Sir, thank you very much for sharing this video I've been searching and watching countless videos on things you have included and talked about in your video over and over again and the way you honestly broke each thing down and talked about it helped me to make notes on what exactly I'm trying to do/figure out where I'm located, again thank you very much for sharing this and keep up the great job, Take Care & Good Luck on any adventures or explorations you may encounter.
Just happened to find some nice "brown ore" limonite up in Person Co., would've never recognized it if I hadn't played down in Randolph Co....and read the 3 NC geology bulletins, 86, 10 and one other one I forget. Great video, and great point on rock outcropping. There are still stupid huge amounts of low grade widely disseminated gold ore in the piedmont. Randolph Co. would probably strip out better than S. Africa on g/ton/acre basis.
Very interesting, thank you! I'm fortunate to have a place in the triangle of NC as well as just over the border in VA, all within your map zones. Looks like I'll be doing some exploring after doing some more research!
Glad you enjoyed it! If you go to my website theprospectinggeologist.com and into the documents section for NC there are a bunch of geologic reports and mine reports for NC.
Matt, this is so interesting and another great video. We have some land East and West of Charlotte, NC. 3 weeks ago I dug a hole about 20' deep to look at the layers. Could I send you some pictures and location for your expert advice? Thanks for all the info.
Not sure what you mean by the thermal event. As far as broadcast then concentrated, yes there are plenty of low grade wide area hard rock deposits where the gold is then eroded out of thousands if not millions of years and mechanically concentrated nearby by water.
Funny because the green belt shale and slate is all bedrock and f false bedrock. But when you find gold when you find gold at the foot of a hill wouldn't you think that the pastry or the line of enrichment would follow up the hill up the creek and up the mountain especially if it was a mountain that had been worn down over millions of years to the bedrock?
I know maps have legends and I’m a total newbie at learning geology, could you shoot me a link to one of your videos showing fault, folds , and other formations on a geological map so I can catch up
thank you, this us interesting, even for me in Europe. I was wondering: where do glaciers leave the gold they ground out of the rock? glaciers leave very well sorted sand deposits for instance, I‘d be interested in your opinion on this. Cheerio!
Europe is the other side of a number of the orogenies that built the Appalachian mtns so your geology is similar. But more similar to the NE US. Glaciers tend to destroy all types of gold deposits and mainly scatter it everywhere. The places that reconcentrate that scattered material are the best to look, so kames, eskers, outwash etc basically any of the stratified deposits left by the glaciers or after they receded.
Based on your maps and diagrams, where exactly would I dig for the gold? Video sounds more like a college economic geology lecture than it does a prospecting video. I agree it is important to have a geologic model in mind for narrowing your focus on a regional basis, what about prospecting specifics? For instance, do all quartz veins contain gold? Are all intrusions worth investigating the contacts? You suggest panning near existing mines and tracing gold back to the mine. Hasn't this already been done? As a prospector, I don't have access to a drill rig for brownfield exploration to increase my success rate. I'm a low-budget kind of guy. Any suggestions?
It all comes down to researching the historic mines in your area and their related geology. The vast majority of quartz veins contain little to no gold. I’d say less then 1% contain an appreciable amount of gold. As for intrusions in brand new areas they are worth checking out. In a mining district that has a good history that history should be able to tell you if they are worth checking or not. Also depends on the type of intrusion in many cases. Such as mafic intrusions vs felsic. Depends on the bedrock they interact with and so on. There is never a one size fits all for any of it. If you want to find gold the best place to go is where it’s been found hence in and around old mines. It’s still where I find my best gold. None of this was in any way saying a prospector needed a drill rig or anything like that. Just lots of research and boots on the ground panning and checking things out and documenting and recording your findings. Hope this helps.
@theprospectinggeologist4347 it very much does. Thank you... I've noticed over the years that it is the attention to fine details in the field that yield bigger payouts. Also, I seem to have made my greatest gain in prospecting success by thinking outside of the box. Bonehead details such as color of rock, mineralogy, and rock chemistry help...
Is gold distributed evenly in the mantle? Or can blobs of gold be in the covection process? Im just wondering how such big nuggets could be found but so few of them aswell. Maybe the Native Americans found the majority of huge gold.
A professor of geology in Colorado prospector Jess once said that a man could spend his entire life documenting the ways that gold is distributed throughout nature. And then at the end of his career before retiring he could pass his works on to the next generation of geologists and they could continue where he left off for their entire career and that is simply documenting the ways that gold is distributed through nature to our knowledge already not to mention the breakthroughs in science and discoveries being made every day worldwide. So yes while gold in loads or pockets or Bonanza style deposits are rare they do coexist with everything from glacial 1000 micron flower gunflour gold 2 placer mines. The key in searching for gold to my understanding is not to seek gold itself but to look for the multitude of indicators that would tell you that this area would be a good area to test sample and possibly prospect
Conrad Reed was the son, not the father. The Piedmont is composed of multiple volcanic arcs that were accreted to Laurentia. They are mostly Precambrian. There are few true exhalative gold deposits in the Piedmont. Lateral secretion is a dead theory. The Eastern Slate Belt is now called the Spring Hope terrane. It is faulted off and does not extend into VA. The Portis is centered on aplite dikes and sills and is an igneous system and not exhalative. Haile and Ridgeway are mesozonal orogenic gold deposits associated with felsic magmatism ca. 550 Ma. The Brewer is an epithermal F-rich Au-Cu breccia deposit formed in the lithocap above a porphyry deposit. This is almost all utter rubbish. You clearly have no geologic training and have done no research whatsoever. This is a disgrace.
I have collected more than 3 tons of gold ore off the ground in my town. And no one believes me. I have everything I need to process and refine. I just don't have a way to crush. Anyone know where I can find a jaw crusher or hammer mill to rent or borrow. I'm near Summerfield, NC.
Sir, thank you very much for sharing this video I've been searching and watching countless videos on things you have included and talked about in your video over and over again and the way you honestly broke each thing down and talked about it helped me to make notes on what exactly I'm trying to do/figure out where I'm located, again thank you very much for sharing this and keep up the great job, Take Care & Good Luck on any adventures or explorations you may encounter.
Just happened to find some nice "brown ore" limonite up in Person Co., would've never recognized it if I hadn't played down in Randolph Co....and read the 3 NC geology bulletins, 86, 10 and one other one I forget. Great video, and great point on rock outcropping. There are still stupid huge amounts of low grade widely disseminated gold ore in the piedmont. Randolph Co. would probably strip out better than S. Africa on g/ton/acre basis.
Awsome, Thomasville NC here. Been all around my area. Davidson, Randolph, Montgomery counties. Great info. Thanks.
Thanks for the video! I live in Eastern Tennessee and have panned gold from all of the States in the region.
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Thanks for watching! I know Indonesia has lots of gold, heavy pans out there!
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Very interesting, thank you! I'm fortunate to have a place in the triangle of NC as well as just over the border in VA, all within your map zones. Looks like I'll be doing some exploring after doing some more research!
Glad you enjoyed it! If you go to my website theprospectinggeologist.com and into the documents section for NC there are a bunch of geologic reports and mine reports for NC.
Matt, this is so interesting and another great video. We have some land East and West of Charlotte, NC. 3 weeks ago I dug a hole about 20' deep to look at the layers. Could I send you some pictures and location for your expert advice? Thanks for all the info.
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Really interested in the "Thermal Event" thing; I have found areas where fine gold seems to "Broadcast", Then concentrated by erosion🧐⁉️👍
Not sure what you mean by the thermal event. As far as broadcast then concentrated, yes there are plenty of low grade wide area hard rock deposits where the gold is then eroded out of thousands if not millions of years and mechanically concentrated nearby by water.
Funny because the green belt shale and slate is all bedrock and f false bedrock. But when you find gold when you find gold at the foot of a hill wouldn't you think that the pastry or the line of enrichment would follow up the hill up the creek and up the mountain especially if it was a mountain that had been worn down over millions of years to the bedrock?
I live two counties under the Alabama gold belt. Do you think it'd be worth panning for gold in my area?
Definitely a YES! There are some documents for the Alabama gold belts that you might like.
FYI: The exhibits are too small to see and follow the narrative.Also the sound needs to be a little louder and the highs need to be filtered.
I know maps have legends and I’m a total newbie at learning geology, could you shoot me a link to one of your videos showing fault, folds , and other formations on a geological map so I can catch up
thank you, this us interesting, even for me in Europe.
I was wondering: where do glaciers leave the gold they ground out of the rock?
glaciers leave very well sorted sand deposits for instance, I‘d be
interested in your opinion on this. Cheerio!
Europe is the other side of a number of the orogenies that built the Appalachian mtns so your geology is similar. But more similar to the NE US.
Glaciers tend to destroy all types of gold deposits and mainly scatter it everywhere. The places that reconcentrate that scattered material are the best to look, so kames, eskers, outwash etc basically any of the stratified deposits left by the glaciers or after they receded.
'Piedmont' literally translated from French means 'foothill'.
Based on your maps and diagrams, where exactly would I dig for the gold? Video sounds more like a college economic geology lecture than it does a prospecting video. I agree it is important to have a geologic model in mind for narrowing your focus on a regional basis, what about prospecting specifics? For instance, do all quartz veins contain gold? Are all intrusions worth investigating the contacts? You suggest panning near existing mines and tracing gold back to the mine. Hasn't this already been done? As a prospector, I don't have access to a drill rig for brownfield exploration to increase my success rate. I'm a low-budget kind of guy. Any suggestions?
It all comes down to researching the historic mines in your area and their related geology. The vast majority of quartz veins contain little to no gold. I’d say less then 1% contain an appreciable amount of gold.
As for intrusions in brand new areas they are worth checking out. In a mining district that has a good history that history should be able to tell you if they are worth checking or not. Also depends on the type of intrusion in many cases. Such as mafic intrusions vs felsic. Depends on the bedrock they interact with and so on. There is never a one size fits all for any of it.
If you want to find gold the best place to go is where it’s been found hence in and around old mines. It’s still where I find my best gold.
None of this was in any way saying a prospector needed a drill rig or anything like that. Just lots of research and boots on the ground panning and checking things out and documenting and recording your findings. Hope this helps.
@theprospectinggeologist4347 it very much does. Thank you... I've noticed over the years that it is the attention to fine details in the field that yield bigger payouts. Also, I seem to have made my greatest gain in prospecting success by thinking outside of the box. Bonehead details such as color of rock, mineralogy, and rock chemistry help...
Just looking at the purple zone in Georgia, does that follow the fault line that goes through Brevard?
I’d have to double check but I believe the southeastern side does.
If u want to prospect Virginia, I can tell you where to go
I mainly prospect in VA. And have many good spots. But I’m always open to hearing about others.
Is gold distributed evenly in the mantle? Or can blobs of gold be in the covection process? Im just wondering how such big nuggets could be found but so few of them aswell. Maybe the Native Americans found the majority of huge gold.
A professor of geology in Colorado prospector Jess once said that a man could spend his entire life documenting the ways that gold is distributed throughout nature. And then at the end of his career before retiring he could pass his works on to the next generation of geologists and they could continue where he left off for their entire career and that is simply documenting the ways that gold is distributed through nature to our knowledge already not to mention the breakthroughs in science and discoveries being made every day worldwide. So yes while gold in loads or pockets or Bonanza style deposits are rare they do coexist with everything from glacial 1000 micron flower gunflour gold 2 placer mines. The key in searching for gold to my understanding is not to seek gold itself but to look for the multitude of indicators that would tell you that this area would be a good area to test sample and possibly prospect
Conrad Reed was the son, not the father. The Piedmont is composed of multiple volcanic arcs that were accreted to Laurentia. They are mostly Precambrian. There are few true exhalative gold deposits in the Piedmont. Lateral secretion is a dead theory. The Eastern Slate Belt is now called the Spring Hope terrane. It is faulted off and does not extend into VA. The Portis is centered on aplite dikes and sills and is an igneous system and not exhalative. Haile and Ridgeway are mesozonal orogenic gold deposits associated with felsic magmatism ca. 550 Ma. The Brewer is an epithermal F-rich Au-Cu breccia deposit formed in the lithocap above a porphyry deposit. This is almost all utter rubbish. You clearly have no geologic training and have done no research whatsoever. This is a disgrace.
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I have collected more than 3 tons of gold ore off the ground in my town. And no one believes me. I have everything I need to process and refine. I just don't have a way to crush. Anyone know where I can find a jaw crusher or hammer mill to rent or borrow. I'm near Summerfield, NC.