I found an actual REAL GOLD MINE hidden on my property!
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- After stumbling onto an illegal mining operation on my property, I thought I would do some exploring of the 100+ acres that make up my mineral claim property. I found all sorts of evidence of old workings including an actual underground gold mine!
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This video is produced by Dan Hurd, Prospector, Miner, Teacher and RUclipsr, as part of his RUclips channel based on educational videos about gold mining, gold panning, prospecting, rock hounding, and mineral collecting.
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Dan, I've been adventuring in the Georgia outdoors for over 40 years. The way an old man turns young when pursuing their quarry is universal. Please keep making the great family friendly content.
Take me with you!!
Georgia county ???
@@zuxta The state Georgia
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I have been trying to convince my husband to go on a long weekend in an RV and go to old Civil War/Revolutionary War battlefields (to try to find bullets lodged in trees, which as of the late 70's/early 80's, my dad did regularly on our summer trips...always had his handy pocket knife, lol), or caves like Mammoth Cave or Ruby Falls, etc.; maybe even go to Diamond Crater and find a diamond! He's a no-go so far, but I think I want to go so badly because this is what my dad did with us when we were kids...all about nature, camping, taking us out to the Everglades to watch meteor showers or comets, and just letting us know how amazing nature is, and the fact that its beauty is all around us all the time, day and night, and it is so incredibly beautiful if you just take the time to look. I miss you, Daddy!
He just stumbles upon a gold mine. How lucky is Dan and how lucky are we to get to share the adventure with him. I found my hobby finally and something that centers me is gemology and prospecting and learning all I can about it.
Dan Hurd, I know this is off topic but I wanted to say thank you. I've been watching your journey pushing through your surgery and getting back to doing something that you love and it inspired me to do the same. Just recently I had vascular bypass surgery and because of watching your recovery ahead of my own it inspired me to get up and get moving. My saying is if Dan Hurd can do it so can I. Again, thank you so very much for being such an inspiration! Keep doing what you're doing, And I wish you well!
Wish you an amazing recovery!!
Keep on going too. Have a speedy recovery.
Do you feel better now? Keep doing your cardiac rehabilitation/moderate paced exercises.
Hope your recovery goes well 😊
@@dn2817 I am starting to feel better now! It's been less than two weeks and so far so good. Thank you for your well wishes and encouragement!
@@justsandy4381 thank you!
Who else is so happy Dan’s channel seems to be blowing up. Consistently in the 100s of thousands of views each upload! Crazy to think I’ve watched for years!! Keep it going Dan! Well deserved!
I don't know how you ignore the beauty around you and actually get work done. The color of that river is amazing.
That was awesome seeing inside the gold mines on your claim. How fun it was to watch.
Seeing the artefacts of a mine that’s only 100 years old really brings home how quickly nature reclaims it’s own.
if its 100 years not used.. than search cherynobyl is not even 50 years ago :'). nature will go if it get the chance! The cities you know are now still concrete because of people maintain it...
its 100 years next to a river. River cut the grand canyon. its going to wash everything down stream thats not maintained.
I always think about that when I see run-down places - like with trees growing up inside of buildings and stuff. Like wood rots, metal rusts and it all just goes back to dirt in no time basically. That "Life After People" show was really interesting.
Artifacts, its, when did we all get so stupid ?
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Dan Hurd is the only person on RUclips that is so genuine and likeable, that not a single viewer dares to leave a dislike. If you ever see a dislike on one of Dan's videos, it was most likely an accident
They removed the public dislike numbers
Or one of the claim jumpers! lol
Is it just me or does everyone else want Dan to bring his crusher everywhere he goes!!! 😂
Nah, one or two episodes of exploring followed by the results is great.
I also haven’t actually caught up with videos
Hey Dan I bet you find some gold in the rock samples you took to crush.
😂👌
Reading the comments at the beginning I haven’t gotten to the crusher yet but yes I’m already excited
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As a retired geologist and cancer survival your videos are very enjoyable. Only wished I lived closer than the midwest. Thanks for your videos. 👌😊😊
I really love this claim. There is so much history laying all around, there are hidden mines, amazing quartz seams and the nature is outstandingly gorgeous! ❤
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I love your adventures! Very cool finds
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Dan, great content and energy. Always look forward to your adventures. Stay healthy Sir and thank you.
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When someday it stops being a claim, you could start a theme park on gold mining with what history is embedded, and excavated on that land. I love your videos, keep it up and thank you.
Lol It's been a claim for over 100 years. It will probably be a claim for another 100 years.
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Thanks Dan, that was informative. I have a claim here in the other CA and it has an old chinese oven, rock stacking, placer pits etc. Your explanation has helped affirm and continue to unlock the mysteries. It is also a legacy claim.
Wow, what a cool find! Beautiful property. To me there's nothing else that beats the feeling of spending time in nature and finding things never before seen by human eyes, or not in thousands of years is a bonus. Keep having fun and doing what you love, it shows :)
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What a great discovery Dan and I wish you all the best! To those who say that you shouldn't enter into an abandoned shaft, mine your own business.
@Michael S.
Thats what he said..
Love your ability to read the landscape. I just see rocks and trees, you see a rich story. Very cool!
Dan, I have spent a good part of my 32 years in the mining and exploration business crawling into rat holes like those you found (and many bigger.) Be very careful about the conditions of the back (ceiling,) An overzealous sampler banging a vein can get themselves hurt or worse PDQ. Another thing to remember is that standing water and rotting timbers consume oxygen. Not a deal in those short adits, but something to keep in mind. Oh, and don't step in puddles that you don't know the depth of. Some of them can be hundreds of feet deep.
The puddle could be addressed with the good old stick, but great word of advice!
Is it true to try not to disturb standing water as they could contain and release harmful gasses?
I need more info on the puddles that's so scary and haunting
@@peachpixiedust standing water absorbs contaminants. If you've ever seen chemicals boil, the gasses can be heavier than the air we breath, causing them to fall to the floor. Pretty scary seeing a dark cloud just floating about the ground. You might not notice anything walking through it as you're passing through undisturbed environment but on your way back all those disturbed toxic gasses have come out from low areas, the water and swirled through the air. By then it's too late. Mines also fill up with water naturally, what looks like a puddle may be hundreds of meters deep.
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Thank you for sharing! I watch your videos on my lunch break and sometimes when I get home and you always lift my spirits 😊
What he's doing actually looks like a lot of fun. Who doesn't love exploring.
Neat thing is dan has the discipline to scout around. The claim I helped mine was far enough away we tried to spend every minute we could.mining the spot we had been and little looking around and testing other areas
everything looks fun on youtube
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Not at all.
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Wrong. Apparently you need to get out more because you have no idea what's out there.
He seems like he is probably the nicest guy you'll ever meet if you were to actually run into him in RL. I think that is why i like watching his vids.
This is such a beautiful claim. I love these exploration videos. Makes me excited for getting my own someday. Always inspirational, Dan!
Beautiful country, blue & clear river. Quartz is a lovely color. And the history you shared is very interesting.
Mr. Dan have you made a video of what you go through on locating and purchasing a claim? love to see that.
Such a beautiful area you live in! All your videos are so picturesque, and really fun too!
This is just beautiful land. Have you ever been camping at such a beautiful place?
thanks for the tour Dan, not to fond of the cave a little claustrophobic glad it was you and not me. Watching your video's gives us an opportunity to see how beautiful our forests and rivers are in BC. i spend most of my time metal detecting but after watching you we will be doing more panning. cheers
This was a fun episode!!! You certainly make it exciting! Beautiful view and perfect angle shots. It would be real nice just to sit in the water and relax. Could there be anything else in that cave besides quartz and gold? Looks fun and spooky.
This guy exudes so much joy and enthusiasm. Always a good way to start your day.
Awesome episode Dan. It's great you discuss so many of the permitting requirements and BC mining regulations in your videos. If only it would stop the claim jumpers. It's a beautiful piece of land you have claimed up. Thanks for the episode ⚒️⚒️🇦🇺🇦🇺
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I wunt Goldberg
This is the only video I have seen from your channel, but you are the best guy for me to watch from now and on, if I am in a bad mood. Keep up the good work my guy.
Dan even though the shaft opening was abandoned doesn't mean its a dry seam. Something could have happened to them. As back then thier were alot of saloon disputes over card games etc. And land claim issues etc. Test everything.
The scenery is so beautiful, thanks for sharing ❤
lets go get some gold!!
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Do it bro!
That place is utterly gorgeous in every season! What a wonderful place. History, mystery, and gold!
Took several screenshots of the river in this video, the water color is stunning and will make an awesome watercolor painting.
This is so fun to watch. We have two contiguous properties which are old staked/named claims in Colorado where we have numerous shaft gold mines from the turn of the 1900s. Quartz tailings are all over. I’ve always got my eye on the ground looking for that particular color in the quartz!
Hope your ok Dan and your family after the flooding. Thinking and praying for all those affected.
@MrAbletospeak I don't believe in a god either but everyone's entitled to their own belief and there's no need to downplay someone else's belief cause you don't agree with it.
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Prayer; when we get to the other side we'll be wishing we had prayed more, I believe
Hey @Dan Hurd i'm just getting into this hobby, your videos deeply inspire me, i stay close to old volcanoes in Scotland, lots and lots of rivers and streams here, and i have always wanted to try this. keep videos coming i'm learning lots, thank you.
Recently stumbled on your videos and I'm loving them. My dad and I did some panning in the Lilloet area 20+ years ago. I've always wanted to get back into it and I think these videos are giving me the kick I need. Thank you.
I'm sooooo jealous! Not because of any gold, but the scenery and cool rocks is amazing!!! What a cool adventure.
Dan let me congratulate you on what looks like is going to be an amazing claim. That is the thickest quartz seam I have ever seen! I am also amazed at the color of that river. Wow what an amazing blue! I could sit and just watch the river but one final thing, are there trout in the river? Do you fish? Dude I would so be fishing that place every second I wasn't panning or running the seperator. Good luck brother I hope you have huge success on your claim, it looks like a slice of heaven!!!
Do a search for the Sixteen to One gold mine. they mined out a building-sized vein. it looks like it's made of snow inside
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It's beautiful spot with really interesting history, Dan. Thanks for sharing. From the UK.
This is absolutely fascinating, just finding them mines is as exciting as finding gold 😮
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I remember going to Bometti ranch back in the 70’s and visiting with Rose Bonetti. One of the biggest hearted, lovely, Christian women I have ever met. God bless her and rest her beautiful soul. There were many abandoned gold mines on her 472 unscarred acres in Shingle Springs California. Me and my best friend John used to pan for gold over Goat hill In the spring creek. Never found anything, but her coaching sure gave us hope.
What beautiful memories. She and her place was one of a kind, and I was blessed to be graced by her presence back in the mid 70’s. Thank you Mrs. Charles Bonetti for your godly influence on my life.
Dan Dan he's our man if he can't do it, Bryson will hopefully get it.
Ha! 😂
Not al heros wear capes Bryson!
Darn claim jumpers!
2 claps for Bryson 👏👏
If you change it to dan Dan he's our man if he can't do it bryson hopefully can it will rhyme
Brilliant channel !… Dans really engaging informative and enthusiastic-fascinating watching from the Uk
i really hope everyone is ok dan, saw the frasier.... so sad. keeping you pauly and everyone in bc in my prayers.
They'll probably be great, more gold churned up by all the flooding!
@@krakhedd unfortunately it’s a lot more people than gold seekers suffering from this flood event
Water coming downstream means gold were I’m from
Thanks For the kind words Glenna ....
Saw the fraiser?
What a Gorgeous site, I love the drone footage. So lucky for the Peace and Beauty. Thank you for the video.
Dan, When you say you're going back home to figure out the composition of a specimen is it possible you could add a section showing the results of that at the end of each video? just a suggestion
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Maybe post a comment instead of a reply? I believe it’s all about expensive equipment and owning mineral rights to a property. You can’t just go out in the woods and start digging, in America at least… He’s referring to crushing rocks up and sampling them at various points in the video, I think this is most likely a years or decades long project. He may have been doing this hobby for 25 years!
Been watching you for several daysd and in your words, you've earned my subscription!
This guy makes some damn good quality content. You have indeed earned my subscription
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Love how your shirt matched the gorgeous river. What scenery. 😍
Dan, idk if you will see this but that property is absolutely gorgeous. The light blue clear running water and all the bright green foliage is just stunning. Hope you have a great day!
I see why you call this your dream claim. It has everything! That water is so blue coming down the river, it just looks amazing. There is quartz everywhere on this claim. People have been through this site 100x over, and you can still find huge chunks of gold and lots of smaller stuff. Can't wait to see what you find here. Love the videos and your claims are awesome. Best of luck to you!!
Archeology is fun!! Can you find pottery and other things that could tell us a little about the people living and working there? Could be a nice video! Keep it up, Dan!
Dan I really enjoy your videos. Like yourself I’ve had open heart surgery but mine was a bypass procedure. Unfortunately a couple years after the surgery I suffered a couple of heart attacks, one was really bad and between that and a specific type of bone disease, I am disabled now. Watching your videos I love seeing the rivers and creeks and I like your passion that you bring to your videos.
That claim has tons of potential! Definitely a keeper. Trap cameras all around it, please! Also, I loved that waterfall in the drone footage.
Why put cameras all around it? Paranoid much!
Dude literally finds a claim jumper's river sluice in the video and you're calling him paranoid?
Dan I stumbled on to your channel about a week ago. I love your content even though I know nothing of your field of work. Today you've earned my subscription. Keep up the good work.
I would be content with life if I owned just an acre out there & built myself a little cabin. Get away from all the chaos in today’s society. Wish you luck brotha on your endeavors !
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Beautiful mountain scenery great gold mines and great country! What a lovely place to be. 😁👌🏻🦅
Does your area have lidar imagery publicly available? It's great for finding old roads, pits, foundations, walls, dumps etc.
Geeeez what a great snoop around👍👍👍. But it's addictive! I want to see mooooooore! This is just like those old tv cliffhanger shows. What will happen next week?😬🤷. Thanks Dan for bringing us along on your adventures.
Looks like the dream claim could really turn into "The Dream Claim" dependin on the hardrock samples. Stay safe up there. Seen all the flooding up there
It already is
@@Danhurd Hello ,,,, what state are you in ?
What's with the dislikes ? I really dont understand! The world has gone mad this is a really cheerful chap who is completely inoffensive shearing his passion if it's not your thing move on
Love the content you put out, you've sparked such an interest in gold panning and mining in myself and probably many others. Hopefully I'm somehow able to work this into my life as a past time that may turn profitable if I'm able to do the right things and invest enough time. Would love to buy a claim someday!
It's absolutely gorgeous there !!! I wish you luck and ... stay safe !!! 😃
A friend of a friend had an abandoned gold mine on his property and there were plenty of tailings, but you really had to work to get it. (Kinda like you do... nothing to get rich over night.) They were too lazy.💖🌞🌵😷
Naa, not lazy, just not properly informed....
Get someone to do the work and as owner you get % of what they find. 0 work, but money.
@@charlesdalton5537, they took a couple of ton and had it processed. Just didn't have the yield they wanted. (If it was me ... If it paid for my gas to the woods, it would have been worth it. ... Getting paid to go on vacation is a dream job!) Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵😷
@@goblinwisdom, like I said too lazy. Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny 🌞 Arizona 🌵😷
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Since it's on your property, do you still have to stake a claim?
I believe he stated before he has the mineral rights for this claim. So he does not own the land only the right to mine the minerals.
Your a great guy Dan! I been looking for a hidden mine for 4 years. Today is my 4th time out looking for it. I go alone because no one ever wants to do cool stuff so I have become my own best friend!
Great work and God Bless!🙏
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I would like to remind everyone unless you really know what you are doing and know a lot about mines and your local mines. Don't enter Abandoned mineshafts are very dangerous. Knowing what they mine can also save your life. Allways make sure you have know what the air is like not only could you fall to your death you can also suffocate.
What I like best about Dan's channel is his great choice of upbeat music. It always brings me up in mood. What I dislike the most is Dan's finding gold and I'm not. lol Keep at it Dan!!!
I have been watching your videos recently and I have always had an interest in minerals and nature. I took geology for lab credits getting my engineering degree, and I find panning/exploring the earth's materials extremely interesting. I might even try a little panning of my local area once I look into mineral rights around here.
Dan you got my attention. A life time BCer and in my 70’s. I plan to go up to Hope and do some panning this summer . And of course a bit of camping ( at a government camp site). Question for you can you recommend a store in Surrey area that’s sells equipment. Love your videos and your humour !
Who else wishes he was your grandpa?
I will ask my grandma
amazing as always, I enjoy watching, following and learning from you!
With all the hidden stuff Dan keeps finding I wouldn’t be surprised if he manages to find a downed ufo or something
The Annunaki will show up & jump his claim for the hidden gold. On the way out, being overloaded, their saucer will crash, the MOD will come in, declare the area off limits, haul away the smashed saucer & bodies & Dan gets the Roswell style warning & is forced to leave his claim as the MOD fences the area off & starts a man made landslide burying the crash site forever.
wow... look ! an abandoned spaceship loaded with gold
Or, God forbid, a family of 'squatches.
That water is so enchanting!!! Absolutely breathtaking!!!
Awesome love watching. Keep posting my friend. Snowed in here in Washington and chomping at the bit to get out.
Dan!!! I am just learning and getting into this! I live in the mountains above Tonasket and I have allot of quartz granite on the property and a underground stream. Just realized there was a uranium mine almost next door! You ever want to drive south a bit you can come make a video down here!!!
Man ! That is a beautiful place! The water fall and river is so beautiful to.
Love your claim Dan. You earned my subscription today. Thanks for the tour.
you truly are a blessed men, may good fortune may always be with you and your family
Dan, glad to see you back.
Crazy how watching RUclips shorts about geology led to me binging your videos. Your presentation is super informative and got me interested in panning around the Columbia😁
I accidentally came across your channel. This is really cool and also jealous that you own this land. It's beautiful. NJ has got nothing on this. Subscribed!
Best way to ask for a subscription ever. Between that, his voice, and his beard I subscribed immediately
I see we had unusually high water on similkameen river America side that runs down in to the Okanogan... hopefully makes for some good panning...
thanks for your videos Dan as a novice I find my self looking to your videos for help ! Much appreciated..
Awesome Find. I cant wait to see what you find in those samples.
Great work Dan. So glad to see you in good health. Parts of that river look like the American River in the sierras.
I just found your channel been binge watching videos and enjoying it. My wife could hear the video playing. She said at times he sounds like a game show host talking. Lol
He is honest, pure and all good person.
This channel has really been coming up and very interesting!
Definitely earned my subscription! Gorgeous claim you have
Love your videos throughout the years and have been glad to watch them as they come out . Keep on exploring and finding that gold , I love your dream claim it’s so amazing thanks for sharing this with us
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Beautiful opening scene, you are truly a lucky fella glad you are feeling better as well gave us All a scare for a second
It's so beautiful there! Really enjoyed this one and congrats on the new discoveries :)
Thank you on the update on the claim jumpers.