WOW $8000 in Gold Found - Alaska Gold Dredging Series on The Fortymile River Midwest Dave - Finale
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Welcome to Midwest Dave's Gold Prospecting adventures: In early August 2019, 8 prospectors from the lower 48 took a journey North to Alaska, to rekindle the Alaskan Gold Rush at the Gold Fever Prospecting camp and find ounces of gold. As you will see in these Episodes, the Gold Rush is thriving in 2019, especially on the Fortymile river near Chicken Alaska, where you can find a lot of fine gold, gold flakes and nuggets. Each team of 2 dredgers find incredible gold. This Episode features our last day of dredging, home cooked Turkey Dinner and a HUGE EXPLOSION. If you want exciting gold dredging, come up to Gold Fever Prospecting. If you want exciting gold dredging, come up to Gold Fever Prospecting. Watch for more exciting Alaska gold videos in this series where we find OUNCES of gold ! Please watch the entire Alaska Gold Series: • WOW $8000 in Gold Foun...
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Wow, that was a great adventure for the whole group that traveled to Chicken Alaska and the Gold Fever Prospecting camp on the Fortymile River. Thanks for watching all of the videos in this series. Hopefully, you will get to experience the great hospitality that Ginger, Mat and the boys offer. I really appreciate your comments, LIKES and if you subscribe. This year will also provide great adventures in Indiana, Illinois, California and more. I also have some great giveaways planned including a trip to one of my hot spots, where we will dredge, camp,eat steaks, etc... and shoot a great video. If you have any questions, please let me know.
Midwest Dave's Gold Prospecting, I live in Chicago and I’ll be heading out to Indiana to do a little prospecting with my dad. We’re just getting into it and learning. Any tips to help us out?
One of the best ways to learn it is join a local club. If you search Facebook on Indiana Gold Prospecting, there are several clubs that have events going on almost weekly. Morgan Monroe State Forest is a public park, where you go to the Ranger station to obtain a free permit. Then, you can hike all of the creeks and feeder creeks that still have a lot of gold. You will find gold there every time you go.
Hey Cale, forgot to mention that Lake Michigan beaches also have gold. I remember Tom Massie had an episode of Gold Fever, where he found gold right off of Lake Shore Drive: www.goldprospectors.org/Learn/Video/VideoId/346/UseHtml5/True
There are also a lot of video on Lake Superior beaches where they do the same.
Midwest Dave's Gold Prospecting, I thought the DNR regulations prohibit prospecting on Lake Michigan?
Hey Cale, I assume Illinois is like Indiana was about 15 years ago, when several prospectors were arrested in absence of laws. In that case, the Conservation officers used their own opinions to make a decision to arrest people. As a result of those arrests and a lot of lobbying, Indian came up with very friendly laws for us prospectors. I have submitted a Survey to the Illinois DNR to see what regulation exist or don't exist in Illinois. Once I get an answer, I will let you know. I will say there is decent gold in Illinois if you know where to go :) Thanks again for watching.
Looks like you all had a great trip, Dave. Those memories will be with you forever. Sweet gold! Thanks for taking us along.
Thanks for watching. Looking forward to more of your gold videos too.
What a fun trip to watch! The gold looked awesome but that turkey dinner! good stuff!
That Turkey dinner was so incredible, as was every meal. Nothing better than finding over an ounce of gold per day, while having great home cooked meals and desserts waiting for you when you are done. I wish everyone that prospects could take this trip. Thanks for watching.
I like your wife's sense of sarcasm. I bet she gives ya a good run when y'all argue.
Looking awesome there$
Thanks for watching Michael. Moe videos and great adventures coming soon !
Bad focus see nothing
Wow that was really fun! Looks like everybody had a great time. Good friends, fresh air, good eats and a lot of profit! You make it look so easy, but I know it isn’t. I get to sit back and enjoy the good times! Thank you for sharing your treasures!! Once again God has blessed you with a great day and great memories to remember! Lots of love❤️
Thanks Deb. It truly was an amazing trip and look forward to doing it again in the near future. And yes, the gold almost paid for a large part of it.
Midwest Dave's Gold Prospecting I hope you have lots more trips because I love watching these videos! I get to see through your eyes all the places you go! Thanks for sharing❤️
Great stuff, Dave. Thanks for putting it together!
Thanks for watching. More adventures coming !
Wow, that was absolutely incredible. What an amazing amount of gold. Thanks for sharing your adventure. Good luck, happy hunting and take care.
Thanks for watching. Hopefully, I can bring more of these adventures soon !
What a cool trip. Good Gold.
Tap the edge of the pan rapidly on your off hand against the riffles. Pulls the black sand back and the gold literally jumps to the edge of the pan. Makes it much faster to pan cons out, and snuffer the majority of the gold.
This video caught my eye because it reminded me of my best day of dredging up here in Alaska.
Years ago, after years of research and effort, I finally located an area the old bucket line dredges missed. It was in a tight corner of the valley where I assume the BL dredge couldn’t get to.
So, I dropped my 6” in and It started to pay off right away with daily cleanups around .25 ozt. And it quickly improved to the .5-1.5 ozt range.
Then, magic happened. After a long day of dredging and shoveling tailings (I don’t like splitting my gold so I work alone) I turned off the engines, walked around to take a peek at the sluice… and right there was a 3ozt nugget staring me in the face. I don’t think my feet touched the ground the rest of the day.
It ended up being a 5.45 ozt day. My best day ever.
I go back to that spot every summer and I still do very well. But I’m still looking to break my 3ozt nugget record. And I know if I keep working that spot, I’ll find it!! At least that’s what I tell myself every day to convince me to jump back into that freezing water.
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Must have been an incredible day to find that much gold. Places like that must be hard to find and very remote. 40 mile is pretty remote to me, being from Cornfield,USA. The 40 Mile replenishes Paystreaks based on what I have heard. Good Luck out there and God Bless !
@@MidwestDavesGoldProspecting It was definitely difficult to find but not remote at all. I can park the truck within 100 feet of the site. I’ve always wondered how many prospectors have walked right past that spot.
Great ending episode for the Alaska trip. You done an awesome job of getting all different kinds of shots of everyone and the surroundings. Thanks for sharing
Thanks RIck. GLad you liked it. Mode videos in the works soon. Take Care,
Man I need to plan a vacation there!!! Thanks for sharing your experience!!
There are a lot of places to find gold in Indiana, if a person is willing to knock on doors and ask for creek/River access.
Dang! What a an amazing trip! Bravo 👏🤩 All of you did great, and the smiles certainly showed that the trip was absolutely worth its weight in gold! 💰💯🥰 Dave and Vic, Way to rock the box!! 😎💪⛏ No sweat getting to the hole on the last day.... 4+ oz shows you guys got BUSY moving material 💪😆🤘 I’m definitely in the market for a claim now. Definitely here in Oregon, Alaska too 🤔🤩💯 Keep on keepin’ on with your videos you guys 👌💚
Hey Kevin. Thanks for watching. Just wish I could have seen the camera screen in the sun to focus on the gold. Next time I will have it figured out. Yeah, we were surprised. This place doesn't have people winning raffles for a flake or two, They put you on gold that you keep !!! Take care.
Mmmmm Chicken. I like Chicken ! Great trip thanks for sharing
The place and the bird are both great. Thanks for watching !
Gold fever prospecting camp is on my bucket list on top of it actually. before i leave this world i will be on the end of the supermax 6 maybe god willing the 10 inch! Great video.
Yeah. I have been blessed to go to all of the cool places we have been. GFP is one of those places. I would like to go back again some day. Just busy doing a lot of home projects. Any of the dredges are great up there. I didn't run the Super 6 and still averaged around .5 ounces per day. The gold is just one of the great parts of that trip. Hope you make it up there.
We will probably go again next year. Thanks for watching !!!! Hope you have a great 2020 prospecting season. I may be kicking mine off this weekend. SAFE in the outdoors !!!!
Poor little drum. Great explosion.🌋 Lady prospectors are the best and they find really nice gold. When are you going back to the Alaskan wild? If it wasn't so expensive to get there, you could almost make a living finding gold. 🤔Thanks for a great video Dave.😎👍👍👌👌⛏⛏
Yeah, to have a claim there and be retired would be a great summer gig. Pleasant weather, great gold and wildlife. Only about an 8 to 12 week season. Not sure when we will get back. Maybe next year. I want to find a new West Coast claim soon. If you are interested in Alaska some time, maybe we can plan a trip together. Would also like to get some lessons metal detecting for nuggets, hint, hint. Thanks for watching !!
WOW SURE WISH I COULD BE THERE ,
Thanks for watching. That place is loaded with gold !!! Good Luck out there !
If I could go back up north im sure my M.S is stopping me . I live on a dream of all ive done in my life . I cant even bye pay dirt , no one or way for me but cash .@@MidwestDavesGoldProspecting
Damn, I'd like to find a open claim around there. Very nice!
This is all private property. So, all you do is knock on doors. Thanks for watching :)
Just unbelievable Dave! What a blast!
can't wait until it warms up.
@@MidwestDavesGoldProspecting me too!!
Definitely want to visit your neck of the woods since I have never been up that way. You will have to do the same this direction. We will figure it out when the Summer comes !
@@MidwestDavesGoldProspecting sounds good to me Dave!
Love the look of dredging, but hate that damn noise!
Other wise it would be perfect.
Totally agree. Love when the motors are stopped. Thanks for watching !
If you dredge for along time you need to check the jetlog were it connects it will catch gold before it gets in the box. I ran a 4 inch Keene for 2 months strait and when we were packing up the jet log was jammed in with sand i was fighting to disconnect it and watching the sand fall out under water than the sun hit the sparkly sand. I put my hand out and it filled with 100% fine gold foils I probably lost 10 ounces that way. I found that the steeper the down angle on the jet log the more gold we would catch in it we also leave the jetlog pushed in 6 to 8 inches makes a back eddy were it connects to the box. I had 1 friend find a 2 ounce nugget in the jetlog when he was packing up. Another friend found a 3 ounce nugget in the hose he could hear something rattling when packing the hose up and plop out comes a monster nuggy. Nice job dredging I assume this is in Chicken>>the land of superfine gold.
Yes, 40 Mile by Chicken. Good tip on the Hose connection. I did the same in California, several years back. Found some nice flakes and small nuggets just sitting at that connection.
Good Luck out there and Thanks for Watching.
Good luck 2 u 2:) I dredged Bird creek in Petersville, Alaska. I lost more nuggets down in the bedrock than i found:( I moved on to an excavator with ac lol. I do miss the dredge its another world underwater. 1 year i had a pet trout so tame and i could call him by tapping the water and i would scoop him up in my gold pan and pet him daily. He luved the sluice box and he would wait next to my dive mask for worms i found in the gravels by the end of the season I had a school of 100+ trout under the sluice but only 1 next to me. I never chased them other guys on the crew would and they knew it and they would only get close to me:) I miss my pets :0 I wonder if pike are as friendly?@@MidwestDavesGoldProspecting
too cool gotta go
Yes. Check out the video of the guy from Switzerland that I posted. They did well too.
I don't know about that "water detection" machines, but I have been in the mineral and water detection business for about 30 years now and so far I have tested a lot of machines, only to find they did not work and the money spent went down the drain. My water Dowsing is a hundred% accurate and I do it from a photograph off of Google earth images. Of course I find other things also, like precious-metals, graves, crude-oil. I can scan five to ten square miles from a Google Earth image in about a day and mark the water or mineral locations, large and small. I also discriminate the type of element, for example I can tell any one of the six platinum group metals apart from one another. And I can detect all of the stable elements on the chart of elements. I have done over 300 blind tests to this affect. I am not at all limited on depth detection. I did an oil deposit that was 6800 feet deep. Many of my blind teste were private people giving me permission to scan their houses and marking where their values were.
I agree. Old fashioned prospecting and the use of Metal detectors are the way to go. Then, the dredge ultimately tells you waht is there.
1:57 Sasquatch just above caribou head
I've been panning for 20 years and have never seen anyone do it like that. Half the gold went bye bye LOL
I have been panning for 39 years and I think I get it :) Thanks for Watching.
Gosh chaps you'll got it sorted. Does it have something to do with magic mushrooms?
3:27 sasquatch
Hi how many days or week took them to get $8,000 worth of gold by doing dredging thank you 😊
Thanks for watching. This was 8.5 days of dredging. Good Luck out there.
Thank you so much you're the only person answer people comments and thank you for that one more question how many hours took them to get half an ounce day please thank you 😊
How much gold can you find per day
doing dredging?
In Indiana, the highest amount I saw was 11 grams in a few hours of dredging. Typically 1 to 3 grams per day. In Other states where gold is native, a person can find pounds if they hit a great spot. Thanks for watching !!
With all that gold you find you should invest in a new camera! Hahah nice job! Looks like a hell of a good time.
I totally agree. The Alaska trip was show on my Nikon that takes the best pictures, but the auto focus and need to watch it through the screen sucks. Since then, I shoot most of my videos on a GoPro. Although the Gopro has better video, the sound can get garbles after being under water with it. Thanks for watching and yes, the GFP Alaska trip is a great one to do. Take Care.
Where was this camp located? How do I make reservations?
The Golf fever Prospecting camp is in Chicken Alaska. This is the Forty Mile River. Talk to Ginger at Gold fever Prospecting to arrange a trip. Thanks for watching :)
I live in Georgia, I want to no about Alaska how much gold people find in Alaska doing dredging per day around in 2024 we are moving to Alaska we have 4 inch dredge and I wanted to know how many hour it takes to find 1 ounce gold doing dredging. I am just getting some information. If you can answer my questions that well be very helpful THANK YOU
I assume Alaska is like everywhere else there is gold. If you get in a spot that was not hit by dredges, you can find pounds of gold. If you go where a dredge just worked, you may find partial grams. In the case of my video, I was on the FortyMile to drege. In this case, the river floods every Spring and new gold gets deposited every year from the banks. If you got on a good paystreak like we did, we found over a half ounce per day. This amount was per dredge.... 2 people. If you seek out a remote spot, I assume you can find a lot more than we did.
@@MidwestDavesGoldProspecting THANK YOU SO MUCH
I wonder if you can buy drinks for that gold dust say down in Nome 🥴
For sure ! Thanks for watching.
Wow really bad cameras work , would be a lot better to watch if there weren't so much blurry close ups.
Agree. First use of camera and did not have auto focus. There is a tight balance, between mining and trying to film yourself. Hopefully, the videos are getting better. And, it was great prospecting. Thanks for watching. Check out some of my newer videos. They are getting better. Now, with Gopro, I only experience issues with wind and water staying in camera after diving. Take care.
Hi, I’m considering coming up to their camp this summer. I’m curious, what camera and sound equipment are you using and is the drone yours? Thanks,
I was using a Nikon on a tripod, but I did not have Auto Focus on. Nikon really does not have a good Auto focus on the camera I was using. I would recommend using a Go Pro Hero 8 and buy or make Sound filters for the wind. There are a lot of inexpensive drones on the market, as long as they Are HD or UltraHD. Thanks for watching
@@MidwestDavesGoldProspecting thanks a bunch. Good luck to you.
I got onto half ounce a day gold with a 5inch just gotta read the bank and look for lots of rusty black sand layers it’s virgin
1/2 ounce a day is getting rich gold :) Good Luck and thanks for watching !
@@MidwestDavesGoldProspecting yah it was on forty mile as well
what is the cost for a 2 week trip?
Hi Mark. You can visit their site to get the current costs: www.goldfeveralaska.com/
Thanks for watching !!
This video was hard to watch. Poor clarity
How much property you got where you're at?
The owner has 10 miles of river. Great place to visit. Thanks for watching.
focus
Sorry. First videos and not a good camera for videos.
sorry no no no problem i thought my vision was out at first then i put the glasses on.@@MidwestDavesGoldProspecting
How Manny hp power engine?
2 - 7 HP engines.
Well It’s obvious you don’t have auto focus on that sucks
Sorry. First videos in Alaska before getting a GoPro.
Nice! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪🏻💪🏿💪 TRUMP 2020
Thanks for watching. Hopefully the Trump Admin will soon lift the embargo that California, Oregon and Idaho have placed on us prospectors. Have a great one !
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kool video! awful! camera work stick to gold dredging hire a cameraman
Absolutely ! Thanks for watching.
In Russia, ordinary people are not allowed to mine gold. America is better than Russia!!!!
You need to visit Alaska if you ever get a chance. Thanks for watching.
@@MidwestDavesGoldProspecting Thanks. Good luck to you my friend.
With that gold buy a better camera or pay a proper camera man
Sorry about the camera, but it was the first videos I created. I hope my video quality has gotten better.
You need to spend some of that money and get a actual camera whatever you use this time was like a potato it wouldn't focus for nothing
This was 4 years ago. Glad you loved it. 777
Haha hell yeah the old MAGA hat, just in case you run into any liberals while dredging for gold in the Alaskan wilderness.
We can hope for 4 more ! Thanks for watching !