Put the end of your intake in a bucket secure with a bit of wire . Put bucket in ocean bucket fills with water turn pump on..no sand . I use this in muddy streams
I feel like because your running fines, you would really benefit from using miners moss, even just 1 section of your sluice. Folks all over the world go and dig gold on beaches and set up extremely primitive sluice boxes, but how they succeed is the miners moss and running lots of material and all by hand. 👍
That's still not bad. I'd take it all day long. Those beaches look like a sweet place to hang out and make gold that's forsure! Hope you guys have a good season on the boat!
Thats a lot of fine gold just sitting below a fella's feet! Look forward to seeing the next spot, moving that box is a good idea. see you on the next one👊
Bring your box closer to your work I never was any more than 3 steps from my outfit . It was easy to move and on wheels . Lots of Proper prospecting helps loads . On river sand bars I would dig shallow shovel wide trenches perpendicular to the waters edge and away from the water. The trenches would be about 10 feet apart . one would shovel the skimmed material into a pan till full . pan then continue . This method would delineate your pay streak .Flour gold was what was the target and one would look for 150 -200 colors per pan before setting up . Material was classified on a curved 1/4" screen Collecting the flour gold was 98% caught on just old wool blanket NO riffles . Yes it works in fact the wool blanket tray was on a 24degree angle . Although the sluice was set up to catch other types of gold . It seems in your area beach mining, one looks for garnet and a layer of clay ? .
Mr. Bryan, thank you soooo much for making all these Nome videos! You have showed me so much more than I could find doing 'research.' I now know what materials, equipment, and tools I need to ship up there for my own trip this July, and what to expect and to specifically look for on the beach. That info is priceless. Hope I run into you up there this year, maybe you could show me around a little??? I'll buy ya a fancy beer. If you need to ship something up to Nome from Seattle, we have few containers leaving Seattle on May 12, 2023.
Been a while Bryan. Great to see you out again even if you aren't dredging. Beach mining, is really a different way of finding gold. @ grams/ hour is just right. Thanks for sharing with the community.😎⛏⛏🔥🔥
Bryan, Can you all get out on the Cripple river, The GPAA used to have a large camp out there. I don't know if it's still in operation or not. But I found good gold there in the early 90's. Thanks for a great episode.
And if its so easy to find near the top of the sands... I'd figure away to use my vehicle to drag something in the sand to classify something in a sleuth to get the gold. Wish I was up there with you!!!!
Make the "vehicles" effort/power/pull ..used to power a treadmill up into a sleuth maybe. I see these beach videos and realize there's tons of gold up and down those beaches and out into the water. There's a better way!
I miss Nome... I worked on both dredge 5 & 6 back in the 1980's & 90's. The our Alaska Gold Company switched to open pit mining till 1998. Best 12 years of my life !!! I did a lot of panning on West beach, all the way past the Penny and Cripple Creek !!! That clay layer was fun !!!
Hey there! love the video! Walter went to Alaska last Sept. He's going back soon and again next year. We have a friend with a claim up there. Good luck to you guys and Git Dat GOLD! ⚒⚒
2 grams for 2 hours is more then good for where i pan lol. Great vid, it was a blast to see how you guys do your stuff and to see really how rich Alaska really is.
Hi, Bryan. Hi, Gary. You guys are the hardest working crew in Nome. I love watching your videos. I like the show with Vernon. You guys must really enjoy what you do. I always wish you a lot of luck. After a while, there's a whole pile. How big is the largest nugget you have ever found? Do you keep a lot of your savings in gold? Thanks for your time and effort in bringing this video to me.
Thanks for watching. My 3 biggest are 8.2, 9.2 and 9.4 grams, but all of those were found in New England. I never found anything over 1 gram in Nome. But I did find a 8 grammar in Chicken AK. I keep most of my gold I find. I have sold a few ounces in paydirt bags though, just to let people to get a chance to have some Nome gold.
Just an idea and maybe you tried it already, but why couldn't you take an "inner tube" (what ever) and strap the end of your hose to it so it stays in the water and out of the sand? You could dedicate one section of your hose and leave it permanently attached and just fill in the rest to your sluice. Just thinking out loud:-)
Thanks Bryan. I would be curious to know if you could dry vacuum up the high grade beach sands. It would be like using a river dredge with water, but with a dry vacuum supplying the material. A shop vac on steroids would work, even though you might have to shut it off briefly to spill the material into a dredge hopper.
I'm thinking of bringing my Ryobi battery operated vacuum, connected to 5 gallon bucket cyclone, just shut off to move cyclone lid to next 5 gal. bucket. Rinse and repeat, boom buckets full, then move bucket to stand next to high banker auto feed slowly with water hose in bucket, one after the other.
Love your videos, man. I'm definitely hooked. It's so much better than the show. I can see that the struggle is real in Nome. Show some after work life also. Film everything. This conent is amazing. High risk (harsh conditions, hard work and a slice of luck here and there) - high reward reality show lol I'm curious, is there a black market for -gold- *sand* in Nome? Blink twice if 'yes'
Any one gone to the lowest point in the area? You know, the bottom of the river? A suction dredge would be a good thing to have. And you can drive right to it
How come Vernon doesn’t let you guys take the boat out yourselves? Seems like it be better to let you go out with out him there and get something than the boat stay at the dock.
Have you ever heard of taking a piece of pvc pipe about 3' feet long plug both ends and drill a hole just big enough to stick the foot valve in, then on the pvc pipe drill 1/8 holes all over it, it only needs a 1" inch of water over it and it won't suck air or sand into the pump.
I have this delusion to go to Nome and do this, but then I see how guys with a ton of experience can still get skunked for 1.6 g of gold and reality sets in. I’d doubt I could find any. Thanks for grounding me! 😂
Maybe 👀 , take 200 ft of hose instead of 100 ft . How much does gasoline cost up there ? 12 mile down plus back , and gas for the pump . But , a very entertaining video 📹 ! Thanks 😊!
God, that looks like the same territory where I'm from! I've planned for gold all over my island and there isn't even any black sand. 😭 I'm from Igloolik, Nunavut
@@AmericanGoldProspectors aside from the fact that there is no gold on this limestone island, I wouldn't take it anyway because this is Inuit land. Curiosity got me tho and I had to go check. And when I say there's no black sand I mean it. 5 gallon bucket of classified material got me about 100 specks of black sand. It's crazy! Now I know how Floridians feel! 🤣🤣
This is just realy nice to see.. planning to come over to Nome somewere in de first 2 weeks of july. Any chance you guys would take on a rookie for a day? Got some nice experience with my gold hog :) taking dust gold here.
Why not reach out as far as you can with a foot valve into the ocean and see what you can suck up and catch in the sleuth? I'd get the longest reach possible and pull back slowly maybe and see what gold you might suck up. Heck, maybe you could use some type of styrofoam and float it out there so it would float around while its dragging below sucking up? If you could make this work, it would make it so easy to get the gold.
So did you end up *not* moving your highbanker down the beach that day? It went straight to the cleanup, so I didn't understand. Great video, btw. Y'all work well together.
Great to see you out there again Bryan and to have Gary with you again is awesome 👌
More to come!
Put the end of your intake in a bucket secure with a bit of wire . Put bucket in ocean bucket fills with water turn pump on..no sand . I use this in muddy streams
I'll give it a try
I feel like because your running fines, you would really benefit from using miners moss, even just 1 section of your sluice. Folks all over the world go and dig gold on beaches and set up extremely primitive sluice boxes, but how they succeed is the miners moss and running lots of material and all by hand. 👍
Good idea! Thanks.
yuck. miners moss is awful. much better tech available
Miners moss will get clogged with black sand... I used sawtooth mat or the conveyor mat like in the gold cubes
Can't wait to see the next spot. Tell Vern to just get some R&R, so you can go back😉 Or better yet, take us with you when you take the boat out! 😊
Thanks for watching, LeighAnn Cronin!! Get that gold!!
That's still not bad. I'd take it all day long. Those beaches look like a sweet place to hang out and make gold that's forsure! Hope you guys have a good season on the boat!
Thanks for watching, Glen Timmins!! Get that gold!!
I like the guy with the excavator and plant set up on the beach. That seems very efficient
Thanks for watching, Flat Earth Watertown New York!! Get that gold!!
Thats a lot of fine gold just sitting below a fella's feet! Look forward to seeing the next spot, moving that box is a good idea. see you on the next one👊
Thanks 👍
Bring your box closer to your work I never was any more than 3 steps from my outfit . It was easy to move and on wheels . Lots of Proper prospecting helps loads . On river sand bars I would dig shallow shovel wide trenches perpendicular to the waters edge and away from the water. The trenches would be about 10 feet apart . one would shovel the skimmed material into a pan till full . pan then continue . This method would delineate your pay streak .Flour gold was what was the target and one would look for 150 -200 colors per pan before setting up . Material was classified on a curved 1/4" screen Collecting the flour gold was 98% caught on just old wool blanket NO riffles . Yes it works in fact the wool blanket tray was on a 24degree angle . Although the sluice was set up to catch other types of gold . It seems in your area beach mining, one looks for garnet and a layer of clay ? .
Yes red garnet sand and black sand holds the best gold. Thanks for watching!
Great job all around fam. I got to do a lot of digging to get that au lol. Keep on having fun and living the dream fam. Gold Squad Out!!!
Appreciate it!
Garys good company and a good miner👌
For sure!
Mr. Bryan, thank you soooo much for making all these Nome videos! You have showed me so much more than I could find doing 'research.' I now know what materials, equipment, and tools I need to ship up there for my own trip this July, and what to expect and to specifically look for on the beach. That info is priceless. Hope I run into you up there this year, maybe you could show me around a little??? I'll buy ya a fancy beer. If you need to ship something up to Nome from Seattle, we have few containers leaving Seattle on May 12, 2023.
Youll have a blast!
@@AmericanGoldProspectors Are you going this year?
He's literally walking beside a guy who looks like Skookum Jim reincarnated.
I like the truck! It reminds me of my 2003 Dodge Ram that now has 477,000 miles and still going strong.
Thanks for watching, @ProspectorAl!! Get that gold!!
Always enjoy watching your trips sweet gold on that beach!
Glad you enjoyed it
Been a while Bryan. Great to see you out again even if you aren't dredging. Beach mining, is really a different way of finding gold. @ grams/ hour is just right. Thanks for sharing with the community.😎⛏⛏🔥🔥
Thanks for watching, Chuck Gentles!! Get that gold!!
Yeah! Beach mining! Look for red-brown strata
Oh ya!
Bryan and Gary you two need your own TV show
I wish!
@@AmericanGoldProspectors Careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
That’s amazing you guys can go do that on your days off. I wish I could do that in my backyard.
Its a blast!
Bryan, Can you all get out on the Cripple river, The GPAA used to have a large camp out there. I don't know if it's still in operation or not. But I found good gold there in the early 90's. Thanks for a great episode.
This river is the end of the road, without a boat.
Remember to air down your tires when driving on sand.
For sure! Thanks for watching!
Yes zek went east and west and found gold good to see Gary with ya
Thanks for watching, Asja Muir!! Get that gold!!
Man, than beach material looks great!!!!! Amazing spot you found there, thanks for taking us along for the journey!!!!!
Hey Reg!
@@richardbeee Cheers Richard ;) hows it goin?
@@Reglabbe Just thought i'd say hi, brother.Do it to Vendetta all the time.
Thanks for watching!
Post some more videos
Show the town more and talk to other miners on the beach
I'll try! Thanks for watching!
And if its so easy to find near the top of the sands... I'd figure away to use my vehicle to drag something in the sand to classify something in a sleuth to get the gold. Wish I was up there with you!!!!
Make the "vehicles" effort/power/pull ..used to power a treadmill up into a sleuth maybe.
I see these beach videos and realize there's tons of gold up and down those beaches and out into the water.
There's a better way!
Thanks for watching, @downyourtube!! Get that gold!!
I miss Nome... I worked on both dredge 5 & 6 back in the 1980's & 90's. The our Alaska Gold Company switched to open pit mining till 1998.
Best 12 years of my life !!!
I did a lot of panning on West beach, all the way past the Penny and Cripple Creek !!! That clay layer was fun !!!
Oh ya!
Any gold is a good day, beets being skunked. Nice job guys thanks for sharing you days adventure. Love to be there doing that with ya
Thanks for watching, Washington Beach Mining!! Get that gold!!
I prospected there back in 2004 and 2005. Used a beach box too. Nice gold.
Its a blast!
Nice work man
Thanks for watching!
Sweet! You will do better next time. Not bad for a practice run, Bryan! A+++
Thanks for watching!
Pritty dam cool. Can’t wait to see how the 100ft area works out
Can't wait! Thanks for watching!
Great job beautiful day awesome 1.6 grams keep up the work brother
Thanks for watching!
Hey, nice video. Nome is now your second home, great beach video.
For sure!
It's great
Great day out brothers! ✨️⛏️👌🏻👍🏻
Thanks for watching!
Hey there! love the video! Walter went to Alaska last Sept. He's going back soon and again next year. We have a friend with a claim up there. Good luck to you guys and Git Dat GOLD! ⚒⚒
Thanks for watching, WK Prospecting!! Get that gold!!
I get excited every time you put out a new vid =)
Thanks so much!
You guys are havin to much fun
Lol, just liv'n it up!
Yes.. I've been and seen.
Lol!
Thanks!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Your friend looks like Skookum Jim! 👍
Haha!
Thanks Bryan despite the modest return that was fun to watch 👍
Thanks for watching, David Prince!! Get that gold!!
@@AmericanGoldProspectors heading out Tuesday 👍
Süper video teşekkür ederim.Devamını heyecanla bekliyorum
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Thanks for watching!
2 grams for 2 hours is more then good for where i pan lol. Great vid, it was a blast to see how you guys do your stuff and to see really how rich Alaska really is.
Glad you enjoyed it!
LMFAO 😂 at all the
"you can do whatever you want here" responses.
Lol!
I liked it
Thanks for watching, Nevada Gold Trommel Journal!! Get that gold!!
Those honda motors are built to start …✅ Test test test….. thats how i find my whopping gram in a day !! 🤣🤣🤣
Right on
Love the videos keep making them!!
Thanks for watching!
Good video Bryan. Lot’s of gold to be found.
Thanks for watching, Gloria Manning!! Get that gold!!
Amazing place!
It really is!
Hi, Bryan. Hi, Gary. You guys are the hardest working crew in Nome. I love watching your videos. I like the show with Vernon. You guys must really enjoy what you do. I always wish you a lot of luck. After a while, there's a whole pile. How big is the largest nugget you have ever found? Do you keep a lot of your savings in gold? Thanks for your time and effort in bringing this video to me.
Thanks for watching. My 3 biggest are 8.2, 9.2 and 9.4 grams, but all of those were found in New England. I never found anything over 1 gram in Nome. But I did find a 8 grammar in Chicken AK. I keep most of my gold I find. I have sold a few ounces in paydirt bags though, just to let people to get a chance to have some Nome gold.
@@AmericanGoldProspectors Thanks, Bryan.
Can get some beans and rice and live on the beach :) Nice video. That 150 specks per pan sounds like the spot we worked on 40 mile !
Oh yes! Thanks for watching!
Sweet. Keep them coming man
Thanks for watching, Chef V Prospecting!! Get that gold!!
my two uncles work for Ken and built that crawler that you guys passed
Awesome!
Nice job gents.
Thanks for watching, Two Dudes One Dredge Mining!! Get that gold!!
Just an idea and maybe you tried it already, but why couldn't you take an "inner tube" (what ever) and strap the end of your hose to it so it stays in the water and out of the sand? You could dedicate one section of your hose and leave it permanently attached and just fill in the rest to your sluice. Just thinking out loud:-)
Good idea. We just do this for fun on our day off of dredging, so we don't put much thought into it, Thanks for watching!
Thanks Bryan. I would be curious to know if you could dry vacuum up the high grade beach sands. It would be like using a river dredge with water, but with a dry vacuum supplying the material. A shop vac on steroids would work, even though you might have to shut it off briefly to spill the material into a dredge hopper.
Good idea. We just do this for fun on our day off of dredging, so we don't put much thought into it, Thanks for watching!
yes behind the car with some good leaf blowers to make vacuum after scoop it up.
I'm thinking of bringing my Ryobi battery operated vacuum, connected to 5 gallon bucket cyclone, just shut off to move cyclone lid to next 5 gal. bucket. Rinse and repeat, boom buckets full, then move bucket to stand next to high banker auto feed slowly with water hose in bucket, one after the other.
Below that ol white mountain just a little southeast of Nome.
looks like a hell of a place to do some metal decting.
Oh ya! Thanks for watching!
I ssooo wanna come up there a dig a bit. Always wanted to go to Alaska to pan gold.✌️😎
Thanks for watching, AU MetalMental!! Get that gold!!
At 1.6g for every 1.5 hours of running, all you need is more run time. And two sluices.👍
We ran out of beer, lol Thanks for watching!
@@AmericanGoldProspectors I wouldn't know what that's like, I live in Green Bay lol
right on brother
You bet
Can you run a small excavator with a little big bigger sluce ON THE BEACH ?
Yes! It is the wild west! Do what you want and can afford.
Great job!
Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Test , test , test ... Fine gold is my passion ... I wanna go to Nome
Thanks for watching, Frank Byrd!! Get that gold!!
They must have ended up making three bucks an hour. Cool
Bu its fun!
Love your videos, man. I'm definitely hooked. It's so much better than the show. I can see that the struggle is real in Nome. Show some after work life also. Film everything. This conent is amazing. High risk (harsh conditions, hard work and a slice of luck here and there) - high reward reality show lol
I'm curious, is there a black market for -gold- *sand* in Nome? Blink twice if 'yes'
Most people here sell their gold to a guy here. I'm not sure what he does with it though, Don't tell the IRS, lol. Thanks for watching!
Bryan Wilder is genius knows his camera
I never wonder if my Honda will start 😂
Haha!
Makes me wonder if there is gold in my creek. lol
Test pan it!
That looks fun if had the money I'd try it
Thanks for watching, Michael Godbee!! Get that gold!!
There’s gold everywhere up there b
For sure! Thanks for watching!
Wish I had a jar of Opal like that😎
Thanks for watching, Scott Lubsen!! Get that gold!!
Any one gone to the lowest point in the area? You know, the bottom of the river? A suction dredge would be a good thing to have. And you can drive right to it
For sure! Thanks for watching!
No levels in Alaska? Lol. Looks fun. I’d love to try
Thanks for watching, @marllboroman1461!! Get that gold!!
I think I saw a stream right next to you. Wouldn't it be better to hit the stream?
I pan tested it, I didn't find much. Just a few colors per pan. Thanks for watching!
@@AmericanGoldProspectors I'm glad your backing Nome and making new content for your channel.
So what month is a good time to start mining in Nome?
When do people start showing up every year?
And when do they leave?
There is summer and winter mining!
How come Vernon doesn’t let you guys take the boat out yourselves? Seems like it be better to let you go out with out him there and get something than the boat stay at the dock.
I took it out this summer without Vern finally!
Have you ever heard of taking a piece of pvc pipe about 3' feet long plug both ends and drill a hole just big enough to stick the foot valve in, then on the pvc pipe drill 1/8 holes all over it, it only needs a 1" inch of water over it and it won't suck air or sand into the pump.
Great idea! Thanks for watching!
so how much gold can someone get in a day beach mining with basic equipment? i love the show and your channel
2 to 6 grams more or less
Bryan have you and Gary ever tried going across the Penny towards Cripple river where tghe old GPAA camp is?
I wanted to but we couldn't get past the Penny
Fine pure gold.24K! 👌
I think the water in your sluice running too fast. Short sluice box and very wide 👍
Thanks 👍
Awesome day off lol man id be so happy with a couple grams sitting in my dredge for a few hours work lol
Thanks for watching!
I was like where is all the snow? ah this was last year? lol
I'm late with editing, lol
I have this delusion to go to Nome and do this, but then I see how guys with a ton of experience can still get skunked for 1.6 g of gold and reality sets in. I’d doubt I could find any. Thanks for grounding me! 😂
More bad days than good, lol
Have You tried adding corrugated (Henry Henry) to the end for directing water ( & added cons)..
(New Sub)
No, but good idea! Thanks for the sub!
Great video as always, any idea what the house/shack is at penny river, history etc?
No idea, lol
Watching a year later and tried to do some research on it. Can't find anything anywhere.
Bryan,i watch your vids in Australia,what are your thoughts on the alaska inclusive gold camps?coming nx sept,keep up the good work
There a blast!
need about 10 buckets.
For sure!
You need to put the camera in the stationery area and do like a time-lapse of you guys working
Good idea!
Or 10 to 15 ounces if you hit a real good hot spot.
Thanks for watching, Spudnik Holy Ghost roller!! Get that gold!!
Some gold is better than no gold! 1.66 grams more than I got today.... lol
Thanks for watching, offpher J!!
Maybe 👀 , take 200 ft of hose instead of 100 ft .
How much does gasoline cost up there ?
12 mile down plus back , and gas for the pump .
But , a very entertaining video 📹 !
Thanks 😊!
Thanks for watching, Richard Duke!!
God, that looks like the same territory where I'm from! I've planned for gold all over my island and there isn't even any black sand. 😭 I'm from Igloolik, Nunavut
Thanks for watching, Lacks!! Get that gold!!
@@AmericanGoldProspectors aside from the fact that there is no gold on this limestone island, I wouldn't take it anyway because this is Inuit land.
Curiosity got me tho and I had to go check. And when I say there's no black sand I mean it. 5 gallon bucket of classified material got me about 100 specks of black sand. It's crazy! Now I know how Floridians feel! 🤣🤣
This is just realy nice to see.. planning to come over to Nome somewere in de first 2 weeks of july. Any chance you guys would take on a rookie for a day? Got some nice experience with my gold hog :) taking dust gold here.
I must have missed you. Thanks for watching!
You should bring a level with you. So you can get your flow just right.
Thanks for watching, Noah Sizemore!! Get that gold!!
I grow gold don't mine it . Money grows on trees if done right. Got to have the best stuff out and it's worth alot and it only takes 3 months to do
Why not reach out as far as you can with a foot valve into the ocean and see what you can suck up and catch in the sleuth? I'd get the longest reach possible and pull back slowly maybe and see what gold you might suck up. Heck, maybe you could use some type of styrofoam and float it out there so it would float around while its dragging below sucking up? If you could make this work, it would make it so easy to get the gold.
At that river going in the ocean would be great to try what I said.
The rocks and sand being suck up in the foot valve with destroy the pump in no time.
So did you end up *not* moving your highbanker down the beach that day?
It went straight to the cleanup, so I didn't understand.
Great video, btw. Y'all work well together.
I moved it back to my normal spot when I was shoveling in.
Can you buy mining equipment in Nome ?
Only used. Thanks for watching!
Like your videos, and wondering if you can use a hydro nosel on the beach?
You can do whatever you want up here! Thanks for watching!
Floating foot valves
I wish!
slow the water rate some and catch the saucebox runoff
Thanks for watching, Bill Frev!! Get that gold!!
could you take metal detector scan find best area
Gold is too small for a detector. Thanks for watching!