I didn't get into gold prospecting until I moved from WI to AK 20 years ago. Little did I know there was gold all around me the 40 years I lived in WI. Great video!!
I'm the reverse of you; I moved from Ak to Wi for college. If only someone had told me to bring a gold pan, it would have kept me out of a lot of trouble! I moved from Wi to Wa, where I still live, and bought a new gold pan to replace the one I left behind. It has been 42 years since I left Ak and 35 since I left Wi. for Wa and shortly after bought a gold pan where I still reside presently. If someone had told me in 1983 to bring my gold pan because there was gold in Wi, it would have kept me out of the bar life of Wi! It's amazing how much trouble a $10-$15 tool can keep a person out of trouble!
New subscriber here, I really enjoy your content. I live in Fillmore county down by Spring Valley. If you do your homework you will find there was alot of iron ore mining in that area years ago. There are places where the iron ore deposits cross streams and that is where you can actually find decent gold. Yes even pickers and occasionally wire gold. Are you going to get rich, probably not unless you could set up a wash plant for mining sand. Remember the old saying, gold rides an iron horse. I look forward for more great content. I especially like your satire. Haha the reporter hit in the face by a fish!!
I really enjoy watching your videos. I also like that you’re right here in the Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa area. There is parts of the northeast Iowa that I’ve researched and would like to get up and do some field study someday but it’s just so dang far away. There are some really good spots over there. Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing your adventure in gold prospecting with the rest of us. I learn something every time I watch your videos.
I can drive from Seattle to Chicago or back in 2 1/2 days. What's so far about that? From Milwaukee, WI, to Keywest, FL, within 24 hours, and Seattle to an hour north of Los Angeles, CA, or to Las Vegas, NV, all under 24 hours! It's 5 hours to cross the state of Washington, East, or South and even North to BC, Canada, from where I live-the most monatous part of a trip! A pocket full of gas money and a credit card are almost everything you need-a little bit of enthusiasm is what propels you out the door and keeps you going!!
Kenosha, WI to Minnesota Twin Cities, St. Paul is 5 or maybe 8 hours, tops! I've been to Iowa, 5-6 hours from Kenosha over the Mississippi River to a nearby town in Iowa I can't remember the name of, lovely place though! And I think your biggest obstacle is your lazy boy who doesn't let you go exploring!
We see things around us all of the time and never think twice about it. Example- when you pulled up to that outcropping and explained the various rocks and why they are different colors, I found that very interesting. It's not something I would ever think about -it's just a reminder that we can always be educated. Just subbed!
Great video again and a few specks of gold. Sounds like you have a very interesting job. Wish I knew more about geology. Just started learning things a few years ago.
Another great video. Educational, entertaining, great editing and clips added. Keep it up. As far as where to look in a stream, I've looked on the inside, outside, upside, downside, high and low locations and "@Gold is where you find it". (another good channel) Looking forward to more content.
Another great video! I'm sorry I found you so late. We just moved off our hobby farm with a large gravel bed creek flowing through it. It would have been fun to see if I could have found some gold in my own back yard.
Thanks for the lesson! I just got 100 mesh & a blue bowl yesterday. I've found that I spend too much time looking at the fine material with a magnifying glass😊. Lots of purple and red looking quartz with different colors all the way to completely clear. It's mesmerizing, lol. I should get a telescope too, my eyes aren't what they used to be. Thanks again!!
Check - no gold in the drift-less zone. 6 trillion other square miles to verify. 😂. Test, test and test some more. Fun to see your videos and can’t wait for the next one. ⚡️⚒⚡️
Awesome! I lived in Wisconsin when I went to college. I wish someone would have told me to bring a gold pan; it would have kept me out of a lot of bars!
Bars are pretty common in Wisconsin. That’s one reason I’ve never had a drop of alcohol. Didn’t ever want it to be an issue so I drew a hard line and never crossed it.
If you ever get south of Platteville you should check out the fever river. It runs through the main lead country. Outside the town of lead mine there is a big horseshoe bend. There's another public access outside of Newdiggings. It turns into the Galena River when it hits Illinois. Runs all the way to the Mississippi River without being damned. A lot of the river on the Wisconsin side is public access for fishing. You might be able to find a big chunk of Galena or a something cool. Thanks for taking us along on another adventure.
Stumbled across your channel this morning, fun fact my grandfather was a big part of creating that walking trail in the beginning of your video. I rent boats in McGregor Iowa and see one gentleman go out panning, he actually came back to return the boat and had a few gold flakes, crazy. I recommend yellow river or Turkey river in Iowa.
I know a bunch of creeks in the driftless with a lot of black sand. I have tried panning in some of them but don't know what I am doing. I have a small playlist of places that I have tried. I have found creeks with agate-looking material and some loaded with quartz.
Could be a load of sulfides. Chert can form in bands and look like agate. I mean an agate is chert chemically. Quarts can form a number of ways. Only some of them are conducive for gold precipitation though. J
I'm just inside the driftless zone in MN and can attest it goes from nothing to decent amounts of till/AU over a very short distance. Like you say, some of the moraines along the edges could be loaded and gradually spread into the driftless through alluvial action. The Straight River in Faribault as a really good example of this, where you can find gold in every pan, but once you get downstream into the Cannon river, practically nothing.
Now seeing and understanding from your explanations of the rocks, I remember as a kid finding a bunch of quartz in the cannon river in northfield and that’s right on the edge of the driftless zone. Maybe I’ll check it out
No idea if you can truly find gold in the Driftless Area, but another loophole is prospecting along the edge of the Driftless where the glaciers likely deposited along the edges. People like the Black Earth Creek in Cross Plains and around where it meets the Wisconsin River.
Mr Gold Hunter, do a show about the Flambeau mine south of Ladysmith WI. It's is crazy interesting how much gold got pulled out of it, possibly the most gold ever on earth for the size of mine. Im only 30+ miles away in Barron county and we only have frack sand.
@@ultramagaman4304 that was a copper mine but yes it did have gold in the sulfides. I plan on doing a video there next year. Do people still cry foul about that mine? I know there were a lot of law suits.
Yes copper mine but they got 334,000 ounces of gold and 3+ million ounces of silver. Any mine that close gets people nervous what will happen next with reclaim process.
@@GlacialGoldHunter yes sir it is! I bet some gold got dropped off that glacier in near by areas also but I have never heard of anything. So possibly, there's a bunch of gold just laying under a few feet of ground near by ( maybe 35 miles away in my back 40 creek). Fingers crossed 🤞. Thanks for your show and happy New Year
You need to go farther west in Iowa to find gold. Near Edgewood in Delaware County, Otter Creek in Fayette County, Big Sioux River in Jasper County, South Skunk River, Turkey River Iowa River, all have gold.
I love hearing you talk about geology. It's really fascinating. Hopefully you come back to Northeast Minneapolis next summer and explain some of the geological features of this area. I know you didn't find too much gold when you were in Ne Mpls, but it's worth another shot, right?
I want to go back and pan 40 buckets. That’s 1 whole yard of dirt. I want to calculate how much gold per yard there is in the river. And not just an estimate. I want to go through 40 buckets. Might take all summer.
I’m close to Platteville. My aunt has a big creek/Stream runs her land completely rock bottom n sand areas. Making me wonder …it’s pry 20-30’ at the widest in spots
Also, and I could be wrong, but I believe those that study the Driftless Area say that the only true Driftless is in Wisconsin. Even though parts of surrounding states have similar features, they were “drifted” by glaciers at least once. Only a specific area of Wisconsin was never drifted across ice ages.
I trout fish streams just north of red wing and I heard that that area was the edge of the drift zone. one stream that I found very suitable for gold is bell creek that flows into the cannon River just south of Welch village, have you ever panned them rivers in the Welch village area? I think it may be very good to try..
Ha. I just looked at my map. I commonly will look at topo maps and flag places that look good to prospect. And I have a flag there I that creek. I just haven’t been there yet.
@GlacialGoldHunter well the upper part of bell creek near Vasa has some beautiful bedrock sheer cliffs along side of bell creek.. and I heard that bell creek was the edge of the glacial flow where it actually ended.. good luck I love your videos..
I live in the driftless zone near La Crosse, WI and learn so much from your channel! I haven't done any prospecting here, but have this question. We have (literally) tons of sandstone, limestone and cold water agate (less agate) in our yard and layers of quartz crystals formed in the rock. My question is: Would this quartz layer have the potential to hold gold in it? Or do the layers of quartz crystals represent something else?
Good question. Most quartz will not have gold in it. But it’s the quartz veins that come off of volcanic intrusions, or fault veins. It takes a lot of heat and pressure to drive the gold into solution. As it rises through the depths of the earth that pressure dissipates and the fluids can essentially start to boil. That’s when you will get most of your dissolved minerals to precipitate. That’s why I’m always looking for signs of volcanism and metamorphism in the tailings. The quarts you are likely seeing is quartz that was dissolved at cooler temps than would be carrying gold. But that is an assumption on my part. Gotta take samples to know what’s there.
Hi, how are you in the last couple of weeks I started getting interested in panning and geology. I’ve been metal detecting for quite a while. Kind of bored with that I like your videos I live in New Jersey. Do you think I’m wasting my time panning here in this state thank youTony.
I know there is gold out east. I saw a guy panning in. New Hampshire. Not sure how far that is. But each state has its own panning laws. You could look for a GPAA chapter in your area and maybe get a lead of what’s there.
@@GlacialGoldHunter OK thank you for replying. I will continue to watch your videos and learn as much as possible and try my luck around my neck of the woods for now.
Hello and Good Morning, Have you tried looking in old river channels near the current course? I have been on a couple of creeks where theres no gold in the stream but there is in the old benches. Thanks for the Lesson I really enjoy your videos even though we are in different regions. Maybe you can take a look at my Montana claim if you are in the area.
Your videos are relaxing, the hobby looks relaxing. Are you an MMA guy? I noticed your shirt for the Cellar gym in an older video. I trained bjj at Matamoros back in the day throughout my 20s 😂 🤙
Went to College in Platteville 25ish years ago... Do you mark your snuffer bottles and use a different bottle for each location so you can pinpoint where the sample was taken?
I was in South Carolina for Christmas and I received a gold miner's kit from my wife's husband (That Me). I went to a dry creek bed found a low pressure spot during runoff season scraped away all the leaves and found a nice gravel bed with glay and with each scoop of this material you could see gold flakes lots and lots of gold flakes. Is it gold I don't think so however this area in SC is known for gold. But I can't separate it from the sand it's so flat it seems a light as the sand pebbles. Got any ideas
Gold always wins. If everything else s the same size you can always separate the light material from the gold because gold is so much more dense. Make sure the material is classified to the same size. Flats shiny flakes that move around easily could be mica. If you can’t get it to separate it might not be gold. Sometimes people get bags of pay dirt just so they know what gold looks like and how it moves in the pan.
Please watch where you prospect. Wisconsin has a rule about panning in designated trout waters at certain times of the year. If it's not designated, you're fine year round.
I showcased my actual job in this video. I work the drill rigs. When I’m out in the field I work all day. When I’m not in the field I can film and edit.
@GlacialGoldHunter maybe further north by glacial lakes would produce. I'm by Mitchell, just starting and have no idea what I'm doing lol. Slooowly learning. Thanks for the videos
Feel like a news reporter! Ya! Good one! Just add a little more drama next time, you need a wider Stance like a kung fu master ready to battle! Great video thanks! 😊
I knew that you would not combine you material from multiple sites in one snuffer bottle, because it would defeat one of your stated purposes. I knew it for a fact, so I put the thought out of my mind. . .
Yeah. For this if I’m dealing with specks that small I’d have to get a snuffer never been used to ensure there was zero contamination, but bottom line, if you have to use a microscope to see it, it’s probably better to find a new spot.
Hmm. Doesn’t the Mississippi start north of the Driftless? If so, you are running the risk of getting a few glacial flakes and not true Driftless material, right? Please let me know if I’m understanding that correctly. Thanks so much!
I thought I made that point clear that I was hoping to find a stream that cut through the glacial till that would bring gold into the driftless zone. That was the point of going to the Mississippi.
I watch gold prospecting videos from time to time, despite not having an interest in doing it. One thing I'd like to comment is that the splices of unrelated clips are incredibly annoying. If I am watching someone doing something, I don't want to see a clip from the Simpsons or some sitcom I'm not familiar with. I remember this being a thing in the past on RUclips (it was just as grating then), but I don't think this is used anymore, and for good reason too.
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This is been by far my favorite of yours, despite the lack of gold finding. Informational, educational, windicational, fundicational!
Thank you!
I agree and approve of your comment!
I didn't get into gold prospecting until I moved from WI to AK 20 years ago.
Little did I know there was gold all around me the 40 years I lived in WI.
Great video!!
I bed there is a lot more to be seen where you are.
I'm the reverse of you; I moved from Ak to Wi for college. If only someone had told me to bring a gold pan, it would have kept me out of a lot of trouble! I moved from Wi to Wa, where I still live, and bought a new gold pan to replace the one I left behind. It has been 42 years since I left Ak and 35 since I left Wi. for Wa and shortly after bought a gold pan where I still reside presently. If someone had told me in 1983 to bring my gold pan because there was gold in Wi, it would have kept me out of the bar life of Wi! It's amazing how much trouble a $10-$15 tool can keep a person out of trouble!
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We, too, graduated from WI and we both lost a lot of brain cells on State St during our edumacation. 🤣
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Oh, yeah. Gold is a lot chunkier up here.
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New subscriber here, I really enjoy your content. I live in Fillmore county down by Spring Valley. If you do your homework you will find there was alot of iron ore mining in that area years ago. There are places where the iron ore deposits cross streams and that is where you can actually find decent gold. Yes even pickers and occasionally wire gold. Are you going to get rich, probably not unless you could set up a wash plant for mining sand. Remember the old saying, gold rides an iron horse. I look forward for more great content. I especially like your satire. Haha the reporter hit in the face by a fish!!
That’s pretty cool. I haven’t looked around there.
Glaciation is that even a word. lol I love your channel. It’s so informational. Thank you for spending the time out there doing this.
Thanks for watching!
I really enjoy watching your videos. I also like that you’re right here in the Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa area. There is parts of the northeast Iowa that I’ve researched and would like to get up and do some field study someday but it’s just so dang far away. There are some really good spots over there. Keep up the good work. Thanks for sharing your adventure in gold prospecting with the rest of us. I learn something every time I watch your videos.
States are so big! It’s hard to get everywhere you want.
I can drive from Seattle to Chicago or back in 2 1/2 days. What's so far about that? From Milwaukee, WI, to Keywest, FL, within 24 hours, and Seattle to an hour north of Los Angeles, CA, or to Las Vegas, NV, all under 24 hours! It's 5 hours to cross the state of Washington, East, or South and even North to BC, Canada, from where I live-the most monatous part of a trip! A pocket full of gas money and a credit card are almost everything you need-a little bit of enthusiasm is what propels you out the door and keeps you going!!
Kenosha, WI to Minnesota Twin Cities, St. Paul is 5 or maybe 8 hours, tops! I've been to Iowa, 5-6 hours from Kenosha over the Mississippi River to a nearby town in Iowa I can't remember the name of, lovely place though! And I think your biggest obstacle is your lazy boy who doesn't let you go exploring!
looked like some nice trout to me, and thats food Gold! the weather was not your friend on this trip. thanks for the share! stay awesome!
Sometimes the only times I could prospect was when we got rained out.
Yep, your videos make exploring fun. 🙂
Glad you like them!
Strange brew is such a good flick. Love your videos!!!
Very underrated movie 😆
We see things around us all of the time and never think twice about it. Example- when you pulled up to that outcropping and explained the various rocks and why they are different colors, I found that very interesting. It's not something I would ever think about -it's just a reminder that we can always be educated.
Just subbed!
That’s why geology is so cool. Everywhere you go there is geology.
Good job!
Great video again and a few specks of gold. Sounds like you have a very interesting job. Wish I knew more about geology. Just started learning things a few years ago.
You never stop learning. There is a lot to learn.
sometimes the best spawning occurs after fighting. joking aside I really like the knowledge of the geology you are teaching us.
That was a lot of fun! Great adventure!
Another great video. Educational, entertaining, great editing and clips added. Keep it up. As far as where to look in a stream, I've looked on the inside, outside, upside, downside, high and low locations and "@Gold is where you find it". (another good channel) Looking forward to more content.
Bedrock, It can't crawl down any deeper!
Another great video! I'm sorry I found you so late. We just moved off our hobby farm with a large gravel bed creek flowing through it. It would have been fun to see if I could have found some gold in my own back yard.
There are always new places to look. But backyard gold would sure be cool.
On today's videos I learned why Galena, IL is called that. Finally connected the mining history to the name in my brain.
Haha yeah. There are a number of cities named galena for that reason.
Good job!
head up north to the fraser river .. or hit the upper skykomish near index and up .. head up to the mountains, there's gold in them thar hills!
Thanks for the lesson! I just got 100 mesh & a blue bowl yesterday. I've found that I spend too much time looking at the fine material with a magnifying glass😊. Lots of purple and red looking quartz with different colors all the way to completely clear. It's mesmerizing, lol. I should get a telescope too, my eyes aren't what they used to be. Thanks again!!
Microscopes are amazing. I should get a better one.
I have a blue bowl, but I don't have a microscope yet. It looks like we both need one more investment!
What a great video! I get so excited to see a new one posted. I want to try some places here in Scott county this year just for fun
You never know what you might find.
The "Mighty Mississippi" was wild ... nice video!
Check - no gold in the drift-less zone. 6 trillion other square miles to verify. 😂. Test, test and test some more. Fun to see your videos and can’t wait for the next one. ⚡️⚒⚡️
Nice Au indeed fam. Great times. Keep on having fun and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠
Awesome! I lived in Wisconsin when I went to college. I wish someone would have told me to bring a gold pan; it would have kept me out of a lot of bars!
Bars are pretty common in Wisconsin. That’s one reason I’ve never had a drop of alcohol. Didn’t ever want it to be an issue so I drew a hard line and never crossed it.
If you ever get south of Platteville you should check out the fever river. It runs through the main lead country. Outside the town of lead mine there is a big horseshoe bend. There's another public access outside of Newdiggings. It turns into the Galena River when it hits Illinois. Runs all the way to the Mississippi River without being damned. A lot of the river on the Wisconsin side is public access for fishing. You might be able to find a big chunk of Galena or a something cool. Thanks for taking us along on another adventure.
Good to know! Thanks!
Stumbled across your channel this morning, fun fact my grandfather was a big part of creating that walking trail in the beginning of your video. I rent boats in McGregor Iowa and see one gentleman go out panning, he actually came back to return the boat and had a few gold flakes, crazy. I recommend yellow river or Turkey river in Iowa.
Thanks for the tip!
I know a bunch of creeks in the driftless with a lot of black sand. I have tried panning in some of them but don't know what I am doing. I have a small playlist of places that I have tried. I have found creeks with agate-looking material and some loaded with quartz.
Could be a load of sulfides. Chert can form in bands and look like agate. I mean an agate is chert chemically. Quarts can form a number of ways. Only some of them are conducive for gold precipitation though. J
I'm just inside the driftless zone in MN and can attest it goes from nothing to decent amounts of till/AU over a very short distance. Like you say, some of the moraines along the edges could be loaded and gradually spread into the driftless through alluvial action. The Straight River in Faribault as a really good example of this, where you can find gold in every pan, but once you get downstream into the Cannon river, practically nothing.
@@EMFMiner cool! That’s very interesting
One of your best videos man! Beautiful area and cool learning about the geologic contrast between the driftless and surrounding areas. SKOL
Thank you for the support!
Really educational video! Love it! 😊
Prospecting is Applied Geology' I really enjoy the geology lessons given along with the prospecting here
I’m not a professor but I do my best.
Have tried the apple river I have found a few flecks of gold there are a couple of spots I want to check out hopefully this summer
I haven’t tried that river yet.
Dude im really enjoying your videos Lots of great information and great content Thanks for sharing your gold adventures and your gold information
Another great video! Keeping it real and not going to the same place over and over again 😮
I try to mix it up.
Now seeing and understanding from your explanations of the rocks, I remember as a kid finding a bunch of quartz in the cannon river in northfield and that’s right on the edge of the driftless zone. Maybe I’ll check it out
Not all quartz has gold but that sounds like an excellent place to look!
Love to watch you . Wyoming blessings
@@toddrodgers5108 I spent a lot of time last year north of Casper drilling for wind turbines. It’s the windiest state I’ve ever been in.
There was a big goldmine near ladysmith Wisconsin! I've never tried panning in that area. It could be another great place for adventure!
That was a sulfide copper mine. There were small amounts of gold in the sulfides but they were more of a byproduct. Nothing you could pan for.
@GlacialGoldHunter oh got ya! When I was a kid, they all called it the gold mine.
Ive done some panning in the Maquoketa river and have gotten a very small amount of black sands.
Great content, super fun and educational!
No idea if you can truly find gold in the Driftless Area, but another loophole is prospecting along the edge of the Driftless where the glaciers likely deposited along the edges. People like the Black Earth Creek in Cross Plains and around where it meets the Wisconsin River.
Those fish were acting up that was hilarious i have never seen that before then the reporter gets hit with a fish im dying laughing 😂😆🤣🤣
The fish were having a romantic moment together before bumping uglies!
@dirkfrazier9779 right lmao 🤣
Mr Gold Hunter, do a show about the Flambeau mine south of Ladysmith WI. It's is crazy interesting how much gold got pulled out of it, possibly the most gold ever on earth for the size of mine. Im only 30+ miles away in Barron county and we only have frack sand.
@@ultramagaman4304 that was a copper mine but yes it did have gold in the sulfides. I plan on doing a video there next year. Do people still cry foul about that mine? I know there were a lot of law suits.
Yes copper mine but they got 334,000 ounces of gold and 3+ million ounces of silver. Any mine that close gets people nervous what will happen next with reclaim process.
@ that’s a lot of gold.
@@GlacialGoldHunter yes sir it is! I bet some gold got dropped off that glacier in near by areas also but I have never heard of anything. So possibly, there's a bunch of gold just laying under a few feet of ground near by ( maybe 35 miles away in my back 40 creek). Fingers crossed 🤞. Thanks for your show and happy New Year
You need to go farther west in Iowa to find gold. Near Edgewood in Delaware County, Otter Creek in Fayette County, Big Sioux River in Jasper County, South Skunk River, Turkey River Iowa River, all have gold.
Thanks for the tip. I will keep that in my list!
I love hearing you talk about geology. It's really fascinating. Hopefully you come back to Northeast Minneapolis next summer and explain some of the geological features of this area. I know you didn't find too much gold when you were in Ne Mpls, but it's worth another shot, right?
I want to go back and pan 40 buckets. That’s 1 whole yard of dirt. I want to calculate how much gold per yard there is in the river. And not just an estimate. I want to go through 40 buckets. Might take all summer.
Have you thought about checking Fillmore County, MN; it ounce had active iron ore mines and is driftless. Good show, I enjoy it very much.
I haven’t heard of those mines. I’ll have to look into it.
@@GlacialGoldHunter The mining company I once worked for, on the Range, ran a strip mine there.
At 13:44 in the video, there appears in the background to be a small feeder stream running through gravels, which might be a good spot to sample pan.
Could be!
I’m close to Platteville. My aunt has a big creek/Stream runs her land completely rock bottom n sand areas. Making me wonder …it’s pry 20-30’ at the widest in spots
My aunts is 20 mins from platteville. I grew up about 20 mins away.
You never know what you might dig up.
The Zumbro in SE Minnesota is loaded with black sand. You’ll find some gold but not much
@@confucius2616 yeah I did a video there. Lots of black sand. Almost no gold.
at 5:22 what are those black squares with white rings around them? chicken wire?
I’m not sure what you are looking at?
I only live 15 minutes from a section of the driftless here in Iowa grew up fishing it
There might be some gold there!
Good Morning ✨☕✨, Happy New Year to you and your family ✨2025✨
Happy new year! 🎆
This was a great exploration and sampling video.
I know the mud is a problem in the tributaries. Clay is also very high in places.
Yeah. No gold in the clay. But it can stick to the top.
Also, and I could be wrong, but I believe those that study the Driftless Area say that the only true Driftless is in Wisconsin. Even though parts of surrounding states have similar features, they were “drifted” by glaciers at least once. Only a specific area of Wisconsin was never drifted across ice ages.
Maybe but I didn’t find any sign of glacial deposits where I was.
I trout fish streams just north of red wing and I heard that that area was the edge of the drift zone. one stream that I found very suitable for gold is bell creek that flows into the cannon River just south of Welch village, have you ever panned them rivers in the Welch village area? I think it may be very good to try..
Sounds like a good spot to do some testing. I’ve never tried there.
Ha. I just looked at my map. I commonly will look at topo maps and flag places that look good to prospect. And I have a flag there I that creek. I just haven’t been there yet.
@GlacialGoldHunter well the upper part of bell creek near Vasa has some beautiful bedrock sheer cliffs along side of bell creek.. and I heard that bell creek was the edge of the glacial flow where it actually ended.. good luck I love your videos..
I live in the driftless zone near La Crosse, WI and learn so much from your channel! I haven't done any prospecting here, but have this question. We have (literally) tons of sandstone, limestone and cold water agate (less agate) in our yard and layers of quartz crystals formed in the rock. My question is: Would this quartz layer have the potential to hold gold in it? Or do the layers of quartz crystals represent something else?
Good question. Most quartz will not have gold in it. But it’s the quartz veins that come off of volcanic intrusions, or fault veins. It takes a lot of heat and pressure to drive the gold into solution. As it rises through the depths of the earth that pressure dissipates and the fluids can essentially start to boil. That’s when you will get most of your dissolved minerals to precipitate. That’s why I’m always looking for signs of volcanism and metamorphism in the tailings.
The quarts you are likely seeing is quartz that was dissolved at cooler temps than would be carrying gold. But that is an assumption on my part. Gotta take samples to know what’s there.
Cool footage of trout
Yeah! You never know what you will see.
Great video brother 👍⛏️😎
Thank you!
Hi, how are you in the last couple of weeks I started getting interested in panning and geology. I’ve been metal detecting for quite a while. Kind of bored with that I like your videos I live in New Jersey. Do you think I’m wasting my time panning here in this state thank youTony.
I know there is gold out east. I saw a guy panning in. New Hampshire. Not sure how far that is. But each state has its own panning laws. You could look for a GPAA chapter in your area and maybe get a lead of what’s there.
Pretty sure I’ve seen gold panning in Pennsylvania too.
@@GlacialGoldHunter OK thank you for replying. I will continue to watch your videos and learn as much as possible and try my luck around my neck of the woods for now.
Hello and Good Morning, Have you tried looking in old river channels near the current course? I have been on a couple of creeks where theres no gold in the stream but there is in the old benches. Thanks for the Lesson I really enjoy your videos even though we are in different regions. Maybe you can take a look at my Montana claim if you are in the area.
That can happen around here but most of the time when I see that it’s an oxbow which are usually just full of mud.
Your videos are relaxing, the hobby looks relaxing. Are you an MMA guy? I noticed your shirt for the Cellar gym in an older video. I trained bjj at Matamoros back in the day throughout my 20s 😂 🤙
@@Paulie7777 yep. I was teaching Muay Thai at the Cellar. Now I live too far away.
@@GlacialGoldHunter very cool!!!
never know there may be apay streakin iowa, gold can be found almost anywhere, specially anywhere old
I live in La Crosse and want to check out the streams in the area. I do lots of trout fishing in MN and know some spots that have till.
You never know what’s there until you look.
@GlacialGoldHunter Any recommendations on the screen size I should get for a classifier if I order one?
@ I use 1/4”. That works well for me.
That was an entertaining video, thanks
Happy New Year! You and Jason from Flour Gold Wizards should get together for a video!
We will….🍻
That’s the plan for next season.
That would be cool you guys 👍⛏️😎
Went to College in Platteville 25ish years ago... Do you mark your snuffer bottles and use a different bottle for each location so you can pinpoint where the sample was taken?
@@williamschmiedlin1900 no I was just treating it as a mass driftless zone bottle. I wish I had multiple bottles though.
Fly out to Sacramento and you can prospect on one of my claims. Or go to a public area, lots more gold.
Oh I would love to do that sometime.
I was in South Carolina for Christmas and I received a gold miner's kit from my wife's husband (That Me). I went to a dry creek bed found a low pressure spot during runoff season scraped away all the leaves and found a nice gravel bed with glay and with each scoop of this material you could see gold flakes lots and lots of gold flakes. Is it gold I don't think so however this area in SC is known for gold. But I can't separate it from the sand it's so flat it seems a light as the sand pebbles. Got any ideas
Gold always wins. If everything else s the same size you can always separate the light material from the gold because gold is so much more dense. Make sure the material is classified to the same size. Flats shiny flakes that move around easily could be mica. If you can’t get it to separate it might not be gold.
Sometimes people get bags of pay dirt just so they know what gold looks like and how it moves in the pan.
@GlacialGoldHunter thank you for your reply I really enjoy your channel. If I ever find any gold in my river up north I will invite you up north!
@ find me on instagram and you can send me pictures of your finds.
@@GlacialGoldHunter can I send you a sample of my paydirt I bought back a five gallon pail from SC
Do you ever take your cool rocks home?
I have so many rocks at home I really try not to take them home anymore.
Now as I go further into the video your in my hometown area. Exactly where are you from?
@@michaelmeier5893 I’m a bit of a nomad. Grew up in northern Wisconsin. Live in both Minneapolis and northern Wisconsin. Travel for work.
@@GlacialGoldHunterkeep up the good work on your videos man. Learn a lot listening to you talk.
Please watch where you prospect. Wisconsin has a rule about panning in designated trout waters at certain times of the year. If it's not designated, you're fine year round.
I know a guy who witnessed a football sized gold nugget pulled from a Wisconsin mine
Objection! Hearsay! What mine is that claimed to have come from?
they dig arrowheads round there too no?
I believe so.
Good video the fish where cool
You never know what you will see out there.
Yes another good time, I got multiple sniffers for that reason, but sometimes ? Which is which? Still all good . Cuz it's enjoyable.
It’s always fun.
There is black sand on the edges of the Great lakes Everytime there's a storm new black sand comes...I'm thinking gold is in the lake!
@@me_josh in places there is. But there is also a lot of black sand with no gold in the lake.
Dude, do you have a day job, or a night job? I enjoy the geology travel logs. And that you're more or less local to the upper Midwest.
I showcased my actual job in this video. I work the drill rigs. When I’m out in the field I work all day. When I’m not in the field I can film and edit.
Are you also looking for arrowheads here?
Not specifically. I always forget that there might be some there.
Good info. Ever try eastern sd?
Not yet. I want to try around SiouxFalls though.
@GlacialGoldHunter maybe further north by glacial lakes would produce. I'm by Mitchell, just starting and have no idea what I'm doing lol. Slooowly learning. Thanks for the videos
Feel like a news reporter! Ya!
Good one! Just add a little more drama next time, you need a wider
Stance like a kung fu master ready to battle! Great video thanks! 😊
Yeah I should have sold it better. The camera didn’t do justice to how windy it was.
How many arrow heads have you found over the years?
Zero arrowheads.
You're in my neighborhood, LaCrosse here 👍
Any gold in Lacrosse?
@GlacialGoldHunter haven't checked to be honest....it IS where three rivers meet and has always made me wonder.
Learned a few new words and saw a couple more places not to dig ! That’s a win ✅
Yep! Big words sure don’t help you find gold.
i ben watching you for a short time i live in south Dakota and watching Flour gold wizards a long time now
Flour gold wizard is the best.
Canoe the wisconsin.. there is gold in that river:)
I was in the wrong spot.
M thats awsome platteville is my home town
I still haven’t made it to the mining museum in town. Every time I’ve tried it’s closed.
We need to use lidar
Lidar is amazing.
@GlacialGoldHunter I wish there was some school you could go to that only taught Lidar. I'd sign up and begone tomorrow.
Do a video comparing your lifetime gold with your RUclips gold.
@@waltersvg I could buy a lot more gold with my RUclips gold.
I'm afraid I find most of the gold I've encountered in display cases.
That’s a great place to look!
Franklin Nebraska Gold rush in 1976.
I’m not seeing anything in the actual state of Nebraska. Just Franklin’s in other states.
Are you a geologist? Or
Yes I am.
@ that’s awesome! Thank you for this channel!
I love how odd you are. You will have 1m followers eventually.
😆 I hope so.
Bytroidal hematite ? After some further research i have discovered that large doses of penicillin will in fact cure that 🤔🤣🤣🤣
😆 I should maybe get tested. I touched that thing!
are you a cop?
🤫🤐
I knew that you would not combine you material from multiple sites in one snuffer bottle, because it would defeat one of your stated purposes. I knew it for a fact, so I put the thought out of my mind. . .
Yeah. For this if I’m dealing with specks that small I’d have to get a snuffer never been used to ensure there was zero contamination, but bottom line, if you have to use a microscope to see it, it’s probably better to find a new spot.
There were no glaciers like you think there were everything was deposited by noah's flood.
There is no reason to deny glaciers. You don’t even know what biblical flood geology claims. Flood geologists believe in the ice age.
Hmm. Doesn’t the Mississippi start north of the Driftless? If so, you are running the risk of getting a few glacial flakes and not true Driftless material, right?
Please let me know if I’m understanding that correctly.
Thanks so much!
I thought I made that point clear that I was hoping to find a stream that cut through the glacial till that would bring gold into the driftless zone. That was the point of going to the Mississippi.
I watch gold prospecting videos from time to time, despite not having an interest in doing it. One thing I'd like to comment is that the splices of unrelated clips are incredibly annoying. If I am watching someone doing something, I don't want to see a clip from the Simpsons or some sitcom I'm not familiar with. I remember this being a thing in the past on RUclips (it was just as grating then), but I don't think this is used anymore, and for good reason too.
Well I don’t think you will enjoy my channel then.