So so few channels help people find sites with open source information of genuine value.
Jeff does it while being knowledgeable and entertaining!
Thank you Jeff 🙂
always our pleasure
@@Askjeffwilliams my apologies, I forgot to mention your better half 🙂
You are a great team
Yeah Lila! Videos are expert quality. Jeff, I miss Slim! Glad to know you have Lila. I love her channel too!😊
You're right Jeff, you are my favorite gold prospector.
hahhahaa thanks Wheelie man
Subscribed! I heard how you patched the word "generator" to cover something, and yet I still love your style so much. You worked hard to edit this!
Awesome! Thank you and welcome aboard
Great videos! I worked years in the exploration business. One company I worked for would by up a bunch of claims and I would do a lot of surface and underground sampling and mapping. The Mojave was one of my favorite places because you just never really knew what may be around the corner. Fun times.
Thanks for sharing!
I have a 3 1/2” ball from the ball milling they did in my area. Was metal detecting one day and hit a large target. 😅 Did some research and found that they commonly used these as a cheap substitute because they were left over stick cannon balls from the civil war era.. The miners could buy a box of them cheap and used them often apparently.
Trap Rock, blue basalt bedrock found here in Dresser Wisconsin, is used to make rebar. It's great. Rebar made from trap rock doesn't rust. Doesn't expand. You can coat electronics with trap rock and make them water proof. Almost all asphalt shingles are made with trap rock. The shingle rock, dust. We have pot holes along the St Croix River in the Trap Rock. It's a nice area, St Croix Falls. You'd like it Jeff. Lots of Geological History. Especially the ice age trail, we have 1600ft tall sand dunes full of sea shells and fossils along the St Croix River that sits on top of the trap rock. Every cubic ft of sand probably has 20 sea shells in it. There's that many. You can see what was dug out from the glacier melt off.
sounds great
At the top of the basalt you can see frozen fizzy looking bubbles where gas came out of the rock.
I wonder if there is any gold trapped in those potholes. Probably stays frozen year round in some of them.
Climbed on both sides a lot 18 years ago.
Where's Dressor, I was born in Kenosha, really only lived there for college and worked a few years. I didn't even hear about gold until I moved back West, but never made my way home, Juneau, Alaska. I would have stayed longer had I known there was even glaciated gold, but not even a peep. Makes me want to go back, knowing what I know now! Wisconsin has some pretty defined geological areas, but I never thought, or heard about the things that most interest me. That was 40 some years ago!
@@dirkfrazier9779 Western Wisconsin by Osceola
Jeff, i've been following you for many years now "as you know" and your videos still hit that spot in my brain that wants more input, mining and geology grab my attention like no other and your videos are the best, keep em comin brotha.
That is awesome my brother and so happy you are still watching our channel
JW: Interesting place! Reminds me of very "odd" ground work remnants from pre-history in South Africa, Channel I've seen them on thought they were cattle fences/barns etc but SA is full of gold and prehistoric peoples chasing gold would need similar but more primitive systems. Look them up sometime and you may identify a lot more detail than archeologists have with your specialized background.
I don't think I'll ever prospect but this is highly entertaining! Keep the instruction comping! Thank you!
Gawd you make Geology fun. I really love the energy you deliver. You open the doors I didn't know I had.
Keep up the good work.
really appreciate that
Man, I just can't stop watching your amount of crazy. Love it. Patreon takes the fun out, but the videos will do just fine. I never have luck in give aways anyway.
I appreciate that!
Always appreciate the education! Ths one video off handed answered my lingering question of "What if I can't or don't want to mine my claim?" Thank you!
Right on!
Love your enthusiasm! Taking a walk out in those areas must be so much fun for you.
Jeff... you didn't tell us why they shut the mine down!!!! At least I didn't catch it??
L208 , extraction cost and now water in the mine
I love this guys enthusiasm
Jeff you're still the most knowledgeable miner i know of. I appreciate anything you share. Thanks man .
Bri
always our pleasure Bri
This is the first time I've watched one of your videos in a couple a years. I always knew that you gave good knowledge, but I couldn't stand hearing it at the top of your voice.
This was a great video with lots of important information and you're trying to teach. I understand being excited about this hobby/business, but there's a difference between excited and obnoxious. I'm glad you just gettin excited, because you're a pretty good teacher.
Welcome back!
Excellent teacher. Great history, nice views, running around in the desert is the icing on the prospectors cake. Yes, have your cake and eat it too!
Thanks Jeff! I grew up here and worked for the NPS at Katherines Landing. This place is my home that I moved away from. Wandering these exact ranges is what gave me the gold bug many years ago and I want to thank you for bringing me back in time. They've done an amazing job at preserving the area as I hardly remember a difference at all. Just over the mountain range toward Kingman is Golden Valley. Makes you wonder what's in them thar hills ;) Thank you again Jeff you're a LEGEND!
always our pleasure my brother ....thanks
We live next to the black mountains, in Golden Valley. We go out on the Rzr and have found many mines along with an arastra. We love metal detecting the area.
I'm still amazed how the old timers got this done by hand. Thank you Jeff for sharing. Please leave the old mines alone so other people can see the history as well. Be safe my friend 🙏
Let someone toil away for decades in those old mines, it’s gotta be just a few more feet deeper, it has to be! Can’t give up now, spent too much fortune , blood, sweat , tears and years. Those old timers couldn’t have found it all, they gave up too easy!
Great job on this informative video, Jeff. You're the best!That sure is a massive tailings field. Kudos to your editor, as well. ⛏️💰
thanks you two .... really appreciate that and my wife Lila is the master editor. Be safe out there and keep them vids a coming
I love your videos, Jeff. I only wish geology was this interesting to me when I was younger.
I was living in Searchlight and an older couple came to me looking for the Homestead (?) Mine sight in NV. We looked on a map and just above Davis dam on the Nevada side was the old mine sight. Incredible area out there. Also I've heard that there's a big mining company mining for gold at or around the Katherine. So definitely check land status out there.
My uncle had claims for float gold not far west of lake Mojave, AND DON'T YOU TELL ANYONE! That was in 1960 or so, so no longer a problem.
If this had been in my history class in school, I would have paid attention.
This is very informative as those oldtime prospectors were really cool dudes wandering freely over the wilderness in the Good Old Days seen in all the westerns WE loved to watch growing up in the 50's & 60's
A super awesome video I love the rustic voice info before your excitement
When I was a kid I remember visiting my father's industrial mining operation, the noise of the ball mills, the vibration of the water tables.
Good morning Jeff, thanks for the awesome tour. Yesterday I went and explored an old mine accessible only by boat, I was like a kid in a candy shop.
you gotta love them huh
I appreciate you so much Jeff. You're such a great teacher. And the adventures you take us on are so cool. I haven't seen any videos of the drift mine in a long time. GOD bless you and keep you safe brother!
You rock! thanks
Jeff that was Slim s lost shoe. 😂😂 Thank u and Lila for another massive find o the history that the miners worked so hard to support and protect their families from hardship.😊
you betcha Tina
I use to go Wakeboarding in Lake Mohave for 12-15 yrs. every week Peak Season and REMEMBER always seeing a sign saying Katherine's Mine as I was heading down to the launch ramps! So cool to see this Jeff. Thx for making this Video for us. George
you betcha George
Interesting topic. Bet experience comes in at some point to help find the best most promising locations. Fun to learn about.
If you find a couple of rusty iron balls, you can wrap one of them with aluminum foil and bang them together. The rust and aluminum will react from the heat of the impact and make a miniature thermite reaction. The sparks can be used with a bit of tinder to make a fire.
What caught my eye was the deposits in the arroyo that have the color of concrete leading away from the mill site. Is that caliche dust, Jeff? Pretty cool
I absolutely loved that little story about the old mine.
Thanks!
you betcha and thanks
GREAT ENERGY FROM THIS CHANNNEL 🌞
I appreciate that
That 'GENERATOR' edit was hilarious 🤣
10:07
Jeff's energy is irresistibly contagious and it's awesome.
I love it when Jeff uses his real voice to narrate the beginning of the video!!!
😂amen
Man, every time there's some kind of new info, appreciate you , thanks!
Fabulous production Sir..............I need to see this joint in person. Live in So. Calif.
All stuff came from the west are soo interesting, I have never see the desert, but those landscapes, history turning around mine and mining town are crazy, and all those dry mine too, you gotta get wet next to the panning station only 😁
I started saying it at random times - going into the shower, washing hands, getting water from the spring... YEAH, You're GONNA GET WET! SO COME ON, LETS GO!
I love the enthusiasm and energy of this guy.
I find it fatuous and annoying. Just talk like an adult talking to adults. I promise that your viewership numbers will go up, not down.
Jeff is an artist. The enthusiasm seems real to me! Keeps my attention. He is fun, zany and very informative. I find myself overjoyed when I find minerals and remember what Jeff said in a video. He's not deceiving us! Maybe more miners would be good for US!
Cool how everything they needed, other than wood, was around and under. I'm in north Georgia just south of Dahlonega. Do you ever prospect or show how to read the land in wooded terrain?
yes we do
As much as I love hearing your voice, that was surprising and equally educational to hear the narrator describing the site. Well done, great video as always my good sir!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Jeff I woke up t9 coffee and this video at 6 am. I love how it’s like the unraveling of a mystery everytime! Great job and good morning
Awesome! Thank you!
Your videos are sooo informative Jeff! ❤ All the time and work you put into these is absolutely amazing ❤
thanks , really appreciate that
Sweet Video Jeff! I want to know more about the rhyolite because I mine Geodes out of the Dugway Geode beds and there is a lot of Iron oxides near and in the geodes and the white clay on the outside of the geodes has little gold flakes stuck in them. I know there's gold somewhere there but would love to know more about the rhyolitic domes and stuff. The clay looks just like in your drift mine...wouldn't doubt if it's the same layer on a big scale.
My dad bought into an old mine.they were just processing the old tailings… they weren’t making any great money but it was usually break even…he used to go down a couple of weeks a year playing on the equipment
Never heard of this mine until I saw this video. It's about 45 minutes from where I'm building a house. Thanks Jeff, I'll have to go check it out someday soon.
Are you any where near the Fish and Game office in Kingman ?
9:00 I was on a crew that built a big paper mill back in the 90's ... and we fastened down dozens of components just as you describe here :)
Still larnin’ from ya, Jeff. Couldn’t be better!! Thanx a heap!
thanks and you betcha
As someone living in urban europe, this video ticks all the adventure boxes for me, history, deserts, geology, urbex, drones, gold,
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thanks
Been a sub for years. Jeff, your channel is so brilliant now. Love every minute
thanks
Not a lot of gold to mine around my house. I'm here for the geology and history lessons. and the good cheer. Cheers!
Best videos on RUclips. Keep them coming buddy you’re the best.🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👌🏻
thanks and you betcha
Anybody else immediately think about how awesome it would be to metal detect that area?? 😅👍😉
Jeff, you are the best mining geologist on the tube. AND you make it so interesting! SO C'MON....LET'S GO.
thanks , really appreciate that
Hey Jeff! I and a few friends are big fans of yours! I met a guy in Parker and his name is Buck. He does a bunch of mining with some guys up in the kingman area. They have a RUclips channel also. I told him how much I enjoy your videos and he said he knew you and talked very highly of you. Its such a small world! We all love your videos and that you share your extensive knowledge of the subject..Thank you!!
thanks for letting us know and tell them we said Hi and thanks
I've been there 3 times. I have a vacation home in bullhead city. I go to all the mines I can find. Oatman has one just like this one. Lots of silver and gold . But copper is the main finding.
Yes. I worked in a SAG mill where they used those metal balls for grinding ore. They start out about 6" and wear down and get washed out of the mill when they get around 2" - 3" in diameter. They get hauled away for recycling after a while, but as you could imagine, there will be some that don't make it there.
7:18 That was my first thought. Why are all the piles not run through a biosolution. There must be tons of gold, just laying around, wating to be picked up by a skid loader.
And to add a bonus, after the stuff is leached out, it can be mixed with bentonite, pump it down and refill the mine.
exactly ....maybe one of the reasons there is a big fence around it
This is great content for the serious amateur, but the main thread of wonder is how close are you the the Reef? Let's get back into Wormtown and find that connection to the caverns of wonder and awe!
exactly
Near Baker?
When I listen to you, Jeff - I regret that I didn't do as I planned, to study to be a geologist. It is so exciting to listen to you tell about the gelogy in the areas you visit. Maybe in my next life...😅. Take care, and keep this interresting videos coming. Greetings from Norway.
thanks
Thank ye thank ye Jeff, I like your videos on the Mining history. Great job, thanks mate. Oh and the steel ball mill bollocks, great find.👍👍 Cheers Kev
I really hate the dollars per ton estimate... Although he does cover what gold was selling for per ounce back then.
Yeah, I prefer troy ounces per ton or tonne of ore processed. That makes the yield independent of varying gold prices.
He does both.
@@maryglo1gold prices from the video are also different than they are today so it's better just to have troykilo ounce measurements
Hi you too! Nice to see you living and loving the dream! To find a vien with 1oz per ton seems feasable but not from my couch in California the Katherine mine seems like a dream. Once the production halted everyone moved away..its intresting to note that that also happens in towns across the world. It doesnt gave to be a gold mine but just a way to make a living.
Another great video...well informative
The electrical conduct is so big because they probaly used a d.c. generator wich would require thick wires
I've always wanted to prospect but never had the opportunity. I enjoyed the video and learned a little. Appreciate you taking is along on your adventure. Thankyou.
you betcha
I’ve always wished I studied geology instead of graphic design and computer graphics. My dad and I did a lot of dredging, placer mining, and panning. I worked my tail off just because the excitement of finding a nugget or pocket of gold, I was young and had gold fever. Did it for years. Now I am to old and broken, I still dream about it and for a moment it makes me happy.
Im seein a lot of potential for both high and low tech equipment that would take the person out out the risk for the more dangerous areas. Drones, remote control equipment, that sorta thing. Would def work better for wider mines though. Really amazed a bunch of these havent been widened and modernized now that steel, concrete, and cabling is more ubiquitous.
Incredible intro on the mine.. blew my mind..simply the best I've ever watched..
thanks
You did it again. You lured me in with something and ended up teaching me about rock nerd stuff. :( I always fall for it! And I low key love it, thanks Jeff!
Rock on my brother ...love hearing that
AWESOME VIDEO!!!!! Learned a ton !!!!
Exceptionally informative. Nice episode!
Much appreciated!
This is really interesting. I grew up down the ravine from the Shaw Mine and Mill. The mill was a cyanide process mill, and all the buildings and facilities were still in place. I used to have a couple of discarded iron balls that had been worn into regular tetrahedra with rounded sides. I always wondered about how that could happen. I still have one of the unused balls and a crucible. Tailings from the mill ran down the ravine and into a large(ish) settling pond. Water from that pond provided water for a swampy area below the reservoir. Interestingly, nothing, not even algae would grow in the water running in the actual stream, or in the tailings. It had to filter out through the soil along the sides of the stream.
thanks for sharing that ...
@@AskjeffwilliamsYou explained more about the cyanide process than I had ever heard before. Thanks.
Thank you for your time , That was really cool info ..👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have seen hundreds of thousands of mill balls working at Homestake. They even have one on display in Hill City at the Dinosaur place calling it a meteor, it was stuck in the ball mill and was pounded into a weird shape. I have seen them before when replacing the plates in the ball mills.
Spent a couple of summers in Needles and my uncle would take me all over that part of the Mojave, sometimes when he was on duty, he was a deputy. Had to ride in the back of the car those times. 1961&2.
Standard Mine and Mill at Bodie used granite imported from Italy for their ball mills, the granite was denser and stronger than that from the Sierras. At the top of the Lent Shaft, there is a piece of the same granite sticking out over the shaft, if you want to look down...
wow ....thanks for sharing that
This video was a really big show good information very educational I think one of your best thanks Jeff
thanks
Thanks for another great video, Jeff!⛏️
you betcha you two ..... really glad you liked it ....so you know what I am gonna say hu
Wow! What a fantastic mine story! Beautiful! Thank you for showing this to us Jeff👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😎❤️
My pleasure!!
Incredible
Jeff Williams is my best friend. We've been hanging out since the summer of 96. I've learned so much from this man, that I too became a geologist. Jeffs favorite beer is Corona. So if you ever see him? Now you know.😊
Lol😂
Be careful...
You say you're 🤠 Jeff's best friend, but once long ago...Skeleton Guy 💀 was his best friend and was in every episode ⛏️🪣🪙and on every adventure🦂🏚️...
On day, for no apparent reason, Jeff did not say "Com' on, let's go!" to the Skeleton... He left him behind...⚰️😥
It's not like he died or something... Skeleton was already dead! Nope... just abandoned for no reason. 😢
Just brace yourself for that possibility 💔
(It's been so long ago, I forgot what Skeleton Guy's name was!)
With lemon?
Skeleton was Slim. Was that Jeff's dad? Rest in peace Dad. You raised him well!
@@maryglo1 Lime preferably, but lemon will work. No salt. Not at our age.
wow thank you so much for the video. Edcuational as heck.
I grew up wandering this area thank you for this video it was so interesting to know more about it. I just recently enrolled in school with geology as my major hope I am as great as Jeff is
Glad you enjoyed it! Thats great ...keep us posted
I found a softball sized chunk of lapis lazuli that must have washed out of some hills near there. Hiked that aria all winter and never found even a fleck the size of a penny. My guess is the outcrop the lapis broke off of eroded away completely maybe thousands of years ago. Any lapis now must be under the surface somewhere but who knows where.
thank you for sharing the adventure and information.
Our pleasure!
Happy St, Patrick's day Brother! Thank you for making this video! Its perfect with my morning coffee!!🏆🏆🏆
I use that same zinc process to recover gold from Computers! It works great but there is a learning curve to get it perfect.
Also, I found a spot that looks very similar to that area.. I didn't get any samples because I didn't think it had anything in it.
I'm going to go back and get some samples to see how it pans out. 1 Mile from this spot a man in 1852 found a 9 oz,8 gram Nugget. Im wondering if it came from that spot!
Happy St Patrick's my brother ...... you know its always our pleasure to do that for you guys ....yes ...time to go sample ...it definitely has gold in ther area
They are cannon balls. I found two sizes a few years ago in a dry lake where a former Army dumped its castoffs. One size was exactly 3 inches and some, which I gave to a friend, were abou1.5 inches. All solid metal.