I've watched so many of your videos I've come to feel a part. This is so much so that at the beginning when you first sat in the BOBCAT and waived, I caught myself waving back. It gave me a good chuckle.
I live in Florida, have 3 beautiful little boys and an amazing wife. I have no plans to ever begin gold prospecting, but I watch your videos every time the come up because youre enthusiasm and honest reviews are entertaining even for an outsider like myself. I hope these words reach you and give you a little bit of encouragement, you're doing a great job.
Holy crap Dan you got it made.... not only do you teach what you love to growing minds you do what you love that to me sir is success. Come on down to Helena Montana there is still gold in our hills I’ll show you around. I got placer gold in my back yard ain’t much but still fun. Keep up the wonderful work and between you and Jeff Williams I’ve taken a lot of notes. Thank you for what you do.
Good morning Dan and Pete! I'm here sipping my morning coffee and panning gold with my friends up north--what more could a girl want, LOL? Woo-hoo, not a bad run. Thanks guys!
Outsider looking in. I would move bolders behind where you load and build a ramp up to feeder so your not as close and make it so you can do wider turns straight 180s will put more wear and tear on equipment and create bumpy terrain thus increasing cost of running. When running loader or skid it is better to keep movement to 45 degree turns at most. Happy hunting!
All I would add is get a little bigger water pump, the rocks need to be washed better, could be losing gold in dirt stuck to rocks? But a great setup and better water flow at sluice box would help too. But like you said fire season is here and your about done maybe next year. Good for next years wish list. Your doing great, always enjoy the prospecting and seeing you reap the rewards.
I was thinking you guys should bring up a shop-vac when you run the bobcat because there is a lot of fine dirt left-over that the machine can't get. It would be interesting to pan out that dirt to see how much gold is missed with disturbing the ground and you well know the gold sits right on the bedrock. It was just a thought that might be worth trying. GOOD LUCK
Great day out with you...Elmo loves your set up...very smart on the fire safety...If people could only use half the common sense you used we would be fine...You should dig a big hole to keep water in- if a fire ever sneaks in on you- just jump into your pond...be safe and Dig,Dig,Dig..Elmo would love for you to stop by and say hello--He loves your channel...He was just doing some cliff diving the other day...
Hi Dan you answered my thoughts if you weighed your gold before you do it on the video as I see you do, as this time you said it weighed more. Great work thanks for your channel.⛏⛏
Sometimes it feels i just want to quick watch one of these videos just to hear the... "Good morning everyone!" or "Hello everyone!" Haha! Great videos and have actually made me try to find some gold myself, but no luck yet.
Hi Guys.. Fantastic haul. Love the way you have purple streaks of sun rays hitting your gold panning dish. Nice trade in on your hat 🎩 also . Cheers Tony.👍🍺⛏🇦🇺🤓
Hey Dan! Great video. I appreciate your hard work and dedication to your gold mining. Working outdoors and fishing, I accidentally discovered that wearing a "Salonpas" patch on the back of your neck or where your collar bones come together, will detour any bugs from coming around you period. It has camphor and menthol in it and is good for about 8hrs. Believe me it works. Best place to buy is Costco next time you go to town. I live in Alaska. We normally use 44 magnum hollow points on mosquitoes. Hope this makes life a little more livable for you. Good luck!😈🍺🍺🎣🐡
Some nice chunky pieces there. Keep up the good work. For the black flies, try to wear a blue hard hat covered with some vaseline. They attack the color blue for some reason and get stuck in the vaseline.
You guys are so lucky living up in the north west digging around for yellow them little Bob cats are nice they can get into some tight spots some big farmers use them to clean out their barns I use to be in the out doors a lot hunting fishing had to retire few years back legs are not as good as they once was fixing truck tires, welder fabercateing bridge steel, truck driver and so on even work for Kingsford charcoal charcoal you use for your bar b q grill yep did a little bit of every thing but haven't try diving for a little bit of gold lol😁🦃🐿️✝️👀
Are you not allowed to use a matic to break up some of that concreted gravel/earth? I know nothing about gold mining, but I've dug a few trenches in my life.
Dan you crack me up. Your saftety pan/trough is supposed to be where you pan all those lovely concentrates and you pan back into the river. It must be an offering to the river gods because you gave back to river some of your finds.
That water must be freezing on your feet ? In that looks like a full pan of those I was wondering how you can see the color gold with those dark sunglasses on ? Well I guess you used to it you know what to look for obviously . We always would like it to be the larger of the two .
The new crusher set up can do 4-5000 pounds of material in a day and I cannot supply it with that much material. I am not using it for production but rather samplin
Is trout creek down in BC region? Looks like y’all have a nice little operation or large prospecting locates. Nice little cleanup. How much material per hour are y’all running at? Can you share a bit on the geology and geography of the area a little? Y’all look like y’all are running an old river channel. Y’all should maybe learn the rocking chair method of panning; saves time and get all possible gold available. In just less then a moment in time.
Do you have to work a job, or can you survive off of digging gold ? I know that digging gold is a hard job, I just wanted to know if it is a full time thing for you.
I didn't read all the comments/answers - but I DID read a lot of them so as to try to not reinvent the wheel - so I'm not sure this hasn't been answered already - is your mat Gold Hog? and what is that piece at the (top?) end that looks like opposing "L"s? Not using the mat that joins with the metal "8" strips? If Gold Hog , what config. do you favor?
Sometimes I have to laugh at myself watching you guys shaking a pan full of rocks and water know you’re looking for gold but it just seems funny to me good luck I wish you the best.
Hey man you should try to get more in your bucket, I understand it has to be fed slow and your digging sight is right next to your plant but you have to turn on the dime alot and that wears out tires faster than anything is making those turns
Have you ever checked your panning to see if your losing gold. I can bet your losing a lot! One thing you need to do is get off the ruffles after you get it panned down some. That way you dont have to be so vigorous and dont have to be at such a steep angle with your pan. Please give it a try. Would love to see you test your panning online.
It seems to me when you slide a large amount of larger stones from your pan instead of picking them up, you might be sliding gold out of your pan with them.
That giant round circular Rock that you removed with the shovel I wonder what it would look like if you cut it open what did have geodes in it or would it just be a certain kind of Stone
A hobby in which adults can play in the dirt with heavy equipment and not be called childish. Meanwhile, on a bad day of my sort of prospecting, I still came home with $200 worth of material. But a good day can be in the thousands, no wilderness involved.
@@Danhurd Yea, that would be my first guess. I have some topaz rough that has the same coloring...but I also have Montana sapphires that color as well. Do y'all get sapphires up there? Don't know if they can be found in Canada, as well.
Stop by a jeweler on the way and have him / her test it with their electronic doomoflotcy:) If that mine is in Northern Calif, then there is a remote chance that it is diamond.
Dude seriously you better secure that claim very very well... I highly believe that the crystal that you found is in fact Topaz which can be worth huge chunks of cash once faceted....... please feel free to let me know if I am correct on the gemstone... always love your videos....
you need a bigger wash pant, and better sluices. thats looking a bit janky. you have one hell of a front end loader but that wash plant needs some upgrading to keep up with the feed. I cant imagine your catching all the gold in that thing.
I admit the washplant is nothing great, but it is what I could make for my budget. and we have tested tailing LOTS including running a whole extra sluice off the end for MANY hours. with the chunky gold coming from here, nothing was getting through that we could find.
Dan thinking outside the box... (pan) would it be better to run your cons threw the crusher? Any chance that some of the Hematite contains micro gold in the pan wroth crushing?
Dan amazing setup. As a miner in Sweden your sluce box needs to be longer add more matts. Also have you gone below the clay to see if it’s fractured bed rock if so then I would bet my ass that you will find decent amount of gold.
Well even with out short sluice, we NEVER find anything in the bottom 1/2. And that clay is not sediment, it is the Hydrothermal vein decomposed, so there is no "Below" as it is part of the bedrock itself. We have tested it and there is no gold values in the clay itself.
OKAY. Nice speed pan! Wonder how many fines you put back into your bin? ALSO, get yourself another level to your pan to take your giant rocks away. Saves time and they won't excite your gold into the junk pile when you pan big rocks.
I've watched so many of your videos I've come to feel a part. This is so much so that at the beginning when you first sat in the BOBCAT and waived, I caught myself waving back. It gave me a good chuckle.
I live in Florida, have 3 beautiful little boys and an amazing wife. I have no plans to ever begin gold prospecting, but I watch your videos every time the come up because youre enthusiasm and honest reviews are entertaining even for an outsider like myself. I hope these words reach you and give you a little bit of encouragement, you're doing a great job.
Thank you very much - that means a lot to me
Holy crap Dan you got it made.... not only do you teach what you love to growing minds you do what you love that to me sir is success. Come on down to Helena Montana there is still gold in our hills I’ll show you around. I got placer gold in my back yard ain’t much but still fun. Keep up the wonderful work and between you and Jeff Williams I’ve taken a lot of notes. Thank you for what you do.
Helena Montana - there's a place we need to go back to as you have sapphires down there too. Glad to hear that my videos are useful!
Going back to binge some Hurd gold machine!
Dan, I like all of your adventures.
Thanks!
Yahoo ! Good job ! Hope you find more. A strike like that back in the old days meant a trip into town for a few drinks and fun with the ladies.
Looks like a blast. I bet your an enjoyable teacher.
Good morning Dan and Pete! I'm here sipping my morning coffee and panning gold with my friends up north--what more could a girl want, LOL? Woo-hoo, not a bad run. Thanks guys!
That pretty crystal has a nice peach-pink tint to it--possibly morganite? Just guessing....
Oh, possibly. I hadn't thought of morganite! Thanks! Hope you find lots of colour in your pan today
One of the best channels on youtube!!
, and no copy right in sight. . even youtube cannot find fault!
Thanks so much!
Love your show some day I will pan in Cal with your help.
Bye
Hi Dan great show your the best!
Thanks!
Another great video. Enjoying all your videos.
Outsider looking in. I would move bolders behind where you load and build a ramp up to feeder so your not as close and make it so you can do wider turns straight 180s will put more wear and tear on equipment and create bumpy terrain thus increasing cost of running. When running loader or skid it is better to keep movement to 45 degree turns at most. Happy hunting!
Totally righteous beard dude. That thing is majestic.
Thanks!
All I would add is get a little bigger water pump, the rocks need to be washed better, could be losing gold in dirt stuck to rocks? But a great setup and better water flow at sluice box would help too. But like you said fire season is here and your about done maybe next year. Good for next years wish list. Your doing great, always enjoy the prospecting and seeing you reap the rewards.
Thanks for the advice!
Love your videos Dan! Livin the dream!
I was thinking you guys should bring up a shop-vac when you run the bobcat because there is a lot of fine dirt left-over that the machine can't get. It would be interesting to pan out that dirt to see how much gold is missed with disturbing the ground and you well know the gold sits right on the bedrock. It was just a thought that might be worth trying. GOOD LUCK
Great day out with you...Elmo loves your set up...very smart on the fire safety...If people could only use half the common sense you used we would be fine...You should dig a big hole to keep water in- if a fire ever sneaks in on you- just jump into your pond...be safe and Dig,Dig,Dig..Elmo would love for you to stop by and say hello--He loves your channel...He was just doing some cliff diving the other day...
Quite the operation you got there Dan!
Thanks!
Hi Dan you answered my thoughts if you weighed your gold before you do it on the video as I see you do, as this time you said it weighed more. Great work thanks for your channel.⛏⛏
Sometimes it feels i just want to quick watch one of these videos just to hear the... "Good morning everyone!" or "Hello everyone!" Haha! Great videos and have actually made me try to find some gold myself, but no luck yet.
I just LOVE this channel.
Thanks!
Hi Guys..
Fantastic haul.
Love the way you have purple streaks of sun rays hitting your gold panning dish.
Nice trade in on your hat 🎩 also .
Cheers Tony.👍🍺⛏🇦🇺🤓
Brother man, you cracked me up when you shook the bobcat back n forth lol
That is some nice chunky gold there Dan, you're living the dream man 👍🤠⛏⛏⛏
I'm certainly having fun this summer
Enjoyed the video. Hope you both score big on your next prospecting venture.
Thanks! I hope we score big next time too.
Dan, all that awesome equipment you need bigger payouts brother! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! I agree with you - that gold is just hiding from me.
Yeah it’s hiding from all of us brother I totally like your videos 👍
Sure is good therapy to watch you work a few pans.
Always good to see gold in a pan
Nice setup Dan.
Thanks!
awesome video thank you for sharing your adventures!
Thanks for taking the time to watch
Love your adventures. The mossies is the main reason I never tried gold panning. Lol
great video Dan.
Nice looking nuggets there!
Thanks!
Aw, but it is gold. Not 2 just 1 real nice gram. Thanks for taking us with you. There will be more after fire season.
May the gold be with you.
Thanks!
Hey Dan!
Great video. I appreciate your hard work and dedication to your gold mining.
Working outdoors and fishing, I accidentally discovered that wearing a "Salonpas" patch on the back of your neck or where your collar bones come together, will detour any bugs from coming around you period. It has camphor and menthol in it and is good for about 8hrs. Believe me it works. Best place to buy is Costco next time you go to town.
I live in Alaska. We normally use 44 magnum hollow points on mosquitoes. Hope this makes life a little more livable for you. Good luck!😈🍺🍺🎣🐡
Dan you got some really neat toys there nice video
Thanks!
The beard is looking bad ass man
Very ZZ Topish 👍
Great video. Not a bad haul as gold is hard to find.
I love the gold you got today
Some nice chunky pieces there. Keep up the good work.
For the black flies, try to wear a blue hard hat covered with some vaseline. They attack the color blue for some reason and get stuck in the vaseline.
Now that I haven't heard!
I get gold fever just watching this
Love your videos. Look forward to seeing many more. Best of luck bud.
Thanks Joe. Might be a little bit of lull for a bit as I'm behind in editing.
You guys are so lucky living up in the north west digging around for yellow them little Bob cats are nice they can get into some tight spots some big farmers use them to clean out their barns I use to be in the out doors a lot hunting fishing had to retire few years back legs are not as good as they once was fixing truck tires, welder fabercateing bridge steel, truck driver and so on even work for Kingsford charcoal charcoal you use for your bar b q grill yep did a little bit of every thing but haven't try diving for a little bit of gold lol😁🦃🐿️✝️👀
I am pretty lucky!
Are you not allowed to use a matic to break up some of that concreted gravel/earth? I know nothing about gold mining, but I've dug a few trenches in my life.
The whiteness of your feet though lol. My tan lines are almost as bad! Nice Gold!
GREAT JOB
I love this channel
Another great video I learn alot
Thanks!
Looks like your on good gold. To bad you have to wait but safety first.
Keep up with your videos
Thanks!
Great story each time
Why thank you!
I very much enjoy your personality. I would very much like to smoke a few blunts with you and talk gold lol
Me, too!
WOW nice chunk
The Lorax is pretty serious about his tree safety guide.
⛏⛏⛏ nice work , nice video and a beautiful spot ⛏⛏⛏
Thank you very much
Great job Dan!!!
Awesome gold
You forgot to do the eyes. Wow what an operation. Looks like the producers from Gold Rush might be looking your way for a future season.
Dan you crack me up.
Your saftety pan/trough is supposed to be where you pan all those lovely concentrates and you pan back into the river.
It must be an offering to the river gods because you gave back to river some of your finds.
True, however I pan very quickly into the safety bucket to get an idea of how we are doing. I pan very carefully in the river.
Hey Dan, I was just wondering how much gold you need to pull off one of your areas a year to make it worth keeping that area
Good question!
That water must be freezing on your feet ? In that looks like a full pan of those I was wondering how you can see the color gold with those dark sunglasses on ? Well I guess you used to it you know what to look for obviously . We always would like it to be the larger of the two .
Great video mate nice looking gold
Thanks!
Hard hat Dan
Great video Dan. The "gem" I believe looks like smokey quartz to me...
I'm going to head back up there with a gem sieve and see if I can find some larger specimens.
sure would be nice to see a full days production with the new crusher setup
The new crusher set up can do 4-5000 pounds of material in a day and I cannot supply it with that much material. I am not using it for production but rather samplin
Is trout creek down in BC region? Looks like y’all have a nice little operation or large prospecting locates. Nice little cleanup. How much material per hour are y’all running at? Can you share a bit on the geology and geography of the area a little?
Y’all look like y’all are running an old river channel.
Y’all should maybe learn the rocking chair method of panning; saves time and get all possible gold available. In just less then a moment in time.
Nice gold...funny there wasn't more of it.
Awesome stuff mate, I love your set up at this location,
Thanks
We are on fie ban here in Switzerland. Swiss day today no bbqs no fireworks my dogs are happy. The gold was nice but never enough eh ;-)
We are also on a fire ban. Never enough gold.
Super nice gold! Loved it.
Thanks!
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GOLD PRICE WILL RISE AGAIN TO 2109$/OZ IN this October 21.
Do you have to work a job, or can you survive off of digging gold ? I know that digging gold is a hard job, I just wanted to know if it is a full time thing for you.
Dan Hurd and the gold posse. Rounding up the gold and bringing it in
Trying to!
This seems like your best claim. I would have been there every day this summer if it was mine.
I like it but I don't think it's my favourite for a variety of reasons - the main one being it really isn't family friendly
I didn't read all the comments/answers - but I DID read a lot of them so as to try to not reinvent the wheel - so I'm not sure this hasn't been answered already - is your mat Gold Hog? and what is that piece at the (top?) end that looks like opposing "L"s? Not using the mat that joins with the metal "8" strips? If Gold Hog , what config. do you favor?
how much money did you lose that day? if count all the expenses,equipment,diesel etc..
Good work dan( seasoning for the flies)hurd
Thanks!
Ur doing awesome. I just recently started watching u and I do have to say, keep up the great work
Thanks - welcome to the channel. The snow that's arrived will slow me down for a bit!
Sometimes I have to laugh at myself watching you guys shaking a pan full of rocks and water know you’re looking for gold but it just seems funny to me good luck I wish you the best.
Hey man you should try to get more in your bucket, I understand it has to be fed slow and your digging sight is right next to your plant but you have to turn on the dime alot and that wears out tires faster than anything is making those turns
Good feedback - thanks!
thats some nice lookin gold there too though, good lil score and some good fun eh. :)
Always
GREAT VIDEO DAN. I don't know why the GOLD shrinks when you get home..
Yeah, it's weird that way - it's done that to me before
we should all get together and change this its not like we are hydraulic mining
It always looks good. nice work
Thanks
Very cool !!!
Thanks!
Absolutely beautiful area !!!
That sure did look like more than a gram, tricky gold, but congratulations anyway
I thought so too - but it's fooled me before.
You have a good Attitude!
Awesome video
Thanks!
Have you ever checked your panning to see if your losing gold. I can bet your losing a lot! One thing you need to do is get off the ruffles after you get it panned down some. That way you dont have to be so vigorous and dont have to be at such a steep angle with your pan. Please give it a try. Would love to see you test your panning online.
It seems to me when you slide a large amount of larger stones from your pan instead of picking them up, you might be sliding gold out of your pan with them.
That giant round circular Rock that you removed with the shovel I wonder what it would look like if you cut it open what did have geodes in it or would it just be a certain kind of Stone
A hobby in which adults can play in the dirt with heavy equipment and not be called childish. Meanwhile, on a bad day of my sort of prospecting, I still came home with $200 worth of material. But a good day can be in the thousands, no wilderness involved.
I'm thinking that small stone is a topaz or maybe a sapphire. A specific gravity test would tell you more.
We are thinking topaz
@@Danhurd Yea, that would be my first guess. I have some topaz rough that has the same coloring...but I also have Montana sapphires that color as well. Do y'all get sapphires up there? Don't know if they can be found in Canada, as well.
Great video thank you for sharing it, If that small stone you found is greasy feeling then it could be a diamond.
I don't think it's diamond. I'm going to go back with a gem sieve and see if I can find a bigger specimen. Topaz, perhaps?
Stop by a jeweler on the way and have him / her test it with their electronic doomoflotcy:) If that mine is in Northern Calif, then there is a remote chance that it is diamond.
Your video help me so much I got 1 Grammy today
Nice!
Dude seriously you better secure that claim very very well... I highly believe that the crystal that you found is in fact Topaz which can be worth huge chunks of cash once faceted....... please feel free to let me know if I am correct on the gemstone... always love your videos....
you need a bigger wash pant, and better sluices. thats looking a bit janky. you have one hell of a front end loader but that wash plant needs some upgrading to keep up with the feed. I cant imagine your catching all the gold in that thing.
I admit the washplant is nothing great, but it is what I could make for my budget. and we have tested tailing LOTS including running a whole extra sluice off the end for MANY hours. with the chunky gold coming from here, nothing was getting through that we could find.
Dan thinking outside the box... (pan) would it be better to run your cons threw the crusher? Any chance that some of the Hematite contains micro gold in the pan wroth crushing?
I like your different thinking.
Dan Hurd could you run some and smelt it to show how much gold we lose in our pans...
Trout are attracted to gold? I have to get to that trout fishing spot in Oklahoma pronto.
Dan amazing setup. As a miner in Sweden your sluce box needs to be longer add more matts. Also have you gone below the clay to see if it’s fractured bed rock if so then I would bet my ass that you will find decent amount of gold.
Well even with out short sluice, we NEVER find anything in the bottom 1/2. And that clay is not sediment, it is the Hydrothermal vein decomposed, so there is no "Below" as it is part of the bedrock itself. We have tested it and there is no gold values in the clay itself.
Cool video Dan
Thanks!
OKAY. Nice speed pan! Wonder how many fines you put back into your bin? ALSO, get yourself another level to your pan to take your giant rocks away. Saves time and they won't excite your gold into the junk pile when you pan big rocks.
i just love gold.it is my favorite thing to look at; but I must never let my wife know....her ring is gold colored lead.