Who knows there could be jewelry grade quartz there ,Chris is on the Hunt and got Him some big boulders ,He just doesn't give up .Nothing like having the right equipment for the job at Hand
That was a BIG hunk of quartz! It'd be interesting to see some crushed in a ball/hammer mill then panned, we used to do that in Nova Scotia, Canada, it's all quartz, it's all got gold, just need to mill and pan it.
Pucker-factor be damned! I was sitting here at home watching you pluck that huge boulder out of the ground, and realized that every muscle in my body was tense as you hoisted it over the fence. Once you cleared the fence and started backing away, my entire body relaxed. Damn that's one big pebble.
That's Chris. Just when I thought he couldn't top the 550 and here he proves that was ridiculous thinking :•) Rock be damned it ain't got a chance once Chris sets his mind to diggen it our. I think the 18 means 18 tons ain't nothin' to Chris.
I wonder if some poor pioneer farmer spent years hauling boulders with his team of horses; dug a bit and buried these rocks. Now Chris digs them all up for decorations 😊 Wonder if this area was glaciated ? We see these large rocks in Eastern Ontario…dragged there by glaciers. Some of these rocks are way bigger than the 220.
My brother worked for the Ne. Department of Roads and when they were rebuilding the Interstate they ran into a quartzite erratic. They dug around it and found the top was large enough to park a pickup on. Dug around the sides a little bit but couldn't find a bottom. They went ahead and built the road over it because if it hadn't moved in 12,000 years, it wasn't going to move now.
This video reminds me of the gold reclaiming system that I help setup back in 1981. It was used to reclaim all of the tailings that the miners dumped over the side of the mountain in Arizona. While I was there the hard rock miners following the quartz seam through the mountain hit a seem of gold that was over 1 thick. I had a great time on that job, really learned a lot about gold and silver mining. Good luck Chris. The mountain was solid granite that the quartz was running thru.
Hope this don't get deleted or go to spam!! True!! The first authenticated discovery of gold occurred on the Cabarrus County farm of John Reed in 1799, sparking the nation's first gold rush. During its peak years, more than a million dollars of gold was recovered a year, making North Carolina a leader in gold production until 1848. This mill, built by the Mecklenburg Iron Works of Charlotte, North Carolina, is original except for the timber work. Two groups of five 750-pound stamps with 5- to 7-inch lift, rose and fell thirty-five times a minute to yield a finely crushed ore. It is typical of those used in the late nineteenth century, not only in this state but in the western regions as well. Google....
Yeah, plus the weight of the bucket, coupler, and thumb adds a few thousand more pounds to the end of the stick. I'm shocked it got that boulder over the fence! 🤯
Best part is the quartz is from the appellations mountain building 400 million years ago. The app mountains were once as high and Jagged the Rockies which are a much younger mountain chain. The areas west and east of the mountains is out wash from hundreds of millions of years of erosion. I’m a geologist so i find this stuff cool. How it was deposited could be very complicated and would need some field work and research.
That’s a serious rock. That Volvo 220 is rated to lift 16,400 pounds! It was all she could do. Is this the machine that you replaced some of the ram seals? Certainly tested them!
Don't forget about the weight of the bucket, quick coupler, and progressive link thumb! All of that combined with the rock is extremely heavy for that 220 to lift!
I have at least three that are as big as the second one. Two above ground and one that I thought was small sticking up in my trail. Once I started digging it was nearly the size of my Mahindra 3215. Couldn't budget it from it's spot. Just covered it back up and added more dirt. The biggest one was about the same size as the one you lifted over the fence.
It's great that you can get the rock off your land to do the landscape work that you want to do around the house. To have to buy the rock would be very expensive. It is also great that you have the equipment to do all the work around the farm. I remember when you did not have your own equipment . I am proud of how hard you have worked to get where you are today. Just goes to show that if you work hard, you can have what you want. Enjoy watching your videos, which you also spend a lot of time working on. Thanks, Chris.
I love this hilarious attitude to looking for a big ol boulder. Need more fun like this as we get older. Pucker factor was extreme as you lifted that big un over the fence. I had to look away and grit my teeth. She's huge!
There is very little gold in quartz especially in North carolina but you can find some. Where you find gold in north carolina is in streams trapped around and in bed rock
You may be very well surprised! Don't think it would be placer gold, but some molten gold could have squeezed up into the quartz 20 billion years ago! If you do find it there in the quartz it probably will not be in just a bolder! Look for a vein of quartz!!!! Something like a underground ledge!
If I may, it has been estimated, through most recent calculations (2021), that the age of the universe is 13.8 billion years, with the age of the earth being approximately 3.54 billion years. Hope that helps in determining when the squeezing process may have taken place.
I chuckled when you said you lost the boulder that you found a cpl years ago. It'll eventually show up! I found, then lost for many years a moonshiners still site deep in the woods of Northern Mn.
Us landscapers like boulders without the tractor marks. Just saying. The best ones are usually on the surface covered in moss or lichen. Hoisted them with straps to save the look. Not cheap to buy a nice big one and hoist it over a house into the back yard. Pro tip, bury them at least 50% in the garden so they look natural.
Well the good thing is you have plenty dirt to fill the holes when you dig the pond brother! That’s something how it was buried and you couldn’t see it! lol 😂, plan B! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻 I sure appreciate you sharing this with us my friend, exciting!
Their Truely is gold their where ur an in nc. Sc. Ga an va. Its small but pure gold. Its in blue quarts aswell. Allot of free mill gold an load gold too depending the area!! Thanks for the video Chris
I'm wondering if Chris didn't actually strike gold with this video? Send a copy to the Yanmar mini 55 folks because they just might pay gold for the rights to this video! I thought it was a bit sketchy at times and expected a hose to blow or something but nothing happened to the 55 so I'm going to look into getting one for the farm. Thanks Chris, the 220 is awesome!
If you watch enough RUclips channels like this one, Dirt Perfect, Andrew Camarata, etc, you start to see everybody using similar equipment. Takeuchi skidsteers are everywhere. Camarata has two of them and two Yanmar minis. Chris's uncle has two or three Yanmar minis and a Takeuchi skidsteer. These folks depend on these machines to make a living, well, except for Camarata: he just buys stuff. But besides him, they need these things to work reliably.
I’m a old farm dude moved to hill country in Texas I’ve noticed where there is a hill is usually more rock All is lots of limestone here Very interesting to a old dude
That’s a gold rich area . It would make good content for his channel to run a sluice box every now and then . If he got the gold bug it would turn into more now than ever 😂
We were, of course, fully expecting the 550 to enter the screen from behind the 220 and arrive on the scene to save the day with digging that 12,000 lb. monster rock! We would have jumped up & cheered!!!
My husband is very fed up as he is waiting for a knee replacement and due to the state of the NHS it won’t be soon. I love your exploits and so I shared them with my husband. When I said today you were digging for gold he couldn’t wait to get the TV on. He worked making London Taxis all his working life and loves automotive work. When the Formula 1 season starts he watches all the races,practices and comments. We live on what was a coal mine so your work intrigues us. 😂😂😂
Interesting melange of rock types there and you are on ground that has a higher than usual chance of hosting gold deposits . First a couple of reality checks : Quartz is no more an indicator of gold , by itself , than trees , grass , or , sand . It is the second most abundant mineral in the continental crust and the most abundant on the surface since it is very resistant to weathering . The quartz deposits in Arkansas are world class . Nary a speck of gold has ever been found there . So , by itself , quartz just means you have silicon dioxide . 2) you mentioned fools gold / pyrite .. This is slightly better , but , also very common . A little pyrite is also nothing to get excited over . 3 ) Should you find quartz that is heavily rust stained and shows pyrite , and , most especially if it also has some green and blue staining , then you just might be on to something . 4 ) If you find any gold you need to ; A ) Keep it to yourself unless you want to be inundated with an endless parade of uninvited visitors . B ) Know if you actually own the mineral rights or not . These can be sold independently and it is very common for mineral rights to have been sold generations ago by a previous owner who retained the surface rights . It will take a specialized title search to establish this . Read expensive and time consuming as a distinct possibility . If you are serious about investigating the possibility , there are several companies who will assay samples for you . The cost is dependent on the sample sizes , what tests you want done , and , to what degree of accuracy . A crude fire assay can tell you if you have anything worth investigating as far as precious metals . Other , more modern tests can give you very accurate results for almost as many elements as you can afford to test for . You may try reaching out to Jason at Mount Baker Mining and Metals , he has a channel on YT and will be able to point you in the right direction . You might even be able to do a collaboration video , where he crushes your ore and assays it . Of course you will want to think long and hard before you potentially cause another gold rush in North Carolina . A couple of last points ; 1) Just because it is white bull quartz with few sulphides , does not rule out the presence of gold . There are low sulphide quartz veins that produce gold . They just are not very common things . 2 ) If you have time , contact the geology department of a local university , and see if they would be willing to examine it . Anyway , if nothing else , you might find some quartz crystals or some accessory minerals in the quartz . My guess is those are quartz veins intruded into schist , the schist later weathering to clay leaving the quartz behind as large blocks and boulders . It could also be what is left of a pegmatite vein . These are composed of a granite mineral assemblage ( quartz , feldspar , mica ) , and upon deep weathering leave behind large blocks of quartz , after the feldspar and mica have weathered to clay . Keep an eye out for any yellow green hexagonal shapes as these might be beryl crystals which are a common accessory mineral . Another would be tourmaline, which will look like long black streaks , and , will look like a rounded triangle in cross section . These are just off the top of my head .
Lol..a prehistoric gopher would be jealous of that Yanmar chris..look at them holes! Gotta love that old quartz! I am just floored at the quartz in that area..lucky you that you have it to use. Don't see that here in North MS. On my land anyway..lol.
that was funny, you'll get that gold mining.! Thanks for standing next to that rock. It is amazing how the camera doesn't do it justice unless there is something to compare it to.
There are areas with "glacial till" and other areas where seas were present and others that geologically active pushing up purified sediments such as quartz, gold,silver ect
Jackpot, If you still need some rock for a road base and a place for the dirt when digging out for your pond, you just hit a 2 for1 special. All you need now is a dump truck to transport all your material.
I am sure you do this too, Chris...when we ran into boulders and the wife wanted a giant rock wall I got them moved close then fired up the pressure washer and cranked it up...really brought the sparkle out in the rocks before placing them.If ya want to see what you have before you place them might be worth the time.
Can’t wait for the next venture my friend! Thanks so much for sharing Chris, it’s exciting to watch! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 kirk from Louisiana! Stay safe,warm and healthy brother! Sending prayers for you and your family!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
We have a little vial of probably $1.50 worth of North Carolina gold my wife and I panned out of a little creek there probably 15 years ago when we went down to visit our son who was stationed at Seymour Johnson AFB. It's still sitting on a shelf in the family room. You may not get rich, but it's there. I wouldn't quit the day job.
It might not seem like a logical place to find gold. But a lot places in the U.S. have had gold rushes, that we don't think of as gold mining ground. I want to see how he separates the ground and rocks from the gold.
I have a lot of rocks about as big as the first one you grabbed with the 220. I only have a mini and its a royal pain to move them. I have to roll them until they are where I want. Its a long process, but worth it. I love big ass rocks for landscaping!
Welp so far it looks like those quartz stones were pust rolled or moved from a different place to there! Maybe the fields around there a long time ago! They are sitting on top of the ground, so not to long ago! Or not, you found some in the ground. Could be gold in it, but most likely not much! You would have to bust them up and run them through a stamp mill! lol
Yes I'm pretty sure they were brought there from glaciers during the last ice age then deposited on top of the existing ground when the glaciers retreated.
@@jjMcCartan9686 I don't think that the ice sheet or much of it got that far south! The last one anyways. But up here in spots there are boulders sitting on top of the ground that is as big as a house or bigger if you figure how must they have sunk and what has filled in around them. I know of a place here in vermont that the indians use to use in the winter time. A bunch of huge boulders piled on top of each other all jumbled up! Made a cave and it is still all chard up from wood smoke!
The first authenticated discovery of gold occurred on the Cabarrus County farm of John Reed in 1799, sparking the nation's first gold rush. During its peak years, more than a million dollars of gold was recovered a year, making North Carolina a leader in gold production until 1848. This mill, built by the Mecklenburg Iron Works of Charlotte, North Carolina, is original except for the timber work. Two groups of five 750-pound stamps with 5- to 7-inch lift, rose and fell thirty-five times a minute to yield a finely crushed ore. It is typical of those used in the late nineteenth century, not only in this state but in the western regions as well. Google....
Chris: I'm looking for a big ass rock
Also Chris: let me grab the smallest machine, just to make it fair to the rock
😂👍
35 minutes in: Fair is overrated, i'm ah gonna let the big dog eat
@@davidoliver2826 😆
What a hoot !
This video would have been just 10 minutes long if he had brought the Volvo 550.
🔥🔥🔥I NEVER WOULD’VE THOUGHT CHRIS TO BE A GOLD DIGGER…. Snicker snicker
He hasn't done any panning yet so we may never know 😂
Lol !! @DigginLife21
He's got to pay his repairs bill somehow haha...
Wrong gender and build! 😉
And i thought he was married already!
28:50 Yanmar should be proud of what Strawberry Shortcake achieved there - far beyond what she was intended for.
i was surprized whe re put the bigger bucket on
Who knows there could be jewelry grade quartz there ,Chris is on the Hunt and got Him some big boulders ,He just doesn't give up .Nothing like having the right equipment for the job at Hand
That was a BIG hunk of quartz! It'd be interesting to see some crushed in a ball/hammer mill then panned, we used to do that in Nova Scotia, Canada, it's all quartz, it's all got gold, just need to mill and pan it.
Pucker-factor be damned! I was sitting here at home watching you pluck that huge boulder out of the ground, and realized that every muscle in my body was tense as you hoisted it over the fence. Once you cleared the fence and started backing away, my entire body relaxed. Damn that's one big pebble.
SAME!!!!!
That's Chris.
Just when I thought he couldn't top the 550 and here he proves that was ridiculous thinking :•)
Rock be damned it ain't got a chance once Chris sets his mind to diggen it our.
I think the 18 means 18 tons ain't nothin' to Chris.
I know what you mean . I was concern it would fall as he was taking it across the fence .
God says in the Bible. I know where the Gold is
Giving the mini a workout..!!
Nice score for the cabins landscape they are going to be awesome and give the cabins a great look 👍😎🇺🇸 6:58pm NY
I wonder if some poor pioneer farmer spent years hauling boulders with his team of horses; dug a bit and buried these rocks. Now Chris digs them all up for decorations 😊
Wonder if this area was glaciated ? We see these large rocks in Eastern Ontario…dragged there by glaciers. Some of these rocks are way bigger than the 220.
My brother worked for the Ne. Department of Roads and when they were rebuilding the Interstate they ran into a quartzite erratic. They dug around it and found the top was large enough to park a pickup on. Dug around the sides a little bit but couldn't find a bottom. They went ahead and built the road over it because if it hadn't moved in 12,000 years, it wasn't going to move now.
You want to see a big erratic? Check out Madison Boulder in Madison New Hampshire.
Never though strawberry shortcake would have gotten that rock out, but she did. 😮
Loved seeing the beast coming through to help the mini, you can noticeably admire the shear power of the 220
That was like a baby T-Rex calling to it's Mama!
This video reminds me of the gold reclaiming system that I help setup back in 1981. It was used to reclaim all of the tailings that the miners dumped over the side of the mountain in Arizona. While I was there the hard rock miners following the quartz seam through the mountain hit a seem of gold that was over 1 thick. I had a great time on that job, really learned a lot about gold and silver mining. Good luck Chris. The mountain was solid granite that the quartz was running thru.
Hope this don't get deleted or go to spam!! True!!
The first authenticated discovery of gold occurred on the Cabarrus County farm of John Reed in 1799, sparking the nation's first gold rush. During its peak years, more than a million dollars of gold was recovered a year, making North Carolina a leader in gold production until 1848. This mill, built by the Mecklenburg Iron Works of Charlotte, North Carolina, is original except for the timber work. Two groups of five 750-pound stamps with 5- to 7-inch lift, rose and fell thirty-five times a minute to yield a finely crushed ore. It is typical of those used in the late nineteenth century, not only in this state but in the western regions as well.
Google....
Next year Chris will have this whole area dug 12 feet deep looking for gold and it will turn out to be a new pond !
Before the California gold rush there was mining gold in North & South Carolina.
Sure nice to have the right equipment available to you for these projects. Thanks for sharing.
Fire on the Mountain. Lightning in the Air, Gold in them Hills and it's waiting for me there.
This was pure fun to watch! You could call your rentals “Quartz Hollow!”
I enjoy watching the channel just for the odd stuff you get into. You surpassed that today.
Watching the huge Volvo building ponds was great, but digging in the woods with the mini was great fun too.
You were rockin', several times. Big chunk going across the fence. I said this could be professional fence demolition!
You do stuff many of us can only dream about. Thanks for the ride.
Yea buddy 👌🤘🤘🤘🤘ur own gold rush show 👌😂that’s some good material for raising that flooded path thru the woods tho 🤷🏼♂️
Reminds me of the Vet Clinic job. But this time you are looking for them.
This is one of those few times were you took your mind off work and seem to be enjoying yourself rock hunting on your recent farm so enjoy your day.
The thing about quartz as you know is that it can hold some gold. I hope you’re able to find it. 🥇
If that bad boy is 6x6x3 it should weigh about 18,900 lbs or 9.45 tons, the Volvo was flexing her muscles.
Yeah, plus the weight of the bucket, coupler, and thumb adds a few thousand more pounds to the end of the stick. I'm shocked it got that boulder over the fence! 🤯
Lol. Shortcake 🍰! I’m looking forward to the 220 in action now. The fence encounter was ingenious
Best part is the quartz is from the appellations mountain building 400 million years ago. The app mountains were once as high and Jagged the Rockies which are a much younger mountain chain. The areas west and east of the mountains is out wash from hundreds of millions of years of erosion. I’m a geologist so i find this stuff cool. How it was deposited could be very complicated and would need some field work and research.
A geologist that can’t spell Appalachian?
Must not emphasize spelink in gology classest.
What a great way to spend a beautiful spring day!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. I was puckering up and I was not even driving the excavator. Cheers from Wisconsin.
That’s a serious rock. That Volvo 220 is rated to lift 16,400 pounds! It was all she could do. Is this the machine that you replaced some of the ram seals? Certainly tested them!
Don't forget about the weight of the bucket, quick coupler, and progressive link thumb! All of that combined with the rock is extremely heavy for that 220 to lift!
I have at least three that are as big as the second one. Two above ground and one that I thought was small sticking up in my trail. Once I started digging it was nearly the size of my Mahindra 3215. Couldn't budget it from it's spot. Just covered it back up and added more dirt. The biggest one was about the same size as the one you lifted over the fence.
It's great that you can get the rock off your land to do the landscape work that you want to do around the house. To have to buy the rock would be very expensive. It is also great that you have the equipment to do all the work around the farm. I remember when you did not have your own equipment . I am proud of how hard you have worked to get where you are today. Just goes to show that if you work hard, you can have what you want. Enjoy watching your videos, which you also spend a lot of time working on. Thanks, Chris.
Those minis really amaze me at the power they have. 😎
I love this hilarious attitude to looking for a big ol boulder. Need more fun like this as we get older.
Pucker factor was extreme as you lifted that big un over the fence. I had to look away and grit my teeth. She's huge!
Definitely something different. Digging for some big quartz. Nice! It'll be all right when you get everything done get them washed off. 👍👍🙂🇨🇦
You need a metal detector where there is Big quartz boulders there is a very good possibility there could be chunky gold
RIP bucket teeth. The mini did better than I thought it would.
Kinda like fishing.., yes definitely gotta get a picture of the “big catch”…, no “fish tales” here…
Great video,
Thank you sir.
There is very little gold in quartz especially in North carolina but you can find some. Where you find gold in north carolina is in streams trapped around and in bed rock
I've been waiting for you to dig those up ever since you mentioned them! Good boulders, can't wait to see them cleaned up.
I have the exact same Yanmar VIO-55-4. Got it just as the color changed to Red in summer of 2020. Very satisfied.
Gotta love some big landscaping rocks. I have some big blue granite boulders in my front yard I dug up around charlotte,NC.
Most impressive!!! Awesome quartz landscape boulders ..
@Mike Webb: Imagine the landscape always being /exactly/ on time! ;-)
You may be very well surprised! Don't think it would be placer gold, but some molten gold could have squeezed up into the quartz 20 billion years ago! If you do find it there in the quartz it probably will not be in just a bolder! Look for a vein of quartz!!!! Something like a underground ledge!
If I may, it has been estimated, through most recent calculations (2021), that the age of the universe is 13.8 billion years, with the age of the earth being approximately 3.54 billion years. Hope that helps in determining when the squeezing process may have taken place.
@@sagaciousalso5026 That's ok if you want to believe this. I don't.
Now that's my kind of gardening. Landscaping with the 220
I’m liking this mining adventure…quarters/gold. They are beautiful boulders, can’t wait to see where you place the on the farm. 👍👍♥️🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸✝️✝️✝️
@Frances Stratton: I wonder if ACME still sells these bottles that Wile E. Coyote ordered: "Dehydrated boulders. Just add water."
I enjoy when you work on your own place, sure enjoyed the boulder hunt a lot. Thanks.
I chuckled when you said you lost the boulder that you found a cpl years ago. It'll eventually show up!
I found, then lost for many years a moonshiners still site deep in the woods of Northern Mn.
Us landscapers like boulders without the tractor marks. Just saying.
The best ones are usually on the surface covered in moss or lichen. Hoisted them with straps to save the look. Not cheap to buy a nice big one and hoist it over a house into the back yard.
Pro tip, bury them at least 50% in the garden so they look natural.
You are one skilled and determined man. Impressive!!!
Well the good thing is you have plenty dirt to fill the holes when you dig the pond brother! That’s something how it was buried and you couldn’t see it! lol 😂, plan B! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻 I sure appreciate you sharing this with us my friend, exciting!
That looks like a great place for a gate Chris. Drive the 220 in and find the big ones!
Really enjoyed the video. Watching you dig up the big rocks was very cool.
Their Truely is gold their where ur an in nc. Sc. Ga an va. Its small but pure gold. Its in blue quarts aswell. Allot of free mill gold an load gold too depending the area!! Thanks for the video Chris
I'm wondering if Chris didn't actually strike gold with this video? Send a copy to the Yanmar mini 55 folks because they just might pay gold for the rights to this video! I thought it was a bit sketchy at times and expected a hose to blow or something but nothing happened to the 55 so I'm going to look into getting one for the farm. Thanks Chris, the 220 is awesome!
If you watch enough RUclips channels like this one, Dirt Perfect, Andrew Camarata, etc, you start to see everybody using similar equipment. Takeuchi skidsteers are everywhere. Camarata has two of them and two Yanmar minis. Chris's uncle has two or three Yanmar minis and a Takeuchi skidsteer. These folks depend on these machines to make a living, well, except for Camarata: he just buys stuff. But besides him, they need these things to work reliably.
And if it works for them it’ll probably work for you.
Always bring the biggest bucket to a rock fight😎
Great fun dig looking for quartz rock I enjoyed it thanks Chris
Thanks for sharing dear brother and good job👍👍👍,
I hope you are healthy and successful always😊🙏🙏🙏
35:00 Chris being more precise with the 220 than most people manage with the mini-ex.
I’m a old farm dude moved to hill country in Texas
I’ve noticed where there is a hill is usually more rock
All is lots of limestone here
Very interesting to a old dude
I knew when I saw you digging that kind of material there was a vein on that property.
My thoughts exactly, He's digging on a partially deteriorated quartz vein. All those bull quartz floaters everywhere
That’s a gold rich area . It would make good content for his channel to run a sluice box every now and then . If he got the gold bug it would turn into more now than ever 😂
We were, of course, fully expecting the 550 to enter the screen from behind the 220 and arrive on the scene to save the day with digging that 12,000 lb. monster rock! We would have jumped up & cheered!!!
I’m impressed! That fence trick was cool….😊
Hi Chris. Maybe a feeder type wagon to set hay on to elevate it to keep cows from walking in and wasting it may keep your pasture looking nice.
Some old old-timer probably spend days digging by hand to get rid of them there Boulder's ........and along came ........😉😎
While Chris is away the mice will play cheer Brian
My husband is very fed up as he is waiting for a knee replacement and due to the state of the NHS it won’t be soon. I love your exploits and so I shared them with my husband. When I said today you were digging for gold he couldn’t wait to get the TV on. He worked making London Taxis all his working life and loves automotive work. When the Formula 1 season starts he watches all the races,practices and comments. We live on what was a coal mine so your work intrigues us. 😂😂😂
Love the farm stuff! Work is one thing. But working on your own stuff is best!
Interesting melange of rock types there and you are on ground that has a higher than usual chance of hosting gold deposits .
First a couple of reality checks :
Quartz is no more an indicator of gold , by itself , than trees , grass , or , sand .
It is the second most abundant mineral in the continental crust and the most abundant on the surface since it is very resistant to weathering .
The quartz deposits in Arkansas are world class .
Nary a speck of gold has ever been found there .
So , by itself , quartz just means you have silicon dioxide .
2) you mentioned fools gold / pyrite ..
This is slightly better , but , also very common .
A little pyrite is also nothing to get excited over .
3 ) Should you find quartz that is heavily rust stained and shows pyrite , and , most especially if it also has some green and blue staining , then you just might be on to something .
4 ) If you find any gold you need to ;
A ) Keep it to yourself unless you want to be inundated with an endless parade of uninvited visitors .
B ) Know if you actually own the mineral rights or not . These can be sold independently and it is very common for mineral rights to have been sold generations ago by a previous owner who retained the surface rights .
It will take a specialized title search to establish this . Read expensive and time consuming as a distinct possibility .
If you are serious about investigating the possibility , there are several companies who will assay samples for you . The cost is dependent on the sample sizes , what tests you want done , and , to what degree of accuracy .
A crude fire assay can tell you if you have anything worth investigating as far as precious metals .
Other , more modern tests can give you very accurate results for almost as many elements as you can afford to test for .
You may try reaching out to Jason at Mount Baker Mining and Metals , he has a channel on YT and will be able to point you in the right direction .
You might even be able to do a collaboration video , where he crushes your ore and assays it .
Of course you will want to think long and hard before you potentially cause another gold rush in North Carolina .
A couple of last points ;
1) Just because it is white bull quartz with few sulphides , does not rule out the presence of gold .
There are low sulphide quartz veins that produce gold . They just are not very common things .
2 ) If you have time , contact the geology department of a local university , and see if they would be willing to examine it .
Anyway , if nothing else , you might find some quartz crystals or some accessory minerals in the quartz . My guess is those are quartz veins intruded into schist , the schist later weathering to clay leaving the quartz behind as large blocks and boulders .
It could also be what is left of a pegmatite vein .
These are composed of a granite mineral assemblage ( quartz , feldspar , mica ) , and upon deep weathering leave behind large blocks of quartz , after the feldspar and mica have weathered to clay . Keep an eye out for any yellow green hexagonal shapes as these might be beryl crystals which are a common accessory mineral .
Another would be tourmaline, which will look like long black streaks , and , will look like a rounded triangle in cross section .
These are just off the top of my head .
Pretty impressed with the yanmar. Never would have thought that was a big enough machine for those rocks
Cool editing, the mini changes bucket sizes and never quits digging
Lol..a prehistoric gopher would be jealous of that Yanmar chris..look at them holes! Gotta love that old quartz! I am just floored at the quartz in that area..lucky you that you have it to use. Don't see that here in North MS. On my land anyway..lol.
that was funny, you'll get that gold mining.! Thanks for standing next to that rock. It is amazing how the camera doesn't do it justice unless there is something to compare it to.
They are big rocks keep on digging.
It sure is nice to see you doing something you enjoy on your farm Chris!
There are areas with "glacial till" and other areas where seas were present and others that geologically active pushing up purified sediments such as quartz, gold,silver ect
This is one of the most entertaining & interesting videos of late.
Thanks Chris.
That little 55 rocks. I’d love to have it on my property for a day or two
Very neat, thanks.
Boulders from your own farm, cool! 👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
Good bye tree line, hello rock garden. Thanks
Jackpot, If you still need some rock for a road base and a place for the dirt when digging out for your pond, you just hit a 2 for1 special. All you need now is a dump truck to transport all your material.
I am sure you do this too, Chris...when we ran into boulders and the wife wanted a giant rock wall I got them moved close then fired up the pressure washer and cranked it up...really brought the sparkle out in the rocks before placing them.If ya want to see what you have before you place them might be worth the time.
Can’t wait for the next venture my friend! Thanks so much for sharing Chris, it’s exciting to watch! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 kirk from Louisiana! Stay safe,warm and healthy brother! Sending prayers for you and your family!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
That mini is a wee beast!
My mum would like to complain about all the machine marks on the nice rocks! 😘
We have a little vial of probably $1.50 worth of North Carolina gold my wife and I panned out of a little creek there probably 15 years ago when we went down to visit our son who was stationed at Seymour Johnson AFB. It's still sitting on a shelf in the family room. You may not get rich, but it's there. I wouldn't quit the day job.
It might not seem like a logical place to find gold. But a lot places in the U.S. have had gold rushes, that we don't think of as gold mining ground. I want to see how he separates the ground and rocks from the gold.
Little baby rocks to this mainer. I've got a few the size of the Volvo boom and all.
Did he say he was making cabins? Are they rentable? Maybe offer a dinner experience. A country bbq with Chris. That would be very cool.
Dang Chris. This one was like a suspense movie, watching you move those boulders. They will sure look great around the cabins.
I would imagine the field had a lot of them when they first cleared it. Dynamite probably took care of the big ones.
I have a lot of rocks about as big as the first one you grabbed with the 220. I only have a mini and its a royal pain to move them. I have to roll them until they are where I want. Its a long process, but worth it. I love big ass rocks for landscaping!
Hilarious and Awesome video Chris. Thanks for sharing 👍
Can’t wait to see the rocks pressure washed and a closeup video,thanks
What a great life. I’ve got 54 acres and wish I could spend more time doing what you’re doing. Beats the 9-5 traffic and other ways to make s living
Welp so far it looks like those quartz stones were pust rolled or moved from a different place to there! Maybe the fields around there a long time ago! They are sitting on top of the ground, so not to long ago! Or not, you found some in the ground. Could be gold in it, but most likely not much! You would have to bust them up and run them through a stamp mill! lol
Yes I'm pretty sure they were brought there from glaciers during the last ice age then deposited on top of the existing ground when the glaciers retreated.
@@jjMcCartan9686 I don't think that the ice sheet or much of it got that far south! The last one anyways. But up here in spots there are boulders sitting on top of the ground that is as big as a house or bigger if you figure how must they have sunk and what has filled in around them. I know of a place here in vermont that the indians use to use in the winter time. A bunch of huge boulders piled on top of each other all jumbled up! Made a cave and it is still all chard up from wood smoke!
The first authenticated discovery of gold occurred on the Cabarrus County farm of John Reed in 1799, sparking the nation's first gold rush. During its peak years, more than a million dollars of gold was recovered a year, making North Carolina a leader in gold production until 1848. This mill, built by the Mecklenburg Iron Works of Charlotte, North Carolina, is original except for the timber work. Two groups of five 750-pound stamps with 5- to 7-inch lift, rose and fell thirty-five times a minute to yield a finely crushed ore. It is typical of those used in the late nineteenth century, not only in this state but in the western regions as well.
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Yes. Said on the first video about the Quartz! Happy Hunting.
And you did strike gold, Landscaping Boulder Gold. ;)