Mining for Gold with Dan Hurd !!Almost 7 ounces of gold!!
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2022
- Hey everyone welcome to my first full video, we have some great gold to show you!!!. I had the honor of my friend Dan Hurd to be on site for a day of sluicing and another day doing a cleanup of 5-6 days of concentrate, I know most of you have seen Dan's video already but this will give you a different perspective of what I do. In the video I explain a little bit about the mine site, I will go more into depth in later videos about every little thing you may have a question about. I didn't have much time to record video with Dan because I was running around working but had a small amount of footage from the week before. I just learned the editing software 2 weeks ago and that is how long this video took to edit....2 weeks lol. I am not a pro like the other gold RUclips gold creators out there but I am just learning. Hope you enjoy and get some motivation to get out to the bush and do some prospecting and mining! Cheers.
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I think "OG" stands for "Old Goat" Great first vid Tyler.
Hahahah. You still have lots of pep in your step.
Hahahaha oh Dan 😂😂😂😂 still hikes like a goat anyways 🙌
Stands for Original Gangster I believe
Perhaps Old Guy .. lol
or maybe it stands for "OnlyGold" the Onlyfans for prospectors lol dun dun dun........ haha
That's the first bit of daily maintenance I've ever seen a miner do on tv or online, new sub.
Hahahah yeah a person doesn't see that on tv hey. Thanks for the sub
Nice work Tyler looking forward to seeing more in future 👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks Tassie, I love your videos. Your editing and video quality is so good.
Really? First video? Looking like you've been making videos for years. Very well done.
Clean out is always worth watching.
Hey there thank you for the great compliment. It is technically my second video but first full one. The editing software took a while to learn, trying to get my audio better with transitions. Thats my winter project and goal.... Thanks for stopping by.
Great content! Its like gold rush without the silly drama
Exactly!
I will have to do a parody of Goldrush one day hahah.
That would be fantastic
Awesome. Couldn't imagine a more perfect small operation! 👍
Thanks Chris! I'd love to add a feeder one day though.
I love watching the gold processing part the most
Yes that is always the best part of course. Mining can be very boring but the end results make it great. :)
I applaud all you guys who take the time to make videos. I get out mining and stuff starts happening and setting up a camera and filming is the last thing I think about.
Hahha right!!!! I do have to say filming takes about 1/3 of my time throughout the day and don't get my full day in. It's a financial loss but this video thing is just a new hobby.
What a great debut:)
Great video and good luck finding all there is to find.
After seeing Dans video of this day, its great to have your views of the day to round out the operation for the interested viewers. You've got my subscription from Nebraska, since I have 30 years of construction experience, and have lived around sand pits my entire life, seeing the equipment I am used to being used for this is fascinating to me, thank you and best of luck.
Thanks for checking out the video. I am far from a pro at mining but do my best.
I saw Dan's video and had to come check yours out.
Tyler you are so blessed to be able to do this.
Much respect for the sharing of the constitution of your tromel and your mining operation you definitely have it figured out! Hope you have a awesome 2023 mining season and you find great amounts of gold!
Thanks a lot Robert!! I hope people can use some knowledge from my previous experience to get them ahead if needed. This year is going to be a interesting with all the mining property projects going on. Thanks for watching!
It's nice to see someone turning their passion into a career. Stuff like this brings a little bit of light into this dark world we live in.
Thanks T Money. Sure is a crazy world out there these days. It is nice to just stay in the bush and away from all the worlds drama. No news is good news!
What an awesome set up! Thank you.
Fantastic video Tyler, super cool seeing Dan out with ya.
Thanks a lot Andy. Can't wait for your next video's at the new site!!
Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching
@The Mining Channel you definitely have a impressive operation going, can't wait to see what the future holds for you!
Brilliant looking forward to more videos
Love watching dan's channel from gems to mine exploring and if he's having a slow day and people need see that river of gold in the sluice definitely come to this channel.
Keep up the good work bud👍
Thanks Mat. Dan has alot of great adventures that's for sure!!! Can't wait to be on his claim next year.
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Great stuff dude can’t wait for the next one 👍👍
Great video! Looking forward for more!
What a blast fam. Your doing great work. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out!!!
Thanks alot for the kind words. Hope you enjoy the future videos as well.
I hope you and your growing family are well. I am really looking forward to more videos. Super super interesting.
Love it Tyler... Good work and awesome video ! So nice to see your operation !! Good luck with 2023
Thanks bud!!! Hope to have you out next year on the site!!
Great video, really enjoyed the whole thing. And wow the gold is awesome.
Really enjoyed seeing your set up running great video. Looking forward to some more content 👍.
Thanks Randy!!! Only a couple more months and I will be back out there!
Iv been watching Dan Hurd for the past two years and saw the video of you two. I was think this is the ultimate large prospecting on a smaller scale. Great work! Looking forward to more GOLD keep ‘em coming I have the bell notifications 🔔
Thanks Sean thanks for stopping by the channel. Hope you enjoy the future videos as well.
Very nice set up. You know when you can operate the whole process by yourself you've got things set up good.
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Thanks JSD. It is nice having the 3rd excavator so I don't have to walk them everywhere to do certain tasks.
Excellent video, Tyler. Subscribed. Very nice drone footage and editing. Thank you for sharing
Thanks alot IA. Just learning how to do all this video stuff!!! Takes alot of time just for one video. Hope you enjoy my future videos as well.
Great first vid mate👍 Keep them coming💪
Awesome Tyler. Exciting moments, specially beside Dr.Hurd.....
It was great to have Dan out. I didn't get much footage of us talking about the site but he is planning another trip out next year again. Thanks for watching!
Very cool. Congrats and awesome job.
Thank you for taking the time to make this video! Like yourself I operate a one man owner operater placer mine in the Yukon, and know exactly where your coming from trying to do everything single handed. I'd love to do something similar but the time and computer skills ain't there!
If I could make a suggestion for future episodes next season, please show some completed reclamation and amount of time and effort it takes to accomplish it.Just to show what we actually do vrs what is seen on Gold Rush.
Hey Paul thanks for stopping by the channel. I personally would struggle doing a 1 man operation up in the Yukon!!! Alot longer travel for parts and fuel, I am a little spoiled because I am only 30 minutes away from everything I need. Thanks for your thoughts on reclamation, this coming mining season I will do a ton of videos showing our sites from 8 years ago to the present day ones.
The editing process is so much work... my winter vlog videos I am doing takes me almost 2 weeks of editing on 2 hours of of fabrication lol. I am only a month into doing this but a guy had to try:) I would love to do a visit to the Yukon one day? It's on my bucket list. Cheers
I look forward to seeing your gold!
Epic! Great job buddy I’m looking forward to more more more! 🎥 ❤❤❤ you had my sub your first post a while back, showing the teaser of what’s to come. So glad I did!
Thanks alot man!! Glad you are enjoying it so far.
Thanks Tyler keep the videos coming they’re great
Thanks. Words of encouragement are always nice!
That was very interesting for sure. I love seeing gold cleanups, and I absolutely love your own build. 🥰
Thanks!!! Half my fun is building this stuff in the winters. Sometimes the stuff I build doesn't work out though hahaha. Thanks for stopping by.
@@TheMiningChannel Yeah, but something not working is part of the fun journey! And I'd love for you to film your winter tinkering! I think many would love to see that. I can never get enough of stuff getting thought up and built...or tried ;-))
I'd add a compression spring to the bucket lift or a cheap boat winch. love your combination of materials. Lots of good materials. " One man's Scrap is another man's GOLD"
Glad to see you on youtube. I love watching this sort of thing
Thanks Kevin for watching! I will have alot of sluicing videos out this summer. Just putting out my winter VLOG content right now.
@@TheMiningChannel honestly its nice to see you prepping for the upcoming season. all to often the real behind the scenes work gets missed. All we see on the big shows is oh no it broke. I love seeing a guy who is fixing things in the offseason greasing the machines and just being smart. Its not all about the gold in the sluice but it sure is fun to see.
@@maghdi1 The winters are so much less stressful to do this kind of stuff. that's for sure. During mining season it is always a rush to get sluicing and make some money. Two more months and I should be able to plow in and start getting set up!!
Site preparation and restoration would be really cool to see
Site preparation is a great idea for footage. There is alot of work that goes into moving into a new site including mapping and tagging while snow shoeing in 10 feet of snow!! I will also be doing a video of the sites we have mined/reclaimed in the past 8 years. Thanks for stopping by!
@@TheMiningChannel can't wait to see videos on both! Thanks for the reply!
Enjoying your videos.... Keep up the good work
Thanks Daniel!!!! Thanks for stopping by the channel. Hope you enjoy my future videos to.
Great video and I wish u luck for your channel
Live the Dream brother. Love your set up 👍
Awesome video Ty! Keep up the good work.
Thank you Chris. I am slowly getting the editing software figured out.
Très belle récolte mon ami, bravo 👌✨
Hi Tyler,
I found you after Dans video.
Your first video is really great and it makes hungry for more.
Looking forward - subscribed!
Best regards from Germany!
Welcome aboard! Hope you enjoy my future videos as well.
@@TheMiningChannel Sure, I will. 🍻
Love your clean up machine.
Thanks SDI. Alot of people seem to like it. I am planning on putting a small video out on it to show how it is made with a parts list of where to buy the items. It is very simple but effective.
Great video Tyler. I love the custom clean up sluice! I'd love to have the chance one day to try my hand at what you and Dan do. For now I'll just keep buying bags of paydirt.
That works just as well as mining. A person has to get that fever out some how!!!
Nice one Bro i will like to see more cheers
After watching Dan's video about this a couple days ago, and then the same thing from your point of view, was so interesting. Like watching a game, VS playing in that game.
Hahahah that is a great way of putting it. Thanks for stopping by.
Great video! Be cool to see some clips of that nice dozer pushing dirt or ripping 😀 👍
For sure Gee I will have some footage of that, I mostly use it for brush removal and reclamation. This year fuel prices were so bad I didn't even use it!! Just kept a tight operation to keep expenses low.
excellent job, Tyler
Thanks Udo!
Unbelievable gold wow Fantastic setup and Hard working miners Incredible
Thanks Mandy, I"m glad you stopped to check out the video.
Wish you well mate.
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600 litres of diesel a day !
OMG.
The things I like the best are information/facts about how to find gold, how its deposited etc, tech specs on plant machinery and how the operation runs.
The most important thing to do is relax, enjoy and have fun.....
If you do that your audience will enjoy it aswell.
Great job.
Thanks for the input bud!!! I used to be a college instructor like Dan being a school teacher a while back. Dan is very knowledgeable on geology and rocks where I am more of a metal fabrication person. Hope to give people a good understanding on what it takes to build and maintain a mine site. Thanks for stopping by!
@@TheMiningChannel You do you mate and enjoy.
All the best
Tyler
All I can say is I wish you Best of luck with the continuous mining operation that you run. You seem to have more stubbornness and grit then most people by doing it by yourself keep in your overhead Expenses down definitely does help
Hey Jesse thanks alot. With fuel being so high this year it was hard to make good money that's for sure. Im hoping it goes down for next year or gold goes up!!!!
@@TheMiningChannel I'm in the trucking industry down here in the USI understand the fuel costs yeah I agree
@@JesseJames-rq4ee Yeah I bet !!!! Between fuel, maintenance and repairs it can be a killer. A simple oil change in my 450 excavator is almost 500 Canadian now.....not sure about a large Truck but I'm guessing it's that close to?
@@TheMiningChannel Real close
176 gallons of fuel cost me $1100 US And I go through that on an average every 16 hours Of driving
Subscribed.!! 😁👍
Awesome Tyler!! Hoping to make it up there next year for a weekend and not break my truck haha.
Hahah. Man that was a bad weekend you had up this way!!!. Hope to see you next year for a visit.
It sure is a beast i saw the tracks and thought man,oh,man
I love that machine!! I can stockpile enough pay in a hour with it to last the day vs the 200 or 225 would take 4 hours:)
I liked your video thanks
Another interesting video, thanks for the effort you put into creating it. If you have photos or video of the construction of your "homebrew" equipment that would be interesting. I look forward to future videos.
Thanks Marv, I have plans to build and film some equipment builds this winter. I need to whip up a small test trommel for one of Dan Hurds claimsI I will be testing for him this summer.
Really enjoyable video 😃👍
Thanks EBF. It was one of my first videos, slowly getting better at making them:)
Good call on starting a channel buddy!!! New sub!!
Thanks alot!!! Its going to be a long winter, I need something to keep my busy haha.
That was so interesting to watch. I need to go see Dans video. 😮
Dan video is 2 parts. There is a link of "feature in" videos on my home page. Thanks for watching JPH.
Holy crap, I’d have passed out 😵. 6.9 oz is beyond my comprehension
@J PH Not to bad hey, I have alot better though. I forgot to put the scale weight in on my video haha.
Well done, good choice on music, not to loud and it fit the action. Well shot video, not too fast and very well edited! How you clean the nugget trap and more drone
Thanks alot Mary! Thank you for stopping by the channel also.
Well Hello Tyler, Welcome to youtube land as a creator!!! I look forward to seeing your adventures and collabs with Dan!!! I am happy to see new faces in our community here on youtube and as is customary with our community id like to say Welcome and hope you have many heavy pans on your journey ;) If you are ever in need of a Moderator (say in the event you stream or premier your content) I would be happy to assist you in any capacity I can, if you need a reference just talk to Dan as I am one of his Sunday premier moderators ;) Again Welcome, Gold Luck and Heavy pans!!!! Cheers from Ontario ;)
Hey Reg Thank you for the warm welcoming!!! Dan is such a great guy, I would love if you could do stuff like that in the future for the channel. Thanks!
I like your channel, as it is informative and interesting and similar to my own one man op. If like to know more about the hydraulic concentrators tho
Thanks Brent I'm glad you enjoy it. I will have a video coming out this winter on a hydraulic riffle build. Thanks for watching:)
Dan is everywhere
Hahahah yup. I have known Dan for a while now but this was his first time at one of my sites. Thanks for watching:)
Cutten it pretty close to the rock wall with the drone there haha.
Yeah I crashed my drone into a excavator on sport mode the first day I bought it hahaha. Had to rebuild it from a parts drone I had....
good video, the lower music volume helped at the end
It’s not a dance party 👍👍🍻
Yeah wasn't to sure how to do the audio when I started making videos. I'm a little better now haha.
More Gold!! LOL! Good job Brother!!
HEHEHEH That will have to wait until spring time:)
Just subbed great video,i love mining i hope to one day be able to do this. I love running equipment,is the narrow box your coarse gold run?
Hey there SDI. Thank for watching!! Yes the narrow box is my nugget sluice for anything in the .5 to 1 inch range. I have found a 13.5 gram and a 11 gram piece in it.
Could you explain the geology and the interpretations of glacial morraine gold deposits? I've seen massive terminal morraines at the south end of Flathead Lake, massive piles of water worn cobbles from the meltoff of the massive continental glacier terminus.
For sure!! I have a video coming out in a couple of months all about it. There is a lot of areas on a maraine that can be richer then the moraine itself. Melteater channels parallel to the lateral moraine are usually the richest in my area. My claim doesn't have a terminal moraine and is upstream, thise can be rish also. The moraine itself carries gold also, just a big mix of the meterial. I'll get into it more in that video. Thanks for watching:)
Good job man 👌
Thanks man!! Glad you stopped by the channel.
Dan sent me
First to comment !!!
Its missing scale at the end,nice video.
nice
Great video you did good 👍👍 7
Thanks a lot !!!
Great video! How do you know that a glacier transferred tertiary channel gravels up the mountainside? What testing did you do to figure that out?
Hey Nicholas. This area is known for this type of deposit, the layering of pebbles, sands and cobble follow the bedrock contours whether they are 10° or 80°. There is are no flat layering on my claim where this meterial is deposited. The many reports about this claim say it is tertiary but I think it is just interglacial gravels mixed with yearly glacial melt forming the layers(I'm no geologist lol) I still want to get you out one day to do a area on the valley bottom. I had a tough year waiting on permits and couldn't afford much..
@@TheMiningChannel Interesting, I can certainly help you find those answers. We'll be working in that area in the spring, give me a shout. Glad you got your permit, from the look of things you'll have a bit of cash flow going forward.
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7 oz for 250 yards is pretty good!!
That's a damn impressive solo operation! What kind of start-up budget did you need?
Hey bud, I have well under 100 k Canadian into the entire setup, I did that by buying broken down equipment and fixing them up along with building the trommel and misc. I will have a breakdown video of it coming up soon. Thanks for stopping by the channel!
Hi! Nice video and like the way you described the different stages in the process. I really like your washplant Trommel it seems like you have done this for some time? Do you always work alone? Greetings from Sweden mining Finnish Lapland 🇫🇮🇸🇪⛏️👍
Hey there glad you stopped by. Yes I have been mining for almost 10 years now. My first wash plant I built made me almost made me go broke hah.
I was only working alone for the last part of the year. I was waiting on permits until September and had to send my employee to the neighbors site.
@@TheMiningChannel thanks for your reply and I hope that we will see more of your adventure in the near future👍
Great video great channel new sub
Thanks a lot. Hope you will enjoy my future videos as well.
Great video
Awesome content buddy wish we was aloud to do this in the UK would be my dream job
Thanks Paul!! It can be very stressful at times hahaha. But it would be boring if everything always went smooth.
@@TheMiningChannel hoping to do a couple of months in the Yukon next year fingers crossed 🤞🤞 keep up the good work
Very cool!!!! I would love to do a trip up there some day. I don't travel much though hahah.
@@TheMiningChannel I've never been out the UK so will all be new to me 😵😵
Nicely done! Do you have to haul pay to the plant ever or do you move the plant along as you go along the channel?
Hey Dan. Ocasionally I do bail twice with the 450 since it can cover 80 feet from turn to turn. The only time I ever haul meterial to the plant with the truck is to do larger 100 yard samples from the claim. Moving the wash plant is very easily done, I have it down to 2 hours now including water lines and sluice box.
@@TheMiningChannel Thats pretty quick on the plant move! Seems like the most efficient way of doing things. How often do you move it?
@@GoldPanDan This particular spot I actually sat there for 50 days!!. The pay was really deep there, that is me running 40-50 yph 8 hours a day. But normally in the more shallow areas it is every 2 weeks.
@@TheMiningChannel oh right on!
One for the algos!
I'd like to see your way it up
I did forget to add that in, didn't I hahah. Thanks for watching:)
Welcome! Bee groovy. Any friend of Dan's is a friend of mine.
Dan is a great guy. I sold him that Bobcat in his videos back in 2016 I believe it was. Time sure flies by!!!
Congrats was hoping you’d start a channel why no employees (at least one ) to help run equipment? Not profitable? What months are your mining season every year ? Great job on editing being a creator isn’t easy looking forward to many more vids to come thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼
If you run a one-man-show it's easier to share the gold. 😉
Hey there. I had 1 employee at the beginning on the year but had to lay him off, I waited on permits most the year and by the time I got the paperwork I had to keep it tight to save as much money for the remainder of the season. The snow at this site is gone June 1st but we usually bust into the site in March or April when there is 6-8 feet of snow. Our typical shutdown dat is end of October.
@@blacklabelonthebedrocks lol true but you kill yourself in the process lol
@@TheMiningChannel good ol permits thanks for the info that’s a lot of snow so you start clearing the site so it’s thawed by June and ready to roll nice can’t be easy trying to support a family that way but I know a guy that does it just working a claim without heavy equipment so it’s obviously possibly medium scale how long you think the claim will support mining 3-5 years ? Over here (USA) claims are usually 20 acres (close to 81 k meters) is that about the same up there?
@@48thstateprospecting I have 320 hectares on this site but not all of it is minable. Each cell up here is 20 hectares. I think the minelife here is 5-10 years at this scale. I have larger equipment but don't wish to run it. It is so nice to not feel rushed and just enjoy it all.
Yeah go on, I'll throw a sub at ya Buddy 🤘🍻⛏️🇬🇧
Thanks Rob!!! Hope you enjoy the future videos.
Where are you located ? Im headed to YT in a couple months.
Hey MW, I'm up in the Quesnel area in British Columbia.
My only suggestion is...just more videos
Great!!! Easy enough hahah.
Have you ever gotten a huge nugget? If so, how much was it worth?
Hey Toni, the largest I have found has been 14 grams, not sure on value. It was found the day after Dan left on this video
Which gold hog mat do you use?
Hey there. I use a mixture of most the mats. Bedrock, talon, motherload and razorback. I start tall up top and taper down to the smallest mat on the bottom. They work excellent in dirty water and clay meterial.
@@TheMiningChannel how wide is the matting and how many yards an hour you run and what size gravel ?
@@Golden_B1 The sluice box total width is 6 feet wide. The mats are in 3 foot wide sections which Doc from gold hog doesn't suggest( I just havnt had a chance to put dividers in but should be 18" wide) A guy gets alot of scouring in the mats with the wider sections. This meterial we run is mostly sand "without" alot of black sands. My input volume into the trommel is 40-50 yph with 1/2 classification onto the main box.
@@TheMiningChannel something i forgot to ask is how much water you pump trough the sluice for that yardage? Thanks
@@Golden_B1 Not sure on exact GPM but I do supply the box with a 6" line. I would think around 600-800 GPM?????? That is just a complete guess though hahah. I have tried less water and gold gets blown out, Any more water and the pressure just becomes to much in my hopper and sprays out the sides.
Been watching Dan forever so if you are ok with him you’re ok with me
Cost for that gold?
That is worth about 14k Canadian dollars after melt loss
To get the gold ( fuel and maintenance) was 25% of the gold sale.
Mate credit to ya it aint esy doen everything by yourself but nice work
Gold,Boobs & 420... you have that content & I'm a lifer!
Hahaha Thanks Marc!!
love your videos music is way too loud
Hey Matt, yes my first few videos the music was loud and the voice audio very quiet. Slowly getting this editing thing figured out. Thanks for stopping by the channel:)