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Dakota Prospecting
United States
Приєднався 8 кві 2020
Prospecting Adventure & History in the Black Hills of Dakota Territory .
Відео
Struck Gold in a Tree!
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A search for an abandoned gold claim in the Black Hills South Dakota.
Mile Marker 86 - Dakota Prospecting
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Explore a historic trail built in 1888 that threads its way through the heart of the Black Hills in South Dakota.
A Gold Mine With No Name
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Found a no name, unmarked gold mine on a hike back out from a prospect.
Big Placer Gold Operation
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A little known placer gold camp with a few surprises.
I Walked Into A Gold Mine Death Trap!
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The Last Gold Mill Frame In the Black Hills
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Journey back to the early days of gold mining as we survey the last standing gold mill frame in the Black Hills of Dakota Territory.
Uncovering The Secrets Of A 1893 Black Hills Gold Mine!
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Secrets of a 1893 Gold Mine In the Black Hills of South Dakota. Music: Happiness by Bensound.com
Uncovering the Custer 1874 Black Hills Expedition
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In this episode we hit the trail and go back in time to uncover relics of America's past.
Get More Gold With A Shaker Table Classifier / DIY
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A faster and more effective way to classify your material. Video mentioned above. ua-cam.com/video/lY94Fq1QXOY/v-deo.html 13:07 in the Timeline.
New Gold Found Deep In the Black Hills!
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A journey in search of gold in the Black Hills of Dakota Territory.
Gold Claw Gold Pan / Making it Better
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How to make the Gold Claw Gold Pan better.
Best Stainless Steel Gold Classifier
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A tough all stainless steel gold classifier for under $5 and a journey through Dakota Territory that ends at a gold mine.
Crazy Crusher Rock Crusher Mechanized / Part 1
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Mechanizing a Crazy Crusher Rock Crusher for hands free rock crushing. And crushing quartz rock for gold.
What a beautiful spot to explore 😍
Get a air monitor. A safety flame wont always cut it.
Carbie for latenrs
Need more of this content……excellent!
Beautiful Black Hills Great Video Got a brand new Trommel And no one to pardner up with I am 83 and dont want to prospect by myself anymore
It can be tough out there on your own. I like to bring my best four legged friend along. 🐕She's got my back when I'm bent over panning not seeing what might be creeping up from behind. 🐱
My dad taught me to pan for gold in the Black Hills in 1957. He learned from Potato Creek Johnny.
Wow, learning how to pan from Potato Creek Johnny, that's really something special!
Just came home from a trip out there. Before I had left, i had my panning set in my hand. Set it back down after persuading myself there's no reason to take it out there. Got there and was like 🤦 Beautiful landscapes out there. Enjoyed my road trip.
Gold is where you find it. And there's gold in the Black Hills. Looks like you found it! 🤠
great video. thanks
Thanks!🤠
Great video! Should make a satire version of the Blair witch project when the flame goes out and the lamp goes shortly after . Trying to find your way out but keep coming back to the same split.
More interesting than this video is a bulletin of the Agricultural Experimental Station of South Dakota State Univ. from 1974 entitled "Yellow Ore, Yellow Hair, Yellow Pine", which follows Custer's trail through the Black Hills and noting the changes that forest ecology has made in the century after Custer's expedition. It notes landmarks photographed by Custer's official photographer and shows them a hundred years later and documenting the changes wrought by forest management. Fascinating to those familiar with the area.
That's a mule shoe .
👍
That is a oxen shoe .
Hey, I am a fellow prospector from the black hills. I’ve grown up in the northern hills near deadwood and started panning a few years back. I enjoy watching your videos and I am wandering if you would be interested in communicating?
Love the black hills, just wondering what your canvas buckets are. I have never seen them before.
I cover the buckets in this video: (1:08 in the timeline.) ua-cam.com/video/AcRO5OnHQZo/v-deo.html 🤠
love your videos. never cheered so hard for someone to have some finds. The Black Hills are a magical place.
Thanks! That day I needed all the help I could get. 🤠⛏
Dakota Prospecting - great modification. I haven't seen anyone else use pedals and leverage to power a jaw crusher, always wondered why no one had attempted it. Great job!
Thanks, Dan! I tried working it using my arms but after a few hours of that I figured there just had to be a better way. 🤔🤗
Navy hat?!? Are you retired Navy? Retired YN1 myself. This was an incredible video. Thanks for the great insight.
SeaBees 🪖🛠
Keep in mind it's illegal to enter abandoned mines on Black Hills National Forest land. I wana say a fine is 10k... stay out stay alive
We would be super interested in where this mine is...
Carpenter here, more MacGyver, but sir this is engineering at its finest. Everyone Class is in session!
Thanks, Au! ⛏
Trout?
I'm told there is. 🐟But haven't dropped a line myself. 🤠
Explatorial ?
Is that under a claim right now? looks worthwhile to pull some samples and get some readings
Not as far as I know. There were no claim signs anywhere at that mine. Believe me, I looked. And no signs of anyone being there in a long while.
@@DakotaProspecting F3 has done a terrible job with their claim markers, can always check the mrls. Good luck prospecting!
Great video, loved seeing the old structures! Those placer fields are beautiful! My grandfathers both worked in the hills, one at the Homestake and the other was a forester! Thank you for sharing your adventures in the gorgeous Black Hills! Looking forward to seeing new ones👍⛏😊
That's cool you've got family history here. Glad you enjoyed it!
That was great!! The hills are beautiful and so many old mines! Keep exploring and sharing! 😍👍⛏
Thanks! 🙂
When you went to the end of the last hallway got to the end and got close to the hole I'm the ceiling. And you camera started to roll. I wanted to let you know that the only time I've seen that is with radiation. And those yellow sulfides on the wall look like radio active material. There are some footage of this stuff being tested in old mine shafts that could be a reason it's not on any maps Incase someone tried to visit
Interesting. Thanks.
@@DakotaProspecting no problem. You can find plenty of videos on UA-cam pretty easily. They test stuff pulled from mines and other tiles people have done experiments with things that end being radioactive. You'll literally see the footage roll it's kind of nuts but you'll get what I'm saying if you look it up
Where was this at
Where is this located? We just found one in the hills and want more to explore
Those cans look like what Potassium Cyanide came in. That sorted of what our Potassium Cyanide used to come in when I worked in a gold refinery back in the 1980’s. Do not breathe the dust. Deadly/Nasty stuff.
Thanks for the tip, Randy! Did Union Carbide manufacture Cyanide? Some of the cans I've seen like that had Union Carbide on the lids. 🤔
can be a pain to get stuff dry so it better sorts ...
Oxen
The majority of those trenches are the entrances to drift mines. There are 100's of feet of drifting on that bend. That placer belongs to a friend of mine. There are several times people placered in that area. That whole area is claimed up. You at the end were on the GPAA claim.
I'm located in the hills as well! Would love to go hit some spots with you.
Your not really being safe with just a safety flame light. You really need to get some modern safety equipment if your going to be doing this especially on your own without a partner
Why don’t you get a Digital air and gas meter
surprised that f3 didnt catch that in its blanket of the northern hills
Hey Bill, not sure what you mean. f3?
@@DakotaProspecting They are a small time exploration company that has laid blankets of claims all over the northen hills the last 3 years.
@@FSwoodworking715 Thanks! Learn something new every day. :)
Awesome looking location. The placer dig at the end sure looks like a GPAA claim that I recognize but shoot everything around here starts to look the same. Those train tunnels remind me of when I worked underground in an old limestone mine turned storage center, in western Pennsylvania. I remember the hard work that the scalers would do to remove loose overhead debris.
Well believe me I looked. And there were some pretty obvious places a guy would put up a claim. In the coal mines we called them "pinners", (scalers). As you know it was dangerous work as they were making it safe for the rest of us. I asked a guy who was driving roof bolts at a new open face why he did it. Yeah, sure the pay was great but the danger was very real too. He stopped his drill steel and looked me in the eye, which wasn't hard to do as you had to stand right up close to see a guy with the coal dust and all. He said 300 million years ago the sun was shining on that ground, and every time he stepped forward he knew he was the first human-being to have ever do so on that piece of ground. In your face Neal Armstrong. :-) :-)
What year do you think this mine was opened? Why wouldn't it be on any maps?
Maybe late 30's? Typically you find the hardrock mines on the maps. They tended to last long enough for the maps to be updated. But placer camps often pinched out in just a year or two. They also don't require the major capital investment and equipment as hardrocking. So, less attention. which is how them guys wanted it. Don't need them claim jumpers pushing in.
That nozzle might be a monitor nozzle for hydraulic mining.
Hey Hooahextreme, that's what I though at first. But Robert Viergutz below posted: "...that piece of pipe thing you found that's for a drill. A column drill. You have the column which looks like a big house jack. Then that piece bolts onto that horizontally. And then the drill bolts to that piece." I'm thinking he's got it right.
@@DakotaProspecting Now that you mention it I think I recall seeing pics of a drill with that piece.
If you are going to get serious about this invest in a good multi gas detector, I have been running a MSA altair4x and they are cheaper than you life and cover more than O2
What is the blue rock ?
Don't know, Nick. I didn't see any blue rock. It could be the gray schist rock that coming up a shade of blue under the LED lighting maybe.
Looks like you are in this because of your coal mining experience and love of exploration / mystery discoveries. I find that inter3esting too. I grew up near a reservation in that area along the Missouri river and was always fascinated about the mystical / supernatural regard the native people had for that area.
Radio Dued, There are areas of the Black Hills that feel supernatural for sure. It's no wonder the Lakota consider the Black Hills, Paha Sapa, sacred land.
I'm truly enjoying your video's, keep up the awesome content....
Thanks Leonard!
It was not black damp. Black damp is for coal mines. What you were in with sulfites. That's why all the rust. Some fights when they break down create one hydrogen sulfide and it exerts all the oxygen. So what you are in was low oxygen. What you did the right thing and turned around and got out of there that's why you need an oxygen monitor. Using a safety lamp in a mine like that is not that great. And that piece of pipe thing you found that's for a drill. A column drill. You have the column which looks like a big house jack. Then that piece bolts onto that horizontally. And then the drill bolts to that piece
That was a really great post. Thanks Robert! I would agree an electronic gas or oxygen indicator would be best suited for the general population. They also typically have some sought of audio or visual alarm unlike a flame safety lamp. To properly set up and operate a flame safety lamp requires training; which I have received in the mine. I carried one with me all the time. But the term "blackdamp" is commonly used to describe an asphyxiate, typically made up of two or more gases where oxygen has been removed from the air in enclosed environments such as mines, sewers, wells, tunnels and ships' holds. The cause and or type of gases present depends upon the type of mine it occurs in. In this situation, as you correctly pointed out, the main cause was hydrogen sulfide cause by oxidation. In a coal mine, where it is often found, it's typically made up of carbon dioxide, water vapor and or methane. No matter what you call it, it can and will kill you unless you act accordingly. Once again, I appreciate your post as perhaps we can save lives.
@@DakotaProspecting in hard rock mining we just call it bad air. in coal mining they call it black damp. but you are right.
The "Church Key" was patented in 1936. The BLM website has a page for identifying artifacts. "BLM Historic Artifact Guide'
Never knew they called a can opener a "church key". lol. Thanks for the tip on BLM!
Thank u !!!
You're welcome.
This was one adventure underground that was cool and exciting I enjoyed 😉
Thanks guys!
2nd yay!!!❤️
Cool!
It looks better since the we were there 2 years ago. Video is under my old channel Lee Hilton. Didn't see any water in the shaft this time, did they drain it? We love goin out to the Hills.
Didn't see any water down there. The Hills have been very dry this spring so I'm sure that has something to do with it. It has started raining again though. :)
@@DakotaProspecting yea we're in Mitchell right now. Fixin to be headin to West River very soon thou
Did people indigenous to the Black Hills of South Dakota get a percentage of the take from this or any other mines?
No, they got the shaft.
By this comment I hope you mean that they were screwed and not a play on words as a joke.
@@oleradiodudea.m.4735 They were not compensated in any way. However, in 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court held that an 1877 act of Congress, by which the United States wrested control of the Black Hills of South Dakota from the Sioux Indian Nation, constituted a "taking" of property under the Fifth Amendment, giving rise to an obligation to fairly compensate the Sioux. The Sioux/Lakota Nation refused the money; and to this day has held on to its position to have the land restored to them. (The 1877 act of Congress was a violation of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie between the United States and the Lakota Nation.)
@@DakotaProspecting They should settle for a nice sum as they will never get the land back. If we can shell out 50 billion for Ukraine....................................?