I recenty found a rusty layer directly above a gravel layer on a river. It contains goldin every pan. My question isshould I work the rusty material or dig under it? Below the gravel?
That is the kind of gold that you want to find if you were set up with a gold trommel and the excavator working but for a hobby panner not the money return. I got some serious gold out of clay that you guys were in. I've done that most all my life and when I was forced to feed family by driving truck long hauls I would jump out and grab four or more buckets to work up at night. I made a serious strike once but didn't know which creek the bucket came out of and really hurt my feelers. I had near three ounces in a five gallon bucket but the buckets were not labeled so never did find again like I thought I could. It was big chunky stuff. Fun video, hope you find where those little finds come from. I did good panning the root systems too, trees that uprooted and the gravels under them and in the tree bottom
I love your vids man. I live in western Washington State, so we have a lot of the same geology. Your videos showing the high sulfide minerals has really helped me identify specimens to extract even more elements.
Western Washington and olympic mountains like to hide their gold claims behind the Manganese mineral probably for tax evasion and avoiding claim jumpers. I heard gold gets absorbed by other metals like and needs chemicals to leach out. Aqua regia. Plant food has zinc and stuff turns purple if zinc and gold testing. Im in Oregon southern middle.
@@StevenHanover Yes they do. I actually found a large rock of rhodonite a few months back. I was just looking for pyrite filled rocks but once I broke it open I saw the beautiful pink color with dendritic manganese dioxide veins. I'm working on a video actually about it as I turned some of the outer crust rich in MnO2 into potassium permanganate. It was very impure, but it was a fun experiment to perform. I also got some sulfide rich rocks recently and I roasted, crushed/pulverized and bathed the pieces in concentrated acids. I recovered a surprising amount of copper, but I also unfortunately recovered a bit of thallium. I have a couple of short videos up of the thallium on my channel. They are nothing too great, but I figured it would be good to bring attention to the dangers posed to people like us that love to prospect and work with elements.
@@mwilson14 in australia they soak their crushed ore in eucalyptus leaf oil (has arsenic and cyanide that liquidizes / leach gold). That copper you found has the gold jn it! I guess they make wrench sockets with vanadium. Cant wait for your video on chemistry of manganese. Will check out the rhodonite videos too some of this stuff flys right over my head into outerspace and how big lf a mining hole on the dark side of the moon theyre not telling us mining some thing called helium 3?
Your last pan is as good as I have ever found in 30 years panning down here in washington. If I found gold like your first pan I would just quit my job and set up shop.
Im in North Carolina mining a paleo channel exposed in a stream bank. The bottom of the channel is oxidized and when crushed yields very nice gold from a layer of hard pack on the bottom of the paleo channel. I know load gold is often associated with Iron. I am wondering why I am seeing gold associated with oxidized gravels and hardly any there is no oxidation ? Any thoughts?
I love panning.....it's like opening a gift slowly until you see the gift at the end....I tell my wife that it is hiking with a shovel........ Always a fun outing.
Nice of mother nature to expose a cross view of an old creek bed for yall. Is it far enough away from the creek to run a high banker? Yall be safe out there.
g'day from tasmania australia mate. very informative video. if I did'nt know you were in the states i would swear you were about 5 minutes from where i live here. ..exactly the same rainforest , rivers and geology !! going to give it another go tomorrow with the knowledge you have provided. Cheers mate ,well done.
The rails are all around a couple of claims we have up here and I found out they were used for mining the placers. A couple are in the river still some up on the bank. I think it was easier for them or more readily available to use the big rails for mining. A lot of the old claims here on the island were being worked when WWII started and they were just abandoned because the miners went away to fight or work for the war effort if they were too old to fight. A lot of miners never came back to them 😕 🇨🇦 Beautiful claim you guys have there! That being said when they were logging by rail a lot of the short spur roads or landings weren't recorded and would have been forgotten about. Once when I was hunting I was walking through very large second growth along a deer trail and remember thinking to myself how perfectly level the trail was up in the hills and about 15 min later I came across the end of a set of rail tracks bent and pushed up in a pile of dirt and that's where it met a new cut block. That's when I realized I was walking on an old rail track but you wouldn't have known it for the trees were monsters and some in the middle of the track with all the under brush. It was really quite the epiphany but I guess one had to be there to get it. Now that I re-read this I'm just rambling, 😂 Happy Hunting 😁
paul Wazzup This is what I was thinking. The track was used to move rail carts to move rocks to find gold. You should see if you can follow it to find a mine shaft. Just a thought.
Justin, You should take the water out of the pan when your showing us the gold. A lot of glare from the water n can't see anything really. Lettin ya know. : )
That piece of track looks like it was cut to be an anvil, the hole in it would be convenient for lowering and raising it with rope. if there were mines nearby it could be there as a a tool to maintain their tools etc.
Not sure if similar area if in VAN ISLE have found old train rails people used as markers because they wouldn't float away and would always find them in areas people had did lots of gold prospecting before . Awesome video .
I like your racoon style panning, :) that grey clay layer only hold gold at the very top mm, it is horrible to work with, but I would try that area close to it. I suspect paydirt is within 1 or 2 meters and not very deep ;D that first pan was incredible! Waiting for first light to go gold prospecting!
Congrats! I'm unfortunately in New York, where there is very little gold to be found, plus the laws are just terrible for any gold prospecting. All gold found belongs to the state of NY and must be turned over, or so the law says
catch22frubert that sucks in Nova Scotia the government is all for mineral exploration I am in south west shore of n s lots of un touched ground and highly mineralization I found mine after building logging roads.Cant explain the feeling after finding the first few flakes of gold.
Get a mini electric highbanker like a rdh highbanker and run test buckets from every spot. just using the black matt for clear identification...they also have canvas buckets if packing is a problem.....i would also semi dam the creek up upstream run some hose and make Bigger gravity highbanker system.
@@robs9574 with some of the pans I see an the gold that was recovered in just one pan it would pay for its self in one trip. I plan on purchasing one myself am very impressed with it
E. Fifield I’ve seen the unit briefly. I bought every kind of highbanker, sluice and dredge when I first started out. I drug them up my claim and still only got a couple dwt per day. Spent more time hauling gear and gas than prospecting. Then I got fast at panning. If I’m in shallow overburden I’ll pour 5 gal buckets of water on material. The heavies drop and the tails sluff off. Sucker stick the concentrates into a bucket. Using the bedrock this way is very productive and no motor to attract attention. One pan 30 seconds max, only take the material down to a concentrate in the field and bring that home to finish later. Two gallon of these cons can be very yellow. Respectfully
How can I purchase some of the samples you find? I see wonderful things on your show. Mining is great. My grandfather was a steam shovel operator back in the 30's in the Cleopatra mine in Jerome Az. He also had a huge mining museum at the ranch in Cottonwood Az. I dig your show! Get back at me on the samples.
I've been thinking the same thing. There is nothing really for me to find in NY. I definitely have to relocate or take a lot of trips to do any prospecting
It was not left in the water. We found thousands of pounds of track here in the creek and banks. We left as much on the side as possible to heavy to pack on a long trip
I would build a wooded chute so I could roll the big rocks elsewhere and I would proceed to run that entire shelf through a highbanker. I'm talking like 20 cubic meters. I can only dream of gold like that.
Looks just like my claims, real squatchy. “Oxidized” or just different flood layers? Imagine a pan off that virgin bedrock. Rails indicate a possible drift mine under that bench?
I would think the masonry hammer that people gave you grief about, would work best digging in those old river gravels. Broad base, able to scrape out dirt. And frankly, half the price of a "miner's hand pick" ...
Holy Moly I was saying to myself that looks like textbook hard packed ancient virgin streambed then you panned it and I was blown away, I want to eat sleep and pan that kind of gold forever and ever !!! Great Video!!! (for what its worth maybe camera angle /reflection but the rock on the left at 9:12 into the video that rock you have your gold pan sitting on looks metallic and rainbow bluish color interesting ....mmm? you guys are in some great areas I love it!!!
I’ve Pan more than a handful of times and I always find black sand but never gold, am I doing something wrong or what’s up?? I’ve even take material home to do it very carefully and nothing but black sand. Anyone in here can suggest me what’s happening. Btw I’ve been doing it in lyttle creek, that’s north of Rialto California.
Excellent results on those pans guys! Just wondering, do you ever come across any gemstones while prospecting? Just curious if you stumble upon the rare saphire or something similar in your adventures. Thanks for sharing the awesome videos!
@@911mining Thanks for the reply 911! That's cool still. I know garnets can be found panning out of streams and creeks in certain areas. It would be nice to see you stumble upon a nice emerald or something!
It' won't of been a regular railway. It would of been put there for hand carts loaded up with paydirt and to be brought back to the the sluce 1800's. That's an old claim no doubt. Same here in NZ find them everywhere.
I recenty found a rusty layer directly above a gravel layer on a river. It contains goldin every pan. My question isshould I work the rusty material or dig under it? Below the gravel?
Pieces of Railroad track were used as makeshift anvils. A lot easier to carry a 15lb piece of track into the wilderness than a 400lb anvil.
Some of the pieces where 20 feet long though.
Hmm, good idea
Train tracks run a few miles from here, I don't think they'd notice if I cut a foot off eh?😂🤣
Interesting information. 15 lbs easier to carry than 400 . I'll write that down in case I forget
That is the kind of gold that you want to find if you were set up with a gold trommel and the excavator working but for a hobby panner not the money return. I got some serious gold out of clay that you guys were in. I've done that most all my life and when I was forced to feed family by driving truck long hauls I would jump out and grab four or more buckets to work up at night. I made a serious strike once but didn't know which creek the bucket came out of and really hurt my feelers. I had near three ounces in a five gallon bucket but the buckets were not labeled so never did find again like I thought I could. It was big chunky stuff. Fun video, hope you find where those little finds come from. I did good panning the root systems too, trees that uprooted and the gravels under them and in the tree bottom
I love your vids man. I live in western Washington State, so we have a lot of the same geology. Your videos showing the high sulfide minerals has really helped me identify specimens to extract even more elements.
Western Washington and olympic mountains like to hide their gold claims behind the Manganese mineral probably for tax evasion and avoiding claim jumpers. I heard gold gets absorbed by other metals like and needs chemicals to leach out. Aqua regia. Plant food has zinc and stuff turns purple if zinc and gold testing. Im in Oregon southern middle.
@@StevenHanover Yes they do. I actually found a large rock of rhodonite a few months back. I was just looking for pyrite filled rocks but once I broke it open I saw the beautiful pink color with dendritic manganese dioxide veins. I'm working on a video actually about it as I turned some of the outer crust rich in MnO2 into potassium permanganate. It was very impure, but it was a fun experiment to perform.
I also got some sulfide rich rocks recently and I roasted, crushed/pulverized and bathed the pieces in concentrated acids. I recovered a surprising amount of copper, but I also unfortunately recovered a bit of thallium. I have a couple of short videos up of the thallium on my channel. They are nothing too great, but I figured it would be good to bring attention to the dangers posed to people like us that love to prospect and work with elements.
@@mwilson14 in australia they soak their crushed ore in eucalyptus leaf oil (has arsenic and cyanide that liquidizes / leach gold). That copper you found has the gold jn it! I guess they make wrench sockets with vanadium. Cant wait for your video on chemistry of manganese. Will check out the rhodonite videos too some of this stuff flys right over my head into outerspace and how big lf a mining hole on the dark side of the moon theyre not telling us mining some thing called helium 3?
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If anyone has a gold detector, talk to me, I have a treasure, but I need a device
Your last pan is as good as I have ever found in 30 years panning down here in washington. If I found gold like your first pan I would just quit my job and set up shop.
Im in North Carolina mining a paleo channel exposed in a stream bank. The bottom of the channel is oxidized and when crushed yields very nice gold from a layer of hard pack on the bottom of the paleo channel. I know load gold is often associated with Iron. I am wondering why I am seeing gold associated with oxidized gravels and hardly any there is no oxidation ? Any thoughts?
Dude this reminds me of the forest my grandmother lived next to. Straight up temperate rainforest. B.E.A.U.TIFUL. THANK YOU FOR THIS!
That is one gorgeous spot, wow totally could spend a weekend there camping and panning....
How do you know where to find oxidized gravel?
Silly question but the rails ain't from a mine ? Did the old timers work that area ?
No mines within 10km of this area.
6:44 It almost looks like he launches a gold nugget out of his pan
Boy I love that kind of digging, Old stratified gravels out of a vertical bank! Woohooooo! Thanks for the nice video 911 beautiful creek!
I love panning.....it's like opening a gift slowly until you see the gift at the end....I tell my wife that it is hiking with a shovel........ Always a fun outing.
If the gravel is red IT means its oxydiced? Or what are we looking for?
Does it have to be red for oxidization? What about orange and blond dirt.
Nice of mother nature to expose a cross view of an old creek bed for yall. Is it far enough away from the creek to run a high banker? Yall be safe out there.
Yes it is 😉
g'day from tasmania australia mate. very informative video. if I did'nt know you were in the states i would swear you were about 5 minutes from where i live here. ..exactly the same rainforest , rivers and geology !! going to give it another go tomorrow with the knowledge you have provided. Cheers mate ,well done.
Hey that oxidize layer how come you stoped digging there it looked really good..
Well be back we where just on a sampling day
I would test and see how deep that grey muck goes I've found some great gold underneath similar stuff.....
The rails are all around a couple of claims we have up here and I found out they were used for mining the placers. A couple are in the river still some up on the bank. I think it was easier for them or more readily available to use the big rails for mining. A lot of the old claims here on the island were being worked when WWII started and they were just abandoned because the miners went away to fight or work for the war effort if they were too old to fight. A lot of miners never came back to them 😕 🇨🇦 Beautiful claim you guys have there! That being said when they were logging by rail a lot of the short spur roads or landings weren't recorded and would have been forgotten about. Once when I was hunting I was walking through very large second growth along a deer trail and remember thinking to myself how perfectly level the trail was up in the hills and about 15 min later I came across the end of a set of rail tracks bent and pushed up in a pile of dirt and that's where it met a new cut block. That's when I realized I was walking on an old rail track but you wouldn't have known it for the trees were monsters and some in the middle of the track with all the under brush. It was really quite the epiphany but I guess one had to be there to get it. Now that I re-read this I'm just rambling, 😂 Happy Hunting 😁
paul Wazzup This is what I was thinking. The track was used to move rail carts to move rocks to find gold. You should see if you can follow it to find a mine shaft. Just a thought.
Can these types of finds be exploited commercially?
Starting to believe railroad equal gold
Someone was mining there and set track for ore carts. Probably early in the 1920s or earlier. Afterall it was during the depression.
Could be would of been illegally there hasn't ever been any claims and permits recorded on the creek.
Justin, You should take the water out of the pan when your showing us the gold. A lot of glare from the water n can't see anything really. Lettin ya know. : )
That piece of track looks like it was cut to be an anvil, the hole in it would be convenient for lowering and raising it with rope. if there were mines nearby it could be there as a a tool to maintain their tools etc.
Even without gold, I'd rather be there.
Yeah I love the forest.
Fairy tail world 🌎
Not sure if similar area if in VAN ISLE have found old train rails people used as markers because they wouldn't float away and would always find them in areas people had did lots of gold prospecting before . Awesome video .
Glad to see gold again. The sample rocks all look the same over and over again.
Keep up the good work!
Hello my friend thank sharing video👍🔔☕️👈🙏🏻🔔
That's a really nice find, I wish my explorations were that productive. Nice work 👍
Those railroad tracks are an indication someone had been possibly mining ⛏️ somewhere near there years before.
This looks like absolutely textbook ground with packed river gravels 👌🏻
Great video thanks 👍🏻⚒🏴
Narrow gauge rail wasn't from a train. Possible ore cart?
Not narrow gauge. There's also no known mines anywhere within 10km of here
@@911mining I am at a loss..perhaps a flood took out a bridge and the attached iron floated with the ties, sank, ties rotted? Very odd indeed!
I like your racoon style panning, :) that grey clay layer only hold gold at the very top mm, it is horrible to work with, but I would try that area close to it. I suspect paydirt is within 1 or 2 meters and not very deep ;D that first pan was incredible! Waiting for first light to go gold prospecting!
jij
Amazing videos great information that lead me to find my own gold deposit in Nova Scotia keep up the great work.
Congrats! I'm unfortunately in New York, where there is very little gold to be found, plus the laws are just terrible for any gold prospecting. All gold found belongs to the state of NY and must be turned over, or so the law says
catch22frubert that sucks in Nova Scotia the government is all for mineral exploration I am in south west shore of n s lots of un touched ground and highly mineralization I found mine after building logging roads.Cant explain the feeling after finding the first few flakes of gold.
I've found it in 4 out of 5 waterways I checked but I still go to vt
ferd burphel I found mine were quartzite and schists came together in ridges that run west to est and in the sulphides.
4:33 That is nice ,my rivers are 30f still ,I have to weight a little wile longer =(
Maybe for a bridge those rails, damn i am a bit shocked about that gold in the first pen. Proper high-banker job there. Good creek
Get a mini electric highbanker like a rdh highbanker and run test buckets from every spot. just using the black matt for clear identification...they also have canvas buckets if packing is a problem.....i would also semi dam the creek up upstream run some hose and make Bigger gravity highbanker system.
I'm a panning gold seeker, I really like your gold video
That forest is primeval,,was just waiting for a dinosaur to scurry into the creek,,,,😁
try using a backpack Gear Pan, Dan Hurd RUclips vid like a mini high banker. works awesome super fast panning
E. Fifield lol gas powered pan lolol
@@robs9574 with some of the pans I see an the gold that was recovered in just one pan it would pay for its self in one trip. I plan on purchasing one myself am very impressed with it
E. Fifield I’ve seen the unit briefly. I bought every kind of highbanker, sluice and dredge when I first started out. I drug them up my claim and still only got a couple dwt per day. Spent more time hauling gear and gas than prospecting. Then I got fast at panning. If I’m in shallow overburden I’ll pour 5 gal buckets of water on material. The heavies drop and the tails sluff off. Sucker stick the concentrates into a bucket. Using the bedrock this way is very productive and no motor to attract attention. One pan 30 seconds max, only take the material down to a concentrate in the field and bring that home to finish later. Two gallon of these cons can be very yellow. Respectfully
How can I purchase some of the samples you find? I see wonderful things on your show. Mining is great. My grandfather was a steam shovel operator back in the 30's in the Cleopatra mine in Jerome Az. He also had a huge mining museum at the ranch in Cottonwood Az. I dig your show! Get back at me on the samples.
How can find the possible area
What state is this in. Looks like Georgia.
Excellent pan results and video. You guys are genius. That's awesome gold nugget.
The railroad ties have dates on them find a long enough piece, and it should have dates either welded on them or stamped on them
At 6:45.....was that a nugget?
Sometimes they use railroad track to reinforce concrete or bridges. Maybe something around it was from.
steady in the search for gold
I think you need to use that highbanker on that spot
Yes, now that would be a killer clean up if they went after the oxidized gravels
@@catch22frubert yes it should be a video I hope they do it
Was I mistaken or was that a solid gold nug at 6:40 g 6:44 slow the video playback speed to .5
i would love to tag along on one of your adventures it looks like it would be a blast
"No recorded railroad tracks anywhere near here.." Perhaps there is an unrecorded mine and the rails were from that?
Exactly what I was thinking
great show buddy, really informative about the layers, amazing color's
okay, screw it, I'm moving to BC
is this property for sale?
Not this one, at least not yet. Lol We are day 12 into our 30 day exploration program. It's a big claim...
I've been thinking the same thing. There is nothing really for me to find in NY. I definitely have to relocate or take a lot of trips to do any prospecting
where is that place sir
Why throwing the rusting railroad track back in the water?
It was not left in the water. We found thousands of pounds of track here in the creek and banks. We left as much on the side as possible to heavy to pack on a long trip
I would build a wooded chute so I could roll the big rocks elsewhere and I would proceed to run that entire shelf through a highbanker. I'm talking like 20 cubic meters. I can only dream of gold like that.
Looks just like my claims, real squatchy. “Oxidized” or just different flood layers? Imagine a pan off that virgin bedrock. Rails indicate a possible drift mine under that bench?
I would think the masonry hammer that people gave you grief about, would work best digging in those old river gravels. Broad base, able to scrape out dirt. And frankly, half the price of a "miner's hand pick" ...
Yes they work well we carry both and a larger sledge everytime the masonry hammer also works good as a chisel
ah, finally, viewing you take samples and pan off by the side of a water source ~
What state are you in?
Loved watching your video today , I learned a lot, so for that thank you.
Thats a a railroad track repurposed to an anvil brother. My old man made his own in the same fashion
Clay is a planners friend. It holds gold! Surprised that you toss it out like nothing.
Always find your prospecting vids very informative and love how you describe the geology and what you look for...anyways👍👍
Mothei
Another great video that place is loaded! Go looking for the source of the wire gold!👍🐍
Nice gold enjoyed the video
Is this washington state
I bet there are good nuggets in there that looks like ancient river bed
Lmao... Made me pause for a second too... One pan !!!!
Good job 👌
Holy Moly I was saying to myself that looks like textbook hard packed ancient virgin streambed then you panned it and I was blown away, I want to eat sleep and pan that kind of gold forever and ever !!! Great Video!!! (for what its worth maybe camera angle /reflection but the rock on the left at 9:12 into the video that rock you have your gold pan sitting on looks metallic and rainbow bluish color interesting ....mmm? you guys are in some great areas I love it!!!
🔥 panning skillz
WOWW very good friend
Awesome adventure beautiful area man you guys have the eye and I will a attraction for gold cool guys thank u be safe
no gold in clay ?
Not in clay the layer of clay would trap any gold directly above but the area didn't have as much for whatever reason.
I’ve Pan more than a handful of times and I always find black sand but never gold, am I doing something wrong or what’s up?? I’ve even take material home to do it very carefully and nothing but black sand. Anyone in here can suggest me what’s happening. Btw I’ve been doing it in lyttle creek, that’s north of Rialto California.
Not all areas have gold, you can find black sands without gold. Just need to keep testing areas
911 Mining & Prospecting
10/4 man thanks, I’ll keep heading out armed with your video suggestions. Thanks.
Are you in Oregon?
British Columbia
Yeah that looked like great stuff but maybe a lot of hard work that would pay off.
Wow what's cool! Thank you guys! Good luck!
what do you to locations
Nice paleoplacer !!
That's a hell of a claim you have good luck 👍🏻
Looks like a good place to take the high banker !
are you selling claims? I’m interested if you are staking claims for the sake of resale
I believe we are in the same general vicinity
I've never even came close to what u found,in that day,alone,in over 5 years,of prospecting in wa
I love watching these videos ❤️
Which this place
Excellent results on those pans guys! Just wondering, do you ever come across any gemstones while prospecting? Just curious if you stumble upon the rare saphire or something similar in your adventures. Thanks for sharing the awesome videos!
Not any precious one, well find terminated quartz, rhodonite, occasionally flourite, things like agate and jasper but not very often.
@@911mining Thanks for the reply 911! That's cool still. I know garnets can be found panning out of streams and creeks in certain areas. It would be nice to see you stumble upon a nice emerald or something!
Love mimi
Awesome
Very Nice Gold
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this is a simple way to find gold a very simple way
Looks like the woods in southern indiana
MY BIGGEST CURIOSITY IS THAT HOW DO THESE PEOPLE GET KNOWLEDGE OF THESE KIND OF THINGS?
Nice, well done fellas
Can't go wrong finding gold in every pan
March soon
The gold month !
Plentiful Gold to Ya !
It' won't of been a regular railway. It would of been put there for hand carts loaded up with paydirt and to be brought back to the the sluce 1800's. That's an old claim no doubt. Same here in NZ find them everywhere.
Hello .im fro phil. Are interested a black diamond?
Good work
Didn't they use railroad tracks in mines?
Wire lots near the source