I'm going to buy my wife some of your paydirt for are 20th year anniversary gift. She gets so excited when she sees the glow of gold in a pan. Dan you got an awesome channel going keep up the good work....... 🤠👍
You’re better off just buying gold and making you’re own paydirt then take her out prospecting and throw the dirt in her bucket when she isn’t looking.
I will say I am not a Big You Tuber! However I watch various content every couple days. This is how a You Tube channel is done.......Spot on Dan, Kind Regards Karl from the UK
I'm 51, my dad's 82. Because of world travel issues etc. Hadn't been able to see him in almost two years. My first morning there, he's got two gloves and a baseball to play a game of catch. Sometimes it can be a long time in between, but for us that was making the most of the time we do have. Be ready to take advantage of those instances, whenever they occur.
@@killilluminati40 So long as one knows the function, this the requirements, it's relatively easy to make the alignment tool for a clutch - replacement just became a lot cheaper!
Dan, just had a thought. When cleaning the gold from the black iron sand, instead of using a strong magnet that would trap both sand and gold, what if you used an electro-magnet with a variable field strength? That way you could turn it down until the sand barely clings to it. Or stick a timer chip in there so the current pulses on and off, shaking the gold dust out of the sand? Just a thought, maybe I’m not seeing something correctly but might be worth a shot. Love the channel.
Sounds like something that would be great to see on video, play with black sands and a electro magnet and experiment with the whole field strength of the magnet
Better would be have it fall past the magnet, so it pulls the black to the side and leaves the gold. The problem with trying to vary a magnetic field to do what you suggest would be the inductance of the coil fighting you. Not impossible if you know what you're doing, but would probably be a pain for an amateur!
Keep on taking us along with you Dan Hurd and it's about Vogus got a mention. He keeps on chipping away with great content and is a genuine player in the UA-camr's gold prospecting league
Dan, I love your enthusiasm and your channel! And it's good to see your dad out there with you as well. I'm excited to see what gold prospecting adventures and endeavors you encounter and share with us in 2022. Keep up the good work!
You asked "Why That Spot?" From a fluid dynamics -kinda viewpoint, here's what I see : - Very sharp/acute angle top edge to the rock, - Near-vertical rock wall facing upstream - Rock face is near-perpendicular to the water flow. - Drop of about 30 cm (a guess) gives room for vertical-circulating eddies (gets a larger volume of water reflowing towards the base. - LONG extension of similar rock formation (not an isolated boulder) allowing more small-mass objects to becomed trapped behind it, eventually working their way to the channel-ward/downward side. Basically, you found a HUGE crevice 2-3 meters long. Why no larger bits of gold. I got no idea. Perhaps its under that water surface. or it has 'sluiced out' further up that reach Some day you might consider cutting a sample trench across that huge sandy region, but you'd have to hand-carry a high-banker all the way down there.... got any donkeys?
Ok Dan… I’ve binge watched you for the last 3 months and I’ve seen/loved every single video! Living in the Cariboo I think I’m ready to take the plunge. I’m filing my FMC tomorrow and will start the tedious process of figuring out BC’s online resources for staking a claim. Hoping to find something that’ll be a good outdoor recreation spot for summer fun. Gold would be a bonus but family time is the goal. Wish me luck! Debbie Kishineff, Story’s grandma 😃
You are so delightful. I’ve been having a really bad week and I stumbled on your videos and haven’t stopped watching. You’re random smiles back at camera just make me so happy 😆
Sorry I missed the premier... SO Nice seeing MR Hurd Senior out with ya ...Nice GOLD as usual...!! Love that fine constant fraser gold... pretty much guaranteed gold in every pan !! Beauty Garnets are always fun as well.... Thanks for another good one Dan... Eager for the winter to end and the attack of Ntrout begins..... did you get a new camera/phone? epic clairity in this video!! heavy Pans Dan
1) Are you going to do a video of how you cleaned it up? Gold wheel? Blue bowl? How much weight did you get? 2) I take it all of that has been ground down by washing down the river 3) Has the gold settled down the deeper you dig?
I was interested to see so much garnet sand in this claim. Garnet sand has a value two ways. First is is an industrial abrasive that is recycled over and over as it gets smaller with use. Secondarily, it is a significant source of scandium (SC) which is in great demand for new technologies production. If you find the gold running out, consider the garnet. Also, if you have garnet sand, you probably have larger garnet in the cobble. At $500 a carat for a piece with minor inclusions to upwards or several thousand dollars per carat for deeper colors with fewer or no inclusions, think about maybe looking around.
Somehow I don't think that this video was filmed on the same day that it was released. We had -10c on Dec 31 down in New Westminster with a lot of snow hanging around. Great video nonetheless.
At 1 year of prospecting, many creeks of my homestate of Iowa. I've found muatard gold almost every pan, at a laughable quantity, by comparison. I got a bag of your paydirt for christmass, and this video made me giddy enough to tear into it. I didn'tnt expect that much fun picking out the gems, I got quite a bit along with my gold specks. It was a fitting conclusion to the season, to cold out now.
@Dan Hurd Bedrock is Petrified Old OLD Trees. Gold is produced inside of Trees. You can find concrete evidence of this right here on YT. The Gold is easiest to find in between the fractured tree rings near the edge of broken rock/petrified trees. And yes they were HUGE!
Happy New Year Dan. I had to move away from the lower mainland years ago, I must say I think I enjoy the scenery in your videos almost as much as I enjoy watching you find gold.
Over slept 😡 Happy New Year everyone🎇 God bless Stay safe.You still such a breath of fresh air so intelligent and knowledgeable hope you find everything your looking for!!!
That's a beautiful new claim Dan. It is always an inspiration to see what is out there. Thanks for sharing your adventures. Is that island / peninsula a different claim? When the water flow between dries up, - How do you know where the boundary is? Does the ministry have special rules about such transitional places? about distance and depth to prevent fouling the ponded water with silt and such? Me thinks your right about the new claim. You'll find gold everywhere, but mostly that flour "mustard" gold and small garnets. The heavier big gold and garnets probably washed out where that channel island ridge, soon to be peninsula is and /or in front of it. Although if you can go deep enough around the shrinking pond to find that muddy/gritty sand transition it might yield some bigger gold. Have fun and good luck.
Why I really like dan is on top of promoting his own channel he always mentions who he watches and I appreciate that. Good too see a aware and active creator. Stay golden friend.
Tuning in from Derbyshire, England here. This was a really awesome video, your videos are so well made, watchable and educational. Plus the scenery is absolutely epic and theres lots of fine gold to be found. I look forward to enjoying more of your videos, seeing more of the amazing landscapes and learning a thing or too along the way. Top channel, top UA-camr
Dan, I've been watching you for a couple years now, and I cannot say how much joy I feel to see you so happy and healthy. You've always been happy, but it would worry me how pale and winded you visibly got back then. Now even after working so hard, and even saying that you're tired from all the work, you are still a wonderful healthy color! You and your entire family just seem like amazing people, and I wish I could get out there and do some prospecting with you! I hope you're having an amazing year so far, and continue to having an even better one. - Nic.
Believe it or not I've panned sand from Home Depot and found fragments of "mustard gold" in it. Just a few itty bitty tiny miniscule pieces. Is it worth it? No way! I'm just making a point.
Hey Dan question you mentioned that the water level drops to the point where you just have a lot of large ponds would you be able to Highbank if the water is not free flowing that way whatever you pump out settles back down before the water level rises you might be able to find more gold
I lost my husband on the 29th of November and I'm in need of some solace. I want to thank you for the beautiful sites and the comforting sounds of the running water in the background. I love your videos.
Lovely area! Now, the real question is... with all of those 96 million pieces collected, cleaned & such... what was the weight tally? Who "won" for the most? You or your dad? Is camping allowed there? If so, it would be interesting to install (pinned down) a bunch of sluice boxes side by side for a day or two in the creek to see how much flows by.
@@jptucsonaz8503 yeah anything that runs placer material and drains into the river is illegal, except for panning. You can use all sorts of placer equipment as long as your tailings drain into a pond a certain distance from the river. The reason is to protect fish spawning habitats, which on some rivers is understandable, but on the fraser is a little ironic seeing as, usually the naturual hue of the river is that of chocolate milk.
@@bring6not12 I read this & ten reread it twice more... I'm wasn't talking about adding material to the sluice, I was suggesting just pinning it/them into place in the stream and letting the natural flow go on thru... so what goes in, is what goes out - minus the gold of course! I.e. clean water in, even cleaner water out... don't know if that makes a difference or not up there.
@@jptucsonaz8503 ah yeah i believe thats also illegal, you arent allowed to modify the course of the river or the riverbed which i think this would fall under!
I am Enjoying your videos as much for the scenery as the finds and conversation. Your looks and the expressions on your face remind me of my son in law. Beard and all
Who else appreciates the beauty of where he is. I just love the moss covered boulders and the hills in the back ground. It’s just so beautiful. He truly has a beautiful “job”.
I discovered your channel recently and since then I've watched hours and hours after coming back from work and I enjoyed every minute and got excited to get myself a pan and few other equipments and book a trip to a possible location and practice what I lernt from you 😅 Thank you so much for the effort and time you put into this work!
Another great video Dan, thanks. Lots of fine particles, lots of work cleaning that up I guess :) But man, your surroundings are awesome there. love it. cheers!
Looks like a good call on the claim. Like to see you and your hi-banker as well as a HowTo on garnet's and their relationship to gold. Thank you for taking us along. As always good luck and God Bless.
Happy Newe Year Dan!! Aww your dad is adorable! You look just like him. A great find at the new claim. I like the term ;mustard gold' lol. Hope to see more adeventures with you and your dad in upcoming videos.
I'm glad you gave a thumbs up to Chris at Vo-Gus Prospecting, its so great how UA-camrs can form bonds of friendship across the globe. When you found those bits of copper wire it put a big smile on my face, since as a part time recycler I am more likely to find base metal than precious metals in my searches. I think you may have found one cents worth of copper in your panning. Don't take this as an insult, but your dad looks a bit like Red Green, and I mean that in the nicest way! I wonder how Red Green would have handled gold prospecting on his show, I suspect any gold sluice he built would have included the handy man's secret weapon- duct tape. Here's to a Happy and golden 2022 to us all!
Happy New Year Dan & family. Looks like a nice claim, BUT, easy access = lots of claim jumpers. Good luck ol' mate, watch your ticker!! (We're in the same boat) 👏👏👏 👋👋👋
One thing I'm surprised to not see Dan doing, is bringing a bit of fishing equipment with him as some of the places he prospects looks perfect for fishing!! Now on the my actual comment. LOL I used to watch a Gold Prospecting Show on cable. They do their digging off the coast of Alaska. If they got a pan that had as much small gold as Dan was finding they would be ecstatic!! Of course they're using large back-hoes to dig up huge amounts of material and using a floating operation that has a huge Gold Sluice to get all that fine gold in their cleanup matts making it well worth their while to keep digging in the area with all that fine gold. Now trying to do this by hand would take forever for it to financially payoff, if you could even get enough gold per-hour to begin with. I guess it would be worthwhile if your other choice of something to do is to Cruise the Internet, looking at random video's. So my choices would be, sit inside and get brain dead watching random Video's on UA-cam or getting outside in some beautiful country and searching for some gold that could payoff financially, but just the getting out in nature part would be enough in my book! BTW, I'd bring some fishing equipment with me, just in case I saw a run of salmon or other game fish happening or the Gold prospecting was getting me frustrated. Always good to have a back-up plan if one thing doesn't work out. IMHO.. ;)
What a beautiful area! Love the shot of your dad. I know you're in Canada, but gotta be close to Washington. Looks like where I go hike and camping, in the north cascades.
I'm going to buy my wife some of your paydirt for are 20th year anniversary gift. She gets so excited when she sees the glow of gold in a pan. Dan you got an awesome channel going keep up the good work....... 🤠👍
Your better off just buying gold and making your own paydirt
You should buy some paydirt take her out prospecting and throw the dirt in her bucket when she isnt looking.
You’re better off just buying gold and making you’re own paydirt then take her out prospecting and throw the dirt in her bucket when she isn’t looking.
@@duckyoutube6318 what happens when she wants to come back to pan there?
@@danielgriff2659 I guess you gotta buy another bag lol
I will say I am not a Big You Tuber! However I watch various content every couple days. This is how a You Tube channel is done.......Spot on Dan, Kind Regards Karl from the UK
It’s always so sweet to see dad along for the fun. I hope that when I’m “older” my son will still do stuff with me. 🏁
I'm 51, my dad's 82. Because of world travel issues etc. Hadn't been able to see him in almost two years. My first morning there, he's got two gloves and a baseball to play a game of catch. Sometimes it can be a long time in between, but for us that was making the most of the time we do have. Be ready to take advantage of those instances, whenever they occur.
“The Cats in the Cradle”
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With that attitude it is virtually assured.
@@astro8bit to many more years! 🍻
You know it's a good day when you see Dan and Dad out prospecting together..
Happy New Year Dan and Dad..
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@@killilluminati40 So long as one knows the function, this the requirements, it's relatively easy to make the alignment tool for a clutch - replacement just became a lot cheaper!
Man, I just want you to find the biggest nuggets of gold, you deserve it with how much work you put in your panning and videos.
Dan, just had a thought. When cleaning the gold from the black iron sand, instead of using a strong magnet that would trap both sand and gold, what if you used an electro-magnet with a variable field strength? That way you could turn it down until the sand barely clings to it. Or stick a timer chip in there so the current pulses on and off, shaking the gold dust out of the sand? Just a thought, maybe I’m not seeing something correctly but might be worth a shot. Love the channel.
Sounds like something that would be great to see on video, play with black sands and a electro magnet and experiment with the whole field strength of the magnet
If he drys it out and fans the sand out the sand come out and the gold stays
Better would be have it fall past the magnet, so it pulls the black to the side and leaves the gold. The problem with trying to vary a magnetic field to do what you suggest would be the inductance of the coil fighting you. Not impossible if you know what you're doing, but would probably be a pain for an amateur!
You could make yourself one, patent it, and it would probably sell pretty good among these types of people collecting gold.
@@rdizzy1 I expect industrial ones probably already do it if it's worth it...
Keep on taking us along with you Dan Hurd and it's about Vogus got a mention. He keeps on chipping away with great content and is a genuine player in the UA-camr's gold prospecting league
2 of my favourite youtubers on one video 😉 back at Tyndrum Daz, gold is good as ever!
Dan,
I love your enthusiasm and your channel! And it's good to see your dad out there with you as well. I'm excited to see what gold prospecting adventures and endeavors you encounter and share with us in 2022. Keep up the good work!
You should look up D o n a l d M a r s h a l l interview. It'll shed some light on why our government is the way it is
@@killilluminati40 you should look up McDonald's. It's why your mom is the way she is
You asked "Why That Spot?"
From a fluid dynamics -kinda viewpoint, here's what I see :
- Very sharp/acute angle top edge to the rock,
- Near-vertical rock wall facing upstream
- Rock face is near-perpendicular to the water flow.
- Drop of about 30 cm (a guess) gives room for vertical-circulating eddies (gets a larger volume of water reflowing towards the base.
- LONG extension of similar rock formation (not an isolated boulder) allowing more small-mass objects to becomed trapped behind it, eventually working their way to the channel-ward/downward side.
Basically, you found a HUGE crevice 2-3 meters long.
Why no larger bits of gold.
I got no idea.
Perhaps its under that water surface. or it has 'sluiced out' further up that reach
Some day you might consider cutting a sample trench across that huge sandy region, but you'd have to hand-carry a high-banker all the way down there.... got any donkeys?
You should look up D o n a l d M a r s h a l l interview. It'll shed some light on why our government is the way it is
@@killilluminati40 can you post a link?
@@rileymanderscheid9805 that's a bot bro
@@davidw2124 TY
This is so relaxing and I am so happy you have a channel that showcases the process of all of this. Thank you so much for sharing 🙌
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Ok Dan… I’ve binge watched you for the last 3 months and I’ve seen/loved every single video! Living in the Cariboo I think I’m ready to take the plunge. I’m filing my FMC tomorrow and will start the tedious process of figuring out BC’s online resources for staking a claim. Hoping to find something that’ll be a good outdoor recreation spot for summer fun. Gold would be a bonus but family time is the goal. Wish me luck! Debbie Kishineff, Story’s grandma 😃
You are so delightful. I’ve been having a really bad week and I stumbled on your videos and haven’t stopped watching. You’re random smiles back at camera just make me so happy 😆
i love when you talk about the other minerals you see, expecially the one you teched us about
BILL HURD ! YOURE SIMPLY AN AMAZING FOUNTAIN OF KNOWLEDGE !
THANK YOU ! THANK YOU! THANK YOU !
Thanks for your time and help Dan you're the man, wishing you lots of luck and may your glass always be full!
Sorry I missed the premier... SO Nice seeing MR Hurd Senior out with ya ...Nice GOLD as usual...!! Love that fine constant fraser gold... pretty much guaranteed gold in every pan !! Beauty Garnets are always fun as well.... Thanks for another good one Dan... Eager for the winter to end and the attack of Ntrout begins..... did you get a new camera/phone? epic clairity in this video!! heavy Pans Dan
Loving the shout outs to some of my other favourite channels! Love your work Dan. Happy New Year
1) Are you going to do a video of how you cleaned it up? Gold wheel? Blue bowl? How much weight did you get?
2) I take it all of that has been ground down by washing down the river
3) Has the gold settled down the deeper you dig?
Chris is the best! Glad he got a shoutout
The 96 million thing didn't click until you said veritasium... LOVE that channel, you're awesome to though Dan. Thank you for the content you create.
Man, the Fraser River area as a whole is just gorgeous! Awesome that there's so many opportunities and potential with this area and your new claim.
You should look up D o n a l d M a r s h a l l interview. It'll shed some light on why our government is the way it is
I was interested to see so much garnet sand in this claim. Garnet sand has a value two ways. First is is an industrial abrasive that is recycled over and over as it gets smaller with use. Secondarily, it is a significant source of scandium (SC) which is in great demand for new technologies production. If you find the gold running out, consider the garnet. Also, if you have garnet sand, you probably have larger garnet in the cobble. At $500 a carat for a piece with minor inclusions to upwards or several thousand dollars per carat for deeper colors with fewer or no inclusions, think about maybe looking around.
You should look up D o n a l d M a r s h a l l interview. It'll shed some light on why our government is the way it is
@@killilluminati40 ok, so you’re a nutbar
The little stuff shows quite well. Looks a lot like what comes out of the Columbia river.
Happy New year 🎉Dan and family 👪 please keep the great videos coming friend from Scotland 👍😊
Dan the man finding gold on this cold Sunday morning! Love the videos keep it up!
Somehow I don't think that this video was filmed on the same day that it was released. We had -10c on Dec 31 down in New Westminster with a lot of snow hanging around. Great video nonetheless.
At 1 year of prospecting, many creeks of my homestate of Iowa. I've found muatard gold almost every pan, at a laughable quantity, by comparison. I got a bag of your paydirt for christmass, and this video made me giddy enough to tear into it. I didn'tnt expect that much fun picking out the gems, I got quite a bit along with my gold specks. It was a fitting conclusion to the season, to cold out now.
Didn’t know Dan Hurd also watched Veritasium. Cool!
@Dan Hurd Bedrock is Petrified Old OLD Trees. Gold is produced inside of Trees. You can find concrete evidence of this right here on YT. The Gold is easiest to find in between the fractured tree rings near the edge of broken rock/petrified trees. And yes they were HUGE!
Happy New Year Dan. I had to move away from the lower mainland years ago, I must say I think I enjoy the scenery in your videos almost as much as I enjoy watching you find gold.
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96 Tears, by, ? & The Mysterians, 1966. Happy New Year, Dan, and Family. Keep it coming! I'll be watching, lol
If you don't have mustard gold you can't make your sandwich. We know youre a really decent panner now too, because that gold is no joke to hold onto!
“Sammich”
You should look up D o n a l d M a r s h a l l interview. It'll shed some light on why our government is the way it is
Dan you should come to Australia sometime and prospect some of those old gold rush areas with Chris - I think you'd love it
You need to do a collaboration with Dan 🤞❤️
@@killilluminati40 uhh okay
Love the mention of VoGus prospecting! Great work as usual Dan.
Over slept 😡 Happy New Year everyone🎇 God bless Stay safe.You still such a breath of fresh air so intelligent and knowledgeable hope you find everything your looking for!!!
Always nice to spend time with family. Nice to see you with your dad.
That's a beautiful new claim Dan. It is always an inspiration to see what is out there. Thanks for sharing your adventures.
Is that island / peninsula a different claim? When the water flow between dries up, - How do you know where the boundary is?
Does the ministry have special rules about such transitional places? about distance and depth to prevent fouling the ponded water with silt and such?
Me thinks your right about the new claim. You'll find gold everywhere, but mostly that flour "mustard" gold and small garnets. The heavier big gold and garnets probably washed out where that channel island ridge, soon to be peninsula is and /or in front of it. Although if you can go deep enough around the shrinking pond to find that muddy/gritty sand transition it might yield some bigger gold.
Have fun and good luck.
You should look up D o n a l d M a r s h a l l interview. It'll shed some light on why our government is the way it is
Why I really like dan is on top of promoting his own channel he always mentions who he watches and I appreciate that. Good too see a aware and active creator. Stay golden friend.
Oh boy hope you renewed that claim this morning!
Tuning in from Derbyshire, England here. This was a really awesome video, your videos are so well made, watchable and educational. Plus the scenery is absolutely epic and theres lots of fine gold to be found. I look forward to enjoying more of your videos, seeing more of the amazing landscapes and learning a thing or too along the way. Top channel, top UA-camr
I'm from Lowell, Massachusetts USA. I enjoy your channel. I'm curious as to what is the cost of an average size claim
Thanks for sharing Dan. Wishing a happy new golden year🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🥳👍
I always love hearing Chris call or flour gold, because it’s as fine as flour ! 😁
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Dan, I've been watching you for a couple years now, and I cannot say how much joy I feel to see you so happy and healthy. You've always been happy, but it would worry me how pale and winded you visibly got back then. Now even after working so hard, and even saying that you're tired from all the work, you are still a wonderful healthy color! You and your entire family just seem like amazing people, and I wish I could get out there and do some prospecting with you!
I hope you're having an amazing year so far, and continue to having an even better one.
- Nic.
Happy New Year to you Dan. That looks like a cool claim.
happy new year richard
Mustard Gold?! & a TON of it; great way to kick off 2022! Happy new year Dan!
Believe it or not I've panned sand from Home Depot and found fragments of "mustard gold" in it. Just a few itty bitty tiny miniscule pieces. Is it worth it? No way! I'm just making a point.
Point being?
@@bikerboy5299 that it was neat to find gold in store bought sand. I noticed the iron in it and wanted to see if there was gold.
The nature scenery around your new claim is absolutely gorgeous.
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@@killilluminati40 will do. **Update: hot story. Thnx.**
Hey Dan question you mentioned that the water level drops to the point where you just have a lot of large ponds would you be able to Highbank if the water is not free flowing that way whatever you pump out settles back down before the water level rises you might be able to find more gold
I was wondering the same thing. Either way I know where Dan is going to do his next sluice video....
I like Doug ( aka , Dad ) along w/Yu & how Yu let yur Goldman decide th 1st panning spot ! Love yur show !
Garnets are used in the abrasive industry, having a wide area of Garnets could be more profitable than the gold dust.
yeah i think he's panned garnets before
what are garnets?
@@jr.patriotswrestlingclub5768 Garnets are a gem, usually red. January birthstone.
Wow awesome claim with some great gold and beautiful garnets, thank you for sharing 🙏🥰👍👏💖
Wish I had the time to go prospecting and fossil hunting again, these days I’m always at work
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I lost my husband on the 29th of November and I'm in need of some solace. I want to thank you for the beautiful sites and the comforting sounds of the running water in the background. I love your videos.
Do your gold pans get better or worse over time as they get more surface roughness? Or is it different for different size flakes?
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I'm always glad to see your Dad with you.
Lovely area!
Now, the real question is... with all of those 96 million pieces collected, cleaned & such... what was the weight tally?
Who "won" for the most? You or your dad?
Is camping allowed there? If so, it would be interesting to install (pinned down) a bunch of sluice boxes side by side for a day or two in the creek to see how much flows by.
Sluicing is illegal in british columbia, and yes you can camp on your claim.
@@bring6not12 ok, did'nt know that... seems pretty silly, but oh well, so much for that idea.
@@jptucsonaz8503 yeah anything that runs placer material and drains into the river is illegal, except for panning. You can use all sorts of placer equipment as long as your tailings drain into a pond a certain distance from the river. The reason is to protect fish spawning habitats, which on some rivers is understandable, but on the fraser is a little ironic seeing as, usually the naturual hue of the river is that of chocolate milk.
@@bring6not12 I read this & ten reread it twice more...
I'm wasn't talking about adding material to the sluice, I was suggesting just pinning it/them into place in the stream and letting the natural flow go on thru... so what goes in, is what goes out - minus the gold of course! I.e. clean water in, even cleaner water out... don't know if that makes a difference or not up there.
@@jptucsonaz8503 ah yeah i believe thats also illegal, you arent allowed to modify the course of the river or the riverbed which i think this would fall under!
I am Enjoying your videos as much for the scenery as the finds and conversation. Your looks and the expressions on your face remind me of my son in law. Beard and all
What would a claim like this normally cost? Does Dan now own this claim, and is he free to sell it to anyone for any price?
To stake this claim from open ground, it would be about $100, to buy this claim from someone it would be between $1000 and $5000
Who else appreciates the beauty of where he is. I just love the moss covered boulders and the hills in the back ground. It’s just so beautiful. He truly has a beautiful “job”.
I would give anything to prospect with you one day of my life and soak up the knowledge you have like a sponge. I love your channel.
Another great video from you Dan...you make it all look so easy because it's something you love doing. Hoping 2022 brings you good fortune and luck.
Great vid Dan. I especially like it when you show the awesome beauty of the overall territory.
I discovered your channel recently and since then I've watched hours and hours after coming back from work and I enjoyed every minute and got excited to get myself a pan and few other equipments and book a trip to a possible location and practice what I lernt from you 😅
Thank you so much for the effort and time you put into this work!
Thank you Dan !! Happy new year!! May the gold gods bless us all this year!!!!!!!!!!!
Once again this week you have blown me away prospecting hats off to you sir 👍🏿🤘🏿
Another great video Dan, thanks. Lots of fine particles, lots of work cleaning that up I guess :) But man, your surroundings are awesome there. love it. cheers!
Looks like a good call on the claim. Like to see you and your hi-banker as well as a HowTo on garnet's and their relationship to gold. Thank you for taking us along. As always good luck and God Bless.
Great video,Dan! The location is beautiful!
looking good fam. keep on having fun. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!
What an absolutely beautiful river to spend the day, it looks stunning. Thank you for sharing with us in the UK 🇬🇧
Awesome, Dan!
What a view for 2022... would love to camp around there. That is beautiful.
Lovely first haul 🧁
love how cheerful you always are Dan 🙂 bonus to your videos always. thanks
Yet again another amazingly GOLDEN video. Happy new year
Happy Newe Year Dan!! Aww your dad is adorable! You look just like him. A great find at the new claim. I like the term ;mustard gold' lol. Hope to see more adeventures with you and your dad in upcoming videos.
Pops looks cool as hell. A man of few words. Wishing him great health👍
I really enjoy the scenic views and natural environment your are in....
Cherish these trips Dan. I wish we could take on more. Miss you Dad. 🎧⛏️🤠👍
I really enjoy rooting for you, Dan. Tear it up! 😎🇺🇸
Happy New Year Dan, Glad to see your father out there with you .
Dan if you would like to see pans with even more garnets you need to prospect in the Black Hills, South Dakota.
Happy to see out there with your dad. Happy New Year's.
Love the new claim mate I'll have to catch it later
Another outstanding instalment Dan.
I so love tuning in to see your latest finds and discoveries 🙌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You should look up D o n a l d M a r s h a l l interview. It'll shed some light on why our government is the way it is
Leave these people alone, man. You’re not being gang stalked either. Go to a psychiatrist please
Cheers Dan, awesome vid. Really looking forward to seeing that amazing spot again and what you pull out of it.
You should look up D o n a l d M a r s h a l l interview. It'll shed some light on why our government is the way it is
All the garnets you can make sandpaper. Thanks Dan.
Australian here! I was laughing watching you throw the gems back like you would poor-eating fish. Love it!
I'm glad you gave a thumbs up to Chris at Vo-Gus Prospecting, its so great how UA-camrs can form bonds of friendship across the globe.
When you found those bits of copper wire it put a big smile on my face, since as a part time recycler I am more likely to find base metal than precious metals in my searches. I think you may have found one cents worth of copper in your panning.
Don't take this as an insult, but your dad looks a bit like Red Green, and I mean that in the nicest way!
I wonder how Red Green would have handled gold prospecting on his show, I suspect any gold sluice he built would have included the handy man's secret weapon- duct tape.
Here's to a Happy and golden 2022 to us all!
What a ridiculously gorgeously well put together video
Happy New Year Dan & family.
Looks like a nice claim, BUT, easy access = lots of claim jumpers.
Good luck ol' mate, watch your ticker!! (We're in the same boat)
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Great video and what a stunning place to spend the day. Good luck on the hunt and can't wait for your next video.
Well done. The scenery is sublime.
One thing I'm surprised to not see Dan doing, is bringing a bit of fishing equipment with him as some of the places he prospects looks perfect for fishing!! Now on the my actual comment. LOL
I used to watch a Gold Prospecting Show on cable. They do their digging off the coast of Alaska. If they got a pan that had as much small gold as Dan was finding they would be ecstatic!! Of course they're using large back-hoes to dig up huge amounts of material and using a floating operation that has a huge Gold Sluice to get all that fine gold in their cleanup matts making it well worth their while to keep digging in the area with all that fine gold. Now trying to do this by hand would take forever for it to financially payoff, if you could even get enough gold per-hour to begin with. I guess it would be worthwhile if your other choice of something to do is to Cruise the Internet, looking at random video's. So my choices would be, sit inside and get brain dead watching random Video's on UA-cam or getting outside in some beautiful country and searching for some gold that could payoff financially, but just the getting out in nature part would be enough in my book! BTW, I'd bring some fishing equipment with me, just in case I saw a run of salmon or other game fish happening or the Gold prospecting was getting me frustrated. Always good to have a back-up plan if one thing doesn't work out. IMHO.. ;)
I sure love watching these videos, can't wait until summer so I can start learning to pan here in California!
Happy New Year to you and your family! I'm really enjoying these Sunday episodes 🍻 thank you🤝
You should look up D o n a l d M a r s h a l l interview. It'll shed some light on why our government is the way it is
Gd seeing u up and healthy. Keep up the gd work. Happy new year to u all
Hello Dan.
Thank you fore this Great clip. I have follow you, and i have learn so muth.
You deserve many more to follow you.
Thank you, and take care.
Hi, thank you Dan Hurd for your great information, I have a question
Can gold be found in mountains???
My country is full of mountains and valleys
This guy does YT proud... So authentic... always on the gold...
The Fraser River is really gorgeous to see!
What a beautiful area! Love the shot of your dad. I know you're in Canada, but gotta be close to Washington. Looks like where I go hike and camping, in the north cascades.
My husband just bought a bag of your Pay dirt and can't wait to check it out!!