I liked how you used the flow of water to explain where gold could go. Never thought of the sticky clay spot. Well done!

I usually check where everyone else hasn't. I once mined out what was a miners dam back in the 1850s. I didn't realize what it was until you explained it in one of your Virgin ground videos. They had used unwashed dirt to make the dam and I was looking for an upper bench deposit. I'd have my kid clean down to the bedrock and he'd Bring it to me in a bucket. we cleaned up with a sluice box and took about five grand a month off that spot for two and a half months. We got the rest of the deposit too. The old timers didn't really finish it cause they were run out by the local first nations. Being Indian myself I just asked the local tribe where they would look and got hot tips from their history. That's what one gets for being polite and asking permission from the locals. I didn't half to ask and they didn't have to help me, but politeness goes both ways.

Near where I live is one of the richest gold deposits in North America. It was so rich that during the local gold rush the first prospectors only had to walk along the creeks and rivers and pick up the nuggets from the banks. They hammered the area pretty hard, but they were focused on the easy stuff (1/16 of an inch to 5 inch pieces). That means they dumped a LOT of the flour gold and small flakes in their tailings. However the also washed away a lot of the light stuff in the process so you don’t really find much in the smaller gravels and sands. So I go and check the tailings piles with large rocks and chunks of fractured bedrock. Often I have to move quite a bit of rock to get to where the gold has settled, but when a couple hours of work gives me enough material to run a sluice for an hour and pull out an ounce of flour gold, it is worth it.

@48thstateprospecting

8 ай бұрын

And where in North America are you California mother load?

@ProgenexVideos

4 ай бұрын

So you are in Dahlonega?

@lisasolis7399

4 ай бұрын

How much money do you get for an ounce of flour gold?

@Paul-ns8fr

4 ай бұрын

You must live in cali or colorado

@Ron-ni8uu

2 ай бұрын

You gotta love those finds😊

I learned more from You in 9 minutes than from all the so called experts in 60 years..great panning there!!!!!!

After watching the hard work that goes into mining and extracting precious metals like gold, I understand why my old man always said that the stock market is the closest man has gotten yet to alchemy. Creating stupendous amounts of money out of thin air. Humanity always wanted it easy lol!

@user-zg3rg3ng2k

8 ай бұрын

Hahaha. Very true. The big brains behind that money machine sure do know how they did it.

@rajeshrajan6200

8 ай бұрын

Not so fast. I have done my fair bit of prospecting in there. Lost over $30,000. I can conclusively say that it didn’t PAN OUT well for me :)

@edwardratcliffe9177

8 ай бұрын

Lol. Tell that to the Warren Buffet’s and Charlie Munger’s. Actually some others are good. Cathy Wood predicted a rise in oil prices due to the Ukraine situation. My own adviser Mary Elizabeth Huxley also predicted that precious metals will go up during a recession after the pandemic. My portfolio has grown over $400,000 in 8 months so I guess some are better at prospecting stocks than others

@rajeshrajan6200

8 ай бұрын

Sounds great. I can’t get into Warren’s portfolio anyway to see how he does it. Does this Mary cater to private clients or is she institutional

@edwardratcliffe9177

8 ай бұрын

She’s as personal as it can get. Worked in Merrill Lynch and manages individual portfolios. She’s the best bet if you are looking for something personal. I can't drop her number here but she has a publicly available website where you can reach her

Hi buddy, I always check the outside bend across from any inside bend that I find gold on. The reason I do this is because if there is a large crevice or outcrop of bedrock on the outside bend, then there would have been some back eddies and low pressure areas downstream of said outcrop. And the crevice would act as a riffle. I like your ability to think outside the box. As always, thanks for you output

@akakscase

8 ай бұрын

Outside bends tend to get blasted clear of any fines, but I always check the ones in my areas because those are the nugget or nothing zones. I’ve pulled some fairly decent nuggets out of those areas, but you also have to be in an area where nugget are known to be.

Chris has a secret weapon no other prospector has , is it his years of knowledge , his pan handling skills , NO .he has a Gadzee ,a mythical creature born in the bush , who feeds on gold and likes .

@buckshotprospector

8 ай бұрын

Ka kaaaaw

@Bottledflower

8 ай бұрын

Here you go little fella, hope this like tastes good! :) @@buckshotprospector

@buckshotprospector

8 ай бұрын

@@Bottledflower nom nom nom 😋

@tankmeltedargon8831

8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

Got a secret for you Chris. I hunt around power poles in areas like Kilkivan and Eidsvold. The deep excavation has been done, and the piles of pay dirt are ready for the taking, easy to classify too. I usually get gemstones, but have hit gold in the right areas, usually where power lines hug the road over old river beds. Give it a try, I've got some nice sapphires and gold for my efforts.

@lefish5277

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for the suggestion!

I once stole a pack of hubba bubba while shopping with my mum. I was so nervous that I never ate it and mum found it and gave it back to me after washing my shorts. I’ve never told anyone this so keep it a secret! I like the deepest section in a narrow part of the creeks. Cheers Chris 👍👍

@buckshotprospector

8 ай бұрын

What flavor hubba bubba j to da M?

@piratescrew1869

8 ай бұрын

@@buckshotprospector well grape of course! It feels good to finally tell someone.

@buckshotprospector

8 ай бұрын

@@piratescrew1869 grape is certainly well worth the crime and time in the big house. I'll call crime stoppers now 😃

@Aaron_Hanson

8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 I knew it had to be grape flavoured…I would never have risked it for strawberry or that watermelon shit that flopped 😂

@piratescrew1869

8 ай бұрын

@@buckshotprospector can I please use a snippet from your last video?

I'm a new prospector and I've been studying a lot on youtube. Thank you so much! This info is super helpful, specially since Ive been going to the river and watching videos, repeat, so I get to put into practice the things I learn online. What you mention here is some knew knolwedge I can put into practice since the river I go to in Colombia, theres A LOT of people looking for gold, so I need to find the untouched areas where these people havent looked. So, thank you!

One of the best deposits I've found in the states was where a small river dumps into a lake, right at the end where the current started to slow

@mochissin84m84

4 ай бұрын

i live in utah im going to try that for sure!

@rosieeye6812

4 ай бұрын

Ty! Lake greenwood sc! Our lake is filled almost up with sediment from Greenville sc, New construction...not our lake I mean the mouth of the reedy river where it meets the lake. How deep should I dig

@buckaroooutdoors1794

4 ай бұрын

@@rosieeye6812 I'm not sure, I would assume you'd have to get past the sediment

Still unlikely to go panning but thank you for allowing me to live vicariously through you

Another great video Chris, filled with valuable information for new Prospectors to learn from. Mark from Melbourne Australia

Thanks for sharing Chris.

Great job, Chris. I'll be checking those high muddy flood spots more often.

i went to daylsford yesterday with my dad to do some panning at the blow hole and along sailors creek but we only found a single tiny speck and 3 possible tiny flakes. im happy i found gold for the first time but i think ive done something majorly wrong along the way. it always looks so easy when someone else does it and i have a new deep appreciation for all gold panners out there

“Gravity still works here” LOL

Hey that was awesome, I appreciate that you took the time to share finding gold outside of the normal places that everyone looks. I have wondered if those areas would possibly hold gold, I also know that not all places like that will hold it. That is why it's called prospecting and not a big red arrow that says dig here for gold. Thanks again for the informative video Chris, stay safe and happy hunting.

Again thanks for new prospecting spots on creeks.

Awesome Chris, always always great to keep learning!!

Im always forgetting about bench deposits! Really great video bud. Thanks for the reminder! Hope your pans are heavy, and your pack is light!

I have now been panning my river maybe 4 days a year am about 20 meters from where I started and about 1000 pans done I have found several flakes of gold and loads of treasures I will continue until am unable to get to the river and will continue testing the whole river even if I don't find the motherload ( isn't possible where I live ) I love just being out and about and the kids are starting to enjoy it so for them I will go to a more productive place to help spark the interest even more for them getting gold as a kid just has to be the most wonderfully magically thing and your in nature to boot was a great video Chris as always

@13fyrefli

8 ай бұрын

I’ve been panning for over a year and have found like two specks. I just love doing it, even if I live in a small gold state (US).

Thanks for that Chris, your information is so helpful , 🤙

Thank you for a good video. I have never panned for for gold, but have secured gold from miners who recovered gold from quartz deposits, a different method of recouping gold. Back in the 70's and early 80's gold prices were high then, not as high as now, but it was worth buying and selling. I wish I were younger and so inspired to look for it again.

Over and over you deliver. Man I just can’t fathom how you sleep when you have ideas for videos like this dancing in your head.

I go up to the library and I look at old maps of the area that I'm in and compare them of maps of today you would be amazed on how Rivers change course not necessarily by earthquakes but by landslides and flooding and then you're the only prospector out there putting the dirt in buckets checking in at home panning it out in the backyard taking your gold down to the gold market and fetching a pretty good price😂😮😅😊😊❤❤❤

@daleparker4207

8 ай бұрын

Very informative. Thank you.

@akakscase

8 ай бұрын

This is a trick I use too. A lot of the creeks and river in my area get “moved” around by various means (earthquakes being the root cause of most of them) and it is always fun to go and check the old river channels for deposits. I also run guided trips on some pretty substantial rivers in my area and surprise the people I’m guiding with pulling gold out of most of them. It never ceases to amaze them when we stop for lunch, I grab my pan and in the course of about 15 minutes have a neat little pile of gold sitting in a pan for them to gawk at. My most successful areas are those where the river has moved from one channel to another.

@scruggsbuster9458

8 ай бұрын

@@akakscase no it is not a trick. doing my exploring around the desert you learn what to look for round River Rocks .if a river doesn't run through their the rocks are usually Jagged they're not round found an ancient waterfall as I dug down over the course of months going out there every weekend on vacation started findings of Round Rock's boulders you drill into the big boulders break them apart over the course of five years of doing it I guess i make that I pulled out at least 5 to 8 oz and it's not about the the gold it's the adventure. I still do go up there occasionally and Feingold still it's my old ancient waterfall site😍👌

Great info Chris

First 😂, had a dig today. Didnt find much gold, but loved the dirve and the quet creek.

Thanks, this was great info and highly entertaining! Glad you didn't end up dropping your phone in the creek! lol! Enjoying your adventures! I am keen to go gold panning but being in a wheelchair means being inventive! So I am going to test the dirt and rocks in my backyard and some bunnings sand too (the agates in bunnings look great aye hehe), with the pan I'm going to buy! Practice makes perfect and you've gotta start somewhere. Gold!🪙The Price Is Right!

@akakscase

8 ай бұрын

From the sound of it you are in Australia. If you go to the websites Chris has mentioned there are several areas that are handi-accessible. Another option (one a friend of mine uses in America) is to get a smallish whitewater kayak (Pyrannha makes a few really good ones) that you can use to get up and down the creeks with and reach areas that you normally wouldn’t be able to. With a little practice you can kayak to a spot, dig and pan from the kayak. A few small modifications would allow you to haul quite a bit of gear with you too!

@tranquilvortex

8 ай бұрын

Thankyou, great suggestions! 😀

@markfryer9880

8 ай бұрын

​@@akakscaseYes, that was a great suggestion about the kayak. One of the open beach tyres could be the go. They also have spots to store stuff. Mark from Melbourne Australia

@tranquilvortex

8 ай бұрын

@markfryer9880 thanks so much! Good idea! 👍

@13fyrefli

8 ай бұрын

Have someone bring you buckets of material and pan it at your house. Last fall I brought a bunch home so I could pan all winter too. I wouldn’t mind grabbing a few extra buckets for a friend. 😊

Love your videos keep up the great work thanks from Scotland

Pretty cool video. Been meaning to go back to the town I grew up in. Can see where the river cut through almost a 100’ deep, and the river just moved exposing a couple acres worth of cobbles in a inside bend. Guy that owns that land for pasture is a old friend of the family.

Subscribed to both channels because I enjoy your humor and because Facebook cut an income source you needed, good stuff here!👍

My back yard and my panning tub are good places to check!

I've been searching for a decent YT show on where to start looking for gold in rivers and creeks especially here in Australia. And seriously yours is hands down easily the best, keep up the good work I'm lovin the channel👍

@VoGusProspecting

12 күн бұрын

Welcome aboard! Appreciate that

How dare you make me learn new things this late in the day

@trevdyer173

8 ай бұрын

Lucky they were interesting and fun things

Great video and tutorials! Keep up the great work!

Look where ever I can, first see if there is history of gold in the region! That really helps 😊😂 ❤it

Nice one 👍 I like to search where people aren’t mostly but still go to known areas and practice what I’ve learned in the few months I’ve been looking, it’s pretty neat finding gold in a flogged out area even if ya gotta work a little harder 💪😁

Okay, I won't fall in😂 As always, love your energy and your very clear and detailed yet accessible explanation.

Great video, it’s neat and cool you find gold all the time but this was very informative. Thank you for sharing.

Great video. Very informative.

Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for the great video! That was educational and looks like a lot of fun!

Always enjoy your videos, and Fern too..

“If you’re willing to *not* find gold” Amen! Love that.

As always a wealth of knowledge is our Mouldy lil Miner thanks Man!

Fun Geology lesson! Thank you!

Very supportive tip thanks 😊

Good advice, DGP .

This is great advice!

Fudge the haters. I love stuff like this. Keep it coming broski

Keep up the great work mate

Great video and information

I check moss and roots just to see if I should further my investigation on new creeks

Aye I did find this helpful and I'm following ya now !

Great content Chris. Being in the south of the UK we don't really have gold here but I will be going to north Wales to go prospecting soon.

@4:40 I was getting Steve Irwin vibes. Great video Chris!

Cletus: "'scuse me stranger, but yer trespassin' on mah dert-farm" lol.... hahaha vogus....nice spot that....u know what I did last summer :D Extra Credit for ahh keeping things jusssst out of frame hahaha ....I know that 'shelf'....

@petefallon8514

3 ай бұрын

😅

I love the Placer Tools pan! Could you do a video tutorial on that pan? There's only really one I've seen and it's not much explanation. I would love to know how to trust it to pan quickly, etc.

I go the Perth mint 😎, it's never failed me yet 😂. Great video Chris

@paulh1447

4 ай бұрын

Perth Mint premiums too high, try ABC or Jaggards in Sydney

Very awesome. Thanks very much from Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬

This is the video I needed to inspire me to get out there in the early spring weather. In the rocky mountains we have lots of good stuff up here. And she is starting to thaw out.

Chris thank you for choosing to be a Gold prospecting activist for social improvement! You’re always thinking of your fellow men and women, and helping them to get out and enjoy nature and to improve their financial stability! Chris, you are amazing and anyone who says otherwise is a troll and refuses to use acne medicine. Basically what I’m saying is that people who are trolls or mean SOBs cannot handle viewpoints that contradict their own, thereby trying to get other people to not listen to other viewpoints there by limiting there free will. Thank you Chris for being a champion for the masses. You rock!!!

Great video very informative.🤔

I haven’t but I’ve got some locations to look! Ever bit of information helps!

Did you borrow those waders from "Senor sweat pants?", you should do a sweat pants collaboration. 😂😂😂

@48thstateprospecting

8 ай бұрын

They did on gad zee’s channel

I do like your bush pantaloons

@dirkfrazier9779

8 ай бұрын

I don't know if I should give you a thumbs up, or run!

@trevdyer173

8 ай бұрын

@@dirkfrazier9779 why run?

@dirkfrazier9779

8 ай бұрын

@@trevdyer173 He likes my bush pantaloons!

@dirkfrazier9779

8 ай бұрын

Oh crap, it's you, and you are a stalker. Run!

I tried looking for gold everywhere but got 6 months, apparently cars prospecting in cars is called theft

@48thstateprospecting

8 ай бұрын

I did the incarceration thing for 10 months or so got out started at the bottom in construction as a laborer learned everything I could was a foreman 8 months later that was 26 years ago and I’ll never go back inside. It’s better out here

I found flour gold once in sand in the American River in CA. I was stoked.

Great job my friend 👍👌

awesome thanks have a wonderful day!

When you get a long dry spell and the creeks are low take your pan and a table spoon and go along and clean out the crevices on the creek bottom and along the sides you’ll be amazed at the amounts of gold you’ll find. Saw a guy get over Two and a half ounces in one afternoon doing this and the beauty of it after a couple of floods in the creek you can go back and do the same again.

Very good info bud second spot was something id prob look at and ignore lol 👍⚒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I love your channel we learn alot and u make it fun aswell so good on u .amazing job fantastic channel 👏 👌 👍

I love watching your video's

I'm in SL utah. Not a lot of places in the northern part besides Tibble fork. We have "fly poop" gold in the creek. I've found that actually outside of the bends is really good with small gold it's floating in the column and gets smashed up against the out side of a corner as the water tries to switch direction quickly. But we also don't have pickers so we are looking for micron gold but its a place people won't look at because as you said everyone knows "inside bend" think out the box and you'll be surprised from time to time.

Shhh it's a secret, in my backyard.

We have a Highway Overpass nearby and I recently realized that there is gold along a concrete rainwater diverter. It presents a rough spine which catches gold. The wind only blows in one direction due to the way the trees have grown. The sand fill under the bridge was dredged up from the creek (reason for the overpass) almost 65 years ago. So, the creek sand (deep bottom sand) has had wind blowing in one direction across it carrying it to the rough concrete spine where so much of it drops out. I grab my Milwaukee M18 wet/dry lunchbox vacuum and try to suck it up. Not huge success so far however I was fascinated by the explanation I came up with.

While scouting for visual gold signal during the dark night I found a golden teardrop behind a small plant that was growing. I had heard of them and finally found one. They form directly downhill behind a plant in the shape of a teardrop 2cm to 5cm wide. Fuk Freedom Units. If I hadn't been so excited I would have remembered to take a picture of it. DOH!

Thank you so much!!! After watching ur video I never ever imagine or anyone in my country to find gold so I find !!! In river 🎉🎉

Never tried it but I might give it a shot.

Great info. I wish I had a place to look for gold besides metal detecting on the beach.✌❤❤

Yes it was very helpful 😊

@VoGusProspecting

27 күн бұрын

I'm so glad!

Wow, man, I just stumbled across your chennal, and your videos are really, really good.

Thanks from Scotland

I absolutely absolutely 💯💯💯💪💪💪%%% Love the Content

I like to check the river for gold. However, I need to stop looking in the places I look and start looking in the places where I don't because I never find anything :(

@13fyrefli

8 ай бұрын

Same. I actually said the next time I go, when I see a place I think there may be gold, I’m going to the opposite side lol.

good to know gravity works always check that before you get to the wet part of the day....if it doesnt you need something other than a gold pan..... Excellent video Mr Chris . I am currently checking my driveway because. I am currently testing my driveway because I found ironstone in it....its not made of local stone and the bits that are , are glacial rubbles form the mountains on two sides ....I will let you know.

What a great video !

Turon river at Sofala NSW…

@Aaron_Hanson

8 ай бұрын

How awesome is that place 😍 It’s magical even without the gold! Cheers 🍻🍻🍻

We used to dive in the river with goggles and scrape the cracks between the stones and we would find little gold nuggets in there. We found many and me and my friend both made our wedding rings from that gold. We kept it in a metal container, some kind of green Chinese cough mints and we used it on me first, then, 2 years later, we made wedding rings for him as well. We still have 8 pieces left.

@VoGusProspecting

3 ай бұрын

I've tried that a few times, unfortunately in my area the geology means nuggets are fairly rare. Plenty of the fine gold though!

Thanks mate. Very useful. Is there gold deposits in the Hunter Region that you know o

Come down here to Florida and pan some of our creeks

I did a lot of prospect in growing up with my dad and I got to tell you panning is extremely hard on your knees your legs and your back boy howdy, and you better have the patience of an oyster

'Juicy pants'.... 😂😂❤

hahahahhaha i loveeee that lineeee!!!! gravity still work here damn!!!! that was good

How did you start prospecting? Where did you start? I want to have a go buy im unsure of where to start

i check the bend around jewelry counters. 12 gauge sluice blox to the rescue

Usually I just check between the cushions on the couch

If you wanna find gold, don’t go where I go. I’ve tried a dozen times & found everything but gold 😅

@tylernewcombe1493

8 ай бұрын

Same here

@akakscase

8 ай бұрын

But that is how you learn. You haven’t failed, you have learned what areas not to look in. Now take that skill, get to the local library or archive, find good maps of the area (current) and compare them to the older maps of previous gold workings in your area. Also look for other mines, especially gemstone, as many of those deposit in the same manner as gold. Maybe take a course on local geology, and most important…. Keep trying. You check an area, and find nothing. Try checking just after winter, or just after some heavy rains. All sorts of things can move the gold around and put it in places that you might have already checked. I had a claim in south Alaska that I would only go to twice a year. There were two large crevices that I would empty and find fairly decent gold in on each visit. Once right after the snow melted from the winter; avalanches from higher up the mountain would drag the material up there down, and in the process of melting would deposit the gold in the crevice. And once in late fall; summer heat would melt the snow on the surrounding mountains and the river would flood, but by late fall the snow on the mountains would begin freezing again and the water level would drop low enough for me to get in there and clear it again.

@damonzilliox2751

8 ай бұрын

Do you live in a gold bearing area?

@13fyrefli

8 ай бұрын

Same. I’ve panned for a solid year and found like two specks lol. But both of those were recently so I think I may be improving. Or I’m just getting luckier. I also live in a tiny gold area, though.

@aleisterlavey9716

27 күн бұрын

Did you find my left sock?