The intimate relationship between the professor ant the chalk board is awesome!. The lecture comes alive with the chalk scratching sound instead of a lifeless PPoint presentation.
The sound of the chalk with rhythm , tempo then sharp crack of exclamation or end of paragraph … keeps the lecture exciting and engaging .. this style of educational experience can not be replicated online … I’m sure his influence and inspirational style of geology has spawned an entire new generation or strata of geologist.. !
I've watched a lot of videos on gold mining and I honestly have to say your side vs Rob's side is probably one of the best videos I have ever seen. Please keep making videos. Very informative and very much needed for prospect miners.
The latest random to stumble on to Nicks work. I'm in the UK, have little to no interest in geology, nor the pacific north west of the USA, but I think i've seen at least 15 of Nicks videos now. Could listen to this dude all day.
I stumbled on him researching Ice Age Floods in the Appalachian Mountains. His descriptions have great parallels for your side of the atlantic as well, as in the North Sea & the English Channel flood event. The Networks should pick up on him. He's a talented lecturer.
Great presentation. Gold mineralization is one of my past interests dating back to my time in Geology grad school and into my time working for Newmont Exploration in the Carlin Nv deposits back in 86-86.
My family took trips to the area in the 1960s, both my parents were geology graduates. As a disinterested kid, I remember their nonsensical discussions about the landscape. Now I know why they were so excited. thanks to the professor..
That Q & A with Rob was as funny as a comedy special. They should get Rob and Nick together more often, as their interactions are figuratively, and literally, Gold.
I’m probably the 50th person to say it but don’t have the time to check down below...to add to Rob’s quote and sentiment at the end, there’s an old quote that says it all in one place: *_If it can’t be grown, it MUST be mined!!_* P.S.: much thanks to Rob for not being a jerk to people curious about gold prospecting. Gold miners aren’t exactly known to be a warm and fuzzy sort at the best of times but I’m no expert on how much of that is stereotype.
I only learned this recently and it blew my mind. The way it was created, gold is not only precious but probably one of the oldest elements on the planet. Most of what he pulls out of the ground is probably the first time it's been touched by human hands in the 4.5 billion years of its existence.
I haven't attended CWU in 7 years now but I still watch these lectures. I wasn't even in the geology program, although it was almost my major, but this stuff is just so cool I almost regret graduating in the field I chose.
Thank you so much for posting these videos. I wish I could have attended something like this when I was a grad student. I am retired now, but still trying to learn. Your enthusiastic lectures are wonderful and helping me understand a little of another part of science that I never explored. I went to school at the UW and am familiar with many of the places that you discuss. Your students are very fortunate to have you as a professor.
Big Fan of Yours Nick....the 50 feet of river gravel you refer to many times that sits on top of the Paylayer of gold bearing Rocks is referred to as "Over Burden".....I enjoy your Lectures very much.....Thanks for the share.....Stay Safe Nick......
Great seminar thanks for sharing I’ve been putting off buying a gold detector for the last 15 years I just brought a detector to go out here in QLD Oz, watching your seminar has given me more incentive and knowledge 👍
Living in New Zealand and with slim chance of digging a hole in Liberty to extract anything worth more than misery I have to say this was a really interesting and compelling watch. Nick and Rob awesome job and thanks for taking the time to make this.
I just want to say I've been slowly crawling through Mr. Zentner's lectures recently as a wonderful way to drown out current political events which are threatening to drive me crazy. :P P.S. You spelled University wrong in the description. :3
I don't see any misspellings of university in the description; there are 2 places in the "description" that read "university" and they're both spelled correctly.
Greetings profesor, what a great way to teach! Congrats. I wish this kind of knowledge would be available about the region I live in México... I've always been marveled by rocks and the formation of landscape we see, although I have no formal education on this matter,really enjoy learning of people like you that passionate share knowledge. Some day I'd like to be on a field trip like those of yours and your collegues.
Thankyou to the both of you for all the wonderful geology information! Thankyou Nick always find your shows informative entertaining and enlightening. For many rocks with out back ground info are boring. You make rocks fun! You put in so much effort in to helping the common folk understand geology... If you are wrong about something we shall correct the info. But my opinion... you are more right about alot of this geology then some will ever given you credit for. So again thankyou for gathering the info and people needed for these shows!
Just such a fantastic teacher. Clear with visuals and demonstrative style that really helps get the concepts across. Plus a good doze of humor and 'asides' that keep you watching/ learning. Keep it up. I am lucky to have experienced him first hand up in PNW. Make sure you find his various "i-90 Rocks" short vids.
The content is excellent but his style, redundancy and unfunny humor reminds me of a high school teacher, hard to take. I'm constantly jumping ahead to avoid annoying repetition.
@@Mrbfgray He's a college professor, not a court jester. Of all the college instructors I ever had he is THE most engaging and he teaches to his audience - IOW he's aware most of his audience doesn't know jack about nuts-and-bolts geology and he makes it understandable without talking down to them or putting them to sleep. And he's doing these community lectures GRATIS - on his own dime and his own free time. The smarmy criticism is troll-like and unnecessary, because he's not gonna change his style to suit you, and he continues to grow his audience.
@@briane173 If you or he are too childish to accept legit criticism it's on YOU, not me. Correct I'm not his target audience, my old man was masters in geology from Berkley, I was treated more adult at 8 than these lectures. I agree this guy has his place and I've enjoyed learning from him too. But this mental fragility you express is another example of the *pussification of America* today...NOT healthy to be so weak.
@@Mrbfgray If it was "legit" criticism I'd agree with you. What you consider "mental fragility" most of us refer to as just being decent. If you view that as "pussification" than it's a small wonder we're left with broken politics and unresponsive government. If you want to stoke _that_ be my guest, but I'm not playin'.
Hey Nick just stumbled across your videos & boy are they great. Fantastic presentation makes me wonder why all teachers are'nt like you , I wish mine had been. looking forward to more from you.
It seems like you should be sitting on a Disneyland ride with your eyes closed and listening to the spirit and do that freaking tripping you out trip me out just got the best Storyteller that scientist lawyer God bless you do not get this virus America needs to kill the virus
It's a awesome video for beginners to understand how gold is deposit in that specified area. The mines around are also feed by the same volcanic activity, what looks like a ring of fire.
Boy, I wish my Dad was still alive today. He was so in love with the West and this stuff it's sad we can't be sitting here listening to this stuff together
Thanks Death is very much a part of life and, the only great surprise was the fact that Dad after having cheated death so many times couldn't do it just once more. That said I want you to know how much I enjoy and look forward to your lectures. As someone getting close to retirement and wanting something to learn to try to keep my mind sharp your video's surely make that continued learning effort so much easier! Keep up the good work. There is no one else on you tube quite as good as you!
Ive prepared the last 10 years for this summer 2022. I'm going to go find Rob and start helping with the heavy lifting of them heavy golden goose eggs. Got whites pulse induction metal detector, under flow sluice box, magnets to separate the black sands, bismuth and bone ash cupels with electric furnace for turning the black iron sands into gold. Look up 'MBMM LLC' if you dont believe me that guy shows how to get .9999 fine gold extraction.
A really great video. Taught me a lot about gold deposits that I hadn't already known. Rob seems like a very knowledgeable person that I would gladly share a beer or two with
Great video. You're a hell of an instructor and your guest seems to be a wealth of knowledge too. Thanks for posting this. I think I will contact your guest and see if he will let a gold noob check out his operation.
This is a terrific video and I have watched this lecture several times. An hour well spent (x3). I have gold prospected for over 20 years but still learned some things here.
Fascinating lecture. I will eventually view all your videos, Nick. Thank you so much. I will also attempt to contact Rob Repin. I have travelled Blewett many times and wondered what the heck was going on, geologically. Now I know a little and am planning a field trip to explore and photograph. You are a great teacher.
Excellent ending statement! While mining processes have & should continue to advance in safety & waste handling, mining is no different than any other life form (plant or animal) or natural process. We are pulling resources up which we need, just as plants, insects, mammals, or earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes or tsunami. Those minerals eventually find their way back into the soil, get churned and battered, decayed used or covered/ pushed back down only to find their way churned and pushed back up once again.
Reminds me of the song she got the goldmine (I got the Shaft) by jerry reed. brings back lots of memories of the good times before all of the clmate change whackos.
wait ... who have you been talking to who says it isn't ? have you been hanging out with alchemists again? what have i told you about hanging out with alchemist? hmm? thats right they all smell of old urine and likely have mercury poisoning .. do you want to end up like that ? hmm .. right now off to you're room and take that hat off you look like a madman... :P
also to be fair if you have the right equipment you can turn lead into gold .. all you need in a way to fire neutrons(or was it electrons? or was it protons? i forget) into lead atoms with enough energy to knock neutrons out of them and keep doing that till you lower the atoms atomic number from 82 down to 79 and volla you have a single atom of man made gold from lead ....
When i was a kid in the 60s i went to the library and checked the Wa state geology reports for gold locations. There were none. Funny thing was kalama was a giant gold mine yet it wasnt listed. Vancouver had a ton of placer gold the yukon people worked heading for alaska. I have never understood until i heard you say that you couldnt find any either. Wonder why that is??
Super novas. David butler is a really cool teacher for science on here too, How far away is it and How small is it videos. Don't let his demeanor fool you guy is brilliant.
Dr. Zentner, do you happen to have a web site for Rob Repin? This was a very interesting lecture and easy to understand. You are an awesome Professor. Thank you for sharing.
The instant he drew it on the board (at 23:00, roughly), I saw his answer...the basalt eruption behaved like a river does now...and the gold, traveling the lava, acted as it does in water...WHEN FLOWING DOWN A SLUICE! The Sandstone-Shale layer junctures act like RIFFLES IN A SLUICE MAT...they are 'roughage', they are flow interruption points, that facilitated deposits!!! So, the scenario he was searching for in the video is one most-any prospector (placer) is familiar with...a gold deposit forced as a function of texture change...the boundary points between shale and sandstone act as riffles geologically!
Nick, I drove Blewett yesterday. Just north of mile 171, I found the serpentenite and a basalt column next to it. Is that a feeder dike? South of that, I found round creek stones embedded in sandstone. That one area looks like a whole geology semester. Was I right on the feeder dike? That was my goal for the trip. Can send a photo if ya want.
This is an amazing presentation. I wish we had more like this for my areas down in he western Mohave. A new look at the original greats like Hulin/Hess and the others that did the original surveys would be amazing.
Hi this is Nick, I'm watching myself watch myself watch a video of myself. I hope if I turn around now I won't see what I expect I will see OH DEAR LORD!
Awesome and very interesting video. Thank you for putting this together. If that gentleman would have been my teacher I probably would have become a geologist. The illustrations of the lava tubes and the deposit in the shale reminded me of a still, each component has a different evaporation temperature and once it hits the cooling fins turns to liquid....the shale could be acting like a place where gold can attach to not only for the carbon composition but maybe is cools faster and gets deposited in the shale.
Strange kind of resentment you have there. You are, I’m assuming, talking about the mechanism in place that allows for prospecting on public land? Land that belongs equally to New Yorkers, Texans, Massachusettsians, Idahoans, Californians... all US citizens... and by following the very sparse regulations you can go on to land owned by everybody, rip it apart and muddy the waters to find valuable shiny metal that you can keep for yourself? Boo-fuckin’-hoo!
Many placer operations have heavy black sands that are discarded in the gold retrieval process. I have seen members of the rare earth family in the black sands and in some cases the rare earth is more valuable than the recovered gold. Are their black sands in the tailings and if so have they been checked for rare earth elements?
7 years ago the government sent two ladies up to map the coal mines up in Cle Elum Ridge. I got a DVD of all the maps, openings of all the coal mine tunnels. I wish I knew where it is but would this be of interest to you?
Hi i have some rocks, i found it a few weeks ago and i am torned if they're golden or not. And now many people want me to sell it. Please i wanna your advice.
I just thought I was inquisitive subscribing to this channel. Love knowing how this place was made. To find out , if your not getting credits . Your old! I should of noticed all the bald heads. Thanks for the channel. Great Lectures.
Hey Nick, I have a really basic question: Golds main property is it's density, it's more dense than even rock, hence burrowing underneath rock in rivers. So how does lava, aka hot rock, even have the ability to push gold up to the surface in the first place? wouldn't it fall out too? Maybe this is why gold only gets embedded in calcite or quartz?
In the form of superpressurized high temperature water. Basically hot springs. With lower pressure, the minerals precipitate out. This was a fairly recent discovery from Australia and explains a lot.
@@rolandmoreno6790 there is zero evidence that the world is anything over 6000 years old. They date fossils by the rock layers they are in. They date the rocks by the fossils that are in layers. It is circular reasoning. You have been lied to about everything and I mean everything.
@@lindanwfirefighter4973 😆🤣 howd you figure this out without a single chemistry class? I suggest you actually try and learn how carbon dating works before you pretend to. Its literally right on wikipedia.
Great video, very informative and fun to watch! I wish there had been a bit of discussion about how the nuggets formed; are they mobilized gold from a Cl complex? And what about miners who melt down there own material? Has the local miners thought about starting there own mint? I also enjoyed the discussion describing the gravel deposits and the ice age interaction to form the deposits in the stream bed. Good to know that Rob is friendly with visitors. I have always been a little cautious about stopping in Liberty, given that one has to be careful about who's claim one is entering. Thank you for sharing this video, and for the entertaining talk.
Get a Job You Lazy Bumm Thanks for the comments. The transfer of wire gold to nuggets in just a couple of miles of river transport puzzles me...and maybe others. No talk of starting their own mint. Thanks for watching.
Nick Zentner Gold is very malleable and rocks are heavy. It takes a lot of water to move the riverbed, which is how the gold migrates. The gold is beaten by boulders and rocks and settles on the bedrock or false bedrock, and large boulders and rocks are slammed on top of it. it wouldn't take too many blows with a 200 pound rock to make crystalline gold into just a lump.
Like your energy its real, firstly rocks are seldom born round and with that how is it world wide there are huge deposits of rounded deposits ? 1- flood of Noah tore and tumbled the entire globe for almost a full year, as in total destruction of most all surface contours. 2- shortly following the flood event came the global ice age which hit hard and fast hence the N Pole finds in the receding ice and mining operations etc. So in a nut shell, the vast majority of the gorges, canyons and huge deposit occurred during the Flood event. Thanks for the service and good energy my friend. Tom~
If you go there to gold pan for fun, be careful as almost everything is claimed. People get very sensitive about being in their claims. Plus, if you are looking to find gold in the creeks, it’s almost all been panned out. Look on the sides of the creeks walls if there are hills going into the creek Beautiful area to visit!
Hi Nick, this is a question about the rocks and agate at 35:17 in this video I see a rock right at your hand that looks blue! Are there any blue agate in the rocks that the owner of the gold mine just doesn't look at the rocks. That is a big rock! And it looks like it is in pink Rhyolite!
I have done some mining. Most miners I know are great at pocket mining, but few can put gold in your hand. (Pocket mining = raising funds from ‘investors’. Investors = willing victims of their own greed.) I was involved with a silica mine for about a year. Silica was needed for a nearby copper smelting operation.
My great uncle had a mine there. He was always saying "As soon as they take us off the gold standard..." Which Nixon did, a year after he passed. I have some pdf's put out by the state government about the mines but always wondered about the geology and how the gold got there. Thanks again for the wonderful videos!!!
Hey Prof, question: your video on Ancient Rivers of the PNW, you mention the huge basalt ridges in south central Washington. Could one expect to find gold deposits where the basalt would have joined the slate in those areas as it does in Liberty?
***** Yes sir, we do. But there is that one area of geology that they don't seem to teach you, all because of this yellow metal. I'm a member of a prospecting club, and I was banned from using it's forum, just for talking about it. I guess it's the biggest secret in mining, and has been since ancient times? Have you watched that video about the new big mine in Mongolia? Notice how they pay their respect to the moon, because they know the big secret.
@@lowpricedpaint yeah! That's what I'm saying, just a few people are willing to share knowledge like this, and there's so much involved on prospecting that would of been too obvious for everyone if it was readily at hand
Thanks Nick, fascinating, entertaining and educational video. I followed along on Google Earth. I would love to chat with Rob about metal detecting in the Liberty area. Is the contact information on his business card shown on the video current? Are you ever in Seattle?
The intimate relationship between the professor ant the chalk board is awesome!.
The lecture comes alive with the chalk scratching sound instead of a lifeless PPoint presentation.
I dislike power point presentations very much.
The sound of the chalk with rhythm , tempo then sharp crack of exclamation or end of paragraph … keeps the lecture exciting and engaging .. this style of educational experience can not be replicated online … I’m sure his influence and inspirational style of geology has spawned an entire new generation or strata of geologist.. !
Dr. Z is the best lecturer on geology that came to RUclips ! A mountain of material in a world of hills and lowlands of the planet.
I've watched a lot of videos on gold mining and I honestly have to say your side vs Rob's side is probably one of the best videos I have ever seen. Please keep making videos. Very informative and very much needed for prospect miners.
The latest random to stumble on to Nicks work. I'm in the UK, have little to no interest in geology, nor the pacific north west of the USA, but I think i've seen at least 15 of Nicks videos now. Could listen to this dude all day.
I stumbled on him researching Ice Age Floods in the Appalachian Mountains. His descriptions have great parallels for your side of the atlantic as well, as in the North Sea & the English Channel flood event.
The Networks should pick up on him. He's a talented lecturer.
Me too! I started to look into the geology of my home area
Great presentation. Gold mineralization is one of my past interests dating back to my time in Geology grad school and into my time working for Newmont Exploration in the Carlin Nv deposits back in 86-86.
My family took trips to the area in the 1960s, both my parents were geology graduates. As a disinterested kid, I remember their nonsensical discussions about the landscape. Now I know why they were so excited. thanks to the professor..
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That Q & A with Rob was as funny as a comedy special. They should get Rob and Nick together more often, as their interactions are figuratively, and literally, Gold.
I am 80, live in Wapato, this man is gifted in so many ways. I can’t get enough of his lectures, wish I could be 50 again so I could go on the hikes.
Another Fine Video with the added bonus of Rob Repin. What a smart man. Very Informative. Thank You Nick!!!🇺🇸👍💰
I hope that all the people who make prospecting & rock hounding videos, watch these lectures! They are wonderful.
this is the best use of You Tube.......Thank you
Nice comment. Thank you.
I couldn't agree more! Thank to a wonderful teacher!
Nick, I am thoroughly pleased and happy to learn from such a real, born to do this teacher/professor. A BIG Thanks!!!!
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, gets as excited about rocks as this fine guy. TY for many fine lectures.
I’m probably the 50th person to say it but don’t have the time to check down below...to add to Rob’s quote and sentiment at the end, there’s an old quote that says it all in one place: *_If it can’t be grown, it MUST be mined!!_*
P.S.: much thanks to Rob for not being a jerk to people curious about gold prospecting. Gold miners aren’t exactly known to be a warm and fuzzy sort at the best of times but I’m no expert on how much of that is stereotype.
Amazing history and knowledge, thankyou Rob for sharing this information. As a Washington native I find this fascinating!
I've watched a lot of your reallly interesting videos. And I loved Rob's answer "How far back do you want to go? It takes a supernova to create gold."
I only learned this recently and it blew my mind. The way it was created, gold is not only precious but probably one of the oldest elements on the planet. Most of what he pulls out of the ground is probably the first time it's been touched by human hands in the 4.5 billion years of its existence.
I haven't attended CWU in 7 years now but I still watch these lectures. I wasn't even in the geology program, although it was almost my major, but this stuff is just so cool I almost regret graduating in the field I chose.
Thank you so much for posting these videos. I wish I could have attended something like this when I was a grad student. I am retired now, but still trying to learn. Your enthusiastic lectures are wonderful and helping me understand a little of another part of science that I never explored. I went to school at the UW and am familiar with many of the places that you discuss. Your students are very fortunate to have you as a professor.
Great lecture, just got around to watching it, very gracious of Rob to take part and wonderful way to end the lecture!
Rob was a great guest speaker. I appreciated that Q&A, mostly for the information but surely for the interactions with Nick and the audience, too.
I'm Quickly realizing that great Geologists are scientists with an artistic gift. Well done Professor Zentner!
Big Fan of Yours Nick....the 50 feet of river gravel you refer to many times that sits on top of the Paylayer of gold bearing Rocks is referred to as "Over Burden".....I enjoy your Lectures very much.....Thanks for the share.....Stay Safe Nick......
The wire gold is so pretty it makes jewelry all by itself.
Agree.
Great seminar thanks for sharing I’ve been putting off buying a gold detector for the last 15 years I just brought a detector to go out here in QLD Oz, watching your seminar has given me more incentive and knowledge 👍
Living in New Zealand and with slim chance of digging a hole in Liberty to extract anything worth more than misery I have to say this was a really interesting and compelling watch. Nick and Rob awesome job and thanks for taking the time to make this.
Hello from America. Thanks much, Simon.
Thank you Nick...
You reignited my interest in Liberty WA with your introduction of Rob.
I just want to say I've been slowly crawling through Mr. Zentner's lectures recently as a wonderful way to drown out current political events which are threatening to drive me crazy. :P
P.S. You spelled University wrong in the description. :3
Fenthis, A year later we're still trying to drown out the noxious political conversations. I love geology
Fenthis, I am in total agreement with you on this. Found myself doing the same thing.
I don't see any misspellings of university in the description; there are 2 places in the "description" that read "university" and they're both spelled correctly.
Fenthis only he doesn't have enough of them.
Fenthis : who gives a shyte how university is spelled ! This isn't a Grammar presentation
Greetings profesor, what a great way to teach! Congrats.
I wish this kind of knowledge would be available about the region I live in México...
I've always been marveled by rocks and the formation of landscape we see, although I have no formal education on this matter,really enjoy learning of people like you that passionate share knowledge. Some day I'd like to be on a field trip like those of yours and your collegues.
Love it when the chalk snaps. You know Nick is about to cap the setup. This event is hilarious and informative. Thank you again.
Thankyou to the both of you for all the wonderful geology information! Thankyou Nick always find your shows informative entertaining and enlightening. For many rocks with out back ground info are boring. You make rocks fun! You put in so much effort in to helping the common folk understand geology... If you are wrong about something we shall correct the info. But my opinion... you are more right about alot of this geology then some will ever given you credit for. So again thankyou for gathering the info and people needed for these shows!
Thoroughly enjoyed you lecture and the presentation at the end by the "Miner" Rob Repin was fantastic. Thanks!
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.
Just such a fantastic teacher. Clear with visuals and demonstrative style that really helps get the concepts across. Plus a good doze of humor and 'asides' that keep you watching/ learning. Keep it up. I am lucky to have experienced him first hand up in PNW.
Make sure you find his various "i-90 Rocks" short vids.
+borg22222
Thanks for the endorsement!
The content is excellent but his style, redundancy and unfunny humor reminds me of a high school teacher, hard to take. I'm constantly jumping ahead to avoid annoying repetition.
@@Mrbfgray He's a college professor, not a court jester. Of all the college instructors I ever had he is THE most engaging and he teaches to his audience - IOW he's aware most of his audience doesn't know jack about nuts-and-bolts geology and he makes it understandable without talking down to them or putting them to sleep. And he's doing these community lectures GRATIS - on his own dime and his own free time. The smarmy criticism is troll-like and unnecessary, because he's not gonna change his style to suit you, and he continues to grow his audience.
@@briane173 If you or he are too childish to accept legit criticism it's on YOU, not me. Correct I'm not his target audience, my old man was masters in geology from Berkley, I was treated more adult at 8 than these lectures.
I agree this guy has his place and I've enjoyed learning from him too. But this mental fragility you express is another example of the *pussification of America* today...NOT healthy to be so weak.
@@Mrbfgray If it was "legit" criticism I'd agree with you. What you consider "mental fragility" most of us refer to as just being decent. If you view that as "pussification" than it's a small wonder we're left with broken politics and unresponsive government. If you want to stoke _that_ be my guest, but I'm not playin'.
This professor brings so much to the table, learning can be fun 😀
Hey Nick
just stumbled across your videos & boy are they great. Fantastic presentation makes me wonder why all teachers are'nt like you , I wish mine had been.
looking forward to more from you.
Thanks much, Terry. New lectures coming this winter.
I DID THE SAMETHING FEW YEARS AGO AN BEN SHARING SENSE :)
@@triple_A_rockhound what sort of "sense" have you "ben" sharing?
PS ...or was that a pun?
this video
This was awesome! I really wish I had teachers as excited as this man.
Thank you, Nathan.
It seems like you should be sitting on a Disneyland ride with your eyes closed and listening to the spirit and do that freaking tripping you out trip me out just got the best Storyteller that scientist lawyer God bless you do not get this virus America needs to kill the virus
Love your talks. Thanks for sharing them with us!!
That was an outstanding presentation thank you Professor Nick and Rob
It's a awesome video for beginners to understand how gold is deposit in that specified area. The mines around are also feed by the same volcanic activity, what looks like a ring of fire.
I hope he is continuing to spread his knowledge for us. This particular video is eight years old already.
Boy, I wish my Dad was still alive today. He was so in love with the West and this stuff it's sad we can't be sitting here listening to this stuff together
Sorry for your loss.
Thanks
Death is very much a part of life and, the only great surprise was the fact that Dad after having cheated death so many times couldn't do it just once more.
That said I want you to know how much I enjoy and look forward to your lectures. As someone getting close to retirement and wanting something to learn to try to keep my mind sharp your video's surely make that continued learning effort so much easier! Keep up the good work. There is no one else on you tube quite as good as you!
I love this. I'm fascinated by mining. That end quote was great. Rob seems like a cool guy.
Ive prepared the last 10 years for this summer 2022. I'm going to go find Rob and start helping with the heavy lifting of them heavy golden goose eggs. Got whites pulse induction metal detector, under flow sluice box, magnets to separate the black sands, bismuth and bone ash cupels with electric furnace for turning the black iron sands into gold. Look up 'MBMM LLC' if you dont believe me that guy shows how to get .9999 fine gold extraction.
Loved the video. Thank you for posting them. Looking forward to watching the rest of the series.
A really great video. Taught me a lot about gold deposits that I hadn't already known. Rob seems like a very knowledgeable person that I would gladly share a beer or two with
Thanks for watching, Zac!
Great video. You're a hell of an instructor and your guest seems to be a wealth of knowledge too. Thanks for posting this. I think I will contact your guest and see if he will let a gold noob check out his operation.
Thank you. Rob has much to offer.
The best information, I can hardly wait to visit that town
Mining is everything. Infact, one can argue, its the only reason humans advanced past hunter gatherers.
Thanks for watching, Sean.
What about farming bruh
This is a terrific video and I have watched this lecture several times. An hour well spent (x3). I have gold prospected for over 20 years but still learned some things here.
+tess99991
Thank you. Your comments are especially meaningful since you're a prospector who knows way more than I about the subject.
Those gold crystals on calcite are really pretty
Super Nova's....
Fascinating lecture. I will eventually view all your videos, Nick. Thank you so much. I will also attempt to contact Rob Repin. I have travelled Blewett many times and wondered what the heck was going on, geologically. Now I know a little and am planning a field trip to explore and photograph. You are a great teacher.
+Michael Drollman
Very nice comments, Michael. Thank you.
Also from what I remember from an old timy miner talking to my dad gold will work it’s way through gravel to bedrock.
Sounds good.
Excellent ending statement!
While mining processes have & should continue to advance in safety & waste handling, mining is no different than any other life form (plant or animal) or natural process.
We are pulling resources up which we need, just as plants, insects, mammals, or earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes or tsunami. Those minerals eventually find their way back into the soil, get churned and battered, decayed used or covered/ pushed back down only to find their way churned and pushed back up once again.
Reminds me of the song she got the goldmine (I got the Shaft) by jerry reed. brings back lots of memories of the good times before all of the clmate change whackos.
+caleb Geringer
I love Jerry Reed's music....and yes, I'm one of those whackos.
Love that little town. Would always pass through and stop on my way to work at Lake Chelan airport.
last statement sums it all up. the amount and range of precious metals required to make this PC work alone is staggering.
fall asleep and wake up! to learn again thank you very much for this video
If all teachers were this interesting...I would love school!
Thank you, Colleen.
Nick, you make ppl want to visit the Liberty Cafe & other places. Miners really should be geologists first. Great presentation. Thanks
Thanks Christine!
"takes a supernova to create gold" so good to hear truth! thank you Rob thank you Nick!
wait ... who have you been talking to who says it isn't ? have you been hanging out with alchemists again? what have i told you about hanging out with alchemist? hmm? thats right they all smell of old urine and likely have mercury poisoning .. do you want to end up like that ? hmm .. right now off to you're room and take that hat off you look like a madman... :P
also to be fair if you have the right equipment you can turn lead into gold .. all you need in a way to fire neutrons(or was it electrons? or was it protons? i forget) into lead atoms with enough energy to knock neutrons out of them and keep doing that till you lower the atoms atomic number from 82 down to 79 and volla you have a single atom of man made gold from lead ....
This gets even more interesting realizing that that plate of land was someplace else on the globe when this was happing.
When i was a kid in the 60s i went to the library and checked the Wa state geology reports for gold locations. There were none. Funny thing was kalama was a giant gold mine yet it wasnt listed. Vancouver had a ton of placer gold the yukon people worked heading for alaska. I have never understood until i heard you say that you couldnt find any either. Wonder why that is??
Super novas. David butler is a really cool teacher for science on here too, How far away is it and How small is it videos.
Don't let his demeanor fool you guy is brilliant.
Dr. Zentner, do you happen to have a web site for Rob Repin? This was a very interesting lecture and easy to understand. You are an awesome Professor. Thank you for sharing.
Wow, I wish I'd had teachers like you Nick. Now, how exactly does that silver get into the gold?
Thanks. No idea!
The instant he drew it on the board (at 23:00, roughly), I saw his answer...the basalt eruption behaved like a river does now...and the gold, traveling the lava, acted as it does in water...WHEN FLOWING DOWN A SLUICE! The Sandstone-Shale layer junctures act like RIFFLES IN A SLUICE MAT...they are 'roughage', they are flow interruption points, that facilitated deposits!!! So, the scenario he was searching for in the video is one most-any prospector (placer) is familiar with...a gold deposit forced as a function of texture change...the boundary points between shale and sandstone act as riffles geologically!
I enjoyed this presentation from beginning to the end. Here in Nairobi Kenya
Hello from America! Thanks for watching!
Nick, I drove Blewett yesterday. Just north of mile 171, I found the serpentenite and a basalt column next to it. Is that a feeder dike? South of that, I found round creek stones embedded in sandstone. That one area looks like a whole geology semester. Was I right on the feeder dike? That was my goal for the trip. Can send a photo if ya want.
This is an amazing presentation. I wish we had more like this for my areas down in he western Mohave. A new look at the original greats like Hulin/Hess and the others that did the original surveys would be amazing.
Thanks for the comment. Wish I knew more about areas outside of the Northwest.
Hope's nose in the UK is a similar deposit with beautiful dendritic gold. Thanks for a great lecture
I was THERE. This is where I was allowed to pan that river right off of 97. Wow.
Good to know.
I got the gold fever!..next up, the dangers of quartz and other deadly minerals. lol
Hi this is Nick, I'm watching myself watch myself watch a video of myself.
I hope if I turn around now I won't see what I expect I will see
OH DEAR LORD!
Love your lectures and can’t imagine why anyone would thumbs down 👎 this 10 thumbs up 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks! Haters gonna hate.
Awesome and very interesting video. Thank you for putting this together. If that gentleman would have been my teacher I probably would have become a geologist. The illustrations of the lava tubes and the deposit in the shale reminded me of a still, each component has a different evaporation temperature and once it hits the cooling fins turns to liquid....the shale could be acting like a place where gold can attach to not only for the carbon composition but maybe is cools faster and gets deposited in the shale.
Another good watch. i live on the other side of the world but did enjoy this
Thank you. Come visit sometime.
the hardest part of prospecting is dealing with government agencies and regulations.
call the G a Cancer.... it's what they are. bunch a thieving busybody nanny gd parasites...
Strange kind of resentment you have there. You are, I’m assuming, talking about the mechanism in place that allows for prospecting on public land? Land that belongs equally to New Yorkers, Texans, Massachusettsians, Idahoans, Californians... all US citizens... and by following the very sparse regulations you can go on to land owned by everybody, rip it apart and muddy the waters to find valuable shiny metal that you can keep for yourself? Boo-fuckin’-hoo!
Many placer operations have heavy black sands that are discarded in the gold retrieval process. I have seen members of the rare earth family in the black sands and in some cases the rare earth is more valuable than the recovered gold. Are their black sands in the tailings and if so have they been checked for rare earth elements?
7 years ago the government sent two ladies up to map the coal mines up in Cle Elum Ridge. I got a DVD of all the maps, openings of all the coal mine tunnels. I wish I knew where it is but would this be of interest to you?
Yes. Thanks.
Enjoying your lectures...
Hi i have some rocks, i found it a few weeks ago and i am torned if they're golden or not. And now many people want me to sell it. Please i wanna your advice.
thank you for pointing out at video 36:26 a contribution by Chinese miners in some of the earlier liberty gold mines
That's all Rob. Thanks for watching.
I just thought I was inquisitive subscribing to this channel. Love knowing how this place was made. To find out , if your not getting credits . Your old! I should of noticed all the bald heads. Thanks for the channel. Great Lectures.
Hey Nick, I have a really basic question: Golds main property is it's density, it's more dense than even rock, hence burrowing underneath rock in rivers.
So how does lava, aka hot rock, even have the ability to push gold up to the surface in the first place? wouldn't it fall out too?
Maybe this is why gold only gets embedded in calcite or quartz?
In the form of superpressurized high temperature water. Basically hot springs. With lower pressure, the minerals precipitate out. This was a fairly recent discovery from Australia and explains a lot.
Just found this man 2 days ago! Love him even though he thinks the world is millions of years old. 😆
I agree!! "Is genesis history" is a new series that really helped me watch stuff like this. The flood explains so much of this stuff.
The world is millions of years old
@@jleehagoood8317 geeeze youtube never notified me of your response. Is that series available on RUclips?
@@rolandmoreno6790 there is zero evidence that the world is anything over 6000 years old. They date fossils by the rock layers they are in. They date the rocks by the fossils that are in layers. It is circular reasoning. You have been lied to about everything and I mean everything.
@@lindanwfirefighter4973 😆🤣 howd you figure this out without a single chemistry class? I suggest you actually try and learn how carbon dating works before you pretend to. Its literally right on wikipedia.
video never gets old lol
that mine sure is something
Great video, very informative and fun to watch! I wish there had been a bit of discussion about how the nuggets formed; are they mobilized gold from a Cl complex?
And what about miners who melt down there own material? Has the local miners thought about starting there own mint?
I also enjoyed the discussion describing the gravel deposits and the ice age interaction to form the deposits in the stream bed.
Good to know that Rob is friendly with visitors. I have always been a little cautious about stopping in Liberty, given that one has to be careful about who's claim one is entering.
Thank you for sharing this video, and for the entertaining talk.
Get a Job You Lazy Bumm Thanks for the comments. The transfer of wire gold to nuggets in just a couple of miles of river transport puzzles me...and maybe others. No talk of starting their own mint. Thanks for watching.
+Nick Zentner yes he is compltely wrong about that...rocks and minerals are ground down to smaller pieces in a river they aren't hammered together
Nick Zentner Gold is very malleable and rocks are heavy. It takes a lot of water to move the riverbed, which is how the gold migrates. The gold is beaten by boulders and rocks and settles on the bedrock or false bedrock, and large boulders and rocks are slammed on top of it. it wouldn't take too many blows with a 200 pound rock to make crystalline gold into just a lump.
How would you, or someone who mines it, determine the sale price of the crystallized wire gold? Very nice presentation!
The gravels are a lot older than the ice age we’re talking millions of years when it comes to those deposits
Like your energy its real, firstly rocks are seldom born round and with that how is it world wide there are huge deposits of rounded deposits ?
1- flood of Noah tore and tumbled the entire globe for almost a full year, as in total destruction of most all surface contours.
2- shortly following the flood event came the global ice age which hit hard and fast hence the N Pole finds in the receding ice and mining operations etc.
So in a nut shell, the vast majority of the gorges, canyons and huge deposit occurred during the Flood event.
Thanks for the service and good energy my friend.
Tom~
Do you think the large placer nuggets come from the apex of the paleo-anticline?
If you go there to gold pan for fun, be careful as almost everything is claimed. People get very sensitive about being in their claims. Plus, if you are looking to find gold in the creeks, it’s almost all been panned out. Look on the sides of the creeks walls if there are hills going into the creek
Beautiful area to visit!
Outstanding lecturer!
Hi Nick, this is a question about the rocks and agate at 35:17 in this video I see a rock right at your hand that looks blue! Are there any blue agate in the rocks that the owner of the gold mine just doesn't look at the rocks. That is a big rock! And it looks like it is in pink Rhyolite!
I have done some mining. Most miners I know are great at pocket mining, but few can put gold in your hand. (Pocket mining = raising funds from ‘investors’. Investors = willing victims of their own greed.)
I was involved with a silica mine for about a year. Silica was needed for a nearby copper smelting operation.
Another wonderful presentation! I am wondering. Will you do a presentation on the mining in the Slate Creek area of Watcom Co. ? Thanks!!!
Thanks! Presentation? Sure...but I don't know anything about that!
My great uncle had a mine there. He was always saying "As soon as they take us off the gold standard..." Which Nixon did, a year after he passed. I have some pdf's put out by the state government about the mines but always wondered about the geology and how the gold got there. Thanks again for the wonderful videos!!!
Hey Prof, question: your video on Ancient Rivers of the PNW, you mention the huge basalt ridges in south central Washington. Could one expect to find gold deposits where the basalt would have joined the slate in those areas as it does in Liberty?
I would love to see a series on the Republic gold deposits.
Good idea....would need to start from scratch.
Thank you very much, for sharing this, I found the intro very funny. Forbidden geology 101 I know something about it, not enough, but something.
+Moon Hitsearth Thanks for watching. We all learn new things everyday...
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Yes sir, we do. But there is that one area of geology that they don't seem to teach you, all because of this yellow metal. I'm a member of a prospecting club, and I was banned from using it's forum, just for talking about it. I guess it's the biggest secret in mining, and has been since ancient times? Have you watched that video about the new big mine in Mongolia? Notice how they pay their respect to the moon, because they know the big secret.
@@lowpricedpaint yeah! That's what I'm saying, just a few people are willing to share knowledge like this, and there's so much involved on prospecting that would of been too obvious for everyone if it was readily at hand
I sure wish there were subtitles on this video.
Thanks Nick, fascinating, entertaining and educational video. I followed along on Google Earth. I would love to chat with Rob about metal detecting in the Liberty area. Is the contact information on his business card shown on the video current? Are you ever in Seattle?
Nice to hear you followed along on GE. Cool. Rob's email is libertygold@fairpoint.net See nickzentner.com for upcoming appearances on the west side.
That was a very interesting video and it helped explain how my Grandfather and dad found gold where they did in Oregon. Thank you
Pleased to hear that you enjoyed it!
Best video yet! Rob was awesome!
Thanks. Yes, Rob has a nice stage presence.
So do you!!!! I have been binge watching all your videos...LOL
What prsentig of electrum is found in the slate formation ,I have found a deposit that assaded 80%silver and 20% gold in northern California.