The rationale for the "no muddy water entering the waterway" is related to fisheries protection. Turbid water with a lot of suspended particulate can choke out spawning beds, and even make it difficult for fish to breathe. It might seem ridiculous to do when the river itself is turbid after a rain storm, but there is method to the madness. Thanks for respecting the rules Dan.. and the fish thank you too!
Great video Dan! You had your highbanker running really well to be catching all the flour gold. That ground is really close to the area I actually developed them!
"I haven't even seen the gold yet, I just see the gold" may be one of your best lines yet Dan. Thanks for another great video, they always leave me with a smile.
I don’t know what it is. I don’t want to prospect. I have no interest in doing it. But I can’t help buy thoroughly enjoy watching Dan do his thing. I think it’s his enthusiasm over everything he does. If we all had even half of that, society would be much more pleasant
@locke3141 I think you hit the head on the nail. He found his passion and is enthusiastically pursuing it. We, the viewers, are just along for the ride, getting a view into what that journey is like for him. I hope you have found your passion too.
I absolutely love your child like excitement about what you do Dan, your an awesome human being and Im soo glad I found your channel!! Love from Nova Scotia and happy hunting👍👌
Thanks Dan -- thanks you for being like a grand dad who takes me to adventure! Thank you for all the work you do an take care always on your healths. Love and hugs from Costa Rica
Hi Dan. I've this minute ordered a bag of your pay dirt for my 5 year old son. He loves your videos and we got a gold pan that we've taken to the beach in the UK a few times. I've set him up panning with some gold coloured tungsten in the past but he will be over the moon at christmas when he sees the bag of pay dirt with your face on. 🤩 Thanks for keeping your videos child friendly. I was pleasantly surprised to see that your pay dirt is priced in Canadian Dollars as when I saw $28 for UK delivery, I was worried my wife would kill me when she sees how much I've spent. 🤣
Dan, Thanks for explaining things in your videos. I enjoy your panning videos, and your explanations. Thanks for doing what you do. I love just spending time outside too.
I like to leave your videos on in the background while I’m getting ready to go rockhouding, your optimism always brightens my day, here’s to hoping I’m as lucky as you were
Hey, Dan great job. I love your videos. Here's an idea for the muddy water. You don't want to go back into the river. Just use rocks with a piece of silt fence and a couple branches. You only need like 8 feet of silt fence. Just make like a 3/4 circle. Let the water roll right through the silt fence and you'll have no problem
I am SO GLAD you showed the panning of fines in the end. I've always wondered if a highbanker, gold pan, or anything would possibly catch and be capable of keeping such fine gold OR if itd just wash away. Can't say I've seen that detail before.
Dan…in 2019 I was driving from the states to my home in Alaska. I pulled over at the bridge and panned a couple pans to take a break from driving. I found color and put it back. Curiosity satisfied, I continued on my way. I didn’t even consider I was claim jumping as the bridge was there and my local laws dictate within 1/4 mile of public thoroughfares, no private claim can be held. Please forgive me my transgression. Been a huge fan of yours for years.
Long time viewer, first time commenter! It's so funny that you and Pauly always leave something behind that you need. Half the time it's gloves! I love you and enjoy your channel!!
Black gold is ion stained. You get the exact same in Tasmania as well. Could be from the same deposit but sitting for a lot longer in that one location. You can soak it in hydrochloric acid to get rid of the black staining. Love that highbanker btw!
Fabulous video and I am so envious of your lifestyle. I also learn so much and your videos take me away from the reality of being a paramedic. Keep them coming.
I live in BC as well. The rules for prospecting are quite strict in BC. If you don’t have a prospector’s license and a claim, all you can use is a pan and shovel. You have to have the license and own a claim to use a highbanker and even then the rules are quite strict. I appreciate you doing it right Dan.
Maybe there was a chemical spill that discolored the gold where it happened? That'd explain it being so localized and not finding anything on natural black gold
The black gold looked like gold with slag on top. Almost as if somebody tried melting gold into an ingot but failed to get all the small pieces to melt. Who knows ? Good video thank you for sharing.
First off I have to say, is I'm glad you aren't trapped between them boulders on the frazier. when you was sliding them back into place! This is where I got worried! You should always use your PPE while digging around in a dirty river you never know what could be laying in that sandy gravel Needles/or just sharp objects in general! Lastly. this to me had a lot of drug related content towards the end that had me Laughing Out Loud F.R : I know you mean well and I don't know you, but you seem like a down to earth good person that's honest and respected. I enjoy watching yourself and pauly.
Jason from the Flour Gold Wizard channel has built a 6” flour gold cleanup sluice with a smooth water header that will catch virtually every piece from those cons
"Old Dan Hurd was a fine Old Man, Flashes of Gold in his Garret Pan, Combes his Beard with a brush of steel, Lives forever up on The Old Tranquile....." Also on The Great Frasier River, too... LOL
Fun hobby, but costs of just driving to and from costs more than the gold take. Enjoy the adventure. I like the modest scale of that little high banker, especially how slow I shovel these days.
I hope I have the right name we also have a lot covered in mercury what joy it was paning now they dont want you to even think about looking much love to you and your family
YeA Dan Hurd! You on to something there. So if the collection point is in between your facility to the upstream nothing! So there has to be a big trap for that gold uphill of those spots by the bedsides with gold.
I was up fishing in horseshoe Bay a few weeks after the slide drained and our guide Chris (30+ years of my dad fishing with him) said he saw nothing unusual. the Frasier always has a lot of trash , logs, andn stuff dumping into the ocean.
It was surprising to see how clear the water was going in to the box coming from such a muddy river. Yeah it got muddy when you loaded a shovel of dirt and gravel in to it but cleared up again quickly once most of it had been washed away.
Hey Dan I found a good sized piece of the black gold up at sheep creek bridge near Williams lake on the Fraser so it does go up stream not sure what makes it collect in places though. My piece was the biggest u have found too it won’t go through 1/8” screen
You could have a small reserve fuel tank 3D printed that hold a half pint to a pint, or 4-6 ounces of gas to keep the engine going for a clean out or what ever you need. Have it screw on with the gas cap be about 2" tall and 4-6" round with another gas cap on top, with a viton oring to make the seal have it so it fills when filling up. But doesn't empty to the tank until tilted sideways to empty the reserves into the tank. Or have a lever working a ball valve inside to drain as used. Adding to the tanks capacity! There is lots of places that will 3D print for you, just require modeling files , so a small bottle or iv bottle style gas tank with gas hose to feed the engine , only require a hole with threaded barb added to the tank or lid. Motorcycle tool sales usually sell these type fuel tanks, they are used to start the engine with the fuel tank removed. Or just get a lawnmower fuel tank, get from a half liter to 4+ liters of additional fuel to run the pump! I'm thinking about 1 litre would be plenty! Just make a little tripod from 2x2" retreated lumber , about 24-36":tall using 3 pieces of 40-44" 2x2 with a chunk of 2x6 with 2" grooves 120° from each other. With a steel strap with a nut welded on and 1/4-20 thumb screws to tighten the 2x2:legs . With holes in the legs neat the bottom about 12" up with a large string or small rope ran through to limit any spreading . And hang the reserve fuel tank on it . Run the 3-5mm those to the tank . Turn it on when running or when fuel is running out! Double the run time or make it all day plus some possibly. I put a 15 gallon fuel cell on my generator, to replace the 3-4 gallon fuel tank. It would run near all day with a small load! On 3-4 gallons, now it will run almost a week.
We have some placer gold like that in the rich hill area of Arizona according the scientists that studied it the coating consists of a manganese-iron-barium (ma-fe-ba) oxide crust that also contains a thick nano-particulate bio mat (the bio mat in that area contained a new type of bacterium) and supposedly the coating comes from a moisture rich oxygen poor bedrock environment and it coats the other rocks and sands as well hope that helps but I suspect that’s the same thing your black gold is covered with. I was close with the gold guess (off by .14) 😬 thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼
That was my first assumtion too. We have manganese covered (black) quarz gravel here created on former groundwater level by warm and humid climate millions of years ago.
Poor frogy he was just looking for his own bit of the golden life .....😂he was soooo close just a jump away ......until Dan came along .....meanie😢😢😂😂😂😂
I live here in michigan too. There are a few Spira that are supposed to have gold and diamonds but tge diamonds tend to be brown or poor quality. They tend to find artifacts more often that are supposed to turned over to tribal authorities but its fun to go look.
There shall always be two types of people, those who understand the passion and those who dont haha. Let us have compassion and pity for those less connected to enjoy such an experience :)
Hi Dan, i have been googling a bit trying to help out on the black gold. What i find on google is that the gold might be an alloy of Magnesium or Cobalt with the gold, not a real alloy since its only the outer layer. They also tell gold can get black trough oxidation in water or when in contact with body fat from skin, my idea bout this could be that an animal died near the water on top of some gold, decomposed on top of the gold so body fat could interact with the gold. Btw i love your videos.
The amount of black sand you washed away through the years are probably insane.You could melt them down to iron, and i bet it could be made into a nice tool, like a unique personal hammer, or small pickaxe(the one with the hammer end).
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I see Dan, i click Dan. We all should love Dan
We all do! No shoulda woulda coulda about it! ;)
But did he earn your subscription today?
I am very pro Dan. Dan is the bomb.
Because Dan is the man, doing all he can, so I am a fan.
And don't call him Stan.
The real gold is Dan and his videos showing the beautiful landscape he gets to explore and share with us. I salute you, Sir 🫡.
We love you Dan! Being outdoors in nature is the real treasure, the gold is just another perk.
The rationale for the "no muddy water entering the waterway" is related to fisheries protection. Turbid water with a lot of suspended particulate can choke out spawning beds, and even make it difficult for fish to breathe. It might seem ridiculous to do when the river itself is turbid after a rain storm, but there is method to the madness. Thanks for respecting the rules Dan.. and the fish thank you too!
Dan’s ventures around Canada is one of the things I look forward to on a Sunday.
Me 2!
Great video Dan! You had your highbanker running really well to be catching all the flour gold. That ground is really close to the area I actually developed them!
Great video to relax to....just enough to make us ALL Smile...Thanks Dan
I love the old tram over the Fraser River near Boston Bar.
It's been a bridge for the last 35 years.
I have plenty of black sand in my creek. Never been skunked.... always find some gold. 👍👍👍😎
I feel the same way about fishing ....
It's about the outdoors not the catch !!
Thanks Dan !!!
"I haven't even seen the gold yet, I just see the gold" may be one of your best lines yet Dan. Thanks for another great video, they always leave me with a smile.
I don’t know what it is. I don’t want to prospect. I have no interest in doing it. But I can’t help buy thoroughly enjoy watching Dan do his thing. I think it’s his enthusiasm over everything he does. If we all had even half of that, society would be much more pleasant
@locke3141 I think you hit the head on the nail. He found his passion and is enthusiastically pursuing it. We, the viewers, are just along for the ride, getting a view into what that journey is like for him. I hope you have found your passion too.
I absolutely love your child like excitement about what you do Dan, your an awesome human being and Im soo glad I found your channel!! Love from Nova Scotia and happy hunting👍👌
Thanks Dan -- thanks you for being like a grand dad who takes me to adventure! Thank you for all the work you do an take care always on your healths. Love and hugs from Costa Rica
LOVE your detailed explanations, Dan!! BYE! 😂👋🏼🪨⛏️
His geology lesson of tge day is fantastic too. Makes my grandson happy that he's learning new stuff. He's 13.
Great job Dan. It's a real pleasure to have access to your sites. I love your work .
Thanks for watching!
Hi Dan. I've this minute ordered a bag of your pay dirt for my 5 year old son. He loves your videos and we got a gold pan that we've taken to the beach in the UK a few times. I've set him up panning with some gold coloured tungsten in the past but he will be over the moon at christmas when he sees the bag of pay dirt with your face on. 🤩 Thanks for keeping your videos child friendly. I was pleasantly surprised to see that your pay dirt is priced in Canadian Dollars as when I saw $28 for UK delivery, I was worried my wife would kill me when she sees how much I've spent. 🤣
Dan, Thanks for explaining things in your videos. I enjoy your panning videos, and your explanations. Thanks for doing what you do. I love just spending time outside too.
I like to leave your videos on in the background while I’m getting ready to go rockhouding, your optimism always brightens my day, here’s to hoping I’m as lucky as you were
Hey, Dan great job. I love your videos. Here's an idea for the muddy water. You don't want to go back into the river. Just use rocks with a piece of silt fence and a couple branches. You only need like 8 feet of silt fence. Just make like a 3/4 circle. Let the water roll right through the silt fence and you'll have no problem
I am SO GLAD you showed the panning of fines in the end. I've always wondered if a highbanker, gold pan, or anything would possibly catch and be capable of keeping such fine gold OR if itd just wash away. Can't say I've seen that detail before.
Dan…in 2019 I was driving from the states to my home in Alaska. I pulled over at the bridge and panned a couple pans to take a break from driving. I found color and put it back. Curiosity satisfied, I continued on my way. I didn’t even consider I was claim jumping as the bridge was there and my local laws dictate within 1/4 mile of public thoroughfares, no private claim can be held. Please forgive me my transgression. Been a huge fan of yours for years.
Long time viewer, first time commenter! It's so funny that you and Pauly always leave something behind that you need. Half the time it's gloves! I love you and enjoy your channel!!
Oh I had gloves with me, just did not wear them.....
I met Dan in 2022 at the Crater of Diamonds in Murfreesboro, Arkansas
Black gold is ion stained. You get the exact same in Tasmania as well. Could be from the same deposit but sitting for a lot longer in that one location. You can soak it in hydrochloric acid to get rid of the black staining. Love that highbanker btw!
Fabulous video and I am so envious of your lifestyle. I also learn so much and your videos take me away from the reality of being a paramedic. Keep them coming.
You can find quite blackened flakes and such. It is a natural acid oxidized layer. When the gold is smelted that comes off as slag.
Love it! Keep up your enthusiasm. Love it! And the nature pics are awesome too.
I live in BC as well. The rules for prospecting are quite strict in BC.
If you don’t have a prospector’s license and a claim, all you can use is a pan and shovel.
You have to have the license and own a claim to use a highbanker and even then the rules are quite strict.
I appreciate you doing it right Dan.
Just have fun 😊😊😊
Great idea 🎉
You might think of a mini series
( The hunt for the BLACK GOLD)
Dan is the Man! Love to watch
Love your enjoy mate. Even though you don't get much. Very therapeutic watching you work out.
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a black gold wedding ring!!!
Dan, will you be my best friend lol
I had a ring made of red, black and green gold. Stunning on the right designs.
Maybe there was a chemical spill that discolored the gold where it happened? That'd explain it being so localized and not finding anything on natural black gold
I like that you follow regulations ! So many don’t and it’s frustrating
The black gold looked like gold with slag on top. Almost as if somebody tried melting gold into an ingot but failed to get all the small pieces to melt.
Who knows ?
Good video thank you for sharing.
Hi Dan, another great video thanks. Since you did not have any big flakes, try soaking the black sands in HCL and see what pops out. Cheers.
You are a good person. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome video and black gold
Hello from Sweden
Got my paydirt last week, its a christmas gift for my self and i will pan it on christmas eve.
ya know I think the reason I love watching your vid's is the passion you have for it. Love your vids Dan!
First off I have to say, is I'm glad you aren't trapped between them boulders on the frazier. when you was sliding them back into place! This is where I got worried! You should always use your PPE while digging around in a dirty river you never know what could be laying in that sandy gravel Needles/or just sharp objects in general! Lastly. this to me had a lot of drug related content towards the end that had me Laughing Out Loud F.R
: I know you mean well and I don't know you, but you seem like a down to earth good person that's honest and respected. I enjoy watching yourself and pauly.
Jason from the Flour Gold Wizard channel has built a 6” flour gold cleanup sluice with a smooth water header that will catch virtually every piece from those cons
Ya rocks and minerals is a labor of love . Not a true quest for riches. Unless it is of the mind. Go Dan and Dana!
Spending a day in the landscape with the change of a bit of yellow stuff? Totally with you there Dan.
A balm for the soul.
I love your explanation of BC mining regulations.
Great video mate.
Have a ripper and stay safe!
When I was a kid I would magnetize a needle and float it on surface tension for a compass.
The tiny shovel is holding you back! I keep one in the truck for panning only.
"Old Dan Hurd was a fine Old Man, Flashes of Gold in his Garret Pan, Combes his Beard with a brush of steel, Lives forever up on The Old Tranquile....." Also on The Great Frasier River, too... LOL
It's a #1 hit, I swear!
Great stuff Dan thank you. Never about the money.
Fun hobby, but costs of just driving to and from costs more than the gold take. Enjoy the adventure. I like the modest scale of that little high banker, especially how slow I shovel these days.
My wife knows how much I'm swayed by videos like this. Just the other day she asked "When are you gonna buy a pan"?
Ah, she knows me too well...
Knows you and hope still likes you
Yeah I remember when you put your head under water in the Fraser River you can hear the rock grinding and moving it’s crazy to hear.
Good luck Dan Finding the source!! JJ
You are always fun nice and great Dan ! i look at your videos almost everytime its popping upp something new from you !
Thanks for the video Dan the man I really look forward to watching every weekend
I hope I have the right name we also have a lot covered in mercury what joy it was paning now they dont want you to even think about looking much love to you and your family
The piece of lead is a pellet from a .177 caliber air gun.
YeA Dan Hurd! You on to something there. So if the collection point is in between your facility to the upstream nothing! So there has to be a big trap for that gold uphill of those spots by the bedsides with gold.
Nice just a bit more than I thought it would be thank you for sharing this with us six stars
Yep you’re right it’s not about wages it’s all about the discovery and nature
Got my Christmas paydirt!
Good day good gold . Wow. . Blessings
I was up fishing in horseshoe Bay a few weeks after the slide drained and our guide Chris (30+ years of my dad fishing with him) said he saw nothing unusual. the Frasier always has a lot of trash , logs, andn stuff dumping into the ocean.
It was surprising to see how clear the water was going in to the box coming from such a muddy river. Yeah it got muddy when you loaded a shovel of dirt and gravel in to it but cleared up again quickly once most of it had been washed away.
Hey Dan I found a good sized piece of the black gold up at sheep creek bridge near Williams lake on the Fraser so it does go up stream not sure what makes it collect in places though. My piece was the biggest u have found too it won’t go through 1/8” screen
You could have a small reserve fuel tank 3D printed that hold a half pint to a pint, or 4-6 ounces of gas to keep the engine going for a clean out or what ever you need. Have it screw on with the gas cap be about 2" tall and 4-6" round with another gas cap on top, with a viton oring to make the seal have it so it fills when filling up. But doesn't empty to the tank until tilted sideways to empty the reserves into the tank. Or have a lever working a ball valve inside to drain as used. Adding to the tanks capacity! There is lots of places that will 3D print for you, just require modeling files , so a small bottle or iv bottle style gas tank with gas hose to feed the engine , only require a hole with threaded barb added to the tank or lid. Motorcycle tool sales usually sell these type fuel tanks, they are used to start the engine with the fuel tank removed. Or just get a lawnmower fuel tank, get from a half liter to 4+ liters of additional fuel to run the pump! I'm thinking about 1 litre would be plenty! Just make a little tripod from 2x2" retreated lumber , about 24-36":tall using 3 pieces of 40-44" 2x2 with a chunk of 2x6 with 2" grooves 120° from each other. With a steel strap with a nut welded on and 1/4-20 thumb screws to tighten the 2x2:legs . With holes in the legs neat the bottom about 12" up with a large string or small rope ran through to limit any spreading . And hang the reserve fuel tank on it . Run the 3-5mm those to the tank . Turn it on when running or when fuel is running out! Double the run time or make it all day plus some possibly. I put a 15 gallon fuel cell on my generator, to replace the 3-4 gallon fuel tank. It would run near all day with a small load! On 3-4 gallons, now it will run almost a week.
Great video Dan!
Great video Dan. I've found orangish (iron rust) gold and silver (mercury) gold but no black gold yet. Thanks for sharing.
Love to hear you teach and talk gold
Dan booped a Fraser toad! 😂😂😂
That drone view is a very awesome shot
22:41 Things I thought I'd never hear Dan Hurd say: "I might do one more line. Ya there's one more line to go" lol
Pretty cool
2.45g Thanks Dan. Awesome as usual!!!
Great Video!! I’ve got the same Crux highbanker !! Looking forward to using it in the field.
We have some placer gold like that in the rich hill area of Arizona according the scientists that studied it the coating consists of a manganese-iron-barium (ma-fe-ba) oxide crust that also contains a thick nano-particulate bio mat (the bio mat in that area contained a new type of bacterium) and supposedly the coating comes from a moisture rich oxygen poor bedrock environment and it coats the other rocks and sands as well hope that helps but I suspect that’s the same thing your black gold is covered with. I was close with the gold guess (off by .14) 😬 thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼
That was my first assumtion too. We have manganese covered (black) quarz gravel here created on former groundwater level by warm and humid climate millions of years ago.
those mat sections definitely fit a pan nicely
Poor frogy he was just looking for his own bit of the golden life .....😂he was soooo close just a jump away ......until Dan came along .....meanie😢😢😂😂😂😂
you have earned it dan, greeetings from uk been watching for a while
I am sure I have heard Dan talking about jet-dry but I never realized it was the same jet-dry under the sink.
U should bring magnet for cleaning iron and stuff..
In Michigan I can shovel just pure black sand in several spots I know of. Very little gold tho.
I live here in michigan too. There are a few Spira that are supposed to have gold and diamonds but tge diamonds tend to be brown or poor quality.
They tend to find artifacts more often that are supposed to turned over to tribal authorities but its fun to go look.
This is exciting to see. I want to go panning in Washington state.
Excellent video 💎Dan!!!
This activity looks like my worst nightmare, but good on you! I do enjoy your attitude and your videos!
There shall always be two types of people, those who understand the passion and those who dont haha. Let us have compassion and pity for those less connected to enjoy such an experience :)
Hi Dan, i have been googling a bit trying to help out on the black gold. What i find on google is that the gold might be an alloy of Magnesium or Cobalt with the gold, not a real alloy since its only the outer layer. They also tell gold can get black trough oxidation in water or when in contact with body fat from skin, my idea bout this could be that an animal died near the water on top of some gold, decomposed on top of the gold so body fat could interact with the gold.
Btw i love your videos.
Great video Dan.
Come for the gold, stay for the following of the rules!!! Be like Dan!! Don't litter!!!
I love that high banker
We had black gold in southern Oregon and California we were told it was covered in magnesium
amazing how it catches such fine gold
Great, the equipment used is really good, I like it
I’m so close to buying a Crux high banker!
The amount of black sand you washed away through the years are probably insane.You could melt them down to iron, and i bet it could be made into a nice tool, like a unique personal hammer, or small pickaxe(the one with the hammer end).
Now that I think about it, pine trees create a lot of pH in soil. Hence, acids.
Always enjoy your videos! Thanks Dan!
I found 5 tiny red garnet in a river close to where I live and all I used was classifiers.