How To Find Gold in Creeks Every Time

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  • @stephenweihrauch5252
    @stephenweihrauch5252 Рік тому +21

    The one thing people don't tell you is how physically exhausting this is. It's worth it to see a couple of specks and know you are on it. Great video, learned a ton and loved the entertainment.

    • @mrkus-nc7od
      @mrkus-nc7od 9 місяців тому +4

      I was screening with 1/8 classifier and Panning with the super sluice Pan 😊 I not only got a 0.20 gr but a workout in a beauty place for free , found a skinny frog friend watching me 🤔 I gave him a worm 🐛 and he just sat there watching me from his perch on the bank ,eye level with me being in the Water in hip waiter's 😅

    • @gregwein1
      @gregwein1 4 місяці тому +1

      This is SUCH a great video! Terrain analysis, and for once, you actually get to see how to test an area. No fake “well we dug here is this one spot, and look at all the stuff we pulled out!” This is the most realistic video I have EVER seen of the whole process. Too bad you didn’t have a big snuffer vacuum tube, or a classifier, or higher boots, or a head net for bugs… But dang - it’s a great video! 😅❤

    • @aarono3548
      @aarono3548 Місяць тому +1

      I love the workout though

  • @davekeller1939
    @davekeller1939 Рік тому +15

    It's easy to read the basics, inside bend, gravel deposits, cracks...
    Those details about how the sediment settles out, velocity, organic materials.
    AWESOME INFO !

  • @mattboyd8090
    @mattboyd8090 Рік тому +27

    Good video, Chris. I've been prospecting for about 7 years now. I quite enjoy when you give in-depth explanations about how you read the creek. I recently found a similar spot myself, 12 test pans for a .1 and 1 hour high banking for 1 gram. Cheers🤙

  • @Steve_59
    @Steve_59 Рік тому +18

    Love the format Chris. I so enjoy how you depart your knowledge. You make it so easy to understand.
    Great to see Sweatpants along for the ride, you two are my favourite UA-camrs in the gold space.
    Give us more Fern Cam tm :)
    Cheers.

  • @chuckgray6374
    @chuckgray6374 Рік тому +10

    Your last three videos have been the best and most informative you’ve ever done. Always a pleasure to see your content. Thanks!!!

  • @KenzosGoldProspecting
    @KenzosGoldProspecting Рік тому +17

    Great POV again Chris. 😎
    Suggestion:
    What may help is to bring your GoPro view up on your phone and check it occasionally. Will help with alignment.
    Chest mount may also be an option.
    Brilliant stuff!

  • @benjy-adams
    @benjy-adams Рік тому +2

    "The Creek is Amazing" - couldn't help but think of a "Bluey" reference.....another amazing aussie export that together with you Chris have helped me through some tough times....

  • @LanaLaughsRealLoud
    @LanaLaughsRealLoud Рік тому +10

    I always learn something new everytime I watch one of your new videos, even when at first they seem to be redundant. But thank you Chris, for the entertainment and education, while you and, at least half the time, Gadzee, sweat and work shoveling muck, rocks and mud while doing it. ThankQ brother. ❤😊👏🏻

  • @TisButAScratch666
    @TisButAScratch666 Рік тому +3

    As an Aussie expat in the UK I live my gold prospecting and Aussie bush dreams vicariously through your videos. Thanks Chris

  • @kevincampbell9212
    @kevincampbell9212 Рік тому +3

    Hey Chris, I just listened to your video explaining what you do, and what it takes.
    I really appreciate your channel, humor and knowledge, and I don't even prospect here in Washington State, US... LOL.
    I enjoy YOU and your buddies getting out there and sharing your adventures. I think you do a great job. So F*#k the haters... well, no, don't... that's weird... 😆.
    BUT!
    Please continue your work. Roll in whatever you feel the need and keep trucking on.
    I'm an old dude at 68 lol, and I'm watching almost every one of your vids...I may have missed a few early on ones, but yeah.
    Never forget most of us enjoy you and the gang getting out there doing WHATEVER YOU F*ING WANT!
    Sorry, I understand some people just suck.
    Breathe, and again...
    Keep going.
    Kevin AKA Kevman

  • @mininhawaiian2911
    @mininhawaiian2911 Рік тому +6

    Great hydrology, Chris
    I love the way you try to explore and figure out the forces of the creek
    Hydrodynamic deposition is the name of the game
    One thing I would like to put notice to is how sand and gravel will be laid out as the floodwaters recede …
    We as Prospector’s usually like to look at the bed, rock and surrounding gravel, and imagine a flood 20 to 30 feet high, depositing them in their place …
    One thing we need to pay attention to also is how as the flood recedes those waters will cover, heavier gravel’s, and move lighter gravel‘s and sands around, placing them in places that are difficult to understand why they are there
    Only thing I could think of you may possibly be missing in your explanation probably just because you’re so used to already considering it in the process
    Love your prospecting explanations and I watch every day

  • @weekendwarriorprospecting817
    @weekendwarriorprospecting817 Рік тому +2

    Glad to be back with Australia's no.1 son, UA-cams greatest prospector, and Ferns favourite human ❤

  • @michaelkish3289
    @michaelkish3289 Рік тому +2

    I just subscribed to your channel and I have learned a lot about how to identify gold in its raw form. Thank you for your help and hard work. I live in Washington State and their are old abandoned mines and so on. Again thank you.

    • @insolentstickleback3266
      @insolentstickleback3266 Рік тому +1

      Chris has built a truly great channel over the last 7 years, best regards from near Salem Oregon.

  • @DadofScience
    @DadofScience Рік тому +9

    Chris, perhaps it would be interesting to try and take a cross-section (trench) across a channel and keep each concentrate, then lay them out so you can show the distribution of minerals right across the flow regime? While not likely to yield much physical gold, that's educational gold for sure.

  • @RalphlConant-he4ht
    @RalphlConant-he4ht 10 місяців тому +1

    I can't believe how much good information you give keep up the good work mister I really appreciate what you're telling people

  • @evanvavoulas4011
    @evanvavoulas4011 Рік тому +1

    25:48 I know where the gold is lol, it’s in the dirt. That’s funny in my mind because I’m old lol awesome video Chris

  • @piratescrew1869
    @piratescrew1869 Рік тому +6

    You’re a talented man being able to be that entertaining for a hour + straight session and stay on topic! Great 1p video. I couldn’t look away 👍👍

  • @charlesstein2880
    @charlesstein2880 Рік тому +2

    Where you are panning is a lot like the creeks on my farm, so these videos help me out much better than others!

  • @TheCoffeeBushKid
    @TheCoffeeBushKid Рік тому +1

    Good video Chris. Heaps of info. It is important to stress that it isn’t all beer and skittles. The victory’s we have are usually hard fought for. Great show 😁👍👍

  • @amelialaw9586
    @amelialaw9586 Рік тому +5

    great job bud love your vids keep it up man I'm just getting into it here in New Zealand I've seen all your vids and would love to get to the spots you went to when you came here.

  • @steven_ewen
    @steven_ewen Рік тому +5

    Thanks for sharing your adventures Chris. Cheers

  • @DadofScience
    @DadofScience Рік тому +1

    This is a great format, mate. Also good background chat while working without watching the whole thing. Good stuff.

  • @mary-ruthflores4107
    @mary-ruthflores4107 Рік тому +3

    Keep up the good info, I learn something new every time!

  • @Richard98973
    @Richard98973 Рік тому +2

    Thank you Chris for the valuable information on how and where to find gold. I have a green shovel just like yours

  • @blaen67
    @blaen67 Рік тому +7

    Love these POV videos Chris, wish I had more free time to get out there and put this new found knowledge into practice. Keep up the great work! I live my prospecting life vicariously through your videos 😁
    PS for another POV idea, how about using the rocker box?

  • @TalRohan
    @TalRohan Рік тому +2

    that big piece of tin looked like Sphalerite to me, gotto be pretty big if you can identify it by sight...Great video really enjoying these new ideas of yours
    Keep em coming
    Thanks for sharing

  • @charlsyshikingadventures1278
    @charlsyshikingadventures1278 Рік тому +3

    Hey Chris, loving these new style videos with the continuous commentary. Learning heaps more in these unedited versions. Looking forward to seeing the other stuff your working on with this format too. 👍

  • @Working925detecting
    @Working925detecting Рік тому +2

    Gotta say this is one of the most informative and enjoyable videos I've watched. To actually watch you look for a deposit in real time and go through the process with you had me glued to the screen in anticipation, cheers mate 👍

  • @rockydavies9555
    @rockydavies9555 Рік тому +4

    Love the Video's Chris as for boring its not i always learn something or remember something that i forgot and then there is the new viewers that are just learning so I think your video's are not only a great way to learn but i think it is very important to have these video's because there is always new people wanting to learn and it helps keep the art of prospecting alive so good on you and i will keep watching.

  • @LisaHayes-yj4tp
    @LisaHayes-yj4tp Рік тому +3

    Great video Chris. Really enjoying the 1st person POV as it helps learning the information you give to the specific time and place in the creek. Also like that it’s prospecting and shows how it can be hit and miss. It’s the honest hard work and perseverance that comes through on your videos that makes them so enjoyable.

  • @lisawhite9371
    @lisawhite9371 Рік тому

    Don't let anyone's stupid comments get you down. Your shows are great! Don't stop. Love from Oregon USA

  • @Cardinexile67
    @Cardinexile67 Рік тому +1

    Great video showing how to narrow the pay streak down.! A nice change from crevices, inside bends and undercuts.

  • @mocaman99
    @mocaman99 Рік тому +2

    Thanks for the vid Chris. The first person perspective and longer vids with explanations of how you go about it are great :)

  • @garrettmillsap
    @garrettmillsap Рік тому +4

    Excellent information as always! Thank you for taking the time and putting in all the effort to make these videos Chris, its much appreciated!

  • @harryisherwood3653
    @harryisherwood3653 Рік тому +2

    Another great video Chris. Thanks for keeping us in the know.

  • @GhostVX_2002
    @GhostVX_2002 Рік тому +4

    Loving these videos Chris. It’s great to learn how to prospect and pan in river areas. Though I do have some newbie questions when it comes to panning or learning how to read waterways and creeks when they’re completely dry when living in an arid area

  • @rodneymiddleton1044
    @rodneymiddleton1044 Рік тому +1

    Very in depth though interesting in the different spots and outcomes of spec count bonus Tourmaline cheers Chris.

  • @SasquatchBioacoustic
    @SasquatchBioacoustic Рік тому +2

    Great video Chris. Watched it all the way to the end. Frankly, I love your video style. You're serious about what you do, and who you are. I respect that.

  • @adamsrcsandadventure700
    @adamsrcsandadventure700 Рік тому +3

    Cool vid Chris thanks for taking us with you 👍 always watch your content no matter what. peace your vids got me into prospecting 4 years ago now

  • @tammybrazeau1213
    @tammybrazeau1213 Рік тому +4

    Love this perspective....your a great teacher...would love to see you do one of these types with dry panning. Might be interesting.
    Oh, btw don't listen to the haters out there.
    Keep on keeping on

  • @cindydifatta9012
    @cindydifatta9012 Рік тому +3

    Loved this video Chris. Love that it was informative and interesting . I watched Gadzee's as well. Good job! ❤👍🙂

  • @samshapiro9033
    @samshapiro9033 Рік тому

    REALLY like the format of this video, Chris. As others have said, hearing you say what we all think to ourselves and question as we prospect is super helpful. Plus, watching your process as your prospect an area, showing lots of pans and not just the good ones, was really helpful. Great learnings in here, as always!

  • @stevenpackman4570
    @stevenpackman4570 Рік тому +1

    I really enjoy all your video's , thanks for this one especially, sharing knowledge is Golden dude, top man ! 👏👏💯

  • @RSmerlinRS
    @RSmerlinRS Рік тому +2

    hey Chris! Love the videos, just started watching.. I see you've done this for 7 yrs, what are a few must-watch videos from back in your early days?
    Saw your video today on Spud engineering. Keep going as much as you want to, man.

    • @RICDirector
      @RICDirector Рік тому +1

      Must watch? All of em. Really.

  • @Aaron_Hanson
    @Aaron_Hanson Рік тому

    Absolutely loving the newest format Chris. Real time, reduced editing time allowing you AND your audience to appreciate more of you and the priceless quality of education you provide.
    I 1000% think you’re onto a winner strategy here mate!
    Keep them coming, cheers 🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺

  • @traviscooper6947
    @traviscooper6947 Рік тому +1

    I so liked watching this video. I’ve watched you for years now. But this was so informative. Loved it

  • @glenhehir3833
    @glenhehir3833 Рік тому +1

    Loved this video Chris. Thanks mate.

  • @leighanncronin6905
    @leighanncronin6905 Рік тому +3

    LOVE the POV prospecting! Good or bad pans, doesn't matter. You are blessed to be able to take your best friends and furbaby, get out of the house, and go to some of the most insanely beautiful spots! I have never panned for gold, (Florida🙄😂) but it's on my bucket list! If you ever come to Florida, US, I'll show you how to find jewelery, lighters, pull tabs, at the beach...Nah, never mind, you win!😉😅

  • @loc81
    @loc81 Рік тому

    Great video Chris- I’m in town a few times each year and when we get time to pan Reedy we only get a few specks. We still enjoy it! But good to see you get plenty of dud spots and showing the time involved.

  • @yukigatlin9358
    @yukigatlin9358 Рік тому

    I love the way you try out your self-educated guess right into a practice, and not giving up prospecting!😃✨💗

  • @stephenpublicover8818
    @stephenpublicover8818 Рік тому +1

    Hey Chris, I was always told, that Gold rides an iron horse, so there gold rides a tin horse! LOL Great video!👍✌

  • @RalphlConant-he4ht
    @RalphlConant-he4ht 10 місяців тому +1

    That brand new green shovel doesn't look so new anymore looks like it's well-used

  • @alancameron6865
    @alancameron6865 Рік тому

    Very enjoyable Chris, I really was hooked by your search for the gold there. Got to say I smirked when your gumboot filled with water lol. Your videos help keep me sane so keep them coming. I'm not able to go searching for gold myself (not great at walking), but I do enjoy watching your excitement when you go hunting for it. All the best.

  • @asjamuir5534
    @asjamuir5534 Рік тому +1

    Awesome video really loving the pov content where you are digging are u noting the way the silt water clears as an I dictator of the water velocity which could point out a high to low flow transfer

  • @OpenSpaceWellness
    @OpenSpaceWellness Рік тому +2

    Darn that dirt always getting in the way of the gold.
    Great video
    Thanks for sharing
    🙏❤️🌲

  • @suellendunlop2029
    @suellendunlop2029 Рік тому

    Just letting you know that I’m really enjoying these point of view videos with you just saying what you feel. Very informative.

  • @1erinjames
    @1erinjames Рік тому +1

    I learn so many important lil details from you. Thank you!!

  • @epicname1549
    @epicname1549 Рік тому

    This was probably my favorite of all of your videos.

  • @reconnaissance7372
    @reconnaissance7372 Рік тому +2

    Slaty Creek in Creswick is dropping fast too Chris. It almost looks like it's atleast 4-5 foot lower and dropping like an inch a day. I'm rather noob at prospecting but I like how all these spots are opening up.

  • @MadMarlin1964
    @MadMarlin1964 Рік тому +3

    Another great episode!

  • @danhammon2521
    @danhammon2521 Рік тому

    Great video! I’m always bummed out when the videos are short.. informative 👍👍

  • @markopittman2833
    @markopittman2833 Рік тому

    im going to use your advise on my local creek, water is down for winter here in northern cal. going to check this build up of rocks in the middle front and back. thanks chris

  • @b-mal8558
    @b-mal8558 Рік тому

    I’m not a prospector by any means, I don’t own a gold pan or anything, but I watch Chris on UA-cam more than any other channel. Lol. I always appreciate the educational videos, keep it up bro!

  • @andrewgivens5070
    @andrewgivens5070 Рік тому +1

    Great video man! Have you done a first person of sluicing or high banking.

  • @bandanabanana3162
    @bandanabanana3162 Рік тому

    Thanks for this video and information Chris! It was probably the best prospecting videos I have seen yet!

  • @gregcollis9688
    @gregcollis9688 7 місяців тому

    Back for a second time just for the refresh. Dan hurd and vogus best teachers in the game.😊

  • @albyschannel
    @albyschannel Рік тому

    Keep the fpv coming and the teaching up liking it heaps

  • @Sunny_Bonez
    @Sunny_Bonez Рік тому +2

    Hope to run into you at reedy creak one day mate and shake your hand (if my anxiety will allow it hehe) really taught me alot mate love your work :)

  • @timothyjerry1177
    @timothyjerry1177 5 місяців тому

    I’m about to get set up for prospecting. Thanks for the awesome info 👍🏼

  • @oldmanterraform7900
    @oldmanterraform7900 Рік тому +1

    Hi Chris,really enjoy your videos,thanks.Comment on El Niño recent wet weather over past year.My understanding is the Toga Volcano explosion erupted many many litres of water into stratosphere which has led to floods in Australia,end comment cheers

  • @vovobillinbrazil
    @vovobillinbrazil 6 місяців тому

    Good stuff Chris. You, Dan Hurd up in Alaska and the character Jeff Williams in Arizona (I think) are really the educators on this subject. Thanks much. Fun to watch, more fun to use the education in the field with my grandsons.

  • @Phils-kv1ok
    @Phils-kv1ok Рік тому

    I really enjoy watching your videos I learn more every time keep up the great work and I love the realistic truth in what you do

  • @trevdyer173
    @trevdyer173 Рік тому +3

    It's not until Chis looks down whilst standing up do you remember how tall he is

  • @croatiansensation6062
    @croatiansensation6062 Рік тому

    Another very educational and fun video. Thank you Chris!

  • @sweenie58
    @sweenie58 Рік тому +1

    I love you vids! Years ago on a video a woman dug up the grass on the sides of a creek in Colorado. Amoung other things fine roots grabbed gold on that stream. I still remember how she said some people would throw the grass in with rocks in a cement mixer and let it beat the gold out. Crazy or what?

    • @RICDirector
      @RICDirector Рік тому

      If it works...not crazy, as long as you arent tearing up the world to do it....

  • @toddrodgers5108
    @toddrodgers5108 Рік тому +1

    Good video sir. Blessings

  • @richardnicklin5849
    @richardnicklin5849 Рік тому +2

    That was excellent mate, thanks

  • @michaelrobinson8915
    @michaelrobinson8915 9 місяців тому +1

    Chris, put the pan under water in shallow water. Instead of floating it. You can load the pan as it sits on the bottom to load it...blessings...m🎉

  • @jeremyk_541
    @jeremyk_541 Рік тому

    A 50-minute video! Merry Christmas, you legend 😂

  • @th8298
    @th8298 Рік тому +1

    You are awesome. Thank you for explaining how you pan. Because I am the worst at panning. Where I'm from the Columbia River has TONS of black sand and it's almost impossible to get it all out of your pan and blue bowl...plus very little gold ... I wish I had your problem. Also... I would check under or around the stuff growing next to you. But I'm not the expert.

  • @shineyrocks390
    @shineyrocks390 Рік тому +2

    Only $60 per poo for a busted knuckle shovel dogger using a bidet pan 😂
    Love ya Chris and I'm enjoying the knowledge ❤👍

  • @kingprospector6953
    @kingprospector6953 Рік тому +2

    I like these videos I like the info I get from your prosess. Thanks for sharing.

  • @jamesMurphy-c1w
    @jamesMurphy-c1w Рік тому

    Thanks for showing a fun Hobby I love.

  • @michaelrobinson8915
    @michaelrobinson8915 10 місяців тому +1

    Do you go to the source many kilomiters from this regular readycreek, for prospecting?...m

  • @Gaming.with.Benjamin
    @Gaming.with.Benjamin Рік тому +2

    Great video..just a suggestion maybe get a close up camera to show the gold in the pan, it’s very hard to see with the go pro unless maybe get closer? Very informative video!

  • @heavyglassglass
    @heavyglassglass 8 місяців тому

    13:11 "That's the problem, prospecting. There's too much dirt mixed with the gold" 😂

  • @clintkalk6332
    @clintkalk6332 Рік тому

    Love all your videos Chris 👊! What I would love to see though, is Gadzys seal declare war on what ever you did to your hair 😂. Keep up the great videos, both of you.

  • @jerodpivin9426
    @jerodpivin9426 5 місяців тому

    This video was so helpful. I live near a 'Reedy Creek' here in the gold country near Sacramento California, another famous gold district. I live in the lowlands that have small creeks that also flood to 10x or more their summer size and I struggle to find the gold as flood gold is so hard to track down. The creek was dredged years and years ago so I know it's there. Watching this, I'm learning that it's more about persistance than just trying to pinpoint the perfect location (I think too hard). Gonna give it another go and see if I can get more than the 4-5 specks I normaly get per pan.

  • @douglasnelson8276
    @douglasnelson8276 Рік тому +7

    Chris:
    At 68yrs old, Canadian with bitter cold 6 months winters, I am a couch potato prospector for half the year. You’re the primary culprit, as you are for thousands of others. We learned at first to prospect (which I now do in retirement). Then you became our fav adventurer series. We watch to follow your growth as a prospector, educator, film producer and yes adult. Critics? People trying to make themselves look big by making others look small. Pitiable. We all hope you go out and continue, but for God’s sake go out and show yourself a good time instead of others.

    • @markfryer9880
      @markfryer9880 Рік тому +1

      Douglas, I don't know how you put up with so much cold for six months. I guess it also helps to explain how some people build impressive model railroads in their basements!
      I guess that armchair prospecting is one of the advantages of having the Internet and UA-cam, we never really had the opportunity before to watch people half a world away and in the other hemisphere doing things in the opposite seasons!
      Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺

  • @kerri519
    @kerri519 Рік тому +1

    You're the biggest gem in that creek!

  • @seantilson6330
    @seantilson6330 Рік тому +1

    Love ya Chris, Happy hunting.!💯

  • @insolentstickleback3266
    @insolentstickleback3266 Рік тому

    I am liking this POV content, even though I adore Fern, not so much when it was her galloping about wearing the camera, she made me feel like I was running for my life during an Earthquake 😁

  • @moniquelerm7381
    @moniquelerm7381 Рік тому +1

    Hey chris love the content man keep it up bro ..... Oh you should visit our mines is South Africa their crazy rich and insanely deep... Doubt the deepest but still very impressive i think you and Gadzie will love it ... Big fan and much love from South Africa keep it up and keep safe bro 🤙🤙✌️🙏

  • @bjvoorhies
    @bjvoorhies Рік тому +1

    "Got some really nice silt..." - sounds like a Monty Python line.

  • @KLAUSKARES
    @KLAUSKARES Рік тому +1

    Mate you are ONE OF THE BEST

  • @LuisRuiz-sv2mz
    @LuisRuiz-sv2mz 8 місяців тому

    Outstanding job my friend.

  • @Dan-we7vs
    @Dan-we7vs Рік тому

    Very enjoyable and informative...
    You and Dan are great 👍 👌 👏

  • @ericupton4527
    @ericupton4527 Рік тому +4

    "Theories don't mean sh!t" 😅😂🤣!!!

  • @newtimergold7160
    @newtimergold7160 Рік тому

    Your on the right track mate the depth of velocity is intense, it actually takes a velocity of 3m per second to dislodge a particle of clay from another..

    • @VoGusProspecting
      @VoGusProspecting  Рік тому

      Bed lode is 10fet sec I believe so good to know I'm on the right travk

  • @PrairieProspecting
    @PrairieProspecting Рік тому

    That was a really good teaching video, thanks Chris