How Much Gold in 12 Hours of Wisconsin Mining?
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- This was a challenge to see how much gold I could find in 12 hours of mining in Wisconsin. prospecting and walking was included in the time. we had a good day!
There is a debate about the origin of this gold. Some say it was brought by a Meteorite. and others say it is glacial gold. Im in the glacial gold camp.
You're a natural at filming stuff like this. Not a gold guy, just an appreciator of good videos!
Thank you!
Ah yes, the message all along was the videos themselves being gold!
As a prospector of 8 years who has found over 12 ounces of gold, the best advice I can give any new prospector is to test, test, test. The more you know the area you are working the better results you will have. It is common for me to test pan for 2-3 days before I find an area I deem worth working.
I would imagine if you have the time to spend doing that it’s well worth it.
@@GlacialGoldHunter I don't have a ton of extra time, I have a job and just go mining in my spare time (weather permitting). I'm just in an area that has some really hot spots. I know it is different in Wisconsin.
Has anyone found any actual evidence for an impact? Seems an impact strong enough to move bedrock all around an area would have left quite the evidence, including metamorphic and igneous rock to go with the gold.
@@legonut78 no not necessarily. Metamorphic processes are generally regional and impact is small by comparison. They find evidence for an impact such as shock quartz and disrupted bedrock without any regional events.
@@legonut78 no not necessarily. Metamorphic processes are generally regional and impact is small by comparison. They find evidence for an impact such as shock quartz and disrupted bedrock without any regional events.
You're right about this video appealing to middle-aged men. I'm 70 and I liked it.
Spot on my friend. I'm 60 and loving this.
Im 27 and Im liking it😂
Heres what i got....... 40-42 , 5 gallon buckets equal 1 yard, 200 shovels equal 1,square yard. Gold is a yardage game, and yes how much gold is in the ground does matter also. Great job great channel. 👍 heavy pans my friend
I love your energy and enthusiasm. You’re actually quite knowledgeable and have good communication skills. Keep up the good work
Thank you!
I randomly found your channel and I'm so glad, I grew up playing in brooks like these, and you're showcasing a whole new reason to appreciate these places that I never knew! Thank you for helping spark a new hobby, much love, happy prospecting!
I never knew it was out there either until recently. It’s sure fun to get!
Had to respond to your video due to the fact that you seem like a real person doing fun stuff regardless of any profit or material gain. Now I can go find me some gold.. or not.
Just found your channel...I vicariously mine gold via UA-cam lol Thanks for the adventure.....
😆 welcome. I was the same until not long ago.
You should go out and do it for real instead of living your life through other people on the internet.
@@holdenbaldassi3697 OK officer doofy 😜🤪😜
From a former Wisconsin boy living in AZ....I'd recommend getting a head net hat....better than the fly paper. Thankfully....no mosquitos the size of buicks here in AZ!!! New subscriber here too.
Great job all around fam. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠
There are so many places to prospect!
Wow man, Great video, your channel is growing crazy fast! 21:52 you know what they say, "Never leave gold to find gold." Heavy pans!!
I haven’t heard that saying but I will remember it!
As a lifelong Wisconsin resident I had no idea you could find gold in Wisconsin!! You learn something new every day
I only recently learned myself.
@@GlacialGoldHunter I don't want to be too specific but as an avid canoer it looks like you are close to the Kickapoo? The SW part of the state is sparse on water. I'm from Lake Country in SE WI.
@@jaimhaas5170 kickapoo is much more clear than this water
Same. I'm on the East side of the state though
How? How is this even possible?
Must be a below hwy 29 thing.
Very well made video. I was there many years ago when I was first learning to pan. New subscriber!
Welcome to the show!
I never hunted for gold before, but your video had me engaged. Good job!
Glad you liked it!
I've watched many prospector videos from guys with names most would recognize where they collect a gram or 2 in 8 hours or snipe some good sized nuggets I found your video much more entertaining even knowing your final weight was going to be very small because like yiu said you got out there and enjoyed every second of it and a few colors in a pan was enough to get you excited . I believe you will fill that vile I hope yiu live long 3nough to do a second
Thank you! This is my favorite comment.
The best advice I can give you is go work save up buy a 4 Stack gold cube with the classifying trommel on top, off some place like Amazon they run $1200-1600 use that in a place like that and find out that you are quitting your day job and doing what you love for a living as a 15 year prospector I can tell you that you lose far more gold than you catch with a little sluice like that.. With the setup I am talking about there is no classifying. The equipment does the work for you and catches way more gold!
I’m sure that’s great but we can’t use mechanical sluices in Wisconsin.
Not sure how I found this video. I live in Wi.... guess i need to buy a gold pan. Lol
I can't agree more about the question " is it worth it?" It's a hobby, make me smile. We all have our things... I use a GPS to find tupperware in the woods.
I will have to try the tape for deer fly.
Cheers from the 920 of Wisconsin.
Being a pan with when you go geo cashing. You never know what you might find.
Love the videos and the fun your having. Also the humor has me laughing out loud.
I was going to say the leeches are great for fishing. My dad took me panning a few times always wanted to try again. Not only men watching...
That is wonderful! UA-cam tells my most of my audience is middle aged men but I’m glad that not entirely the case!
@@GlacialGoldHunterHi! Another woman interested in this. I'm in East Central MN on the Mississippi. My area has exposed granite nearby and gravel. Dig 2 ft in my yard and gravel - more like small rock. Along my land runs a 1000 ft spring fed creek in a 15 ft deep ravine with high output. It averaged about 1-2 ft deep and 40 ft wide at the mouth. It's lower now d/t a city well a mile away straining the water table (sprinklers watering monoculture lawns, long showers, hot tubs, pools, overpopulation). Near the spring are small rocks stained presumably with iron, covered with black sludge. Farther down toward the river, more sand with sludge. I'm on a reservoir, so I'm assuming this creek ran deeper over rock into a lower river, and the lower part has filled with sand and silt leveling the bed. There was a large sandbar at the mouth that had a damming effect. The DNR stupidly allowed a neighbor to excavate most of it for better river access. 35 yrs later they said the permit shouldn't have been granted as river water and silt have infiltrated the mouth, and there's a bit of a quicksand situation (I've gotten stuck, and while still sinking was able to get out thanx to a tree branch. Had to dig out the waders!). Also there's a clay layer about 20 ft - know this from driving wells. So, given all that, any prospects in my backyard? The creek is right there and it might be a fun hobby. 😊
"but we're still having fun" gotta be the best slogan on any youtube channel rn. lol
Oh man. This is awesome video and editing haha. Had me rolling the whole time! I can’t wait till my sluice comes in. We are in the northwoods haha
Good luck! I haven’t found it in the north woods yet but I know it’s around.
@@GlacialGoldHunter absolutely, I know a couple spots because of getting in a really good friendship with some old timers around here
@@hippyhebrewhomestead8593 that's what I need to find. I just moved to Douglas County. no gold but maybe in Bayfield county. I haven't checked there yet.
Appreciate the extra geological knowledge. The drifless area is a fascinating area and i love when people go into detail about it.
Geology is cool.
Geology is cool.
The scenery and river sound is beautiful but 12 hours is a LONG day ... good job!
You crack me up! Gold or no gold!
That’s the goal.
Fun video, buddy. From Madison. Thanks.
Cool hobby! Thanks for all those private lessons years ago. I hope your well.
@@BlackbeltWoodcraft hey! Long time no see. Hope your training is going well!
I am not a gold prospector but love cutting stone. I go out sometimes and hunt for Wisconsin moonstone by Wausau Wi. After a rain when you drive on the road you will see blue moonstone flashes. The grave pit has moonstone and they cover the side of the road with a red stone with moonstone mixed in. You can find moonstones by walking around after the rain looking for the blue flash!
Hell yeah just out having fun. People dont usually make money fishing either but will spend all weekend in a boat. Wi rivers are really good for recreation across the board. And many of them, like the Wisconsin River have campsites all along them .
This is like watching the curse of Oak Island, keep watching waiting for the big score.
We only get a little score in Wisconsin.
Cool video.
I’m along for the ride 🫡
Welcome!
I was just there about a month ago. Found some gold. Some spots are better than others. I do plan on going back to do a lot more. I wish the gold was better since I live near Chicago. Not to many places have gold out here.
Do you have any videos of Illinois prospecting?
Cool video. When i was in college at UW Eau Claire I came over here to check out the Rock Elm disturbance. An extremely rare mineral called reidite was discovered there, which has only been found in 5-6 other places on earth. It is a form of metamorphized zircon, which can only occur by a meteor. The faulted rock you pointed out is the outer reach of the impact area. The impact location is a small raised hill on private property. I found a nice piece of banded iron there.
Very cool! More knowledge!
great Video of one of my favorite spots in WIS. I get there about 2 times a month... and yes there are great little spots... I have had 30+ speck pans... but they are usually very small specks and in very small spots... but dig deeper too... glad to see you promote filling in your holes... yep... hip boots are a must... and yes... you'll fill that vial eventually... just gotta keep going!!!! good luck and heavy pans!!!!
Thank you, maybe I’ll see you out there sometime.
Yello from Wisconsin ❤ nice video. It was from the heat and pressure from the impact and with nugget lake having 3 glacial events that came through the area
Geology!
Bro your awesome keep up the hobby wish I had that time I’d be out every prospectin my asss off
You never know when you may stumble on a nugget !
You never know! Maybe next time!
Fly tape 😂 omg I'm subscribing
We got out two days last week and found a pretty good spot. The bugs weren't even that bad!
My understanding is that the meteorite didn't deliver the gold, but blasted the crust which left a fair amount on the surface.
Visually, to me, the gold looks different than the glacial micro gold dust. I bet a microscope would shed some light on the source and travel distance of the gold.
That’s an idea. More research is warranted.
Maybe you could get sponsored by top the tater. That’s Midwest’s gold right there
Heck yeah! I’d take that.
Idk anything except from videos but that sluice water speed seemed quite fast
I believe dream mats are meant to run fast.
Nice work, from Grub!
You’re at Nugget lake!! There’s good gold there but not many pickers. Great video sir!!!
I’ve have yet to find a picker!
A soothing voice, anice creek, a little bit of gold...perfect video : )
Thank you! 😊
I like the George insertion
You said it all well said thanks for the video God bless you and your family amen
It does look very enjoyable. I LOVE hanging out in a good old creek. Making any $ would be a bonus.
Yeah no money is made. But it’s just fun to find the specks.
Love your "ad"! Go man go...
Trying to ask for likes in a creative way 😆
Do you come across many snakes in that area? My boys and I love to look for snakes. I wouldn't mind doing a little panning to add a little interest to our expeditions.
I didn’t notice any but I can’t say I was looking. Haha.
i live in this area and will go hiking up near there. never knew anything about the driftless area like that! that's super cool!
This is soooooo cool. I love geology, thanks for the video! I am a 60 year old woman, lol!!
Haha. I guess it’s not just middle age men watching. Thanks!
@GlacialGoldHunter first husband was a geologist, I loved it more than he did! I have a friend who deck pans for gold. Sharing the video. Happy hunting, loved the lessons and I'm in the Drifless Region no less!
I live in alabama. A state not known for having a ton of gold, but if you can find a spot the answer is volume. At around .5 grams per yard its long days, but its fun and well worth the experience.
If I’m ever down there I’ll have to remember to bring a pan.
I'm from central WI I just love getting out there prospecting love your video
It’s a super fun hobby.
Very nice! ThanX! I totally recognize that bridge and location. Maybe do a vid on the river flowing through the state camp grounds near Neilsville. I'll admit I didn't have much luck there but it's a bigger, more flowing, cleaner, larger river. It is popular. It would be cool to see what you can prospect/discover there. Very foolish that someone ID'd this place. Except for filling the holes you mentioned, THAT'S the way to ruin nice spots.
Used to live in Black River Falls, there were a lot of good trails to go mountain biking on, some went miles into the middle of nowhere. Plenty of streams to prospect in that area.
As a geologist, the Rock Elm impact crater (or "disturbance") is pretty cool! Probably not a significant source of gold for the area, though.
That’s what I was thinking. Very cool.
I have gone gold panning there before. Not much luck, but I didn't spend much time hunting out spots.
Still fun just to find some gold.
"Holy Cow" a true Wisconsinite. 😊
Grew up in Douglas county.
This is not far from my house I have panned here with my kids and found specs like you!! Diamonds and emeralds have also been found.
Really. I’ll have to keep an eye out for diamonds. They must have come from Canada too.
@@GlacialGoldHunter I think the emeralds in western WI came from else where. Look for the blue/green clay to find those. There is another mineral found here that has only been found in one other part of the world pretty close to where you were.😉
I'm literally Just learning about this from you. Lived here all my life and didn't know about the Gold or at least don't remember learning about gold deposits in Wisconsin and I was in special classes/alternative schooling that taught about Wisconsin Nature from us kill all the Wolves to the Glaciers, Fires to basic survival skills.
People only care about gold if it’s profitable I guess.
@@GlacialGoldHunter Yeah but still note worthy for educational purposes.
Drive futher bigger gold bigger fun.
Depends on which direction you drive.
Clean your trash up don't leave it behind. 10:55 I hope you picked your trash up!!
Yes I did. I try very hard to leave no trace.
if the location wasnt in the title id know this was midwest because of the Menards bucket
Haha😆 it’s way better than Home Depot.
Be so nice to find a big chunk
Maybe next time.
Greetings from WI. Got yourself another SUB :)
Thank you! 🙏🏼
Really enjoyed watching this video man. Long live Wisconsin
It’s a good state.
Great idea for a *fly trap* on the hat!!!
You look like a dork but it works.
6:31 😂 you crack me up.
I know where this is and have found flour gold here. In the early 1900's they found dimond's in this very creek.
I’ve heard they found diamonds there too. I’ve never found one but the glaciers probably brought those too.
Id also look in eddies (something that blocks the current) dig along big rocks
I’m in Wi. The drift less area in fact….maybe one of these days I’ll venture out. Just to enjoy the day of peace. But also prepare for the bugs.
Let me know if you find any gold. I’ve wondered if there is gold in the drift less zone.
Back in the 70's and 80's my family had a cabin near Hayward. Tiny specks of gold at the bottom of the lake would sparkle in the early morning sunshine. I was more interested in the Musky and Northern Pike.
That would likely be mica sparkling which is like fools gold. Gold is so dense it like to sink into the sand. But those musky are just as rare.
You can fill that vile in a week in the right spot with a gold cube (with) the trommel mounted on top!
What state are you from?
Would you consider a road trip to BC Canada? I've seen some crzy good vids on prospecting in that region.
Oh that’s a long road trip but I would love to go panning there. If my channel gets big enough maybe I’ll go visit Dan Hurd.
This video is awesome 😂
Glad you enjoyed it!
I’m wondering if you should have less water running over your sluce, so less material is caught…doesn’t run off
@@josiespreitzer1690 maybe. I’m still learning.
My flavor of the tism is extreme hobby jumping, much to the dismay of my GF, pretty sure you just inadvertently helped me annoy her again.
Haha. We all have a little tism I think.
Try Gold Phenoms gravity panning give it a view start classifying and panning to cons 1/ 2 3 shovel buckets per hr
I’ll have to look it up.
Onward 😂 keep grinding 🛸
What area and what river is this in wisconsin? I own some land near Webb Lake, west of Minong. I am on the totogatic river.
This was in pierce county at nuggget lake park. Would you be willing to give permission to prospect on your river land? We could meet up and see if there is gold on the totogatic?
@GlacialGoldHunter I would love to do that but the problem is I don't get up there that often anymore. We used to Camp up there all the time . Now we just pay the taxes and keep it wild. There are videos on UA-cam about the Wi. Project The Wild River Totogatic, and my property is part of it. Would love to know if there is gold
Wisconsinite here. Planning to get into this soon myself. Keep it up. I'm in the driftless area. Took Geology in Madison.
Been looking at refining a lot because I'm a techie and it's more likely to have higher yields, but it's hard to beat days on driftless streams. I'm heading out by Viola this weekend.
I’m curious on how much gold is in the driftless area since the glaciers didn’t bring any till there.
lol dood you had me rolling. So funny
Glad I could make you smile 😄
I didn't think Wisconsin had any accessible gold because of the glaciers. Whatever gold there was is buried in the sand and gravel under the topsoil. Would panning sand pits be worth a try? I just found this channel so I'm new at this.
Wisconsin has very little in way of gold deposits of its own. A lot of the flour gold came with the glaciers as there came down from Canada. Sand pits could be a good place to test because that would be a place of out wash from the glaciers. Sand with gravel might be better but the only way to know for sure is to test.
All day working in those sandals will make life miserable….. but the leaches don’t mind
That is the truth!
The most recent glacial maximum was around 26,000 years ago, but there were four major ice ages prior to that. Perhaps one of those prior ice ages is responsible for the movement of gold into the driftless zone. I looked, but didn't see where ice sheets extended to for those prior ice ages.
I guess I’m not sure but I think the drift-less zone was never glaciated.
if you put your hat on the right way it won't fall off lol
Haha. 😆 I did that because it shaded my face and looked weird for the camera. I would rather have the hat look weird than my face.
i live in wisconsin so its nice to know there gold here :)
The glaciers sprinkled it all over.
Nice work brother! 💪🏻👍🏻✨️⛏️
Thank you!
I was there last week. Always decent gold (for the midwest).
@@JohnnieDukes it’s a super fun spot.
Good video as always man
Thank you!
7:23, it’s just old ancient giants. Meteors are only in books and t.v. and in our minds. Walking on corpses. Kinda like Knowhere, just mining old beings!
Not sure about that though.
@@GlacialGoldHunter , Not Sure! You’re the smartest person in the world right now! If you put water on plants they grow! 👍🏻
@@GlacialGoldHunter , with all due respect! 🥃 We all start from somewhere! 👍🏻
What kind of gear are you on mate?
@@IndelibleHD , U typing to me?
Have u ever gone to that state park in Arkansas to look for diamonds? I've seen some people score big there.
I had some friends go but they didn’t find any. My friend was going to name it Neil if he found one because he is a big Neil Diamond fan.
How many grams of deer flies did you catch?
Haha. I’ll have to weigh them.
Lived in Wisconsin my entire 50 years...never knew there was gold here.
I made it 38 years without knowing.
Wisconsin has alot of gold 😂
Northern Illinois here. Think I hear that native Minn/wis accent, just a bit.
Oh it’s there. Grew up in Wisconsin.
You walk past a really good spot right after the bridge
Water looked too deep to me. I didn’t even try there.
Nice
I live in Milwaukee might have to Amazon a kit and go get it
Let me know if you find any in Milwaukee.
Those are some industrial strength flip flops
😆 I’ll have to get waders.
Hey, I used to go to the Cellar gym and was literally going to sign back up now that I have the means. What do you practice? I was doing ju jistu with prof. Dave. Super great guy. I was always the guinea pig to show the class new techniques. I always felt like I was gonna die when he barely even moved. Anyways, if you still go there, I'll say hi if we bump into each other.
Haha. I went there up until a week ago and now I moved to Wisconsin. I was one of their Muay Thai coaches since Ben took over. But I never made it to the Jiu-jitsu side much.
I had no idea that the area had gold! I live nearby too. Within an hour of it atleast. Also, no knowledge about gold mining whatsoever but if the gold was moved by galcer and rivers and streams were probably bigger would it be worth it to dig on the bank?
No no no. Don’t dig in the bank. That’s illegal. The stream does the sorting. Dig in the stream.