The story is told about a miner who struck gold and carried his bag of nuggets with him everywhere. One day he died and went to heaven, still carrying his precious nuggets. When he arrived, an angel asked him why he was carrying asphalt. “This isn’t asphalt,” he explained, “it’s gold.” To which the angel replied, “On earth it’s called gold, but here in heaven we use it to pave our streets.”

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

The Lord owns the cattle on a thousand hills. And the gold in a thousand creeks. Glad you enjoyed the video.

@fredzag2452

3 жыл бұрын

Hard to believe this joke made me laugh. Tried not to even . Good one thanks.

@shanelocke237

3 жыл бұрын

"GOOD ONE"👏

@PoorMiners321

3 жыл бұрын

nice😃

@ngobithe

3 жыл бұрын

Is it gold or diamond ?

I worked as a haul truck driver for Cortez Gold Mines in Crescent Valley, Nevada. Our shovels,electric powered, scooped 76 tons in one scoop. The smallest haul trucks were 240 tons. We had 240 ton,300 ton and 400 ton trucks. That's the load they carried. Those trucks run 24 hours a day,7 days a week. That's a lot of material being moved. There is a LOT of overburden to remove to get to the gold ore. They produced,on average, 76,000 ounces of gold a month from a big deposit. The ore contained microscopic gold. When I was there,from 2003 til 2005, gold was around 400 dollars an ounce. We were awarded gold,from 10grams to 1/2 ounce to 1 ounce coins for safety bonuses. Don't know if they do that now. At any rate, Barrick Goldstrike Mines bought out Cortez. Just a little info from me. Sorry for dragging on.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Great info, thanks. I am in Northern Nevada and around a number of gold mines over the years. Glad you enjoyed the video.

@johnhughes9978

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph I lived in Carlin. About half way between Elko and Battle Mountain. I did enjoy it. Thank you.

@PhaseSkater

2 жыл бұрын

gosh dang 400 an ounce then. its 2000 now lol

@jaybaker2664

2 жыл бұрын

I was at Cortez 87 I think contractor out of Elko 90 miles one way to work Long Day's

@ricktipton9563

Жыл бұрын

Pretty interesting to those of us who haven't been anywhere around that sort of stuff. I drove a truck loaded with newspapers, and 14 tons was my max load, so your input seems pretty exciting to me.

I didn't expect to watch all 40 minutes continually but I could not stop watching. Thank you for the information. Very well done video.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

@SnarkasticSunny

3 ай бұрын

I too found myself unable to stop watching & learning about it. "Dinner will be kate tonight!"😉

That was great!! The bit where your missus came in was hilarious. Shows you are a decent bloke willing to share your life and knowledge. Thanks mate. 👍👍

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

An older video with an oops! Though I had taken care of it but Oh well.

@soniasevillaaquilesca6570

3 жыл бұрын

Berry bwueteful

@MrGarrettMorgan

2 жыл бұрын

You are an excellent speaker, comparable to the best university lecturers I have had. Your voice is also familiar, are you on pbs? Antiques roadshow? Ask this old house? Ok I should delete what's above because I figured it out, you kind of sound like Neil Degrasse Tyson. Great Video thank you

I was very fortunate to be able to buy two small rocks with gold in them. Beautiful quartz rocks with gold vein running through them.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like two beautiful specimens. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

That was nice of both of you to understand you was in a project ,and would give her full attention to her later. Then she understood. Now that's true gold. You both truly love eachother...

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

Thank you for showing specimens in their raw state/ore. This is very helpful.

@ChrisRalph

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Another fine video Chris. Thanks for taking the time to teach the rest of us. Great book too.

WOW. Best vid I've seen on this subject. I've lived in Tucson for 50yrs and have been an avid hunter and fisherman. I know Southern and central Az, as well if not better than most alive today. Its just been recently that I've started having an interest in gold because of you tube. After watching this vid I should have gotten interested in gold sooner as I'm certain I've chucked some quartz that had gold in it back down because it had pyrite as well and I thought gold and pyrite didnt come together like that. I saw pyrite for sure so I figured the other gold there was also pyrite and chucked back down. Thanks for this vid. I learned a lot!

@ChrisRalph

5 жыл бұрын

Some pyrite contains tiny specks of gold. But not all. Some pyrite in quartz has little or no gold. It just depends on the deposit.

@tonythomas951

5 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph I understand but what I was saying was I was under the impression that gold and pyrite were never together cuz thats what my dad had told me. I've found rocks, quartz, that had obvious pyrite in them but also gold substance that didnt have the crystalin shape of pyrite and I assumed it couldnt be gold because of what my dad had told me. After seeing the pyrite gold mixed samples you showed I'm certain I chucked gold back down on the ground. I will be more careful and educated in the future thanks to you. I know there is gold in areas I hunt in here in Az and now I've got a reason to get out in the desert when it isnt hunting season.

@davenettles9482

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you've got it, & there ain't no cure.

Few year's ago I was gold hunting in the high desert of California by tehachapi and found a old solid gold tooth. Great video

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure that was a surprising find. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Love the conversation with your Wife. Perfect.

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

yep. Not really intended that way.

Hi Chris, this is the second time I have watched your presentation. I have learnt a lot more on this second viewing. It's taken me almost 15 years on but more often off panning and then detecting to find a bit over 30 grams of gold. I have it locked in a small safe but have lost the keys. Australia, Cheers.

@ChrisRalph

26 күн бұрын

I'm sorry to hear that and I hope you find your keys!

The very best ever, I have LESSION to as well as have seenshown.The many selections "( types) of Gold" that many have passed over because feeling it's a nugget or diamond shaped cluster .(When their are many types of gold to be found. Best class ever. You should be a Professor . ( I still believe " fools gold " is gold" becoming" real gold).Thank you. Just wonderful !

@ChrisRalph

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

I had a young fellow from England working for me at northern Alberta we burnt a big barn down that had big rocks for a foundation .one rock split up from the heat and you could see gold in it He got gold feaver and was trying to look for more rocks I had to pull him away when he was getting on the plane to go home his suitcases weigh a ton .he had put most of the big rock in them

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

That's the problem with carrying home rocks!

Thank you so much for this brilliant video. I will now go looking for gold in the Dominican Republic.

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck, and I hope you are successful.

@PeterBrighton

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph Thanks Chris. I use metal diviners and muscle testing to find things. I have three stones that muscle testing shows they contain gold. Now going to ask my friend with a metal detector to check out the land where i found the small stones which I need to break down. Ill let you know if we find a gold vein.

Thank you so much for sharing maybe I have found here like that kind of rocks thank you and God bless

Thank you for this video. I watch a lot of mine exploring videos, in fact I watched a tour of the 16-1 mine yesterday and always wondered about what it looked liked when the miners see it in the ground.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

I have been in the 16 to 1 three times and found gold with a metal detector there. Thank you for your comments. I am glad you enjoyed the video.

@Hossak

3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video - thank you very much for taking the effort. Also, I always keep the valuing simple, forget ounces, gold is $60/gram. Makes it so much easier. I have a kilogram of gold! $60,000 - and me move on :)

@user-lj1ib5pf4e

5 ай бұрын

I’ve found four meteorites

Thank you! That was such an interesting video about identifying gold in ore. I sat here with my magnifying glass. Very nice, thanks again. 😀

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed the video

I love how you ask the question people don't know to ask and answer the questions with clarity great videos and information.

@ChrisRalph

2 жыл бұрын

I have an idea of things people are interested in. Glad this video was helpful!

My grandpa was a minor in Cripple Creek and Victor in the 30s. We still have land in cripple creek about 100 acres i love it up there!! Love the video thanks

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

Lots of gold was mined up that way and they were still mining until recent years.

@coloradocoinhunter6475

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph They're still mining up there i go up there all the time

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't the big open pit mine shut down? (I thought I'd read that somewhere).

"Hi My Dear," that was Sweet

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

We've been married 40 years.....

This was such a great video! Very pleased to discover it in my suggestions. Totally informative, easy to understand, thank-you for your time and for sharing your knowledge.

@ChrisRalph

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words.

My son works at Fort Knox gold mine in Alaska Fairbanks. Alaska is a Gold Country I found this video quite informative

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

I've never been to that mine but I've read about it. I have been to Fairbanks and other parts of Alaska. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

@cajunalaskan1858

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph thanks for replying back. I live on the Kenai Peninsula I have the Kenai River on one side of me and a river called funny River on the next funny Rivers full of gold but we're not allowed to pan it. I live on top of a 95 Foothill and at the base you could see where are the ancient Kenai the River ran thousands of years ago almost like a miniature Grand Canyon. It doesn't take much to know what you're looking at the riverbed is exposed in some areas riverbed almost looks like a cobblestone Road. Should that be a place to look? probably yes right LOL

Excellent video, this is exactly what i was looking for after getting hooked on watching old mining videos etc... very nice!

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

I am glad you enjoyed the video.

Gold ore breaking the surface in the area I live ranges from tellurides to quartz bearing rock to ironstone bearing rock. Where there's nuggets always look for a source either from a reef or ancient river bed ( deep lead). Some deep leads are easy to distinguish from surrounding bedrock, others are from pipe clay / calcrete. Western Australia where I live, work has many gold mines both surface and underground, geologically it's a very mixed bag of rock structure due to massive upheavals millions of years ago. Where you find gold, you'll also have silver, platinum, copper, zinc, nickel, arsenic in some metals and sulphide derivatives.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

I spent 6 weeks digging gold in the outback of WA several years ago. You know they have deep leads in the gold country of California too.

Exactly, gold ore identification with a metal detector is the new way to mine. Thanks for the informative video. I was looking for some Black Hills green schist. - Doug

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

So many hundreds of mining districts in just the US alone - just cant include everything. Glad you enjoyed the video.

@northwestrockgem9745

2 жыл бұрын

Hold on green mica is gold brearing? I just saved a green schist Boulder with yellow ore in it

Hello Chris, I remember pestering my dad when i was a child Dad is this gold is this gold is this gold , he would take a quick glance lob it back on the floor Nope. Well Dads been dead for 20 years and after four brain operatios I've been disabled for the last 16. After watching this video tonight and many nights to come I will be dreaming a different life for our family .Thank you Chris

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Interesting story. Thanks for sharing.

I found so much gold just hiking and walking trails Backcountry with railing here in Tucson Arizona. I think I'm going to make a Channel with all the stuff I find. Metal detecting is absolutely fun and you're absolutely right it is very profitable and a great Hobby I'm learning so much daily

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Have fun out there! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

@lee-eb2cn

4 жыл бұрын

I would like to talk with you if possible. I live in Sahuarita, Az. How can I reach you?

@leoninewoman

3 жыл бұрын

What is backcountry with railing?

Thanks for taking the time to put this up here.

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! glad you enjoyed the video.

I did enjoy this video extremely. Your presentation was awesome, lots of samples and you explain each one uniquely . Rock on!👍

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Chris, thank you for showing us all that high grade gold ore...it's a special treat because most of that material went thru the mill and was turned into gold bars.

@ChrisRalph

2 жыл бұрын

Not all of it. Some was sold directly as specimens.

You are awesome at describing how the gold settles! Thank you Thank you Thank you!

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful.

great information! looking forward to your video on the silver ore! thanks! 👍

@ionelblaj1963

3 жыл бұрын

If you are interested in Silver, there is a SILVER BELL MINE for sale, $18000 in Canada, BC, check on www.juniorminers.com, and press on MINING CLAIMS FOR SALE, there are a lot of placer and mines for sale. Just do it. Happy New Year 2021 !!!!! I am interested too.

Very comprehensive and thoughtful. Thank you. :)

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

Thanks I enjoyed listening to you talk and the way you are detail oriented and specific most KZread channels are often hard to follow or confusing ...leavening out pertinent information and talking too fast . Thanks keep em coming ...👍

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

Hallelujah, Hello Sir i really appreciat for your time which you use to teaching us this very important and and expensive lessons but you do it for free may God bless you,I'm a small minner in Tanzania please welcome to our country and help us to grow for better results.

@ChrisRalph

2 жыл бұрын

I wish you the best luck, but I will not be traveling to Tanzania anytime soon.

Very enjoyable audio program , am buying this book , well explained thank you.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear you liked it.

@lennyarcuri1751

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful pieces displayed and explained very well of type and origin

@ahmedmohamednuune2843

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph hi

@ahmedmohamednuune2843

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph i want a book who guide me mountian with gold and gemstone can i get it sire

Thank you so much! This video is awesome and perfectly done!! Love it!

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

"ONYA CHRIS" YOUR VAST KNOWLEDGE OF EVERYTHING TO DO WITH GOLD HAS HELPED ME TO FIND GOLD😉 IN MANY MANY MANY WAYS.I LOOK UP TO YOU CHRIS YOUR A BLOODY BRILLIANT COMPLETE LEGEND.STAY SAFE MATE.FROM SHANE BATHURST AUSTRALIA N.S.W 😉😀😃👍👌✌

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

I need to return to the golden triangle - place of my ancestors....

Very nice picture’s . Thanks for sharing.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful.

Hey Chris. I would like to personally thank you for the knowledge you have shared. I’ve been able to use your videos to identify some beautiful gold, and If everything pans out… it may very well be a life changing discovery. Wish me luck and thank you again! 🎉

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Best of luck to you and I wish you much success.

@thahuhzendube3574

9 ай бұрын

Hello dear do you deal in Gold?

Thank you Chris for your insights into gold. I have come across a few of these samples that you talked about in my lifetime. Maybe I should revisit those areas. Cheers.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video!

@robertkaplan1146

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph I live in Australia grew up in Mt Isa but live on the coast now. There are many places that can prospected for such deposits. Here is one link raregoldnuggets.com/?p=529

me and wife were rolling along on the backside of el cajon in 1985,had to take a leak,pulled over and watered the lilies and looked down,saw some dirt with bull quartz in it grabbed a couple of samples,and went about another 5 miles,wife had to go,hard to find areas where a woman can whiz off the road,found one,took samples out of floorboard of car and crushed them with a hammer,the shine was amazing,took the samples to a pawn shop,guy bought all of it for 961.00 in 1985,paid for the whole trip went back a few years later,and they bulldozed the whole small area away to widen the road,moral of the story,is get it all,i've found it several times,mainly in the searchlight area between nev and cali,hell its everywhere if you look,usually pays for my trips,thanks for the look of other samples,i've never seen silver in lode or formation,any way you'd upload those ,be interesting,thanks

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Silver video coming very soon, almost done, ready in the next week or two.

@strattuner

4 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU,i'll be watching and waiting intently,rocks and the study of this earth has been my lifelong indeavor,the metals were always of particular interest,esp the geo thermal process of melting of these materials and their flow while a liquid,fascinating isn't it,thanks

Thank you Mr Ralph, very informative. I look forward to getting your book in February! A little bird informed me it's going to be a birthday gift! 😎

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. Don't worry if there is a delay with the book. Amazon is going to run out of copies for about a week or two. I've sold more than expected and I wont be able to re-supply my distributor until mid-February. I am glad you enjoyed the video.

I shake my head thinking of all the gold I've walked over fishin Montana without this knowledge.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

@navagatingthroughthebeasts2908

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah

I have some stones of such kind, one may be weighing 40 kg, but it is yellowish quarts. But looks beautiful. I have collected many such nature's treasure...stone.

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

congratulations on your finds.

👍 Thank you for your presentation. . I enjoyed your video.

@ChrisRalph

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Great job Chris. Love your magazine.

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! More videos to come.

Thanks for sharing. Specimens were fun to look at. I can tell you where the gold is.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Go and dig that gold! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

I have always enjoyed rock and mineral collecting...even as a little kid many years ago. Thanks for posting this informative and interesting video. Your enjoyment of the subject is evident.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

I'm actually new to this channel and I am going to be subscribing and looking forward to more videos from this guy, because of the details contained within this video. Very nice video

@ChrisRalph

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you! More videos to come.

I was in Franklin N.C. at a garnet flume. I met a guy there complaining about what he was finding. ' Better ones on his gravel road' . A conversation ensued. Hey Travis! Anyway, back to the story.... This nice lady came up and showed me a rock. " Is this worth anything?" " Ooooh....", I said. " That's Leverite! " The whole flume went silent, everyone was looking at the us . " Is it expensive?", she asked. I threw the worthless stone into the flume. " Leverite. Right where you found it." The whole flume roared with laughter! I then showed her a nice Almandine garnet i found. ( Only one ) She smiled and said thank you. She found more stones than I did that day. Beginners luck, I suppose. Travis showed me a nice pink sapphire deposit the next day. It was a lot of fun. I had never looked for corundum before. That day, I was the green horn.

@ChrisRalph

Ай бұрын

Always fun to get out and collect some pretty crystals.

Beautiful specimens, thanks for the video...!

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

Thanks very much for sharing this info with us!!!

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

i spent several years in northern california and was always fascinated with the geology of the place. thnx for the discussion.

@ChrisRalph

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! You should watch my video on where to find gold in Northern California

Such a wonderful video . Thank you for taking the time to make it.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

Good presentation on the southern gold fields. I'd like to see something like this covering the ores of the pacific northwest.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

While ther is some variation, the quartz veins look similar.

@joanysohayda7233

4 жыл бұрын

That's what's up!!

@juliebooth3376

4 жыл бұрын

Crohkor Threetoes me too

Fantastic video, wonderful to hear the history and story with each piece. Thank you #thefinders 😁

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Really liked this video. I will be looking at rocks much more carefully now. Great video and very informational and easy to follow. Thanks

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

Thanks for a great vid. From a part-time prospector in New Zealand.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'll be coming out with a similar video on raw Silver and silver ores soon. Probably not too long after that, I'll do one on platinum too.

Thank you for this very informative video. I never knew that gold came in so many different forms. This video will be of tremendous help next time we are out prospecting. We love going out metal detecting or panning gold but we are total amateurs so any help is appreciated. Good hunting.

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

Stay tuned, lots to learn and lots more to come in the future. Best Wishes.

@trinaseiber4913

2 жыл бұрын

Hi I’m trying to tell if the orange color in rock under a black is gold

Amazing rocks, grreat sharing

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for visiting. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Thanks for the great content...Luv this episode! ...your commentating and review is great!

@ChrisRalph

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

You have taught me so much and I've only known this Chanel for a couple days now thanks for making videos that people like me can understand

@ChrisRalph

6 ай бұрын

Happy to help and You are so welcome!

I went up to Virginia City yesterday hoping to find one of those gold finds you showed. I checked the tailings off the lower-grade road (the one that doesn’t go through Gold Hill/Silver City). I found an old car jack and a half bucket of rocks that have traces of quartz. I’ll keep looking for the gold. Thanks for the tip.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked the video. I've found some decent gold-silver specimens there. Check out my video on recognizing silver ores for some nice examples of Virginia City ores.

@danielgaughan4243

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector I will. Thank you.

@forthelaughs398

4 жыл бұрын

I'm gonna need that jack and bucket o' Rocks back bro

@debbiefranks9606

2 жыл бұрын

Bust up the rocks get down in cracks

Carlin Ore, it is my Experience after acquiring said Ore that the Gold is the Mustard Color on the Rock, and yes, there does appear to be a lot, but you need to remember that gold can be flattened down to an Atom Thick and One Troy Oz. can make a Sheet of Gold that is 300 Square Feet.

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

The Carlin type gold is almost never visible to the eye, but can be seen under magnification. It assays the same as other ores and the concentrations can be measured in the same way. The value of these deposits is that they can be gigantic in size and carry millions of ounces of gold.

@patrickgragg5602

3 жыл бұрын

how do you know that

@rkimberly985

2 жыл бұрын

As a dental lab tech, we were taught that gold is so malable that the Egyptians had a method to make a sheet of gold so thin, you could read a news paper through it. Also with just one ounce of gold, a wire could be made from it that would be so thin, that it could reach the moon. It is also the finest source of metal for springs. They never develop a memory. In fact the satelites and missiles have gold springs. Also gold does not tarnish. Unless mercury gets on it. But that has always confused me after reading about mercury being used in processing gold ore. Anyway, just a few interesting things about gold. At that time, when I was a lab tech,(Long ago) we were told that of all the gold ever mined, would make a 1ft. by 1ft strip that would would span the length of a ft ball field. (300 ft.) Anyway, that is what we were told and read in our books.

Thank you for all the wonderful info Can't get enough.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed the video. In particular I liked the fact that you are so knowledgeable, easy to understand, and easy to listen to. You should have been a broadcaster! Lol. Thanks for putting this info out there. I've always had a passing interest in prospecting, but never took it up. Maybe now that I'm retired. It's a fascinating subject, and apparently one that takes years to get a true handle on. So, your video is a big help for anyone getting started. New subscriber. Peace!

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, Yep, prospecting is a great things for retired folks, because you get out and do a lot of walking. Glad you enjoyed the video!

@dougoverhoff7568

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph You're quite welcome. I like your presentation style. Good prospecting!

I've found gold in an area where it's rare. It was a vein through a Quartz rock about 3" and it had a melted type look/luster

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Sounds great. Best of luck to you in your explorations.

@giabella9344

Жыл бұрын

I am in Virginia and I rock hound the railway and I have found gold and silver I think . It isn't often and normally when u find it it's a cluster in a small area

@giabella9344

Жыл бұрын

It's leaf like silver and gold

This is all so interesting to me, Thank you for producing this video, I am subscribing.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it, I will shortly be out with a similar video on raw silver and silver ores.

@americanrebel413

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph 👍

Great work Chris. The first generation website made me smile !😄😄😄 "My greatest treasure - my wife of 25 years, my son and my daughter." That was profound man ! 👍

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

It is a true statement.

Thanks for this video ♥️. I was looking for this kind of video for a long time.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

Sir, you are a very talented teacher. Keep the videos coming! I'm definitely interested in the details you explain. Wish I could be right there!

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Check out my other videos on the geology of gold deposits like these: kzread.info/dash/bejne/e4Gt2ah-mtqYlqQ.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/qGVnmKR-lLXFqbg.html I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

very informative! Answered many questions for me, Thank you so much. I found a heavy iron/copper ore in southern california about the size of my fist. I know now its probably Gossin gold ore With some visable gold/ pyrite or both along with copper as well. new to this so hoping im right.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

sounds like interesting ore..... Glad you enjoyed the video.

The specimen you showed at 17 minutes and 25 seconds I have thousands of tons of that material on my property and there's gold here too and copper and bismuth and tellurium ... Learning what the different or types look like is very helpful thank you

@ChrisRalph

2 жыл бұрын

Hope it works out well for you.

Excellent video. Very informative and educational. Thank you!

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great video mate thanks for taking the time to make the video 👍. Have been doing a load of research on videos about geology so I sort of know on paper the sort of rock to look for but to see such an array of samples was excellent

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

@garylawlor2288

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisRalph I did pal, hello from Ireland 👋

Fantastic video!! Every minute was “golden” !! You are so knowledgeable, and speak so eloquently! I also loved how you thoroughly described each of the many specimen slides you showed - taking it beyond the general makeup to include how the specimen was formed, value, where and how it was found, etc. I even loved how nicely you handled the phone call **smiles** I’m in North Texas - we find lots of quartz and iron here when hunting for dinosaur and shark teeth, and I thought I saw tiny pieces of gold in the same gravel.. I decided to turn to KZread for information (because I came here knowing NOTHING about gold!!), and so happy that your video was at the top of search!! Have you done any prospecting for gold in North Texas? Thank you again for sharing, and I look forward to hearing back from you! Best wishes!

@ChrisRalph

2 жыл бұрын

I've not prospected in Texas. Not much gold in Texas. There is some gold in the Llano river.

Love the video n I appreciate learning about Gold! Thank you 😊

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! glad you enjoyed the video.

I always enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Glad to help.

Thank you for the fine presentation. Makes me want to go up in the mountains with my metal detector!

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

@andrews3267

4 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking the same thing!

My old house I used to rent, there was a rock that held the porch door open, it was quartz rock, I remember one day when I was sitting on my porch drinking a few beers and smoking some cigarettes I loved and I thought and I saw gold in it, but I thought to myself that can't be gold because that rock would not be left here holding my porch door open. Rock was there when I moved in to the house, I thought maybe I can extract it it was spot response and small veins Meandering Through The Rock The Rock was used to hold my porch door open and it was there when I first moved in, I live in the house for 2 and 1/2 years, and now that I moved out 4 weeks ago I realized for my memory that someone probably replace That Rock with a similar Rock because none of the Rock I think it was replaced with is different and it's all white, anyway I should have took in that rock with me, either way nice video thank you for the information, I live in Missouri so who knows about gold around here in Missouri,

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video.

Thank you so much! Its so great to have someone willing to show what to look for. I sometimes hate watching these videos because i used to go "gold and crystal" hunting with my grandfather when i was a little girl and now see how much gold my grandfather got out of me.lol he would tell me it was fools gold, or the gold ore i would hammer out of the side of the mountain he would tell me was just a yellow fungus, but he had me give it to him to send to a friend who collects the "fungus" rocks.lol what he told me was fools gold was a big nugget the size of large grape. He held onto it for me of course and took it to his friend. Well, i found some real fools gold which was a far bigger chunk that he told me i could keep. I realized then the difference in the looks and when i asked him about why it was different, he got very mad and told me he knows what hes talking about because hes been doing it longer than ive been alive etc. Lol looking back now, i see why he was so defensive. But i honestly dont really blame him in some way as what would an 11 year old girl do with all that gold? Haha.lol jk. I have so many stories. As we lived right on a mountain with all kinds of old gold mines in Kellogg. I found so much gold and crystals. And i wish so bad i knew more then. I was learning from my grandfather and had complete trust in him. He doesnt go "gold or Crystal" hunting with me anymore.lol hahaha. I should add that at the time i wouldn't have cared if it were gold anyway as i was mostly interested in the crystals and probably would have happily given any gold to him anyway.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

I am greatly looking forward to teaching my own granddaughter to hunt crystals and gold in the wide outdoors. But I will teach her right and let her keep what she finds. She is only 2 now, so it will be a while.

20:24-HELLO! Consider me subscribed. I’ve been binge watching you and two toes so much that you’re probably gonna make more money off of me than Gold itself! I’m a beginner prospector thank you so much for your videos!

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

I'm hoping to do some video with Two Toes later this year.

What a beautifully presented video. Thank you for explaining so clearly the possibilities of quartz. I am finding some quite large pieces on my land with silver bits and possibly gold bits and iron and maybe copper. I have a lot of research to do but at least now I understand what might be present. Will be getting some pieces analyzed.

@ChrisRalph

Жыл бұрын

Get some pieces tested, but remember that quartz is very common and gold is very rare. There is loads of quartz that has no gold.

@1800skindaguy

Жыл бұрын

It is my dream to have land with gold deposits on it, even if it was flour gold in a creek to pan. Hard rock would be even cooler.

@cupwalker24.7

10 ай бұрын

As a Driller that cores rock Everyday .... It's entrapped in the quartz and granite rock from what I have found ... . You can find a lot of it while Coring rock it's like reading a story book . Pretty cool .

Thanks you for sharing your knowledge it helps a lot

@ChrisRalph

Ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Love the vid! Extremely informative and engaging to watch. At 32:13 I've found something that looks similar to that in the back of my fridge... it wasn't gold ore. 🤣

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

This video is good in that it shows the average person how "fool's gold" (pyrite) does not actually look like gold. Pyrite is normally more brassy yellow or greenish yellow and is usually pretty obviously not gold even when not in nice crystalline forms. On the other hand, all those beautiful specimens with spectacular gold occurrences might lead that same average person to think that gold is often found that way, and it really isn't. Just finding any visible gold at all is fairly unusual, and a good portion of that VG is really only viewable using a hand lens. Most of the gold ore I have seen has no actual visible gold in it except in some very isolated spots. Only need a few grams per tonne to make a mine profitable, after all, if the volume is large enough. In fact, a lot of gold deposits are found because of the associated base metals. The metal ores just happen to also have decent gold contents, but the interest in the rock was driven first by the obvious base metal enrichments, and gold was just a bonus, even if it eventually became the main reason to develop the mine.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Visible gold in ore is rare, but it does occur and the way to find it is with a metal detector.

@rockclimber3045

4 жыл бұрын

If you can't tell the difference you are a very very stupid Person.

@rivaldoalves8841

2 жыл бұрын

If I might ask, what country you're from? We find quite a bit of gold here visible (sulphide veins for instance) but then again South Africa is very blessed with vast deposits I suppose and I've been lucky enough to do quite abit of exploration geology (mostly iron) the technology is also more advanced than a metal detector 😅 there are gravity readings, polarity for instance which typically uncovers large deposits especially within our greenstone belt - just all random comments I suppose

@stabbrzmcgee825

2 жыл бұрын

@@rivaldoalves8841 Canada, mostly working on gold and base metal mineralization in the Abitibi of Quebec/Ontario, and I have been to loads of active mines and old mines and workings all across the continent. If you are finding VG as anything but a rarity, you are extremely lucky, in my experience.

Amazing presentation, thank you! 😃🙏💓

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome.

You mention in several places that miners did not recognize ore as gold bearing; or as in the case where they tossed the decayed pyrites to get at copper below, and always it was back in or before the 60's. But, gold was still held by the government at $35 per ounce and private bullion holdings were still illegal. At that artificially low price they might have recognized it as ore but at $35 was not economical to refine it out. If it cost $20 or more per ton of rock to get half an ounce of gold they just dumped it in the tailings. There must be some fabulous fortunes laying around already mined and just unprocessed.

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

You have a very good point. At $35 an ounce, the interest was low, and they were not looking as only really great ore would be economic. I'll add one more point - heap leaching, which is a very widely used method to process low grade ores at a profit was only just developed in the late 1960s and did not become popular until the mid 1970s.

Thank you, that was an education, I have never found gold before but after watching this I just might have but didn't recognise it. But I am going to revisit a stream where I found clumps of Iron pyrite that weighed more than a pound. It was embedded in the bank of a stream in a sandy placer type deposit. I will look much more closely to see what else I can pull out of it. The area is glacial deposits.

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds interesting.

@kashifkhan3714

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir Chris I also find iron pyrite like a shape of ( .5 to 1 inch)quarts in a small cave in an igneous rock is there any chances of real gold.

Great job on the video !!!!!

Thank you Chris that was a great video. Can't wait for the summer to get here so I can take my weekend trips to the mountains in eastern Pennsylvania and pan the streams and creeks that I usually hike along. And now I have an idea what some ore rocks look like.

@ChrisRalph

2 жыл бұрын

Best of luck to you.

I come from a family of Jewelers &my dad worked with acid testing quite bit. He would buy estates & test all the gold stuff, deliver watches & watch movements to Jewelry people who were interested in gold. My mom would grab all the jewels that he would throw away & make stuff out of them. I developed a love for gold in Quartz. She bought a bunch of charms. earrings, pendants & Victorian cane tops. I have never cared about prospecting or digging up mountains to make myself rich, but the beauty of the pieces of Gold in quartz grabs me. Now it is very scarce. Sadly they didn't leave any for me. My dad used to take the gold to the San Francisco mint for $35/oz.

@ChrisRalph

2 жыл бұрын

Prospectors still find it from time to time and there are a few mines which produce it, but it is not cheap.

I'm happy i watched this. I'm looking into ways to start looking for gold, i've panned a few pans in local area rivers, and found exactly 1 single flake about the size of a pin head. Utah isn't really known for its gold.

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

yes. Utah isn't really known for its gold.

@rivaldoalves8841

2 жыл бұрын

Tip- try find a place where there was once upon a time a gold mine, go down stream and find the biggest bend in a meander that you can, walk 1m onto the inner bank (if you imagined it as a V shape of the river bend, it's the land inside that V), dig a whole 1-3m deep and pan through whatever you can, this is where a large amount of deposition takes place, Goodluck!

Man superb video. Very knowledgeable. Great job thanks fot the info

@ChrisRalph

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it, a similar silver ore video is coming soon.

Just watched your diamond vid...great. Thanks for the lessons.

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

Very welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

Thanks Chris. This really helps newbies like me!

@ChrisRalph

4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it!

Hats o fr f to you my friend. Wonderfull presentation. Thank you

@ChrisRalph

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly. I have lots of other videos too.

Very interesting and informative video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge Chris. Cheers

@ChrisRalph

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.