Slept way late this morning. Awoke to my wife chasing the Granddaughter around in the house! Pops here poured his coffee and headed out to the backyard Granddaughter in tow. All of us, Granddaughter, dogs and myself sat down on the back porch and watched GMMD. What a great morning this has been!! Congrats on a pocket full of rocks!! Maybe Brad should plan a trip to Arkansas with family and go dig for diamonds! With Brad's luck? He'll find the biggest diamond to date!! Thank you Sir for taking us with you!!!

@lynnmaupin-simpson1215

2 жыл бұрын

It is predicted that the next huge diamond will be found in Arkansas!

I always enjoy seeing something Shiney in the pan 😁 early in the morning 👍🌄 🤔 perhaps a sniffer bottle would be in order 🤔😂😂 I guess I will see you next Friday. May your pan's be heavy and your detector noisy!! 👍👍

I'm in northern Vt. I have a couple of good size stones with what i now know from you are Garnets. There is a brook that runs thru our land and Gold has also been found.

I don't pay much attention to those people that say; The hole is got to be toward you. I guess if you had so many ounces in your pan that it would cover the whole, i might worry. Really if i had that many ounces i'd get another container. Those "highly touted" pans are for beginners. I know some extremely expert panners that when they are using them pans at the very end will turn the pan around. It takes more force to try to wash the end of your material over all them riffles than it does to not use them. Think about it for a second. You get allthe gold and black sands, plus the blond sands, all heavy into the corner of your pan and now you have to wash it up and over all them riffles using a greater force then you started with. Say, 20 GPM to 200 GPM. Hence fine gold is lost. That's the idea of the pan your using. I prefer my old steel pan. Great video! Fine panning and a great choice of pan. Next time use a bottle with a screw top. Now go turn your pockets inside out and rinse them out in your pan:) May all your days be golden.

On a very fine day I clicked on a random fb post and there I saw the medal of Anna Leonard that was lost years before..I was so fascinated with the idea that I came here on KZread to know more about how the medal was discovered and who she was..and that led me to this channel.. Since then I have been watching your videos, subscribed and I really love your metal detection work❤️❤️

@familiarockpedra

2 жыл бұрын

great chanel! We have a chanel too! All welcome!

@aurinslady7119

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, you were sucked in like the rest of us. Been watching for 3ish years and it's still just as fascinating.

@shanilasdiary5296

2 жыл бұрын

@@aurinslady7119 hahah.. maybe Anna's soul brought us all here..she was so pleased that Bradd could finally find her lost medal😊.

@aurinslady7119

2 жыл бұрын

@@shanilasdiary5296 that was such an amazing find and then to be able to get the history of her brought the story full circle. 😊

@flthunderdigginwrob3162

2 жыл бұрын

Shanila, I metal detect, I find some cool things once in a while, I film my hunts and have videos, but they ALL look like child's play in lieu of Brad's beautifully made videos and his fantastic finds and research. You have found my #1 channel! Rob / FlThunder

I have spent many hours and days panning gold in Vermont . Great fun when I was healthy 😁 .

Garnets are my birthstone also. I had some from the Thames made into a silver necklace and ring.

What a fun, wet day you two must have had. It's nice to just get out into Mother Nature's garden once in a while and play in the water. When I was younger by 60 years my brother and sisters and I used to go play in Big Goose Creek. We would build rock pools and catch guppies. We actually caught a big and I mean BIG brown trout like that once. Took it home and ate it for dinner. Our parents were very surprised. I learned to swim in that river - I fell into a big deep pool just off an old dam wall and it was learn or drown - nobody else knew how to swim either. That was a bit scary at first. When I became a mama I made damn sure my boys too swimming lessons when they were little for that reason. They hated it but I wouldn't let them quit. Now they swim like big fish. Anyway, it was good to listen to your creek and watch you having fun in the water.

Ha, l tuned in to this today and to my surprise, you included my cousin Scott. His father is my first cousin, Scott's grandmother and my mother were sisters. We now live in Washington State and it's been decades since l was last in Vermont.

Here in GA where I live, I pick up rocks in my yard and what I assume are garnets just pop out of these old crumbly rocks, I take my walks and run up on them on the road banks. Over 40 years I have a sandwich bag full. They are bright red. Don't know if they have much value. I just keep them like i do arrow heads and crystals I have found. I've found some amazing things just by looking down. I have a meteorite to. Since most are iron don't over look all those readings for iron. I found mine digging holes for plants I was planting around the well house 40 years ago when we built our house. Thinking it might have been dug up when they did the well. They took all that dirt , piled it up and then spreaders it out in an area around the well house. It smelled awful for a while. I didn't start planting much except for some trees, because we moved in at fall time. I started planting shrubs and flowers the following spring. I know a place where as a child my brother an I would go wading in a creek. There was told speckled all in the sand, once something shiny caught my eye in the water, it was a huge nugget, I told him look, I found gold. He was a year older than me, so he thought he knew it all, he took it from me and said, it's fools gold you fool! Then threw it away. I believe to this day it was gold. He don't even remember that day, but I do.

Hi Brad, congrats that was a lot of Garnets, you really should try and find at least 3 that could be gem quality and have them set in a ring for your lovely Wife. Very cool and also it's a great way to spend a day. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💞

You go to some beautiful places Brad, its a wonder you sleep at night, with beautiful memories. Good health, enjoy nature and her treasures. 💜Camille🇦🇺

If you want to see Garnets on dry land, take the "Spruce Hill" hike in Savoy Mountain State Forest, off the Mohawk Trail outside North Adams. The summit has amazing views, and the ledge is loaded with garnets!

@ITechcompulock

2 жыл бұрын

Would a black light make them more visible at night?

I'd be more excited about the garnets than the specks!

Wonderful video bringing back childhood memories on property Dad owned for a bit. Gold, stream & mine holes.

One of our rivers in Montana has so many garnets that the black sand is really more like garnet sand.

@normawinton6832

2 жыл бұрын

Awesomeness 👌

Your videos bring happiness to my world. Thanks

Brad, I work directly with the folks Scott mentioned, two of them any way! Jeff Slade & Wayne Thornton. Guess you could say I'm a student! Scott is correct on both Lode and Glacial deposits. However, Mount Ascutney has never blown. It has however gotten hot enough to send activity through it's breather pipes called Berecha tubes, spelling may be off there! Thanks to the glaciers and where they stalled, evidence can be seen of that in the area you were at here as well as the area I have worked. As for winter prospecting, don't blame ya for saying probably not!

Like the new funky intro... :)

I love that slide guitar and that drum fits perfectly....

Hey good morning Brad and thumbs UP to you !

Nice hunt great finds, catch you next Friday be safe, 🇺🇸

Brad, I freeze just watching you in that water. 😆 I just moved from central Florida to the Nashville area. It’s in the 40s at night and only in the low 70s during the day. My neighbors think I’m crazy outside in my big coat in the mornings walking the dog. 😂 I dread what’s coming!

@bwardokc3985

2 жыл бұрын

A long time ago, I moved from Florida to Michigan. I was there for 4 years. I had to move south again just to thaw out. lol 👍

Absolutely love the music on this one!!!❤️

Another great video, thanks for sharing. I hoped you tried panning out your pocket sand to recover some of the lost gold. 👍

that would be a DREAM summer vacation for me, metal detecting and panning in the green mountains!!

@analogalbacore7166

11 күн бұрын

I'll live that dream for you next week.😊

@orscrub3161

11 күн бұрын

@@analogalbacore7166 …..gee thanks. 🤨

come to Idaho and find STAR GARNETS...the only place in the USA where they are found..they come in 4 ray and 6 rays...RARE

Amazing amount of garnets in that river!

Brad, you have both impeccable tastes in friends and obvious, the ability to attract and keep them as friends. Your son has much to learn from you to be his own successful gentleman and class act. Bravo!

Maybe someone has noted this before - but just for context. Back in the day I did a month's geologic fieldwork around Chester & Cavendish (Hawk's Mountain, I think - been a while) in a geologic structure called the Cavendish Dome. We were looking at the metamorphic grades of the schists there, which are aluminosilicate. You can determine the grade roughly by the combination of minerals you see - garnet, kyanite, staurolite. I believe garnet was the lowest grade. They were everywhere - usually smaller than what you had today. That rock up there is really old (Ordovician period, I think) and has been folded, heated, compressed, and every other thing you can do to a rock. Anyway - not sure I remembered everything right - it was 30 years ago and I did not pursue mineralogy or Geochemistry, but it was fun. My mother - not a geologist - insisted on reading my final report - which was very dense. She said, "I loved it! The only word I understood was 'Cleavage' but I still loved it."

@robyncooperramsey8323

2 жыл бұрын

Stephen Ritz Your mom loved her boy. There’s sweet pride in her feedback.

Brad, As you are so artistic and crafty, I bet you could make something beautiful with the garnets!

Brad ...your videos are such a relief from the videos that cover the politics of the day! I will always turn to them from now on for a sobering dose of reality. They help me replant my feet upon the ground! Gotta love 'em.

Digging with Scott is a good time! Great guy! I’m also fascinated by garnets, such a neat gem to find and pick through!

Intro music was sweet. Reminiscent of Stone Pony. Love that sound. Garnets by the handful. Love that rich, warm color.

Great story Brad! Where there is golden sand, there must be gold nuggets, this is an axiom.

Awesome. What great fun. Scott seems like a really great guy!

Lots of nice Garnets guys. Good job harvesting both the gold and the Garnets, makes a great outing even more exciting! Stay safe and all the best Brad!

Nice work!👍

That was a nice time in the river.

You messed up! When you get tired you take your fishpole and catch lunch. It's fun either way. Great video.

Great adventure Brad….Thanks

Garnet was my grandmother's given name. Soft spot for that gem stone.

I remember last year. I really look forward to your adventures every Friday.

Awesome finds! My birth stone is garnet also. Made it that much more interesting for me.

Love the stream. With garnets? What could be better? GOLD. Great video as always Brad.

Nice garnet finds. 😊👍🇺🇸

done some panning up in washington state where i live. haven’t found much gold but been with folks who used a small dredge and were getting thumb nail sized nuggets up stream from me. we also have garnets, my birthstone too and they are soooo small. i gathered a small bottle of them. those ones are brilliant red, bummer they are almost microscopic🤣

Biggest smile yet ⛰⛏📿

Cool video panning for garnets and gold.

Enjoyed your video Brad! I've always been a rock-hound! Thanks for today's adventure!

The garnets are amazing!

Love these adventures that you have! Great to see Bob again!!!! I enjoy these as much as the metal detecting and vlogs. Thanks for sharing! 🥰

Nice departure from your regular video!

On my property I have a wide brook alot like this which was widened drastically with the recent flash floods. I live in Vermont and you inspire me to try this in my brook. Thank you!

What a beautiful place you are at. Here in England we don't have places like that. I could sit there quite happily eating sandwiches with a flask taking it all in. Great video again.

Hi from Sandra in Chester UK.enjoy yr prog.beautiful part of your country.so relaxing to watch.many thanks.loveit when you find buckles.for shoes.coins.this is telling stories of early settlers.how brave they were.you have the independent spirit.stillof your forefathers.god bless you. Believe in Jesus Christ and you will be protectedxxx

Great fun. I envy you the adventures that you have. My knowledge of garnets is that they were common in high school class rings fifty years ago and I remember garnet sandpaper at the hardware stores before the more modern grit materials seemed to pass them by. Might still be used but I have not been shopping for sandpaper in a long time either. Seems like my area is all galena as in lead mining. Just don't eat too much of the fish around here and none if you are a pregnant woman. Would much prefer gold over lead.

@jamestaylor3805

2 жыл бұрын

Various gem stones are still used as abrasives because the hardness of the grit they produce is very uniform and defined. This is more common in industrial applications, but certain small handicrafts still use them as well, such as clockworks, specialty wood crafts, and lense crafting.

You might also be on the lookout of diamonds too. Arkansas diamond mine has produced some woppers. Including yellow diamonds. Nice garnets. Use a flashlight next time and look at the garnets that way. Congrats on the gold!

I think it is so amazing that you find so many garnets in the river. I’m sure this was so much fun and a lot of work. I know the gold is what you were looking for but the garnets are a huge plus.

Hi Brad, Got to love the cold water! The 2 pieces of rock with garnets in them are most likely schist. Since many of your garnets have rather sharp edges - the source of the garnets probably isn't to far away. The stream would be cutting through an intrusive dike of schist filled with garnets. And over the many years eroding the garnets out washing them down stream. Glad to see you using the classifying pans - makes panning so much easier! Great video! Take Care, Jim

@robyncooperramsey8323

2 жыл бұрын

Rockman531 Thank you for explaining how the garnets end up in the stream!

Very cool to see you out panning again ☺️

Awsome video.wish we had Garnett's in our gold barring creaks.lots of opal, s thow..

Another great adventure playing in the brook! Such beautiful country and great videos!

It never fails to amaze me how beautiful it is there! You found a lot of garnets that is so cool.. the gold too! As always love being a part of your adventures.

Love the music!

what a fun adventure

Love the panning episodes 👍😎

Hi Brad! Such a fun day finding garnets! Have you ever been to the Diamond fields in Arkansas? I will make it there again one day. I was on vacay and that was my next stop, when I got the call my sister died. So I drove past the entrance and made a wish to return one day! Que sera sera. Hugs from Kentucky 💞Tere

Take a vacation to north Georgia sometime and pan for gold and gemstones. People are still finding a lot of color in their pans.

Sweet garnets .. my birthstone as well. Beautiful video

Sir, my hat off to you. What a great life.

Haha! The Talenti container. Those are the BEST containers! I use mine for storing all kinds of art supplies. I could definitely spare one for garnets though. Thank you for sharing this with us!

Scott is a great guy to hang out with.

Garnets are my birthstone, as well. I love the Drone shots. Thanks for taking me to such beautiful places.

Brad- Beautiful river area to find treasures and have fun! 😎😎

I'm late! But wouldn't miss it.. love the intro tunes, so here we go... Yay

Ive seen these little gems on the beaches of the Thames River in London! You found some really amazing and shapes great finds!

Brad some of your music reminds me of the "Days of the New" 2nd and 3rd CDs it is very cool music buddy

Great stuff Brad, thanks

We love watching your videos and “dig” the music! 😎😎

Those garnets in the stone are very cool. Nice gold. Thanks for sharing the adventure. Good luck, happy hunting and take care.

Will you try to put your garnets in a rock tumbler? And, if you do, will you show us the result?

Oh you have to do at least one winter dig . That would be so interesting to see the challenge of the elements.

Exactly on the gold pan because they don’t come with holes.. lol

I found this channel a few weeks ago and I’m hooked!! Not only am I fascinated by Brad’s finds (especially the old coins, buckles, buttons and other everyday items used by the pioneers) but Brad seems like such a nice, cool dude!!!

We used to hike up Mt. Ascutney every summer, I was born and raised in Windsor, actually born at the base of Ascutney on the Windsor side of the mountain.

Brad this were nice finds and I hope you have more luck finding gold.👍👍👍👍👍❤🇺🇸

I swear I was a shriveled up, grey haired, gold prospector in one of my past lifes!

Nice adventure guys awesome fines for you young man 👍

Been watching for years, thought I was subscribed but I was not . I did . Really enjoy your channel.

Well Mr. Brad, beautiful scenery, as always. That river is just gorgeous. Great drone work. And the rubies you got out of there, just WOW. I wonder what the expense and work it would be to have a few of the better ones made into gems for a piece of jewelry for the wife??? No pressure, just wondering. Take Care, keep 'em coming. Rob / FlThunder

Such beautiful scenery. A pleasure to watch and listen to your comments.

I have watched so many of these types of videos and I have to say I pretty much just watch you exclusively because of the way you film and your personality. Thanks for giving us fun times to watch and thanks for your perfect editing. Some of the others just drone on needlessly wasting my time LOL

Congratulations o your finds great video

What a wonderful adventure !!!

Hi Brad. Good video! Loved the adventure whatever you are doing. A part of me recognises the thrill and suspense. Keep it up! Thanks for sharing your adventures.

I was watching , I don't know why, ' Awsome Video " girl vanishes, 7 months later a hiker tells cops to look closer at the log. Your picture is used several times as the hiker. Just wanted to make sure you were aware of this. The date is August 7, 2021 At the bottom is Please for any copyright issues contact us first at... You might want to check it out. Love going to Vermont medal detecting with you. Beautiful scenery. I love nature. Keep sharing.

Hey Brad Looks like you and Scott have had another awsome day out there in the mountains . I'm wondering if you could take the garnets and make a gem candle. This would be awsome . just an idea but imagine your candle making those garners light up the room .

Pretty interesting. Sorry about your gold in pocket. Can you polish the garnets to bring out the red?

I have been watching a few of your videos this morning your definitely doing good work. I’m a gold guy but dang those garnets are awesome. I wish we had them like that here in Maine 👍🏻