My uncle is working southern oregon sun stones this next spring they mentioned something about hitting a real hard rock layer the expanding paste is genius! Thank you!!!!
Alex's vein is a great example of how a fault can fill with easy clay ore with Gold from argillic alteration. Other videos only leave us wondering because the mines they explore have already taken it away. We usually only get to see a slick-n-slide or a stope remaining. This is filled and you can point at what these veins look like. When you can actually see it, it makes more sense as to how they form and when things get introduced. I thought when the hydrothermal action accesses it, the whole vein solidifies, clearly that's not the case.
Great video Chris, thanks for the detailed information in searching and finding these little hidden pockets. Wishing you and your family the very best for Christmas and a successful new year. Cheers Dan 🍻
@@ChrisRalph we’ve been doing alright, haven’t been able to hunt silver since our return from Alaska this year, been working on some gold prospects. It’s been an awful long time since we had a video i know but they will be coming soon🤞🏻
Sweet !! Nice little gold Mine he has there ! Even with such good numbers, I'm surprised the old timers didn't work it. Many year ago, my friends and I found a similar pocket and recovered several ounces. Unfortunately, it didn't last. We only mined about 500 lbs. Thanks for sharing this video. Slide show and narration was great. 👍👍👍
Thanks much. There are other gold prospects within a few hundred feet. With your prospect, you never know when something pinches off if it might come back.
During that time, I had a drill rig. We punched many holes without any luck. However, we did find a small seam further up the canyon that opened up to 18" running 2 oz/ton. The Mojave Preserve act of 1994 shut us down. Sigh....
Thanks Chris. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Perfect example of loaming for gold & the end result of success. I am going to have to check out that Dexpan. All the best to you & your friend there & thanks again for sharing. John from New Zealand. :)
Thanks for the share Chris. Reminds of me of the intense blowing wind storm I encountered years ago. It was almighty, pushing, pulling, knocking me down to the point I became disoriented. Had to just stay down to save my moisture and eroding eyes and my ears were packed almost solid but trying to shake it out just drove deeper into my head. I remember only walking a few miles from the borrowed truck I used for this big desert adventure; now it was a distant past. It took everything left in me to crawl looking for the way back but there in the harshest down splashing twisting vortices was a man. 🕊️ This sudden stillness embraced me as my breathing slowed and my eyes cleared; this gentle voice spoke, " Be calm - delight in this day". I sat and watched as the man appeared to so effortlessly scoop away at the earth without bending at the low back or knees one scoop after another. And each time he let it flow through his hands as gravity somehow erased the dust leaving nothing but his palms full of gold. I watched him pour the gold from each palm into a canvas sack over and over. As I learned his methods quite lying and calm I began to notice something different about this man. I looked down upon myself covered in dust and debris, dryness and darkening in stark contrast. There he was confident cool and relaxed as he effortlessly lifted palm after palm of nuggety placer gold gently hand over hand into the sack like a machine. I observed more tightly his hands were light and clear almost soft with bright white light glimmering off his perfectly manicured finger tips. And his shirt sleeves appeared as to be freshly dry cleaned without even a hint of wear around the cuffs. I followed him from top to bottom as his gold mining magnificence and perfection in movement made we want to wake up - I though I might be dreaming. Instead I arose and walked to him .....
@@ChrisRalph (Sorry, there was a knock at my door. Girl scouts selling cookies for the holidays) It was most certainly quite the adventure Chris. I reached down and scooped up two hands full with earth and held both arms straight forward as the substrate trickled down through my fingers the bright glow of flour gold caught my eyes with a shimmering light as a halo like shadow arose before me. I turned to catch a glimpse of the man descending behind a ridge and I heard his words, " You must find your own gold". I suspect the wind storm forced him to land I thought as the sound of a piston radial engine faded away into the now bluest of sky. I have searched hard and far for that rich dirt but today am still just a prospector. Sometimes I think I just need to get right with God. Cheers✌️♥️🍺
Nice find!! 10oz per ton is great!! I might have to try that method! I've just been following quartz float up to veins. Panning your way up sounds like the best way to find veins that aren't exposed.
Amazing video. After 15 yrs of gold prospecting I’m slowly becoming interested in hard rock especially after a friend of mine found a subsurface rich pocket containing 10oz. It petered out at about a coffin sized hole. Do you suppose that it or could it have sheared and skipped a few feet over in any direction to continue? Thanks again Chris!!!!!
It very well could have skipped over, been faulted off or otherwise pinched out in one place to re-appear in another. No guarantees, but the only way top know is to give it a try.
How do you crush the stone - I found a sandstone boulder about 2 ft diameter here in northern Vermont in ancient stream was wondering could I just use a blender?
Thank you Chris for sharing your time and talents! And very Merry Christmas!🎄 Great information amazing! Im into a very black material here on the property even has petroleum component but it has Gold. Dan Brent
@@ChrisRalph dang that's unfortunate, my chrysoprase pit out in California was also flooded for most of winter. So how would you go about emptying it out, would you just wait until it drains through the soil throughout spring and summer meanwhile prospecting other ground or would you haul a generator out there and pump it out.
I'm not sure if you know Alberta, Canada. But im going to look in the red deer river and drumheller area, known for fossils and gold. Do you have any experience or knowledge in this area?
heya Chris, i just came across your channel and got drawn in. i did my undergrad in geology but never ended up working in that field. I went prospecting a couple times when i was younger as well (grew up in Tuolumne county, recently moved back here), but only found a few little flecks here and there. Im back in the gold country now and ive got the gold bug a bit. what advice would you give me for prospecting here in the motherlode (or even further a field). get a metal detector? get a claim? or something else entirely? enjoying the videos, the learning, and your attitude.
I suggest to join a local prospecting club, and see what other folks in your area are using. Metal detectors are great, but its the toughest method to really get the hang of. A club will give you access to local land.
Amazon didn't order enough and temporarily ran out of stock. I checked this morning and they are back in stock now, and should remain in stock for the foreseeable future. I do have many copies on hand so it was just a temporary glitch thing.
Hello Chris, what do you think of these metal detectors like Klayzer. They are similar to the good old dowsing rod and are said to work with reflected electromagnetic waves.
I think they are bogus junk and a waste of money. They are dowsing systems and no better than a couple pieces of bent coat hanger. I did a video on dowsing - ua-cam.com/video/04KcwCYo7oI/v-deo.html
@@ChrisRalphI watched your dowsing video. I'm also rather skeptical that it will work. But one cannot entirely rule out psychic abilities that some people might possess. The modern, dollar-heavy electronic dowsing rods that are sold to rich desert sons in Arabia are just magic devices to me. A little video to make you smile is attached. ua-cam.com/video/tibKM7lL8ks/v-deo.html
How did he find it ? Did he use a metal detector to locate it ? Or was it all by testing the ground . But that would take a lot of time and a lot of hits and misses. With more misses than anything.
Watch the "How he found it video" linked in the description and in the video itself and you will get a full answer. See: ua-cam.com/video/Q3lwdFf0y9M/v-deo.html
Hi Chris, going highbanking tommorw, we had floods, big floods. The weather been so bad people even have not be metal detecting. Road wash out, big bogs. Check out Victorian Gold Hunters. Great history knowledge. Russell 🇦🇺
I have an unpatented lode claim and I believe I found a smaller rich vein like this on BLM land. Do you know if your friend had to obtain any special permits or pay any reclamation fees before trenching?
got me a new royal drywasher the new leaf blower showed up the other day. read the instructions again get it running. go shovel dirt. ,going on a tour with the one club i joined with dan (old owl cafe). on january 15. bring the gold monster. see what happens. have a good day.
@ there is no way he’s getting 17grams of gold for 100lbs of ore! I never understood why people assay only the high grade…its misleading. Edit: and if it was that rich why only go down 10ft in 3 years?
"That’s a bunch of bs" - Again you are ignorant and talking about things you know nothing about - really you should be embarrassed for yourself. Its not an assay, the 17 grams are the production from treating 100 pounds of ore. He is working it on very small scale basis because to get permits to go bigger in his area would be impossible - and so he cannot use explosives. He has a regular job and works a normal 40 hour week and so does this on the side. I showed in the video that the vein is narrow (only 3 to 6 inches wide) and the surrounding country rock is hard, so lots of mining takes place to produce 100 pounds of rich ore - probably 400 pounds of waste rock for every 100 pounds of ore. Narrow high grade veins are not unheard of but working them on a large commercial scale is very difficult because extreme care is needed to not mix the waste country rock with the rich ore.
@@ChrisRalph I’m only embarrassed for you thinking I should be embarrassed. people only try to name call people and use words like that to silence them from speaking about something they don’t want people to know about, Is that what your trying to do? If he was making good money like that, he wouldn’t be using old wood and stuff! Even Jeff Williams drift mine has nicer equipment! Something isn’t adding up, sorry for not being a 100% in your sales pitch! Isn’t like you taught people to be suspicious of wild claims…then you go make them! Edit: please embarrass me, because 17 grams for 100 pounds of ore not matter how wide the vain or weird the vain is! Also if it was narrow why is it so shallow? And that could of been the end of the gold leaching out so the top is super rich. No it wasn’t an actual assay but you did claim 17 grams for 100 pounds… Your right I don’t understand 1/2 the stuff you know but when something smells suspicious even a kid knows! Why defend something you know is true and actually protects the mine? “If it was so rich you don’t need the government’s help” Jeff even proved that foam stuff doesn’t work so even that is a suspicious claim and red flag!
Chris, I have managed to locate an alleged Abandoned Placer Claim with very similar Geology. I'm just waiting for information from the District Office of that area as to whether or not it is open to mineral entry. Seems theres a Patent Lode Claim near by. So I'm waiting for the Official word. In the mean time I'm afraid winter is going to set in and it'll be Spring before I can take samples. Have you ever explored for samples in the snow? I dont suspect my GM1000 will perform all that well, and then theres getting in and out. I am familiar with snowshoes and cross country skis but prospecting under those conditions doesnt excite me very much.
doing a video in your car is fine with most of us. its easy to hear you and your relaxed too. thanks you for sharing the mine with us.
I need to do some more car ones.
I enjoyed this fascinating episode. Thank you Chris and your miner friend for allowing the photos of his claim.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Loads of great info. Great job all around. Keep on having fun. Thanks for the class fam. Gold Squad Out!!!
Glad it was helpful.
My uncle is working southern oregon sun stones this next spring they mentioned something about hitting a real hard rock layer the expanding paste is genius! Thank you!!!!
Yep, it works great.
Alex's vein is a great example of how a fault can fill with easy clay ore with Gold from argillic alteration. Other videos only leave us wondering because the mines they explore have already taken it away. We usually only get to see a slick-n-slide or a stope remaining. This is filled and you can point at what these veins look like. When you can actually see it, it makes more sense as to how they form and when things get introduced. I thought when the hydrothermal action accesses it, the whole vein solidifies, clearly that's not the case.
Yep - open space is needed for the fluids to flow in.
Ralph, that was fantastic! I can tell you have given this much thought. Your message was very articulate. Thanks for sharing it! Amen! 🙏🏼
I appreciate that input! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for this great insight into what a good prospector has become a load miner! So cool!
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Great video Chris, thanks for the detailed information in searching and finding these little hidden pockets. Wishing you and your family the very best for Christmas and a successful new year.
Cheers Dan 🍻
Thanks, and you too!
Hi Chris, cool video my friend. We always enjoy your work, keep them coming!
Thanks - How are you guys doing? Got any silver lately? Been a long time since you did a video.
@@ChrisRalph we’ve been doing alright, haven’t been able to hunt silver since our return from Alaska this year, been working on some gold prospects. It’s been an awful long time since we had a video i know but they will be coming soon🤞🏻
Were you back up at Gold King again? Or somewhere else.
@@ChrisRalph Back at Gold King yep. I’ll email you or perhaps give you a call, fill you in on the details of our wild summer up there.
Always enjoy your videos !
I appreciate that!
Anytime you can trade your personal labour for gold is a win win situation ! Awesome pocket mine !
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.
Sweet !! Nice little gold Mine he has there ! Even with such good numbers, I'm surprised the old timers didn't work it. Many year ago, my friends and I found a similar pocket and recovered several ounces. Unfortunately, it didn't last. We only mined about 500 lbs. Thanks for sharing this video. Slide show and narration was great. 👍👍👍
Thanks much. There are other gold prospects within a few hundred feet. With your prospect, you never know when something pinches off if it might come back.
During that time, I had a drill rig. We punched many holes without any luck. However, we did find a small seam further up the canyon that opened up to 18" running 2 oz/ton. The Mojave Preserve act of 1994 shut us down. Sigh....
Thanks Chris. I thoroughly enjoyed that. Perfect example of loaming for gold & the end result of success. I am going to have to check out that Dexpan. All the best to you & your friend there & thanks again for sharing. John from New Zealand. :)
glad it was helpful.
Thanks for the share Chris. Reminds of me of the intense blowing wind storm I encountered years ago. It was almighty, pushing, pulling, knocking me down to the point I became disoriented. Had to just stay down to save my moisture and eroding eyes and my ears were packed almost solid but trying to shake it out just drove deeper into my head. I remember only walking a few miles from the borrowed truck I used for this big desert adventure; now it was a distant past. It took everything left in me to crawl looking for the way back but there in the harshest down splashing twisting vortices was a man. 🕊️ This sudden stillness embraced me as my breathing slowed and my eyes cleared; this gentle voice spoke, " Be calm - delight in this day". I sat and watched as the man appeared to so effortlessly scoop away at the earth without bending at the low back or knees one scoop after another. And each time he let it flow through his hands as gravity somehow erased the dust leaving nothing but his palms full of gold. I watched him pour the gold from each palm into a canvas sack over and over. As I learned his methods quite lying and calm I began to notice something different about this man. I looked down upon myself covered in dust and debris, dryness and darkening in stark contrast. There he was confident cool and relaxed as he effortlessly lifted palm after palm of nuggety placer gold gently hand over hand into the sack like a machine. I observed more tightly his hands were light and clear almost soft with bright white light glimmering off his perfectly manicured finger tips. And his shirt sleeves appeared as to be freshly dry cleaned without even a hint of wear around the cuffs. I followed him from top to bottom as his gold mining magnificence and perfection in movement made we want to wake up - I though I might be dreaming. Instead I arose and walked to him .....
Sounds like quite an adventure.
@@ChrisRalph (Sorry, there was a knock at my door. Girl scouts selling cookies for the holidays) It was most certainly quite the adventure Chris. I reached down and scooped up two hands full with earth and held both arms straight forward as the substrate trickled down through my fingers the bright glow of flour gold caught my eyes with a shimmering light as a halo like shadow arose before me. I turned to catch a glimpse of the man descending behind a ridge and I heard his words, " You must find your own gold". I suspect the wind storm forced him to land I thought as the sound of a piston radial engine faded away into the now bluest of sky. I have searched hard and far for that rich dirt but today am still just a prospector. Sometimes I think I just need to get right with God.
Cheers✌️♥️🍺
Nice find!! 10oz per ton is great!! I might have to try that method! I've just been following quartz float up to veins. Panning your way up sounds like the best way to find veins that aren't exposed.
Only a small percentage of quartz veins have significant gold in them.
Are you tellin me that the old timers DIDN`T get it all ??? !! Great video Chris , really neat to see his progress .....How fun!
Its a fun quest to get the gold out of the ground.
Bro I want to shout out your tenacity. Thank you for your info.
No worries! Glad you found it helpful.
Amazing video. After 15 yrs of gold prospecting I’m slowly becoming interested in hard rock especially after a friend of mine found a subsurface rich pocket containing 10oz. It petered out at about a coffin sized hole. Do you suppose that it or could it have sheared and skipped a few feet over in any direction to continue?
Thanks again Chris!!!!!
It very well could have skipped over, been faulted off or otherwise pinched out in one place to re-appear in another. No guarantees, but the only way top know is to give it a try.
Very informational Thank You!
Glad it was helpful!
Good too here about dexpand, I’ll be ordering some from amazon
Dexpan works.
been waiting for this video !!!!!!!!
and it didn't disappoint !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wish I could have filmed outdoors. Glad you enjoyed it.
@@ChrisRalph next time !!!!
How do you crush the stone - I found a sandstone boulder about 2 ft diameter here in northern Vermont in ancient stream was wondering could I just use a blender?
Thank you Chris for sharing your time and talents! And very Merry Christmas!🎄 Great information amazing! Im into a very black material here on the property even has petroleum component but it has Gold. Dan Brent
There are rare occasions where you do get black carbon rich stuff with gold.
Another great video, 👍 👌
Thanks and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Yeeeehaaaaa! 10 oz to the ton that's the find of a lifetime for a small time prospector, congratulations to your friend
With all the rain we had over the winter, most of the time his working was underwater!
@@ChrisRalph dang that's unfortunate, my chrysoprase pit out in California was also flooded for most of winter.
So how would you go about emptying it out, would you just wait until it drains through the soil throughout spring and summer meanwhile prospecting other ground or would you haul a generator out there and pump it out.
He uses a generator and electric pump.
I'm not sure if you know Alberta, Canada. But im going to look in the red deer river and drumheller area, known for fossils and gold. Do you have any experience or knowledge in this area?
Sorry, not really familiar with gold in Alberta. Best of luck to you.
heya Chris, i just came across your channel and got drawn in. i did my undergrad in geology but never ended up working in that field. I went prospecting a couple times when i was younger as well (grew up in Tuolumne county, recently moved back here), but only found a few little flecks here and there. Im back in the gold country now and ive got the gold bug a bit. what advice would you give me for prospecting here in the motherlode (or even further a field). get a metal detector? get a claim? or something else entirely? enjoying the videos, the learning, and your attitude.
I suggest to join a local prospecting club, and see what other folks in your area are using. Metal detectors are great, but its the toughest method to really get the hang of. A club will give you access to local land.
Your book ‘fistful of gold’ is out where can I buy one/
Amazon didn't order enough and temporarily ran out of stock. I checked this morning and they are back in stock now, and should remain in stock for the foreseeable future. I do have many copies on hand so it was just a temporary glitch thing.
Nice information sir 👍
glad you enjoyed it.
Hello Chris, what do you think of these metal detectors like Klayzer. They are similar to the good old dowsing rod and are said to work with reflected electromagnetic waves.
I think they are bogus junk and a waste of money. They are dowsing systems and no better than a couple pieces of bent coat hanger. I did a video on dowsing - ua-cam.com/video/04KcwCYo7oI/v-deo.html
@@ChrisRalphI watched your dowsing video. I'm also rather skeptical that it will work. But one cannot entirely rule out psychic abilities that some people might possess.
The modern, dollar-heavy electronic dowsing rods that are sold to rich desert sons in Arabia are just magic devices to me.
A little video to make you smile is attached.
ua-cam.com/video/tibKM7lL8ks/v-deo.html
Hey mr chris i think i found a significant amoutn of gold is thete anyway you can tell me like where do i send for test
If you are not in the USA, I have no idea where to send in your country.
Im in fl sir
How did he find it ? Did he use a metal detector to locate it ? Or was it all by testing the ground . But that would take a lot of time and a lot of hits and misses. With more misses than anything.
Watch the "How he found it video" linked in the description and in the video itself and you will get a full answer. See: ua-cam.com/video/Q3lwdFf0y9M/v-deo.html
Hi Chris, going highbanking tommorw, we had floods, big floods. The weather been so bad people even have not be metal detecting. Road wash out, big bogs. Check out Victorian Gold Hunters. Great history knowledge. Russell 🇦🇺
Best of luck to you.
Ever try tannerite? Requires no paperwork.
Its still an explosive and larger amounts do require paperwork, smaller amounts as used in target practice do not.
Was your dad the Ralph in Columbia that I used to know in the 1990's?
No my dad lived in Southern California back then.
Is there a way i cqn message you directly
I dont offer personal consulting, training or advisement. I get many request everyday for this and have not the time.
I have an unpatented lode claim and I believe I found a smaller rich vein like this on BLM land. Do you know if your friend had to obtain any special permits or pay any reclamation fees before trenching?
I just do not know.
@@ChrisRalph Alrighty, thanks for the reply. Loving your content so far!
got me a new royal drywasher the new leaf blower showed up the other day. read the instructions again get it running. go shovel dirt. ,going on a tour with the one club i joined with dan (old owl cafe). on january 15. bring the gold monster. see what happens. have a good day.
Best of luck to you. Tell Dan I said hello.
@@ChrisRalph ok 👍👍👍
✌
Thanks
That’s a bunch of bs
Spoken by someone who has not the slightest idea of what he is talking about.
@ there is no way he’s getting 17grams of gold for 100lbs of ore! I never understood why people assay only the high grade…its misleading.
Edit: and if it was that rich why only go down 10ft in 3 years?
"That’s a bunch of bs" - Again you are ignorant and talking about things you know nothing about - really you should be embarrassed for yourself. Its not an assay, the 17 grams are the production from treating 100 pounds of ore. He is working it on very small scale basis because to get permits to go bigger in his area would be impossible - and so he cannot use explosives. He has a regular job and works a normal 40 hour week and so does this on the side. I showed in the video that the vein is narrow (only 3 to 6 inches wide) and the surrounding country rock is hard, so lots of mining takes place to produce 100 pounds of rich ore - probably 400 pounds of waste rock for every 100 pounds of ore. Narrow high grade veins are not unheard of but working them on a large commercial scale is very difficult because extreme care is needed to not mix the waste country rock with the rich ore.
@@ChrisRalph I’m only embarrassed for you thinking I should be embarrassed. people only try to name call people and use words like that to silence them from speaking about something they don’t want people to know about, Is that what your trying to do?
If he was making good money like that, he wouldn’t be using old wood and stuff! Even Jeff Williams drift mine has nicer equipment!
Something isn’t adding up, sorry for not being a 100% in your sales pitch! Isn’t like you taught people to be suspicious of wild claims…then you go make them!
Edit: please embarrass me, because 17 grams for 100 pounds of ore not matter how wide the vain or weird the vain is!
Also if it was narrow why is it so shallow?
And that could of been the end of the gold leaching out so the top is super rich. No it wasn’t an actual assay but you did claim 17 grams for 100 pounds…
Your right I don’t understand 1/2 the stuff you know but when something smells suspicious even a kid knows!
Why defend something you know is true and actually protects the mine? “If it was so rich you don’t need the government’s help”
Jeff even proved that foam stuff doesn’t work so even that is a suspicious claim and red flag!
LOL - cracking me up. I see now this is all a joke on your part.
Chris, I have managed to locate an alleged Abandoned Placer Claim with very similar Geology. I'm just waiting for information from the District Office of that area as to whether or not it is open to mineral entry. Seems theres a Patent Lode Claim near by. So I'm waiting for the Official word. In the mean time I'm afraid winter is going to set in and it'll be Spring before I can take samples. Have you ever explored for samples in the snow? I dont suspect my GM1000 will perform all that well, and then theres getting in and out. I am familiar with snowshoes and cross country skis but prospecting under those conditions doesnt excite me very much.
I have never done prospecting in the snow because you can't see the ground. I think you will be better off waiting for the snow to melt.
@@ChrisRalph me too!