Hey that's my sluice box, right after the jig. I'm Gold Designs. Custom built that for them. Glad the guys are finding a pile.

Props to that operator who picked up a single stone with the bucket!!

dan is so old school friendly canadian...dying breed these days...stay kind stay blessed

@carolharris2357

2 ай бұрын

I thought there was a law against it now. Nobody is nice, especially government employees.

I can't imagine the adrenaline finding that big nugget caused. 😮

@nuru666

7 ай бұрын

I'd have to sit down and have a mild panic attack

@shaunsmith7019

7 ай бұрын

@@nuru666 you're not wrong

@CanadianSpaceBoy

7 ай бұрын

I'd quit the job and start a new chapter of my life. You got to do everything and you only live once

@nuru666

7 ай бұрын

@@shaunsmith7019Sitting there, cradling it... "My precious....."

@portroyal6886

7 ай бұрын

Yea it only takes me finding a picked in my pan or sluicebox, to find more energy, sometimes I can be feeling tired and had enough for the day, and if I find a good piece of gold, I'm feeling no pain I'm wide awake 😅😅😅, it's such a buzz gild should be prescribed by a doctor 😂😂😂

OH MY GOD 😮 (I had to spell it out for emphasis!)!!!! The first thing that popped into my head when you grabbed the elongated first nugget was, "That's a golden key!" It certainly was what I would name it! What a fantastic opportunity and operation. That is the first time I saw and learned about a jig. Ingenuity at its finest. The end result was gleaming, clean gold. The jig takes out all the hard work of panning/shaker tabling the cons to separate out black sand, etc. The Pinolyte was huge! From what I could see, the designs were just as stunning. I'm glad that they learned about this type of rock and are separating it out from the tailings. If I remember correctly, your first video at the Flat Bear Mine was when you discovered it and was on video discussing the gem and that this would be the only other place it was found. That is a pretty rare find and those specimens are huge! I really love the smoothness of their mine. Although this happened to be an incredible day for them, they are trying to cross every T and dot each I. Such a beautiful place! As always, I appreciate you sharing this incredible mine with us. Such a joy seeing golden goodness with smiles to match! May you always find gold between your toes! 🦶🦶 Blessings from Alabama ❤️

You have to love Dan Hurd's enthusiasm. His videos are great.

I worked in a small mine in eldorado county ca,in the 1970sand 80s,and crushed cemented gravel the nuggets look just like that and our biggest pice of gold was5.5oz.,so cool too see that gold in the rock before it was crushed,and seen a room miners made back in the day and you could see the nuggets in the walls on private property of course,new owners now cant see it but its there.i seen Mason jars full of dime size nuggets and it all went to china town San Francisco,waht a great experience in that time in my life.my wife had so nice jewelry from my earnings at the pit.keep it on coming,showing the real nuggs.

I like Dan, i like Gold and this music👍🏽

Now this is an episode of Yukon Gold that I haven't seen yet. 😲 Nice nuggies !!

That nugget with the quartz belly is beautiful. 😍

HARK! Thar be nuggets…and jungle rocks abound!! Hi ho, hi ho; a-prospecting we’ll go! With plenty nugs of gold we dug, Make bright the eyes aglow! Cheers Dan & the Miners of Flat Bear! 🖖😎👍

My goodness dan i was waiting for this one!!

@susanturcotte3176

7 ай бұрын

I was so excited that I didn't have time for a bathroom break!

Absolutely amazing! Thank you for bringing us along for such an adventure Dan!

I find a little gold everytime i pan the river near my house here in Ohio, obviously i'm about 200 years too late to find gold equal to the smallest flakes you may find in Canada, I always come away with a little though and it's adding up through the years.

Looks like Yoda stuck on the end of that conveyor. 🤣 Someone help the little fella! Great video and GOLD Dan!

Hey Dan, the "Original" Gold Pan Man! Placer in Ca.-Always Produces! 😊! (Did panin there)Creekside always!) Great Yield! Getting the Flour-Gold, is like Licken up Bottom of the Bowl! Great Times Always Dan! Right-On with the BIGGUN! Wooh-Yeah! ❤ ya! TC,GBU.,SM.,NZ., Keep Onn! 😣❤😁✝️🙏🏿👍👊😎😉🤗

Dan your channel and Enthusiasm is great. Thank you.

With your knowledge and level of excitement, you make an excellent teacher.

Wow, what an amazing cleanup! Thanks for sharing this experience!

Thank you for bringing us along and sharing in your joy and discoveries.

Wow, what a good video-series, showing us the whole process of goldmining. Thank you very much - this is nearly the best gold video i have ever seen!

HOLY GOLD FEVER BATMAN!!! Love the nuggies. 🤩

Man, that is a DREAM claim. And a fun group of guys.

Everyone discussing the gold, but it was the sleeping sheltie at 11:35 that caught my eye. I bet he'd be gorgeous if his coat was brushed out.

@BloxyGuyRBLX

Ай бұрын

Ye

Hi Dan , hope all is well. Looking at that nugget, I wonder if any might get pushed out with the big rocks. And the specimen nugget is really cool.

Wow that's awesome thanks for sharing this video about hunting for gold nuggets! Mr Dan Hurd 😊

amazing! Thanks for the tour Dan

t would be nice to see another follow up video looking at the reclamation of the site and how it is done. Great work showing their operation and talking more about how mining operations at this scale work.

Loving this series on this mine. I would love to see more than just the two vids!

One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Makes me wanna sell my house, relocate, and roll the dice. Thanks for yet another great video =)

I've been following you now for awhile and every video puts a smile on my face

Hi Dan. Love your channel as usual. Joes a great guy, I live here where his mine is. He’s a hard working man and I am so stoked you visited these boys. I’m always wishing them good luck! Can’t wait to see how you make out up the drainage! Cheers

@thegoldenrock7593

7 ай бұрын

hello

Been wanting to see something like this my whole life. Beautiful! Thanks a bunch.

as a young Lad i have found Several Pieces Of Lost Gold Jewelry, a smashed ring on the street, and a necklace at a carwash. I should start prospecting ey. 😂

Boy I hope that they are treating that one with quartz specimen correctly. I'd love to get my hands on that one without dissolving the quartz

As a retired steel worker’ too get out and operate big machinery “ and find Gold and valuable minerals! Ya kidding. Dan is living the dream. Keep it up.

Wow Dan, thats amazing. Thanks for sharing the news.

Glad you had Fun Dan & Au too!

Thank you Dan for this great video of your friends operation, that is beautiful gold man! Big cheers from another PNW'er and yer fans!

Very nice Dan thanks for taking us along with you this trip it was very enjoyable six stars sir

They should make a mold of the large nugget, cast it in resin, then make a resin copy from the mold to send to a brass foundry to make copies of the nugget. It's not every day you find something that amazing.

Great clean up! Thanks for sharing.

Awesome video. Thank you, Dan!✌️❤

3:55 I LOVE how excited Dan is to find nuggets!! .. Even when they are his friends gold! :) .. He doesn't really care about the money .. it's just finding gold!!!

Beautiful take! Thanks for the dream!

For anyone that is curious, 10 oz of gold is worth approximately $20.4k USD.

@only1muppet

7 ай бұрын

After melt, I’d assume they’d have 13oz of pure gold. I checked prices and it was $25,752 US or $35,339 Canadian. That’s a reasonable car lol

@scott_9135

7 ай бұрын

Plus nugget price

@SlatcoAu

7 ай бұрын

That nugget would never sell for spot. You could get at least a 2.5x multiplier from a collector.

@andymarshall3326

7 ай бұрын

What do you all think the operating cost per day is?

@AustralianAntKingdom

7 ай бұрын

​​​​@@andymarshall33261800+ , they said 1000 in fuel easy plus workers, and all the business cost of maintenance on machines and other bills.

Been watching you for quite a while now.

@susanturcotte3176

7 ай бұрын

Come and join us on live chats with Dan's Sunday premieres. They are at 6 AM Pacific Time. We all enjoy the stories of what each person has found/done for the week. I always learn something new because Dan has his "Geology Lesson of the Day" (or GLOTD), in which he shows in depth explanations on finds and answers questions. Dan has an incredible knowledge base and wants everyone to learn. Hope to talk to you there! Welcome to the Hurd Herd!

At 13:57 the nugget in quartz would make a BEAUTIFUL necklace.

Great show ! One thing I can say you never disappoint ! Your the Best out there ! Keep it up !

Alright Dan! Simply, thanks for sharing buddy!

😁👋👍👍👏👏💕🙏🏻 Dan I have missed you so much. And your videos. I had respiratory failure and a heart attack. On the 7th of Octobe.r So I'm way behind on my videos. So I get to do a marathon. And I can't think of a better way to start. Okay, I caught Carson's name and Joe's. But there's three other people there, besides you. So I want to thank all four of you, for the entertainment. This was just amazing.

@thomasjohnson3793

7 ай бұрын

Wow, dawn, I just came across your post? Watching Dan's gold something else, isn't it? But I most importantly, I want to pray for you and your recovery. It seems to me like you're doing better with what I can read. But I definitely want to lift you up and pray, and heaven Father, give you the best of health, God bless you from Olympia Washington.

I watch Dan for the fun, the adventure and the education, but this one also had a boatload of gold as a bonus! Awesome video :)

@TeyaeTv

4 ай бұрын

🙏🙏Blessings forever GOD loves y'all too forever tell everyone you know and don't know. Jesus loves y'all too forever. Teach everyone how to see and enjoy their blessings too foreverm

Sweet! That would be an amazing find! What a neat setup they have. How fun for you to be there.

Nuggets like that can fetch a nice price at auction. large nuggets are far more valuable when left unprocessed. Then again, it seems to be a show piece for the mine owners.

What an Amazing Adventure Guys Thank You 👍😃👍💖

Wow, thank you for sharing. Wonderful video. 👍😎

What a great treat, being there for one of their best days !!! 🙂 Ty for the Entertainment Dan

To put into perspective, as of time of this post, 1oz of gold is about 1,900 USD That is a wild find with that single big nugget.

@derekderek2570

2 ай бұрын

2200 today!

Thanks for sharing what a great life these guys have👍

What. A catch. Thanks for showing the big nugget.

You know I got excited about the whole panning for gold thing, as a new hobby. You know, something to do with my latter years... Went on Amazon got me a little panning kit and all that stuff spent about 60 bucks, only to find out that there's no gold in Texas 🤣🤣🤣 I was very disappointed

And like all KZreadrs with 1.21M subs, he bought all the gold from today for HurdDirt paydirt bags⛏️👌What a ledgend, supporting all channel participants and bringing everyone UP with him. A true pillar of the small scale community.👍👌🇦🇺

TY for sharing, I have never seen gold like this either before! TY and God Bless!!!

Just loved the clean up jig

My fav piece was the one half quartz and half gold, absolutely beautiful.

I guess they can afford some new scales after that awesome haul! Maybe even some waterproof ones 😂

What an amazing experience that must of been!!

Thanks for the video Dan, it was good.

Awesome 👍💕 Every miner dreams of having that much gold in one day. 🙏Great video Dan🙏

Whoa!!! Nice haul guys!!!

Dan Hurd on the next season of gold rush?? That would be so cool..

Pretty neat seeing this side of the industry. I work in refining precious metals.

What a great day Dan.... And Joe and crew are awesome... It's really hard work though, aye .......

Sweet sassy molassy. What a nug!

@susanturcotte3176

7 ай бұрын

Tee hee 😂 I called the first one a golden key. I don't know what I'd call the big one.... Perhaps "The Big Bonanza," or "Huge Louie"..... Better stop myself now... I'm running out of names! 😂😂

@GTGBFB1

7 ай бұрын

@@susanturcotte3176 That is a good problem to have! At least you haven't named it "Susan's Retirement"!

I just bought some of your pay dirt . I look forward to finding gold. This is my practice run on my 24 inch sleuce. I am excited. Feel free to drop that big nug in. Take care and keep up the great work

So awesome. What an adventure!

Fantastic gold finds

Top shelf video!

Amazing 15 oz nugget, great video.

Omg those are huuuuuge nuggets! I was cheering out loud when I saw them!

Congratulations., Dan ! On your find ., cool bean’s man . From Duncan Oklahoma.✨👍✨

Oh my gosh that's a lot of gold and we love to see a lot of gold so thank you Dan❤ for making this video for us❤ because you know we all love to see the gold❤ thank you for your friends that are doing this to clean the environment of gold❤❤😂

I like seeing the fresh taken gold the shapes were very interesting too. I could see several interesting faces in the gold

That was awesome. Man I would be doing the happy miners dance for sure

What an exciting day. Lots of nuggets and that huge one, mind boggling

What a nice Tuesday treat!!! Cheers from Toronto Boyz!!!

A couple of very nice necklace hangers ! The biggest one I've held was seven ounces , not mine though still very privileged to actually have held it. Gold is beautiful no matter what size from the smallest micro specks to that big beauty at fifteen ounces.

Whoa, great find!

.Hey Dan, that "Hand Full" matches that prospectors beard pretty well! Lol! .... Great excursion, Dan, seems like a good bunch of people, their getting good results! Interesting piece of equipment....⚒️⚖️💰🤠

I subbed to you years ago, and again today.

Such a cool operation! So, that was what, a $16K to $20K day? I wonder how much they have to find per day to stay ahead of the game. Very nice video, Dan!

Just dropped by because I saw your monster gold nugget in the thumbnail, VERY COOL, Dan! Good for you!

Those are some NICE chunkers!!!

That transition was awesome. 10:43

That was awesome Dan! They made a lot of money that day.

Wow ! Great day .

A very large gold nugget, you are very lucky,, greetings from traditional Indonesian gold miners 🇮🇩⛏️⚒️👋💪✨

Good morning 🌄 from Thailand 🇹🇭🙏😄❤️🌹👍

Wow. Ty. Keep them coming.

So what do they do with these nuggets they are finding? Do they process them with the rest of the gold, or do they sell them separately to collectors? How much gold do they find per a season? How much do they average a day? Dan, I would love to see you visit more of these placer operations! Most of us really only know mining at 2 different levels: the hobbyist using high bankers or maybe a dredge, or the major commercial operations we see on “Gold Rush”. It’s awesome learning about the wide variety of mining that doesn’t get much attention, and the fascinating individuals making these operations work.