The Art of Finding GOLD! Highbanker - Gold Prospecting Tips and Tricks!

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This episode is loaded with gold prospecting tips and tricks that I have learned over the years! Finding gold ain't easy but with the right tools and skills you will be armed to get out there and SLAY that GOLD!
We get the highbanker dialed in. Setup the secondary sluice box with Dream Mat and finish off gold panning some highgrade Colorado Gold!
If you have any tips of your own, please share with us! Cheers!
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  • @grahamdryden3665
    @grahamdryden36655 ай бұрын

    Your approach is so intelligent and well thought out. Kudos!

  • @jimfausset8122
    @jimfausset81229 ай бұрын

    Enjoy your show I was wondering where you have been. Glad to see you on the channel again

  • @markpascoe7845
    @markpascoe78454 жыл бұрын

    Important info in the first minute. Well done

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dig smarter, not harder and increase your gold take! Yes!

  • @bfed2831
    @bfed2831 Жыл бұрын

    Good content and thanks for you sharing the information!

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    Жыл бұрын

    My pleasure BF, heavy pans🙌

  • @justinblake3883
    @justinblake38834 жыл бұрын

    You guys are awsome love your videos and paydirt. Thanks for everything.

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    We do what we can Justin, thank You so much for your support! :)

  • @andyamysarizonaadventures5450
    @andyamysarizonaadventures54504 жыл бұрын

    I enjoyed this,the way you constantly discuss what and how your doing things keeps you drawn in .That's how I do my videos for the most part and you showed gold at the end awsome! Alot of your tips will help us drywasher poeple as well 🙂👍 liked and subbed

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Good deal. You are right Andy n Amy! Much of this info does directly correlate to dry washing. Heavy pans you guys!

  • @mininhawaiian2911
    @mininhawaiian29114 жыл бұрын

    Your my type of miner ... The smart kind !! Efficiency means more gold in less time ..✨ Where you put your tailings and the direction you work your grounds are all common sense but many miners overlook these things in there haste for color.... I enjoy your channel brother Keep up the great informative content 🤙 ⚒⛏✨

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes exactly Minin, you are absolutely right! It is the worst when I come upon good ground that someone has hastily covered in their tailings for no apparent reason. Thank You, I really appreciate the support!

  • @ojosaguila89

    @ojosaguila89

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ColoradoGoldCamp hi Colorado Gold Camp if you want cach more easy gold you need a UNDER FLOW SLUICE SYSTEM with this sluice you dont need mat, you dont need pangreen to wash the black sand, the only thing you need with this UNDER FLOW SLUICE is a bottle snuffer check in youtube how work !!! If you will do please help animals street in Colorado, one hand wash another brother !!! God bless you 😎🥰❤😍😷🐴🦝🐈🐗🐕

  • @wass4406
    @wass44067 ай бұрын

    No idea how I came across this channel, I was watching South Park actually the cash for gold episode actually. Anyway nice channel, man. Interesting stuff. Colorado looks like a really nice place.

  • @inquisitivealbertan1712
    @inquisitivealbertan17124 жыл бұрын

    Very informative video. Thank you both for sharing. Subbed!!!

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    My pleasure Albertan. I enjoy sharing the little bit that I have learned over the years :)

  • @diggin3097
    @diggin30974 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff D, I never thought of that footvalve trick thanks!

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yea, it's a good one and sure does come in handy!!

  • @jasonclark8458
    @jasonclark84582 жыл бұрын

    You're absolutely right sir. I was just out a day ago for two days straight and digging in a wash. I made sure and tossed all of my large rocks and my overburden (2 ft!) Well clear of my dig site. It helps to keep more dirt with no gold in it from filling up the hole you are digging.

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like you moved a good amount of dirt Jason! It's amazing how small changes around the dig site can have such a big impact. Best of luck out there🙌

  • @goldiswhereyoufindit
    @goldiswhereyoufindit2 жыл бұрын

    Best high banking video ever.

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    2 жыл бұрын

    I can dig it🙌

  • @goldiswhereyoufindit

    @goldiswhereyoufindit

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ColoradoGoldCamp lol did it pun out?

  • @508miningcompany
    @508miningcompany4 жыл бұрын

    Awsome vid! Need to get out and high bank soon!

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Dude! Sharpen up your shovel n slang some dirt!

  • @jackandrews1514
    @jackandrews15143 жыл бұрын

    Great techniques! Nice to have a shovel that likes to prospect, but it will sure work you.

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes it will Jack! Passion driven exercise is the best! Thanks!

  • @OldCowboy450
    @OldCowboy45010 ай бұрын

    Great tips!

  • @dodgygoose3054
    @dodgygoose30543 жыл бұрын

    That was great, cheers

  • @centeroftheearthmining4095
    @centeroftheearthmining40954 жыл бұрын

    Totally agree. I hate moving tailings twice!

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    No kidding! Even when dredging tailings management is super imports. Heavy Pans!

  • @buffalokrisgoldprospecting
    @buffalokrisgoldprospecting Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video brother

  • @NUGGETSHOOTER
    @NUGGETSHOOTER4 жыл бұрын

    Great video, thanks

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    My pleasure Nugget! Hope you hit a new patch soon!

  • @richardrobertson1331
    @richardrobertson13313 жыл бұрын

    The gravel and rock look pretty free of fine dirt/mud filling the gaps which usually indicates it has been worked and re-worked by previous miners, and not too long ago. Finding only fine gold is another indication of working old diggings. Did your initial panning indicate this area was better than it turned out? Seems like a lot of work to set everything up and work hard all day for pennies. If you did this for educational purposes, well . . . that's another story. I loved the way you explain things as you go along. Great video.

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Richard. Your assumptions/evaluations are mostly correct. Parts of this area have been worked in the past but we seek out the virgin ground among-st the tailings. Colorado in general is known as a fine gold state. A vast majority of the gold here is extremely fine in character.

  • @reidogarimpo1691
    @reidogarimpo16913 жыл бұрын

    Great video, wonderful place, dream mat wonderful!!! João prospector from Brazil

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ejo Joao! Absolutely, good luck down there in Brazil!!

  • @reidogarimpo1691

    @reidogarimpo1691

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ColoradoGoldCamp THANK YOU BROTHER

  • @11jdjdjd
    @11jdjdjd4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome Video!

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Doc! Hope you have a great weekend!

  • @jaygresham7633

    @jaygresham7633

    4 жыл бұрын

    Really good video. Haven't done much Highbanking. We spend the winter's in AZ. the desert mining requires a Drywash. 😎

  • @MikeDrop972
    @MikeDrop9722 жыл бұрын

    Do you need a permit for that pump or due to it being 4" or less you're fine to use it? Colorado has a lot of funky rules and laws and I'm gearing up to take equipment to a spot I prospected via pan and shovel last summer. Just don't want to get in trouble. Also planning on staying a claim on the area I'm in as well if you wouldn't mind directing me to some good reference.. Love the vids and keep a sluicing fren!

  • @kevinmellady4246
    @kevinmellady42463 жыл бұрын

    Appreciate the info. Of oil in pine needles.

  • @patrickjobling8676
    @patrickjobling86762 жыл бұрын

    ..oh ..awasome vid .😁

  • @justinbrown8759
    @justinbrown87593 жыл бұрын

    1 min in and it makes good sense

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Did smarter not harder! 🙌

  • @garyanddoris6022
    @garyanddoris60223 жыл бұрын

    Thats a good looking pile of cobble stone ......

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Heck yea, we've got acres n acres of cobble!

  • @RTLichable
    @RTLichable3 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos. I could be wrong but that doesn't look like "virgin" bank material. If that's by the Arkansas river, north or south of Buena Vista, which I suspect many of these placer videos are, that ground was likely already worked long ago. I prospected much of that area years ago. Most of the Arkansas river gold is extremely fine and requires a LOT of work for little return.

  • @john65645
    @john656454 жыл бұрын

    Very nice video! I'm new to Colorado and just getting into prospecting. I find it interesting the amount of knowledge that you and others have regarding the geology of the areas you prospect in and when I'm looking at the rocks around where I live I wish I knew more about them. Do you have a degree in geology or did you gain your knowledge without taking classes?

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hello John. The best way to learn is to have an interest and delve right in! In college I studied Natural Resource Management Land and Water and did some Fisheries Biology. A majority of what I have learned regarding rocks and minerals came after I got bit by the gold bug post college. It's an interesting wild world out there!

  • @markpascoe7845
    @markpascoe78454 жыл бұрын

    Gotta like sittin in the shade watchin a Cheesehead shovel😆👍🇺🇸

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    ahhahahaaaa! Yes! it's pure gold! This made me actually LoL! Aw, so good! If only he had brought some cheese curds for me to snack on ;)

  • @USAF33

    @USAF33

    4 жыл бұрын

    Next month I’ll bring you cheese curds!

  • @garyanddoris6022
    @garyanddoris60223 жыл бұрын

    Makes me wanna get my shovel and pan out and start digging....

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    OMG, I just saw your (wife's cold feet prank). "Get those cold a** things off of me". Cracking up

  • @garyanddoris6022

    @garyanddoris6022

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ColoradoGoldCamp i owe her big lol

  • @SanyiPreku
    @SanyiPreku4 жыл бұрын

    Nice video thx!

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Glad you liked it!

  • @foreverevolving5759
    @foreverevolving57593 жыл бұрын

    Got a free week and of course it's snowing. Can't wait to get back up there.

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ahh, bummer. It looks like we have at least 1 more week of good weather. Maybe you can still get out!?

  • @foreverevolving5759

    @foreverevolving5759

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ColoradoGoldCamp heading up tomorrow til Friday. Thanks 😁

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@foreverevolving5759 Awesome! Way to take advantage of the good weather window! Good luck out there!!!

  • @MrCobill
    @MrCobill4 жыл бұрын

    Dainis, great video and good tips. Did you guys find any gold in the dream mat sluicebox?

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks William! I sent the cons home with my digging partner. Hopefully I will find out soon!

  • @abrahamdelatorre3028
    @abrahamdelatorre302810 ай бұрын

    Hook a 4” pump to your high banker to move more material

  • @garyanddoris6022
    @garyanddoris60223 жыл бұрын

    I dont keep anything under a pound nugget...lol...truly enjoyed the video and seeing some gold......

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just like fishing, "throw back the little ones to let them grow a bit"! hehe ;)

  • @garyanddoris6022

    @garyanddoris6022

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ColoradoGoldCamp lol yes 👍.....

  • @garyanddoris6022
    @garyanddoris60223 жыл бұрын

    Allright break times over lol got to get back to digging lol....ive been told that many times on the job lol.....

  • @patdexter9188
    @patdexter91883 жыл бұрын

    Number one, you have to find gold first!

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely right Pat!

  • @patdexter9188

    @patdexter9188

    3 жыл бұрын

    I live in nevada around the biggest mines in the world. I've found gold but very fine. Best luck looking around old mines, sometimes they leave ore laying around or from spills. Some better areas farther away. Good luck to you!

  • @account2292
    @account229212 күн бұрын

    Tip #1, toss the dream mat.

  • @chrissaucier9386
    @chrissaucier93863 жыл бұрын

    Looks like nothing but fun ! That isn't work... It's recreation 😁

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Recreational work ;) I call it mining!

  • @yoopermann7942
    @yoopermann79424 жыл бұрын

    thats some nice gold, question i have did that come the old timers tails or virgin ground? just subscribed

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Yooper. This particular spot is virgin ground but the old timer tails produce also!

  • @yoopermann7942

    @yoopermann7942

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ColoradoGoldCamp that is real cool, to find virgin ground thats workable

  • @user-hs8nk7dm7z
    @user-hs8nk7dm7z3 жыл бұрын

    More dowsing videos please

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ok

  • @cameronnovak
    @cameronnovak25 күн бұрын

    That is the steepest sluice box I've ever seen.

  • @davidwalker8359
    @davidwalker83593 жыл бұрын

    If I can do two thumbs up, I would.

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hehe, David! Thank you my friend, that just gave me a good chuckle n smile after a looooong day🙌

  • @bigeohiostatefan2796
    @bigeohiostatefan27962 жыл бұрын

    Did you go to the Colorado School of Mines? Just curious.

  • @johnskeens531
    @johnskeens5312 жыл бұрын

    Thought that sandwich would ,give your yapping a break , not the case

  • @bfed2831
    @bfed2831 Жыл бұрын

    What is your engine pump brand and model ?

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    Жыл бұрын

    This is a Honda GX200 with a Keene p180 pump. Great setup for up to 250 feet highbanking or running up to a 4" dredge.

  • @patrickjobling8676
    @patrickjobling86762 жыл бұрын

    Just a wonderins .. we're you the bloke in Alaska.. with ya team ..and leasing of some silly ol coote ..who was tryin to get %15 of the take ..

  • @mikecoldsnow5464
    @mikecoldsnow54644 жыл бұрын

    Hey bro I'm lookn for a place to dredge near Frisco co. Just about done building my first. Any suggestions?

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hello Mike. Honestly your best bet might my our Club Claim. Otherwise you need your own claim or you could go down to Clear Creek Canyon.

  • @mikecoldsnow5464

    @mikecoldsnow5464

    4 жыл бұрын

    ok I found the web site and all. ty. I will come down for a sluice and possibly dredge if it looks promising. Got any new claims or know of anyone wanting a dredger for a lower cut? Im trying to go full time. My career is basically offline until a vaccine comes out. Ill be out there today. look for the camo. Thank you for all your time, Your video's have been great information on my new path.

  • @mikecoldsnow5464

    @mikecoldsnow5464

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ColoradoGoldCamp bah truck broke down on the way out.

  • @coryontheroad5459
    @coryontheroad54592 жыл бұрын

    Make more at McDonald's

  • @brentsmith981
    @brentsmith9816 ай бұрын

    You're smart alright!.. But your sluice is clogging up and not self cleaning, so You're probably losing gold

  • @dfox344
    @dfox3443 жыл бұрын

    Talk less shovel more possibly get more gold..

  • @ColoradoGoldCamp

    @ColoradoGoldCamp

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's certainly possible!

  • @dmorgan5010
    @dmorgan50106 ай бұрын

    You are correct to add the metal detour too save water good job.. ha just to let you know I have started a claim posting service first 80 ac 4500.oo sale gets one of my secret spots guaranteed gold in 30min or less. On eB and cL but hopping for a 82.4 claim service posted recorded and sampled with video and gold found goes with sale

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