I'm a member of GPAA. I've always watched your videos because of metal detecting. With that being said, I think this would be great "alternative" to your usual video's...Because. I remember you being sick? I PRAY you're feeling better!... 🙏🙌🙏
Brad, you need to stop hanging around with my cousin Scott, because if you do that, you won't get sick....lol! I watch you both on UA-cam and I am hoping for a metal detector for Christmas. There's probably not a lot of lost treasures here in the State of Washington, but you never know. Lots of trappers, traders and explorers out here, before it became a state, plus the Oregon trail and other trails through the Cascade Mountain Passes.
This is awesome. A lot of the old miners gave up around ww2 when the price of gold was very low or labor shortages, not because they ran out of gold. With gold prices really high right now it’s possible to make respectable money with a “secret “ spot and some basic tools in your free time.
Judging from the abundance of boulders, whole trees and scour of the bank it looks like there'd been some serious flash flooding and rapid flow near the time of the video. Wow, that was a lot of gold for the first pan! The "rocks in bands" make those low spots in the stream bed so the heavy gold and garnets fall out into the lows while the water flows past like a natural sluice box
Scott is a good dude, we had the pleasure of meeting him at BONE 31. That looked like a great day treasure hunting! Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas to you and both your families Brad and Scott.🙂🌲🎅✌️
My dad and his buddy fabricated this device to suck stuff out of those cracks of said sluice box. Kinda resembles it a giant syringe in a way. It's known as the suck-a-matic.
Glad that you were able to salvage your camera! Even though you were finding a fair amount of gold there it sure is backbreaking tedious work! Beautiful creek! Merry Christmas!
Fun video. I live in Oregon and many years ago when I was younger. y husband and I owned a gold claim had fun times there. Never found a lot as we were not able to go often but there is lots out there.
This place reminds me of Huntington Gorge, where I used to swim with my family. You ever been there? Lots of swimmers and several swimming deaths over the years. Might be some treasures there!. I haven’t lived in VT for 50 years, and enjoy watching you treasure around my home state! Happy Holidays, Brad!
This is so cool! I'm brand new to this hobby and was recommended your channel by FlThunder Diggin' w/Rob. I've just subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos. This was excellent!
Glad you made it through the illness 🕊️🌹🙏... Many years ago, I worked in a gold extraction operation that was located in the wasteland of South west Nevada...I have no idea how much gold they found because the supervisors were really very secretive..I was aware of the steps they employed in gold extraction but, I was not invited to see or help with collecting the end product... That is what surprised me about your openers and public media coverage of your hunt... Gold miners are always very secretive... Farewell and I will pray for your success ...😎
Brad, contact Jeff Williams he is a gold hunter legend. He would drop down into the mine shaft and explore it. Also he will teach you more ways than you want to know about gold lol!
I've been all over Vermont and only found it in a few spots. Vermont doesn't seem to have a lot of it. Spots I have found it are in the Moretown area in that river that goes through Moretown(gorgeous spot I used to live on and the rainbow trout fishing is good as well) and in the mountains around Rutland below the ski resorts. Which is what I'd guess this area is..Killington mountain area? The fly fishing/trout fishing there in that area is amazing as well. But it's been so little. Here in Maine there seems to be a lot more spots to find gold and gems though maybe that's because Maine is like 10 times the size of Vermont idk. It's a poor area of the state but man in the Killington area a sick spot for outdoors stuff for cold and warm weather fun. Here in Maine I've always heard the Swift River holds sizeable nuggets but never took the time to go. I might this year. I also plan on going watermelon tourmaline hunting near where I live at this old mica mine that they find big specimens at(though I never have myself found it there but I've found other gems there)..Mount Mica or something it's called? It's in the Paris ME area if anyone wants to check it out)
I thought it was being mined comercially and closed to collectors? I hunted there 25 yrs ago and found lots of tiny pink and green tourmaline crystals and other minerals. I use to pay to go on collecting tours there but then it changed hands and was closed for many yrs.
I think they use a small plastic bottle with a sort of syringe on the end, kind of like a mini turkey baster. He shows the bottle at the very end where he shows all the gold they found that day.
I'm a member of GPAA. I've always watched your videos because of metal detecting. With that being said, I think this would be great "alternative" to your usual video's...Because. I remember you being sick? I PRAY you're feeling better!... 🙏🙌🙏
My Friday morning happy place. Thanks Brad!!!
What a great spot to pan. Great to see you back to your old ways!
Glad to see you feeling well enough to get out and do things you like. Thank you for sharing. I love your videos
This was from this past summer.
Good morning Brad! Merry Christmas everybody!!
Good fun change, Brad. Thank you.
Brad, you need to stop hanging around with my cousin Scott, because if you do that, you won't get sick....lol!
I watch you both on UA-cam and I am hoping for a metal detector for Christmas. There's probably not a lot of lost treasures here in the State of Washington, but you never know. Lots of trappers, traders and explorers out here, before it became a state, plus the Oregon trail and other trails through the Cascade Mountain Passes.
Great video, beautiful scenery...thanks for sharing! Be well!
THANK YOU BRAD AND SCOTT 🙂💥👍🙏>>>💚
This is awesome. A lot of the old miners gave up around ww2 when the price of gold was very low or labor shortages, not because they ran out of gold. With gold prices really high right now it’s possible to make respectable money with a “secret “ spot and some basic tools in your free time.
Great gold find congrats
You’re a regular Yukon Cornelius!
Judging from the abundance of boulders, whole trees and scour of the bank it looks like there'd been some serious flash flooding and rapid flow near the time of the video. Wow, that was a lot of gold for the first pan! The "rocks in bands" make those low spots in the stream bed so the heavy gold and garnets fall out into the lows while the water flows past like a natural sluice box
That must have been fun! Good for both of you!
The Hoffmans would find a way to miss it all, ha. Most gold is safe from their family.
😂 your right about the Hoffman's not finding the gold
🤣true statement hehe
Thank you both fun adventure. Brad im bummed you got out more then I did this year . I pray your over the limes deises. Blessings
What a great video. How fun ✌️♥️
That big boulder at 9:07 is awesome
It's funny that your best piece of raw gold you found want even in the river.😅 But I was happy to hear that nugget was native Vermont gold.
Great adventure!
great stuff thanks, that looked like a lot of fun
Thanks for taking us along?
Scott is a good dude, we had the pleasure of meeting him at BONE 31. That looked like a great day treasure hunting! Thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas to you and both your families Brad and Scott.🙂🌲🎅✌️
Brad, Thank you for another wonderful video
Im Glad you are feeling better Brad May you find something on your bucket List
Awesome gold panning day!
Great job today as always Guys!
Welcome to the Gold Family, glad to have ya, many great creators on this topic
A secret spot is like a built-in sluice box. My dad used to take me gold panning with his best friend as a kid up on gold creek and stowe.
My dad and his buddy fabricated this device to suck stuff out of those cracks of said sluice box. Kinda resembles it a giant syringe in a way. It's known as the suck-a-matic.
Great video really enjoyed it.
Glad your feeling better Brad!! Merry Christmas Buddy!
Long time subscriber here. Love thee title of this one, Brad.
It's good advice.
I have a new appreciation of you.
Glad that you were able to salvage your camera! Even though you were finding a fair amount of gold there it sure is backbreaking tedious work! Beautiful creek! Merry Christmas!
There's gold in them there hills!
Fun video. I live in Oregon and many years ago when I was younger. y husband and I owned a gold claim had fun times there. Never found a lot as we were not able to go often but there is lots out there.
Brad, follow the stream upward.
Excellent panning.
Enjoyed the video very much and it's great to see that your feeling a lot better.
Merry Christmas to you and your family
Good morning Brad, Merry Christmas
Really like this video sir, Merry Christmas to you and your family
Fantastic day at the secret spot of Scott!!
Merry Christmas ⛄️❄️🎄🎁🧣✨️🎄☃️ Good to see you are well 😊
This place reminds me of Huntington Gorge, where I used to swim with my family. You ever been there? Lots of swimmers and several swimming deaths over the years. Might be some treasures there!. I haven’t lived in VT for 50 years, and enjoy watching you treasure around my home state! Happy Holidays, Brad!
Wishing you all the best for Christmas and the new year
Aye! There be gold in them there hills!
Enjoyed this @ original posting. Keep healing, Brad. ^5!
Such a fun video! Thanks for reposting.
VERY COOL MERRY CHRISTMAS MEN.GREAT JOB
Merry Christmas everyone and best of luck in the coming new year!
This looks like such a relaxing hobby.
Dropping a summer video was just the ticket! After tomorrow, the days are getting longer!!
Great video Brad !!!
I had no clue that there was gold in Vermont!! Thanks for taking us along. Take care Brad❤😊
This is so cool! I'm brand new to this hobby and was recommended your channel by FlThunder Diggin' w/Rob. I've just subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos. This was excellent!
Merry Christmas to you and your family 🎄🎄🎄🎅
Golden Brad
Happy Holidays.
Brad, throw your wet camera into a Ziploc full of rice for a few days and then try it again.
The rice may draw the moisture out of the electronics.
He did get the camera working again.
Happy Christmas. I hope you are doing okay.
Cheers
Great going Brad and Scott. Wish I were along! Merry Christmas to you and yours. May 2025 bless you with GREAT health and joy. 👍😘🎄🎅⛄️🦌☃️❄️🍬❤️
You need a portable sluice box to process a lot more classified material.
Very nice video I definitely enjoyed it thank you. Be safe watch your six Gene Gorringe Mi 💛 💙 🇺🇲 🇬🇧
LOL! The Hoffman's equipment would immediately break down before they found a single picker.
My son wants to learn to do the gold panning. We just need to find someone who can take us and show us what and where we can go. Nice video.
wow , i need to explore the Appalachians geology more
Glad you made it through the illness 🕊️🌹🙏...
Many years ago, I worked in a gold extraction operation that was located in the wasteland of South west Nevada...I have no idea how much gold they found because the supervisors were really very secretive..I was aware of the steps they employed in gold extraction but, I was not invited to see or help with collecting the end product... That is what surprised me about your openers and public media coverage of your hunt... Gold miners are always very secretive... Farewell and I will pray for your success ...😎
0 like, happy friday, love your metal detecting videos
Be all you can be!
I've seen cat's paws like that one when I was a kid. I'm 66 now, so the age of it is up in the air.
👍👍
Brad, contact Jeff Williams he is a gold hunter legend. He would drop down into the mine shaft and explore it. Also he will teach you more ways than you want to know about gold lol!
Looks like you had some pickers, very nice. Why didn't you use your pin pointer in the cracks in bedrock?
I've been all over Vermont and only found it in a few spots. Vermont doesn't seem to have a lot of it. Spots I have found it are in the Moretown area in that river that goes through Moretown(gorgeous spot I used to live on and the rainbow trout fishing is good as well) and in the mountains around Rutland below the ski resorts. Which is what I'd guess this area is..Killington mountain area? The fly fishing/trout fishing there in that area is amazing as well. But it's been so little. Here in Maine there seems to be a lot more spots to find gold and gems though maybe that's because Maine is like 10 times the size of Vermont idk. It's a poor area of the state but man in the Killington area a sick spot for outdoors stuff for cold and warm weather fun.
Here in Maine I've always heard the Swift River holds sizeable nuggets but never took the time to go. I might this year. I also plan on going watermelon tourmaline hunting near where I live at this old mica mine that they find big specimens at(though I never have myself found it there but I've found other gems there)..Mount Mica or something it's called? It's in the Paris ME area if anyone wants to check it out)
I thought it was being mined comercially and closed to collectors? I hunted there 25 yrs ago and found lots of tiny pink and green tourmaline crystals and other minerals. I use to pay to go on collecting tours there but then it changed hands and was closed for many yrs.
You are in Bridgewater my friend
Not exactly the el dorado, but those couple of grams beats my total by far!
Are there any trout in that crick (creek)?
Were those black garnets in that first pan?
Someone many years from now may be telling the story of the curse of the green mountain metal detectors gold. Who knows maybe it will be next week.
At the beginning of the video when you were talking about the private side of the stream, it looked like someone took an excavator to the bank?
when was this footage taken?
This past summer.
how would your metal detector react to that small pan gold?
BRAD, how did you get it from pan to container to take out of ther, what’s the procedure?😮
I think they use a small plastic bottle with a sort of syringe on the end, kind of like a mini turkey baster. He shows the bottle at the very end where he shows all the gold they found that day.
Dont retire just yet guys!
Please make a vid of your best finds.
What’s the coordinates of Scots spot again? lol
Should have brought a mattock
🧡💛🧡💛
The good for nothing yellow metal that makes the white man crazy! That's an old Native American metafore...😂
How’s it going 👋🏻 .
Did you recover more than that? While it looks fun...enough to retire on? 😏
EUREKA!!!
How much gold did you find?
You can tell the Hoffman's, they won't find it anyway
Gold Mountain...
The Hoffman clan couldn’t find gold in a jewelry store…
Hoffmans started gold rush but they never learned how to find it, like Parker and Beets
Yeah. It was disaster after disaster with them.
Is this a new vedio?
Why? You don’t want Todd to sing about your spot?
Hopefully you get enough gold to buy another camera 😂
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Meaningless banter and once again wasting our very very valuable time.... I'm thinking 🤔... Class action lawsuit 😂
such TINY flakes hardly seem worth the effort--how do you separate it, hardly compares to the photo of the hat