Gold in Vermont
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2014
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In the 1850s Vermont had a small scale gold rush as prospectors flooded in searching the streams for gold. In this video I set out into the back woods of Vermont in search of placer gold much the same way it would have been found in the 1850s, by panning by hand. I then rappel underground into an abandoned gold mine in search of gold bearing ore.
Having grown up with where you are as my backyard, I assumed quartz, gold and iron were common. 40 years and a few states later, I now know that Plymouth is a a strange and magically different place. I count my blessings for this place.
Im pretty sure you are just throwing most of your heavies out of the pan like that...pull the rocks out and spi. Your pan to the smooth side when at that amount of material , slowly walk the lights down the smooth side and really look at what is trying to escape ... Take off a single layer of sand, restratify, side to side and tip forward to concentrate in the Bottom corner as normal. 90% of what youll find is placer gold left from the glaciers and that stuff of like jewellers rouge it can be so fine. If you can, always pan into something to catch the gold you fof sure missed and bring something to break water tension so it has a chance to sink...gold dust floats...
Great video, and great footage from within Rooks Mine. I enjoy prospecting that area just for the beauty of it and the history.
I just love to watch your programming, is like you're really there, maybe not far away could be next year or the other year.
great job! i enjoyed watching your video, good job with the narration, i found it interesting!
Cool video but Daniel Cruz is right about your panning. I bet you had more gold but lost it when you splashed it forward. You need to gently shake it side to side to make the gold sink then dip your pan into the water and pick it straight up out of the water slowly when you get to that point & the gold is real fine. Good luck & thanks for the video.
Yo mike cool video!!!! Enjoyed it!! There's a brook close to where I live called gold brook in Stowe. Used to be an old Indian dude who would pan there decades ago, don't think he ever struck it but DID manage to get small quantities outta it!! I love fly fishing little brooks up in the hills, maybe next time I'll try panning when I'm there!! Ha
You know that house, on the Jeffersonville side of the mountain; the house with the waterwheel in front?.. I hear that house used to get gold from that wheel. Not tons of it, but apparently enough to help with the taxes. All rumors, but ya know..I don't even think the wheel turns anymore.
Great documentary, I go there quite often from Spring to Fall in Plymouth, VT and have found some decent gold there. A Falcon MD 20 might have come in handy down there in the shaft. Check out our gold prospecting radio show sometime Mike.
I have been to Plymouth myself with my kids panning and got gold to
Cool video. I have worked that area. Had better luck in the older river beds than the Brook itself. Think that's the furthest in I've seen footage of for the mine itself. Nice job.
ya gotta dig deep fellas
Very interesting video. Well done thank you for sharing. I subbed to you .
Panning technique leaves the high possibility you are throwing gold out of the pan.
pretty cool footage!
We have been to that mine, didn't go in just panned the brook.
wow always wondered what those mines looked like, pretty gutsy going down there. If your interested in giving Vermont gold a second shot I suggest trying broad brook, its not too far from where you are here but you will do much better there
In Sharonbarnard area?
yep the gold is there, very fine stuff that's very hard to trap compared to other states but there. I know a several people that get a couple ounces a year from around there. But they put as many hours into it as a part time job. All said and done they make maybe a dollar an hour when on the best stuff. I live in the northern part of the state next to Canada, it is up here to, but it is still small and elusive. The best spots are few and are on private land, which no one who knows it is on their land will give permission to prospect. It is not a greed thing, it is more of a if one comes and finds it all of a sudden you got a bunch of them illegally digging up your stream bed and end up with a big mud hole in your back yard type of thing. The wardens are not to happy about seeing that also, and will give out fines to people digging banks or using anything mechanical to prospect. Only a pan or a registered sluice box is legal, and pan only on state grounds. Bring something with a motor like a water pump of and kind and be prepared to pay big fines.
Don't get lost or stuck, wait did I go right or left?
Obviously in the green mountains.
Watch your back there maybe Sasquatch's in the area?
Really interesting stuff... I'm embarrassed to say that I knew nothing of Vermont's history of gold exploration.
WHAAAAAAT?!?!?!???? 😰😰😰😨😰😨😰 YOU. ARE. A. MONSTER!!!!!!!!
You are brave my man
Ur crazy for going in there… lol no way
Look in the snow! Look in miss on rocks near brook do your crevices
How ya doin?
You don't pan for anything after a big rain in Vermont!! Wait till hot summer when water is clear and low. Really?? These guys aren't from here.
Where is this
He's in the rooks mine in Plymouth state park . In Tyson Vermont. But I wonder if that's the actual mine. It looks to natural to be man made . I have also found a little flec of gold in that stream myself
No gold in Vt anymore
Your not worried about a cave in,or collapse????
Those mines have been there a long time, solid rock
I no people that find gold in stony brook stokbridge vt
Sorry my boyfriend must have responded on my page. I "know" no, and no. Thank you for your response though.
Tonnie Cantore. Wait ive heard lofd gold there too ....is it just a story or any truth??
Love it when people show themselves illegally panning gold. You can't pan gold from Oct to May in Vermont. Obviously this man is panning illegally.
Wow I never heard that rule. Was it in effect 10 years ago when this was filmed? Or is it more recent. Please post a link to where we can find the rules for panning so others don't make the same mistake.