This has got to be the best example of how easy it is to lose an outcropping of High Grade Gold Ore. You always here stories of lost Gold mines and think how hard would it be to find them but as you will see it does not take much to cover some of the outcropping . We take samples and dry pan with some drinking water to reveal what Gold is in the deposit. Click here for more vids on lost Gold mines ua-cam.com/video/nSegsChkSCY/v-deo.html and smash that like button HARD !!!!!
This is exactly why I pay close attention to your videos. You give the best advice of anyone I've seen yet. Thank you very much, Jeff, and you too, Lila, for getting it all on video.
So the faults, is find the red stuff to pan, I know were some gold mines in Snoqualmie valley with quartz I going to dig out and try to pan now and check out the trail endings, the veins in the faults are rusty with red and blue water drips, I find gold in creeks and rivers but it’s so find like flower
@Askjeffwilliams Hey man how's it going? Great videos as always. You've always responded in the past I have a quick gold prospecting question I wanted to ask you but didn't want to post my idea public. I checked your fb but can't message there either. Do you have a email?
I have a lode mine Jeff. And I discovered a piece of Quartz about 10 x 12 inches covered in copper. So I started digging. At the time I had nothing but hand tools. None the less I dug for about a week and I was able to open it enough that it's big enough that I can stand inside and it is approximately 12 to 14 feet in width with all kind of different types of brown and tan and yellow, sulfides it looks like in the Quartz. I haven't been back in 4 years by due to 3 hernias and 3 different hernia surgeries. The mine is in Johannesburg California in the Randsburg mining district. When I go out there I stay 30 days. I get water in town from the water Company at 5cents a gallon in 60 gallon Barrels. I bring 40 days of 3 meals a day and cook on a Coleman stove inside one of the addits and sleep in the back of my Ford Excursion which is 4x4 which is very much needed to get there. This next time I am bringing a generator, 3 jack hammers and 2 hammer drills which should allow me to get 1 weeks work done by hand done in a day or so. There are 2 850 foot addits and several 300 or so foot addits . The history is it produced 1.7 OZ's of gold per ton. It would be great if you were by able to come out and take a look and give advise. I am 66 years old and doing all of this by myself. I had planned on bring in my Nephew Justin but unfortunately he was murdered in June of 2023 so him being the youth I needed for the Operation is gone. I have had the mine since 2013. Nothing to show for it yet. The addits are Horizontal not vertical. I could use and would like some advise from you as an expert. I have been watching your videos for longer that ten years and like the way you treated your Father and all the people around you. Anyways, hope to hear from you. Even if I don't Thank you for all I have learned from you. This is most likely my last adventure and I would like for it to be a success. God bless. Be safe. Respectfully, Jeffrey Hank Williams Spradley. Yep, that's my real name. My Father and Hank Sr. we're friends
I remember from boy scouts camping in the Superstitions. Just off the main trail, we hiked down from our camp area and crawled under some boulders that only ten year olds can fit. There was quite a bit of gold streaks in the sand under there. It shows how much gold is in that area, laying just out of sight.
At 5:50 in, “Tell me your story of lost gold” I got a small story of lost gold on my claims. Old friends of my mentor, Tim Fadda, had told me about twin drifts that were started on the mountain side somewhere on the claims back in the gold rush days. The miners dug into the mountain and found gold, but it just wasn’t worth the labor, at the time, to continue the work. The drifts were lost to time. After some scouting work, I believe I found the site! Completely overgrown with vegetation and trees. I plan on clearing and sampling the site this year/season. I’ll have a video of it for sure!! I just got to wait, unfortunately, for the Sierra Mountains snowpack to melt to be able to access the site. Good gold hunting to you Jeff and Lila! Take care.
I found a lost mine once, after a big flood the entire bottom of the creek was solid yellow pyrite. I didn't have much use for 'fools gold' but I took some samples home and lost them to time. Years later I learned gold can be in pyrite and I crushed and panned those samples and they were full of gold. Between then and now all the roads were closed to public entry. So I bicycled 15 miles back in to that creek. It was covered 20 feet deep in large boulders and over burden. There was a mine there too, right next to the creek. I am likely the only person that ever saw it in the last 100 years.
One of the theories on the Lost Dutchman was that it was a pocket of the type that is pretty common in Arizona, You need to bring a pack mule or a portable processing rig or both, The arid environment also has caused the lack of exploration for multiple reasons.
A pack mule is all you can bring. The Lost Dutchman is in a wilderness area. There're rangers stationed at the trailheads just watching for people trying to bring in mining equipment.
Jeff, you're living my dream. Prospecting, exploring and finding the shiny. When do you file a claim on that property? Do you wait for an assay or do you just jump on it now based on your preliminary findings and what you have seen so far?
Golden Colorado on the river alot of gold when you get down to the bed rock nickel nuggets! A lot of black sand and garnets and when the dirt is red then you fine the gold and gold we be in the root of a tree by the river!
Jeff is wearing my favorite pair of gloves! Any of you fellers who haven’t found them I’d suggest you look them up. Mechanics (deer skin)? Nice and soft but tough and last a good while.
Milwaukee is making a glove that I have yet to wear out. I bought 3 sets because they fit so good and I still have all 3. I think they're synthetic but tougher than any leather gloves I've owned and you can actually use your phone with them on but they are too bulky to text.
Excellent Geology lesson Jeff and Lila, that good looking vein is where mines are started, get slim (safer hes already passed on )to blow that hunker out the hill and lets see whats inside 😂
I found if bring a 6" x 6" steel plate to smash rocks and shove the Material in bucket. I have done putting the Material on 4" x 4" canvas blanket and let wind blow some it around you. I brought small screen to do it too.
When sampling a pan don't you count the colors to estimate the vein gold content in the field? I was promised a gold mine by this old prospector, but, all I got was the shaft. 🤣A core drill sampler works better in solid rock? But I suppose you can't put that on your ATV.🤔
You should consider just hauling around a 5 gallon or 2.5 gallon jug of water with you on your atv. It would make it easier to pan these remote areas and gives you something to rinse your hands off with after digging and panning and less waste by reusing the jug and keeping it in the atv instead of hauling a pack of water bottles around
I like how you made those outcroppings disappear 😂. I think you're holding something back. Since Patrons are financing your prospecting are you going to make them shareholders when you make your strike, if you haven't made it already that is. Love the content.
you asked about stories...thirty years ago I visited Mt. Kokoweef with my friend Waves. We were seeing Mobius Rex, the legendary Sixties character, who encountered the Kokoweef legend and moved into the area. He took us up a terrifying ride up the side of the mountain to his adit, while he told us the story of an unknown underground river that drained the whole California gold mining area. It was supposed to have a literal river of black sand many yards wide, with gold beyond belief. Entrances were discovered, then lost, and others sealed up, so as you say, the gold is still there in the river area, if the stories are true. Mobius showed us the sintering pits where they tested ores, and which still contained 300 year old charcoal. Jagged cuts from primitive knives and saws. I saw enough to convince me that there was plenty of smoke and probably fire. Sometime later, Mobius had to decamp, as the government put the entire area into protection and began to rip out the signs of mining and camping in the area. But there must be many other entrances to the river. Someday...
Jeff's reference to winnowing reminded me of a lost-mine story involving the Huachuca Mountains in southeast Arizona. But first, the winnowing. I heard a long time ago that when the Spanish worked the placer deposits in the Cañada del Oro north of Tucson, winnowing was their preferred method because they were working hillsides well above the stream. I remember hearing something, too, about the blankets being wool. When they were old and worn, the blankets would be burnt to get to gold trapped in the fibers. I know of at least one Spanish mine in the Huachucas. During WW2, when the Army was still segregated, Fort Huachuca had a lot of black units (it had had these since the Apache Wars). Anyway, three black soldiers had some time off and were walking down a canyon when one fell through the roof of an underground room and onto a stack of crudely cast gold bars. The gold had been most likely stored there with the intention of getting down south, but the Apaches probably prevented this at some point. Anyway, the three made the mistake of mentioning their find. The canyon was cordoned off and heavy equipment brought in. Interestingly, the Army itself never got the gold. It's a well-documented story, having made it in the papers over the years, and still well known in the Sierra Vista/Fort Huachuca area.
thanks for sharing and we always say if you find a Lost Treasure ...MUMs the Word or they will take it .... we have heard many stories play out just like that one for years
man looks like an area you might find an iron cross, where 2 load bearing parallels intersect underground which if you were to take a vertical slice image. it would look like a cross. these legend has it is where stories of spoon-able gold was found.
exactly ....now your thinking ...iron crosses as they are called are great places for large Gold accumulations.... someone has their thinking cap on today
@@Askjeffwilliams yea an old-timer told me of his experience with one he had found back in the 50's the gold pocket was so thick you could carve the gold out with a spoon. Man would of loved to see that.
Yeeeeee Haaaaaa.. I won’t Hand 🖐️ Fulls sprinkled over my Weetbix Sonny Jim..!! Now that’s what I am talking about.. Fist 🤛 full of AU.. Well you better pack a Mule to that spot and take your equipment with you Jeff.. So come on let’s Go..!! Thank for sharing this Brother. Say hi to Lila and the Gang.. Cheers Tony..👍⛏️
TONY !!!!!!!! you got it my brother ..... you know it .... had to cover it up so it won't be High Graded ..... always my pleasure ...will do and do the same for us and be safe out there
Could you build a trailer stout enough to be pulled behind the Utv. That way you could carry a small crusher, your pans, hammers, picks etc and jugs of water. Keep it loaded and you would never forget to bring the tools.
Great video Jeff...My friend works for 'Old Trapper' here in Oregon, it's where it is made in Forest Grove, Or. It's the best...I can hook you up! LOL 😋 It's all I take with me when I'm out panning and hunting...My dog loves it too! 😊
I'm looking forward to your video with the old Mexican way of sifting material. I remember a few years back you told me you'd do a video on it and here we are :0). I'd always read about it in old prospecting books. I wonder how effective it is
Can’t believe that four wheel mule doesn’t have a five gallon jug of H20 dangling off the rear view mirror. I surely enjoy your explanations and presentations. How them worms doing? 😊
Jeff, I always learn a lot from you. I need to go back and take notes. Anyway, I'm not clear on 'claims'. When you're out there and find a 'juicy' area that can yield, do you (can you) set a claim for an area? Or are these on public lands? Can you claim on a public land or just grab the gold and run? .... so to speak!
Jeff, my friend(I hope), why dont you fix a spot on your side by side for a couple of 5 gallon bottles of h2wet and a big plastic pan. Then you dont have to worry about running out. The plastic pan will hold your bottles, pan, classifier etc. Blessings for a wonderful day... DFP
Dear Jeff I am happy to see you in a new discovery. We use the term "dog's tooth" in gold-bearing silicas, where gold ions have penetrated into the silica and the silica has turned completely yellow, which has an average of 200-300 ppm of gold. Jeff, the gold in our mines comes from pyrite. Is the gold in your mines associated with pyrite or did it originate directly from the magma?
Jeff, you need to put a "necessaries" kit in your sidexside. Bucket, Pan, Classifier, MULTIPLE 1 gal jugs water (you can never have too much h2o). And ALWAYS leave it there. So you're never without.😎🤠 I do concur with @waterloobear 110%
Jeff there was so many old mines not on any maps and rock outcroppings I found when I was a kid in the California Desert it was unreal. If I knew then what I know now from watching your videos and reading your book I would have hit the mother load. Unfortunately all those places are now in Wilderness Areas.
Jeff can you please do an episode on the Dutchman mine? No one wants to touch this subject for some reason. I’d like to know if it was claimed? I’ve read books, watched documentaries and no one applied any science to it. Appreciate ya
Mr. Jeff, thank you for the link. We will definitely try them out. If you find yourself in Coloma, reach out to me, I'd be glad to show you some interesting claims
OK. Good job inching the trailor into its new spot. I did have have a DOH! moment though at the end. I expected to see the hutch in its new location. After we did all that work (OK, you did all that work) it's gratifying to see the result. On another note, do you folks homeschool the kids? Can't believe you'd send them to public school. Take care.
Here's a story of a mine I found in the superstition mountains. Back in the 80's I spent a lot time exploring the mountains surrounding area. One day I climbed halfway up a mountain sat down and took out my binoculars and was scoping the surrounding area and across the valley on a mountain I saw what appeared to be a small cave. Climbing down the mountain I lost site of it but I continued on and I started up the mountain crisscrossing back and forth till I found it. It turned out to be an old tunnel to a mine. The hole was pretty small had to get on my hands and knees to get in but once inside I could stand up with plenty of headroom. The tunnel went back thirty or forty feet. About half way in the tunnel I saw a piece of gold on a quartz vain an I took my pick an was trying to get it out when it finally broke loose it fell into a open crack and I left it. The mine is pretty much hidden you can't see it unless you knew where to look for it. Next time you are in the area of the superstition mountains I'll take you to it.
RE lost gold mines... True story here... My grandpa and I SEARCHED a mountain top for a lost gold mine that HE BUILT A ROAD TO WITH HIS bULLDOZER... It was only four sections of total acreage it could have been on, but a mere 30 years later, we could find no trace of the road he punched to it with his bulldozer. Even with all the landmarks he recognized. So, when someone who built a road to a lost mine can't find the road let alone the mine... Yeah... There really are some lost gold mines.
Jeff, I think you're on another Winner. That could turn out to be one hell of a location in the future. Best of luck can not wait to see how it all pans out for you.
lost water fall……lost wagon wheel…. like I said you and slim takin’ all the gold. Whatz next, Oregon?? However, I do wish I was you. Good gold Jeff. I just can’t take the nuclear fallout in NV. AZ too far from the ocean. I don’t like under ground, so I am limited to how I can get gold. But I guess if I was financially independent I guess I could run around the desert. Good gold Jeff. Thanks for the lessons even if I don’t understand all of it.
Very cool. I'm on the look out for jasper and agates right now. Then i might try for some jade. Wyoming is full of beautiful rocks and tons of river rock where you dont think it should be.
@Askjeffwilliams i found some red jasper today! Looks like steak or a roast lol. I have looked at maps and some has been found around Thermopolis thats an hr south of where i am but I'll run down there and search for a while.
hello club meet yesterday our VP did a density test with water scale and specimens on thread suspended in water. unique way to get a rough idea of cool looking specimens gold content. i found some in gold bearing areas near arizona nevada california border. Look like and ostrich egg the specimen. I tell you april10th 2012 I found it in a hole with a harbor freight 9 function metal detector. the specimen made analog detector scream on full discrimination mode.
That looks like so much fun, what great spotting Mr W 😁 Also, I think I have a solution to the Worlds energy crisis, just plug Jeff into the grid, he has enough energy for everyone! Woooo-Hoooooo! 🤪 Hey, you could piece together a Travois that Lila could drag along while she is filming, you could bring loads of pay dirt down that way! Ask her, I'm sure she'd be fine with that. 👍 Great video as always buddy.
Jeff, I have been watching and learning from you for years, and I have yet to find gold from my chair in my living room. Dam it. Thanks for the information and entertainment.
Great find congrats and that looked like a lot of gold for one pan😳 so how deep will it hold value? 30-50 feet ? Thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏼👊🏼
When I retired, I worked the Black Sands Mine in Nevada county. My guess was It was run by Chinese because the doors of the old minners cabin and work shops were only five feet tall.
I've been watching your show for several years, and enjoy the content. I live in Coloma CA. Can you recommend any assayers in Nevada or California? They used to be everywhere around here . I have some ore with visible gold I would like to have tested. Keep up the good work
Thanks for all your information. Hey since im a new paterion now where do i go to see who one all your cool things .lol lol hey since i probably wont ever be able to go on one of your outings ok ill keep looking at your trips id love to be able to go in your and your wife's drift for gold or detecting on the out door trips I love you both you have wife a great couple
I live in Powell Wyoming and I'm wondering if there are prospectors who teach how to pan or mine for gold? If anyone knows the answer I would greatly appreciate your input. Thanks.
Yipe! What is the meaning of a “monker, monger, moncer ? Can’t figure it out and I am breathtakingly smart. Haha. As they say in the geo world, Rock on, Jeff, rock on. Find dem Mon……s.
This has got to be the best example of how easy it is to lose an outcropping of High Grade Gold Ore. You always here stories of lost Gold mines and think how hard would it be to find them but as you will see it does not take much to cover some of the outcropping . We take samples and dry pan with some drinking water to reveal what Gold is in the deposit. Click here for more vids on lost Gold mines ua-cam.com/video/nSegsChkSCY/v-deo.html and smash that like button HARD !!!!!
This is exactly why I pay close attention to your videos. You give the best advice of anyone I've seen yet. Thank you very much, Jeff, and you too, Lila, for getting it all on video.
thanks my brother .... its always our pleasure @@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756
Bad ass..mofo.,I say
So the faults, is find the red stuff to pan, I know were some gold mines in Snoqualmie valley with quartz I going to dig out and try to pan now and check out the trail endings, the veins in the faults are rusty with red and blue water drips, I find gold in creeks and rivers but it’s so find like flower
Would like to find one sizable gold nugget one day
Jeff, you have created a gold mine, not just phisical, this channel is a gold mine of information.
I love it. He makes learning fun
thanks , appreciate that
@Askjeffwilliams Hey man how's it going? Great videos as always. You've always responded in the past I have a quick gold prospecting question I wanted to ask you but didn't want to post my idea public. I checked your fb but can't message there either. Do you have a email?
Sonny Jim u think this information is valuable wait till u join his patreon. It’ll blow your pants off!😂😂
I have a lode mine Jeff. And I discovered a piece of Quartz about 10 x 12 inches covered in copper. So I started digging. At the time I had nothing but hand tools. None the less I dug for about a week and I was able to open it enough that it's big enough that I can stand inside and it is approximately 12 to 14 feet in width with all kind of different types of brown and tan and yellow, sulfides it looks like in the Quartz. I haven't been back in 4 years by due to 3 hernias and 3 different hernia surgeries. The mine is in Johannesburg California in the Randsburg mining district. When I go out there I stay 30 days. I get water in town from the water Company at 5cents a gallon in 60 gallon Barrels. I bring 40 days of 3 meals a day and cook on a Coleman stove inside one of the addits and sleep in the back of my Ford Excursion which is 4x4 which is very much needed to get there. This next time I am bringing a generator, 3 jack hammers and 2 hammer drills which should allow me to get 1 weeks work done by hand done in a day or so. There are 2 850 foot addits and several 300 or so foot addits . The history is it produced 1.7 OZ's of gold per ton. It would be great if you were by able to come out and take a look and give advise. I am 66 years old and doing all of this by myself. I had planned on bring in my Nephew Justin but unfortunately he was murdered in June of 2023 so him being the youth I needed for the Operation is gone. I have had the mine since 2013. Nothing to show for it yet. The addits are Horizontal not vertical. I could use and would like some advise from you as an expert. I have been watching your videos for longer that ten years and like the way you treated your Father and all the people around you. Anyways, hope to hear from you. Even if I don't Thank you for all I have learned from you. This is most likely my last adventure and I would like for it to be a success.
God bless. Be safe.
Respectfully,
Jeffrey Hank Williams Spradley. Yep, that's my real name.
My Father and Hank Sr. we're friends
0:33 Always a job well done Lila.
Jeff. As we age. We need to make checklists. Pan, Classifier.Pants.Ect.
hahahahha I know...right
I remember from boy scouts camping in the Superstitions. Just off the main trail, we hiked down from our camp area and crawled under some boulders that only ten year olds can fit. There was quite a bit of gold streaks in the sand under there. It shows how much gold is in that area, laying just out of sight.
At 5:50 in, “Tell me your story of lost gold”
I got a small story of lost gold on my claims. Old friends of my mentor, Tim Fadda, had told me about twin drifts that were started on the mountain side somewhere on the claims back in the gold rush days. The miners dug into the mountain and found gold, but it just wasn’t worth the labor, at the time, to continue the work. The drifts were lost to time. After some scouting work, I believe I found the site! Completely overgrown with vegetation and trees.
I plan on clearing and sampling the site this year/season.
I’ll have a video of it for sure!!
I just got to wait, unfortunately, for the Sierra Mountains snowpack to melt to be able to access the site.
Good gold hunting to you Jeff and Lila! Take care.
I found a lost mine once, after a big flood the entire bottom of the creek was solid yellow pyrite. I didn't have much use for 'fools gold' but I took some samples home and lost them to time. Years later I learned gold can be in pyrite and I crushed and panned those samples and they were full of gold. Between then and now all the roads were closed to public entry. So I bicycled 15 miles back in to that creek. It was covered 20 feet deep in large boulders and over burden. There was a mine there too, right next to the creek. I am likely the only person that ever saw it in the last 100 years.
It must be a real good spot, you got so excited you forgot your classifier, Lol! Get that shiny! Great info, thank you sir!
its a great spot
One of the theories on the Lost Dutchman was that it was a pocket of the type that is pretty common in Arizona, You need to bring a pack mule or a portable processing rig or both, The arid environment also has caused the lack of exploration for multiple reasons.
A pack mule is all you can bring. The Lost Dutchman is in a wilderness area. There're rangers stationed at the trailheads just watching for people trying to bring in mining equipment.
Jeff, you're living my dream. Prospecting, exploring and finding the shiny. When do you file a claim on that property? Do you wait for an assay or do you just jump on it now based on your preliminary findings and what you have seen so far?
exactly....if we find good color in our preliminary samples we claim it
Golden Colorado on the river alot of gold when you get down to the bed rock nickel nuggets! A lot of black sand and garnets and when the dirt is red then you fine the gold and gold we be in the root of a tree by the river!
thanks Bobby
Jeff is wearing my favorite pair of gloves! Any of you fellers who haven’t found them I’d suggest you look them up. Mechanics (deer skin)? Nice and soft but tough and last a good while.
Milwaukee is making a glove that I have yet to wear out. I bought 3 sets because they fit so good and I still have all 3. I think they're synthetic but tougher than any leather gloves I've owned and you can actually use your phone with them on but they are too bulky to text.
Look at you getting all "up town" panning with bottled water. Next time bring Perrier sparkling water! 😂😂 Good show as always!
I know....right ...next I will be wearing a three piece suit while exploring haahahhhaaa thanks Joanne
And yeah you’re gonna get wet!
Thanks for your informative videos.
That looks to be a great spot and it’s so close to the house!!!
Thanks for sharing your findings and insights with us. Nice demonstration on that exposing area. Between that hanging wall. Thank u Lila too😊😊
Excellent Geology lesson Jeff and Lila, that good looking vein is where mines are started, get slim (safer hes already passed on )to blow that hunker out the hill and lets see whats inside 😂
Always fun to watch the process while learning the history and geology mixed together.
I found if bring a 6" x 6" steel plate to smash rocks and shove the Material in bucket. I have done putting the Material on 4" x 4" canvas blanket and let wind blow some it around you. I brought small screen to do it too.
When sampling a pan don't you count the colors to estimate the vein gold content in the field? I was promised a gold mine by this old prospector, but, all I got was the shaft. 🤣A core drill sampler works better in solid rock? But I suppose you can't put that on your ATV.🤔
Jeff, your subscriber’s are the ones who have found the GOLD, thank you for sharing your adventures! Much love and appreciation 🎉
thank you so much for that
That beef jerky was so delicious he tried to plant it under the ground so it can grow into bigger jerky for later. Gotta get me some a that...
The vein looks like a sturgeon. Another awesome video, Jeff.
You should consider just hauling around a 5 gallon or 2.5 gallon jug of water with you on your atv. It would make it easier to pan these remote areas and gives you something to rinse your hands off with after digging and panning and less waste by reusing the jug and keeping it in the atv instead of hauling a pack of water bottles around
Man, oh man, Jeff. Good stuff Senor!! Love your schooling as always! Thank you for sharing some time in the "sand box." Great play ground.
Any time!
Sunday morning cartoons got to love it. Lila is the best camera operator. Be safe my brother 🙏. GOLD FEVER
yes she is huh ......thanks and you to my brother
A brush a large hand brush for uncovering that vien would help with the loose sand gravel
I love that you are so informative! You Rock! 🤘
I like how you made those outcroppings disappear 😂. I think you're holding something back. Since Patrons are financing your prospecting are you going to make them shareholders when you make your strike, if you haven't made it already that is. Love the content.
Jeff, your Awesome of covering up where you check. As a Native American I would grab a branch brush where I walked looking for gold.
you asked about stories...thirty years ago I visited Mt. Kokoweef with my friend Waves. We were seeing Mobius Rex, the legendary Sixties character, who encountered the Kokoweef legend and moved into the area. He took us up a terrifying ride up the side of the mountain to his adit, while he told us the story of an unknown underground river that drained the whole California gold mining area. It was supposed to have a literal river of black sand many yards wide, with gold beyond belief. Entrances were discovered, then lost, and others sealed up, so as you say, the gold is still there in the river area, if the stories are true. Mobius showed us the sintering pits where they tested ores, and which still contained 300 year old charcoal. Jagged cuts from primitive knives and saws. I saw enough to convince me that there was plenty of smoke and probably fire.
Sometime later, Mobius had to decamp, as the government put the entire area into protection and began to rip out the signs of mining and camping in the area. But there must be many other entrances to the river. Someday...
great story , thanks for sharing
I live in the vicinity of the locally famous lost Los Padres mine in the mountains north of Souther California.
Jeff's reference to winnowing reminded me of a lost-mine story involving the Huachuca Mountains in southeast Arizona. But first, the winnowing. I heard a long time ago that when the Spanish worked the placer deposits in the Cañada del Oro north of Tucson, winnowing was their preferred method because they were working hillsides well above the stream. I remember hearing something, too, about the blankets being wool. When they were old and worn, the blankets would be burnt to get to gold trapped in the fibers. I know of at least one Spanish mine in the Huachucas. During WW2, when the Army was still segregated, Fort Huachuca had a lot of black units (it had had these since the Apache Wars). Anyway, three black soldiers had some time off and were walking down a canyon when one fell through the roof of an underground room and onto a stack of crudely cast gold bars. The gold had been most likely stored there with the intention of getting down south, but the Apaches probably prevented this at some point. Anyway, the three made the mistake of mentioning their find. The canyon was cordoned off and heavy equipment brought in. Interestingly, the Army itself never got the gold. It's a well-documented story, having made it in the papers over the years, and still well known in the Sierra Vista/Fort Huachuca area.
thanks for sharing and we always say if you find a Lost Treasure ...MUMs the Word or they will take it .... we have heard many stories play out just like that one for years
man looks like an area you might find an iron cross, where 2 load bearing parallels intersect underground which if you were to take a vertical slice image. it would look like a cross. these legend has it is where stories of spoon-able gold was found.
exactly ....now your thinking ...iron crosses as they are called are great places for large Gold accumulations.... someone has their thinking cap on today
@@Askjeffwilliams yea an old-timer told me of his experience with one he had found back in the 50's the gold pocket was so thick you could carve the gold out with a spoon. Man would of loved to see that.
This is in my backyard and I just missed you by a day!!
❤ thanks so much for the education I will definitely remember this for the rest of my life
Yeeeeee Haaaaaa..
I won’t Hand 🖐️ Fulls sprinkled over my Weetbix Sonny Jim..!!
Now that’s what I am talking about..
Fist 🤛 full of AU..
Well you better pack a Mule to that spot and take your equipment with you Jeff..
So come on let’s Go..!!
Thank for sharing this Brother.
Say hi to Lila and the Gang..
Cheers Tony..👍⛏️
TONY !!!!!!!! you got it my brother ..... you know it .... had to cover it up so it won't be High Graded ..... always my pleasure ...will do and do the same for us and be safe out there
Could you build a trailer stout enough to be pulled behind the Utv. That way you could carry a small crusher, your pans, hammers, picks etc and jugs of water. Keep it loaded and you would never forget to bring the tools.
Great video Jeff...My friend works for 'Old Trapper' here in Oregon, it's where it is made in Forest Grove, Or. It's the best...I can hook you up! LOL 😋 It's all I take with me when I'm out panning and hunting...My dog loves it too! 😊
Very cool!
Throw some big water jugs in that side by side lol
I'm looking forward to your video with the old Mexican way of sifting material. I remember a few years back you told me you'd do a video on it and here we are :0). I'd always read about it in old prospecting books. I wonder how effective it is
Mr. Jeff is alway's were I go when I'm searching for info on gold hunting,love his Energy too 💥💥💥💥💥🙌
Can’t believe that four wheel mule doesn’t have a five gallon jug of H20 dangling off the rear view mirror. I surely enjoy your explanations and presentations. How them worms doing? 😊
Thanks Jeff. Come up to Northern California this spring. We are opening up a old hard rock 😊
Sounds great!
When open it produced 45000 oz in 1500' of vien.
I found St. Patrick's lost gold mine out here in Utah and didn't realize it until afterwards and then I went back and grabbed a larger sample.
Jeff, I always learn a lot from you. I need to go back and take notes. Anyway, I'm not clear on 'claims'. When you're out there and find a 'juicy' area that can yield, do you (can you) set a claim for an area? Or are these on public lands? Can you claim on a public land or just grab the gold and run? .... so to speak!
just check land status and if its open for mineral entry file a claim on it ....
S*** brother another great continuing adventure thanks for the intrigue and information as I look through these hills by Tucson take care 🥃🥃🙏❤️👍🤠
lol beef jerky is a must when prospecting! Commmme on Jeff! It’s a no brainer. 😂😂
Jeff. Why don't you strap a couple 5 gal Jerry cans to that buggy. That's 10 gal of water bro. 😂
I know...right
Jeff, my friend(I hope), why dont you fix a spot on your side by side for a couple of 5 gallon bottles of h2wet and a big plastic pan. Then you dont have to worry about running out. The plastic pan will hold your bottles, pan, classifier etc. Blessings for a wonderful day...
DFP
great idea
Dear Jeff I am happy to see you in a new discovery. We use the term "dog's tooth" in gold-bearing silicas, where gold ions have penetrated into the silica and the silica has turned completely yellow, which has an average of 200-300 ppm of gold. Jeff, the gold in our mines comes from pyrite. Is the gold in your mines associated with pyrite or did it originate directly from the magma?
no ...most of our richer mines are sulfide free and precipitated with hematite on drusy quartz
I think you're onto something. That might not be the Lost Wagonwheel mine, but indications appear quite promising. Good luck out there !
exactly my brother
Not enough room here to tell you what I no about the location of the lost Dutchman and this is no joke I feel with your help we could find it
to many people guarding it
Jeff, you need to put a "necessaries" kit in your sidexside.
Bucket, Pan, Classifier, MULTIPLE 1 gal jugs water (you can never have too much h2o).
And ALWAYS leave it there. So you're never without.😎🤠
I do concur with @waterloobear 110%
Jeff there was so many old mines not on any maps and rock outcroppings I found when I was a kid in the California Desert it was unreal. If I knew then what I know now from watching your videos and reading your book I would have hit the mother load. Unfortunately all those places are now in Wilderness Areas.
exactly but its never too late my brother
Jeff can you please do an episode on the Dutchman mine? No one wants to touch this subject for some reason. I’d like to know if it was claimed? I’ve read books, watched documentaries and no one applied any science to it. Appreciate ya
history channel has done a series on the duchman mine recently.
there is a good reason why no one is seriuos about getting it....everyone that has never made it out of there
And those who say they have. We're just not close enough.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this Jeff. Some say it’s in a National park.
Thank You Jeff!!!
Old trapper jerky is the bomb 👍 be safe everyone
I just ordered that teriyaki from amazon - DON'T EAT AND TALK AT THE SAME TIME
Mr. Jeff, thank you for the link. We will definitely try them out. If you find yourself in Coloma, reach out to me, I'd be glad to show you some interesting claims
Sounds good!
Great Content Jeff 👍Thanks again
you betcha
OK. Good job inching the trailor into its new spot. I did have have a DOH! moment though at the end. I expected to see the hutch in its new location. After we did all that work (OK, you did all that work) it's gratifying to see the result. On another note, do you folks homeschool the kids? Can't believe you'd send them to public school. Take care.
The geology information is why I watch Jeff, dude is an encyclopedia of geology knowledge.
thanks
@@Askjeffwilliams no need to say thanks Jeff, thank you for the knowledge
Yes, I eat up every technical term.
And Yeeeaaaaahhhhh You need to use perrier water !!
only the best by brother
@@Askjeffwilliams👍👍 2 thumbs up
Fantastic video Jeff. You know how to find the shiny.
Here's a story of a mine I found in the superstition mountains. Back in the 80's I spent a lot time exploring the mountains surrounding area. One day I climbed halfway up a mountain sat down and took out my binoculars and was scoping the surrounding area and across the valley on a mountain I saw what appeared to be a small cave. Climbing down the mountain I lost site of it but I continued on and I started up the mountain crisscrossing back and forth till I found it. It turned out to be an old tunnel to a mine. The hole was pretty small had to get on my hands and knees to get in but once inside I could stand up with plenty of headroom. The tunnel went back thirty or forty feet. About half way in the tunnel I saw a piece of gold on a quartz vain an I took my pick an was trying to get it out when it finally broke loose it fell into a open crack and I left it. The mine is pretty much hidden you can't see it unless you knew where to look for it.
Next time you are in the area of the superstition mountains I'll take you to it.
great story ..... thanks for the offer.....would love to see a map of it ...
RE lost gold mines... True story here... My grandpa and I SEARCHED a mountain top for a lost gold mine that HE BUILT A ROAD TO WITH HIS bULLDOZER... It was only four sections of total acreage it could have been on, but a mere 30 years later, we could find no trace of the road he punched to it with his bulldozer. Even with all the landmarks he recognized. So, when someone who built a road to a lost mine can't find the road let alone the mine... Yeah... There really are some lost gold mines.
exactly
Jeff, I think you're on another Winner. That could turn out to be one hell of a location in the future. Best of luck can not wait to see how it all pans out for you.
great place to drop a shaft
lost water fall……lost wagon wheel…. like I said you and slim takin’ all the gold. Whatz next, Oregon?? However, I do wish I was you. Good gold Jeff. I just can’t take the nuclear fallout in NV. AZ too far from the ocean. I don’t like under ground, so I am limited to how I can get gold. But I guess if I was financially independent I guess I could run around the desert. Good gold Jeff. Thanks for the lessons even if I don’t understand all of it.
Very cool. I'm on the look out for jasper and agates right now. Then i might try for some jade. Wyoming is full of beautiful rocks and tons of river rock where you dont think it should be.
South West corner has beautiful Jade
@Askjeffwilliams i found some red jasper today! Looks like steak or a roast lol. I have looked at maps and some has been found around Thermopolis thats an hr south of where i am but I'll run down there and search for a while.
Great video Jeff. Thank you so much for teaching us 😊
Hi again Jeff ,thanks for another video...
Still haven't seen the gold retrieved in first video. Oh well, on to bigger nuggets.
Awesome💥💥💥🙌I want move out there, how much is an acre of desert out there???
Dang it Jeff, when are you gonna get a burro to help you carry your stuff?
hello club meet yesterday our VP did a density test with water scale and specimens on thread suspended in water. unique way to get a rough idea of cool looking specimens gold content. i found some in gold bearing areas near arizona nevada california border. Look like and ostrich egg the specimen. I tell you april10th 2012 I found it in a hole with a harbor freight 9 function metal detector. the specimen made analog detector scream on full discrimination mode.
Love the video!
What is the basic difference between the hanging wall and d the foot wall?
That looks like so much fun, what great spotting Mr W 😁
Also, I think I have a solution to the Worlds energy crisis, just plug Jeff into the grid, he has enough energy for everyone! Woooo-Hoooooo! 🤪
Hey, you could piece together a Travois that Lila could drag along while she is filming, you could bring loads of pay dirt down that way! Ask her, I'm sure she'd be fine with that. 👍
Great video as always buddy.
THANK YOU JEFF AND CAMERA PERSON..VERY COOL ..
Jeff can I go out in the hills with you sometime? I live in florence…I would love to go investigate with you!
just sign up and you can go
Take a drink first then pan Jeff 😂 one for you one for the pan ... Heading to the Klamath the 21rst. Y'all stay safe and hydrated out there.
FYI People....Ole' trapper jerky is best found in General stores. Panning for it is hard to do!!
Did I miss the pics from last week 😕
Jeff, I have been watching and learning from you for years, and I have yet to find gold from my chair in my living room. Dam it. Thanks for the information and entertainment.
Great find congrats and that looked like a lot of gold for one pan😳 so how deep will it hold value? 30-50 feet ? Thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏼👊🏼
When I retired, I worked the Black Sands Mine in Nevada county. My guess was It was run by Chinese because the doors of the old minners cabin and work shops were only five feet tall.
miners were shorter back then ...about my size
@@Self_Aware_Since_Aug_29 yep 20 miles northeast of Nevada city CA. In the town of North Columbia
I've been watching your show for several years, and enjoy the content. I live in Coloma CA. Can you recommend any assayers in Nevada or California? They used to be everywhere around here . I have some ore with visible gold I would like to have tested. Keep up the good work
yes ....here is the link. www.reedlab.altervista.org/
I'm loving these episodes of following the old tales. I'm paying attention, wink wink.
thats good because we may have a quiz later on that you will love ( wink wink )
No one:
Jeff: *spawns in the mountains* "Alright guys! Look at this material!!" *Finds gold*
Freaking awesome.
thanks
Not enough water ☑ No Safety glasses✅ No Classifier ✔ 🧐 Maybe we ship you off to Dan hurd for more training 🤣
hahahhhaaha
Thanks again
Where are the pictures from the last video?
Great show Jeff... informative as always
Was there enough to pay for the bottles water
Thanks for all your information. Hey since im a new paterion now where do i go to see who one all your cool things .lol lol hey since i probably wont ever be able to go on one of your outings ok ill keep looking at your trips id love to be able to go in your and your wife's drift for gold or detecting on the out door trips I love you both you have wife a great couple
just check the site my brother the winners are posted every month
I live in Powell Wyoming and I'm wondering if there are prospectors who teach how to pan or mine for gold? If anyone knows the answer I would greatly appreciate your input. Thanks.
next time bring another bucket
Yipe! What is the meaning of a “monker, monger, moncer ? Can’t figure it out and I am breathtakingly smart. Haha. As they say in the geo world, Rock on, Jeff, rock on. Find dem Mon……s.
hahhahhahah now thats a Monker
It's the hat. That's a Treasure of the Sierra Madre hat. No wonder you're so good at finding gold.
you know the secret
@@Askjeffwilliams I got one just like it in the closet, better break it out, Huh! Damn, Sonny Jim, all this time, ......🤪