8:20 looks like a dark fishing spider. while it looks menacing, their venom is not toxic to us. most spiders venom is not detrimental and they tend to be shy/docile and generally flee for cover when disturbed so no need to fret while exploring :)really cool mines, I always enjoy all of your explorations
If you are going to use a metal detector, you need one with a good sized coil. A pin pointer is not the right tool. It does not have the range and will not pick up small amounts in a vein type situation. Just a word of advice. I have gone over quartz rocks with a pin pointer that when you broke them open there was good gold inside. A coil metal detector did pick it up.
thats what i was going to say and to look for quartz. the saying is gold rides a rusty vein, or something like that meaning quartz with dirty rusty looking stuff in it will have more gold. im in SC and have only seen one hole out in the woods, well going in. must have been 50 years ago and nobody was about to go in it. there is a huge well type hole near me. i thought that was great you finding that mine with a rod.
@14:36 that is an ash tray from an older American car 1960's it would be inserted into the arm rest front and rear seats and or removed from the fold out on the dash...
Wow see one of these in a garden in Welsh district never been down there no one has sine the war but story is pirates used 😳it before shall I go down thir. 😊
Gold will generally accumulate on the bottom of riverbeds (look for ancient river stones in the walls, and the sand at the bottom where the river stones end will have gold dust) in Australia this sort of gold is known a a deep lead, where a river bed was buried by a disaster. That said a lot of gold dust in a river bed usually means if you follow that bed back far enough it will cut into rock with gold in it. That is where you find the bigger chunks. Sometimes underground rivers will do the same thing, so look for areas where mines cross fractured geology that appears to have have been formed by water - particularly where crystal rocks like quartz are forming up stream. It will also be pushed out with quartz and lead along with silver in geology, so look for dark grey heavy rocks, called "galina" or also quartz with 'staining' almost like rust or fools gold. Sometimes the gold is so small it wont register on a metal detector, and you will need to crush up a bunch and melt it down for an assay of the % of gold disolved in the rock. The type of detecting you are doing you should probably use an older detector that you can tune until it is ticking like a geiger counter, then if the ticking speeds up there is something metalic. Or buy a high end high sensitivity discriminating detector. Try to avoid the detectors with a squelsh style mode. If you get a tone, it should KEEP toning and get more cranky the closer you are, cheaper discriminator detectors beep once then go dead, and are not reliabale at all as at sea level they will tone purely just from being near the ground; and are entirely useless. All depends what sort of gold the area was best known for, what you need to look for. Outside of deep leads/ancient riverbeds - Generally you want to spot entirely vertical or horizontal layers of transitioning types of rock, where there is "folding" where horizontal geological layers warps over distance as you follow them until it is entirely vertical. Find quartz layers in between and that is where the gold accumulates. There is a lot more invovled with gold and silver prospecting that i don't know - so find an old time miner and just ask him what tells for him turned out the most lucrative.
i dont know much about finding gold ore I just starting to learn about it recently, but my only guess is if someone mined there for gold previously then it might be worth taking a bigger metal detector in as well to get deeper readings along the walls
We used a "poking stick" and once the stick is in a hollow space, we dig it out. You can feel the walls with the stick and you'll know it's an old mine portal
there's big spiders and you're worried about crickets?
Me later:
There's bats and you're worried about spiders?!?!?
8:20 looks like a dark fishing spider. while it looks menacing, their venom is not toxic to us. most spiders venom is not detrimental and they tend to be shy/docile and generally flee for cover when disturbed so no need to fret while exploring :)really cool mines, I always enjoy all of your explorations
Thanks for watching and commenting :)
If you are going to use a metal detector, you need one with a good sized coil. A pin pointer is not the right tool. It does not have the range and will not pick up small amounts in a vein type situation. Just a word of advice. I have gone over quartz rocks with a pin pointer that when you broke them open there was good gold inside. A coil metal detector did pick it up.
Thanks for that information!
thats what i was going to say and to look for quartz.
the saying is gold rides a rusty vein, or something like that meaning quartz with dirty rusty looking stuff in it will have more gold.
im in SC and have only seen one hole out in the woods, well going in. must have been 50 years ago and nobody was about to go in it.
there is a huge well type hole near me. i thought that was great you finding that mine with a rod.
I second this, ”the redder the better”
I'm so glad I left y'all to those bugs and dirt. 🤣 awesome finds though!
@14:36 that is an ash tray from an older American car 1960's it would be inserted into the arm rest front and rear seats and or removed from the fold out on the dash...
I would have no clue
I recognized it immediately, shows my age😉
@@beecharmer9522 : Unfortunately, I am right there with you ! I instantly recognized also.
Amazing very good, good lucky
Wow see one of these in a garden in Welsh district never been down there no one has sine the war but story is pirates used 😳it before shall I go down thir. 😊
Very cool, thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching!
Dig the tunnel 10ft further. Gamblers usually quit right before the jackpot. Be the old lady that walks up and hits it.
i was gonna say something along these lines too but thats life or death right there they dont know if itll collapse or not
Gold will generally accumulate on the bottom of riverbeds (look for ancient river stones in the walls, and the sand at the bottom where the river stones end will have gold dust) in Australia this sort of gold is known a a deep lead, where a river bed was buried by a disaster. That said a lot of gold dust in a river bed usually means if you follow that bed back far enough it will cut into rock with gold in it. That is where you find the bigger chunks. Sometimes underground rivers will do the same thing, so look for areas where mines cross fractured geology that appears to have have been formed by water - particularly where crystal rocks like quartz are forming up stream. It will also be pushed out with quartz and lead along with silver in geology, so look for dark grey heavy rocks, called "galina" or also quartz with 'staining' almost like rust or fools gold. Sometimes the gold is so small it wont register on a metal detector, and you will need to crush up a bunch and melt it down for an assay of the % of gold disolved in the rock.
The type of detecting you are doing you should probably use an older detector that you can tune until it is ticking like a geiger counter, then if the ticking speeds up there is something metalic. Or buy a high end high sensitivity discriminating detector. Try to avoid the detectors with a squelsh style mode. If you get a tone, it should KEEP toning and get more cranky the closer you are, cheaper discriminator detectors beep once then go dead, and are not reliabale at all as at sea level they will tone purely just from being near the ground; and are entirely useless.
All depends what sort of gold the area was best known for, what you need to look for. Outside of deep leads/ancient riverbeds - Generally you want to spot entirely vertical or horizontal layers of transitioning types of rock, where there is "folding" where horizontal geological layers warps over distance as you follow them until it is entirely vertical. Find quartz layers in between and that is where the gold accumulates.
There is a lot more invovled with gold and silver prospecting that i don't know - so find an old time miner and just ask him what tells for him turned out the most lucrative.
i dont know much about finding gold ore I just starting to learn about it recently, but my only guess is if someone mined there for gold previously then it might be worth taking a bigger metal detector in as well to get deeper readings along the walls
I would think the mine was live well before the advent of metal detectors so no need to go 'deeper', just scan the veins and walls.
@@focuselp yeah good point
Gotta be in the land of the peaches
bugs life in there
Usually were theres alot of quartz theres gold !
Not all quartz has gold with it. Mineralized rusty looking quartz has a good chance of having gold.
Yall be careful, those things collapse.
How did you know there was a entry point right there? Or, how many attempts have you done to hit that spot? Just curious.
We used a "poking stick" and once the stick is in a hollow space, we dig it out. You can feel the walls with the stick and you'll know it's an old mine portal
Wiling to work and explore
Mines? Never. You noticed the vibrations in it!
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Better take batteries with you. They are entoxicating many tons of soil n groundwater.
We picked them up and the other trash on the way out!
@@localforestroamerGreat, that does not everyone nowadays.
I can't bleave there was no gold left ,dropped missed
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Are you carrying emergency oxygen?
Yup!