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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2020
- In part 2 of our Dawson adventures we visit Tony Beets Dredge and marine fleet, Durt Reynolds, Parker Schnabel's claim and then visit an actual operating mine and follow all the steps that they go through to get Yukon Gold. The stuff you don't see on Gold Rush!
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The only other gold here is Frank's golden production value because what he shows all of us in a year is far more interesting and informative than what Gold Rush shows in a damn month and by god i mean it to
Can't help but smile when Sharon is smiling, -which is pretty much always. This was a fantastic episode folks.
That is the most efficient way to get every flake or shape of gold. Parker has made millions of gold from his productiveness in mining/dredging. Seen this spiral pan, it works real well, getting all those fines. Love this video, so much detailed info. Thanks Frank and Sharon.
Lmaoh... If and when they show that clip of the stuck dozer I'll know that's you in the background filming 😉 You'll be the "Guest star"
MAN each video you create brings me that much closer to moving to Canada!
Wow, what effort they go to to get every bit of gold . Thanks Frank for taking us along 👍
Pete Australia .
You bet
“Gly”: Good video Frank. This brought back lots of good memories of my family’s gold placer operation.
Lots of hard work and a little Gold no doubt!
It must be Saturday Morning here. Breakfast while watching Frank and Sharon Exploring Abandoned Mines. An Excellent educational video you two have put together. An addition to the museum no doubt. Dawson looks to be an idyllic place to be. This channel is just getting better with every new video.
Glad you enjoyed it
Love this particular set of videos man, hope today finds you well Frank.
Glad you like them!
Different and really interesting to learn how gold mining is done today. Cool stuff, Frank, thank you. Sharon was smiling from ear to ear being around all that gold! Thanks for another fun, interesting episode. Stay safe.
We had fun up there.
Frank, your channel is waaay better than gold rush!
I get paid way less!
If you think this is good you should watch "Gold Fever" by Tom maddie..by far the best and most informative gold show that is out there
Meh
Great episode Always enjoy your discoveries Love you snuck onto Discoveries set and got video of the stuck dozer! Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the detailed explanation , it clarifies the process involved for the layman such as I.
your drone shot through the dredge was great!
Those sacrificial zinc anodes protects the steel hull through an electrical potential meaning that when the steel of the hull is attacked the electrons of the zinc flow to cover the steel. It is the same as plating metal parts just on a larger scale and without an external energy source. Outboard motors and drives have a zinc anode built into them to slow or stop aluminum from corroding. It's why they can't be painted. Well, actually they can be painted but it negates the entire purpose. I am really impressed with your drone work, it is very professional. My drone only seems to record trees, buildings, cars, and the ground coming at it extremely quickly. Really nice video.
Love a bit of gold fever
Always great 5 star videos ...Thanks !
Thanks again!
Thanks for keeping it real Frank
No fake dramas here
Would of been funny if you caught Parker having a physy fit over the bogged dozer
Great "reality" check! Good to go behind the scenes and see the actual equipment & the best part....NO drama! 🍻!
Very cool and love the addition of the still photos.
Sharon took them!
Thanks Frank and Sharon. Interesting take on the non-entertainment side of gold mining. It's surprising how active the mining industry currently is in the Yukon. The drive from the Dawson airport to Dawson is a real eye opener and probably severely shocks people with a green bent even though the mining took place around a hundred years ago. Looking forward to your next program.
There has been a lot of gravel moved around in the Dawson area since the Gold Rush started in 1896 and it continues to this day. However it is confined to a fairly small area.
Terrific job with the drone showing us around and explaining to us all about the dredge and the working site. Loved seeing the bear. There's a lot of work to get every last particle of gold. Hope you got lucky Sharon, I'm liking your photographs at the end of the show - thanks for sharing those. Thank you Sharon and Frank. ❤️👍❤️
Glad you enjoyed it!
Havent been to Dawson since 2010. Miss that place. so beautiful.
Frank haunting all the Gold Rush sites! It would be funny having him direct the show! No mock up shots, no drama ... just solid, factual and informative caveless mining undressed!
Quite a switch from underground mining but very interesting! Great mixture of the old and new! Great Video as Always Frank!
Yes, thanks
always fun vieos to watch.
TY sir
Awesome video!!! Thank you for taking the time for putting it together!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
That was a really great video Frank thanks
Very welcome
Thanks for the nice insights into Yukon. Best regards from Turkey
Glad it was helpful!
Very cool to see the other side of things . I have not watch the show in 5 years now . Thanks for the behind the scenes Frank and Sharon.
Very interesting stuff once again. Sharon's still photos were a very nice touch as well. Drone footage was fantastic too!
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome vid, Frank! Fascinating the whole way thru. As the metal prices go higher (and they SHOULD) I think we'll see a lot of old ground being reworked, and old holes being re-tapped. Looks like you kids had a helluva trip up North! Hopefully by spring the border will be loosened up again, and you can come poke around at Republic. Keep up the excellent work.
We shall see
When I was a commercial fisherman we had a 3x5 foot zinc sacrificial anode (aka galvanic anode) on each side of the wooden hull. I forget now which way it is but too much zinc and the electrolysis eats the wood, too little zinc and it eats the metal. Or the other way around. I would connect the ground side of my CB antenna to that zinc plate, which effectively made the Pacific Ocean part of my antenna, and I could talk for hundreds of miles.
Never heard of them eating wood, but you gotta keep the zincs off the hull or they don't work as good.
@@MOTOMINING: If the electrical potential of the zinc anode is too high it will cause the cellulose fibers in the wood, which gives wood it's strength, to deteriorate, causing dry rot. Especially around through hull fittings, causing seepage and leaks.
Eat your heart out Discovery Channel, Frank's videos are way better than Gold Rush!
Wow, thanks!
Discovery Channel? To busy watching mine explorers on youtube.
TRUE!
Well YA!! Discovery is 6.5 min of dialog/footage repeated over an hr.....this video would have been a whole season!
joke is on you Gary! Discovery Channel has no heart!
Awesome video. Im glad there isn't as much drama on a non tv site
Enjoyed this
Excellent, I knew they were playing up the drama on Gold Rush but wasn't aware how... creative they were with the equipment and operations.
Thank you, great show on the mining. Reminds me of when I ran an aggregate plant back in the '70s, in Concrete, Wa. the same basic set up as their screen set up, we were grading rock, but they are pushing a lot more material through, and a lot more water and not grading rock. We even had a gold recovery set up for a while using mercury on copper plates for a while. Not enough to matter. LOL. Keep having fun, I know you are!
I particularly enjoyed this episode Frank. I'm an avid gold rush fan (I'm sorry) so this was interesting to see the non drama side of things.
We like watching it too!
Awesome!!!🍻✌
I always ask why do they work so chaotic and unorganized in the tv shows so ty for this channel now i understand how it realy works and its awesome 🖒🖒🖒🖒😆
Happy to help!
I love your knowledge of mining. I find it very interesting and the folks that have done it are pretty special. I am glad you are videoing all this for the future. The history of the mines is very cool. Sharon is a great sidekick and very tough. I love her smile and courage. She is quite brave. Keep up the good work and keep those videos coming.
Thank you kindly
Looks like good fun! Thanks
One of your best episodes! Loved all the real info compared to tv! Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent and very interesting video👍😉
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video! Very well done.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome Series!!!
really interesting, thanks for sharing it.
My pleasure!
Pretty cool series, keep up the good content!!
Great video and greetings from Cornwall
Hello there!
Wow speak about wonderful history you found it up there . Thanks for sharing your find .. It just keeps getting better all the time .. I love this history ..
Glad you enjoyed it
Informative, educational and entertaining, as always. Thanks from the UK.
Our pleasure!
Great Video Frank!! Fact's without Drama!! Very informative to watch!!
Glad you think so!
Awesome Frank Always AWESOME!!!! ;)
Thanks for the visit
Cool episode! Kinda burst my bubble on those gold shows but it was informative. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
better then TV
Great video very informative loved watchin it.
Glad it was helpful!
Thats cool you on the scene, that Tonys machine in Gold Rush scene is nice piece, glad you got in there, greetings from Fin.
great vid guys!!!
Lmao. That bear was probably thinking... Snack !
Great Video and Drone footage. Frank great information and narration how gold is mined today.
Glad you enjoyed it
I wish I had time to do some panning when I rode to the Yukon! It's amazing how much quartz is in the dirt around Dawson.
Very interesting Frank.
Glad you think so!
Awesome adventure video series. thx.
Glad you enjoyed it
GREAT STUFF FRANK ALOT OF INSIGHT BETWEEN THE OLD N NEW STAY SAFE BROTHER 🤘
Man that's a lot of GOLD !
Very interesting video, Frank
Glad you enjoyed it
Fun video thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Love the sign lol. Any unauthorized person found here at night will be found here in the morning. Them ominous warnings.
The bedrock in the Sulphur Creek cut is "soft" because it is a decomposed schist. So it is not a layer, but is the bedrock. It is often decomposed at the gravel contact due to groundwater alteration.
Hello the part where the dozer is pushing the dirt toward the wash plant to a low hopper is way I thought it should have been done the 1st place no excavator use at all just push with dozer thank you for that part and a whole lot more a better understanding for us all 🤔 Cjd wash state 👍
Yes the hoe is great for clean up but it is a poor way of feeding a plant.
Great video. Thank you frank
Thanks for watching
👌 Достойно уважения! Все супер!
That boat on the trailer is aluminium so those divers plates known as zincs are to stop the electrolysis in the water because it will eat the aluminum over time. Great video Frank as always.
Cool, thanks
Very Cool Location and Operation...
Love That Gold Room -
Did Sharon Find Gold in That Pan or Did You Have to Take Her to the Local Jewelry Store haha 👍🏻🤠🇺🇸
We went to the jewelry store...
LOL ✨Awsum ✨👍🏻
Dang nice videoing as some people feel the need to show everything at once and so I get motion sick watching. I really liked the drone work as well, very good angles showing more of the depth of the machine. I was at the very first, sucked right into gold rush and part of was I was crippled and couldn't work my little placer claim ... I did mostly paper work at the shop I used to own. That old machine on tonys dredge would of made my heart sing and then to think it was really working. I pretty much quit watching gold rush when the petty wars started. I don't mind a challenge but if I own all the land an set my royalties at fifty per cent, there would be no arguments.... we don't tell who to hire or how to get it out of the ground. I will mine it myself or if you want land that you think has gold
Nice Video 😉👍✌
Thanks ✌
Cracy to see all these machines just sitting there🤔🤔.. after all the money and time, they Spend on it, in Goldrush.. Saw all the series, where they where working on them..
great lighting, great stories, I was wondering why the dredge was making a come back, we use the around here for channel purposes, Canadian rock barges, cost efficient crush stone for municipalities up river, got a dinosaur tooth out of a load 2008, 15" bicuspid off grass eater, were in San Fran. north bay rocks, musically speaking
Beets is one colorful wooky
Imagine just owning a fleet of tugs and barges and just leaving them sat by the river😲 if I was one of his kids I'd be trying to build a business just with that front loading barge! It's crazy isn't it I bet he would rather let them rust away.
Took my motor home across the Yukon on the ferry ,felt really strange going across the river sitting in my motor home, I think I panned in that same area you were in
He needs to put the land back that looks like natural land!
All those little bits of gold must add up pretty good, to have all that equipment there and people running that equipment.
Yes they all add up!
Now I see how much work it takes to get the gold out
There is a dredge the size of a small town in Nor Cal at the sutter gold fields
Nice vid, curious in the beginning you show the legit method and explain the clay bedrock bottom and they stop. Good lord I hope they drill test beyond that clay layer . As a dredger for 35 years I’ve often found several different pay layers due to clay and usually the deeper ones have more gold. Of course you always have a dead zone in between those layers.
That was cool video Tony beets is probably over here in Arizona he's got him a home over here well I guess Sharon didn't get rich from our gold panning😖
We can't drive to it's private property but we'll fly around it and show it to you... classic
It is on public land but tough to get to.
160 sluicing operations in the Yukon this year.
Right about 7:30 minutes. You suggested you are standing on bedrock. Along with being methodical cleaning off the bedrock. I find that interesting.
Im so happy you have showed how fake the TV shows are. Loved your show 👍
Hi Frank & Sharon, a very interesting process to get what's left, time consuming but also exciting at the same time. Did they recover that dozer ??, definitely an oops moment lol. Thanks for sharing another golden video (get it), much love. xx💖
They were still at it when we left!
@@exploringabandonedmines Wow, now that's dedication. xx
harrase that bear with your drone heheh like a mosquito ...just dont get too close or it may be bear 1 drone crashed lmao....i like the vid nice work
We did that at Anyox, they don't like drones
@@exploringabandonedmines i bet they dont :)
Good stuff! Add my voice to those who like the photos at the end.
Very interresting to see "Gold Rush" from "behind the scenes". I have been watching many of those shows, and it's alot of hard job for the gold they get. But they make alot of mess, destoy the land very much. Do they have to clean up when they are finished mining, and bring the landscape back to as it was before they started mining? Or do they just leave it as it is, heading for a new claim? I love your videos, Frank - and I am happy you have found a beautiful partner to join you too :) Greetings from Norway.
They do some reclamation and there are regulations governing silt in streams but the whole valley is basically a large gravel pit.
When are you guys going to check out the Vidette gold mine ? Vidette apparently has 7 miles of tunnel and still has an estimated 7500 tons of gold bearing ore that was never mined because of WW2.
Never heard of it.
I want to sign up to go exploring with you!
Tony beets detaches shouldn’t be being used anymore! Make him new ones!
I cant help but think huge chunks of gold get tossed with the tailings
That may be true but the wash plants don't work if too much coarse material goes through them.
@@exploringabandonedmines of coarse!
Hi Frank, your cinematography skills with the drone are really getting good. Have you tried using the POI (point of Interest) function on the Phantom, it really opens up a whole new world of cinematography!! Keep up the good work!
Not yet!