How to find gold by hunting the fringes of known gold districts - How to find gold ignored by others
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- How to find gold working the fringes of known gold districts by looking at the places other people ignore. You need to be able to identify the right geology to find the favorable host rocks that will likely have gold. The concept of favorable host rocks is an important one - because you want to focus your explorations where you will have the best chances to find gold. However, it’s not just one kind of rock. The types of rock which constitute “favorable” vary a lot from one location to another and can be significantly different. In this video I explain how that works in simple terms.
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Another great video that's loaded with true gold for the ones who are actually paying attention and willing to learn. One can never know all there is to know about one subject and all one has to do is open their mind & ears while simultaneously closing their mouths. I gained some more knowledge through this video so thanks Chris.
Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
My fiance and I have been watching you for a while now. I want to say thank you for sharing your lifes work and knowledge. We hope to be successful in our gold and precious metals endeavors. We are headed out west from Minnesota. Again, thank you!
Best of luck to you in your efforts.
Thank you very much Chris, one of the best videos on the geology of gold ever! Actually it has helped to find a couple of untouched gold bearing areas.
Great to hear! Glad it was helpful.
Your a great teacher Chris!
Thanks! I hope to see you and Bill up this way soon, I got a lot of great places I want to take you guys and we will all do some awesome videos together.
After watching your videos, I am able to google earth, find a spot, hypothesize about the host rock, the angle I expect to find the uplift, where the fractures are, and what mineralization I can expect overall by the dirt colors
( after some on the ground calibration observations ). Just this weekend I looked for a quartz vein in an area I felt one would be found. Chlorite contact, with chalcopyrite in some brecchiation at one end.
I feel you are an amazing teacher, thank you.
Thanks for the kind words. Glad the videos are helpful.
Thanks Chris. Just got my first book of Colorado geology. I think I will give this a try. Wish me luck.
Good luck! glad you enjoyed the video.
Love the channel. So much info. Just getting into detecting for gold and your channel has helped so much. Thank you and keep up the hard work.
Awesome! Thank you for the kind words!
What's up Ralph? Fancy seeing you here.
@@warrenmccarthy5492 you know me bro. Im every where 😆
Thank you for all your help! I m subscribing to you magazine today and I bought your awesome book!!! Helps me with my gold hunting for sure! Thanks!!!!!
Thanks so much! Have a great holidays.
I've been watching ur videos and want to thank u because they helped me alot I live in central California and learning from them I found a huge deposit all over my house and a contact zone of quarts and granites
Sounds interesting.....
@@ChrisRalph yea I was actually digging out rat dens and about 2 or 3 feet ders a layer of sand with a crazy amount of gold dust and pyrite so I started researching and prospecting around my house and it's all over if ur interested on making visit ur more then welcome to come over and check It out
Very informative as usual. Cheers mate👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it
hey Chris, thank you for the great information on prospecting. My son and i are going prospecting for the first time in Southern California. i was wondering if you could point us in the right direction of where to start. thank you for your time, Chris W.
Go to the town of Red Mountain on Highway 395 a few hours drive north of LA. Go to the Prospecting store (across the street from ruins of the old Owl Garage). Ask for Dan - the owner - and he will tell you about the area. He is very knowledgeable about the Randsburg area. There is lots of good gold up that way and plenty still being found. Here is info on the store:
THE OWL, MR. SECURITY & GOLD MINERS OUTPOST
701 Highway 395, Red Mountain, CA
1-760-374-2102
@@ChrisRalph thank you for your time and help. We will head up there in the next few days. I also just wanted to say that your videos are very informative. Thank you again
Mr Ralph, thank you so much for taking ther time to teach those of us that are not geologists or professional miners.
I am new to the hobby, very disabled, and I need all of the education that I can get. I'm an old dog that Becca's to learn new tricks!
Thanks, buddy!
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Hi Ralph! Im wondering if you thought about using a drone ? Mabe one to fly in the late afternoon with gpr and heat sinking properties. I saw a couple guy using it to find target close to surface. I would think even without infared it would be a asset. Thanks for your videos. You are a good soul. You tell it like itis. Gold is rare and allusive for sure. Many a miner who got bit by the gold bug have been driven mad by the affliction.
I liked all of your videos keeps me thinking and hoping to get smarter than rock( someday)LOL GOOD JOB Chris ,David out
You can do it.
Hi Chris I was just in southwestern Colorado for 2 weeks going up the sides of mountains to old gold mines looking for gold. Sure wished I had seen this video first! Thank you...maybe next year lol
Good luck in your future prospecting!
Good stuff !!!! Gold and Crystal pretty cool !!!!!
Thanks!
Another good informative video. Thanks again
Glad you enjoyed it
I really enjoyed this video and appreciate the information so much. I am currently prospecting around a 7 mile radius of a well know gold and copper producing area in Ireland. I am very new to actual field work but have been reaching for well over a year. It is reassuring to see this video as it gives me confidence to keep trying the surrounding area instead of just following the herd to the well know area which has most likely been work on some scale since the Bronze age
Glad it was helpful!
Good video Chris, you speak with vast knowledge....and "Fists Full of Gold" is great book too....!
Thanks for those kind words! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Thanks for another good video. Nice to find videos that are interesting, education, and not full of a lot of anger and finger pointing (i.e. polictical).
Glad you enjoyed it
I have found a 2 by 1 inch chunk of amethyst! Curse Brazil... I thank you again Cris
Amethyst can be valuable.
Thanks chris. Waiting on your book ... I appreciate all you do on educating us.
I am, sure you will enjoy it!
Well I guess I had better plan a trip back to rye patch, once the weather cools off. I'm too busy sniping this time of the year! Thanks again for another lesson.
Lots of gold in Nevada.
Awesome video Chris, it got the wheels turning in my head about the area I prospect in GA. Kenny
Glad you enjoyed the video and that I could help.
Thank you, Chris. I have and read your excellent book. I use it for reference often. Am I just not looking in the right place on the internet
or is Montana unique in not having a very thorough geological survey? In the area I prospect and have found good gold, the geological survey
was just completed by Wisconsin geology students in 2013. Of course the study is not certified. I have found many places in western Montana
that have no precise studies. The old mines are covered quite well, but not the rest of the landscape.
Some states have stronger geologic surveys than others. Some stuff on historic Montana mining was put out by the USGS back in the day.
Get outside and explore! Thats the key to this whole thing of detecting. Persistence and knowledge ! Is also the key.
Yep, it is.
@@ChrisRalph thanks for responding! Hope alls well. I think you are one of the best sources for information about gold hunting techniques. Your clear and easy to follow. Ive always been a big fan of rosks and think geology is fun to study.. geology reports are fun to look at. I need more field study. Like picking a certain area to explore. Havent gotten iff my keester. Mabe im just arm chair adventurist and a dreamer.
Thanks for the tips! Definitely things to think about!!
You're so welcome!
Great video, learned a lot. I prospect mainly Southern California, from San Diego to NW Of Yuma area. I’ve researched fault area including San Andreas fault zone, no luck. Looking into rock contact zones. Thanks
Good luck! You'll find it one of these days.
Great Video Chris!
Thanks, Glad you enjoyed it - hope you are doing well.
Very well done, giving up out secrets lol. This should be watched by everyone
Thanks for the kind words...
Great Video. Just subbed and am moving to northern Nevada to work my claim. You explain everything so well. Thank you!
Best of luck! Hope you hit an awesome nugget patch.
@@ChrisRalph Mr Ralph, is this where I would ask you a question? I'm looking at spending thousands of dollars in equipment and would like to ask you a few questions about what to get.
Great info Chris. Thank you
You bet, thank you for the kind words
@@ChrisRalph Here in Washington state gold is real hard to find because it's more of a flour type gold but in Liberty Wa it has better gold but the best gold is 50-70 feet down. I really need a metal detector real bad to find the best places to prospect in but money is real tight now
Hi Chris ,
I will heading over to Las Vegas NV next week I have a Goldmaster 24k any desert area you recommend I stop and try some hunting
The gold in Nevada is mostly in the central to northern part of the state. There is detectable gold in the Johnnie district, but also lots of claims and some private property. The little amount of gold in Clark Co. is in the form of dust that would not show up on a metal detector.
Very helpful video sir. thank you very much sir.
Happy to help, glad you enjoyed the video.
tank you for your time and information from qld
Thank you for the kind words! Glad it was helpful!
Chris, when you talk about fluids moving through faults or contact zones or even stress cracks, I first started thinking about this occurring on the surface. Everyone talks about Hydrothermal fluids as if this occurs in reach of people. Most of it don't. It happens way down there. Maybe sometime during volcanic eruptions will you witness it on the surface. I just went through a outcropping of slate with hundreds of quartz veins going in all directions through it. The heat from the quartz fluid has melted the slate on the edges of the veins. The foliation has been bent or curved and circle shaped and S shaped. (in fist sized chunks) The quartz has sulfides in it but no Gold as of yet and none expected. Nobody ever talks about where this occurs. The temperatures involved can't be on the surface unless it's an active volcano. There hasn't been active volcano in New England in millions of years. maybe a hundred or two million years. Faulting may have brought this to the surface but these veins didn't happen on the surface.
Can you do a video on where in the crust this happens ? I been looking but nothing is clear where I looked. Is it hundreds, or thousands of feet, or like I think,...miles down ?
New England is tricky because bedrock is way way down there in Boston or most of southern NE. and everywhere to the North. I gave upon this slate having Gold, so now I will go to where Gold should not be, in the Roxbury Conglomerate. It's a thousand feet down, 500 million years old but there are some outcrops of it I can access along the highway and State park. I think there is Gold in it simply because of where it came from, not where it is and how it got there plus the fact that there are rocks that shouldn't be in it but are.
But I really want to know how deep in the Earth this flowing of fluids happens.
The fluids act from within a few hundred feet of the surface all the way down to several miles deep. The temperatures are warm but not blazing, maybe 400 to 500 degrees F.
Hi Chris, I’m a good hunter but I was wondering if you’ve ever come across old dumps? I like can/bottle dumps from the early to mid 20th century. If you have any tips I would greatly appreciate any insight. I love old trash🤦🏻♂️
Yes I have come across old dumps, but I am looking for gold, and old trash dumps is not where I look for gold nuggets. Normally its just a lot of old rusty cans.
Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector , if possible could you send me approximate whereabouts? If not no worries. I understand. Old cans can be restored👍🏻
@@conanbillybone2218 Pelee Island Ontario, there is a huge old dump FULL of old bottles and cans a hundred years old. It's on private property at the Pelee Club where I grew up, back in the woods. As far as I know they are still there. Thousands.
Blitherer Masterman , I’m in California but I’m tempted to make the trip. Thank you! I’ll look it up.
Thanks for sharing mentor..
My pleasure, glad it was helpful.
Hi Chris would your book be relevant for Western Australian gold or is it based around USA geology? Cheers
Yes. Its a book about finding gold and applies worldwide. I've sold loads of copies into Australia.
How is Chris doing? Do you think there can be a common pattern of gold zones that occurs at the parallel level? From already thank you very much.
I am well. There are patterns of gold deposition.
While in the field I'm having trouble telling the difference between monzogranite, schist, and gneiss. Any tips for a beginner?
Get a rock and mineral handbook and look closely at it. The three have strong differences.
@@ChrisRalph ok thanks, is that covered in your book?
I like the fringe idea
Its a good one.
Another Question Chris, You talked about Ca. and the contact between Slate and serpentine,
Doesn't the serpentine subgroup contain asbestos ? (Chrysotile) Blasting or hammering away at that stuff is not a good idea,...Is that the case in Cali and did they know about it ?
Some serpentine contains asbestos - there are hundreds of miles of dirt roads across serpentine in CA. I certainly dont recommend blasting it dry! Water is used to suppress asbestos dust.
Thank you for another interesting video! :-)
(if I can afford advice on video shooting, please be sure to look exactly where the camera is positioned on your device, because often it seems that your gaze, compared to the viewer is watching you talking, is shifted a little lower :-) )
Its actually shifted a little to the right - I'm looking at the video display from the camera. But you are right, I should look at the lens.
So....your looking for mineralization on the schiszt, shale, granite, etc, would that be what they call the ore? Or is it a pegmatite ? I've seen some in Colorado, though no gold was found.
The ore is the valuable part that has the gold.
I live, prospect and teach panning and prospecting in the San Domingo Gold placers in Morristown Arizona.
Most of the country rock here is basalt. Is basalt the primary host rock for gold in this area with the quartz stringers or is the gold originating more in some other rock. I think basalt is the primary host rock but I want to be sure.
Read and study and learn. I think you will find the host is schist and granite.
Thanks Chris. Your videos are priceless and so is your book!
If your ever in the Berry Creek area of butte county you can come prospect my property. who knows we may find a bonanza lol.
Probably some good gold there.
I will be looking for you on the fringes at Petey's Place. Aloha.
It will be on Sunday. I'll be there all day.
Ok so in my personal studies of Geological formations & features in the western United States, i’ve Seen that on the multiple occasions when Yellowstone has erupted in the past along the vast Snake River Valley. In which I think the newer eruptions are moving from east to west. The outflow and overflow seems to move in different directions & phases at different times, appending on what Geological Formations were or weren’t, or are in place currently when an eruption occurs. Appending on where the break & main pressure is directed towards, it appears to have moved in all directions around the super Volcano previously. To the Southeast toward Utah & Colorado on one occasion, to the North towards Montana & Idaho on another, & a very large outflow to the west that moved across Oregon to the Ocean. But the main Eruptions seemed to have flowed to the south through Nevada & to the Southwest through California. It appears that when Yellowstone Erupts, very large amounts of Sulfuric Acid come out first, & flow down altitudes, that eats through Established ground & surface rock formations & cuts a path all the way to an Ocean or main body of continental fluid drain off, like the Gulf of California. I believe a very large amount of Sulfuric Acid flowed through Nevada on one or two occasions to cut through surface rock to create the way most Mountain formations appear in Nevada, Creating the Great Basin. Which flowed into the Gulf of California & went through Western Mexico to that Gulf also. On another Occasion it appears the long low Valley in California was cut through & Tremendously dissolved by Sulfuric Acid from Yellowstone, & sat there till a Way was formed for it to drain into the Pacific through Southern California. After the initial outflow of Sulfuric Acid Ends is when the other heavier & more solid Minerals flow out of Yellowstone or large Volcano eruptions, & follow the path carved by the Sulfuric Acid. On the Occasion of the heavier mineral & elements flow through Oregon, most of the material seems to be thicker & caused the heavier flow to get clogged more so in the lands of Oregon, Creating fewer passage ways for later water run offs & river formations to reach the Pacific, causing them to find other routes. This means that the Mineralizations that stretched across Oregon are largely still in place & haven’t gotten picked up by large amounts of river waters through Oregon over the years. I also think that the Oregon overflow is from the last eruption of Yellowstone, And has the newest large amounts of mineralizations in the Western United States of The Americas.
Your understanding of geology is very, very different from what geologists think. The oldest recognized eruptions related to the Yellowstone hot spot are in Nevada and the north American plate has moved southwest over the top of it, so the chain of caludera eruptions lay in a north east direction. What matters most for mineralization is not what is erupted out onto the surface but what happens deep inside the earth where the mineral deposits are formed (which is why Yellowstone itself is not visibly rich in gold, silver and other minerals - but eastern Nevada is). Much of the mineralization of California, Oregon and the Walker lane zone of western Nevada is related to mineralization caused by the Pacific plate slipping under the North American plate. This is also the cause of the Cascade Volcanoes. Again, the mineralization is not in the material erupted on the surface. I did a video on Yellowstone and gold and silver mineralization related to that type of formation. Take a look at: ruclips.net/video/v136BEdR_yU/видео.html
I have done this for years here in Arizona. Use my detector. Actually found another nugget today.....
It does work! Congrats.
Great video. Liked and subbed. I am in Qatar working. Only finding trash here. GL and HH
Best of luck to you. I know Qatar would have jewelry on the beaches, and some middle eastern countries have natural gold deposits, but I do not know about Qatar.
Hey Chris does the book speak about the eastern states like north carolina
It is a general book about finding gold. Its not a specific book - "where to find gold in the eastern US".
Ok well can you ever make a video about the eastern states gold
are there books for queensland australia gympie maryborough hervey bay or bundaberg as libraries don't have much info in rural areas in queensland
Go on line. The Aussie government has a lot of info that can be downloaded.
is there any way that you could talk a bit on float quartz i would realy like to know more thank you for your time and all the great vidios
Quartz is very common, but gold is very rare. There is lots of quartz with no gold but not that much gold with no quartz.
When talking about the fluids is it possible that if the fluids reach the surface that this is occurring presently, like in the form of a spring these in particular I have not before seen in this area in Utah. When I seen them I thought they were like those of a hot spring. With quick growing moss and almost whitish bacteria
Take a look at this video on that topic which I did a few months ago: ruclips.net/video/v136BEdR_yU/видео.html
That's how I get my little gold!
Yep. Its important.
Is there any hope of finding gold in Florida? I’ve got gold fever, and just find the whole thing amazing.
Jewelry on the beach for sure, but nuggets in rivers and streams? no.
Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector .....Much appreciated! I will continue to educate myself as much as possible...North Georgia, and the Carolinas are me and my wife’s getaway places, and hopefully if I keep learning, I’ll be able to get good at this. It’s really struck a chord with me. Thank you, for your teaching and fast response!
There certainly are goldfields in GA, NC and SC. No doubt about that.
Is there an online database to search for these zones? There must be some satellite or GPR data somewhere?
Its just not that simple. Research requires old fashioned reading in books. Luckily a lot of applicable books are on line, but they are not reduced to a simple data base. After reading then one looks at maps, looks at Google Earth, then drives out to explore in person.
@@ChrisRalph Thanks for the reply. Why don't more prospectors use portable XRF analyzers?
I took your advice and found a geological contact zone of slate and something else near where I live. The slate is coloured orange, red and yellow.... does that mean anything? Also the slate looks all broken up in layers like it was hit hard.
Any quartz veins at the contact? There are rock contacts everywhere, some have gold most do not.
I haven’t seen Quartz however I went back out to that spot and peeled off some iron pyrite blobs with silvery/brass pyramids on them, that where laying on the river bed and the river bed has vertical black slabs sticking up. Not sure what that means?? Found some fossils of what looks like worms embedded in some rock as well.
Also there is a lot of rocks that appear to be leaking reddish orange iron? Some rusted out looking rocks as well.
Also found a strange thing in the riverbed that is about the size of my hand and weighs about 40 lbs (incredibly dense) it has hemmorage red bubbles coated in pyrite (at least I think it’s pyrite) on top and it has the shape of a clam (like a heart without the protruding humps) anyways the underside has pyrite sprinkled everywhere and dimples that feel and visibly look like a large lizards skin. The texture of it all feels like a dense plastic or plaster toy
Im old and I can tell a goo teacher when I see one👍
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Gave the grand daughter the crystal and kept the nugget🤣
Yep, but she is 3 years old. I did show her the gold and she was not very impressed, much more impressed by the crystal.
What do you thi k I should get the gold bug2 or the gm1000
GM 1000 - I'll be doing a video on the GM1000 pretty soon.
Will it find real small gold like the gold bug2
Yes.
How do you find gold in s e North Carolina.
Lots of gold in NC, I recommend you join a prospecting club in your area.
ضع لنا ترجمه بالعربيه
Put an Arabic translation for us
I dont speak Arabic.
what is slate rock
A type of rock that naturally breaks in flat slabs. Google slate rock and you will see more pictures.
@@ChrisRalph at timberline, looking for a old mine that was in slate
"Prospecting" is the art, skill, trade of "Diagnosing". Like any good tradesman one must be able to diagnose the situation before they can uncover the answer to their inquiry. And that at a minimum requires a good basic knowledge of what they are attempting to solve. Or not... Sometimes
"Luck Rules". haha
Sometimes you can hit the bullseye on the dart board while blindfolded. But not very often. Skill is a lot more reliable than luck.
@@ChrisRalph ~ absolutely!
Need some help picking out a gold metal detector. You go to review sites and they all claim certain brands and models are the best. Of course they have links in the description to the selling site so they can make money on sales. I am a beginner, but i want an intermettiate or advanced detector that will detect small and large nuggets at the same time. my budget is $1000.00 or a little more for the right detector
I dont sell detectors, but I'd recommend the Gold Monster 1000 by Minelab.
@@ChrisRalph Gold Monster 1000 vs Fisher Gold Bug 2 which one would you recommend?
How much of the Gold and precious metals reserves claimed by Mining Companies is real ?
University of Iowa (IGS) recently claimed that there was a1 trillion dollar platinum deposit in NE Iowa. It sounds like professional hype...
There are a lot of claims about ore bodies and some are real, some are mostly hype. You really have to investigate each one to determine the validity of each claim individually. The University of Iowa and Iowa State Geological Survey are two agencies trying to raise money to drill a test hole. They don’t know if there is even 10 cents worth of platinum there, but to raise money have put out press releases stating that there “might be” lots of platinum. It will only cost Iowa state taxpayers about half a million to put in a deep hole to test the theory. There is a huge difference between what “might be” and what is known to exist from testing and assay data. Mining companies are subject to legal requirements governing what they announce to the public that do not apply to governmental agencies. Still, mining companies commonly put out reports (NI-43101) that do not look at the mining economics closely but simply estimate the size of the reserve of metals present. Some or even all of those reserves may not be economic to mine. This means that when investigating any company report, you have to get into the weeds and read the details of the fine print to determine what they are really saying beyond just the press release headlines. - Chris
@@ChrisRalph Thanks for the detailed response.
Another problem I have with this is that in Iowa The land owners own the mineral rights.
The mineral right ownership law could likely derail any attempt to develop.
So would you say you are on the pophyry perifory? 😀 yes i know that joke probably makes me a bad person, but there it is anyway.
All jokes welcome, though some are funnier than others.
@@ChrisRalph well it's a good thing that i never claimed to be funny! That would be false advertising anyway. On a serious note , i am getting a celestron s20 portable microscope in a week or so, as well as a 3mp / 2.2um pixel size amscope microscope imager . what is the recommended magnification for inspecting 60- mesh material ? I can get differant eye pieces and objective lenses to adjust it. I got it for coins but i made sure to get a portable optic so i can take it prospecting if need be.
@@ChrisRalph so sorry to bother you yet again .is that sort of equipment discussed in your book?
What do you think of fault zones intersecting? I was thinking about the area where the San Gabriel and San Andreas faults meet. Would these be good places to investigate?
Thanks
Gold formation along the San Andreas is too deep - literally miles below the surface.