Hey all just hoping to clear up something about this clay we're working: As far as we know from some testing done with the 4 inch dredge, and a geologist's report of the section of stream we're on, this is deep deep clay. We're talking 50 feet plus on the graph of subsurface densities. So it's thought that this is a fault line where rocks and clay are being pushed up to the surface (gouge material), and the gold is washing down in the stream and getting stuck. Next season we'll try blasting through some of it and testing more to see if there is gold deeper in the clay, or if it is truly barren.
Probably nothing more enjoyable than drawing gravel through a dredge nozzle, I absolutely love thee nice clear under water footage. What a rich little creek you’re on, EPIC!!
Hope you got some gold mining to do in your off season. Somewhere warm. Otherwise i'm going to go NUTS waiting for next season:) Yee_Haa!!! Great video! Beautiful golden smile. As always; Looking forward.
We aren’t sure if we can get outside of alaska to do any mining this winter. I am headed to San Antonio in November but from what I can see the gold scene in that area doesn’t actually exist. If you have any good ideas we are open to suggestions
@@richardbeee we might just have to check out that friend of yours place. This past winter was nearly unbearable waiting for spring. We are still waiting!
Still looking 👀 for the "Blaster Nozzle".. The pump probably has a port on the side for a garden hose that you can put a adjustable Nozzle on to BLAST away at the material. 🤔🤠🌵⛏
We have that on the motor that doesn’t run the compressor. Just haven’t seen much use for it here since the gouge layer seems to be bottomless we just haven’t had much use for it. We haven’t gotten through to bedrock in this location I think I personally have gone about 8-12” deep into the gouge in one spot. If the gouge is coming through a fault line then I’m not sure gold would be dispersed through it. At least that has been our reasoning so far.
Awesome man. We got snow in the interior of Ak already. It warmed up rained snow pretty much gone & now it’s 32f during day BRRRR. I would dredge if I had a spot to dredge. Next year maybe 👍🏻
Sorry for the late response. We appreciate the support and hope you enjoy. Half of our two man team is headed to Vancouver island next month for a honeymoon but may have to see if there is any Canadian au
I wonder were thats a fault line is it possible that gold is riding up the fault line,or perhaps there could be a deep quartz vein leaching into the fault line then being pushed up? Im no geologist just wondering if that is at all possible. great video!
Nice!! I'm glad to see you guys got on the gold. Now you know where is at for next spring.. like you said!! I'm planning on moving to Alaska, maybe by next spring. I'm looking for some land around the Valdez area. What part of Alaska are you living in? Hopefully we'll be able to take a few dredging trips together next year. I have a few locations picked out, after alot of research where i know there's gold in the area. Thanks for sharing this video!!!
Arrr,fantastic stuff you guys .cold at this time of the year. I normally take 2 under suits to change when having a bite to eat .love the footage ,well bloody done .it ain't easy my friend's, butt its worth it .
Nice going guys that clay layer is definitely where it’s at 6grams on first run is great 👍 wish we had that in Iowa we’re lucky to get a half of a gram when dredging glacial material ⛏⛏⛏ liked your guys channel great content and underwater footage is great 👍 just joined your channel great job can’t wait to see your next one ☝️ take care
Have you ever checked into and under they clay layers from my experience gold will work into the clay and become stuck. I just think you maybe missing very very large gold in the clay and maybe even under that layer. Clay Is extremely hard to work but usually is worth the extra work. Not to mention all the beauty rocks/ semi precious gems that you would find. Do a quick search of the gems and other rocks I your area/ claim. Could turn into a side business or extra funding for your mining. Simple tile saw dremal with diamond bits and some 1000-3000 wet sand paper and a rock tumbler. You could make some very cool stuff for using the "overburden". I saw a few rocks I would buy from you just in raw form. Just an Idea
Thanks. We have definitely been finding some really strange material within the fault gouge. I spend some time dredging one day by myself but we would need to run a test where we clean the overburden off then do a cleanup of the dredge to get any gold out that may have been in that overburden then spend a stretch just using the blaster and nozzle to dredge the gouge. Maybe worth a test next spring.
A cheap at home acid testing kit revealed it was somewhere around 20 karat. But we do see a variety of gold too, some very old and worn/stained, some bright yellow and crystalized with quartz still in it.
Hmmm. Are you talking about the video that you are commenting on ? Or a previous video of us up stream ? Either way we will be posting an explanation of the material we are working on now. The white fault gouge we are working in now is not on an accessible section of bedrock. The bedrock in our previous videos was broken up to a reasonable degree where we felt like it was very unlikely that the gold would have been down below. We typically would stop breaking off the bedrock after a foot or so. Let us know what you think.
Guys I don't want to knock the work you all did but you watch your vid and you will see how your washing away your gold , wash was to fast on the smooth along with steep it is washing down , sorry man. Should be easy to locate now you know were to go.
Clinton, ahh sorry about the late response. First off we want to say thanks for watching and subscribing if you do. Second we agree it’s definitely possible that we blow out some of the fine gold. Our hope of course is that we don’t. On our first trip of the new season (and every time after) our plan is to make sure our mats are reassembled in the sluice before we run the cleanup through our letrap drop sluice. That will prevent and gold that does escape the letrap from getting back to the creek. After we do that we may discover that we have been losing gold and that would lead us to consider like you said just dredging from beginning again. Thanks again and heavy pans to you.
Hahaha well we typically have the labor covered with one guy tending the dredge and one guy under water. Hard to say if the highbanker is really worth working up there. We will keep you in mind though for next season.
@@twodudesonedredge mining is in my blood my family has worked the klondike and atlin bc. But since retired before when I was very young. Now I crave it and wish the family stayed working. Now I chase flower gold on my local river but deam of finding some good old clunkers in the pan.
@@robwolfeauhunter8349 ahhh no thank you way to many nasty bugs lol. I have gold claims in southern part of Ak I’ll be working next summer I’ll dredge then hopefully
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Hey all just hoping to clear up something about this clay we're working: As far as we know from some testing done with the 4 inch dredge, and a geologist's report of the section of stream we're on, this is deep deep clay. We're talking 50 feet plus on the graph of subsurface densities. So it's thought that this is a fault line where rocks and clay are being pushed up to the surface (gouge material), and the gold is washing down in the stream and getting stuck. Next season we'll try blasting through some of it and testing more to see if there is gold deeper in the clay, or if it is truly barren.
Test test test...That clay will be hard to break up fine enough for the gold to loosen before hitting the sluice box🤔..thoughts?
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If the clay layer is really deep you probably only see gold on top. Always good to test things though.
Well this answers my question😁was wondering about amber the top layer of that clay grabbing gold and it settling into it.....clay grabs gold fer sure👍
Yeah from what we have seen there is no end to the layer. More will be revealed this summer.
Probably nothing more enjoyable than drawing gravel through a dredge nozzle, I absolutely love thee nice clear under water footage. What a rich little creek you’re on, EPIC!!
Hey man come on up and we will get you in the creek. Maybe a little mining exchange this summer ?
Always have a blast coming by fam. Keep on the hunt fam. Gold squad out!!!
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Hope you got some gold mining to do in your off season. Somewhere warm. Otherwise i'm going to go NUTS waiting for next season:) Yee_Haa!!! Great video! Beautiful golden smile. As always; Looking forward.
We aren’t sure if we can get outside of alaska to do any mining this winter. I am headed to San Antonio in November but from what I can see the gold scene in that area doesn’t actually exist. If you have any good ideas we are open to suggestions
@@twodudesonedredge Dry wash in AZ? My friend has 120 acres in Franconia wash. Known for gold, meteorites, cool rocks.
@@richardbeee we might just have to check out that friend of yours place. This past winter was nearly unbearable waiting for spring.
We are still waiting!
@@twodudesonedredge Good place to metal detect. Getting hot here now.
Still looking 👀 for the "Blaster Nozzle".. The pump probably has a port on the side for a garden hose that you can put a adjustable Nozzle on to BLAST away at the material. 🤔🤠🌵⛏
We have that on the motor that doesn’t run the compressor. Just haven’t seen much use for it here since the gouge layer seems to be bottomless we just haven’t had much use for it. We haven’t gotten through to bedrock in this location I think I personally have gone about 8-12” deep into the gouge in one spot. If the gouge is coming through a fault line then I’m not sure gold would be dispersed through it. At least that has been our reasoning so far.
New Subscriber here! Great video. Will be catching up on your past videos. Tony
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Awesome video!
Dredging is over for the year here in Colorado as well,can't wait to get back at it again next spring!
Spring is here ! Just waiting to get access to the mine
Awesome man. We got snow in the interior of Ak already. It warmed up rained snow pretty much gone & now it’s 32f during day BRRRR. I would dredge if I had a spot to dredge. Next year maybe 👍🏻
Let us know if you find a spot to dredge and need to run the 4” to test new ground. It’s portable and doesn’t need much water to run.
Great video, Subscribed and liked.
Thanks for sharing.
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Sorry for the late response. We appreciate the support and hope you enjoy.
Half of our two man team is headed to Vancouver island next month for a honeymoon but may have to see if there is any Canadian au
Very nice. Wish i could see gold like that in my dredge lol awesome job guys keep it up
Well here’s hoping we all have a great season.
This looks awesome. Nice setup.
That’s. We started with a small homemade 4” dredge and just graduated to the 6” last season.
Totally awesome clean up is that your own claim your workin
Sure is. Thanks for check it out
Great video and great gold. Nice work!
Thanks Dan we will keep on it. Starting next season of course.
I wonder were thats a fault line is it possible that gold is riding up the fault line,or perhaps there could be a deep quartz vein leaching into the fault line then being pushed up? Im no geologist just wondering if that is at all possible. great video!
Either that or most of it flooded down in one massive event during the last ice age.
Very nice 3 days of work.👍 Can’t wait for next year. 😀💰
Us neither. It was a great trip.
Nice!! I'm glad to see you guys got on the gold. Now you know where is at for next spring.. like you said!! I'm planning on moving to Alaska, maybe by next spring. I'm looking for some land around the Valdez area. What part of Alaska are you living in?
Hopefully we'll be able to take a few dredging trips together next year. I have a few locations picked out, after alot of research where i know there's gold in the area. Thanks for sharing this video!!!
One us lives in Fairbanks and one in Anchorage. We love the idea of checking out new ground. Keep in touch and let us know where you land.
Arrr,fantastic stuff you guys .cold at this time of the year. I normally take 2 under suits to change when having a bite to eat .love the footage ,well bloody done .it ain't easy my friend's, butt its worth it .
It sure is. Sad to have to shut it down for winter but e are already excited for next season.
@@twodudesonedredge I hope it's a good one my friend's Arrrr
As do we.
Nice going guys that clay layer is definitely where it’s at 6grams on first run is great 👍 wish we had that in Iowa we’re lucky to get a half of a gram when dredging glacial material ⛏⛏⛏ liked your guys channel great content and underwater footage is great 👍 just joined your channel great job can’t wait to see your next one ☝️ take care
Take a peek at our older videos and don’t hesitate to give us suggestions.
Now that looks like a shit ton of fun, I really wish I could do that. Great job man, was this 2 days ?
Man we had a blast. We are incredibly fortunate to have good gold and good friends to go find it with. It was a 3 day trip I believe.
Have you ever checked into and under they clay layers from my experience gold will work into the clay and become stuck. I just think you maybe missing very very large gold in the clay and maybe even under that layer. Clay Is extremely hard to work but usually is worth the extra work. Not to mention all the beauty rocks/ semi precious gems that you would find. Do a quick search of the gems and other rocks I your area/ claim. Could turn into a side business or extra funding for your mining. Simple tile saw dremal with diamond bits and some 1000-3000 wet sand paper and a rock tumbler. You could make some very cool stuff for using the "overburden". I saw a few rocks I would buy from you just in raw form. Just an Idea
Thanks. We have definitely been finding some really strange material within the fault gouge. I spend some time dredging one day by myself but we would need to run a test where we clean the overburden off then do a cleanup of the dredge to get any gold out that may have been in that overburden then spend a stretch just using the blaster and nozzle to dredge the gouge. Maybe worth a test next spring.
@@twodudesonedredge well keep it up. Love from Nanaimo BC Canada 🇨🇦
Incredible take there for three days! What k is the gold there.👍😉👏
A cheap at home acid testing kit revealed it was somewhere around 20 karat. But we do see a variety of gold too, some very old and worn/stained, some bright yellow and crystalized with quartz still in it.
Epic
Thanks Myles
bro nice one yous did good
Thanks. The season really took off for us those last few trips. Can’t wait to get back out there
Another ace video guys keep up the good work is that a 6inch dredge ?
It is a six inch dredge. If you go back and check some of the other videos you will see we have a home built 4” as well.
Holy Gold Farts 😎👍🇺🇲💯
Right!!
Badass area!
Thanks man. We are so lucky
I’d love to get up there with my dredge.
Bring it. What size dredge do you have?
Wow it everywhere lol
Trying to find it, stay tuned for this seasons videos
@@twodudesonedredge I’d say you did pretty well. Love gold finding videos. I’ll stay tuned for sure 👍
Great job you guy’s
Thanks man. You too. We see you out there doing your thing.
Yeah I wish we could dredge here though I would do a lot better
Would love to make a trip with you guy’s to learn the process!
Sweet. Bring it. Reach out anytime privately
Did you bridge up the clay about I inch and that’s the budget layer
Ahh not sure what you mean. Can you clarify?
@@twodudesonedredge In areas with that clear thank you Rachel about wind down due to how dense the Clay is based on the weight and mass of object
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6 grams now thats a nice cleanout.
We definitely ended the season on a high note. Stay tuned for next video and any follow ups.
Imagine how much gold you could of had if you just broke up some of that hard pack on the bottom of the river. That wasn't bedrock.
Well we can always go back. No harm taking the low hanging fruit.
@@twodudesonedredge but now you have overburden with no gold in it that you will have to remove.
Hmmm. Are you talking about the video that you are commenting on ? Or a previous video of us up stream ? Either way we will be posting an explanation of the material we are working on now. The white fault gouge we are working in now is not on an accessible section of bedrock. The bedrock in our previous videos was broken up to a reasonable degree where we felt like it was very unlikely that the gold would have been down below. We typically would stop breaking off the bedrock after a foot or so.
Let us know what you think.
@@twodudesonedredge this video, the material you are moving is loose, under it is hard pack gravel not bedrock. At least that's what it looks like.
Guys I don't want to knock the work you all did but you watch your vid and you will see how your washing away your gold , wash was to fast on the smooth along with steep it is washing down , sorry man. Should be easy to locate now you know were to go.
Clinton, ahh sorry about the late response. First off we want to say thanks for watching and subscribing if you do.
Second we agree it’s definitely possible that we blow out some of the fine gold. Our hope of course is that we don’t. On our first trip of the new season (and every time after) our plan is to make sure our mats are reassembled in the sluice before we run the cleanup through our letrap drop sluice. That will prevent and gold that does escape the letrap from getting back to the creek. After we do that we may discover that we have been losing gold and that would lead us to consider like you said just dredging from beginning again.
Thanks again and heavy pans to you.
You missed a huge nugget
We sure hope not. You suggesting it was on the cleanup?
Can I come and help mine I'm very cheap like a bit of gold food and beer and I'll dig like slave labourer
Hahaha well we typically have the labor covered with one guy tending the dredge and one guy under water. Hard to say if the highbanker is really worth working up there. We will keep you in mind though for next season.
@@twodudesonedredge mining is in my blood my family has worked the klondike and atlin bc. But since retired before when I was very young. Now I crave it and wish the family stayed working. Now I chase flower gold on my local river but deam of finding some good old clunkers in the pan.
@@robwolfeauhunter8349 we all crave gold lol. I have awesome dredge but no claim or spot to use it at moment to cold in interior Ak
@@ninefingermining8694 time to go south like Australia or Indonesia lol
@@robwolfeauhunter8349 ahhh no thank you way to many nasty bugs lol. I have gold claims in southern part of Ak I’ll be working next summer I’ll dredge then hopefully
so how much does the help get ? zero or what they get on their own time jajaja
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