I see a lot of us agree with you that the FAKES like Mosimo and Golden Beard do get tons of views (which is sad), but the best part is reading comments on Beards videos. It's crazy how uneducated people are on gold and how it forms, weathers out, and deposits. I say yes, keep making "clickbait" thumbnails, it doesn't bother us real viewers and can only help to increase your traffic....and hopefully peoples knowledge about the facts of how gold works. Awesome video! I'd love to crevice that Frazier area, you kill there all the time!
If there's one thing I've learned from Golden Beard, it's that multi-ounce gold nuggets and 500 carat diamonds "form" and are extremely common right in young volcanic deposits, like relatively recent basalt flows and piles of pumice, and such. ;-)
Dear Dan I watch your videos regularly. I live in southern NM, so I thought I'd never have a chance to find gold. Yesterday, as I was fossil hunting in a dry creek bed, I found gold. I stood there in awe, screaming "l am Dan Hurd Jr!" I can't thank you enough for the education and entertainment you've provided me through the years.
I have question I just started in red mountain cailf the is a lot of flower gold how do I get the gold from the dirt it not black and I will send you a picture of it
It comes across in your videos... I can hear it in your voice... Dan you truly love what you do and I believe it's teaching. Your passion for showing and explaining coupled with adventure really fun to watch thanks brother.
Thanks as always for the great content, Dan!! An even larger “thank you” for being genuine and ethical with your collecting - that’s quite refreshing to see online these days!
We were so glad you started off the video like that! What a pan!!!! Nothing beats peace and quiet out in nature finding gold like that. Another great video. Much love from California.
What got my sub in the first place was his down to Earth honesty like "hoping to earn" subscriptions rather than begging or resorting clickbaits to get them. This thumbnail sadly suggests a departure from that original philosophy.
Great vids again, Dan! I'd love to be able to just sit at that river and watch the currents slide downstream all day and get lost in my thoughts! You're a lucky man!
Dan you were on some great gold today. That thin long nugget you got in that small crack with your putty knife was so great to watch you get out!!! Hey a tip I learned was if you can’t get wet sand with the gold all off the bedrock by sweeping or vacuuming, you can take a wet sponge and wipe the bedrock clean. If you don’t have a sponge with you, you can gather a bunch of moss, which is plentiful where you are, rinse all the dirt out of it, then use it as a sponge wiping the bedrock. Rinse it out continually in a pan of water and wipe the bedrock til you get all the sand and gold off it. I have gotten all the gold sticking to the wet sand off bedrock this way. Nature’s solution- use the moss!
Wonderful video, my 4 year old is enthralled with watching them right along with me. Looks like a great spot to not only pan but to just relax. Thank you for sharing your adventures!
@Dan Hurd: Nice flat nugget in crack.. The bed rock you are diggin in is Petrified Giant Trees from LONG ago. The GOLD is found in the cracks of where the tree/rock split naturally...
I know this is an old video but I discovered you a few hours ago and I have to say I love you. For context this video just started but I felt compelled to comment. Every video I watch you bust your but I really find myself feeling like you deserve some big find, because you always bust your butt so hard, but your so likable, I find myself always rooting for you because (and I may be wrong about this) I believe you may be a trained geologist, at least you look like every trained geologist I've known LOL, your super smart, super likeable, Every video I always feel like you deserve that nugget find or something that just gets you excited, though your excited about everything you find anyways. You seriously are amazing and like I said I just love you as a person so far binging your videos. Thanks for the content.
See if Pauly will help move that big rock where you found the nuggets. You know there is more under it. 😆 Great vids that's for the clean content it's getting hard to find these days. God bless.
Love watching your videos.....really appreciate your hard work. Your videos have inspired my friend Ben to get out on the New River in the Trinity River area here in California and its getting better and better. Got to love the adventure!
My wife and i were watching your videos last night and she said it was like asmr. There sounds were so calming to her. You make great videos. Keep it up.
Nice scenery, quirky and knowledgeable presenter, plenty to learn about gold mining and even some gold in the end. Definitely worth my time. Thank you!
AWESOME Dan! Your "Oh ho ho ho" at the begining made me laugh out louder d. Then, wen you were guessing the weight of the nuggy, I thought that given enough time, you could have worked it up to an ounce. 😂 Very fun and funny video. And beautiful colour in the surrounding flora. Good day, good job. 👏🤓
Thanks Dan, you have no idea how much your videos mean to me. I really appreciate the time you take to make and edit your videos. I love the outdoors and because of my health I'm not able to get out as much as I would like to. You are a gem. Please ignore those that would bring you down because it is evident what a stellar man you are. It is a dream of mine to one day visit BC and do a bit of prospecting. Here in northern Utah in the US we have a lot of fine flour gold with the occasional nugget. The majority I hear is along the American Fork area. Anyway, thanks again. Today is my B-day and this video had been yhe highlight of my day thus far. Cheers!
Hello Again Dan! I truly enjoy all of your videos. In this case though...and you please show (like maybe an aerial view from google) of the river? I don’t want specific locations (it would be of more use to me since I live in the lower 48). I just want to compare the structure to what I have in my area (which has little if any visible bedrock). I love crevicing in the washes and arroyos when I go to Arizona but here I gave a tough time finding bedrock and even the. It’s always, ALWAYS on the outside of a bend and scoured clean. As always...keep the great videos coming! Oh..one more thing...I don’t know about others but I for one could learn a lot from a series on gold geology like you teach in your classroom. Have you thought of doing a series of short videos like that?
Lol every time I click on your videos, i think.. "man I wish the initial video pic was real." But after hearing you say that you would enlarge your find for more views, cracked me up! I'm still gonna watch!
@@Thursteen oh hell no. Here in Southwest Florida you would have to pan 50 tons of sand for a half of a gram or gold. Metal detecting ain't so easy and mostly you'll find change or trash. Gold is rare here unless you are prospecting in someone's jewelry box and some people really frown on you trespassing on their possessions. People like me will shoot you for that.
Considering the changing routes and diminishing depth of ancient rivers that used to flow above the height of even elevated fields, millions of years of gold deposits built up in locations far from current river edges/beds - there are pay streaks all over the world that are nowhere near rivers. That’s why places like Prospecthill in Glasgow exist. It & a site in N.London have been flagged to me as places of former gold mining. The nearest rivers are 500-1500m away but 2-3000yrs ago that land would’ve been river base. I wondered one day why I was suddenly IP Geolocated to a ditch in a French Farmers field - eventually, I noticed the nearest river was in alignment with the dry ditch so I went to ancient maps & discovered “I” was positioned at the furthest inland point of where France’s longest TIDAL river *used to reach*. Suddenly that curious marker seemed less random. Years ago I had a strange dream of being on an old ship - I’d lost my right arm during Battle. I’m also IP pinned to the former location of the columnar Crimean war memorial in Sheffield, called “Victory” - coincidentally/not, the name of Horatio Nelson’s flagship. In the tv comedy Detectorists Lance finds something in a field & says “BOAT” (but off a tractor) this is followed by unearthing of bits of a ww2 plane that when tipped look *exactly* like a multi-masted old sailing ship. I suspect much refined gold could lie in landlocked fields that long ago used to be ship navigable tidal waterways ; )
You’re a teacher. You’re lucky to get out on the weekend. Been there, papers to correct, meetings, lesson plans. You’re doing great keep the video’s coming. Besides, after a week of being around the “blessed little darlin’s” as I used to refer to them, just getting out in all that beautiful bit of creation is well worth it. Gold or no gold, just lifting safeties is worth it.
Dan I completely agree that all those videos of them people finding huge “gold” nugget do so well but are so insanely fake!!!! You on the other had have great real content and I will always stay with ur channel should have the pickerton letter soon!!!!
Ok so what I mean but “fake” is the videos of people literally walking down a river with a kitchen strainer just picking up nuggets the look to be an ounce or more just randomly off the ground or taking a shovel of like sand and putting it in the strainer and boom somehow there is like 6 or more 1 plus ounce nuggets which is not how things work if you have ever actually prospected it’s just insane to believe that would happen, maybe something like that about 150 yrs ago
You do an awesome job at explaining and showing that every pan is not going to yield the good stuff. Always good to have a reality check. I really appreciate your time to show us newbies the ropes. Best regards.
That was one of your most exciting videos to date. Great Gold! I like you can only search for gold on weekends but one day very soon I will be exploring much more, can’t wait! The Gold is calling...
I really like your gold hunting when I lived up Northern California I did a little gold panning witch is so fun and relaxing I think you’re show is fantastic to watch and I know it’s educational also for your fewer’s , I don’t have a lot of money because I’m on fixed income but if I ever get extra money I will give it to you to help with your show, I think you should start a morning show with kids at the river teaching them how to gold pan and how to look for it I think it would be a nice Saturday morning show for all to see, keep up the good work,you’re doing a wonderful job 👍😊
In case you aren't familiar, there's a UA-cam prospector, who works out of Biggs in Northern California, name of Gary Honan. Look up "Two Toes" on UA-cam. Older feller, _looks_ like an Old Timer. :-) Got all the old-timey skills, and knows all the modern tools and techniques. He regularly pulls some damn chunky gold out of the N. California bedrock.
Dion the Fraser has been giving gold for over 200 years... And still does... The danger of trying to get to the bottom is scary. It is strong enough to roll house sized boulders down according to the Canadian Military Divers. But yes... There is probably millions worth along that river...
Hi Dan. I do a little prospecting north of you in Alaska. Im just amazed as to how nuggets of that size kind make it up in those rocks. I’m sure the river gets way higher but wow! Maybe they come from the bank above huh? I really like your videos. You seem very genuine.
It is an absolute pleasure to see how far you've come in the last 2 or 3 years with your channel, i'm a new subscriber and wait for your videos every week so i hope you've got more time now to prospect and do what you enjoy!
Great work once again. I can totally relate with the day job thing... I build roads in Northern Wyoming and Southern Montana. Very long days and weeks for 9 months of the year, rarely have a weekend off. When we hit freeze out and cannot work, it is not ideal to prospect.
Doubt it... all the nuggets are pretty water worn indicating they've traveled quite a distance. Not to say those spots won't "replenish" to a degree, as gold will still move downstream and be dropped in the same spots. But gold close to the source will be far chunkier and rough (also typically you'd find specimens) compared to the stuff he's getting out. Still amazing spots though.
@@procrastinator1727 - They can get worn I would suppose from scooching around in bedrock and gravels, being in the water for a good while, without traveling a _huge_ distance. Just seems large for it to have traveled a _very_ long way. That powerful river really hammers those nuggets, also -- it's not like being in a dry part of Australia, or something. If memory serves, he does sometimes see some coarseness at the "pickerton" claim ..
Dan, thanks so much!!! Nice haul off the Frazier. Good way to spend a day decompressing. Love your videos, keeping my pan in idle mode till Spring comes back here in Montana. Thanks again.
first time i saw your channel, and i really liked it. hope you keep doing what you love and tell youtube to give you some cash so we can get more content. stay you dan
Thanks for all your effort dan and keeping it real is always the best way to go ,you do such a important job teaching the next generation and I hope your time is rewarded with a huge nugget .
I think he knew that that wasn’t one, someone pointed it out in an older video and he said that he knows the difference between gold looking rocks and gold, plus it looked it bit to pale
I am totally clueless about what you are doing, however, it did not stop me from being intrigued . What you do must be profitable enough to have all that equipment to unearth the gold. Your video was indeed entertaining, and I got the feeling you loved the beauty of the area you were panning in ....WOW what a way to spend your weekend. The number of likes on you channel would indicate you have a hugely popular channel..it is nice when doing what you love rewards you in such a large way. I do not know how UA-cam thought I would like your channel (which I did)...must be because I love watching people searching the south china sea and fresh wate ponds for natural pearls.
Ya and I got a few hundred comments that the "Pickers and Flakes" from my last video would be "Called nuggets by any real miner" and I should not have called it a really big flake. Can't keep everyone happy.
Make's you always wonder how much in gold nuggets are in the actual river... Great video and it's always a pleasure to see that you are having fun panning!
What you need to do is box that up , send it over my way and I’ll put it in my EPIC gold giveaway can!!!!! May be ounces in there when it’s over !!!!!✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ #Flourgoldwizards
Question, because I really don't know... if a bunch of the small stuff gets trapped together, can it get pounded into a big one? Or does a big one start off bigger and then flake off as it travels down the river?
this is cherie....your spirited nature is great thats enough to draw viewers into all your videos once they have seen one.. sure wish i could find gold around even like the small stuff u get. im in illinois and only super super fine flour gold but still have to drive hours away to next state for that. basically no gold around. blah
I enjoy your videos and I recognize the feeling of finding gold. I have a 250 acre gold claim in Northern California. And when we find gold it seems everything that is remotely yellow we'd always do the "is that a northern one?" 😂😂😂
I love your tools!! That Milwaukee shop vac is awesome! I’m glad you have great taste in tools. It’s great to know I can use my Milwaukee tools for prospecting as well! Haha awesome videos.
Another great video Dan. In this crazy world it's nice to sit down and watch a video about an honest man doing what he loves. I offer the thick flake scene as proof.
Hey Dan, great video. I have a question regarding your 10 inch highbanker, what size gpu pump/engine do you use? I’m building my own highbanker based on your how to build a high banker video using gold owl mats, but I didn’t see the mention of your pump/engine combo.
You’re not alone Dan ,I hate those fake gold videos too!! We work our butts off and try to put out quality videos and we grow so slowly yet the fakes get millions of views 😑 great video as always buddy!!!
Nice AU! Dan, you should do the Nugget Dance on camera whenever you find those big honkers, lol! Thanks for bringing us along and we shall, see you in the next one.
If you ever get a chance to give some input to Arbor Fabrication, see if they would consider putting the top handle on hinges. I own a 1/8 inch and love it but if the handle folded down it would be easier to pack.
Hahaha you got me on that one. I thought I've only seen nugs like that in Australia/Africa but as usual I felt like a friend sitting on the rock next to you you seem a great humble guy keep up the spirits bro
Awesome man, I love watching your videos. I go to bed every night after work looking forward to updates from yourself and pioneer Pauly. I live in south Mississippi so I’ve never had the chance to go searching for the gold. Maybe one day I’ll be able to visit canada and experience this thrill of finding gold and seeing the wildlife out there. Keep making videos I’ll be waiting lol
platinum is slightly magnetic, so do you think a large diameter compass might show a direction different when influenced by platinum over the normal earth's magnetic field?
That’s awesome! Love the thumbnail! My daughter (10 years old) now wants us to plan a trip to BC to look for gold. And after watching this video, I think she might be on to a great idea!
@@Danhurd - I assume there are open, public lands also, there in BC, that can be prospected -- outside of designated, withdrawn from claim-staking, public recreational mining areas? In other words, in the States there are millions of acres of federal -- BLM and NFS -- lands in the West that can be prospected, where mineral claims can be staked. There are also special areas withdrawn from the General Mining Law of 1872, which are generally over-worked areas for weekend prospectors and kids and tourists. Can a non-Canadian engage in some light, no-environmental-impact prospecting on open, public lands in Canada, outside of the sort of recreational, tourist panning zones? If that makes sense ... ? BTW, Canada's online claim-staking system, as far as I understand it, looks way more modern than our archane, convoluted process here in the States, which still involves erecting physical markers, and maybe hasn't changed all that much since 1872. :-(
New viewer and subscriber. Love the video and the gold. That Frasier river looks like a serious hazard. It looks cold, fast, and deep. I could only imagine how it would look in the springtime.
awesome video Dan, love seeing all the yellow stuff and it does look so peaceful there and please keep them videos coming, even if it is on the weekends i don't mind waiting because they are always funny and informative cheers
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I’m glad you had an amazing weekend adventure! It’s obvious that you love your hobby and enjoy sharing it with us. Thank you for sharing your passion with us. Nice haul ✌️
Thursteen alright the gold isn’t in high enough concentration for me to want to play. I live inland away from the mountains far enough that you cannot pan. I would have to use a highbanker to capture powdered ultra fine gold. My gold take would be in the hundredths or thousandths of a gram a weekend. If I lived nearer the mountains I would love to invest in the hobby. My brother lives nearer and for a time had a sluice box he took to the river a couple of times. Nothing but flour gold inland.
Ok, now I understand your problem. Be right there, it would be very costly for you. If you only have the alternative to go on the weekend in the mountains, which of course, but then again very time consuming.
I see a lot of us agree with you that the FAKES like Mosimo and Golden Beard do get tons of views (which is sad), but the best part is reading comments on Beards videos. It's crazy how uneducated people are on gold and how it forms, weathers out, and deposits. I say yes, keep making "clickbait" thumbnails, it doesn't bother us real viewers and can only help to increase your traffic....and hopefully peoples knowledge about the facts of how gold works. Awesome video! I'd love to crevice that Frazier area, you kill there all the time!
Thanks for your comment, I have pinned it so others will read it.
If there's one thing I've learned from Golden Beard, it's that multi-ounce gold nuggets and 500 carat diamonds "form" and are extremely common right in young volcanic deposits, like relatively recent basalt flows and piles of pumice, and such. ;-)
Nice Vid!:D
I call them Rustoleum nuggets, they never reply.
I understand what you mean, such videos are more about entertainment, at least that's my opinion.
Dear Dan
I watch your videos regularly.
I live in southern NM, so I thought I'd never have a chance to find gold.
Yesterday, as I was fossil hunting in a dry creek bed, I found gold. I stood there in awe, screaming "l am Dan Hurd Jr!"
I can't thank you enough for the education and entertainment you've provided me through the years.
I have question I just started in red mountain cailf the is a lot of flower gold how do I get the gold from the dirt it not black and I will send you a picture of it
Its really fine
Ever I had to hold it is what do I do?to keep it i got a lot of it
It comes across in your videos...
I can hear it in your voice...
Dan you truly love what you do and I believe it's teaching. Your passion for showing and explaining coupled with adventure
really fun to watch thanks brother.
.....and stuffing youtube advertising in your pockets? Grow up. 😛😜😜🙃
Thanks as always for the great content, Dan!! An even larger “thank you” for being genuine and ethical with your collecting - that’s quite refreshing to see online these days!
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We were so glad you started off the video like that! What a pan!!!! Nothing beats peace and quiet out in nature finding gold like that. Another great video. Much love from California.
Thanks for the comment, and thanks for watching
Love how honest you were about the thumbnail. Good stuff man. Enjoyed the video!
What got my sub in the first place was his down to Earth honesty like "hoping to earn" subscriptions rather than begging or resorting clickbaits to get them. This thumbnail sadly suggests a departure from that original philosophy.
Best quote ever: “Look how big it is in that tiny crack”.
😂 lol
"That crack might be bigger than I expected "
😂😂😂
"It's got thickness!"
That's what she said
Dan my life is so hectic sometimes and I absolutely love to be able to watch you and the Frazier. It's so calming and fun. Thank you for being so you.
Great vids again, Dan! I'd love to be able to just sit at that river and watch the currents slide downstream all day and get lost in my thoughts! You're a lucky man!
Oh yes, you're absolutely Right!
Dan you were on some great gold today. That thin long nugget you got in that small crack with your putty knife was so great to watch you get out!!! Hey a tip I learned was if you can’t get wet sand with the gold all off the bedrock by sweeping or vacuuming, you can take a wet sponge and wipe the bedrock clean. If you don’t have a sponge with you, you can gather a bunch of moss, which is plentiful where you are, rinse all the dirt out of it, then use it as a sponge wiping the bedrock. Rinse it out continually in a pan of water and wipe the bedrock til you get all the sand and gold off it. I have gotten all the gold sticking to the wet sand off bedrock this way. Nature’s solution- use the moss!
Thanks for the tip
The worst thing about these videos is I’m not there!
Wonderful video, my 4 year old is enthralled with watching them right along with me. Looks like a great spot to not only pan but to just relax. Thank you for sharing your adventures!
That's so nice Dan! Thanks for not making us wait too long for part 2! Love your videos and always learning from them.
Glad to hear it
@Dan Hurd: Nice flat nugget in crack.. The bed rock you are diggin in is Petrified Giant Trees from LONG ago. The GOLD is found in the cracks of where the tree/rock split naturally...
I'm LOVING this channel!!! Thanks Dan for making them. I hope to help you out very soon!
I cant stop watching these vids. Thanks Dan keep up all the good work. Also ur positive attitude is very contagious. Good luck!!!!!!
I confess, I came for the thumbnail on this one! 😄 On the other hand, I've subscribed for your happiness apparent legitimacy.
I know this is an old video but I discovered you a few hours ago and I have to say I love you. For context this video just started but I felt compelled to comment. Every video I watch you bust your but I really find myself feeling like you deserve some big find, because you always bust your butt so hard, but your so likable, I find myself always rooting for you because (and I may be wrong about this) I believe you may be a trained geologist, at least you look like every trained geologist I've known LOL, your super smart, super likeable, Every video I always feel like you deserve that nugget find or something that just gets you excited, though your excited about everything you find anyways.
You seriously are amazing and like I said I just love you as a person so far binging your videos. Thanks for the content.
Pauly will freak out when he sees that thumbnail......
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See if Pauly will help move that big rock where you found the nuggets. You know there is more under it. 😆 Great vids that's for the clean content it's getting hard to find these days. God bless.
@Opaque Motives where's the fun in that ? Oh yeah boom.
Yes!:D
Love watching your videos.....really appreciate your hard work. Your videos have inspired my friend Ben to get out on the New River in the Trinity River area here in California and its getting better and better. Got to love the adventure!
Now this was the most wholesome thing I’ve seen all week
My wife and i were watching your videos last night and she said it was like asmr. There sounds were so calming to her. You make great videos. Keep it up.
I love watching your videos, there are some great nature shots in this one! Love your positive attitude. Keep up the good work :)
Thanks
I waited all day for part 2, and was NOT disappointed! Loved that huge flake you found with your pointer. AWESOME!
That flugget in the crack was gorgeous. You know it had to have been there a long damn time.
Nice scenery, quirky and knowledgeable presenter, plenty to learn about gold mining and even some gold in the end. Definitely worth my time. Thank you!
AWESOME Dan! Your "Oh ho ho ho" at the begining made me laugh out louder d. Then, wen you were guessing the weight of the nuggy, I thought that given enough time, you could have worked it up to an ounce. 😂 Very fun and funny video. And beautiful colour in the surrounding flora. Good day, good job. 👏🤓
I agree with that: D
Thanks
That nuggy was clearly 6 ounces. :-)
@@cacogenicist Well, I'm not very experienced (yet) as a prospector, so you're probably right. If it's not, he deserves it to be. 😊✌️
Thanks Dan, you have no idea how much your videos mean to me. I really appreciate the time you take to make and edit your videos. I love the outdoors and because of my health I'm not able to get out as much as I would like to. You are a gem. Please ignore those that would bring you down because it is evident what a stellar man you are. It is a dream of mine to one day visit BC and do a bit of prospecting. Here in northern Utah in the US we have a lot of fine flour gold with the occasional nugget. The majority I hear is along the American Fork area. Anyway, thanks again. Today is my B-day and this video had been yhe highlight of my day thus far. Cheers!
Thanks - I'm glad to hear you enjoy my videos. I do enjoy making them!
Love watching your videos Dan! Watching your gold finds is relaxing and allows us to go on the adventure with you!
Glad you like it
Hello Again Dan!
I truly enjoy all of your videos.
In this case though...and you please show (like maybe an aerial view from google) of the river?
I don’t want specific locations (it would be of more use to me since I live in the lower 48). I just want to compare the structure to what I have in my area (which has little if any visible bedrock).
I love crevicing in the washes and arroyos when I go to Arizona but here I gave a tough time finding bedrock and even the. It’s always, ALWAYS on the outside of a bend and scoured clean.
As always...keep the great videos coming!
Oh..one more thing...I don’t know about others but I for one could learn a lot from a series on gold geology like you teach in your classroom. Have you thought of doing a series of short videos like that?
You have a great Personality!! You make me laugh!! Thank You!!
True would love go on adventure with him
Lol every time I click on your videos, i think.. "man I wish the initial video pic was real." But after hearing you say that you would enlarge your find for more views, cracked me up! I'm still gonna watch!
That's amazing! Man I wish we had gold like that here!
You can find gold over all, believe me!
@@Thursteen oh hell no. Here in Southwest Florida you would have to pan 50 tons of sand for a half of a gram or gold. Metal detecting ain't so easy and mostly you'll find change or trash. Gold is rare here unless you are prospecting in someone's jewelry box and some people really frown on you trespassing on their possessions. People like me will shoot you for that.
I love watching your show you are just so animated and happy with what you do and you just bring a smile to me the whole time I watch your show!
i wonder how much is sitting on river bottom .... :)
Considering the changing routes and diminishing depth of ancient rivers that used to flow above the height of even elevated fields, millions of years of gold deposits built up in locations far from current river edges/beds - there are pay streaks all over the world that are nowhere near rivers. That’s why places like Prospecthill in Glasgow exist. It & a site in N.London have been flagged to me as places of former gold mining. The nearest rivers are 500-1500m away but 2-3000yrs ago that land would’ve been river base. I wondered one day why I was suddenly IP Geolocated to a ditch in a French Farmers field - eventually, I noticed the nearest river was in alignment with the dry ditch so I went to ancient maps & discovered “I” was positioned at the furthest inland point of where France’s longest TIDAL river *used to reach*. Suddenly that curious marker seemed less random. Years ago I had a strange dream of being on an old ship - I’d lost my right arm during Battle. I’m also IP pinned to the former location of the columnar Crimean war memorial in Sheffield, called “Victory” - coincidentally/not, the name of Horatio Nelson’s flagship. In the tv comedy Detectorists Lance finds something in a field & says “BOAT” (but off a tractor) this is followed by unearthing of bits of a ww2 plane that when tipped look *exactly* like a multi-masted old sailing ship. I suspect much refined gold could lie in landlocked fields that long ago used to be ship navigable tidal waterways ; )
I've only been watching your videos for a while but from the first I've enjoyed them. You give my day a boost. Thank you.
Beautiful nuggets. I can only hope to find one of my own someday
Best of luck finding it!
Me too, but I don’t actually pan for gold, living in a city in the UK Midlands.
You’re a teacher. You’re lucky to get out on the weekend. Been there, papers to correct, meetings, lesson plans. You’re doing great keep the video’s coming. Besides, after a week of being around the “blessed little darlin’s” as I used to refer to them, just getting out in all that beautiful bit of creation is well worth it. Gold or no gold, just lifting safeties is worth it.
Dan I completely agree that all those videos of them people finding huge “gold” nugget do so well but are so insanely fake!!!! You on the other had have great real content and I will always stay with ur channel should have the pickerton letter soon!!!!
Why should all videos be fake just because big nuggets were found there?
Ok so what I mean but “fake” is the videos of people literally walking down a river with a kitchen strainer just picking up nuggets the look to be an ounce or more just randomly off the ground or taking a shovel of like sand and putting it in the strainer and boom somehow there is like 6 or more 1 plus ounce nuggets which is not how things work if you have ever actually prospected it’s just insane to believe that would happen, maybe something like that about 150 yrs ago
@@SherwoodProspecting seen lots of them just ruwin the experience
That nugget in the beginning didn’t earned my subscription, but your attitude and information did. Awesome job dude!
Hey dan! I'm so happy for you! Ive never even seen a nuggie that big. Unfortunately I think I'm cursed haha. Keep up the sweet videos!
You do an awesome job at explaining and showing that every pan is not going to yield the good stuff. Always good to have a reality check. I really appreciate your time to show us newbies the ropes. Best regards.
Mr. Hurd: Do you ever cast a line into the (beautiful) water while panning?
That was one of your most exciting videos to date. Great Gold! I like you can only search for gold on weekends but one day very soon I will be exploring much more, can’t wait! The Gold is calling...
I really like your gold hunting when I lived up Northern California I did a little gold panning witch is so fun and relaxing I think you’re show is fantastic to watch and I know it’s educational also for your fewer’s , I don’t have a lot of money because I’m on fixed income but if I ever get extra money I will give it to you to help with your show, I think you should start a morning show with kids at the river teaching them how to gold pan and how to look for it I think it would be a nice Saturday morning show for all to see, keep up the good work,you’re doing a wonderful job 👍😊
In case you aren't familiar, there's a UA-cam prospector, who works out of Biggs in Northern California, name of Gary Honan. Look up "Two Toes" on UA-cam. Older feller, _looks_ like an Old Timer. :-) Got all the old-timey skills, and knows all the modern tools and techniques. He regularly pulls some damn chunky gold out of the N. California bedrock.
Christopher Carr thanks I’ll check him out thanks again 👍
Could you imagine the gold sitting on the bottom of that river🤢🤮
Dion the Fraser has been giving gold for over 200 years... And still does... The danger of trying to get to the bottom is scary. It is strong enough to roll house sized boulders down according to the Canadian Military Divers. But yes... There is probably millions worth along that river...
Hi Dan. I do a little prospecting north of you in Alaska. Im just amazed as to how nuggets of that size kind make it up in those rocks. I’m sure the river gets way higher but wow!
Maybe they come from the bank above huh? I really like your videos. You seem very genuine.
"Look at how big that was in that little crack"
*moans*
"That tiny crack"!
Ha! Ha! Har!!! Reminds me of my teenage years.
It is an absolute pleasure to see how far you've come in the last 2 or 3 years with your channel, i'm a new subscriber and wait for your videos every week so i hope you've got more time now to prospect and do what you enjoy!
Dan "nugget hunter" hurd coming thru with the beautiful yellow.
Thanks for watching, and commenting
Great work once again. I can totally relate with the day job thing... I build roads in Northern Wyoming and Southern Montana. Very long days and weeks for 9 months of the year, rarely have a weekend off. When we hit freeze out and cannot work, it is not ideal to prospect.
Winter Prospecting sure takes some fortitude.
I'm betting that Pickerton and the other spot will be reloaded with gold every year because I believe your close to the source
Doubt it... all the nuggets are pretty water worn indicating they've traveled quite a distance. Not to say those spots won't "replenish" to a degree, as gold will still move downstream and be dropped in the same spots. But gold close to the source will be far chunkier and rough (also typically you'd find specimens) compared to the stuff he's getting out. Still amazing spots though.
@@procrastinator1727 time will tell
@@procrastinator1727 - They can get worn I would suppose from scooching around in bedrock and gravels, being in the water for a good while, without traveling a _huge_ distance. Just seems large for it to have traveled a _very_ long way. That powerful river really hammers those nuggets, also -- it's not like being in a dry part of Australia, or something.
If memory serves, he does sometimes see some coarseness at the "pickerton" claim ..
Dan, thanks so much!!! Nice haul off the Frazier. Good way to spend a day decompressing. Love your videos, keeping my pan in idle mode till Spring comes back here in Montana. Thanks again.
Thanks for watching!
13:12 "Oh look, there's Bigfoot!!!"
first time i saw your channel, and i really liked it. hope you keep doing what you love and tell youtube to give you some cash so we can get more content. stay you dan
I think i missed this one......I love my 5ft memory......after 5ft everything's new again.....in fact who's the happy guy with the beard?
Ten Second Tom 😂😂😂 you are awesome!
I'd rather watch your videos than fake gold videos any day. Some of them are just ridiculous. Thanks for sharing Dan.
I would LOVE to have a go at panning. Such a wonderful spot to be doing it. Love your videos Dan 👌🏻
Thanks for all your effort dan and keeping it real is always the best way to go ,you do such a important job teaching the next generation and I hope your time is rewarded with a huge nugget .
Thanks
7:46 there was a big nugget that fell from your pan
You're right
Looked like a shell
I think he knew that that wasn’t one, someone pointed it out in an older video and he said that he knows the difference between gold looking rocks and gold, plus it looked it bit to pale
Gold is heavier then the rocks in a pan. That's how they get caught in the pans ridges..
Swear I seen the same thing
I am totally clueless about what you are doing, however, it did not stop me from being intrigued . What you do must be profitable enough to have all that equipment to unearth the gold. Your video was indeed entertaining, and I got the feeling you loved the beauty of the area you were panning in ....WOW what a way to spend your weekend. The number of likes on you channel would indicate you have a hugely popular channel..it is nice when doing what you love rewards you in such a large way. I do not know how UA-cam thought I would like your channel (which I did)...must be because I love watching people searching the south china sea and fresh wate ponds for natural pearls.
We need a smelting video soon :D Gold in builions is so pretty :)
I appreciate the time and effort you put in every weekend. I look forward to seeing what you are doing everything week
This coming weekend I plan on working under a waterfall, and checking out a new claim on the Fraser.
@@Danhurd that sounds cool i can't wait. Have a great week
Anything under a gram is not a nugget to any real established miner... Nice pickers Dan..
Ya and I got a few hundred comments that the "Pickers and Flakes" from my last video would be "Called nuggets by any real miner" and I should not have called it a really big flake. Can't keep everyone happy.
Make's you always wonder how much in gold nuggets are in the actual river... Great video and it's always a pleasure to see that you are having fun panning!
What you need to do is box that up , send it over my way and I’ll put it in my EPIC gold giveaway can!!!!!
May be ounces in there when it’s over !!!!!✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
#Flourgoldwizards
I have been watching pan vids for awhile now and Dan Hurd you have the charisma to make me a subscriber
Question, because I really don't know... if a bunch of the small stuff gets trapped together, can it get pounded into a big one? Or does a big one start off bigger and then flake off as it travels down the river?
this is cherie....your spirited nature is great thats enough to draw viewers into all your videos once they have seen one.. sure wish i could find gold around even like the small stuff u get. im in illinois and only super super fine flour gold but still have to drive hours away to next state for that. basically no gold around. blah
I enjoy your videos and I recognize the feeling of finding gold. I have a 250 acre gold claim in Northern California. And when we find gold it seems everything that is remotely yellow we'd always do the "is that a northern one?" 😂😂😂
I love your tools!! That Milwaukee shop vac is awesome! I’m glad you have great taste in tools. It’s great to know I can use my Milwaukee tools for prospecting as well! Haha awesome videos.
Thank you! I love watching you. I'm 69 and cannot move like I once could. It makes me happy to see your videos.
You are a great guy, your goodness and kindness come across so strongly.
Your teaching job is most important. Lucky to see you on weekends. Love your videos
Another great video Dan. In this crazy world it's nice to sit down and watch a video about an honest man doing what he loves. I offer the thick flake scene as proof.
Thanks for watching and commenting.
Hey Dan, great video. I have a question regarding your 10 inch highbanker, what size gpu pump/engine do you use? I’m building my own highbanker based on your how to build a high banker video using gold owl mats, but I didn’t see the mention of your pump/engine combo.
1.5" honda
You’re not alone Dan ,I hate those fake gold videos too!! We work our butts off and try to put out quality videos and we grow so slowly yet the fakes get millions of views 😑 great video as always buddy!!!
It makes me sad those fake videos get so many more views than the real ones.
Me too
Nice AU! Dan, you should do the Nugget Dance on camera whenever you find those big honkers, lol! Thanks for bringing us along and we shall, see you in the next one.
You are welcome, next one is tomorrow at about 2:45
You're so darn awesome Dan! Thank you for sharing your experience and having fun doing it as well.
Great find Dan!! Gold is so beautiful in natural state. I just love it.
If you ever get a chance to give some input to Arbor Fabrication, see if they would consider putting the top handle on hinges. I own a 1/8 inch and love it but if the handle folded down it would be easier to pack.
Hahaha you got me on that one. I thought I've only seen nugs like that in Australia/Africa but as usual I felt like a friend sitting on the rock next to you you seem a great humble guy keep up the spirits bro
Awesome man, I love watching your videos. I go to bed every night after work looking forward to updates from yourself and pioneer Pauly. I live in south Mississippi so I’ve never had the chance to go searching for the gold. Maybe one day I’ll be able to visit canada and experience this thrill of finding gold and seeing the wildlife out there. Keep making videos I’ll be waiting lol
Road trip time!
Does stuff (gold) get caught in the ridges in the vacuum hose? Clean it out at home?
I clean it out well
Those silver flecks are they mercury contaminated or native silver?
Dan...first ti,me watching your videos this morning. Love the excitement. What was the hand held orange colored detector?
A Garrett (carrot)
platinum is slightly magnetic, so do you think a large diameter compass might show a direction different when influenced by platinum over the normal earth's magnetic field?
That’s awesome! Love the thumbnail! My daughter (10 years old) now wants us to plan a trip to BC to look for gold. And after watching this video, I think she might be on to a great idea!
Yeah the Thumbnail ist great shit!:D
It's cool your youngster likes this stuff. Maybe you have a budding economic geologist major on your hands. :-)
Road trip! There are a few good public areas here in BC
@@Danhurd - I assume there are open, public lands also, there in BC, that can be prospected -- outside of designated, withdrawn from claim-staking, public recreational mining areas?
In other words, in the States there are millions of acres of federal -- BLM and NFS -- lands in the West that can be prospected, where mineral claims can be staked. There are also special areas withdrawn from the General Mining Law of 1872, which are generally over-worked areas for weekend prospectors and kids and tourists.
Can a non-Canadian engage in some light, no-environmental-impact prospecting on open, public lands in Canada, outside of the sort of recreational, tourist panning zones?
If that makes sense ... ?
BTW, Canada's online claim-staking system, as far as I understand it, looks way more modern than our archane, convoluted process here in the States, which still involves erecting physical markers, and maybe hasn't changed all that much since 1872. :-(
Just found your channel while snooping around. I'm not a gold prospector in any way but subscribed because it was fun watching.
Welcome to the channel! And thanks for subscribing
Wish I lived in a state that has gold. Love these videos. Thanks Dan
New viewer and subscriber. Love the video and the gold. That Frasier river looks like a serious hazard. It looks cold, fast, and deep. I could only imagine how it would look in the springtime.
awesome video Dan, love seeing all the yellow stuff and it does look so peaceful there and please keep them videos coming, even if it is on the weekends i don't mind waiting because they are always funny and informative cheers
Thanks for watching and commenting
Bloody good part 2 . Dan How much gold gets stuck in the vacuum hose ..?
The one in the small crack was awesome. I love these videos. I even love your prospecting class videos.
Awesome? It's a very Heavy found!greetz
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Gold "sitting right on the surface" LOL...Love your work Dan.
I’m glad you had an amazing weekend adventure! It’s obvious that you love your hobby and enjoy sharing it with us. Thank you for sharing your passion with us. Nice haul ✌️
Hey, try it! D
Thursteen there’s no gold where I live...pass
Gold is everywhere, but it is usually much too small and not strong enough in the ground, but it is there!
Thursteen alright the gold isn’t in high enough concentration for me to want to play. I live inland away from the mountains far enough that you cannot pan. I would have to use a highbanker to capture powdered ultra fine gold. My gold take would be in the hundredths or thousandths of a gram a weekend. If I lived nearer the mountains I would love to invest in the hobby. My brother lives nearer and for a time had a sluice box he took to the river a couple of times. Nothing but flour gold inland.
Ok, now I understand your problem. Be right there, it would be very costly for you. If you only have the alternative to go on the weekend in the mountains, which of course, but then again very time consuming.
Great vid Dan love the close ups of the nuggies
Love it! Thanks for the nature shots. How do you suck up the gold? Can you make a video on that...sorry if you already did one.
HE‘S A GOLD TRACKER THIS SHOW IS CRAZY. I LOVE IT 😩😩😩