Find Better Gold! - Look right there!
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- Опубліковано 24 гру 2024
- Decided to gold was like on the other side of the river on my Similkameen claim. Check out what I found,! GOLD!
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This video is produced by Dan Hurd, Prospector, Miner, Teacher and UA-camr, as part of his UA-cam channel based on educational videos about gold mining, gold panning, prospecting, rock hounding, and mineral collecting.
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At 1352, you lost an ordinary rock. 😂
I saw that too ;)
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nawww......It was definitely gold👍
Black diamonds for sure.
Shhhh he's saving that one for another video xD
I understand how people might get antsy when you're not seeing much in your pan only a few meters away from where you were getting good gold, but it's valuable to show people how big the difference between being in the "right" spot and being not quite in the "right" spot can be. Plus, it never hurts to explore. That's how you find the "right" spots! Cheers!
I live down here in the mountains in Western North Carolina. Hurricane Helene destroyed our entire region. All the creeks and rivers look like rotorooters bored them out and made most of the rivers and creeks make completely new paths. I’ve wondered if after events like this, does the massive amounts of water expose more gold to find? I’ve been thinking about trying my luck here and trying to do a little panning.
You can do research online to see if that area is a gold producing area. If it is walk up the creeks and look for quartz veins
Big storms called Gully Rakers can move a lot of material. Grab your pan. 🍀
Caring so much, as recovery is still ongoing and people are still in tents! Here's to heavy pans for all WNC folks! 💙💙💙
The Hurd Squad is here Dan!!!!!!
Awesome video!!!! Love learning about different rocks and minerals!!!
Uhhhhh that's Amber, and we don't like her, it's the Hurd Squad 😂
@@squishyxout fixed it. thanks
Nice seeing you in nice warm sunshine as we dry out from the weeks rain on the coast.
and days of cold and snow in Prince George! lol
Think he said this was filmed at the end of September but it’s been nasty on the coast, mountains are getting lots of snow!
Love your family friendly show, Dan...!!
Don't let the bastards grind you down, brother... you have your health, your family and your passion... and I'm grateful for the glimpse into your truest wealth... 👊✝️🙂 God bless and keep you Dan...!!
Great video 💎Dan!
I'm glad you tried the other side, just to see. If you don't try, you'll never know. 🙌🏻🇨🇦
Dan and co pour videos are so sweet, it helps me find back some peace
Oh wow those views! I always wonder if people like Dan realise how lucky they are to live somewhere like that, just beautiful.
Water looks perfect for a sniping vid with Pauly. You to work great together and both put out great videos thanks Dan.
No snipable bedrock here.
HI Dan, Mark Castagnoli is a buddy of mine and he made me a gold ring with Simikameen Gold and Tulameen Platinum. Happy days!
When Dan Hurd says its not much, but you pan in the northeastern US and thats bigger than any pan you'll ever see😊 As always another great episode!
I've been panning material out of an ancient and heavily weathered glacial moraine in Bordentown, near the Delaware River. I've finally found the true core material... and my last bucket of material had.... 60 PIECES OF GOLD IN IT!!! .... ... All about the size of dandruff flakes. :P But at least there were 60 of them! ;D
@@Alondro77 Time for a highbanker.
Yeah here in Ohio those pans that Dan did are pretty darn good.
@@barto6577 I'd have to bring in a tanker truck for the water! There's no natural water source nearby. Closest is a muddy little stream 1/2 a mile away.
Your gold panning videos are the best!
Thanks for finding Black Sands... As I know you found the Gold$... 💛💟
“Break on thru to the other side” Dan ! 😂
It is always a good time watching you. Blessings
*Hey Dan, I just wanted to say I really enjoy your content! I find it really interesting funny and relaxing when I need a break from my day. Hope you keep making videos for a long time!.*
Finding more gold on the inside of a curve as opposed to the outside is more a lesson in fluid dynamics and physics than geology.
It’s called Geomorphology! The study of geologic landforms and their origin. Yes, fluid mechanics and physics are involved in shaping the Earth’s surface.
@@bobfoster687 Actually, we are specifically talking about river morphology, which includes the study of sediment transport and deposition, which is specifically what we are talking about here.
Yes most of my geology lessons are either Physics, Chemistry, geography, or just field experience. But if you think about it what is Geology, but how all those come together in the rock and mineral world.
Geology or geography? even though one is not the other they have more in common than not
@@johnhunt1725 thats what im talkimg about
Really enjoy your videos, Dan. Every pan is an adventure, whether you find a little or a lot. Keeping it real. Thanks for sharing.
Morning Everyone
I don't think that I have ever seen {Thought I saw, or is it seen.} any gold lost out of your pan, but I have thought that I have seen gold during sniping videos that was left behind. That has usually been done by one of those other fellers. You are right about seeing yellow rocks that just look like gold that just wouldn't be very valuable. Sometimes it doesn't even need to be fool's gold to fool me. Anyway Dan, you have some cool videos. Cool? I was raised in the 60's and 70's. Stay warm and safe this winter.
Feeling all that pain and we still get a laugh out of you! A rare quality to never be mad!
Thanks for the vlog Dan! At my local river I’ve been rockhounding since 2021 I always find the agates in abundance in the inside curve.
Good morrow, Dandalf! I’m inquiring as to what the red/orange is across the river. Are those flowers? What kind?
Always a pleasure watching you enjoy your favorite hobby. 😉👍💙
Hard to tell but could be en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castilleja
Or some blueberry type bushes turn that color in fall.
Pan-dalf 😂
@@aethelwyrnblack4918 😂🤣😂🤣
The fun you have while doing this is very infectious
also, smashing a finger between two hard things? off. always happens to me this time of year sorting through frozen turkeys!
Fine gold .Wish you luck
If your going to throw rocks, you should not forget to let go. Or in my case moving a stack of steel blanks, don't for get to move them out from under them. I learned the hard way too.
If nothing else, it looks like a great spot to cast a fly or two, in case the pan keeps coming up empty!
Fun video, Dan. Thanks for sharing.
Dan, that's why you've got a Prospectors Beard! Lol! ⚒️⛏️⚖️👍🤠
The other "Miner's Moss"
Doing some panning on a river your right Dan the gold doesn't move much once you strat all the material so not a chance of a nug rolling out the pan but it's from a place of love they comment ... Most of the time lol another excellent video checking every spot will narrow down where it's not
Hey dan im curious. Have you ever had your classifier catch a big piece of gold? What is the biggest piece you have found?
Great question!
Love your videos. As you know, there are people out there who just love to complain. Keep being you! Your positivity glows,!
One of my most fav spots, Bromley Rock. Awesome when the ice builds up on the highway side right at the rock. I’ve seen what almost look like icebergs in there lol.. water sure looks low. Thanks for sharing !
100% .. 5:44
if you ever saw the yellow rocks in person… well they’re much different looking than gold.
This is like year 10 of Dan telling people they can’t see nuggets falling out of the pan. 😂
Still get comments ALL the time
Probably a dumb question, and is explained in another video, but is that black sand you are washing away is iron sand, or just some black rocks grinded down by water?
It's magnetic iron filled rock
@@TheSilverSphincter69 Thank you!
In Dan's area it is usually iron based so magnetic, but other areas can be other heavy sands like tin which are not magnetic. Vogus down under has this issue. The tin ore in his area cannot be cleaned with a magnet so other means are required..
@@markpashia7067 Thank you. I didnt know black sand can be tin too.
Likely magnetite.
Lost part of my middle finger down to the first joint 50 years ago now, and if you think hitting your finger hurt, it’s nothing compared to the pain you feel if you knock your stumpy. Just a light bump brings more than a few tears.
I personally think that if a river or creek is known for gold you can find gold but someone had to do the first pan. Some places along that river or creek will be more likely to have more gold.
DAN DAN THE TINPAN MAN!!! I havent heard this much BELLYACHING since the last episode of TWO TOES 😂
Yeah, I would definitely have to fish this first before I did any panning!!! Thanks Dan...
Looking forward to the video from the other side.
Happy Thanksgiving Dan
Sweet Dan!!!
Never question the panning skills of Dan Hurd young ones.
Gosto do seu jeito de fazer os videos, sem frescura, Parabens amigo...
*In California we had 300,000 Chinese re-working the rivers over and over again from 1849 to 1933 and you can't find a flake of Gold by just panning in some of the best rivers. Canada is amazingly rich if your finding gold on top like that!*
Love watching you, hello from Norway.😊
Thanks for point out that it was a drop of water!!! Started wondering what was being censored out...
Hey Dan! I'm proud to say that just yesterday I was able to acquire in person a specimen of that _beautiful_ Blue Jay sapphire from Chris at the Silver Cove gem and mineral show here in Thunder Bay. I never would've known about it if it weren't for your video! CHEERS!
Here’s a crazy story I’d like to share about my time searching for gold: It was 2003. Early summer. I took off walking from my car to go to lake louise near Dubois Wyoming. It’s a n easy 4 mile hike over various types of terrain. Some slippery glacier scraped rocky areas, fallen trees and steep uphill slopes occasionally making the hike more difficult but nothing too serious. I left the parking area at about midnight and began walking along the main trail towards the lake using the stars as light and directional guide. Some parts of the trail were deeply forested and were dark and scary to walk through. About half way to my destination I turned left onto a trail I’d never taken before just for the heck of it. I got about 3 miles up that trail and found another trail forking off to my right and decided to take it. I like getting lost and finding my way back so this is why I kept taking different trails. Anyway, I was walking through some pretty dense woods when up ahead I saw a face peeking out from behind a tree with a hand on the trunk. The face was pale in the darkness with large black eyes. It’s hand the same pale whitish color as its face. I ran up to the tree and meant to surprise the thing and hopefully grab it but when I got there it was gone. Two more times I saw it peek from behind a tree as I walked along and each time I ran up to grab it it was gone. I figured I was just getting tired and needed a rest and that I just imagined seeing it. A couple miles later I emerged into a huge clearing with no trees around except those I just stepped out of. The moon wasn’t out so the open meadow appeared vast and completely black. It was like having claustrophobia all of a sudden with no trees to reference for distance. It started getting cold as the light breeze was more prominent in the open opposed to being in the trees which block the wind. I stopped after walking a few minutes and put my jacket on and sat down to rest for a minute. As I sat there smoking a cigarette I saw a bright light just past the brim of my cap above me. It was moving in a zig zag pattern but not uniform. Just zigzagging around but going in the same direction as it wiggled through the sky. It was enough to keep my attention for sure. I quickly fished my flashlight out of my pocket and blinked the light at the object a few times and watched it disappear behind the mountain behind me. I thought to myself “wow that was cool.” Then the light came back. It was directly overhead and it was flitting around like crazy. It attached itself to two other stars that had been there all nite and formed a triangle. That triangle of lights began spinning around super fast and started growing larger and larger until the space between the lights began to cover up the other stars. That’s when I realized it was descending towards me quickly. It was one of those black triangle craft that people talk about. I got up to run back towards the trees but suddenly I was surrounded by tall dark ugly beings with long necks and thick legs. I had my nite eyes so I could just see their outlines and a little of their facial features. In the star light I’d guess their color to be reddish brown but I could be mistaken. I knew I couldn’t escape so I sat down and let them have me. That’s when I passed out. When I woke up I could hear angels singing and as the fog cleared I realized it was the sound of a brook close by me. I slowly got up and it felt like I’d been drugged. Finally I could stand and I saw such a beautiful landscape it just blew me away. I was in a huge meadow of flowers of every color with the snow covered mountains in the background and a big waterfall cascading down from the glacier on top of a very tall cliff face. I was compelled to climb up the cliff face even though my backpack was nowhere to be found. After about an hour of climbing I reached the top of the cliff and saw multiple caves leading back into the glacier. I went into one cave and saw the walls were translucent blue and the sound of the water was deafening. It sounded like boulders were crashing down from the falls onto the rocks below but it was just so much water that it was explosively loud. I finally climbed down and followed the trail back towards the trees and eventually found my backpack in the trail where I stopped the nite before. I didn’t even remember the creatures until I found my backpack. I know what had happened but there wasn’t anyone else around so nobody would ever believe me when I told them about it. It took me half the day to finally walk back to lake louise and when I got there I started panning for gold along the beach on the side of the lake that had no trail. It was such an arduous process to navigate the boulders and fallen trees on that side of the lake that it took me until dark to finally reach the inlet. Just before I got there though I panned about a handful of black sand from the water level that I dug up from the beach. As I tapped out the last of the black sand I saw a thick band of bright yellow appear in the corner of my pan. With just a handful of black sand I got almost an ounce of gold dust. I looked upwards at the cliffs in the mountainside above and behind me and noticed a faint trail leading up to several small digs in the cliffs. At the inlet was a square configuration of felled trees with a fire pit inside of the square. It looked like a fortification. It dawned on me that some time ago, maybe in the late 1800,s a group of men made camp here and mined gold out of those cliffs and they cleaned their findings on that beach. What I’d found was their tailings. 24 carat gold dust in mass quantities that they left behind. It was starting to get dark and a light snow began falling from the wind blown glacier up above so I pulled out my pup tent and started to cook a fish I’d caught at the inlet. I set up my tent inside the square tree fort and laid down to sleep in my pup tent. At some time in the nite an incredibly strong vice locked around my ankle and pulled me out of my tent. A large black hairy mass dragged me for a few feet and then it straddled my body and walked in all fours over me towards my tent. It was the biggest grizzly bear I’ve ever seen. Massive. It started tearing into my backpack and I took off running towards a big pine tree and climbed up it as far as I could. The big bear didn’t find anything to eat and took off after a few minutes and disappeared into the nite. I climbed back down and gathered up my stuff and swam across the lake and ran down the trail back towards the campground 4 miles down the trail. I’d always wanted to go back and use a metal detector in those cliffs and in the cracks in the rocks up on top and pan that entire beach but I couldn’t get anyone to go with me even after I offered to split the gold with them. So I never went back. I smelted the gold into an ingot and pawned it for $300. Nowadays it would be worth a lot more. I’ll never forget that nite I saw those things though. In those mountains I’ve seen human skeletons up in trees with feathers and old saddle blankets and an old powder horn with the initials jb on it which I gave to a museum. They said it may have belonged to Jim Bridger but there was no proof other than the initials. Well, that’s the end of the story. I hope you enjoyed reading it. Lates.
Absolutely great knowledge you share with us Dan . Stuff you just can't learn from a book , only in the field 👍✌️
Dan real question! Since it’s started to get cold out, what type of socks do you wear??? Cotten,wool,etc.
The location is really beautiful, my boss.
Thanks Dan. I appreciate your videos and learn lots. Keep it up.
Thanks again Dan for another great video!
Hi Dan, exciting finding gold isn't it. Not trying to "tell you what to do" but....... I would add another classifier to your pan, I use a 10mm and then a 2mm. You can quickly view the plus 10mm fraction then jig the plus 2mm. It gets really exciting when you flip the screen and get a proper nugget sitting proud on the reject pile. The remaining -2mm is far easier and quicker to pan with less risk of losses.
Covered before, there are literally no nuggets in most of the areas he goes, so that would be an enormous waste of time. Also if there were nuggets they would be on bedrock not in bar gravels.
Could you take one of those cheap inflatable Kayaks along, then you could go from side to side, the river didn't look so wide where you were?
would be quicker to drive arround
Thanks Dan for sharing this great video with us six stars
Thanks Uncle Dan you're the coolest from Loganville Georgia
That is some serious over birden, imagine whats hiding at the bottom. I've enjoyed your videos on Facebook for a while now and please excuse my lateness on subbing the channel. I love your style and positive vibes in the way you present your vids. Stay awesome Dan!
Morning all
I like your videos, the way you educate and put things in laymens terms. Places you go to i have seen similar areas where i live. I live in Vermont where i live there is a map of the area online and it shows where gold has been found. 👍 When the hurricane ripped through Vermont some years back. It opened up new streams and people have been finding gold. Watching your videos gives ne insight on what to look for.
Thank you.
love your personality and diversity in your different interest in other gems and claims. do you ever prospect in dredge tailing piles?
A tough day at the office today eh Dan, panning the outside curve just doesn't pay the bills. But a good hands on lesson of what not to do anyway.
Yeah the couch miners can give you expert advice!🤣🤣🤣
Your channel is undervalued
Dan, your finger will feel better once it quits hurting!
GOLD is GOLD. no matter the bits. They all eventually had up to a fun Time, and money of course 😊
Seems like you need to be running a high banker on the other side of the river. Love the video!
Good stuff, Daniel!
Could you do a demonstration with glass ware how the gold is so much denser that anything else? Simulate panning.
There’s gold in them there hills!! (I always wanted to say that)
Ex mechanic,worked in the cold too much , know how the smallest of knocks to yer fingers , knuckles,hands feels 10x more painful than usual. As always great video
It's cold here in Denmark too. And it's evening but anyways Good morning Dan❤️
Nice looking stuff!
I wish my favorite gold panners (HIP BEE EXPLORERS) would meet up with my second place favorite… the great Dan Hurd
My panning buddy smashed her finger exactly how you did. I always tell people to watch out for those rocks, they bite. lol
To the people crying about "ohhh you lost a huge nugget at whatever time"...
Those people clearly don't understand or have experience with the density "weight", of gold 🤦♂️
Have you ever checked out the Lake Superior shoreline for the gold it has
Are you sure this isn't a case of .... the grass is always greener????
Thank You Dan Great Video Watching from The East Coast of Canada NB🙂💙👍
Glad you liked it!
Hey Dan , what can you tell us about Volcano Brown and Pitt lake lost mine aka Slumach's gold ?
Have you ever tried to find it?
Ty...
Getting my "Dan Hurd panning fix"😎
Best gold i find is near roads and bridges my theory is all the digging from the construction brings old gold up to the surface
good job!
Good morning folks
Amazing video!! Thanks for sharing!!
maybe save some time and bring a small inflateable to get across to the other side. =-) could be done with your high banker and equip with some forethought
=-) cheers
Would be quicker to drive the 30 min
I wonder if there were better deposits up higher on the bank. When you prospected the other bank, the river was higher . Thanks for sharing Dan. Cheers from Australia
Higher up was all road fill
@Danhurd ahh yes! You did mention the road fill push in the video. Thanks for your reply.
Here in Wisconsin we would be THRILLED to find what you got in each pan!
great video dan
Takes me a whole year to find as much gold as these guys find in one day..
The cold water should help dull the ouchy!
Telling Dan he needs to “work on his panning skills” is like telling Picasso he needs to work on his painting!!
Can you find gold in crystal and amethyst im asking because my husband has found something here in Texas and we think it's gold really need some help thank you for your videos help from anyone would be appreciated 🙏
Well, I am SURE you have considered this, but... Do you have a pair of trout fishing waders? There are waterproof pairs that come up all the way to your armpits, and you could maybe have waded that river and stayed dry. I don't know how deep it was, but it looked like there were enough rocks in narrow places to cross it with good waders. I've crossed similar rivers fishing for trout in W.V. in the U.S. - I know, I know, you don't always have the right equipment with you at all times. But keeping a pair of high waders in your truck might be a good idea.
I wear them all the time, this river is up to 6 feet dep in the middle
My dog was very concerned when you hurt your finger. 😊
Hey Dan love your videos man. I was wondering if you knew any places in arkansas to find gold? I also learned alot from watching your videos
As a Michigan gold grubber, fly poop for the win!