I've watched so many of your videos I've come to feel a part. This is so much so that at the beginning when you first sat in the BOBCAT and waived, I caught myself waving back. It gave me a good chuckle.
I live in Florida, have 3 beautiful little boys and an amazing wife. I have no plans to ever begin gold prospecting, but I watch your videos every time the come up because youre enthusiasm and honest reviews are entertaining even for an outsider like myself. I hope these words reach you and give you a little bit of encouragement, you're doing a great job.
Holy crap Dan you got it made.... not only do you teach what you love to growing minds you do what you love that to me sir is success. Come on down to Helena Montana there is still gold in our hills I’ll show you around. I got placer gold in my back yard ain’t much but still fun. Keep up the wonderful work and between you and Jeff Williams I’ve taken a lot of notes. Thank you for what you do.
Good morning Dan and Pete! I'm here sipping my morning coffee and panning gold with my friends up north--what more could a girl want, LOL? Woo-hoo, not a bad run. Thanks guys!
Great day out with you...Elmo loves your set up...very smart on the fire safety...If people could only use half the common sense you used we would be fine...You should dig a big hole to keep water in- if a fire ever sneaks in on you- just jump into your pond...be safe and Dig,Dig,Dig..Elmo would love for you to stop by and say hello--He loves your channel...He was just doing some cliff diving the other day...
Hey Dan! Great video. I appreciate your hard work and dedication to your gold mining. Working outdoors and fishing, I accidentally discovered that wearing a "Salonpas" patch on the back of your neck or where your collar bones come together, will detour any bugs from coming around you period. It has camphor and menthol in it and is good for about 8hrs. Believe me it works. Best place to buy is Costco next time you go to town. I live in Alaska. We normally use 44 magnum hollow points on mosquitoes. Hope this makes life a little more livable for you. Good luck!😈🍺🍺🎣🐡
Outsider looking in. I would move bolders behind where you load and build a ramp up to feeder so your not as close and make it so you can do wider turns straight 180s will put more wear and tear on equipment and create bumpy terrain thus increasing cost of running. When running loader or skid it is better to keep movement to 45 degree turns at most. Happy hunting!
I was thinking you guys should bring up a shop-vac when you run the bobcat because there is a lot of fine dirt left-over that the machine can't get. It would be interesting to pan out that dirt to see how much gold is missed with disturbing the ground and you well know the gold sits right on the bedrock. It was just a thought that might be worth trying. GOOD LUCK
You guys are so lucky living up in the north west digging around for yellow them little Bob cats are nice they can get into some tight spots some big farmers use them to clean out their barns I use to be in the out doors a lot hunting fishing had to retire few years back legs are not as good as they once was fixing truck tires, welder fabercateing bridge steel, truck driver and so on even work for Kingsford charcoal charcoal you use for your bar b q grill yep did a little bit of every thing but haven't try diving for a little bit of gold lol😁🦃🐿️✝️👀
All I would add is get a little bigger water pump, the rocks need to be washed better, could be losing gold in dirt stuck to rocks? But a great setup and better water flow at sluice box would help too. But like you said fire season is here and your about done maybe next year. Good for next years wish list. Your doing great, always enjoy the prospecting and seeing you reap the rewards.
Sometimes it feels i just want to quick watch one of these videos just to hear the... "Good morning everyone!" or "Hello everyone!" Haha! Great videos and have actually made me try to find some gold myself, but no luck yet.
Hi Guys.. Fantastic haul. Love the way you have purple streaks of sun rays hitting your gold panning dish. Nice trade in on your hat 🎩 also . Cheers Tony.👍🍺⛏🇦🇺🤓
Is trout creek down in BC region? Looks like y’all have a nice little operation or large prospecting locates. Nice little cleanup. How much material per hour are y’all running at? Can you share a bit on the geology and geography of the area a little? Y’all look like y’all are running an old river channel. Y’all should maybe learn the rocking chair method of panning; saves time and get all possible gold available. In just less then a moment in time.
Hi Dan you answered my thoughts if you weighed your gold before you do it on the video as I see you do, as this time you said it weighed more. Great work thanks for your channel.⛏⛏
A hobby in which adults can play in the dirt with heavy equipment and not be called childish. Meanwhile, on a bad day of my sort of prospecting, I still came home with $200 worth of material. But a good day can be in the thousands, no wilderness involved.
Some nice chunky pieces there. Keep up the good work. For the black flies, try to wear a blue hard hat covered with some vaseline. They attack the color blue for some reason and get stuck in the vaseline.
Dan you crack me up. Your saftety pan/trough is supposed to be where you pan all those lovely concentrates and you pan back into the river. It must be an offering to the river gods because you gave back to river some of your finds.
That water must be freezing on your feet ? In that looks like a full pan of those I was wondering how you can see the color gold with those dark sunglasses on ? Well I guess you used to it you know what to look for obviously . We always would like it to be the larger of the two .
For everyone commenting "that's not worth it for all the work invovled", keep in mind it's a video that lasted roughly half a day. You have to figure they weren't going full bore either. I would safely bet they can pull a quarter to a half ounce or more a day easy, if they were really working this claim, which has awesome gold I might add! They are outdoors living the life they enjoy with NO boss telling them what to do. They control their payday, their workload and are living their dreams. Much respect and soon I will be living this dream too!! Getting my claim this year, can't wait!!!!
Sometimes I have to laugh at myself watching you guys shaking a pan full of rocks and water know you’re looking for gold but it just seems funny to me good luck I wish you the best.
Hey man you should try to get more in your bucket, I understand it has to be fed slow and your digging sight is right next to your plant but you have to turn on the dime alot and that wears out tires faster than anything is making those turns
Have you ever checked your panning to see if your losing gold. I can bet your losing a lot! One thing you need to do is get off the ruffles after you get it panned down some. That way you dont have to be so vigorous and dont have to be at such a steep angle with your pan. Please give it a try. Would love to see you test your panning online.
@@Danhurd Yea, that would be my first guess. I have some topaz rough that has the same coloring...but I also have Montana sapphires that color as well. Do y'all get sapphires up there? Don't know if they can be found in Canada, as well.
The new crusher set up can do 4-5000 pounds of material in a day and I cannot supply it with that much material. I am not using it for production but rather samplin
Dan amazing setup. As a miner in Sweden your sluce box needs to be longer add more matts. Also have you gone below the clay to see if it’s fractured bed rock if so then I would bet my ass that you will find decent amount of gold.
Well even with out short sluice, we NEVER find anything in the bottom 1/2. And that clay is not sediment, it is the Hydrothermal vein decomposed, so there is no "Below" as it is part of the bedrock itself. We have tested it and there is no gold values in the clay itself.
Are you not allowed to use a matic to break up some of that concreted gravel/earth? I know nothing about gold mining, but I've dug a few trenches in my life.
OKAY. Nice speed pan! Wonder how many fines you put back into your bin? ALSO, get yourself another level to your pan to take your giant rocks away. Saves time and they won't excite your gold into the junk pile when you pan big rocks.
Dude seriously you better secure that claim very very well... I highly believe that the crystal that you found is in fact Topaz which can be worth huge chunks of cash once faceted....... please feel free to let me know if I am correct on the gemstone... always love your videos....
It seems to me when you slide a large amount of larger stones from your pan instead of picking them up, you might be sliding gold out of your pan with them.
That giant round circular Rock that you removed with the shovel I wonder what it would look like if you cut it open what did have geodes in it or would it just be a certain kind of Stone
Hey Dan, have you ever thought about learning about finding diamonds since you're on a craton? Look into diamond indicator minerals such as pyrope garnet, chrome dioside, and picroilmenite. Pyrope can travel up to 2 miles in gravel like that but will be really small at that distance and chrome diopside can travel up to a mile. You never know where a kimberlite could break through the ancient basement rocks of the cratons. Given that there are many diamondiferrous kimberlite pipes already known it may be worth it to at least look for indicator minerals while you're going about your gold workings anyway. Let me know if I can help you out with learning. Ive been studying diamond deposits for going on 5 years now.
I always keep my eyes open, but there is only one known Diamond showing anywhere even a little close to me, and they are unstable and tiny. I would love to find diamonds some day. It is actually a goal of mine to dig my own diamond.
@@Danhurd There are a lot more kimberlite and lamproite pipes than people realize. Of course not all are diamondiferrous and even less have mineable quantities. I highly suggest using Google earth or something similar to search for cryptovolcanic anomalies such as circular depressions with vegetation anomalies that have rounded cobbles or xenoliths of rock types that are out of place for your area. Cobbles are rounded and polished by the magma as they rub against each other during the eruption. The rounded depressions are caused because the kimberlite breaks down more quickly than the surrounding country rock usually. The depressions often hold water during the rainy season. Here in the states kimberlite pipes don't usually support tree growth. If you find an area such as I described test the soils with some dilute hydrochloric acid and it will produce a strong fizzing reaction due to the calcium carbonate that comes from the kimberlite. If I may suggest- look into Dan Hausel's work. He is the former economic geologist for the Wyoming State Geological Survey and he was a part in making discovery of kimberlites in Wyoming and Colorado. He was also at one point the VP of exploration for DiamondX Ltd. You can find his work by searching Dan Hausel blogspot in a Google search. He is one of the few that share the tricks of the trade with the public. He also authored many books and I recommend purchasing any that you may find helpful. I purchased many and was not disappointed at all. My favorite is A Guide to Finding Gemstones, Gold, Minerals, and Rocks. It is geared towards Wyoming specifically but includes prospecting techniques and what to look for that are helpful for any location. If you'd like I can email you a bunch of links that are incredibly useful in diamond prospecting. I could go on all day. I'm in the process of exploring diamond deposits on the Wyoming and Superior cratons here in the states. Best of luck and please keep in touch.
@@ModernProspector Thank you for that wealth of information. An interesting side note, Kelowna (where I'm from) is the hometown of Chuck Fipke. I spend a lot of time on Google earth, so I will start looking for those anomalies. And I will start reading up on Hausel. Thank you again - there is always more to learn.
@@Danhurd You're very welcome. I know all about Charles Fipke, he is a legend in the diamond prospecting community. If you like reading (Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic) is a really awesome book. I bought it on Google Books so that I could have it as an audio book to listen to while I'm out in the field. I think you'll really enjoy Hausel's works. The better books aren't cheap but they're well worth the money in my opinion.
you need a bigger wash pant, and better sluices. thats looking a bit janky. you have one hell of a front end loader but that wash plant needs some upgrading to keep up with the feed. I cant imagine your catching all the gold in that thing.
I admit the washplant is nothing great, but it is what I could make for my budget. and we have tested tailing LOTS including running a whole extra sluice off the end for MANY hours. with the chunky gold coming from here, nothing was getting through that we could find.
Stop by a jeweler on the way and have him / her test it with their electronic doomoflotcy:) If that mine is in Northern Calif, then there is a remote chance that it is diamond.
I've watched so many of your videos I've come to feel a part. This is so much so that at the beginning when you first sat in the BOBCAT and waived, I caught myself waving back. It gave me a good chuckle.
I live in Florida, have 3 beautiful little boys and an amazing wife. I have no plans to ever begin gold prospecting, but I watch your videos every time the come up because youre enthusiasm and honest reviews are entertaining even for an outsider like myself. I hope these words reach you and give you a little bit of encouragement, you're doing a great job.
Thank you very much - that means a lot to me
Yahoo ! Good job ! Hope you find more. A strike like that back in the old days meant a trip into town for a few drinks and fun with the ladies.
Holy crap Dan you got it made.... not only do you teach what you love to growing minds you do what you love that to me sir is success. Come on down to Helena Montana there is still gold in our hills I’ll show you around. I got placer gold in my back yard ain’t much but still fun. Keep up the wonderful work and between you and Jeff Williams I’ve taken a lot of notes. Thank you for what you do.
Helena Montana - there's a place we need to go back to as you have sapphires down there too. Glad to hear that my videos are useful!
Going back to binge some Hurd gold machine!
Good morning Dan and Pete! I'm here sipping my morning coffee and panning gold with my friends up north--what more could a girl want, LOL? Woo-hoo, not a bad run. Thanks guys!
That pretty crystal has a nice peach-pink tint to it--possibly morganite? Just guessing....
Oh, possibly. I hadn't thought of morganite! Thanks! Hope you find lots of colour in your pan today
Great day out with you...Elmo loves your set up...very smart on the fire safety...If people could only use half the common sense you used we would be fine...You should dig a big hole to keep water in- if a fire ever sneaks in on you- just jump into your pond...be safe and Dig,Dig,Dig..Elmo would love for you to stop by and say hello--He loves your channel...He was just doing some cliff diving the other day...
Hey Dan!
Great video. I appreciate your hard work and dedication to your gold mining.
Working outdoors and fishing, I accidentally discovered that wearing a "Salonpas" patch on the back of your neck or where your collar bones come together, will detour any bugs from coming around you period. It has camphor and menthol in it and is good for about 8hrs. Believe me it works. Best place to buy is Costco next time you go to town.
I live in Alaska. We normally use 44 magnum hollow points on mosquitoes. Hope this makes life a little more livable for you. Good luck!😈🍺🍺🎣🐡
Outsider looking in. I would move bolders behind where you load and build a ramp up to feeder so your not as close and make it so you can do wider turns straight 180s will put more wear and tear on equipment and create bumpy terrain thus increasing cost of running. When running loader or skid it is better to keep movement to 45 degree turns at most. Happy hunting!
Dan, I like all of your adventures.
Thanks!
Dan, all that awesome equipment you need bigger payouts brother! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! I agree with you - that gold is just hiding from me.
Yeah it’s hiding from all of us brother I totally like your videos 👍
Brother man, you cracked me up when you shook the bobcat back n forth lol
One of the best channels on youtube!!
, and no copy right in sight. . even youtube cannot find fault!
Thanks so much!
Sure is good therapy to watch you work a few pans.
Always good to see gold in a pan
I get gold fever just watching this
I was thinking you guys should bring up a shop-vac when you run the bobcat because there is a lot of fine dirt left-over that the machine can't get. It would be interesting to pan out that dirt to see how much gold is missed with disturbing the ground and you well know the gold sits right on the bedrock. It was just a thought that might be worth trying. GOOD LUCK
Love your show some day I will pan in Cal with your help.
Bye
You guys are so lucky living up in the north west digging around for yellow them little Bob cats are nice they can get into some tight spots some big farmers use them to clean out their barns I use to be in the out doors a lot hunting fishing had to retire few years back legs are not as good as they once was fixing truck tires, welder fabercateing bridge steel, truck driver and so on even work for Kingsford charcoal charcoal you use for your bar b q grill yep did a little bit of every thing but haven't try diving for a little bit of gold lol😁🦃🐿️✝️👀
I am pretty lucky!
All I would add is get a little bigger water pump, the rocks need to be washed better, could be losing gold in dirt stuck to rocks? But a great setup and better water flow at sluice box would help too. But like you said fire season is here and your about done maybe next year. Good for next years wish list. Your doing great, always enjoy the prospecting and seeing you reap the rewards.
Thanks for the advice!
Aw, but it is gold. Not 2 just 1 real nice gram. Thanks for taking us with you. There will be more after fire season.
The whiteness of your feet though lol. My tan lines are almost as bad! Nice Gold!
Looks like a blast. I bet your an enjoyable teacher.
Totally righteous beard dude. That thing is majestic.
Thanks!
Sometimes it feels i just want to quick watch one of these videos just to hear the... "Good morning everyone!" or "Hello everyone!" Haha! Great videos and have actually made me try to find some gold myself, but no luck yet.
Hi Dan great show your the best!
Thanks!
Hi Guys..
Fantastic haul.
Love the way you have purple streaks of sun rays hitting your gold panning dish.
Nice trade in on your hat 🎩 also .
Cheers Tony.👍🍺⛏🇦🇺🤓
Is trout creek down in BC region? Looks like y’all have a nice little operation or large prospecting locates. Nice little cleanup. How much material per hour are y’all running at? Can you share a bit on the geology and geography of the area a little?
Y’all look like y’all are running an old river channel.
Y’all should maybe learn the rocking chair method of panning; saves time and get all possible gold available. In just less then a moment in time.
Another great video. Enjoying all your videos.
Hi Dan you answered my thoughts if you weighed your gold before you do it on the video as I see you do, as this time you said it weighed more. Great work thanks for your channel.⛏⛏
The beard is looking bad ass man
Very ZZ Topish 👍
Nice setup Dan.
Thanks!
Love your adventures. The mossies is the main reason I never tried gold panning. Lol
A hobby in which adults can play in the dirt with heavy equipment and not be called childish. Meanwhile, on a bad day of my sort of prospecting, I still came home with $200 worth of material. But a good day can be in the thousands, no wilderness involved.
Some nice chunky pieces there. Keep up the good work.
For the black flies, try to wear a blue hard hat covered with some vaseline. They attack the color blue for some reason and get stuck in the vaseline.
Now that I haven't heard!
That is some nice chunky gold there Dan, you're living the dream man 👍🤠⛏⛏⛏
I'm certainly having fun this summer
The Lorax is pretty serious about his tree safety guide.
I very much enjoy your personality. I would very much like to smoke a few blunts with you and talk gold lol
Me, too!
Dan you crack me up.
Your saftety pan/trough is supposed to be where you pan all those lovely concentrates and you pan back into the river.
It must be an offering to the river gods because you gave back to river some of your finds.
True, however I pan very quickly into the safety bucket to get an idea of how we are doing. I pan very carefully in the river.
I love the gold you got today
I love this channel
That water must be freezing on your feet ? In that looks like a full pan of those I was wondering how you can see the color gold with those dark sunglasses on ? Well I guess you used to it you know what to look for obviously . We always would like it to be the larger of the two .
WOW nice chunk
You forgot to do the eyes. Wow what an operation. Looks like the producers from Gold Rush might be looking your way for a future season.
Love your videos Dan! Livin the dream!
GREAT JOB
I just LOVE this channel.
Thanks!
May the gold be with you.
Thanks!
Awesome gold
Great video. Not a bad haul as gold is hard to find.
Dan you got some really neat toys there nice video
Thanks!
Quite the operation you got there Dan!
Thanks!
We are on fie ban here in Switzerland. Swiss day today no bbqs no fireworks my dogs are happy. The gold was nice but never enough eh ;-)
We are also on a fire ban. Never enough gold.
Dan Hurd and the gold posse. Rounding up the gold and bringing it in
Trying to!
For everyone commenting "that's not worth it for all the work invovled", keep in mind it's a video that lasted roughly half a day. You have to figure they weren't going full bore either. I would safely bet they can pull a quarter to a half ounce or more a day easy, if they were really working this claim, which has awesome gold I might add! They are outdoors living the life they enjoy with NO boss telling them what to do. They control their payday, their workload and are living their dreams. Much respect and soon I will be living this dream too!! Getting my claim this year, can't wait!!!!
It's an awesome hobby that can give back
Sometimes I have to laugh at myself watching you guys shaking a pan full of rocks and water know you’re looking for gold but it just seems funny to me good luck I wish you the best.
Hey man you should try to get more in your bucket, I understand it has to be fed slow and your digging sight is right next to your plant but you have to turn on the dime alot and that wears out tires faster than anything is making those turns
Good feedback - thanks!
Looks like your on good gold. To bad you have to wait but safety first.
Keep up with your videos
Thanks!
Have you ever checked your panning to see if your losing gold. I can bet your losing a lot! One thing you need to do is get off the ruffles after you get it panned down some. That way you dont have to be so vigorous and dont have to be at such a steep angle with your pan. Please give it a try. Would love to see you test your panning online.
⛏⛏⛏ nice work , nice video and a beautiful spot ⛏⛏⛏
Thank you very much
I'm thinking that small stone is a topaz or maybe a sapphire. A specific gravity test would tell you more.
We are thinking topaz
@@Danhurd Yea, that would be my first guess. I have some topaz rough that has the same coloring...but I also have Montana sapphires that color as well. Do y'all get sapphires up there? Don't know if they can be found in Canada, as well.
sure would be nice to see a full days production with the new crusher setup
The new crusher set up can do 4-5000 pounds of material in a day and I cannot supply it with that much material. I am not using it for production but rather samplin
Enjoyed the video. Hope you both score big on your next prospecting venture.
Thanks! I hope we score big next time too.
we should all get together and change this its not like we are hydraulic mining
Super nice gold! Loved it.
Thanks!
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GOLD PRICE WILL RISE AGAIN TO 2109$/OZ IN this October 21.
Nice gold...funny there wasn't more of it.
Dan amazing setup. As a miner in Sweden your sluce box needs to be longer add more matts. Also have you gone below the clay to see if it’s fractured bed rock if so then I would bet my ass that you will find decent amount of gold.
Well even with out short sluice, we NEVER find anything in the bottom 1/2. And that clay is not sediment, it is the Hydrothermal vein decomposed, so there is no "Below" as it is part of the bedrock itself. We have tested it and there is no gold values in the clay itself.
great video Dan.
Nice looking nuggets there!
Thanks!
Hey Dan, I was just wondering how much gold you need to pull off one of your areas a year to make it worth keeping that area
Good question!
GREAT VIDEO DAN. I don't know why the GOLD shrinks when you get home..
Yeah, it's weird that way - it's done that to me before
Love your videos. Look forward to seeing many more. Best of luck bud.
Thanks Joe. Might be a little bit of lull for a bit as I'm behind in editing.
Very cool !!!
Thanks!
What the guys from ZZ Top do with their down time
Lol!
GOLD PRICE WILL RISE AGAIN TO 2109$/OZ IN this October 21.
Great job Dan!!!
Another great video I learn alot
Thanks!
Are you not allowed to use a matic to break up some of that concreted gravel/earth? I know nothing about gold mining, but I've dug a few trenches in my life.
Hard hat Dan
Great video Dan. The "gem" I believe looks like smokey quartz to me...
I'm going to head back up there with a gem sieve and see if I can find some larger specimens.
awesome video thank you for sharing your adventures!
Thanks for taking the time to watch
I wonder how many nuggets dropped on the ground when you put the matt in the blue bucket. I did see some material drop on the ground.
Hopefully none. Some material did drop into the bucket but that got panned out later.
When you were putting the matt from the sluice into the blue bin. It looked like some of the concentrates dropped on the ground.
Yes, I'm hoping that there weren't any nuggets in that material :)
OKAY. Nice speed pan! Wonder how many fines you put back into your bin? ALSO, get yourself another level to your pan to take your giant rocks away. Saves time and they won't excite your gold into the junk pile when you pan big rocks.
i just love gold.it is my favorite thing to look at; but I must never let my wife know....her ring is gold colored lead.
Dude seriously you better secure that claim very very well... I highly believe that the crystal that you found is in fact Topaz which can be worth huge chunks of cash once faceted....... please feel free to let me know if I am correct on the gemstone... always love your videos....
This seems like your best claim. I would have been there every day this summer if it was mine.
I like it but I don't think it's my favourite for a variety of reasons - the main one being it really isn't family friendly
It seems to me when you slide a large amount of larger stones from your pan instead of picking them up, you might be sliding gold out of your pan with them.
Awesome stuff mate, I love your set up at this location,
Thanks
That giant round circular Rock that you removed with the shovel I wonder what it would look like if you cut it open what did have geodes in it or would it just be a certain kind of Stone
Great story each time
Why thank you!
Trout are attracted to gold? I have to get to that trout fishing spot in Oklahoma pronto.
how much money did you lose that day? if count all the expenses,equipment,diesel etc..
Hey Dan, have you ever thought about learning about finding diamonds since you're on a craton? Look into diamond indicator minerals such as pyrope garnet, chrome dioside, and picroilmenite. Pyrope can travel up to 2 miles in gravel like that but will be really small at that distance and chrome diopside can travel up to a mile. You never know where a kimberlite could break through the ancient basement rocks of the cratons. Given that there are many diamondiferrous kimberlite pipes already known it may be worth it to at least look for indicator minerals while you're going about your gold workings anyway. Let me know if I can help you out with learning. Ive been studying diamond deposits for going on 5 years now.
I always keep my eyes open, but there is only one known Diamond showing anywhere even a little close to me, and they are unstable and tiny. I would love to find diamonds some day. It is actually a goal of mine to dig my own diamond.
@@Danhurd There are a lot more kimberlite and lamproite pipes than people realize. Of course not all are diamondiferrous and even less have mineable quantities. I highly suggest using Google earth or something similar to search for cryptovolcanic anomalies such as circular depressions with vegetation anomalies that have rounded cobbles or xenoliths of rock types that are out of place for your area. Cobbles are rounded and polished by the magma as they rub against each other during the eruption. The rounded depressions are caused because the kimberlite breaks down more quickly than the surrounding country rock usually. The depressions often hold water during the rainy season. Here in the states kimberlite pipes don't usually support tree growth. If you find an area such as I described test the soils with some dilute hydrochloric acid and it will produce a strong fizzing reaction due to the calcium carbonate that comes from the kimberlite. If I may suggest- look into Dan Hausel's work. He is the former economic geologist for the Wyoming State Geological Survey and he was a part in making discovery of kimberlites in Wyoming and Colorado. He was also at one point the VP of exploration for DiamondX Ltd. You can find his work by searching Dan Hausel blogspot in a Google search. He is one of the few that share the tricks of the trade with the public. He also authored many books and I recommend purchasing any that you may find helpful. I purchased many and was not disappointed at all. My favorite is A Guide to Finding Gemstones, Gold, Minerals, and Rocks. It is geared towards Wyoming specifically but includes prospecting techniques and what to look for that are helpful for any location. If you'd like I can email you a bunch of links that are incredibly useful in diamond prospecting. I could go on all day. I'm in the process of exploring diamond deposits on the Wyoming and Superior cratons here in the states. Best of luck and please keep in touch.
@@ModernProspector Thank you for that wealth of information. An interesting side note, Kelowna (where I'm from) is the hometown of Chuck Fipke. I spend a lot of time on Google earth, so I will start looking for those anomalies. And I will start reading up on Hausel. Thank you again - there is always more to learn.
@@Danhurd You're very welcome. I know all about Charles Fipke, he is a legend in the diamond prospecting community. If you like reading (Barren Lands: An Epic Search for Diamonds in the North American Arctic) is a really awesome book. I bought it on Google Books so that I could have it as an audio book to listen to while I'm out in the field. I think you'll really enjoy Hausel's works. The better books aren't cheap but they're well worth the money in my opinion.
Absolutely beautiful area !!!
That sure did look like more than a gram, tricky gold, but congratulations anyway
I thought so too - but it's fooled me before.
Good work dan( seasoning for the flies)hurd
Thanks!
It always looks good. nice work
Thanks
thats some nice lookin gold there too though, good lil score and some good fun eh. :)
Always
you need a bigger wash pant, and better sluices. thats looking a bit janky. you have one hell of a front end loader but that wash plant needs some upgrading to keep up with the feed. I cant imagine your catching all the gold in that thing.
I admit the washplant is nothing great, but it is what I could make for my budget. and we have tested tailing LOTS including running a whole extra sluice off the end for MANY hours. with the chunky gold coming from here, nothing was getting through that we could find.
That looked a lot like topaz, but tough to say without a closer look.
Great video thank you for sharing it, If that small stone you found is greasy feeling then it could be a diamond.
I don't think it's diamond. I'm going to go back with a gem sieve and see if I can find a bigger specimen. Topaz, perhaps?
Stop by a jeweler on the way and have him / her test it with their electronic doomoflotcy:) If that mine is in Northern Calif, then there is a remote chance that it is diamond.
Your video help me so much I got 1 Grammy today
Nice!
Trout Creek Montana? My uncle had a placer mine up a creek from the town. He also prospected and developed hard rock mines in the area.
No, Trout Creek BC, Canada.
Crystal looks to me like topaz
Great video mate nice looking gold
Thanks!