We've heard of yet another train derailment & yesterday I saw a short Biden of a man who discovered a "derailment device" on the tracks near his home. Can you share your take on all of this?? I'd appreciate hearing from someone who knows that world of trains. 😊
@@jammerjen5504 Derailers are pretty common around yards, or anywhere else you don't want train cars getting loose. They upset the wheels just enough to set them on the ground, they won't cause a train to roll over half way through its journey.
I found a black gold nugget a couple weeks back. Almost threw it in my lead bucket. Even the local prospecting shop told me it wasn’t gold. Got home and acid tested it. Sure enough it’s gold. Soaked it in acid for a couple minutes and it cleaned up beautifully :)
Black Gold is the name of a famous City here in Brazil (Ouro Preto) due to the fact that there was a lot of this kind of gold when the place was discovered by explorers called "Bandeirantes" in the XVIII century.
Great video Dan. I love watching you on the hunt for gold. You are never a failure. And I'm really enjoying your bits of wisdom with your geology lessons for the day. I hope 2023 is that fantastic year for you!
We have rockhunts that surprise us often, when we expected to find very little. Those days are pretty exciting!Then other times, we just can't find anything worth taking home. It is always fun looking though! And I'm with you on needing to get back into shape after the long winter. 😅
I'm loving the #GLOTD you're now doing. While I know most of things you're explaining, it's always nice to have a simple reminder. Keep up the great work Dan!
Dan, Just a suggestion: When you show the pieces in the pan closeup could you put in a penny or a clear ruler so the viewer can get a perspectivie of the sizes of the pieces you are looking at? Thanks for making these videos, it is amazing what is under a rock!
I’ve found same. Was collecting magnetite to smelt iron. Started finding gold when crushing magnetite. I’ve read that gold dissolved with manganese precipitates out of solution when iron oxides are encountered.
I hear ya there Dan, it's been a very indoor winter for me and I get winded checking the mail haha. I've been getting back in shape aerating my lawn and panning out the core plugs just for fun, as I do have black sands and flour gold in my yard.
I can't think of the Fraser river without thinking of the song "Northwest Passage" by Stan Rogers. Anyway, regardless of how you feel, you're not a failure, and I will watch literally every single video you make whether you find stuff or not!
Hi Dan! Thx for taking us on another beautiful adventure ... question for ya: would the moss on the rocks possibly have trapped pieces of gold too?? My hubs & I both enjoy your content ... you certainly are a gem to watch! 👍
Thanx for all the information again. Question to Dan Hurd: You think the waterpressure on your mashine might be a bit to high, so could be that some big flakes are flushed out ? I`m not an expert in Goldmining,... I don t know better, just askin.... like your videos very much
Nothing is strange Dan. You sure know your rivers, how they run. Reading the rock's. You are always entertaining and educational, plus funny as well. Thanks Dan. Regards 🇿🇦.
It's great that you got to connect with Brent down in Cerro Gordo. He's sure got the ole Spirit when it comes to that Ghost Town. I hope he's able to find a vain so he can finance the updates he wants to do in the town. Great video Dan, keep 'em coming!
Great show, dano. Im gonna make my way out towards hope and yale again. Love the mtns, and the fraser river is so epic. Panning is good, and plus, i can cast a line for the elusive stergon at the same time.
Who knew that having trash on a beach could be useful. Him getting a clue that someone else had already been through the gravel due to there being no lead and stuff is amazing.
Never ever call yourself a failure!! Be kinder to yourself!! Even if you didn't find what you hoped for you still had a good workout and you have been out in nature breathing clean air. There are plenty of people around who'll tell us what failures we are but... As a role model for your own children you should never say negative things to or about yourself!! It's bad for the soul and overall sense of well-being. Positive feedback will make you feel positive!!
Definitely not a failure. I never knew there was gold that was "black". Makes me want to go up to Hope and Yale on the recreational spots and try some panning.
Dan, add a shirt line on your highlander with a split ! End of on split will be short to hook your hose to that end ! Run the other to the other end and a way to use one or the other ! With this addition you can run the highlander either direction by hooking your water input to which ever end to position it the way you want and you will never have to load from the back again !
Dan, on the subject of alloys. I had a friend who's father mined manganese out of the foot hills of Arkansas. He always carried a gold nugget Zippo lighter. The story was he Got it in Nevada but could the nuggets actually have come from the manganese mines? I understand no one will ever really know, but it would make sense why he was addament on mining "manganese "
Strangely Dan i get the feeling there would be another band of paygold near the treeline, dont know why but i get the feeling that in times past the water was up that way a lot until some blockage or another moved downstream lowering the rivers level ....
You should head to Wisconsin sometime and go hang out on the beach with Jason the Mason from Flour Gold Wizards.. You won't see any big gold at all, but I'm sure you'd get plenty of flour and put him to shame :P They've also got some places with some really cool minerals around the great lakes.
interesting, this black gold, dan hurd is the only gold related channel i follow and he pops up with a video about just after i randomly saw a guy vacuum a bunch of gold in a river that also had it and he didnt know gold could be like that 😅 great timing now i know more about this black/brown gold
Since metals don't make molecules when in their metallic state, I kinda disagree for some alloys. Namely copper and gold. They mix in the same crystal lattice at any ratio. So the copper is bound as tightly to gold as gold is to other gold. Generally alloys make all kinds of crystallite mixes, sometimes containig crystallites containg both components, sometimes pure.
Hi Dan! First time we saw black gold like that was here in Stanton Arizona. We saw it in the pan behaving like gold and were completely at a loss. Finally we spoke to an older miner from this area and he said this area was known for that! Who knew? Thanks for sharing :-)
I live in the Klondike, and here, Hunker Creek has lots of black gold, and dark gold as well. Bonanza Creek, on the other hand, has lots of quartz with the gold, which of course can explode when it is heated! So, jewellers have to know where the nuggets come from, although most can tell just by looking at them. Every creek has its own kind of gold.
Unfit? I was thinking how nice to see you move and shovel like a 30 year old! I'm wondering how much black gold has been tossed aside over the years. 🤔
An old guy in the Caribou, Gary Babcock, use to pull black gold out of Churn Creek. He figured it was stained black from decomposing salmon. Gary passed away a few years ago.
It's the same in middle Montana, weather wise. Spring is quite near, but not yet. I found a great many 'holes' dug into the ground at what seemed to be random spots in the Pioneer mountains hunting elk. I found out these holes were probes by miners. I was near Bannack, Mt.
On the topic of allows, this is going to get very technical. Metal don't form covalent bond with other metal like we see with none metals, their electro negativity is to low and usually molecules are usually considered when covalent bonds are involved. But their is still a chemical bond in the sens of electron sharing which are shared across all the metallic atoms. This is the case also with alloys and its pretty obvious with bronze in fact. If the red copper was simply mixed silvery tin, you would expect the alloy to be lighter shade of red but instead it goes yellow. this mean adding the tin has had a large enough impact of the copper electron field to change what frequency of light it can absorb.
Hi Dan! I watched another gold prospector that said the moss on rocks acts like the carpets in a sloughs. I see a lot of moss on the rocks in your area. Scrape that moss off and wash it in your pan. You may find gold that way.
Great video Dan, Victoria Australia is close to 99%, australia in general is very high 95 to 99 but I hear New Zealand and Scotland is the purest Cheers
Hey Dan, that black gold will stand out on/in that beard for sure! lol! No salting with that gold! Lol!.... you'll get in shape at Brent's Cerro Gordo lol!😅 Enjoy...
The day being a failure does not make you a failure, good sir. You inspire and entertain many with or without the gold!
For $5 you could attach an adjustable bubble level to the gold hog and be able set the bank angle the same every time.
I'm sorry the railroad keeps ruining your plans Dan. They ruin mine every day. I'm a locomotive engineer.
We've heard of yet another train derailment & yesterday I saw a short Biden of a man who discovered a "derailment device" on the tracks near his home. Can you share your take on all of this?? I'd appreciate hearing from someone who knows that world of trains. 😊
@@jammerjen5504 Derailers are pretty common around yards, or anywhere else you don't want train cars getting loose. They upset the wheels just enough to set them on the ground, they won't cause a train to roll over half way through its journey.
Try to keep yours on the tracks. 😁
@@6jonline Thank you for explaining that!! 😊
@@jammerjen5504 TRAINS DONT NEED A DEVICE TO DERAIL!! NO ACCOUNATIBILITY THEN ASK THEM ABOUT THE FIRES THEY START
I found a black gold nugget a couple weeks back. Almost threw it in my lead bucket. Even the local prospecting shop told me it wasn’t gold.
Got home and acid tested it. Sure enough it’s gold. Soaked it in acid for a couple minutes and it cleaned up beautifully :)
Which acid?
50% HNO3?
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Black Gold is the name of a famous City here in Brazil (Ouro Preto) due to the fact that there was a lot of this kind of gold when the place was discovered by explorers called "Bandeirantes" in the XVIII century.
A crap pan for Dan would be excellent in Ontario, thinking I should move to BC !
Great video Dan. I love watching you on the hunt for gold. You are never a failure. And I'm really enjoying your bits of wisdom with your geology lessons for the day. I hope 2023 is that fantastic year for you!
We have rockhunts that surprise us often, when we expected to find very little. Those days are pretty exciting!Then other times, we just can't find anything worth taking home. It is always fun looking though! And I'm with you on needing to get back into shape after the long winter. 😅
Had a case of the winter blues and this video helped to get rid of them...went for a walk in the sun...great vid ...keep them coming Dan !!!!
I really enjoy it when you add geology lessons. It's always so fascinating.
Now I want to know the exception to the "no pure gold" rule.
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Like Jeff Williams says: “Who needs a gym? Just be a gold miner!”
A day out gold panning with you Dan is NEVER a failure! I can't wait to see a video with DALLMYD!!🥰
He's the Chuck Norris of geology. Dan kicks everything's ass.
@@RichardSavage76 You must not have seen too many other miners on youtube if you say that. By far TwoToes is the stand out from the rest.
I'm loving the #GLOTD you're now doing. While I know most of things you're explaining, it's always nice to have a simple reminder. Keep up the great work Dan!
Dan there is no way possible for you to be a failure ever, you sir are a wonderful prospector! Thank you for all your videos!!
Half a gram is still a good amount especially when you are having so much fun thank you for sharing this six stars
Dan, Just a suggestion: When you show the pieces in the pan closeup could you put in a penny or a clear ruler so the viewer can get a perspectivie of the sizes of the pieces you are looking at? Thanks for making these videos, it is amazing what is under a rock!
The beautiful nature shots in your videos make watching them worth it on their own! Cheers from Denmark for making, & uploading, your videos :)
I’ve found same. Was collecting magnetite to smelt iron. Started finding gold when crushing magnetite. I’ve read that gold dissolved with manganese precipitates out of solution when iron oxides are encountered.
Thank you for sharing a beautiful day on the Fraser with us. I'm ready for camping in Montana this summer.
All those who love Dan hit the like button..
Looks like Yosemite Sam, acts like daffy, witty as bugs. Dan Hurd is a perfect mix of the entire bugs and tweety cast!
Thanks for the very enjoyable video. What beautiful country you come across all the time. Have a good one, and TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOUR HEART!!!
I hear ya there Dan, it's been a very indoor winter for me and I get winded checking the mail haha.
I've been getting back in shape aerating my lawn and panning out the core plugs just for fun, as I do have black sands and flour gold in my yard.
By far my favourite youtuber. I ordered some of Dan's pay dirt and had a blast finding amazing gold.
I can't think of the Fraser river without thinking of the song "Northwest Passage" by Stan Rogers. Anyway, regardless of how you feel, you're not a failure, and I will watch literally every single video you make whether you find stuff or not!
Love your enthusiasm Dan, you earned my sub a long time ago. You always cheer my day up with your enthusiasm.
Hi Dan! Thx for taking us on another beautiful adventure ... question for ya: would the moss on the rocks possibly have trapped pieces of gold too??
My hubs & I both enjoy your content ... you certainly are a gem to watch! 👍
I really enjoy what you do. And your spirit is contagious. You are truly a genuine good person. Much love.
Thanx for all the information again. Question to Dan Hurd: You think the waterpressure on your mashine might be a bit to high, so could be that some big flakes are flushed out ? I`m not an expert in Goldmining,... I don t know better, just askin.... like your videos very much
Nothing is strange Dan. You sure know your rivers, how they run. Reading the rock's. You are always entertaining and educational, plus funny as well.
Thanks Dan. Regards 🇿🇦.
I'm havimg an episode of my chronic pain amd your video is significantly helping me while I wait for the pain meds to kick in. 😊
It's great that you got to connect with Brent down in Cerro Gordo. He's sure got the ole Spirit when it comes to that Ghost Town. I hope he's able to find a vain so he can finance the updates he wants to do in the town. Great video Dan, keep 'em coming!
hey dan love your videos keep em coming .
Great show, dano. Im gonna make my way out towards hope and yale again. Love the mtns, and the fraser river is so epic. Panning is good, and plus, i can cast a line for the elusive stergon at the same time.
Some days, that's the way the rocks roll. Thanks, Dan.
The only place I have ever witnessed black coating on hold has been the Black Hills of SD. And secondary silica deposit and rust or iron oxide
Hi Dan. This was a black gold for me as I never heard of it before.Great video & best of luck.Thank you.
That was Awesome and Fun to Watch , TY Dan 😀👍👍👍👍👍😎 . SKK .
Who knew that having trash on a beach could be useful.
Him getting a clue that someone else had already been through the gravel due to there being no lead and stuff is amazing.
Wow!! Thanks so much for sharing this! I learn something from every video!
1 MILLION!!!! CONGRATULATIONS 🎊
Always a pleasure young fella
I can't wait to see your magnet fishing with Dallmyd. Two of my top TH-camrs in collaboration again. :)
Hey Dan, Gadzi needs one of your snuffer bottle holders, he keeps losing his bottle. Thanks for all the great vids🙂
nice you got one it wasn't all bad your heart ♥️ was in the right place. thank you for sharing the adventure and information 😀
I always wanted to try that..that’s really cool
Any suggestions on how to start for beginners
If dan hurd is anymore short, he'd literally be a fantasy dwarf
Seen you driving on the highway yesterday! Great videos as always!
Never ever call yourself a failure!! Be kinder to yourself!! Even if you didn't find what you hoped for you still had a good workout and you have been out in nature breathing clean air. There are plenty of people around who'll tell us what failures we are but... As a role model for your own children you should never say negative things to or about yourself!! It's bad for the soul and overall sense of well-being. Positive feedback will make you feel positive!!
If I could find that much gold here in Sweden I would be happy!!
Definitely not a failure. I never knew there was gold that was "black". Makes me want to go up to Hope and Yale on the recreational spots and try some panning.
Dan, add a shirt line on your highlander with a split ! End of on split will be short to hook your hose to that end ! Run the other to the other end and a way to use one or the other ! With this addition you can run the highlander either direction by hooking your water input to which ever end to position it the way you want and you will never have to load from the back again !
Silver turns black with sulfur, maybe that's the answer. Too bad no one's come up with a truly easy way to test specific gravity.
Excellent video Dan, your thinking of failure would have been Eureka for me
Dan, on the subject of alloys. I had a friend who's father mined manganese out of the foot hills of Arkansas. He always carried a gold nugget Zippo lighter. The story was he Got it in Nevada but could the nuggets actually have come from the manganese mines? I understand no one will ever really know, but it would make sense why he was addament on mining "manganese "
this is an extraordinary finding ok once good luck friends 👍👍💪
Strangely Dan i get the feeling there would be another band of paygold near the treeline, dont know why but i get the feeling that in times past the water was up that way a lot until some blockage or another moved downstream lowering the rivers level ....
It makes sense Dan, the large boulders are holding some gold in Place up there
There is no failure in trying, only in failing to try.
My new mantra.
I love the sound of throwing rocks on rocks
I'm only 5 seconds in and i already love this guy.
You should head to Wisconsin sometime and go hang out on the beach with Jason the Mason from Flour Gold Wizards.. You won't see any big gold at all, but I'm sure you'd get plenty of flour and put him to shame :P They've also got some places with some really cool minerals around the great lakes.
I've heard that the gold that we find here in New England, originally from eastern Canada is almost pure.
good finding black gold
interesting, this black gold, dan hurd is the only gold related channel i follow and he pops up with a video about just after i randomly saw a guy vacuum a bunch of gold in a river that also had it and he didnt know gold could be like that 😅 great timing now i know more about this black/brown gold
I'm loving these geology lessons of the day :)
I'd love to go out and help this guy and have him bless me with his knowledge. I'll dig dan you just work that pan.
Some gold is better than none and your videos are great Dan :)
Dig your pay dirt into buckets before you fire up the pump, then feed the plant so you save gas.
Since metals don't make molecules when in their metallic state, I kinda disagree for some alloys. Namely copper and gold. They mix in the same crystal lattice at any ratio. So the copper is bound as tightly to gold as gold is to other gold.
Generally alloys make all kinds of crystallite mixes, sometimes containig crystallites containg both components, sometimes pure.
I'd love to see you do more videos witb your Bore Box or gold drop or other cool gadgets. I fknd those videos are always super fun!
In the Coachella Valley and Imperial Valley the native Gold has a high copper content and tarnished black.
Hi Dan! First time we saw black gold like that was here in Stanton Arizona. We saw it in the pan behaving like gold and were completely at a loss. Finally we spoke to an older miner from this area and he said this area was known for that! Who knew? Thanks for sharing :-)
"I'll take a rest after the next one..." is actually a check-box on the Cardiac Emergency Intake form XD
Your in amazing shape Dan!!! Heart surgery , shooting n producing your own tv channel!! Amazing buddy! Keep on kicking butt Dan:)
That's awesome....in Philippines we have a lot of treasure...and we have lots of river.. I think we have enough gold over there ♥️♥️♥️
Hard work ! Make's the dream work ..Thanks for your videos Dan
I live in the Klondike, and here, Hunker Creek has lots of black gold, and dark gold as well. Bonanza Creek, on the other hand, has lots of quartz with the gold, which of course can explode when it is heated! So, jewellers have to know where the nuggets come from, although most can tell just by looking at them. Every creek has its own kind of gold.
Unfit? I was thinking how nice to see you move and shovel like a 30 year old! I'm wondering how much black gold has been tossed aside over the years. 🤔
An old guy in the Caribou, Gary Babcock, use to pull black gold out of Churn Creek. He figured it was stained black from decomposing salmon. Gary passed away a few years ago.
It's the same in middle Montana, weather wise. Spring is quite near, but not yet. I found a great many 'holes' dug into the ground at what seemed to be random spots in the Pioneer mountains hunting elk. I found out these holes were probes by miners. I was near Bannack, Mt.
Get the clay claw for the Piglet, gets rocks very clean. I also heated and pinched the pvc to add more water pressure to the hopper. Nice work Dan.
Thanks for the tip!
We have a lot of rust stained gold in New England as well.
On the topic of allows, this is going to get very technical.
Metal don't form covalent bond with other metal like we see with none metals, their electro negativity is to low and usually molecules are usually considered when covalent bonds are involved. But their is still a chemical bond in the sens of electron sharing which are shared across all the metallic atoms. This is the case also with alloys and its pretty obvious with bronze in fact.
If the red copper was simply mixed silvery tin, you would expect the alloy to be lighter shade of red but instead it goes yellow. this mean adding the tin has had a large enough impact of the copper electron field to change what frequency of light it can absorb.
Can't wait for your trip
Question. Is there open spots on the river not claimed where I could take my son prospecting
“Black gold, Texas tea” 😂😂😂
All you need now is some Texas tea and you’re all set!
Hi Dan! I watched another gold prospector that said the moss on rocks acts like the carpets in a sloughs. I see a lot of moss on the rocks in your area. Scrape that moss off and wash it in your pan. You may find gold that way.
Thanks for exposing our little secret in the area..
I love that high banker
If the black coating is iron based, would those small pieces become magnetic?
Looks like the Gold Hog Piglet performed well at that Fraser claim : )
Great video Dan, Victoria Australia is close to 99%, australia in general is very high 95 to 99 but I hear New Zealand and Scotland is the purest
Cheers
Love your channel…I didn’t know “black gold” referred to anything other than Oil!!! Lol
Thanks Dan
Hey Dan, that black gold will stand out on/in that beard for sure! lol! No salting with that gold! Lol!.... you'll get in shape at Brent's Cerro Gordo lol!😅 Enjoy...
First time watching this channel. You earned my subscription after "I hope to earn your subscription today" 😂😂😂 what a guy!!!
A day on the river is never a failure 😊
Nice gold, we take that gold any day here in Minnesota