What makes you say that? I use as many buckets for the initial feed as I have, but I do shovel out of the concrete mixing tubs, and then shovel out of them when I rerun the tailings as well. What difference do you think it makes? Just the little bit that falls out of the shovel on transit? Thanks again for checking out my video, makes my day to know you watched it. Love your stuff.
IMO I brake for bedrock are the top dogs for dry washing, I’m not arguing. The vast majority of what I know about dry washing came from them. However like most things in life it’s better to understand the why behind something rather than just accepting a truth. I use plenty of 5 gallon buckets to feed. Ironically I had just bought the tubs this trip to make emptying the riffle trays easier, since the 5 gallon buckets are too tall and the 2 gallons not wide enough. And P.S. thanks for the subscribe and taking the time to respond
@@LearntoProspectGoldenAce the easiest way for me to put it into words: when you shovel 100 times above your waist and twist it’s a lot more work than filling buckets and dumping them into the top of your drywasher, less physical work and more efficient for continuous feeding of material
Ayyy. There we go, thank you. There’s definitely some logic there. As someone with mild scoliosis I’ll definitely take that into consideration. That’s one point I always like to make about finding more gold. There’s a few factors that determine how much gold we find. What’s in the dirt, method of prospecting, time to spend, and physical energy available. Improving that physical efficiency can add up in the vial. Thanks for the input 🙏
Yessir. Just got to find those cracks that are perpendicular to the flow of the current. Those are the true treasure chests. Thanks for watching amigo!
Great video AUstin. You are putting an X on the where and the how of Greyback. That will kickstart a lot of new prospectors. Like the idea of not using gasoline too. Love the gold shots and the shots of the machine running. Thanks for sharing. Heavy Pans.
Dude, That lil shaker flow control rod is a Absolute Great Idea for the plugging prone Royals! I like it!! 👍 I cut out the diamond mesh on my Royal,(it let in to much long jagged rocks n twigs like a royal beaver dam! Haha and now have a 1/4" stainless cloth.. like (Adam n Boulderdash) have on one of their Keene's... Our SoCal club claims, have smallz n pickers.. so for me, any gold bigger than 1/4, a detector should find... i do like that flow control rod tho.. whata great lil add on! I also use a 18" Paint Roller PAN.. it lays flat against the Royal legs and under the riffle box and has a handle.. it works decently... :) Good Video. Wtg.
Ah ya. A pain roller pan is a smart solution too. And the anti clog flow rod is fantastic, much love to my buddy Doyle for making it for me. Wish I was the one smart enough to come up with it 😂. Funnily enough I cut that 2” hole in the back of my hopper the week before I met him as I use to try and jam a stick or screwdriver like everyone else to try and unjam it. But hey, now it works as another angle for filming 🤦♂️. Thanks so much for the kind words and support!
I frequent that area but further up the bank. The whole area is awesome. Maybe we’ll bump into each other someday? I’ll be out there this week. 9 hour drive but it’s worth it! Thanks for sharing 👍😎🤠
Ya the whole claim is awesome, the title of the video is definitely legit. I hope so, from one Texan to another, get ‘r done. Not sure the next time I’ll be out there, going to be house sitting in Colorado for a bit. I’ll be back for sure though, met the most awesome prospecting buddies out there compared to anywhere. 🤠
Good stuff. But I'm more fascinated with your power setup. Are you AZ, CA or NV? If you were close I'd love to check it out. I'm only Slightly knowledgeable in that area. 😎
The video was filmed in NM, but I’m currently house sitting in Denver, CO. And ya the power setup was something I’d been thinking about, but the trigger got pulled when my storage unit in Reno NV got robbed. They stole my nice gas leaf blower, a cordless dewalt vac, and a few other perfect things to pawn. Since I drive an Outback, carrying gas sucks with my limited payload and obviously not wanting to smell it. What questions did you have? Always tough in videos. Don’t want to spend too much time on one thing. People don’t want to see too much shoveling, too much talking, too much explaining on gear, only thing you can’t show too much of is gold!
You're correct, it does have that ability. When reading through the instruction manual it did suggest not to do so. I'm inept when it comes to electrical stuff so I've been leaning on the side of caution most of the time. Occasionally I have used it while charging, but generally try to avoid it. I rarely do run out of power though. I can do at least 3 full runs one one full charge, so as long as I get a little charging time after prospecting for the day and while I'm waking up in the morning it's nearly endless power. Only once I have I run out to the point where it kept me from prospecting. Thanks for the input though, I'll look into it further in the future. Hope you enjoyed regardless!
@@LearntoProspectGoldenAce I have the same Jackery. Purchased it for camping with my C-pap machine but plan to use it for prospecting as well. Light weight and simple to use. Well worth the money.
I definitely agree, turns out you get what you pay for. I basically lived off it for a couple months in the NM desert. Charged my laptop for movies at night, my phone, and my blower for the drywasher. One of my favorite pieces of prospecting gear. Thanks for watching!@@michaelspring3915
GPAA mean Gold Prospecting Association of America. It's the largest gold prospecting club and has a really large amount of claims ~300 all over the country (though mostly in the Western US). It's one of, if not the cheapest clubs to join given their scale. It's the way I started, and many others, as they do large meetings where 100+ people meet up to do a group dig. That's a great way to start as everyone there is really open to sharing advice about how to get started, the limited gear you should start out buying, and giving you some good places to start digging. My membership cost is $7/mo currently. Others will argue that the claims are no good as the amount of gold you can find isn't as high as if you own your own claim. That may be true, but as evidenced in this video the gold is still there. For $7 I find it extremely hard to complain. The effort involved in finding your own claim is significant, lengthy, a little bit expensive, and very overwhelming for someone just getting started. I'd highly recommend signing up for GPAA as your first place to start, and then in the future look at other groups or finding your own claim. Good luck!
You're very welcome. I appreciate your sincere question that I'm sure many others have wondered as well. It's an awesome hobby, with tons to learn and a really unique sense of satisfaction. I hope you get to enjoy it for many years to come and hopefully my UA-cam channel as well. Thanks for the support!
Hello my friend a word of advice. Be careful about posting gpaa stuff. I was harassed in cali and even had my life threatened an then a group of individuals have chased me off a deposit I pulled along of big nuggets oz+ size. Now the site has been taken and I don't dare go out there as I'm followed around now as well. Be careful, they claim I'm crazy but thats not so I have there plait #s as well as witnesses to there activity but the law will not help till there's a body.. I tried...
Unfortunately you’re not wrong, I recently had two guys 40+ y/o firing off their 9mm with me and my tent 100 yds to one side and another couple 50 yds on their other side. Heard the ricochets whizzing by me as they shot into the bedrock… Needless to say they got an earful. I do appreciate there’s risk in sharing, but I’m a gold miner, semi pro poker player (hence the name Golden Ace), financial advisor, and lifelong gun enthusiast. I’m not afraid of risk and I’m unwilling to let some entitled punks take away my happiness or keep me from sharing it with others. I wish them luck if it comes down to it. When I trained for a concealed handgun license back when it was required in Texas, out of the 40 ppl in the class, only myself and 2 others would scare me. I’ll just have to hope they are one of the 37. Stay safe out there brother! 💪
You were on a GPAA Claim? If you're a member nobody can tell you anything. Call the Owner, BLM/FS and Sheriff will come get them out of there.. which claim is it?
@@LearntoProspectGoldenAce @lostminer didn't specify if it was a GPAA claim(guessing not) or abandoned, but if it had ounce + nuggets like they claimed, why would they not have first staked it and claimed it? Even Hiring a staking company would cost about half of one ounce, so that is fishy and makes no sense to make a bonanza discovery and not stake claim on it immediately. So unless @lostminer provides proof, I'm calling bs. Furthermore that's why I asked where the location is. If they are afraid that's fine, but I'll do due diligence and see what the status is and go from there. It's very simple after that.
I just assumed given his warning about posting GPAA footage that he was implying it was a GPAA claim, however you’re right that he never said so outright. Always hard to say what’s real/fake online in a video, let alone in comments. Guess we’ll never know, but it would make a little sense to be threatened when the gold is at least really good. I certainly wasn’t coming after you by any means. Just saying it’s not always easy to get justice in the boonies. In my life the law has been more interested in arresting for meaningless stuff than actually helping. I decided not to drunk drive in Dallas one time, and tried to just walk home. I was too drunk, so I passed out on a park bench. They arrested me for “sleeping in public”. Yes that’s illegal in Dallas. Justice was definitely served. But hey when they I got robbed in Reno they wouldn’t even take my 911 call report. Justice at its finest.
Oh nice, hadn't heard of that claim before. Been a while since I've looked around the NM map of claims for GPAA, so it seems that's a fairly recent addition. I see the comment on the website you're referring to. Generally there isn't supposed to be locked gates on public (BLM land), so if you encounter that I'd contact the local BLM office. You should be able to pass through, but I'm not an expert so I'd double check with them. I also noticed the claim owner commented on the claim info and mentioned to avoid using GPS to drive in as it'll mislead you, so be careful that you're prepared for the trek. Good luck on both claims! P.S. Greyback is the easiest claim to access that I've ever been to. Right off a well maintained highway and probably only 300 yrds of graded gravel road that any 2x4 car can drive into.
The easiest and most beneficial way to find the most concentrated pockets of placer gold is to learn how to dowse for gold. Read and study the book, The Art of Dowsing - Separating Science from Superstition ($14.95), for learning all of the physics involved in dowsing and how to build the modern light weight ball bearing dowsing rod, which is the only dowsing rod that accurately gauges what is being dowsed by pitting the energy of gravity against the energizing of the one-tenth ounce dowsing rod load that is attached on the elevated acetylene welding rod, with being located five-inches from the hub's shaft. This precisely gauges the dowsing of all edges, exact center, depth buried with angle of deposition, and most important is grading of the sought element that is contained in the elemental mass that is being dowsed. Anybody can become a professional dowser by practicing the book's dowsing lessons of buried pipelines and electrical cables, tunnels and voids, precious metal placer and lode deposits, dowsing for treasure, dowsing for any element, amplified long distance dowsing from a moving vehicle, and dowsing on water from a boat. I hope dowsing enriches your life and have a safe, healthy, good day.
No. The easiest way is to learn hydrodynamics and geology, then study the area you are searching. The mining history of the area and what was carrying the gold is also important. I have never seen any evidence dowsing works and there are rewards out there for anyone who can locate a deposit using dowsing, to this day no one has successfully claimed those rewards.
As an atheist I definitely have a hard time believing in something like dowsing. However not sure if I’d say learning hydrodynamics or geology are easy pursuits either. I’d say for those who aren’t classically educated, the best way I’ve learned how and where to expect gold falling is via gold sniping. My next video will be a gold sniping video filmed in metro Denver, and seeing how heavies actually move and accumulate in different spots can be really illuminating. Thanks to you both for taking the time to comment and hope you enjoy all that’s to come as well!
Keep using the buckets. Dont shovel directly into the hopper
What makes you say that? I use as many buckets for the initial feed as I have, but I do shovel out of the concrete mixing tubs, and then shovel out of them when I rerun the tailings as well. What difference do you think it makes? Just the little bit that falls out of the shovel on transit? Thanks again for checking out my video, makes my day to know you watched it. Love your stuff.
@@LearntoProspectGoldenAce Try it... Trust Adam
IMO I brake for bedrock are the top dogs for dry washing, I’m not arguing. The vast majority of what I know about dry washing came from them. However like most things in life it’s better to understand the why behind something rather than just accepting a truth. I use plenty of 5 gallon buckets to feed. Ironically I had just bought the tubs this trip to make emptying the riffle trays easier, since the 5 gallon buckets are too tall and the 2 gallons not wide enough. And P.S. thanks for the subscribe and taking the time to respond
@@LearntoProspectGoldenAce the easiest way for me to put it into words: when you shovel 100 times above your waist and twist it’s a lot more work than filling buckets and dumping them into the top of your drywasher, less physical work and more efficient for continuous feeding of material
Ayyy. There we go, thank you. There’s definitely some logic there. As someone with mild scoliosis I’ll definitely take that into consideration. That’s one point I always like to make about finding more gold. There’s a few factors that determine how much gold we find. What’s in the dirt, method of prospecting, time to spend, and physical energy available. Improving that physical efficiency can add up in the vial. Thanks for the input 🙏
Looking good man, the arroyo flowed this year big and most the bottom cracks refilled. Should be some great crack action there this summer!
Yessir. Just got to find those cracks that are perpendicular to the flow of the current. Those are the true treasure chests. Thanks for watching amigo!
Great video AUstin. You are putting an X on the where and the how of Greyback. That will kickstart a lot of new prospectors. Like the idea of not using gasoline too. Love the gold shots and the shots of the machine running. Thanks for sharing. Heavy Pans.
Thanks big guy. The endless chase continues! Got to love a claim where it’s not IF you find gold, but rather HOW MUCH you find 👍
Yeah gas is for them fellers trying to ‘splode some sheet, gotta take it easy n’ such
The video at the end is really good too
Dude, That lil shaker flow control rod is a Absolute Great Idea for the plugging prone Royals! I like it!! 👍
I cut out the diamond mesh on my Royal,(it let in to much long jagged rocks n twigs like a royal beaver dam! Haha
and now have a 1/4" stainless cloth.. like (Adam n Boulderdash) have on one of their Keene's...
Our SoCal club claims, have smallz n pickers.. so for me, any gold bigger than 1/4, a detector should find...
i do like that flow control rod tho.. whata great lil add on! I also use a 18" Paint Roller PAN.. it lays flat against the Royal legs and under the riffle box and has a handle.. it works decently...
:) Good Video. Wtg.
Ah ya. A pain roller pan is a smart solution too. And the anti clog flow rod is fantastic, much love to my buddy Doyle for making it for me. Wish I was the one smart enough to come up with it 😂. Funnily enough I cut that 2” hole in the back of my hopper the week before I met him as I use to try and jam a stick or screwdriver like everyone else to try and unjam it. But hey, now it works as another angle for filming 🤦♂️. Thanks so much for the kind words and support!
@@LearntoProspectGoldenAce Doyle s genious idea no doubt....👍
Gotta get to them rocks early
Will be heading back there in September or October. Good job man! Good luck on your next venture!
Thanks! Ya it’s undoubtedly a great claim. Appreciate the kind words and hope you knock it out of the park when you make it back.
when the moon doth reach its summer peak will the gravel shovel the shiny bits of glory. Glory apon you.
I frequent that area but further up the bank. The whole area is awesome. Maybe we’ll bump into each other someday? I’ll be out there this week. 9 hour drive but it’s worth it! Thanks for sharing 👍😎🤠
Ya the whole claim is awesome, the title of the video is definitely legit. I hope so, from one Texan to another, get ‘r done. Not sure the next time I’ll be out there, going to be house sitting in Colorado for a bit. I’ll be back for sure though, met the most awesome prospecting buddies out there compared to anywhere. 🤠
Im very new signed up for gpaa, gong to prospect it this week
Welcome to your newest addiction. You're choosing a great place to get started. Best of luck!
Good stuff. But I'm more fascinated with your power setup. Are you AZ, CA or NV? If you were close I'd love to check it out. I'm only Slightly knowledgeable in that area. 😎
The video was filmed in NM, but I’m currently house sitting in Denver, CO. And ya the power setup was something I’d been thinking about, but the trigger got pulled when my storage unit in Reno NV got robbed. They stole my nice gas leaf blower, a cordless dewalt vac, and a few other perfect things to pawn. Since I drive an Outback, carrying gas sucks with my limited payload and obviously not wanting to smell it.
What questions did you have? Always tough in videos. Don’t want to spend too much time on one thing. People don’t want to see too much shoveling, too much talking, too much explaining on gear, only thing you can’t show too much of is gold!
Solar panels those are pretty cool
Shout out from G p a a flat foot Quartzsite arizona
Ayyyyy, thanks for the love. On this Thanksgiving week I'm thankful for people like yourself reminding me I need to get back to work filming. Thanks!
Doesn’t that Jackery have pass through charging. You should be able to run the panels while using it. Extend your run time
You're correct, it does have that ability. When reading through the instruction manual it did suggest not to do so. I'm inept when it comes to electrical stuff so I've been leaning on the side of caution most of the time. Occasionally I have used it while charging, but generally try to avoid it. I rarely do run out of power though. I can do at least 3 full runs one one full charge, so as long as I get a little charging time after prospecting for the day and while I'm waking up in the morning it's nearly endless power. Only once I have I run out to the point where it kept me from prospecting. Thanks for the input though, I'll look into it further in the future. Hope you enjoyed regardless!
@@LearntoProspectGoldenAce I have the same Jackery. Purchased it for camping with my C-pap machine but plan to use it for prospecting as well. Light weight and simple to use. Well worth the money.
I definitely agree, turns out you get what you pay for. I basically lived off it for a couple months in the NM desert. Charged my laptop for movies at night, my phone, and my blower for the drywasher. One of my favorite pieces of prospecting gear. Thanks for watching!@@michaelspring3915
Can anyone go on a gpaa claim? I'm JUST starting to get intrigued by this all and have heard of gpaa but don't even know what it is or means?
GPAA mean Gold Prospecting Association of America. It's the largest gold prospecting club and has a really large amount of claims ~300 all over the country (though mostly in the Western US). It's one of, if not the cheapest clubs to join given their scale. It's the way I started, and many others, as they do large meetings where 100+ people meet up to do a group dig. That's a great way to start as everyone there is really open to sharing advice about how to get started, the limited gear you should start out buying, and giving you some good places to start digging.
My membership cost is $7/mo currently. Others will argue that the claims are no good as the amount of gold you can find isn't as high as if you own your own claim. That may be true, but as evidenced in this video the gold is still there. For $7 I find it extremely hard to complain. The effort involved in finding your own claim is significant, lengthy, a little bit expensive, and very overwhelming for someone just getting started. I'd highly recommend signing up for GPAA as your first place to start, and then in the future look at other groups or finding your own claim. Good luck!
@@LearntoProspectGoldenAce You are AWESOME! Thank you. $7 is definitely worth it just for the learning and networking. I appreciate it!
You're very welcome. I appreciate your sincere question that I'm sure many others have wondered as well. It's an awesome hobby, with tons to learn and a really unique sense of satisfaction. I hope you get to enjoy it for many years to come and hopefully my UA-cam channel as well. Thanks for the support!
Hello my friend a word of advice. Be careful about posting gpaa stuff. I was harassed in cali and even had my life threatened an then a group of individuals have chased me off a deposit I pulled along of big nuggets oz+ size. Now the site has been taken and I don't dare go out there as I'm followed around now as well. Be careful, they claim I'm crazy but thats not so I have there plait #s as well as witnesses to there activity but the law will not help till there's a body.. I tried...
Unfortunately you’re not wrong, I recently had two guys 40+ y/o firing off their 9mm with me and my tent 100 yds to one side and another couple 50 yds on their other side. Heard the ricochets whizzing by me as they shot into the bedrock… Needless to say they got an earful.
I do appreciate there’s risk in sharing, but I’m a gold miner, semi pro poker player (hence the name Golden Ace), financial advisor, and lifelong gun enthusiast. I’m not afraid of risk and I’m unwilling to let some entitled punks take away my happiness or keep me from sharing it with others. I wish them luck if it comes down to it. When I trained for a concealed handgun license back when it was required in Texas, out of the 40 ppl in the class, only myself and 2 others would scare me. I’ll just have to hope they are one of the 37. Stay safe out there brother! 💪
You were on a GPAA Claim? If you're a member nobody can tell you anything. Call the Owner, BLM/FS and Sheriff will come get them out of there.. which claim is it?
If only it were that simple. Just like you can’t always trust prospectors to do the right thing, same goes for law enforcement.
@@LearntoProspectGoldenAce @lostminer didn't specify if it was a GPAA claim(guessing not) or abandoned, but if it had ounce + nuggets like they claimed, why would they not have first staked it and claimed it? Even Hiring a staking company would cost about half of one ounce, so that is fishy and makes no sense to make a bonanza discovery and not stake claim on it immediately. So unless @lostminer provides proof, I'm calling bs. Furthermore that's why I asked where the location is. If they are afraid that's fine, but I'll do due diligence and see what the status is and go from there. It's very simple after that.
I just assumed given his warning about posting GPAA footage that he was implying it was a GPAA claim, however you’re right that he never said so outright. Always hard to say what’s real/fake online in a video, let alone in comments. Guess we’ll never know, but it would make a little sense to be threatened when the gold is at least really good. I certainly wasn’t coming after you by any means. Just saying it’s not always easy to get justice in the boonies.
In my life the law has been more interested in arresting for meaningless stuff than actually helping. I decided not to drunk drive in Dallas one time, and tried to just walk home. I was too drunk, so I passed out on a park bench. They arrested me for “sleeping in public”. Yes that’s illegal in Dallas. Justice was definitely served. But hey when they I got robbed in Reno they wouldn’t even take my 911 call report. Justice at its finest.
Im headed there next month, wanted to stop at Gold Skeye Seven, but i heard theres a locked gate in the way.
Oh nice, hadn't heard of that claim before. Been a while since I've looked around the NM map of claims for GPAA, so it seems that's a fairly recent addition. I see the comment on the website you're referring to. Generally there isn't supposed to be locked gates on public (BLM land), so if you encounter that I'd contact the local BLM office. You should be able to pass through, but I'm not an expert so I'd double check with them. I also noticed the claim owner commented on the claim info and mentioned to avoid using GPS to drive in as it'll mislead you, so be careful that you're prepared for the trek. Good luck on both claims!
P.S. Greyback is the easiest claim to access that I've ever been to. Right off a well maintained highway and probably only 300 yrds of graded gravel road that any 2x4 car can drive into.
The easiest and most beneficial way to find the most concentrated pockets of placer gold is to learn how to dowse for gold. Read and study the book, The Art of Dowsing - Separating Science from Superstition ($14.95), for learning all of the physics involved in dowsing and how to build the modern light weight ball bearing dowsing rod, which is the only dowsing rod that accurately gauges what is being dowsed by pitting the energy of gravity against the energizing of the one-tenth ounce dowsing rod load that is attached on the elevated acetylene welding rod, with being located five-inches from the hub's shaft. This precisely gauges the dowsing of all edges, exact center, depth buried with angle of deposition, and most important is grading of the sought element that is contained in the elemental mass that is being dowsed. Anybody can become a professional dowser by practicing the book's dowsing lessons of buried pipelines and electrical cables, tunnels and voids, precious metal placer and lode deposits, dowsing for treasure, dowsing for any element, amplified long distance dowsing from a moving vehicle, and dowsing on water from a boat. I hope dowsing enriches your life and have a safe, healthy, good day.
No. The easiest way is to learn hydrodynamics and geology, then study the area you are searching. The mining history of the area and what was carrying the gold is also important. I have never seen any evidence dowsing works and there are rewards out there for anyone who can locate a deposit using dowsing, to this day no one has successfully claimed those rewards.
As an atheist I definitely have a hard time believing in something like dowsing. However not sure if I’d say learning hydrodynamics or geology are easy pursuits either. I’d say for those who aren’t classically educated, the best way I’ve learned how and where to expect gold falling is via gold sniping. My next video will be a gold sniping video filmed in metro Denver, and seeing how heavies actually move and accumulate in different spots can be really illuminating. Thanks to you both for taking the time to comment and hope you enjoy all that’s to come as well!