Prospecting Gold Veins With Dan Hurd!
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Went on a gold prospecting adventure with @Danhurd , and I almost killed him! We hiked to a quartz gold vein that I found last summer and found some gold in quartz specimens. I also brought back a bag of quartz ore to run through our hammer mill and shaker table to determine how much gold per ton there is. Stay tuned for more videos!
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I worked at a home which belonged to the owner of a marble supply company. He saved the best piece for his kitchen splashback. It's black marble with a thick white quartz vein running diagonally is full of gold. In some places the gold is over two inches wide. It stops you in your tracks and you just have to stare at it for a while. It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen, ex wife included.
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Any photos of the ex.?😁😁
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I worked high end construction, houses mostly costing 5 million plus. I seen stuff similar to your description, it's not cheap, can be hard to work with.
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I have some.
I love these collabs. The only one thats missing is Jeff Williams. The holy trinity of youtube gold prospectors
I totally agree with ya! Call up Jeff next time too! 😂
Jason visited Jeff a while back and released vids both on-site in NV and back home prossing ore samples from Jeff's mine.
Jeff looks like he would be alot to handle if you were a chill person
@@kscory8577 A little Jeff is a lot to take, which is why I don't subscribe to his channel.
He needs to turn himself down a bit.
@@PogueMahone1 I like what he does but he is too much. I don't watch his stuff either
I love watching you guys work together. Jason,Dan and Jeff are My favorite prospectors..
It’s great to see you guys together again. The two smartest guys in gold mining and prospecting. 🍻👍
Jason, your personality really comes through your videos as a decent, likeable, easy-going dude. Enjoyable to watch, and probably a great guy to hang out with, too.
This collab is pure gold!!
More & longer vids por favor!!
Miners a hundred years ago were more fit than any one of us today,good job you guys,love you both
Millions of years ago that white quartz vein was a hydro-geothermal vent / smoker. As the microscopic heavy metal was carried up by superheated water from deep within the crust, when crossing a iron vein which was magnified by the energy, the heavy metals slowed down and built up along the walls of the vent eventually closing off the vent. Finding the point where the vent was blocked is where the MOTHER LOAD is found. Pressure forced cracks in the schists to create finger veins until crossing another iron vein. Plate tectonics lifted the the smokers from the Ocean floor to mountain tops and in between.
Dan Hurd was my first Gold channel I subscribed to when he may have had 20K subs. Massive following now. Your channel too has grown. When you keep putting out good vids you get your following. Great video.
Jason takes it easy with Dan. He is no jungle gym anymore. Glad to see you both prospecting together. And also I was surprised to see Jason has been modified to be like the bionic man. Way to go!
Love you two when you get together, your energy when together is remarkable!
Long time fan of both shows, mbmm for like 7 years. Love these
Man I love Dan. He just seems to be a amazing person
Jason, I love the prospecting videos. It always seems like you're going on an adventure with a pot of gold at the end. Exciting stuff keep it up!
What's a death march between friends ?
Especially when you have all that scenery and a little gold ...
I love how you explain the difference in the rocks and how to look for what we got to look for makes it easier for when I go out there because I found gold watching your show on the rocks that have gold in them and I do appreciate all you info that you give so thank you very much I'll keep doing what I'm doing and keep watching your videos
I love watching you both on your adventures!! I wish I could go along but you must hear people asking you all the time!! Wow !! I can't wait for you to assay that gold too!! Well keep bringing your awesome content I'm excited to see more!! :)😀
All I can say is more, more, more. Love the Dan collab vids. Can't wait to see what comes out of the crush and that assay
Dan is a big UA-cam celeb now. It's great that everyone wants him on their adventures.
Great video Jason. I like it when you work with Dan.
Those feather & Wedges work great! I have a set also.
Really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing! 🇺🇲⛏️
Love these prospecting videos! Super interesting! Thanks for your hard work!
Poor Dan it must have been a struggle for him. Nice to see you back here again
Dan Hurd is the man, I love when he makes guest appearances!!!!
Im glad you went back to that spot. Every time I see you post I think about it.
Thanks for this share! Finding something like this today is extremely difficult and a very good find. I have found in areas that the old timers found these veins and they brought in stamp mills. A town sometimes sprang up, high in the mountains. When the vein ran out so did the people. Leaving ghost towns all over the west. When crushing the veins the gold was turns into very fine pieces. They used mercury early on to extract the gold. Letting the tailing run into the creeks below them. Now the tailings are covered up with 100 yrs of erosion. Imagine when they were running there mill what the creeks looked like in these areas. White layers of crushed quarts so fine its like putty. Running that material through a trommel can break it up enough to sluice it and find gold and mercury. Problem is that can reintroduce mercury back into the environment that has been covered up for yrs.
I can't go out prospecting anymore because of back problems. But my grandkids are about old enough to go with and help with the back breaking job of digging. Keep up those great video's!
looked like a fun day out with Dan :) can't wait to see the results :)
Hey Jason, Great video! Happy to see you mining again. Hope you're able to figure out the helicopter rough rock pick-up! 3 tons would be an awesome "sample" to run on your machines. Good Luck! Looking forward to your processing video. Stay safe, Jim
I was always taught. Quartz veins were part of the geothermal waters. Solidified after earthquakes disrupted the waterways. The gold never melted in the geothermal waters. Being heavy they were always traveling along the bottom of the geothermal water rivers. And when they became quartz, the best gold is always at the bottom of the quartz vein.
May wish to get a second teacher
Jeff Please re educate me if I'm wrong. Always willing to learn new things
You guys get to have Way Too Much Fun!
Dan I really appreciate you and all you teach and I see you have crisp brand new threads. Have a greàt day sir.
There's always the option to parachute in, and save the hike effort. Good luck.
Jason your awesome too buddy, I know I fixin to laugh during before or after work is done in this video. I really dig this stuff I wanna soak up this valuable knowledge.
Great energy, two geologists :) i been watching both of you for some time, and kept hoping u ll become friends!
Good to see you both making videos
Awesome job, can’t wait to see what you get
Glad to.see Dan survived the hike...
Great video thanks Jason, looks like great fun :)
I recently started watching both of your streams. Nice to see fellow people in the same streaming community and collabing great content. 💰⛏⚒⚖💯
That was good to see Dan on your claim . He's quite the character
Love the videos with Dan and you!
It was interesting watching you use the feathering wedges. I might try that out myself if I find a good spot here in the Arizona desert🤙 Great video guys!
Great to see you two teaming up. I saw Jason a few months ago pokin at this vien.
I recently found the 'core' of twin parallel glacial moraines in NJ. All along the hills, mostly small gravels and fist-sized rocks. Then suddenly, a THIRD, much lower moraine appeared as a finger sticking out into the middle. LARGE rocks are embedded in it, 40-50 lb boulders, and I even found a huge chunk of crystalline quartz, CLEARLY hydrothermal in origin, and another one that appeared to be a chunk of the inside of a massive geode, with many small pea-sized clear crystals condensing together into a single mass.
To test, I took samples of the side moraines, and then the central low hill. I found no gold at all from the exterior material, nor from the clay at the base of them. But from the first little sample from that center part, 3 flakes of gold! That's the origin material of the gold I'm finding in the tiny streams! I suspect there's larger pieces deep inside that ridge. The material is very densely compressed iron-rich clay and ground-up quartzite, and hard to dig into, so it hasn't weathered much. Only the lightest material at the top has worn away over these thousands of years, leaving the very rocky clay intact.
So the next and very difficult task will be to dig INTO that core and get some samples.
Now the fun part is when you have all your mining equipment flown up to your new hard rock mine
Great video with Dan❣️
Jason we need a video with also pioneer pauly & Dan, all on a prospecting adventure!!
Great video . Easy to do your own assays with a torch. The man that taught me send a sample of rich ore to practice on.
Awesome enjoyed that thank you both well done Dan you made it to top 😜
It would be awesome if everyone had you guys personalities doing what we love to do!!
Great video! That’s really good looking material.
I usually concentrate taking material from the contact zones (or rather just a little left and right of the main contact) and sometimes if u get lucky I can see a few different runs of the same vein over time… meaning the main portion was one time and then a small contact then into a newer run at a later time and so on. Those are really good where I am. It seems in my area a single vein can have a few different fill-ins over geo time. In some of the bands u can def tell the quartz had way more alteration and/or was embedded with much more than previous older bands. Ours are more or less “stringers” running from pencil width to maybe 6” or so avg.
Oh by the way… I love seeing you team up with Dan. I love your channels and actually got introduced to your channel through his if I recall from a way early vid of his.
Those feather and wedges are excellent . Luck on the assays .
Been waiting for you to go back there, so glad you took Dan... and didn't give him a heart attack.
Looking forward to seeing what pops out of those samples.
That's hiking with purpose ! I can't wait to see the assay video(s)
Thank you .
You follow a rainbow all the way to the end, and when you get there, there's a seam of quartz with Dan and Jason working on it with a pick. How can a regular guy compete with these guys? Love the video.
Two of my favorite prospectors!
Long time fan. PLEASE, DO A VIDEO ON THE SAMPLING. I really dig these vids together.
Poor Dan. Gotta try to keep up w young buck. That's what he gets for showing you those wedges.
Cardio Dan. New name !
Very interesting - I'm an urban prospector but love watching the hunt for gold.
What a beautiful location, looks like lord of the rings.
Can’t wait to see what comes out of that sample😄
I was excited to see those split wedges, too bad they didn’t work out quite right
we love Dan
One of the things that may be occurring is that quartz veins don't form all in one go but in bursts - possibly during earthquakes. There is a supposition that during an earthquake the shock wave traveling through the rock temporarily drops the pressure on the hydrothermal fluid filling the crack and the silica drops out very rapidly - dumps everything in solution, including any gold, suphides and metals. Then the hydrothermal fluid slowly refills and pushed the crack apart again - since it's the weak spot anyway - until the next earthquake... so a 60 cm thick quartz vein may be one deposition event, or it may be dozens.
you may be able to see a line or change in mineralisation (galena, pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, &etc) that defines the auriferous event... if there is a clear delineation between the gold rich edge and the rest it may be easier to high-grade once you know what to look out for.
There is also no guarantee it'll stick to that side of the wall either - so keep an eye out for the indicator minerals occurring else where in the vein - especially if it swaps sides & etc.
Of course I could be totally wrong, but hey....
That vein is a hell of a climb up there, think I got a sample back in the late 1990s.
Some nice veins in that area. Think I spotted another vein up there with a drone years ago.
There's guy on youtube, "Demolition Dave", who recommends greasing the wedges. He says they last longer. He breaks and blasts rock, but he isn't a miner.
Oils can hamper gold recovery
Dan is alive with humor!
Right on Dan, that hearts still working awesome buddy!! Great video you 2
if it turns out good enough it might be worth making a road up to the quartz or at least as close as you can.
Maybe those wedges work best with solid rock or solid Stone that looks like sedimentary layers so maybe it didn't separate the slab as expected
This looks very much like a place I cut timber at in the late 70s on Segalson ridge. There was a rock outcropping at the end of the sale that appeared to be mineralized.
Well now!! Dan knows he can do it so he can check that off his bucket list✌️ Napa California
Clean your holes out half way down and it will save bit and drill faster.. Thanks for sharing brother much love and respect from GJ Colorado!👊🍻
you should bring a battery operated vacuum to capture any flour gold in the dust from drilling and once the quartz cracks
Very fun adventure!
I remember the last video of you sitting on the sketchy ledge! 😂❤️💛💚
11:54 Your correct response should have been, "No, I took it slow on the way down for *ME!*
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I love ur shows keep up the good work
I was wondering if you two would ever do a video together. You two are just a jump hop and a skip away across the border.
With the whole share of Washington in between
Nicely done brother 👍.. Equipment just showed up..👍
Cool video's Jason, question: Have you ever looked at one of you smelted lead beads under a microscope to get an idea of how much gold might be in it before Cupellation ?
Wow Dan Hurd My hat goes off to you keeping up after open heart surgery
Jason, you gotta go easy on us old guys! Maybe rent the helicopter for Dan next time? :D
Awesome!
Is it correct to say that the gold was deposited in the courts vein then as the mountain rose and folded over that the gold is migrating to the lowest point? Maybe the surface leaching I've heard described is part of this process. It's always fun to watch your videos because I get educated and then I have annoying questions they can't answer
looking smokey in the background, dealing with that in Idaho too
Hello Jason! I’m Dan from Missouri. I really enjoy your gold from rocks etc. videos. I’m in a mining district, Iron county Missouri. Finding many interesting rocks and believe I’ve possibly found gold that needs extracted from and iron-hematite type rock. I’ve watched melt many different things and wondering if I was to send you samples, would you be interested in possibly doing an extraction to possibly get some gold. Thank you I really enjoy your videos.
Finding gold on a lower edge of a quartz vein makes sense in the material was 'flowing' slowly as it formed. Gravity will still be in effect, and the gold in this silica-rich fluid will want to sink naturally.
Sweet, take that home and run it Jason!
I recommended a Hawaiian buyer to you at the escrap conference in New Orleans this weekend and he seems like a very motivated buyer. He should be reaching out.
Don’t hurt our Dan Hurd. He is a very special person to us on his channel
Wow! You men are sports! Snowing already! And is that last year's snow on that skiable slope behind Dan?!? I wanna go!!! Gold, a view and I'll ski the gold down. We could use a ski patrol like sled! National Ski Patrol Vet 12 years service. Proficiency, Ski Mountaineering, Avalanche Safety and Rescue Instructor
"Ms. Fit" OmAGoldiggerNow
Wooow nice adventure of my two mentor..
Ahoj Jason, what a beautiful nature... I think, you had video from this spot some time ago...
Dan and Jason, my favourite gold boys...
That vein looks like it has too many flaws in it ( cracks ) to get a piece to make a kitchen countertop out of. Be frightfully expensive but a Mastercard moment to see.
Fun, thank you for sharing
Cool you two getting together. Don't give Dan a heart attack! ❤
Outstanding video.
I would love to Go prospecting with you Guys would be a blast
hola saludos ese humo es por el incendio de colma
Holy crap nuggets Batman I have been under the assumption that this area is on the Baker but now I'm thinking you may be about a hour south