Thank you for your informative video presentations..... A lot to take in.

@mattmattsongold

10 ай бұрын

You're welcome, Alan, very best of luck in the field!

Thank you sir again for another great video! You're awesome!

@mattmattsongold

10 ай бұрын

And thank you.

Great info fam. Keep up the great work. Gold Squad Out 🤠

@mattmattsongold

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for that - appreciate it a lot.

Man I would sure love to sit around the camp fire and learn. Love The videos. Thank you.

@mattmattsongold

10 ай бұрын

You're welcome - best of luck to you.

Great to see you again Matt.

@mattmattsongold

3 ай бұрын

Thanks Dan!

Thanks Matt for sharing this valuable information to put more smiles in the pan. 😅thank you.

@mattmattsongold

9 ай бұрын

You're welcome - I hope you get to get back out there soon!

@SECRETCREEKPROSPECTING1776

8 ай бұрын

@@mattmattsongoldhope you are doing well Matt, wishing you & Connie the happiest of Holidays and prosperous New Year ❄️☃️🎄🇺🇸⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️

@mattmattsongold

8 ай бұрын

@@SECRETCREEKPROSPECTING1776 : you are certainly timely! Connie showed the gold you sent to our realtor lady (we make signs for) just a short time ago. Panned it for her and you know the effect - she wants to go find gold! It's great. You sent the best Christmas present of all I believe, many have now panned that out and had fun with it. We hope you and yours have a Merry Christmas as well! Good on you!

I just enjoyed this video!!! Thanks for sharing! Kirk from secret creek shared this and I’ll have to thank him! ✌🏻⛏️✨

@mattmattsongold

9 ай бұрын

That is wonderful - we're glad you liked it - and certainly grateful Kirk shared it with you!

Thank you sir. I'm new to this and would love to go out and learn. Here's how I think if someone's already been finding gold that's who I want teaching me.

@mattmattsongold

5 ай бұрын

Thank you Milan - Connie and I are humbled by how many prospectors have learned from us and used the techniques to make their own strikes and found their own channels here on KZread. Hopefully you'll be another one of them! Good luck!

C’mon down to Lawson bar tomorrow. I’d love to shake yer hand. Thanks a bunch for all the knowledge sir.

@mattmattsongold

3 ай бұрын

You're welcome, Kevin - hope you come back with a lot of buckets!

I enjoyed the presentation and was happy and surprised to learn all the way through it. You get a big thumbs up and subscriber, enjoyed the chicken 2.

@mattmattsongold

Ай бұрын

Thanks for that Jeffrey - hope you can put it to good use in the field someday! Glad to have you with us!

@Jeffreymart

Ай бұрын

@@mattmattsongold I will. Gold seems to find me, I also like that fellow Jeff Williams the prospector, you both know your geology. Thank you.

@mattmattsongold

Ай бұрын

@@Jeffreymart : yes - he puts out good information. Have fun out there!

@Jeffreymart

Ай бұрын

@@mattmattsongold U2 amigo 😀

Hey Matt hope you and Connie had a Merry Christmas and a great new year. Still here on the Umpqua seeing how it looks at high water.

@mattmattsongold

6 ай бұрын

Very good indeed! I learned more in the winter/spring than anytime I was actually working. With a cellphone you could photo & mark all those spots where the river boils and swirls gold into the bank, etc. You're a professional - most never do what you're doing at all. Good good good!!!

@jharper9899

6 ай бұрын

@@mattmattsongoldwe moved a boulder with a couple of bottle jacks and emptied the crack behind it, but haven’t been able to run it yet. Looked it over with a loop and it’s got gobs of fine gold in it. Thanks again for all your help Matt, really appreciate you. John

@mattmattsongold

6 ай бұрын

@@jharper9899 - Good going! Where the river takes the sharp bend under I-5 we used to put the "old guys" down there to work the spider cracks in the exposed bedrock. They didn't get wet that way and the footing was good for them so we weren't worried they'd drown. One of them (Norm Hill) was breaking those cracks out with a bar and we couldn't believe the gold coming out of those little cracks. I'm convinced any will have gold. BTW - I'm now older than Norm was . . .

Masterful overlook with enough detail to provide heavy pans to anyone. Thank you my Friend.

@mattmattsongold

9 ай бұрын

You are most welcome!

Gold & fried chicken don’t mix, you probably taught me that! Hope to meet you someday.

@mattmattsongold

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Kevin - maybe we will.

Great video thanks! I prospect in the SW washington ( Skamania County/ Gifford Pinchot )area and always seem to find enough gold to make me keep coming back but never enough to cover the gas. The geology is complex up here and I've been struggling for years to get on to anything good. Any tips you may have (beyond the great stuff you already posted) would be greatly appreciated! St Helens really shook things up here when she popped but she didnt bury everything...

@mattmattsongold

9 ай бұрын

You're quite welcome for the video. I've been looking at the Lewis River and am sure you've read all the same things: "About 6 miles southeast of Yacolt along the East Fork Lewis River was the McMunn placer mine. Early reports indicate that both gold and platinum were found here (one of the relatively few places where platinum occurs in Washington), but production was minimal and only sporadic work was done at the mine. - There’s a lot of nice looking bedrock along the East Fork. A gold pan and a few crevicing tools is all you need to be successful here. Remember, a lot of that gold will be way up on the banks, since the water levels change so drastically from season to season." -- We know crevicing works best to find concentrated gold so that might be the best strategy of all. -- I have much of the same problems described in your area - the Chatahoochie transports tons of gold - but by the time it gets to us it has been ground to nothing. If I want to find anything - I'll have to travel far upriver.

@MrLeadghost

9 ай бұрын

The upper portion on the east fork lewis is interesting because to my knowledge there has never been a lode mine in the headwaters. A lot of the other streams in the area have low producing copper mines that put some silver and gold in the stream beds. The east fork seems to have a large area of glacial till that is uncommon for that area. There are some very round peaks up there too where the lodes could have eroded off I suppose. I have explored the channels a lot and there seems to be no upper benches. Thanks again!

@mattmattsongold

9 ай бұрын

@@MrLeadghost : that's interesting. The area around Helena down to Phillipsburg has glacial till as well (that cut the corundum veins). Could be the reason small gold is found - ground. There is another possibility and that would be the Lewis River is cutting small veinlets and not a major vein of gold (yet). Those micro veins give off that small ground gold. I hadn't thought of that previously. Thanks.

@MrLeadghost

9 ай бұрын

Yes the lewis has lots of small quartz stringers in the bedrock. From my time on the river I'm yet to see one that is mineralized to any degree. I suspect the gold originates from a deep glacial cut that is now buried under massive overburdon. The mystery goes on...but lucky for me I enjoy playing the detective!

@mattmattsongold

9 ай бұрын

@@MrLeadghost :small quartz stringers in the bedrock - that explains it to me. If you can find some good cracks across the river to work, they at least will concentrate gold and it might be enough to stay on track pennyweight wise to amass a good amount. You would want to be extremely organized to do this - and keep records so you would know if running into gold or out of it along the crack length - the next crack down or up (if close) should produce in the same rough line. Others are doing this so it can certainly be done and gold amassed from even a poor producer. It certainly beats buying it.

Good morning Matt. Is there a way to show me what the zibra stripes would look like from Google maps? I have been looking for those stripes you were talking about and I have had no luck. I'm in a gold bearing district up in Northeastern WA. I can't wait for the next video you make on prospecting your information is so valuable!

@mattmattsongold

5 ай бұрын

Jason - they look exactly like what you see in the (made from Google Maps) video - if the bar is totally grey this doesn't work as it is pulling massive sands from somewhere and altering the color of the whole bar - the bar itself then is pointing towards the source upstream. Might be awhile for another video - Connie broke her leg and a rib so we're dealing with all that right now. Good luck to you out there!

@jasonyork4418

5 ай бұрын

@@mattmattsongold Thanks Matt. I'm sorry about Connie! I hope she heals quickly! Prayers for you and Connie.

Thanks for the video Matt So the lightest material at the bank then black sand then the gold?

@mattmattsongold

10 ай бұрын

You're welcome and that is exactly right. Hope you're having a great time out in the field!

Matt where is the best place for a greenhorn to go prospect for gold in public ground/non claimed in northern Jackson county and southern Douglas County? I don’t swim so can’t get down and snipe. Are there old gold bearing channels in Douglas county? A place to detect or scratch around?

@mattmattsongold

4 ай бұрын

The area between Myrtle Creek to the I-5 bridge on the Umpqua R. is all gold bearing with benches going up to the I-5 highway. There is so much gold we trained the general public here for year after year (thousands of them). Metal detecting - that's hard - since it's heavy black sands, lots of gold, and even platinum so a lot of detectors simply get overwhelmed.

THANK YOU RITE ON!

@mattmattsongold

2 ай бұрын

You are welcome and I wish you many happy adventures in the gold fields!

Its 6:27pm here in central california as I type this and I would like to ask you what the meaning of DEF is? Also on the guitar jam are you in standard tuning or are one of the chords using dissonense to create that impression. I know much of what you include in this video...but would like to ask if you are familiar with the san joaquin river from herndon to friant...and if you think the cement plant areas a few miles downstream from the dam would be viable search areas as they took out $196,000 from the general area when they dug the sand & gravel for the dam from there abouts? I find it interesting that you have found much more gold than the stuffed shirts with degrees from mackey school of mines could ever dream of. I always knew it. Thanks.

@mattmattsongold

10 ай бұрын

Returned2Forever: thanks for asking - yes, standard tuning (all I know - I'm from the "whop it like this boy" - Burnside school of guitar). I'll look at that location when we get home - no - not familiar with that location. Anytime you can get to gravel below a dam it's worthwhile in the main. My advice would to gain access to the river - and ID what you think is your best spot and start working some buckets out - let it tell you how rich it is. At least you'll know for sure and we both hope it works out!

@mattmattsongold

10 ай бұрын

I forgot to tell you what DEF was: "Dredge Earth First!" an organization to teach the public about gold - had rallies were all facets of gold prospecting were taught.

@Returned2Forever

10 ай бұрын

@@mattmattsongold This area is friant, ca in fresno county at lake millerton...121,000 ounces along the river from pollasky gold camp before the friant dam was constructed to the area of herndon where freeway 99 now sets. When you get a chance check (phone & google maps) a bit up river from the herndon area and see what you think about the rectangular pond like shapes...played out smaller dredge fields maybe? I hope to give it a go in the near future on that area. Thanks I really appreciate it.

@mattmattsongold

10 ай бұрын

@@Returned2Forever : yes - those very much look like old dredge pits. They are on the inside bend of the river - that could very well have been an ancient gold bar. From the intersection of W. Nees & N. Palm Avenue it looks like you might have access to a gravel bar by continuing on W. Nees to it (36.851519, -119.812346) (careful - that's a Bing Map Number & might put you in China). That bar might be material that is already run (through a dredge) - but dig low as shown and see if you can pan & spot gold with a pocket microscope or loupe. The gold will be running smaller & smaller as you go toward the Pacific, but there could be a real load of it judging by the size of those pits. I agree that taking a hard look at those bars is warranted. Over time, quite a nest egg in gold could be produced just quietly working it out.

@Returned2Forever

10 ай бұрын

@@mattmattsongold But how could it be done? Water is green and full of algie...can't see well or at all, several feet of mud, difficult to move around, etc. It would need to be drained, dried out, etc. Right? Am I missing something? If it was tried while full of water what would it take...a hooka or scuba setup? And you would still need a metal detector, buckets, pans, and a sluice relocated to the river to run everything. Its like once you get past basic ideas it falls apart or it gets bogged down. Sure is tempting to dream of though.

Hey Matt video will not load.......

@mattmattsongold

10 ай бұрын

It's still uploading the 4K - might want to try it again (takes 90 minutes). Give it a shot tomorrow.