This is pure gold. What a gem of a documentary. Glenn Wadstein seems like such a nice man, a true gold miner and environmental steward in the process. Mining and agriculture are the roots and heritage of all of us...modern man tends to quickly forget this.
You are the man Glen. I'm a guy who DREAMS of mining gold and I sit back DREAMING up equipment to build. I sit back and google sheets of metal, I google the cost of 30 foot long steel barrels made of 1/2 inch steel, and I google heavy equipment. I literally build a goldmine in my head. I sit back and in my head think of the bench I found to mine, how I'm gonna sluice the pay pile after I dug a huge hole the size of an acre, and think of the machine and where I'm going to set it up. My best bet for a sluiceplant is a trommel that I build out of a 30 foot long piece of steel (pipe). I'd cut out sections of the pipe and fabricate punchplates out of steel sheets that are easily replaceable. Then I'd set the barrel on truck axles and have a differential on ONE axle to spin the barrel. To make enough traction I'd put a axle on top that presses that barrel down tight against the other axles/tires. Then all you'd have to do is put a motor to drive the differential and yopu have a spinning trommel. Carry a spare engine so if the one broke down you have a spare. Then instead of hunting down a bearing and steel wheel, I'd be hunting a truck tire that went flat.My other idea would be a Rossbox type plant. Throw ALL the material thru a flume that's about 15 foot long and have three screens stacked on top of each other. The 1/8 inch material would fall to the bottom. Above that 1/8 inch screen, a half inch screen would be in place. Above that screen, a 1 inch screen would be in place. so anything 1/8 inch and smaller would run thru a sluice. Anything 1/8" to 1/2" would run thru it's sluice. Anything 1/2 to 1" would run thru 16 feet of Clarkson Riffles. Anything 1" to 2" would run thur boil boxes and enlarged Clarkson Riffles. I think 2 inch tall by 1 inch wide angle iron spaced 2.5 or 3 inches apart would kick out the worthless heavy rocks and the heavy nuggets would fall.
That was so very interesting. My great uncle (Bless his soul) was an old timer here in Canada and he never seen gold like this I'm sure. I recently decided to take up prospecting like him because of my unemployment. I hope I can get to see just one nugget like those ones. Love that you all cared so much for the land and ecosystem too! Good job to you 5 and hope that you have a peaceful retirement!
From the 1700's all the way to 1970 Gold was valued at $20 per ounce. When this documentary was put on digital (Oct. 2017) gold was trading at about $1250 per troy ounce. Great documentary, thanks for sharing this.
Really interesting, sitting here just north of London on a Saturday afternoon,enjoying a craft ale and wishing I could do some gold hunting! Many thanks for posting,from the UK🇬🇧
Was great to see/hear a video where I grew up! I went to Applegate school then Murphy school in the 50’s and 60’s. My dad was a weekend prospector/miner when I was growing up. He eventually had a placer claim out of Cave Junction then moved to Alaska in the early 70’s and remained there till he died at 95 yrs old. We lived on Northside Rd just up from the dairy. Good memories of those days! Thank you for the video Glenn!
Thanks for the video Glen. I'm a guy interested in gold mining and I DREAM up equipment to mine with. I'm a sheetmetal fabricator so I know what metal can do. I've noticed one thing though, and that is the fact that a plant with non moving parts will save you alot of time and money. If a bearing goes, you may be down for a month. In the Yukon, you'd be finished. That's like trommels, why don't people set the barrel on 6 truck axles with an engine that drives 2 differentials on the axles? Then you'd have to change tires instead of hunting down a bearing. People set the trommel barrel on steel wheels instead of setting it on heavy duty truck axles with a ring welded around the bottom and a tire spinning sideways to keep the barrel from sliding off the tires.
Glad to hear you work with the property owner. My brother in law has several gold mines on his ranch. They're listed on public records and shown on maps. Prospectors look them up and come to try their hand at mining these claims. The claims have been maintained as active gold claims and that makes these prospectors claim jumpers in addition to tresspassers.
Claim jumping is misrepresentation of a claim. In layman's terms it means someone tore down your claim markers/stakes and filed the same claim under their name. It's a federal offense and can carry prison time and up to a $10,000 fine. Then there's mineral theft, also known as high grading. In layman's terms it's someone going on an active claim and prospecting for minerals, punishment can be a warning/ slap on the wrist to a pretty hefty fine. Just because your friends claims are on a map doesn't tell me anything. Are they patented or unpatented? If unpatented I can enter, hike, and camp on the land because your friend has only mineral rights, not land ownership only the blm or nfs owns that parcel. If it's patented then it's private property and it'd be tresspassing once you enter the claim.
Hey I am a newby, I want to try my luck looking for Gold, I believe through prayer and hard work God will lead me to the Gold. do you think your brother-n-law would make a deal with me and allow me to try? I don't want to go on anyone's property without written permission. I don't go where I don't belong.
California Mother Lode Prospectors , I live about 20 minutes from here and my brother has access to this property where this mine was. Thinking about going over and swinging the detector there today. 😁🤙
That is by far the most impressive home made wash plant I have Every seen... that operation was phenomenal... imagine if that was being operated today... wow. You would probably get swat on ya... too bad... great video sir.
Mineral reclamation is the mining miners law: “Leave the Land, water and air better than you find it.” That was extremely abused by the corporations and mining barons from the 1850s until it became part of the federal mining laws.
WOW¢$##@@&& THANKS SO MUCH INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE. I love where you put the trailings to make a nice meadow but I didn't see any revegetation operation?$$#
I'll be damed I dredged most my life on the Smith River in Gasquet I found a 1792 Spanish real also. Came up in the sluice box with some old square nails outa a riffle below pigeon point a rich old channel the river had cut through. I still have my real and some gold left...
Glenn how about the williams area? Did you see the mines on ferris gulch road before they were hand filled in? When you say laboratory were you using aqua regia cyanide to get all the gold? Your tailings probably have 95% of gold you only got the chunky stuff.
Glenn, I'm surprised that you didn't mention Peggy or Jamie. Cousin Jamie showed me around the mine one day and I believe that scraper was there at that time, perhaps the cat as well. The mine was not operating at that time as it was the middle of summer and there wasn't any water.
Let's see. 12 oz a 2 day run= 90 troy lbs x 12=1080 oz. @ $400.00=$518,000.00 x .8 = $414,000 a year... gross. Profit of 20%.... $82,800.00. Not bad if a piece of equipment doesn't go belly up
phuck ewe (too)Kidding He said, I believe, one troy pound per 12 hours. 6 hours per day.Yes at 3:36.Not included in those numbers is the hours spent stripping overburden and restoration. Again, I don't know, but suspect that he wasn't paid spot price for his AU. 80% is pretty liberal. I get 70% Plus, he had to give the property owner a cut(20%?)of gross! Ouch. He's being a little vague. All miners are. Their overhead is so large. D-10 new.. $1 million. I don't know how much material those drag lines could move. Personally? He'd have been better off growing pot. Look at properties on the Applegate river. Those aren't fruit trees.6 plants with a yield of 1 1/2 lb per plant@ 1K per lb $9,000 with hardly any overhead.Anyway, he didn't make a fortune. In 1995 I found a 1/2 oz piece. Got spot for it $150.00. In 2006 I found 1/4 oz piece. spot was $480.00. I got $120. Lady said $118.00. I said $120.00 Done deal
No shit! The price of gold stays the same. Currency is what moves around gold. Not the other way around. If I had saved it, that's the sign of gold fever. re, Fred C. Dobbs. P.S. Not offensive to me. Plumber for 42 years. Nothing I haven't heard before
Must be. Pretty bold of some of them. Not sure what the law is in Oregon. "Medical" covers a lot. Seeing all that tells me what the consumption rate is. Enough to give a lot of people reason to grow and keep the prices up there.(notice I didn't say " keep the prices high")
I've had this idea for years. Siphon dredge this diversion dam on Butte creek in Butte co,Ca. Been there for well over 100 years. PG & E is not renewing their lease. At least 4 old AU mines upstream. 39°58'55.7"N 121°35'22.0"W. 25' head= 11 psi @ the working end. More than any suction dredge. Oh well. Just a pipe dream
Actually,P G & E is not renewing their lease. But, I can't make up my mind as to asking(or proposing) to "clean out" the diversion pool or just doing it. 3" ABS is cheap and strong. Connect with no-hub bands. Flexible 2" at business end. Come to think of it, there's no need to go to the top of the pool. Just dredge at the face. The stream is going downhill, so the gold is working its way to the face. 100 years is a long time.There used to be a photo of the dam, but it has been removed. At least a shear 20' wall. It is not against Fish and Game to run a siphon dredge. Sluice box lashed to the delivery end. Been thinking about this for about 10 years. I'm semi-retired. I'm going to plan on next summer. Get my ducks lined up.I've looked at geological spatial data maps, picked SPI locks to get access on opposite bank,... It's a bucket list thing. SPI? Phuck em. It ain't their creek.
Doesn't that depend on what price they got for the land? Maybe they had more immediate needs and were happy to let someone else take over. I doubt they did it with a gun to their head.
This is pure gold. What a gem of a documentary. Glenn Wadstein seems like such a nice man, a true gold miner and environmental steward in the process. Mining and agriculture are the roots and heritage of all of us...modern man tends to quickly forget this.
You are the man Glen. I'm a guy who DREAMS of mining gold and I sit back DREAMING up equipment to build. I sit back and google sheets of metal, I google the cost of 30 foot long steel barrels made of 1/2 inch steel, and I google heavy equipment. I literally build a goldmine in my head. I sit back and in my head think of the bench I found to mine, how I'm gonna sluice the pay pile after I dug a huge hole the size of an acre, and think of the machine and where I'm going to set it up. My best bet for a sluiceplant is a trommel that I build out of a 30 foot long piece of steel (pipe). I'd cut out sections of the pipe and fabricate punchplates out of steel sheets that are easily replaceable. Then I'd set the barrel on truck axles and have a differential on ONE axle to spin the barrel. To make enough traction I'd put a axle on top that presses that barrel down tight against the other axles/tires. Then all you'd have to do is put a motor to drive the differential and yopu have a spinning trommel. Carry a spare engine so if the one broke down you have a spare. Then instead of hunting down a bearing and steel wheel, I'd be hunting a truck tire that went flat.My other idea would be a Rossbox type plant. Throw ALL the material thru a flume that's about 15 foot long and have three screens stacked on top of each other. The 1/8 inch material would fall to the bottom. Above that 1/8 inch screen, a half inch screen would be in place. Above that screen, a 1 inch screen would be in place. so anything 1/8 inch and smaller would run thru a sluice. Anything 1/8" to 1/2" would run thru it's sluice. Anything 1/2 to 1" would run thru 16 feet of Clarkson Riffles. Anything 1" to 2" would run thur boil boxes and enlarged Clarkson Riffles. I think 2 inch tall by 1 inch wide angle iron spaced 2.5 or 3 inches apart would kick out the worthless heavy rocks and the heavy nuggets would fall.
If I had TV at home I'd probably never have watched this but I stumbled upon it it was a really good piece of historical documentary-making.
Been there and had no idea where the mine was. Cool video, good info. Gold dropped as low as 270 or so in late 1990's. It is interesting country.
I loved your sense of responsibility for not only reclamation but improved elevations for building or other uses down the line, judos.
I loved your sense of responsibility for not only reclamation but improved elevations for building or other uses down the line, kudos!
born & raised in Oregon no other place for me ! great info & video
That was so very interesting. My great uncle (Bless his soul) was an old timer here in Canada and he never seen gold like this I'm sure. I recently decided to take up prospecting like him because of my unemployment. I hope I can get to see just one nugget like those ones. Love that you all cared so much for the land and ecosystem too!
Good job to you 5 and hope that you have a peaceful retirement!
So cool.
Thanks for sharing this! It's a little more realistic than what we see on tv. Pretty decent amount of gold recovery with just a sluice. Well done!!
responsible miner; good state regulations ~ great land restoration and nice details in your video ~ thank you ~
Very cool I especially liked that you talked about reclaiming the land. That is what is missing on the other Gold shows
We should see if Glenn, would like to join us on our show sometime Jesse...
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From the 1700's all the way to 1970 Gold was valued at $20 per ounce. When this documentary was put on digital (Oct. 2017) gold was trading at about $1250 per troy ounce. Great documentary, thanks for sharing this.
Now what north of $1600 an ounce! If my family had only known!
This is the best setup and cost effective operation considering the size and costs. I would enjoy working on this project any day!
Really interesting, sitting here just north of London on a Saturday afternoon,enjoying a craft ale and wishing I could do some gold hunting! Many thanks for posting,from the UK🇬🇧
move a bit further north and west into south wales and you can.
Excellent video. Enjoyed question/answers. Informative, thank you.
Great story , great video
Thanks !
Glad you enjoyed it!
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Great video. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for watching!
Was great to see/hear a video where I grew up! I went to Applegate school then Murphy school in the 50’s and 60’s. My dad was a weekend prospector/miner when I was growing up. He eventually had a placer claim out of Cave Junction then moved to Alaska in the early 70’s and remained there till he died at 95 yrs old. We lived on Northside Rd just up from the dairy. Good memories of those days! Thank you for the video Glenn!
I know exactly where that is!
Thanks for the video Glen. I'm a guy interested in gold mining and I DREAM up equipment to mine with. I'm a sheetmetal fabricator so I know what metal can do. I've noticed one thing though, and that is the fact that a plant with non moving parts will save you alot of time and money. If a bearing goes, you may be down for a month. In the Yukon, you'd be finished. That's like trommels, why don't people set the barrel on 6 truck axles with an engine that drives 2 differentials on the axles? Then you'd have to change tires instead of hunting down a bearing. People set the trommel barrel on steel wheels instead of setting it on heavy duty truck axles with a ring welded around the bottom and a tire spinning sideways to keep the barrel from sliding off the tires.
Brilliant documentary.....
That was awesome . Thank you for sharing this story .
man i would like the plans to build a smaller one, very nice video.
old school and still cool!
great stuff thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
really enjoyed the video thanks for posting.
Our pleasure!
Glad to hear you work with the property owner. My brother in law has several gold mines on his ranch. They're listed on public records and shown on maps. Prospectors look them up and come to try their hand at mining these claims. The claims have been maintained as active gold claims and that makes these prospectors claim jumpers in addition to tresspassers.
Claim jumping is misrepresentation of a claim. In layman's terms it means someone tore down your claim markers/stakes and filed the same claim under their name. It's a federal offense and can carry prison time and up to a $10,000 fine. Then there's mineral theft, also known as high grading. In layman's terms it's someone going on an active claim and prospecting for minerals, punishment can be a warning/ slap on the wrist to a pretty hefty fine. Just because your friends claims are on a map doesn't tell me anything. Are they patented or unpatented? If unpatented I can enter, hike, and camp on the land because your friend has only mineral rights, not land ownership only the blm or nfs owns that parcel. If it's patented then it's private property and it'd be tresspassing once you enter the claim.
Hey I am a newby, I want to try my luck looking for Gold, I believe through prayer and hard work God will lead me to the Gold. do you think your brother-n-law would make a deal with me and allow me to try? I don't want to go on anyone's property without written permission. I don't go where I don't belong.
I really enjoyed your video. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I really enjoyed this video!
California Mother Lode Prospectors , I live about 20 minutes from here and my brother has access to this property where this mine was. Thinking about going over and swinging the detector there today. 😁🤙
BORN AND RAISED IN BEAUTIFUL OREGON 40 YEARS, I COULDNT LIVE ANYWHERE ELSE
Fun video to watch, I found it amazing that in all the years since the operations things today remain pretty much the same in mining operations.
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Extremely hard work I admire these men thumbs up my friends I think I'm subscribing
That is by far the most impressive home made wash plant I have Every seen... that operation was phenomenal... imagine if that was being operated today... wow. You would probably get swat on ya... too bad... great video sir.
Great story and questions.
Mineral reclamation is the mining miners law: “Leave the Land, water and air better than you find it.” That was extremely abused by the corporations and mining barons from the 1850s until it became part of the federal mining laws.
Glenn Wadstein did a beautiful job; the location is spectacular today.
Excellent video.
that was really neat man thanks so much for sharing.
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what's the web address to the Radio show? Thank you for sharing this by the way...
Resked to Tues Feb 13 2018 at 8:30a PST. Listen live at ijpr.org and call in questions
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I'd like to know half of what that man's forgotten about gold. great video a good watch
Great video and great history. Thanks for sharing. I subbed to your channel.
Nice to see miners gittin gold!!!!
This is such a great interview thank you...
Great video mate and nice looking gold
Great video, thanks for sharing ! 😀
I appreciated your equipment design. Nice work.
This is the TRUTH the most important part is making something of the trailings
WOW¢$##@@&& THANKS SO MUCH INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE. I love where you put the trailings to make a nice meadow but I didn't see any revegetation operation?$$#
Thank you, Dale. So good to hear from you. I'll let Glenn know.
Very interesting video. Thank you for sharing your story Glenn.
good job Glen we really enjoyed your video
Jan Johannes Smith, I see your name in a lot of the comments on gold mining channels. Aren’t you from Nor-Cal?
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Great story guys and Glenn. Very informative.
great video, thanks for it!
Nice wash plant!
Thanks for sharing your story. Time to cook.
I would had liked to work running the supercons lab for you. Like I did for the usgs.
I'll be damed I dredged most my life on the Smith River in Gasquet I found a 1792 Spanish real also.
Came up in the sluice box with some old square nails outa a riffle below pigeon point a rich old channel the river had cut through.
I still have my real and some gold left...
Ha!
👍👍👍 nice Video , well done 👍👍👍
cool video , keep up the good work
Great video.
My friend Johnny Jones used to metal detect on the edge of the sterling claims and you should see the nuggets he had.
Glenn, If George was from Gold Hill Oreg. He has money in unclaimed property state of Oregon. PS nice Video. JJ Chb Pa
awesome video,thank you
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Very well done Glen..
Props to you fine sir...
Nice gold too..
Glenn how about the williams area? Did you see the mines on ferris gulch road before they were hand filled in? When you say laboratory were you using aqua regia cyanide to get all the gold? Your tailings probably have 95% of gold you only got the chunky stuff.
You didn't show the total weight?
This is why America has such good GDP
Nice looking help always helps things morale.
Glenn, I'm surprised that you didn't mention Peggy or Jamie. Cousin Jamie showed me around the mine one day and I believe that scraper was there at that time, perhaps the cat as well. The mine was not operating at that time as it was the middle of summer and there wasn't any water.
Man, you know that box blew out a bunch of gold
interesting
sweet number your on now buddy
this was like the 90's lmao, this wasnt any time recently. Also, why are the like/dislike buttons disabled?
Shouldn't have been. I'll check it out...
awesome!
It sounds like you were a good mine manager.
Wow!! thank you very much for a great informative video.
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very cool ! we also dealing alluvial gold mining
There's still a lot of gold in that area but they building houses on it.
About 1.8 million bucks a year at todays prices :0
I made a micro sized plant that uses water.
Looks like way too much work for what you get- at least that's the overall view that you present.
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I've found the same thing to often be true with the men vs. women employee thing.
36 min 23 sec. That's all the bongs from the guys you fired from smoking weed.
How do you people go broke literally on a gold mine
Huge investment of time and equipment.
How much gold was in that area.
Took a lot of gravel to make the US Freeway system ...Free...way. Get it . Sounds like Thomas Jefferson or General Washington kinda
seems to be 1 or 2 seconds out of sync with audio
Was it profitable?
I have one dollar bill which starts with 28102810
Man I live in New Zealand and I can’t find any good spots
research helps. old maps. Mindat.com, geological spatial data, other hobbyists
thx
"Lucky Strike"
Let's see. 12 oz a 2 day run= 90 troy lbs x 12=1080 oz. @ $400.00=$518,000.00 x .8 = $414,000 a year... gross. Profit of 20%.... $82,800.00. Not bad if a piece of equipment doesn't go belly up
phuck ewe (too)Kidding He said, I believe, one troy pound per 12 hours. 6 hours per day.Yes at 3:36.Not included in those numbers is the hours spent stripping overburden and restoration. Again, I don't know, but suspect that he wasn't paid spot price for his AU. 80% is pretty liberal. I get 70% Plus, he had to give the property owner a cut(20%?)of gross! Ouch. He's being a little vague. All miners are. Their overhead is so large. D-10 new.. $1 million. I don't know how much material those drag lines could move. Personally? He'd have been better off growing pot. Look at properties on the Applegate river. Those aren't fruit trees.6 plants with a yield of 1 1/2 lb per plant@ 1K per lb $9,000 with hardly any overhead.Anyway, he didn't make a fortune. In 1995 I found a 1/2 oz piece. Got spot for it $150.00. In 2006 I found 1/4 oz piece. spot was $480.00. I got $120. Lady said $118.00. I said $120.00 Done deal
No shit! The price of gold stays the same. Currency is what moves around gold. Not the other way around. If I had saved it, that's the sign of gold fever. re, Fred C. Dobbs. P.S. Not offensive to me. Plumber for 42 years. Nothing I haven't heard before
Must be. Pretty bold of some of them. Not sure what the law is in Oregon. "Medical" covers a lot. Seeing all that tells me what the consumption rate is. Enough to give a lot of people reason to grow and keep the prices up there.(notice I didn't say " keep the prices high")
I've had this idea for years. Siphon dredge this diversion dam on Butte creek in Butte co,Ca. Been there for well over 100 years. PG & E is not renewing their lease. At least 4 old AU mines upstream. 39°58'55.7"N 121°35'22.0"W. 25' head= 11 psi @ the working end. More than any suction dredge. Oh well. Just a pipe dream
Actually,P G & E is not renewing their lease. But, I can't make up my mind as to asking(or proposing) to "clean out" the diversion pool or just doing it. 3" ABS is cheap and strong. Connect with no-hub bands. Flexible 2" at business end. Come to think of it, there's no need to go to the top of the pool. Just dredge at the face. The stream is going downhill, so the gold is working its way to the face. 100 years is a long time.There used to be a photo of the dam, but it has been removed. At least a shear 20' wall. It is not against Fish and Game to run a siphon dredge. Sluice box lashed to the delivery end. Been thinking about this for about 10 years. I'm semi-retired. I'm going to plan on next summer. Get my ducks lined up.I've looked at geological spatial data maps, picked SPI locks to get access on opposite bank,... It's a bucket list thing. SPI? Phuck em. It ain't their creek.
I have never found a nugget I have only found pickers
Keep looking!
Better than nothing.......
yeah I really want a nugget (find 1)
Yeah me too up above Paradise where the fire was there's a lot of gold up there
I see they had chemtrails back then too.
Amanda
How many people got hurt on that dozer....i had a dirt bike named christene lol my buddy broke his leg on it and i shattered my elbow on it lol
Owwwie!
5 days of working 12 hour shifts 100k Jesus Christ even split between 10 guys that's 10k each ridiculous SIGN ME UP lol
THEY ALLOW PEOPLE TO DIG FOR THEIR OWN???
the gold you have were do you go to get paid for it.
It was a long time ago and everything's changed now
Coin shops usually.
kol vid
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Cool story.... editing needs a little work...lol
Awful stupid of the property owners to sell off the land when it was pulling out so much gold!! Ridiculous!
Doesn't that depend on what price they got for the land? Maybe they had more immediate needs and were happy to let someone else take over. I doubt they did it with a gun to their head.