Some people work hard to hold down the price of gold but lately it’s not been working for them!

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  • @patchrat1
    @patchrat1 2 місяці тому +5

    Thanks Chris I retired as of last week and will be heading south for the winter with gold on my mind even if I don’t find a gram I will at least get out and enjoy the experience however with the knowledge in your book I think my odds of finding a little bit are pretty decent

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      Have fun and the best of luck to you in your efforts.

    • @DoSomething-
      @DoSomething- 2 місяці тому

      Yea

  • @cutpaperpaste
    @cutpaperpaste 2 місяці тому +7

    Thank u for the encouragement

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      You are welcome, best of luck to you.

  • @terryb8638
    @terryb8638 2 місяці тому +5

    Its never easy, but I love it. A lot of people are scared of a little work...

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +2

      Boy, that is the truth that lots of folks don't want to work.

    • @johnny-james
      @johnny-james 2 місяці тому

      @@ChrisRalph There's nothing better than waking up knowing your self employed, working outside and living in the country most of my life, you bet my rock garden is full of meteorites 😎 I am the crazy guy trying to get a monolith into my truck, it was alot easier with a Honda civic!
      Your videos on kimberlite were excellent! (I'm in Quebec) Thank you for the great content!

  • @RectalRooter
    @RectalRooter 2 місяці тому +1

    2 thumbs up -- Good job drumming up peoples confidence too get out there, by sharing your passion.

  • @waltertodd4479
    @waltertodd4479 2 місяці тому

    Thanks Chris for that brief summary on effective ways to prospect and get gold. Even though ive spent a lot of time drywashing, i like detecting and crevasing placer gold and lode prospecting with a mortar, pestal and gold pan best.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      Glad to help, and sometimes its best to do what you enjoy most.

  • @tinkering123
    @tinkering123 2 місяці тому +1

    I recall the day when i was big in silver...then the bottom dropped...
    But it sure looks like a good time to be digg'n around for gold.
    You always put on a good show. Thanks Cris

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      Yep, they jerk every one around when the price gets too high.

    • @waltertodd4479
      @waltertodd4479 2 місяці тому

      Yes, try comparing how many eggs you could buy with an ounce of silver or, a gram of gold in 1984. Then do the same comparison of silver and gold to todays gold and siver price and then tell me whether one should invest in silver or gold. Very worthwhile...

  • @gitnitdun
    @gitnitdun 2 місяці тому +4

    There's still gold in them hills!

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +3

      Still plenty out there for those who know what to look for.

  • @WB-63
    @WB-63 2 місяці тому +1

    I'm a big fan chris....always have been....love your videos! ...keep up the good work brother.🙏

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      I appreciate that! I'm glad you like them.

  • @dsmoothman1981
    @dsmoothman1981 2 місяці тому

    Chris im right with you...super excited and trying harder than before to find better ground and bigger gold. I havent gone up in the Cascades yet because i need a partner to watch my backjgreat video

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      Good luck to you in your prospecting!

  • @lukasjohnson3489
    @lukasjohnson3489 2 місяці тому +2

    Chris, love your videos, I have learned so much from you! How does one remove quartz from a specimen that I want to keep intact? Any acids I can buy at a hardware store to accomplish this goal? Thank you!

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +2

      Just google acids that dissolve quartz. It is way too dangerous to sell at a hardware store.

  • @carlcaruso33
    @carlcaruso33 2 місяці тому

    Heya Chris🙂 Thanks again for another vid truly worth watching👍🏻. While i dont currently live near any goood prospects for Au in its creation form, I do live near plenty of places where humans lose gold jewelry and urban prospecting is at an all time reward max. I'll take 14 and 18kt all day long...i just throw it in the cupel and oijla!! Silver is no joke either. Its being manipulated to the max as well. The bubble has to pop at some point. I just keep buying my lil 2oz per pay period and wow it adds up faster than u know. I love teaching others the hedge that silver has vs inflation. I show them a 1964 quarter dollar, 90% silver. In 1964, a gallon of gas was approx $0.25. So here we are 60yrs later and that same quarter dollar is now worth $5.70. About the price of a gallon of gas, infact silver out performs the dollar substantially. The reaction i get is priceless👍🏻Peace🇺🇸👈🏻MAGA

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      The gold jewelry is still very good stuff.

  • @paulbegley1464
    @paulbegley1464 2 місяці тому +1

    I'll be waiting for that new Gold Bug video. Sounds interesting

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +2

      I'll have videos coming on it soon.

  • @judeefitch5751
    @judeefitch5751 2 місяці тому

    I love to sit and pan. I go and classify dirt (with test pans). Then bring the dirt home to pan out. I typically only get an hour or two at the river.
    Did you hear about the Molly Kathleen mine? The 23 people that were trapped for a day. Couple were young kids. I'm sure they won't go into a mine again. If you haven't heard. Google the mine for October 10 2024.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      I've heard - its been on national news.

    • @judeefitch5751
      @judeefitch5751 2 місяці тому

      @@ChrisRalph I've seen a blimp on the news. I heard it from our gold prospecting Facebook group first. That's to be expected with the major storms that hit the last two weeks. I am wondering how the floods changed the gold areas in NC and TN. But that's the least important issues to worry about for a while for them.

  • @Smithsgold
    @Smithsgold 2 місяці тому +1

    Gold Fever !!!! It’s to hard of work for most people

    • @Smithsgold
      @Smithsgold 2 місяці тому +1

      I sure miss Dredging

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      I miss dredging too - it is nuts that it is not allowed.

  • @allansgoldmining
    @allansgoldmining 2 місяці тому

    Hi Chris. You really touched on something I've been observing as well. I don't know if it's the state of the economy that have people bogged down ? I think many folks are just trying to survive, and investing in gold equipment is last on their minds. Attendance at my club meetings appear less these days. 🤔 I appreciate your enthusiasm ! Sounds like you've had a good season detecting. Hope you find more before it's too cold. 👍
    BTW, those apples are looking ripe. Lol ! Best of luck. 🤠⚒️⛏️👍

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      Just not as many young guys getting into prospecting as there were years ago when I got into it. I have had a good season detecting and its not quite over! The apples are close but I have very few. I have 8 apple trees, but only one has a significant number of apples on it.

    • @allansgoldmining
      @allansgoldmining 2 місяці тому

      @@ChrisRalph Yes, that too ! Very few young people. Same goes for astronomy club as well. Seems like the young adults prefer their phones. I take our church youth group out to the claims twice a year. Many have never experienced it. Those who have can't wait to get out there again ! However, there's always one or two who will be playing with their phone rather than digging. Hopefully, next year you'll have a bumper crop ! My Gala ripens in mid August. I have a pear tree that's loaded with baseball size fruit every year. They ripen after the first frost. Great for winter storage.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      Went outside just after sunset with my son and granddaughter and looked at the comet. It was fun. My dad has a 20 inch Dobsonian telescope he made. Apples have a tendency to bear heavy every other year.

    • @allansgoldmining
      @allansgoldmining 2 місяці тому

      @@ChrisRalph Awesome. I'm sure you had a better view of the comet up there. Even though the light dome of Vegas and a 3/4 moon illuminated the sky, I could see with naked eye from my backyard. By this weekend we should get a better view, as the moon rises a couple hours later.

  • @greedygringoprospecting6941
    @greedygringoprospecting6941 2 місяці тому

    still to hot. was 90 yesterday suppose to be 87 today. to much for me. needs to cool down then go look for gold.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      It will be cooling down more soon.

  • @LivingBetterMealsWithFamily
    @LivingBetterMealsWithFamily 2 місяці тому

    My guess is that Costco making it easy to buy bullion is a big factor in gold going up in price.

  • @torchandhammer
    @torchandhammer 2 місяці тому +5

    $2,600 has the same buying power as $2,000 in 2015.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +3

      yes, inflation is bad.

    • @Kryptunite
      @Kryptunite 2 місяці тому

      Sell and save the money until trump fixes the economy mess..

    • @GoldenBoy-et6of
      @GoldenBoy-et6of 2 місяці тому

      Way worse $2000 in 2008 got you 4x what it gets you today

    • @GoldenBoy-et6of
      @GoldenBoy-et6of 2 місяці тому

      And if we're talking food prices it's way way way worse than that

    • @torchandhammer
      @torchandhammer 2 місяці тому

      @@GoldenBoy-et6of No, not really. $2000 in "08 had the same buying power as $2934 this year. Not even twice as much. Of course, nobody had $2000 in 2008 anyway because of the Bush depression.

  • @wimbelmans7245
    @wimbelmans7245 2 місяці тому

    very nice !!
    love your vids 😃

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      Thanks, glad to know that you have enjoyed them.

  • @waltertodd4479
    @waltertodd4479 2 місяці тому

    Regarding inflations affect on gold its all explained in Roy Jastrams book, "The Golden Constant", Chris, if you havent read it yet.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      Interesting, lots of folks have written on this.

  • @tommymasters9410
    @tommymasters9410 2 місяці тому

    i found a 10 oz nugget in that deposit i was telling you about
    you should seriuosly think about coming here and checking it out
    there's a lot of money to be made but i don't know enough to be the primary force behind establishing rights and land use stuff

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      Right now, my wife is ill and I'm not even getting out to prospect for myself - let alone visiting other folks.

    • @tommymasters9410
      @tommymasters9410 2 місяці тому

      @@ChrisRalph didnt meant to come visit me

  • @guywhoisaguy67676
    @guywhoisaguy67676 2 місяці тому

    Chris, I think that there is a quick turn off for people wanting to get involved with Gold. A lot of people find out that they wont get $2,600 for an ounce of their 14K or 18K chains and rings.
    Then all of the sudden it's not such a big deal to them. More needs to be pushed about the kind of Gold you talk about. Gold laying on the ground, or like Slim, Gold in the rocks. That kind of Gold can have a premium to it. I am excited about it but in Boston the Gold on the ground is only lost jewelry and in the rocks miles down.
    I have a bunch of scrap 14 and 18 Gold mixes and when I make a button, I'm probably going to want to keep it. But it's tempting now.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      To get a decent price, you have to have a decent amount of gold. One or two rings, sold to a "we buy gold" store is not going to do it. I did a whole video about selling gold and getting the best price - See: ua-cam.com/video/o8ANV7xYPFo/v-deo.html

  • @Timeparadox101
    @Timeparadox101 2 місяці тому +3

    what about if a replay of 1933 government gold siezure is issued whats everyones thoughts. thanks chris

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +3

      Back then, dollars were backed by gold. The government needed control of the gold. Nowadays its backed by nothing - so they don't need control of gold. And in spite of what some might say, we are not going back to a gold standard.

    • @Kryptunite
      @Kryptunite 2 місяці тому +2

      Id hide it. F them!

  • @blakiniknorguild142
    @blakiniknorguild142 2 місяці тому

    I would actually say Chinese Upper Middle Class Demand is likely the bigger drive upward than inflation. Not saying it isn't impacting the price (inflation), but if I was to bet from the discussions of my Chinese former classmates, the Chinese demand is the bigger factor.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      Governments essentially printing money has a bigger effect. Its how you can have inflation in a country that is spending crazy and not so much in a country that is not doing the same.

    • @blakiniknorguild142
      @blakiniknorguild142 2 місяці тому

      @@ChrisRalph Per my friends, its a currency conversion reason for China (asked after I commented to understand more ). China imposed a restriction on the amount you can convert to outside currencies. But gold is gold... so they can buy up unrestricted and then move that apparently to Euros or Dollars as they wish.
      Either way - just goes to show why gold is as important as it is.

  • @DoSomething-
    @DoSomething- 2 місяці тому

    Making max and cheese and bong rips

  • @travisjochimsen9863
    @travisjochimsen9863 2 місяці тому

    I have a scarn deposit...in socal ..if you want to check it out ..make a Video..maybe you will have good info .

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      Thanks, but I've got no plans to be heading down to So Cal. in the foreseeable future.

  • @jemsnowdon
    @jemsnowdon 2 місяці тому

    I’m looking at you,educating me GOLD!!!!! ❤

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed the video.

  • @briankerr4512
    @briankerr4512 2 місяці тому

    nothing like silver being forced down ... paper to silver ratio is now 407.78 to 1 ... talking about naked shorts

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      One of these days silver will have its day and pop back up.

  • @unpopuIaropinion
    @unpopuIaropinion 2 місяці тому

    The reality is that money is at a new low! You are not exactly making profit with gold, it simply holds the value of your wealth. Now if we say that everyone around you loses value of their wealth, in that sense you can say that you make a profit...

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      This is true only if you look at the really big picture over the long, long term. If you look at gold and the dollar over 50 or 100 years, then yes, this is true. But they don't both move together in the short term. Some years gold will go up a lot more than the dollar goes down. Other years the dollar goes down and gold doesn't do much. But over a lifetime of many years, then yes.

  • @blakiniknorguild142
    @blakiniknorguild142 2 місяці тому

    Sorry for multiple posts Chris. Curious on your take of Vivor gear or if you have an opinion? Its cheap, but is it basically what you pay for or is it a hidden gem?
    I know the stuff for lapidary leaves a lot to be desired, but how is the prospecting gear?

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      I've never seen the stuff in person, so I have no idea. The shiny smooth pans included in the set would need to be sanded before use.

  • @sonorangreenman4472
    @sonorangreenman4472 Місяць тому

    The gpz is my wish list, do you know the deph?
    Bruce tucson

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  Місяць тому

      This is not a simple question with a simple number answer. New guys with no experience ask it like the answer is going to be 7 or 9 or something like that. How deep will a metal detector can see is a complex question that depends on many factors like how big the target is, the size of the coil you are using, the mineralization of the soil, etc. To learn more, check out this video I did on the exact question of how deep your detector will go - ua-cam.com/video/SD3cSkeikto/v-deo.html

  • @whitesabre9974
    @whitesabre9974 2 місяці тому +2

    Inflation down? 😂😂😂😂
    The inflation index excludes so many things people have to purchase, like food.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +2

      Yes, they monkey with the numbers all the time.

  • @williamevans6522
    @williamevans6522 2 місяці тому

    There's Ag shenanigans, too.

  • @shineyrocks390
    @shineyrocks390 2 місяці тому

    So Chris if the price of gold increases does that also mean the paper money is inflating more? It seems like the more the dollar decreases the precious metals increases

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      Over a long period, gold and the dollar move in opposite directions. Over the short term they move independently - but over 50 years or more they have a better correlation.

    • @shineyrocks390
      @shineyrocks390 2 місяці тому

      @@ChrisRalph Thank you

  • @EnezReyiz
    @EnezReyiz 2 місяці тому

    Do you think silver will go up as well?

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      In the long run yes, but it has a long wy to go to set a new record.

    • @S13402
      @S13402 2 місяці тому

      @@ChrisRalphsome analyst says it will hit 500 dollars !! Is it possible?

  • @clarencetrice4442
    @clarencetrice4442 2 місяці тому +1

    😊😊 U are cleaning the creeks up and pulling the heavy minerals out of it and making it better like lead and iron / just like everything else U are 2 late 😮😮 because it happened many years be 4 U was ever here I haven't seen where U can go back in time ⌚ 😮 OMG 1O 12 2O24

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +3

      I'm digging gold on a hill side, not a creek.

  • @SandhillCrane42
    @SandhillCrane42 2 місяці тому

    Don't tell people about this. If they don't know-then good.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      Disagree - more people should know this, get off the couch and get out there.

  • @GramCanyonSam
    @GramCanyonSam 2 місяці тому

    4 years ago had a dream about "book flip phones " and gold going beyond imagination. The tech has made the market it hasn't fully formed to phone pages but I'm trying to figure out a way to get myself ahead 🎉 besides out here gathering actual $ in the ground.

  • @devarskinnee8760
    @devarskinnee8760 2 місяці тому +1

    Is there gold in sandstone that's real irony,rusty looking sandstone?I'm in the mothetlode eldorado ca. Town of,so they found gold around here but in this irony rusty looking stuff?

    • @alanmcnew5376
      @alanmcnew5376 2 місяці тому +1

      It like to hang out in quartz veins. You might find gold in sandstone. It was once sand most likely from a river or lake or shoreline millions of years ago before it was sandstone but it’s not the best place to find gold.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +2

      Really hard to say from your description. almost impossible to say from a picture, even harder to say from a verbal description.

    • @devarskinnee8760
      @devarskinnee8760 2 місяці тому +1

      @@ChrisRalph quartz,iron looks and smell undisturbed close to blue lead eldorado so much mining history here and evidence there of.chris it's strange material ground quartz red dark in colors sandstone of some type.ill keep digging and let ya know.i douse it with rods says about two feet deep.i got some more digging to do thanks chris.great channel!!!!

  • @briankerr4512
    @briankerr4512 2 місяці тому

    1/2 half of 1% of the population has any gold or silver.

  • @thesovereignvan
    @thesovereignvan 2 місяці тому

    Isn’t gold just money?

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      In a sense it is money and can be turned into the common money of the US. But very, very few businesses would take raw gold nuggets in exchange for goods and services.

    • @thesovereignvan
      @thesovereignvan 2 місяці тому

      @@ChrisRalph I thought that it’s the mint’s job to stamp coinage

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      Its been more than 90 years since the mint stamped gold into currency. The last legitimate gold coins for made for currency were in 1932. A century ago, the mint used to accept gold and silver from the public to make into currency, but not now.

  • @eugen-m
    @eugen-m 2 місяці тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @uwillnevahno6837
    @uwillnevahno6837 2 місяці тому

    Who are "they"? Every time someone pans a gram of Gold, sluices an ounce or mines a ton of it the supply increases. We've been accumulating Gold on an industrial scale for what ~140 years?

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +4

      Good question - "They" are a group of investment bankers and wall street types who profit by jerking gold up and down and controlling the the price.

  • @cutpaperpaste
    @cutpaperpaste 2 місяці тому

    Can I have a pinch

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      Sure! go out and find some!

  • @blindluck3643
    @blindluck3643 2 місяці тому

    Making $20, 30, 40 and even $100, won't cover the cost & expenses of traveling.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      Maybe - depending on your expenses of traveling. However I've found more than $4,000 this summer and that has far more than paid my expenses.

    • @waltertodd4479
      @waltertodd4479 2 місяці тому

      Youre right Chris. Lots and lots of gold...​@@ChrisRalph

  • @Truth_Teller_101
    @Truth_Teller_101 2 місяці тому +1

    This video feels a little click-baity. I hope you're not turning into another Jeff Williams-->"Gold nuggets the size of BOWLING BALLS! It's EVERYWHERE!!! It's even in my BACKYARD! All you have to do is SMASH that like button!!!!!"
    Gold is hard to find, and finding it is hard work. That's why it's so expensive. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      I never said it was easy - you are reading that into the video. Too many guys go the other way and tell themselves that it is so difficult its almost impossible - so they just sit on the couch and do nothing. .

    • @Truth_Teller_101
      @Truth_Teller_101 2 місяці тому +1

      @@ChrisRalph It might be beneficial to explain to your viewers how many hours you put in prospecting before you found that $1,000 nugget. One thing I've appreciated about your channel is your pragmatism.

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +1

      I had a big feature in one of my recent videos where I dug a deep nail underneath a root that I had to saw out. And I did that before I got my $750 nugget. I also featured a photo of all the trash I dug in a recent days of prospecting - 45 pieces of trash, 2 three nuggets. Its out there for those who know what they are doing and work for it - but its never easy.

    • @waltertodd4479
      @waltertodd4479 2 місяці тому

      ​@@Truth_Teller_101over the years, ive spoken to many prospecting and metal detecting clubs. Often i ask club members about what they find. Usually its around 2-3% of the club members that find 90% of the gold. These are the ones you want to follow folks.

  • @Mike-METALS
    @Mike-METALS 2 місяці тому

    Are familiar with the gold they founded in the kirkland lake area in ontario canada you should check it out you will find it interesting 😉 what happend to your face ?

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      Nothing happened. In some of the video there is dappled sunlight on me.

  • @SparksGFX
    @SparksGFX 2 місяці тому +7

    Why be excited about gold at $2700, im more excited about silver at $30

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому +5

      because I have pounds of gold I have found and am getting more every year.

    • @johnny-james
      @johnny-james 2 місяці тому +2

      @@ChrisRalph That's a awesome statement

  • @Kryptunite
    @Kryptunite 2 місяці тому +1

    Good let em stay at home! Thats my gold

    • @ChrisRalph
      @ChrisRalph  2 місяці тому

      Are going out and getting your share?