GOLD CLEAN-UP! from one full week running the Trout Creek Gold Mine.
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- FINALLY! One full weeks worth of digging and sluicing has produces a nice quantity of cons (Concentrates) and it is now time to clean them up and see how much gold we got in our first week running at the Trout Creek gold mine. We will be using the Sluice Goose "Gold Drop" for this week's clean up. Hope you enjoy the GOLD!
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One of the best parts is that it doesn’t feel like work being out here on such an adventure.😎
Man i think you have the best job ever Andy. Hangin out with Dan Hurd taking in the nature digin dirt and makin gold. What could be better?
More like a labor of love for me...
How could anything so enjoyable be called work?
Love all the content, get that gold son!
@@ford4134 I totally totally agree🤗
@@magwa8855 it’s so awesome to work with Dan and have the chance to chit chat about all things prospecting and mining, Dan is truly a walking encyclopedia.
Thank you so much!!
good luck hopefully next week you double what youre expecting
Don't be discouraged by the clean up guys... You know better than any of us that it takes time to discover the break even pay layer. With running the overburden, I think you might be on some good gold. Keep it up and live your best life!
Dan is funny as heck. You can tell he has fun with the stuff he does no matter what. He seems like you could just chill and tell stories all day anyways. If you're reading this then keep it up brother... Super entertaining your videos are awesome and my family are watches it with me entertainment enjoyment that you brought into me and my family makes me think I could do it myself like I said keep it up live long and prosper brother.
Good luck with the next week of work.
It may have not been as much as you wanted, but we still love the video.
Ps well done for passing the driving test
Thanks 👍
That Sluce Goose Gold Drop is a nifty machine! There is something hypnotic and enjoyable watching it process that paydirt.
Congratulations ALEX on getting that driver’s license! Have fun, be safe!
10 grams… eh I guess it’s not that bad when you consider there was a lot of top soil run at first. Good luck as you go deeper. I’ll look forward to seeing what those layers hold.
I could watch that machine run all day. Super satisfying!
Hi Dan, I watched a you tube video that used 5 paper plates and a magnet. They would put their black sands in the first plate and pick up the black sands with the magnet and move it to the second plate and drop it in keep going till most of the black sands are in plate # 5. Gold should be in plates #1 through 4. Then you could take the gold out of 1-4 and do it again to the black sands. But it looks like your way with the water works good too. Thanks for another GREAT video!!!
Gold drop clean up is really cool. I like how you can watch the gold drop out of the concentrate
Yeah, off to a slow start. Was sitting here as you weighed it up, hoping for a nice clean up. But it is what it is.......... And like you said....... Next week, deeper dig, better material, and hopefully a surprise clean up. Would love it if you guys found a big one. Never know what Mother Nature has hidden under all those rocks.
I'm glad to see the GOLDROP worked well for you. Thanks for sharing!
You bet
It was so fun to use.
That bench will yield the biggest gold you've ever found. What's on the bedrock is going to make you and Andy financially comfortable before you're halfway through it.
Lots of great shows coming.
That's what I see ...👍🏻
Great show as usual. I'm a disabled Vet, and my dream is to get to Alaska. I'm from S.A. Texas, moved to Virginia. Im trying get a protected disabled job, save some money and move to Alaska.
Seems to me your analysis is bang on, light overburden tested for viability, now to dig deeper… Well done Sirs!
Yes, dig a little deeper and the 100 yards. Can't hurt and might give you the best gold. Good luck!
Oh, how they grow. I remember those older videos. How many of your students have stayed interested in mining? I loved those teaching sessions. I learned alot. Please stay safe. Here's to you finding the mother lode!!! Keep on keeping on, brother.
I enjoy watching your vids! I went out and bought the least expensive panning KIT I could find so that when I go camping inthe gold rich area near South Pass City and Atlantic City, Wyoming, I can give panning a try!
The are lots of creeks and a tone of old gold mines! The major mine in the area is theCarissa! It has been repened and is in business!
Found a 3 gram chunk panning in south Dakota, back in 1997. I was 15. My brother found several pieces that weighed .8 of a gram more than my total weight. You guys have this down to a science though. Eliminates a lot of the guessing game.
I love the guessing game
Congratulations to Alex. Hi Dan, you can always find more gold but it’s only once that your son gets his license for the first time. Watching from Morrison Colorado. Never searched for gold but I think I would like to try it. You make it look easier than I know it is. Thank you for sharing with us and I hope that your heart is doing well.
Cheers from Wheat Ridge CO!
Congratulations on the license Alex drive safe on those wet snowy roads.
I'm sure dad will teach you well
I just discovered your channel and I’m enjoying learning about the minerals and rocks , I’ve been collecting them since I was young. Ty
If you set up a tiny little machine operation on your Boston Bar claim at low water season where you just skim the top 12 inches of the gravel bar with a sluice optimized for fine gold recovery, with your tailings going thru your iCon, you'd probably produce a grade well north of a 1/2 gram per yard.
The sound of gold "thumping" in that last bit... Nice!
I think I was excited as you were if not more and now see how the gold rush could've affected those who left everything behind to search for gold !!
Well done. Loving the math issue to ‘prove’ the process and values. Well done gentlemen. It’ll improve I’m sure.
Hope you are feeling better Dan, as presently you are about 85 percent.
All I can do is pray for you and and lovely family.
I love it when you use all the tools!
Top layers are usually on the much lighter side.bet the deeper run will be much better.nice nice start thow...great video guys
Happy hunting the next 100 yards.. I enjoy watching your channel. Just watching gave me a little gold fever.. So I hope you will find that end of your rainbow where that big deposit of the yellow will be there. And I will be here to watch.. Thank you for sharing. And congrats to your son!!! ;-)
like a mini Gold Rush...You're living the dream bro!!!...Grumble Grumble.... i wanna see 100 yards of the good pay ran through the set up....
Hello neighbor I am Richard from lewiston Idaho!! formerly of wasilla alaska!...hope to watch you GET THE GOLD!!
I really enjoyed watching this, thank you! I am from New Zealand and I am learning so much from your videos!
Great video! I really enjoyed your narration and upbeat attitude. Good luck with your continued prospecting!
The sound of the flakes dropping into the glass jar. Thanks for that. You could really tell the density of them.
18:57 I love seeing bits and pieces of my old home town. Can't tell you how many times I walked that road there when I was a kid to get to shoppers...
Really hope this "pans out"....jokes aside, I would love to watch this process through your perspective, Dan
@Chris Donahue I should probably be shot for making it publicly though 🤷🏻♂️🤣
Hay Dan I really enjoy your show I have learned a lot from you about recovering gold from pay dirt unfortunately I recently lost 50 lb of pay dirt and all of my equipment to a house fire I'm a disabled vet and it will take me time to rebuild my stuff up keep up with the good work and get the gold thanks Mike.
Nice to see you happy and healthy back out doing what you love. And of course nice to see the beard growing back...
I like the logical storytelling. Things make sense. Hope to see more shots of the gravel bench source material.
I have watched your videos since the very first one. Love your videos with Pauly also, he is my other favorite miner..
Hi Dan, I’ve been enjoying watching your efforts to find that ever elusive mother lode you’ve been searching for. Your channel keeps me entertained with the Hurd sense of humour and the beautiful BC scenery.
My dad had a placer claim up on McDame Crk, in northern BC, in the late 60’s. He built a rough cabin and worked it all by himself, all by hand. Back then he had the option of diverting the creek and working the exposed creek bed where I’m sure he would have faired better but money was short so no machine work was ever completed.
McDame Crk has been mined off and on over the past few centuries especially by the Chinese. It’s amazing to see how at the turn of the last century they managed to move massive boulders all by brute manpower.
Not that my dad didn’t see his share of gold. He toiled away at his claim through the summer and went to work on the concentrates in the winter since the season that far north is so short. One story I know will make cringe Dan is when my brother came up from Saskatoon for a visit. Dad kept his concentrates in 5 gal plastic buckets and while he was off working in the creek one day my brother decided one those buckets would make a far better seat than the log stumps we had been using. Not knowing why dad had all the fine river gravel in the bucket he dumped one back into the creek then upended the bucket for a fine seat. Later dad hit the roof when he got back to the cabin and found out what his son had done. It was probably a weeks worth of work my brother sent back down the creek. Dad did find several ounces over the years he spent at his claim but back then the price of gold still hovered around $35 an ounce so he never got rich. Just the same he loved being out there, like you, always looking for that shifty gold seam.
This is great. I love watching you guys making money from mother earth through hard work. Old school.
The beard is coming along nicely Dan.
Your lookin good. Im so glad your doing well. Good luck with the new mine.
Im still 🙏 4 ur 🧡😉
That separator it very cool. So many options for getting gold out of the dirt.
It's a brilliant machine for separating out the really fine gold.
@@markfryer9880
It looks like a piece of kit most people could really use. Especially down here in New Mexico where a good amount of our gold is smaller than the sands.
congratulations Alex's your a driver be careful out there. nice gold dan I hope it gets better from here .thank you for sharing the adventure.
The home video was wholesome and adorable. Just as it should be. Love it.
Got my Dan Hurd Paydirt bag and boom ! 0.9 grams total recovered and plenty of fun learning and testing. Even scored a 0.5 g picker and a big garnet! Thanks Dan !
Looking forward to the next 84 yards !
I just love your videos. Only comment is that the "Goldrop Paydirt Separator" cost is way to high ($2,000) for what it does. As a lot of folks know, a Gold Cube, Gold Hog, Dream Mat, or Infinity Mat, does just as good of a job or better and at a lot less cost and at a faster rate. I do give a lot of credit though to the folks that put out different ideas/products for catching gold.
You should make the gold paydirt bags, in stages of how easy or hard it is to pan. So many have different ammounts you can buy, or sizes but having it train you with something harder to pan, you can make a step up system to get better at panning.
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I believe when you get down to that next,layer it will be better. No doubt you guys rock !
Awesome guys, Beautiful looking Gold, hopefully lots gets uncovered, Good luck
Very exciting to watch this. Gold rush without the drama.
You two are gonna make a helluva team and i would be willing to bet you'll be pulling 4 or 5 oz per week once you get down to the better gravels.
Dan- Now that you have done Gold, Garnets, Fossils and a few others, you might decide to try your luck with Opals. There are mines in Nevada...
may you have better success in the next run. I realize that it would take a lot of editing but a look at what goes into a week of sitting on the hill , digging, repairing, negotiating the claim would be interesting.
Nice job guys...it is again the first week. More gold to come everyone!
Thank you for sharing Dan. I enjoy watching your videos. I’m hoping that you hit it “Big” my friend.
You know I like GOLD, but I have only panned a few times, it's fun.
I bring along my fishing rod, just in case I get bored.
I was in BC this past summer and didn't get a chance to pan for gold or fish much, sucks to be me.
Dan! So glad I found the FB video here. Good show! Things work much better without a bunch of privacy intrusive scripts running in the background. I'm hooked on your video's and that great personality. Keep up the good work friend. Ken
That sounds like a good bit of fun congratulations to your son on his license I have two sons myself I think this would be a good way for me and my youngest son the bond can't wait to see the second part or the outcome of your site basically keep up the good work yes I'll be watching your videos that is 😲😅😅
Very nice Dan and Andy. I was hoping to see that 31 grams with you guys, but you are just getting started, and the best gold is certainly towards the bottom of the bench. Good luck on the next 100 yards. I hope to see that Troy ounce once Andy can stay scraping the bedrock for the best paydirt.
Darn it. It's always fun work, but was sure hoping for more gold. But, I think you guys are right --- a little deeper will be a lot better. Thanks for takin' the time to make these videos. I love watchin' 'em.
Nicely done Dan!
Here's to much more as you proceed!
I absolutely LOVE that retro clip of Alex running the highbanker!! So heart warming to see and also to see the progress in your video production ! .Another great video Dan ..Cant wait to start Mining my side SOoooon
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hey Dan sure would love to have a sticker from your operation. In the early 70’S I worked at a gold mine that you would go crazy seeing the gold we pulled out of those tunnels. Thanks for the great streams and great 👍 luck 🍀 to you.
I made my sluice been prospecting for about 3 weeks getting real fine stuff and got my first picker today
The old video with your son is so nice ,looks like good memories .
love your content Dan , every time a new adventure
Congratulations to Alex. Better luck to you and Andy with next week's clean-up and reveal. Thanks for the video.
Dan if you had a small de rocker you can get all the gold thats stuck to the bolders the way it is now there not getting washed . when you get down into the good pay yull want to wash the bigger rocks lots of gold sticks to the big rocks.
I hope you have a better week next week dan!
Unfortunately the numbers are low. But I am not sure how many people are depending for the gold for a good living. I wish that you find what you need in the end. I am blown away by the whole process and a bit jealous of course, have a great day with lots of nuggets, thank you again for the video. Your biggest fan from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Thank you for sharing your treasure hunt. I pray that your harvest of gold. Is everything you have prayed, hoped and dreamed of. You have worked so hard on this. May God continue to bless you and your's.
Really nice Dan. Like to have seen more gold for ya but you did get some shiny!! Claim looking very promising!! Thanks Dan!!
you are an absolutely pleasant person! it is joy watching your videos!
So if you had a second one, you could have the tailings from the first one feed into the second one, so you could be seperating two levels of classifications at a time.
I’d like you to explain the different colors of gold. So interesting watching you two! Good Luck!!!🍀👍🏼
Just started watching your videos, love your quarkiness and excitment of finding gold, I need to get some gold pans and start panning for gold by the rivers that I camp by, keep up the great video's.
Pt1 was great. Alot of information well explained!
Glad to see you up and running again brother. Lots of luck
It's refreshing to see somebody who is happy these days - a rare sight. Keep up the good work!
I like the Canadian leaf chairs! Oh and the gold too!!
I've noticed with a lot of UA-cam videos that panning for gold and prospecting with hand tools along riverbeds is probably the best way to go. I would be so let down with so much upfront investment without any yeild.
Thanks for showing the work involved! Great vid, Dan!
Not as much as hoped, but still some nice looking gold there. Pretty awesome if you consider it being a couple of dudes playing with mud/dirt. Some extra effort to sort out the galena and maybe you can get some silver too.
Still very cool. Can only get better hopefully as you get further in
Loving this series already! Pretty pumped for the next round! Fingers crossed.
Congratulations and you couldn't have done this in a more beautiful place.
Possibly longer sluice runs. There could be a lot of flour gold that you could be missing out on.
Wouldn't there be a pretty good chance that the oxidised galena would also have a decent % of gold and other stuff?
That’s a tough one Dan. Instead of worrying about a grand aggregate average, I suspect it may be in your interest to not even run the overburden at that level and instead just cast it. It would be helpful to do clean outs every 2-3 feet down at this point just to help target that economic threshold.
Nahhh not even
What's important here is probability sampling. There's going to be a lot of deviation between 100 yard zones. One might net 10g and another one might net 40g. What's important is that they average out to your target of about an ounce over repeated experiments. If the estimation is correct and the average should be an ounce per 100 yards, the average of your realized returns per 100 yards will also move closer and closer to that amount as you mine a higher % of the total yards.
Loved the video. I don’t know why, but the Goldrop working is very mesmerizing!
Thank you so much Dan I love your channel so much a great to watch what you do for the day learning a lot
Question worth asking is how much overburden you can remove before the pit becomes payable. Might be able to discard a whole 1-4 feet? Can't wait for the next showing!
Great week, it will only get better. Best of luck on the next week!
Always fun watching your content! Thanks!
Holllly mooooly Dan ! Wow ! That’s an enormous amount of gold ! Congratulations frfr. I wish I could find stuff that big lol unfortunately I’m in Indiana and I always gotta travel to Colorado to do so and well most I’ve ever found in a single day 3.5 grams. But you sit you are a master finder lol
It was extremely satisfying hearing the little gold chunks getting sucked up in the snuffer haha
Fun video! The gold drop is super satisfying to watch. Good luck on the next cleanup ✨✨✨
Man that's not enough gold to break even on your expenses the first week.I do enjoy watching your excitement....
You and Andy make a great team.