Most interesting, thanks for putting this up. I am over 75, not a prospector, miner, etc but I find geology most interesting. Not sure how I stumbled across this channel but enjoyed and learned from this one. Best wishes.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the story and the unique geology of these deposits.

Thanks for that summary and history of carlin type gold deposits. In 1980 i used to work for Homestake Mining Company. At the time Homestake was one of the largest gold mines if not the largest in the world. The chief geologist in Lead, South Dakota told me during 1973-1974 all gold mines in the world were very close to closing down because cost of producing gold had risen much higher than the price received for that gold per ounce. He also said the Homestake Mine in Lead was weeks away from shutting down too. Then poof gold price exploded and the rest is history!

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Yep they couldn't continue at the 1933 price of $35 an ounce.

@vicferrari9380

4 ай бұрын

It doesn't sound like the Carlin would be

@vicferrari9380

4 ай бұрын

It doesn't sound like the Carlin deposits are worth the weekend prospectors time😢. It sounds like you have to have backing and go big time or make money by selling your claim.

@koltoncrane3099

3 ай бұрын

Vic You don’t have to sell. You can just lease your claim. Franco Nevada just is a mining royalty company basically. The one founder donated millions to UofU because he got his mba there.

This video explains the frustration that most of us have about ore deposits, we searched numerous books and mineral and rock reference books and each and everyone has museum grade specimens showcased in the photos, I've read your book and even there it showcases museum pics THIS is one of the better videos out there to show everyone just what they can find in the field, on top of the ground and not the glamorous crystals.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that the video was helpful.

@joesutherland225

4 ай бұрын

I knew a guy that headed one of the first of these heap leach outfits in the early 80s he was out of Vancouver bc can't remember the name it will come to me vse or tsxv listed .it might have been breakwater resources but I could be mistaken on the name

@rogerhanson3468

4 ай бұрын

@@joesutherland225 glamis gold out of CA an AZ had a leaching ponds there was also a mine leaching in Montana near the town of Fraser I believe.

Thoroughly appreciate your dedication and the want to educate us!

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

@WilliamBierwagen63

4 ай бұрын

I agree ! Your a good man Chris! God bless

@user-yy4up8qf5m

3 ай бұрын

"I think I' gona watch this video 500 times because that's how great it is! The ICMJ's Mining Journal Volume 82 Number 6, Febuary 2014 is among my most prized possesions! Page 43... What is a Valid Mineral Discovery? Sorry to say that the weekenders and the average person walking the street both have no idea the economic potential of stratabound microscopic precious metals deposits found both in sedimentary and volcanic rock... All paired with modern mining and modern assaying technology... the reserve numbers can be quite substantial. Not just in gold, but also in other base, strategic and other precious metals.

This video is one of your best yet. I learned quite a bit from it. Keep up the great work. Hope you are doing well.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! I am doing well.

Its 7am in Ireland and ive just ticked off everyday is a schoolday if youre lucky box. Thank you so much for the work you put in to producing this video so that the world can watch it for free. Im blessed with a kind of disorder that has me getting totally immersed into a subject if it peaks my interest. You have opined that an ounce of research is worth a ton of digging. With that in mind during covid , myself and irish distillers hit the irish geological survey website and low and behold theres significant gold in two streams 25 miles from home. I haven't gone near them yet but will in the summer for sport. Thanks again Ralph.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

sounds really interesting, best of luck to you in your efforts.

Absolutely love your videos chris. Im in Montana. Thank you for your videos. God bless

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you! Glad to hear that you enjoy them.

I've been to Battle mountain. You'd never know it by looking at the pit, but to see the shear size of the mine understanding that microscopic deposits can be enormous in size. I really enjoyed the in depth explanation of the process.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

That is great. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Thanks for the explanation of Carlin type deposits Chris. I never understood before why they don't look like other gold-bearing rocks. Great to have clarity.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Glad to help

Wow ! Thanks for sharing this historical journey and development of the Carlin Trend. Really is amazing ! I was talking with friends just the other day about it. They couldn't understand why Nevada is the Silver State. It really blew their minds when I mentioned it's the #1 US gold producer. I've never been up that area. Definitely on my Bucket list when I retire. Thanks again, Chris ! 🤠⛏️⚒️👍

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

In the 1800s when Nevada acquired the name, it had a number of rich and productive silver boom towns. Virginia City was the biggest, but there were dozens of others.

@allansgoldmining

4 ай бұрын

Indeed ! One of my favorite little silver towns is Belmont.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Yep, Belmont was one of them.

Thank you Chris for the excellent presentation. Appreciate all the time and effort you put in to educating those that want to learn.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Glad you liked the video.

Hello, your videos really enlightening the mind of the viewers... thanks and more power

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Awesome! I'm glad you liked the video.

Excellent video as always!

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Thanks - glad you enjoyed it!

Great video

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Hey Chris! This videos is incredibly informative I’m really looking forward to getting your book soon. For a long time I have been trying to learn about prospecting because I know of an abandoned mine from the time the Spaniard used to mine in a secret place I discovered.🤞

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Sounds great! Best of luck to you. My book has a lot of info on prospecting.

Great story thanks for sharing

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Get any flood damage in the big rain?

@Smithsgold

4 ай бұрын

not to much it's a long story shorter video !!! LOL@@ChrisRalph

Great video! One of my goals in NV is to find a piece of Carlin type ore. Haven't gotten out to where the trend areas are yet though.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

The ore is out there to be found.

Hello Chris. What an excellent educational service you provide with your videos. I have learned so much. I am active in central western Nevada and would love to find some additional reports on the area. Are there references from which you obtained info for you latest video on the Carlin type deposits? Id love to hear from you.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

I responded to your email.

Very interesting and enlightening

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

I live near cripple creek, Colorado, and here they use the same heap leach process, and getting vast quantities of gold in ore that is very low grade.such a neat process,thank you for explaining it in more detail, love every video you put out.in the process of obtaining your book😊

Reminds me of the classified scams from newspaper days, you know, those "Get rich by placing ads!" pitches, where you actually got told to sell the "secret" of ads to others. The punch line being almost NOBODY ever made any money doing it. Good to see the old classics still relevant today.

@ChrisRalph

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Hi.my professor.I say thanks alot for wonderful teaching I ❤ to hear several times.Kindly I beg for topics in jasper bleaching and toxics . Thks

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Glad you liked the video.

Very informative, thank you. Never heard of these Carlin-type deposits before. What do you think the odds are for similar deposits in other marine sedimentary environments adjacent to gold bearing metamorphic igneous bodies such as those found on the U.S. east cost (Virginia, North Carolina, etc.)?

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Possible but unlikely. Marine related sedimentary rocks are super common all over the planet, but the Carlin deposits are quite rare.

@brucelytle1144

2 ай бұрын

Hi Chris, I've been through that region, never stopped to look around. Wish I could've, but was usually on time constraints. I've been having the same thoughts concerning alluvial shelves, but thinking more of the alluvial plains and canyons off the west coast. I would think that the Missoula floods would have washed out a bunch of gold. There is also outside the Golden Gate and Monterey Canyons. It's been my understanding that the Sacremento and most the other rivers in Northern California, at one time drained into (now) Monterey Bay, until the San Andreas slipped further north. I would think those situations could have scoured and dumped a bunch of gold into the ripples that form in those alluvial fans. Nature has made neat natural riffles from the various sea levels over the times.

Since there was no scale on the maps shown, I was wondering how for the mineralized solutions could travel laterally from the fault. Farthest known migration, and if it is mineable grade.Thanks again for another great video.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

The distance would be hundreds of feet, but not more than one thousand.

Wow this pretty much describes the area I was planning to head to this week. I was going to work some alluvials but now I need to do some more research. The area in question has been well worked for visible gold and is notorious for toxics leaching into the creeks plus limestone is every where. The streets of the nearby town are paved with concrete and limestone. I have one sample from a previous trip I was planning to crush but before I do I will need some good magnification. Thanks for the great info!!

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Going to need a very powerful microscope for that kind of gold.

Is the moss extension mine like this or is that differnt

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

No, Oatman is of a much different type. The Moss extension and all the mines in the Oatman district belong to this other class that I did a video on - See: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dIZ70s6QkrXOZc4.html

Hello Chris, Thank you for another great episode! I've got a friend that has access to commercial grade x-ray spectroscopy equipment and says she can analyze a few samples of ore for me. Do you think this would show any gold or silver values in Carlin Trend type ore, or would this require a fire or chemical type assay? Best wishes & God bless! Mike

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

It would show up on an XRF if the grade is high enough.. Ore must be around 1/3rd of an ounce to be detectable on the XRF. This is why most companies don't use them for gold ore testing.

@fatherofhope

4 ай бұрын

@ChrisRalph this is very good to know thank you very much! Now I know to send her this ore I found that has some type of soft silvery metal all throughout it, mainly this pinkish quartzite with Globs of soft silvery metal of some kind along with the specs of it all throughout the Rock & obvious iron inclusions. But this other ore I found on a claim I recently staked will definitely go out for fire assay 🙂

What metal detector do you recommend for placer gold ? I have 10,000s of yards of mine dump piles on my property 95682. trenching through with my backhoe I can see the levels of mine cart loads, some were wet and some with large rocks and others with a slurry of small rocks. Acers of fines from the mercury table. Reports say Mercury was the biggest expense running the 1850 -1930 mine.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

There are many metal detectors available with many options and many price points. Watch my video on choosing one for yourself. See: kzread.info/dash/bejne/d3po0aivg6vIetI.html

People should look up Victoria peak. That was a huge gold find with probably hundreds of tons of gold just left over from the Spanish. A guy filed a treasure trove permit after removing some gold bars, but the area was made into a military base. Gold was also illegal to own in the Great Depression. And later when they finally got access to it the gold was gone, but a U.S. name and soldier number was on the wall. Theres a book about it. The military secretly took the gold and never compensated the family which legally they should have since it was Technically a takings where the government confiscated property without adequate compensation.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Interesting share.

Round mountain? I remember when it was a mtn.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

And its been a hole in the ground for decades.

The Triassic basin rocks in NC would be a candidate, I bet.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Perhaps they would.

Another great video! Thanks for sharing with us! I really appreciate the research you do prior to sharing this history with us. I’ve seen several active mines which appear to be working a purplish-looking ore here in Arizona. Any idea what they might mining? (One is near Black Canyon City and another one North of Wickenburg). Looks like a crumbly volcanic or shale-like rock. There doesn’t seem to be any visible quartz nearby those mines or in the tailings piles. (And no, I’m not claim-jumping, just trying to learn). Might be time I sign up for a geology course in addition to these fantastic tutorials. Thanks!

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Lots of rocks and minerals can potentially look purplish. So it's impossible to say.

What are the chances of finding gold in the Invermere area of British Columbia, Canada and what type of deposit is it likely to be? I.e. type of landform to look at?

@ChrisRalph

2 ай бұрын

Invermere is a logging area. BC has lots of gold but it's further west, closer to the coast. There is a little gold in parts of Alberta and this is likely closer to you. Use Google to do more research.

This was really fascinating to listen too especially since the story starts over a hundred years ago. And maybe hundreds of thousands of years or more if you start with the rock formations ha

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Let’s go, let’s go treasure and adventure

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Best of luck to you in your adventures.

Could you ever do a video on idaho?

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Not on my short list of project I am working on but maybe someday.

When the US was still under FDR's private gold ownership ban, mine were required to sell their gold to the US government at the pegged price. That's why gold production dwindled. However, when Ford rescinded that order in 1974 and gold clauses were again allowed in contacts in 1977, miners could sell and contract to anyone at market rates. And they certainly started pumping out the gold. In fact, starting in the 1960s some miners were removing and staging ore but not processing. That huge glut was finally processed in the 1980s and would be included in the 1980s production numbers.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Just not accurate Mr. Snark. Gold production actually increased in the early part of FDR's ownership ban because he increased the price the government paid from $20.67 and ounce to $35. The price increase was later eaten up by inflation and by WW2 the production was dropping, then they issued a wartime closure order. No significant amounts of ore were mined but stockpiled in the hope that someday the price would increase. That's a fairly tale. When the price of gold increased in the late 70s, production did increase. The bulk of the increase - 80% of it - was from Nevada, and the bulk of the Nevada production was from these Carlin type sedimentary deposits.

Sounds like looking for a needle in a haystack. Im glad you brought these deposits up. Rocks have many uses and the rocks themselves can be used for road base. I often think the sandy soils of the valleys in California must have microscopic gold also. How to retrive it economically is the key. Its really more valuable as land to grow crops. Of course thats a big risky venture too it seems. What is needed at tge right time is crucial to success . That applies to almost any profitable venture. Its one key to success i would think.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

There are traces of gold in the rivers that run through the Sacramento area. But that's it - only traces. Loads of barren sand, mud and gravel fill the area.

I really need to get your book I have dredged on the mersed the trenedty and klameth rivers and did purity good and now I am in Idaho where there's a lot of platinum and gold in the gravel beds from yellow stone down to the Boyce.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Its available on Amazon - just search "Fists Full of Gold" by Chris Ralph

If I owned a Nevada claim in the light grey area of the map you displayed and I wanted to risk some savings with a couple of test holes and numerous assays, how do I go about doing that? I assume you are talking about fire assays ($50 each) and not hand-held instrument assays ($25). You stimulated my interest, as usual.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Drill holes run depending on how deep you want to go can be $100,000 to $250,000. The equipment to do the drilling is expensive and requires trained staff. And you need many, many assays.

@richardrobertson1331

3 ай бұрын

@@ChrisRalph Ouch! Thanks for responding. As a small-time prospector I would only be interested in potential ore less than 100 feet below grade. So maybe having a water well drilling outfit dig a few 6 inch by 100 ft deep holes in pre-selected locations and me being there to take samples every ten feet, or so, that might be practical approach for me. You gave me a practical path that I may follow this Spring. Now, to talk with the local BLM office about bonding for those holes. I'll be looking for evidence of decomposed carbonates, as you suggested in this video. Thanks for posting.

If you're not already a subscriber to this channel, please consider subscribing. This is very informative with supporting data references, and the history is always very much appreciated. Thank you for this.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for those kind words!

How do you do an assay? , how much does it cost to have someone else do it?

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

There are entire books (a number of them) written on assaying, so its not a question to answer in a comment. Some can be downloaded for free. Assays cost $50 to $60 depending on what you want done.

Hi Chris, im wondering if you might know what type of deposit this might be called. It is a large body of diorite laced with very silicious veins from a few inches to a few feet. They seem to trend in one direction but can run any direction. Ive found small nuggets in one small area and even some large native silver nuggets. Ive gotten some pretty good assays off of it. Im quite an experienced prospector and successful nugget shooter Ive just never seen anything quite like this. Just would like to classify it. Thanks Edit: the veins are not really quartz but highly silicious and harder the the hobbs of hell, as my father would say.😊

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Way too little information to classify. Congrats on the finds though.

how much should we pay for a good assay if we do not do it ourselves due to equipment needed as well as skill?

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Depending on what type of assay you want, $50 to $75.

The Carlin Trend is at the seam where island-arc accretion added strings of islands to the original craton, the edge of the continental shelf, so there was a great weakness going deep into the crust where hydrothermic fluids injected the gold-

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Deep faults definitely brought up gold bearing fluids.

A 3 billion dollar gold deposit was found near Republic Washington last year. Republic has already produced over 3.5 million ounces since 1896

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

But will the State of Washington let them mine it? Nevada produces about three times that much gold every year.

@foxmulder7616

3 ай бұрын

A trillion dollars worth of gold was found in one vault underneath padmabhaswamy temple in India..A 4-foot (1.2 m) high and 3-foot (0.91 m) wide solid pure-golden idol of Mahavishnu studded with diamonds and other fully precious stones.[8] A solid pure-golden throne, studded with hundreds of diamonds and precious stones, meant for the 18-foot (5.5 m) idol of the deity Ceremonial attire for adorning the deity in the form of 16-part gold anki weighing almost 30 kilograms (66 lb) An 18-foot (5.5 m) long pure-gold chain among thousands of pure-gold chains A pure-gold sheaf weighing 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) A 36-kilogram (79 lb) golden veil 1200 'Sarappalli' pure-gold coin-chains encrusted with precious stones weighing between 3.5 kg and 10.5 kg Several sacks filled with golden artifacts, necklaces, diadems, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, gemstones, and objects made of other precious metals Gold coconut shells studded with rubies and emeralds Several 18th-century Napoleonic-era coins Hundreds of thousands of gold coins of the Roman Empire An 800-kilogram (1,800 lb) hoard of gold coins dating to the medieval period[8] According to varying reports, at least three if not many more, solid gold crowns all studded with diamonds and other precious stones and pots of gold. While the above list is on the basis of news reports describing the July 2011 opening (and later) of Vaults A, C, D, E and F, a 1930s report from The Hindu mentions a granary-sized structure (within either Vault C or Vault D or Vault E or Vault F) almost filled with mostly gold and some silver coins.[9]

These sedimentary deposits of gold appear elsewhere in the world and mainly in very old exposed geology. Kalgoorlie in Western Australia is one. These were sediment deposits from ancient shallow seas or lakes that have been pushed up but the fine sediment came from ancient river systems running through mountains that no longer exist. Some call it flour gold because it is so fine and that is why it was washed into these lakes or seas and deposited with the sediment. The pit at Kalgoorlie is very deep and they are still getting gold. This type of gold has also been found off the coast of large rivers that exist today but it is not payable to go after it due to cost and very low assay results. The sediment deposits being mined now where laid down at a time when the land masses were nothing like what they are now, possibly going back to Pangea.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Actually the geology of Kalgoorlie and the rest of WA is totally different from these deposits. The gold of WA belongs to a category called Orogenic gold deposits. I did a video on this type of deposit - see: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pm1t2th7g8vfdJM.html

I was looking at local mines in West NC , I know little about mining, but the report said the gold deposit was exceptional, with $30 something to $76 per ton in the late 1790's to mid 1800's these mines are within 20-30 minutes of my house roughly . So seems there would be some gold in the creeks coming from this region, especially with the flooding the last few years. It seems they were the cap creek mine, and gap creek mine. One in ash county NC just a little ways up the road. We used to go cruise around on the weekend's any opinion? There hasn't been a legit mine in like 200 years, but there should be something in the creeks right?

@argonaught5666

4 ай бұрын

My father had literature about that gold belt. I can't remember the name of it but it is quite extensive. Yes, there is placer gold there and in fact some huge nuggets were discovered. I'm talking 10,s if ounces. He actually went and investigated briefly bit do to all the private land he decided it would take too much time to get familiar with the area and actually find areas we could metal detect. I've always kept it in the back of my mind as a potential place for some great nugget shooting but ya know, we can't live forever. I'm 60 now and have so many projects in the west I will never make it there. Good luck!

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

In the creeks below the mines, yes. Throughout the whole region, not necessarily but maybe.

In an old map I found a "gold mine" drawn into an area near "Königssee", Berchtesgadener Land county, Bavaria. This area lies in the calciferous northern rim of the Alps mountains and is most likely (I have not been at the place ofthe defunct gold mine) also sedimentary carbonate rock. While we do have polymetallic and even gold deposits in shists, metamorphous and plutonic rocks within the interior ridges of the Alps in Austria, Switzerland and Italy, this old, defunct gold mine in Bavaria could prove that gold might be found even in the "boring" sedimentrary carbonate rim-zones of the Alps, although I got no idea how it came there or how this deposit has formed.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Replacement and polymetallic deposits are often found in sedimentary rocks. These can be rich in gold too. I am going to do a video on the geology of replacement and polymetallic deposits in the near future.

@klauskarpfen9039

3 ай бұрын

@@ChrisRalphMight be interesting to hear whether "Carlin"-type deposits have been found in other places in the world outside the US. We DO have lead-zinc deposits (galenit/sphalerit) deposits within the cacliferous northern Alps and there is some sulfide mineralisation within a eeny-meeny-bitsy tiny mineralisation zone near my hometown in a quarry of otherwise quite pure triassic calcium carbonate "Wettersteinkalk" (and next to it there is tiny mineshaft, which is supposed to have been a silver mine, centuries ago). I've read claims, that some gray lenses within this white pure calcium carbonate rock are supposed to stem from vulcanic origin, ash? or precipitation on the ocean floor from hot hydrothermal outflows - but I am not sure. Probably these are not Carlin-type deposits, as their sulfides are visible macroscopically.

I am a Shaftsman underground hard rock miner, I did some raises for newmont and barrick

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Hope you found the video interesting.

How do they get the gold out of the rocks?

@jimmylarge1148

4 ай бұрын

There’s tons of vids on it but they crush the rock and then pan or sluice the rock powers out to retrieve the gold. Pretty simple really. Takes some equipment tho.

Like in Lake county CA ?❤

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

The mine in Lake County was a different kind of deposit.

Got microscopic gold? Better call Saul.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Is Saul going to sue the microscopic gold?

Not much gold compared to Australia. Mate found a 5 ounce the other day. He pulled it on KZread.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Gotta check your supposed facts mate. You are telling another tall tale. Nevada has produced more gold than any Australian state - more than QLD. more than WA, more than VIC. But if you add up the entire country of Australia, then yes the whole country of Australia has produced more gold than the one small state of Nevada in the US.

@chuxxsss

4 ай бұрын

@ChrisRalph Our gold you can see. lol Other than the deep that wasn't mined. I now know which way it went. Also, I would have to check that one. We still have reverses not touched yet.

@waltertodd4479

4 ай бұрын

Also a greenstone belt (orogenic) deposit like you recently discussed in that video.

Here in elko county my self. Iv noticed way more free gold than the mines want you to believe.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Depending on which mine you are talking about, that can be true.

@GREATBASINADVENTURE

3 ай бұрын

@ChrisRalph absolutely. Like round mountain saying was if you can see it you can have it. Till they blasted the town of round mountain and found a huge free mill deposit

wow! mr ignoramus here!? i thankyou so much for this important insight into the 'skills' required b4 even going out to aimlessley poke around. i'll b gettin ur book as well. thx again.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Glad you are enjoying the videos - I think you will like the book too.

But you really need to see Southern CA. It's better yet but it's in granite type hard Rock deposits. Escondido Palomar going along twards Ramona to Pine Valley then Borego desert .then out twards the chocolate mtns.

@MichaelWiberg-nh5cd

3 ай бұрын

Just follow my lead I'll show you real

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Been all over southern California including the deserts.

im currently putting in a lot of job apps to work at some of these mines as a geologist/engineer. Hopefully i get one of them.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

If you have the right degrees and experience, there are often opportunities.

@alexdrockhound9497

4 ай бұрын

@@ChrisRalph just got my geological engineering degree, but i dont have hardly any experience. Not seeing many companies hiring fresh graduates right now.

Can you recommend a good assay company ? Ive looked in to it, and some companies are quite expensive because they offer very specific assays for many elements. I would like to find a smaller (shop family businesses if possible) operation that solely focuses on gold and silver without all of the operational overhead that drives the assay price up.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

I do all my assays with ALS in Reno. You can look them up on Google. Assays are not cheap, even a standard gold-silver fire assay is not cheap. I did do a video recently on how to do your own inexpensive free gold assays. You might want to look at that.

@John-ir2zf

4 ай бұрын

@ChrisRalph thank you very much. I will look in to ALS, and somehow I must have missed your video on assaying, but I will go find it now !

@johnramirez5032

4 ай бұрын

Limestone seems to be almost useless but some limestone can very usefull or contain valuable minerals. In California where i live there is the brown sedentary rock. Its appearance is like mud. I have heard its called mudstsone. It often falls down canyon walls . I've heard limestone is used to make concrete. To me everything has value but mabe im wrong.

@John-ir2zf

4 ай бұрын

@johnramirez5032 yes, limestone is sedimentary. Composed of carbonates (usually calcium) and is from deposits in the ocean, normally shallow ocean where organisms live that have carbonate shells, mainly diatomaceous organisms. Marble is a type of metamorphosed limestone. It has many uses, not just as marble. It is an important ore for lime, which is necessary in iron smelting.

@johnramirez5032

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your answer.! I find geology very intresting. The process that made this planet over billions of years . Gold fever made it even more so. Im 64 now and knowlege is my gold. Thanks again.

1 gram a ton? WOW! People give me a hard time when I get less then a gram out of a pound of materials..

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

But the guys working one gram a ton are processing 30,000 tons a day and doing it cheaply. You are likely a small timer processing a few pounds here and there.

Hmm I had a grand uncle that gave me a piece of Gold ore back in the late 90s. Googling this deposit type I wonder if this is the ore he gave me. I no longer have it but I recall it looked somewhat like the images I found.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Sounds interesting. Did he tell you where he got it?

@uwillnevahno6837

4 ай бұрын

Like the ore the story is lost to the sands of time. I am confident he wasn't a miner as no one asked at family gatherings some variation of "So how's the mine?"@@ChrisRalph

Calif. produces more gold then you think. Nevada is more like 75-80% Cheers JJ

@ChrisRalph

2 ай бұрын

Nevada produces 75 to 80 of all the gold in the US. All the other 49 states combined produce the 20 to 25 percent.

The checkerboard lands of the railroads are the most interesting but not correctly evaluated.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

The private property of the checkerboard lands are interesting. Some are leased for mining of this type of gold deposit.

Seems like these folks couldn't find what's obvious I know of so many places to be mined yet discovered they should seek my assistance I'd show them color and its gonna take awhile to get thru the deposits they're massive. But keep on looking jasper does interest me as in Humbolt Co. The Van Duzen river meets the Eel River that's a interesting place but nothing like the jade in Trinity upon the river going west

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Certainly someone with expertise as great as yours is always busy doing consulting work for others.

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@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Hello teacher, don't be tired, I am following your programs from Iran. I asked you if it is possible for you to teach me about extracting precious metals from rocks and soil through WhatsApp or Telegram. I will talk to you with Google Translate. Thank you. Your kindness and magnanimity, from the way of lithology, the characteristics of the stones you have are precious metals, until we can grind the stones and extract the base metal with borax and carbon (charcoal) and the combination with the primary stone that we powdered. and then perform the purification of precious metals, and why during the initial melting, two pieces of iron or steel are placed inside the plant, in general, what I am saying is that I want to extract metals from the heart of rocks and soil and find them from inside the houses. I want to learn the gold nugget from the soil of the house, is there a way for your programs to be subtitled in Farsi?

@ChrisRalph

2 ай бұрын

1. I do not speak Farsi, so I cannot help you. 2. I do not offer any services for personal training, consulting or advisement. I get many such requests and simply do not have time to help all who ask. I do wish you the best of luck, but I am sorry that I cannot offer any help on that level.

Red blood/Blue blood Giants.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

But what about the famous Mauve bloods?

Carboniforous deposits lol funny way to refer to crude oil lol

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Except it's solid, so more like coal than oil.

Roasting burning the sulphur basically speaking.

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Not really. There is chemical oxidation, but no burning.

I understand that the largest gold deposit is in the Grand Canyon that was closed to the public and atm under armed guard. Apparently that river gold deposit is so large that it was deliberately closed off at the time under a reason that had nothing to do with gold or minerals but a National Park instead. The President ordered it over a hundred yrs ago because there was such a large gold deposit there that it would disrupt the price of gold at that time. Have you ever heard of this?

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Just not true - a tall tale. There are some small deposits in the park but they are not large or significant.

No the biggest one was the one that the military stole from elephant Butte N.M in the 60' ,it was estimated to be 16 tons.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Friend - 16 tons of gold is a drop in the bucket. Nevada produces more than 150 tons of gold from these deposits each and every year - and has for decades.

@lanceluxton-jh9mh

3 ай бұрын

@@ChrisRalph never would have guessed that much coming out of Nevada ever

Alright I got a question for ya. What if some clever enterprising fellow staked a claim on what everyone else though was worthless. But a place that you know, it's geologically possible to find gold and stuff. So this guy figures, mining is mostly luck and too much hard work, he's got a better idea. The next best thing to a productive gold mine is making everyone else THINK you have a productive gold mine. You know, because that could be really worth something. So he has some gold saved up, he's not completely broke. He melts some down and casts them into plausible natural nugget shapes. Pours some over some quartz and stuff even. Then LO AND BEHOLD, he starts "finding" all these nuggets in his claim! And of course being diligent miner he wants everything to be above board he reports his finds to the records. Well it doesn't take long for others to learn about his finds. In short order he is swamped with unsolicited offers for his property. He takes the highest one, and makes a princely sum for his mining claim.

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

When the guy sells it to an unsuspecting buyer, it becomes fraud. Been done in the mining industry a thousand times and in a thousand different ways. But you have given me an idea for a video. The story of the biggest fraud ever. A few made millions and many lost their shirts. And no one went to jail. They even made a Hollywood movie about it. But I'll tell the real story, not the Hollywood version. Thanks!

@telesniper2

3 ай бұрын

@@ChrisRalph Hahah cool. I'm just joking around of course but it would be a hard fraud to prove

Couple of things that I ain't buying Chris. First, I think the old prospectors knew they were there, just too low grade to be of any interest for the mining they could do. They all carried a blow pipe kit and didn't just chase float by visual evidence alone. They chased float that they knew tested for good gold!!! Some were so good with a blowpipe they could estimate ounces or pennyweight per ton (they had no concept of grams)!!! A blowpipe was almost as good as an XRF!!!!! That is how they chased down all those mines!! They would have just walked past these low grade ores. Haven't you noticed that by the 30s they no longer taught blowpipe in the colleges and by WW2 when they shut mining down it was gone as a common knowledge??? A peasant shouldn't know these things you know LOL! Try to buy a blowpipe, much less a flux called microcosmic salt!!!

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Everyone is entitled to their opinion - and you have yours. I will say, that a blowpipe is great for determining elements in minerals. Its pretty much useless for determining small amounts of gold in rocks - like typical gold ores. Even a couple ounces per ton of gold cannot determined by blowpipe, but would be easy by fire assay or XRF.

@OlderThanDirt-ii3rp

3 ай бұрын

@@ChrisRalph Really. I guess my old textbook was a fallacy of the professors imagination. "The Blowpipe Assaying method, though less exact than the furnace methods, is of importance, because in prospecting expeditions it is possible by its means not only to detect the gold and silver in any ore, but also to determine its amount quantitatively with fair accuracy. On such expeditions it is impossible to carry the cumbrous apparatus required to make an ordinary assay. The amount of powdered ore taken is usually 100 milligrammes, and this is mixed with borax and about 1 gramme of granulated lead. The whole is wrapped in paper and heated on charcoal in the reducing flame of a blow¬pipe until the fusion is complete, and then for a short time with the oxidising flame. The lead is then separated from the slag and heated on a bone-ash cupel until it is all converted into litharge. The diameter of the button of silver and gold thus obtained is carefully measured on an ivory scale, which at once gives the percentage amount in the ore. The gold is usually separated from the silver by parting in nitric acid, but Richards states that the silver can be distilled off by the blowpipe, leaving a bead of pure gold, which can be measured." Some poor fool, who apparently didn't know you couldn't do a rough assay with a blowpipe even put it on the net: www.911metallurgist.com/blog/blowpipe-analysis-for-testing-minerals Get a grip Chris!!!!

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Pard, either you are too dense and simply don't understand or are just ignoring my comments to troll me. I am guessing its the former. Yes, the blowpipe is good for mineral analysis. I said that in my first comment. Please re-read carefully what I said next: "Its pretty much useless for determining small amounts of gold in rocks - like typical gold ores. Even a couple ounces per ton of gold cannot determined by blowpipe, but would be easy by fire assay or XRF." The blowpipe can work OK on super rich specimen ore - like 200 ounces per ton, especially with ores rich in silver. 100 milligrams of ore (as recommended in the webpage you referred to), done with rich gold ores of one ounce per ton would contain 3 one millionths of a gram of gold - an amount so small as to be invisible without a microscope. Therefore you cannot do a blowpipe assay unless you use a much larger amount of ore - or super rich specimen ore. The problem is that blowpipe test can only be done on tiny amount of mineral, like the 100 milligrams mentioned. Fire assays use about 300 times more ore in testing than your webpage recommended, so they get a small bead that can be seen and weighed. So friend, stop preaching about things you read about once but don't really understand.

By accident

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

with study, skills and intent plus a little good luck.

This is painful to listen to, so much of what being called nothing or wast is something and means something like the lines flowing through a rock, it and the colors of the different rocks itself is telling us a story they were all part of something long ago that’s falling apart/disintegrating just need to learn to read the pieces that are telling the entire story!

@ChrisRalph

3 ай бұрын

Sometimes when you are looking for one type of sign, the type you may not be looking for is right in front of you.

@smokenjoe4022

3 ай бұрын

Last clue (Earth is a Graveyard)

I m am absolutely not a Pakistani

@ChrisRalph

Ай бұрын

If you say so...

Your right & wrong James, the US Constitution is supreme law, federal laws stand under it. But if you read the Ark constitution you will see that we do have laws in Ark that refute federal law… and constitutionally the states do stand above the federal government, if I remember my high school civics class correctly, because we the people make up the states whom formed the federal government, that’s why a convention of states can actually make Constitutional amendments and the shit stains in DC can’t do a damn thing about it…. As for the sheriff I have to take his side on State vs. Federal laws as you both said federal laws which means It’s a matter of vernacular and being in the south we like to speak with clarity, because here the constitution is once again, in the south Especially Arkansas at least in the Ozarks it’s referred to as “supreme law” never federal law… IMO it’s a bureaucratic ploy to try to elevate their shit federal laws above the rights of the states to self regulate , and place them just under the supreme law and their constant attempts to override the Constitution, like the myriad of anti gun laws & the hate speech laws, not to forget the ever famous patriot act that needs repealed… As soon as we have control of our boarders again.

@ChrisRalph

2 ай бұрын

I think you may be responding to some other video - Whoever James is - its not me.

I always wonder rock hounding around the painted desert here in eastern az if there isnt some of these deposits on the fringes. There is some interesting geology around here if nothing else. Ive heard of micron gold in the area, not easy to recover apparently and also most of the area is reservation or national parks

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Hard to say but there is known gold in the clays of the Chinile formation ( I probably miss-spelled that).

@russtgrower750

4 ай бұрын

@ChrisRalph yes exactly. I live right at the contact of the navajo & chinle formations. Ive read old reports of fine gold being panned in some washes near. Myself ive not spent to much time there since its mostly private or protected land I like detecting the dumps elsewhere in known gold districts. But im always thinking what if theres a billion dollars sitting there and no one can get it LOL