Not a lot of people know this History of this place and why there was so much Gold that was pulled out of the ground here. We thought you guys should know more abut it and understanding why this place is here will help you discover your own Gold mine and with so much Gold still in the ground just waiting to be found, you have a great chance to find it. For more vids on using Geological maps to find Gold just watch this video kzread.info/dash/bejne/aXerk7GGhZrAqaQ.html and smash that like button ....smash it HARD

@montanaior7714

4 ай бұрын

Next Time your in Bullhead stop by Bullhead Hobbies in The Walmart Supercenter aera I'm starting to stock gold prospecting stuff its a small amount but would like to get back in to it for next winter. I enjoy your work thanks, Brian

@jasoncampbell4723

4 ай бұрын

@@montanaior7714I’ll definitely keep you in mind the next time I’m in Bullhead.😁

@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756

4 ай бұрын

You can always count on the gubment to make life "easy" on miners. Just imagine the total tonnage that's in flooded and blocked mines. We could give Africa a run for their AU.

@mountaetnablacksmithing1693

4 ай бұрын

​@@montanaior7714 you wouldn't happen to carry crucibles would you?

@hashemameli3666

4 ай бұрын

Jeff, this mine seems to be very rich. In some parts, I saw alunite mineral, which is probably secondary. And you should see weak sulphide silicas that are more inclined to oxide in the form of holes. In my mine, we also have 2,000 ppm of sulfur mixed with gold, with the method of sulfur sterilization before the eutectic formation of sulfur with gold metal in heat. I was able to prevent the gold from being accompanied by gas by roasting the sulfur soil three times and extracting all the gold. Dear Jeff

I watched twenty videos of Jeff Williams gold hunting, this is the best. He made one mistake when he said you can spend winters exploring Google Earth on a computer. The area he explores average 70 degrees F in the winter and +100 F in the summer. Come to Nevada deserts in the winter and see hundreds of miles of accesible roads in the desert in perfect weather. Visit in the summer and feel a few dregrees away from world record heat.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

exactly

@aebemacgill

4 ай бұрын

Spent some summers in Needles when I was a kid...Had a great time.

@jimrobcoyle

3 ай бұрын

​@@aebemacgillat the riverside.

This is neat! I’m 64 when I was 20 I worked as an assay and production chemist in a gold refinery. We used the Crow Cyanation process. We used a cement mixer truck as our reaction vessel. We would load it up with electronic scrape with gold on it plus some hot water and a few cups of potassium cyanide. Then very very carefully we would add a tiny amount of concentrated hydrogen peroxide. Then we would filter the fluid out and salt the fluid with powdered zinc dust. This would remove the gold from the cyanide and form a precipitate of gold, copper, silver, nickel and lead. We would then in a fume hood and wearing gas masks dissolve the precipitate into aquaregia then add sodium sulphite to burn off the nitric oxide and a substantially more pure gold would precipitate out. The AR step was repeated twice more to get to five 9’s fine gold to pour into bars. Very exciting job. Very VERY dangerous. I’m retired now and work as a quant on wall street. Much safer but I get out gold pan or snipe when I can.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

thats pretty cool..... thanks for sharing that

@randydiver3076

4 ай бұрын

@@Askjeffwilliams Thank you, and you are most welcome!

@randydiver3076

4 ай бұрын

@@terra_world Thankyou Terra. Ya being a quant is part luck, part gut instinct, part psychologist, part math and statistics but mostly it is having faith in the Lord that he will guide me. But it is safe work and it makes me use my brain a great deal. Good luck and heavy pans, God be with you in all you do.

@dirkfrazier9779

4 ай бұрын

The Good old days, when on the job training was on the job training!

@chadrowe8452

3 ай бұрын

The process he described is how lead and mercury got in the water

Metal spheres…sounds like they had a Ball Mill there

@mattkissmyasstyrants8676

4 ай бұрын

Ancient astronaut theorist say Yes.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

I am not saying its Aliens ......but its Aliens . Lol

@mattkissmyasstyrants8676

4 ай бұрын

​@@AskjeffwilliamsLmao!

@scrappydoo7887

4 ай бұрын

Pmfsl 😂​@@Askjeffwilliams

@scrappydoo7887

4 ай бұрын

I was thinking they could be from mercury processing of gold

I grew up around there and would find those steel balls everywhere! It's cool to see this. Thanks again Jeff!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

you betcha ....did you ever get a chance to get inside the mine .....

@2005PRR

4 ай бұрын

Not the one you're at. I have found some others that were pretty interesting.

Jeff, please do a long detailed video on timbering a mine. Show us the different techniques and how the old timers have done it. In particular, how do you know when you need to timber a mine? How do you install stalls? What size timbers? Thanks, Jeff! I never miss a video!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

great idea

Trap Rock, blue basalt bedrock found here in Dresser Wisconsin, is used to make rebar. It's great. Rebar made from trap rock doesn't rust. Doesn't expand. You can coat electronics with trap rock and make them water proof. Almost all asphalt shingles are made with trap rock. The shingle rock, dust. We have pot holes along the St Croix River in the Trap Rock. It's a nice area, St Croix Falls. You'd like it Jeff. Lots of Geological History. Especially the ice age trail, we have 1600ft tall sand dunes full of sea shells and fossils along the St Croix River that sits on top of the trap rock. Every cubic ft of sand probably has 20 sea shells in it. There's that many. You can see what was dug out from the glacier melt off.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

sounds great

@dolphincliffs8864

4 ай бұрын

At the top of the basalt you can see frozen fizzy looking bubbles where gas came out of the rock. I wonder if there is any gold trapped in those potholes. Probably stays frozen year round in some of them. Climbed on both sides a lot 18 years ago.

@dirkfrazier9779

4 ай бұрын

Where's Dressor, I was born in Kenosha, really only lived there for college and worked a few years. I didn't even hear about gold until I moved back West, but never made my way home, Juneau, Alaska. I would have stayed longer had I known there was even glaciated gold, but not even a peep. Makes me want to go back, knowing what I know now! Wisconsin has some pretty defined geological areas, but I never thought, or heard about the things that most interest me. That was 40 some years ago!

@dolphincliffs8864

4 ай бұрын

@@dirkfrazier9779 Western Wisconsin by Osceola

When i was a younger man in the 80's i worked at a foundry in te.pe arizona called Capital Castings and we would manufacture wave castings ti line the ball mills , we made different size ball , impellers and housings . Very cool to see some balls still around. Of course the stuff we made was for the massive copper mines of our era. Very cool to see a warn ball that escaped the ball mill

Before they were metal balls for ball mills, they used to use the ballast from ships. That’s why you can find river rocks from Norway in Goldfield, Nevada. They have a special name that I forgot

@ryangoff4813

12 күн бұрын

They also used to use portland cement as ballast in ships. Fun fact.

I love this channel. So so few channels help people find sites with open source information of genuine value. Jeff does it while being knowledgeable and entertaining! Thank you Jeff 🙂

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

always our pleasure

@scrappydoo7887

4 ай бұрын

@@Askjeffwilliams my apologies, I forgot to mention your better half 🙂 You are a great team

@maryglo1

Ай бұрын

Yeah Lila! Videos are expert quality. Jeff, I miss Slim! Glad to know you have Lila. I love her channel too!😊

I have a 3 1/2” ball from the ball milling they did in my area. Was metal detecting one day and hit a large target. 😅 Did some research and found that they commonly used these as a cheap substitute because they were left over stick cannon balls from the civil war era.. The miners could buy a box of them cheap and used them often apparently.

Jeff, i've been following you for many years now "as you know" and your videos still hit that spot in my brain that wants more input, mining and geology grab my attention like no other and your videos are the best, keep em comin brotha.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

That is awesome my brother and so happy you are still watching our channel

Great videos! I worked years in the exploration business. One company I worked for would by up a bunch of claims and I would do a lot of surface and underground sampling and mapping. The Mojave was one of my favorite places because you just never really knew what may be around the corner. Fun times.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

I've been watching Jeff's videos for years and they're all awesome. He's a fantastic(and passionate) educator and a natural lecturer. If he teaches classes, I'm sure they're great. Thanks for another great video. One of these days we'll cross paths in the field and I look forward to it.

@chrisbusenkell

3 ай бұрын

By the way, some experts are saying there might be a renewed rush on the old uranium deposits that we abandoned for higher quality ore in Austrailia. Got any videos on Uranium?

@Askjeffwilliams

3 ай бұрын

Very cool my brother and yes I use to teach classes and seminars out at Las Vegas

@rob8823

3 ай бұрын

How about geology 101?

I'm still amazed how the old timers got this done by hand. Thank you Jeff for sharing. Please leave the old mines alone so other people can see the history as well. Be safe my friend 🙏

@axminsterz4151

4 ай бұрын

Let someone toil away for decades in those old mines, it’s gotta be just a few more feet deeper, it has to be! Can’t give up now, spent too much fortune , blood, sweat , tears and years. Those old timers couldn’t have found it all, they gave up too easy!

I was living in Searchlight and an older couple came to me looking for the Homestead (?) Mine sight in NV. We looked on a map and just above Davis dam on the Nevada side was the old mine sight. Incredible area out there. Also I've heard that there's a big mining company mining for gold at or around the Katherine. So definitely check land status out there.

@aebemacgill

4 ай бұрын

My uncle had claims for float gold not far west of lake Mojave, AND DON'T YOU TELL ANYONE! That was in 1960 or so, so no longer a problem.

7:18 That was my first thought. Why are all the piles not run through a biosolution. There must be tons of gold, just laying around, wating to be picked up by a skid loader. And to add a bonus, after the stuff is leached out, it can be mixed with bentonite, pump it down and refill the mine.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

exactly ....maybe one of the reasons there is a big fence around it

I love your videos, Jeff. I only wish geology was this interesting to me when I was younger.

This is the first time I've watched one of your videos in a couple a years. I always knew that you gave good knowledge, but I couldn't stand hearing it at the top of your voice. This was a great video with lots of important information and you're trying to teach. I understand being excited about this hobby/business, but there's a difference between excited and obnoxious. I'm glad you just gettin excited, because you're a pretty good teacher.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

Welcome back!

@maryglo1

Ай бұрын

Excellent teacher. Great history, nice views, running around in the desert is the icing on the prospectors cake. Yes, have your cake and eat it too!

As someone living in urban europe, this video ticks all the adventure boxes for me, history, deserts, geology, urbex, drones, gold, ... .. . hats

@Askjeffwilliams

2 ай бұрын

thanks

Jeff... you didn't tell us why they shut the mine down!!!! At least I didn't catch it??

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

L208 , extraction cost and now water in the mine

I really hate the dollars per ton estimate... Although he does cover what gold was selling for per ounce back then.

@oahuhawaii2141

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I prefer troy ounces per ton or tonne of ore processed. That makes the yield independent of varying gold prices.

@maryglo1

Ай бұрын

He does both.

@xephael3485

Ай бұрын

@@maryglo1gold prices from the video are also different than they are today so it's better just to have troykilo ounce measurements

If this had been in my history class in school, I would have paid attention.

Gawd you make Geology fun. I really love the energy you deliver. You open the doors I didn't know I had. Keep up the good work.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

really appreciate that

The metal balls reminds my at the end of each weekend 😂

Good morning Jeff, thanks for the awesome tour. Yesterday I went and explored an old mine accessible only by boat, I was like a kid in a candy shop.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

you gotta love them huh

I love the enthusiasm and energy of this guy.

@zombywoof1072

3 ай бұрын

I find it fatuous and annoying. Just talk like an adult talking to adults. I promise that your viewership numbers will go up, not down.

@maryglo1

Ай бұрын

Jeff is an artist. The enthusiasm seems real to me! Keeps my attention. He is fun, zany and very informative. I find myself overjoyed when I find minerals and remember what Jeff said in a video. He's not deceiving us! Maybe more miners would be good for US!

Man, every time there's some kind of new info, appreciate you , thanks!

Anybody else immediately think about how awesome it would be to metal detect that area?? 😅👍😉

I love this guys enthusiasm

Still larnin’ from ya, Jeff. Couldn’t be better!! Thanx a heap!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

thanks and you betcha

This is very informative as those oldtime prospectors were really cool dudes wandering freely over the wilderness in the Good Old Days seen in all the westerns WE loved to watch growing up in the 50's & 60's

All stuff came from the west are soo interesting, I have never see the desert, but those landscapes, history turning around mine and mining town are crazy, and all those dry mine too, you gotta get wet next to the panning station only 😁

@maryglo1

Ай бұрын

I started saying it at random times - going into the shower, washing hands, getting water from the spring... YEAH, You're GONNA GET WET! SO COME ON, LETS GO!

If you find a couple of rusty iron balls, you can wrap one of them with aluminum foil and bang them together. The rust and aluminum will react from the heat of the impact and make a miniature thermite reaction. The sparks can be used with a bit of tinder to make a fire.

Thanks Jeff! I grew up here and worked for the NPS at Katherines Landing. This place is my home that I moved away from. Wandering these exact ranges is what gave me the gold bug many years ago and I want to thank you for bringing me back in time. They've done an amazing job at preserving the area as I hardly remember a difference at all. Just over the mountain range toward Kingman is Golden Valley. Makes you wonder what's in them thar hills ;) Thank you again Jeff you're a LEGEND!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

always our pleasure my brother ....thanks

@maryfreitas6484

4 ай бұрын

We live next to the black mountains, in Golden Valley. We go out on the Rzr and have found many mines along with an arastra. We love metal detecting the area.

That 'GENERATOR' edit was hilarious 🤣 10:07

Jeff you're still the most knowledgeable miner i know of. I appreciate anything you share. Thanks man . Bri

@Askjeffwilliams

3 ай бұрын

always our pleasure Bri

Your videos are sooo informative Jeff! ❤ All the time and work you put into these is absolutely amazing ❤

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

thanks , really appreciate that

This is great content for the serious amateur, but the main thread of wonder is how close are you the the Reef? Let's get back into Wormtown and find that connection to the caverns of wonder and awe!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

exactly

@aebemacgill

4 ай бұрын

Near Baker?

I've been there 3 times. I have a vacation home in bullhead city. I go to all the mines I can find. Oatman has one just like this one. Lots of silver and gold . But copper is the main finding.

I use to go Wakeboarding in Lake Mohave for 12-15 yrs. every week Peak Season and REMEMBER always seeing a sign saying Katherine's Mine as I was heading down to the launch ramps! So cool to see this Jeff. Thx for making this Video for us. George

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

you betcha George

Interesting topic. Bet experience comes in at some point to help find the best most promising locations. Fun to learn about.

Hey Jeff! I and a few friends are big fans of yours! I met a guy in Parker and his name is Buck. He does a bunch of mining with some guys up in the kingman area. They have a KZread channel also. I told him how much I enjoy your videos and he said he knew you and talked very highly of you. Its such a small world! We all love your videos and that you share your extensive knowledge of the subject..Thank you!!

@Askjeffwilliams

Ай бұрын

thanks for letting us know and tell them we said Hi and thanks

I appreciate you so much Jeff. You're such a great teacher. And the adventures you take us on are so cool. I haven't seen any videos of the drift mine in a long time. GOD bless you and keep you safe brother!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

You rock! thanks

Jeff I woke up t9 coffee and this video at 6 am. I love how it’s like the unraveling of a mystery everytime! Great job and good morning

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Cool how everything they needed, other than wood, was around and under. I'm in north Georgia just south of Dahlonega. Do you ever prospect or show how to read the land in wooded terrain?

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

yes we do

When I listen to you, Jeff - I regret that I didn't do as I planned, to study to be a geologist. It is so exciting to listen to you tell about the gelogy in the areas you visit. Maybe in my next life...😅. Take care, and keep this interresting videos coming. Greetings from Norway.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

thanks

Always appreciate the education! Ths one video off handed answered my lingering question of "What if I can't or don't want to mine my claim?" Thank you!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

Right on!

GREAT ENERGY FROM THIS CHANNNEL 🌞

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

I appreciate that

I’ve always wished I studied geology instead of graphic design and computer graphics. My dad and I did a lot of dredging, placer mining, and panning. I worked my tail off just because the excitement of finding a nugget or pocket of gold, I was young and had gold fever. Did it for years. Now I am to old and broken, I still dream about it and for a moment it makes me happy.

Man, I just can't stop watching your amount of crazy. Love it. Patreon takes the fun out, but the videos will do just fine. I never have luck in give aways anyway.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

Jeff that was Slim s lost shoe. 😂😂 Thank u and Lila for another massive find o the history that the miners worked so hard to support and protect their families from hardship.😊

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

you betcha Tina

Never heard of this mine until I saw this video. It's about 45 minutes from where I'm building a house. Thanks Jeff, I'll have to go check it out someday soon.

@thomasdaum1927

11 күн бұрын

Are you any where near the Fish and Game office in Kingman ?

When I was a kid I remember visiting my father's industrial mining operation, the noise of the ball mills, the vibration of the water tables.

Love your enthusiasm! Taking a walk out in those areas must be so much fun for you.

Jeff, you are the best mining geologist on the tube. AND you make it so interesting! SO C'MON....LET'S GO.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

thanks , really appreciate that

Sweet Video Jeff! I want to know more about the rhyolite because I mine Geodes out of the Dugway Geode beds and there is a lot of Iron oxides near and in the geodes and the white clay on the outside of the geodes has little gold flakes stuck in them. I know there's gold somewhere there but would love to know more about the rhyolitic domes and stuff. The clay looks just like in your drift mine...wouldn't doubt if it's the same layer on a big scale.

You did it again. You lured me in with something and ended up teaching me about rock nerd stuff. :( I always fall for it! And I low key love it, thanks Jeff!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

Rock on my brother ...love hearing that

Great job on this informative video, Jeff. You're the best!That sure is a massive tailings field. Kudos to your editor, as well. ⛏️💰

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

thanks you two .... really appreciate that and my wife Lila is the master editor. Be safe out there and keep them vids a coming

My dad bought into an old mine.they were just processing the old tailings… they weren’t making any great money but it was usually break even…he used to go down a couple of weeks a year playing on the equipment

Been a sub for years. Jeff, your channel is so brilliant now. Love every minute

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

thanks

I don't think I'll ever prospect but this is highly entertaining! Keep the instruction comping! Thank you!

Yes. I worked in a SAG mill where they used those metal balls for grinding ore. They start out about 6" and wear down and get washed out of the mill when they get around 2" - 3" in diameter. They get hauled away for recycling after a while, but as you could imagine, there will be some that don't make it there.

I have seen hundreds of thousands of mill balls working at Homestake. They even have one on display in Hill City at the Dinosaur place calling it a meteor, it was stuck in the ball mill and was pounded into a weird shape. I have seen them before when replacing the plates in the ball mills.

This is really interesting. I grew up down the ravine from the Shaw Mine and Mill. The mill was a cyanide process mill, and all the buildings and facilities were still in place. I used to have a couple of discarded iron balls that had been worn into regular tetrahedra with rounded sides. I always wondered about how that could happen. I still have one of the unused balls and a crucible. Tailings from the mill ran down the ravine and into a large(ish) settling pond. Water from that pond provided water for a swampy area below the reservoir. Interestingly, nothing, not even algae would grow in the water running in the actual stream, or in the tailings. It had to filter out through the soil along the sides of the stream.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

thanks for sharing that ...

@theeddorian

4 ай бұрын

@@AskjeffwilliamsYou explained more about the cyanide process than I had ever heard before. Thanks.

I love it when Jeff uses his real voice to narrate the beginning of the video!!!

@freedomtowander

4 ай бұрын

😂amen

Best videos on KZread. Keep them coming buddy you’re the best.🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👌🏻

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

thanks and you betcha

You're right Jeff, you are my favorite gold prospector.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

hahhahaa thanks Wheelie man

9:00 I was on a crew that built a big paper mill back in the 90's ... and we fastened down dozens of components just as you describe here :)

Hey Jeff! Have you heard of any stories of prospectors/regular people finding gold near or at a tectonic fault? Like the famous San Andreas fault in CA? Thank you for your videos, buddy! And let's gold!!!!!!!!😂

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

yes we have

@ryshellso526

4 ай бұрын

I know a stream where gold is at... pretty sure the owner built a basement in his house just for digging into the hillside. ;)

@maryglo1

Ай бұрын

Porphyry deposits

@maryglo1

Ай бұрын

Fine epithermal gold

Incredible

Jeff's energy is irresistibly contagious and it's awesome.

Subscribed! I heard how you patched the word "generator" to cover something, and yet I still love your style so much. You worked hard to edit this!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you and welcome aboard

Hi you too! Nice to see you living and loving the dream! To find a vien with 1oz per ton seems feasable but not from my couch in California the Katherine mine seems like a dream. Once the production halted everyone moved away..its intresting to note that that also happens in towns across the world. It doesnt gave to be a gold mine but just a way to make a living.

Spent a couple of summers in Needles and my uncle would take me all over that part of the Mojave, sometimes when he was on duty, he was a deputy. Had to ride in the back of the car those times. 1961&2. Standard Mine and Mill at Bodie used granite imported from Italy for their ball mills, the granite was denser and stronger than that from the Sierras. At the top of the Lent Shaft, there is a piece of the same granite sticking out over the shaft, if you want to look down...

@Askjeffwilliams

3 ай бұрын

wow ....thanks for sharing that

Fabulous production Sir..............I need to see this joint in person. Live in So. Calif.

As much as I love hearing your voice, that was surprising and equally educational to hear the narrator describing the site. Well done, great video as always my good sir!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I absolutely loved that little story about the old mine.

Exceptionally informative. Nice episode!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

Thank ye thank ye Jeff, I like your videos on the Mining history. Great job, thanks mate. Oh and the steel ball mill bollocks, great find.👍👍 Cheers Kev

AWESOME VIDEO!!!!! Learned a ton !!!!

Another great video...well informative

wow thank you so much for the video. Edcuational as heck.

I found a softball sized chunk of lapis lazuli that must have washed out of some hills near there. Hiked that aria all winter and never found even a fleck the size of a penny. My guess is the outcrop the lapis broke off of eroded away completely maybe thousands of years ago. Any lapis now must be under the surface somewhere but who knows where.

learned alot from these videos thanks Jeff

They are cannon balls. I found two sizes a few years ago in a dry lake where a former Army dumped its castoffs. One size was exactly 3 inches and some, which I gave to a friend, were abou1.5 inches. All solid metal.

Not a lot of gold to mine around my house. I'm here for the geology and history lessons. and the good cheer. Cheers!

This video was a really big show good information very educational I think one of your best thanks Jeff

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

thanks

Happy St, Patrick's day Brother! Thank you for making this video! Its perfect with my morning coffee!!🏆🏆🏆 I use that same zinc process to recover gold from Computers! It works great but there is a learning curve to get it perfect. Also, I found a spot that looks very similar to that area.. I didn't get any samples because I didn't think it had anything in it. I'm going to go back and get some samples to see how it pans out. 1 Mile from this spot a man in 1852 found a 9 oz,8 gram Nugget. Im wondering if it came from that spot!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

Happy St Patrick's my brother ...... you know its always our pleasure to do that for you guys ....yes ...time to go sample ...it definitely has gold in ther area

Jeff Williams is my best friend. We've been hanging out since the summer of 96. I've learned so much from this man, that I too became a geologist. Jeffs favorite beer is Corona. So if you ever see him? Now you know.😊

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

Lol😂

@alexsawa2956

4 ай бұрын

Be careful... You say you're 🤠 Jeff's best friend, but once long ago...Skeleton Guy 💀 was his best friend and was in every episode ⛏️🪣🪙and on every adventure🦂🏚️... On day, for no apparent reason, Jeff did not say "Com' on, let's go!" to the Skeleton... He left him behind...⚰️😥 It's not like he died or something... Skeleton was already dead! Nope... just abandoned for no reason. 😢 Just brace yourself for that possibility 💔 (It's been so long ago, I forgot what Skeleton Guy's name was!)

@maryglo1

Ай бұрын

With lemon?

@maryglo1

Ай бұрын

Skeleton was Slim. Was that Jeff's dad? Rest in peace Dad. You raised him well!

@mr.iforgot3062

Ай бұрын

@@maryglo1 Lime preferably, but lemon will work. No salt. Not at our age.

JW: Interesting place! Reminds me of very "odd" ground work remnants from pre-history in South Africa, Channel I've seen them on thought they were cattle fences/barns etc but SA is full of gold and prehistoric peoples chasing gold would need similar but more primitive systems. Look them up sometime and you may identify a lot more detail than archeologists have with your specialized background.

Outstanding narratives! Thank you!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I've always wanted to prospect but never had the opportunity. I enjoyed the video and learned a little. Appreciate you taking is along on your adventure. Thankyou.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

you betcha

What caught my eye was the deposits in the arroyo that have the color of concrete leading away from the mill site. Is that caliche dust, Jeff? Pretty cool

Thank you, Jeff. I like the historical information with your geologic expertise.

@Askjeffwilliams

2 ай бұрын

you betcha

thank you for sharing the adventure and information.

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

Awesome video just moved back to Sullivan County miss you bro

A super awesome video I love the rustic voice info before your excitement

The electrical conduct is so big because they probaly used a d.c. generator wich would require thick wires

Hey @Askjeffwilliams, do you have a link to that assay lab that you use? We’re looking for one. Thanks!

@Askjeffwilliams

4 ай бұрын

you betcha www.reedlab.altervista.org/