As an ex-archaeologist, your knowledge of geographic/geologic formation is amazing. This is the kind of skill people study intensely to better identify settlement zones or potential camp sites. I am always so impressed watching people walk around the wilderness and point out these huge features on the landscape that I would say just look like a random section of river.
Congratulations on being a thoughtful placer miner even to point of filling others holes. Greatly increases my respect for you. May others follow your example.
As soon as he said he hoped to earn my subscription, I subscribed, but he then went on to clean up other peoples trash and filled in holes... total class act. If it would have made a difference to subscribe twice, I would have. Keep up the great work!
I just love the way you care about the environment, filling those craters back and not being able to stand seeing trash lying around. Thank you, I watch a lot of videos, you are humble and very kind to my eyes. Keep having fun and success! 🍀
I don't live anywhere near public gold claims so I'll probably never use any of this advice, but I still watch all these advice videos because they're so nice!
Excellent advise Dan thank you especially your PSA, Love "don't build the stick they will beat you with". Biggest rule I was raised on is if you carry it in to wilderness you bring it out Do Not Litter.
Dan, Thank you for THIS type of video. It is a video that any prospector can watch prior to going out on any given day. The examples you show and explanation you give is applicable on MANY levels to us all. MORE such videos should be made using your format. Creeks. Dry creeks. Gulches. Gullies. Walking from a perspective that WE all see it from... Bravo!!!! Keep it up!
I hav not ever been interested in gold and minimal interest in prospecting. Then I saw Dan Hurd. In the last year to year and a half, I have become enamored with the AMAZING region where he works and plays. The geology. The water. The hills and trees!!! All of it. Dan thank you for sharing your passion. It is infectious. It is educational and exciting. That area of the planet has always been a place I wanted to see. After seeing the beauty of western Canada as you share it, I sorta have it on the MUST DO list now, thanks to you. I have binged through all of your videos (and a lot of the kind folks you have connected to and or featured in them) and I cant tell you how much fun its been start to finish. Thanks Dan Hurd and your whole supporting family for bringing your brilliance and energy to our home televisions and computers. Cheers!
Dan Hurd produces masterpieces every time. I am watching every episode with an open mouse. He lives what he fills and I love it. No matter what he explores I know there is something to learn. . His interaction with nature, People , his sense of belonging talks volume to me. Happy to have the opportunity to be with Dan Hurd on his trips despite the distance and language differences. Thanks Dan Hurd!!!!!!!!
Thank you dan for another great instructional video on one of our many famous gold bearing creeks in BC, and making a point to show all the open pits and garbage that seems to be always left behind by the few that dont seem to care.The more we all can do to keep the inspectors happy the more we all can prove that these recreational panning sites are a great idea for people to enjoy our wilderness and not a headache for the inspectors that ends up being shut down to public due to improper panning/wilderness etiquette. Great advice all around, hope you are healthy and happy, keep up the good work sir and look forward to your next video.
Thanks Dan I learned so much about what to look for how the water runs and how the flow of water looses its flow and how gold moves similarly to the bigger stones you’re a legend I’m hoping to get out for my first time this weekend after studying for months and studying my local area thanks again
Dan this is Bob from Connecticut I always enjoy your videos more than most videos a lot of videos I watch are really really sad but you got to take the good with the bad but you can't trust lame stream mainstream television anymore so you got to pick who's telling the truth and who isn't well I pick you as an honest man that's why I love your channel I try to watch everything you put out thank you for making the videos for the world later from Connecticut in the US later God bless you and yours
He's like... A crack in a rock? GOLD! A curve in the river? GOLD! Haha, thank you dan! It was a sweet tutorial bro! I'm looking at your past videos for sure man
Picking up trash was the infancy stages of what I do now. From picking up trash I noticed cool looking rocks, started picking them up, then drift wood started to catch my eye, I'm a reader so after doing research now I'm digging in creeks lol...thanks Dan
Yes Very Hard to get play Dirt from or to USA... Due to Bio Hazards. Best to go through Canada.... We do Have Some Good Play Dirt in Australia but Same Rules apply with Organic Materials in the " Mineral Sample" Best of Luck Happy to send in Victoria
Very beautiful terrain and creek. I floated a creek that had long straight shots over 50 to 100 feet of scoured bedrock. What interested me in going back was the numerous potholes in the rock and long cross creek cracks.
New gem enthusiast here and I live the way you do your videos! Fantastic job! Very well done! I've watched a lot of gem/gold video's and I like yours the best!!
That’s true character, filling in other peoples left behind holes! Thank you Dan for appreciating the beauty of our great land. Even my kids leave no trace
We have a saying in New Zealand “ Be a tidy Kiwi, take only photos, leave only footprints “. In other words, leave a place as you found it, or better. Every time we take the dogs for a walk either park or beach, we take a bag and clear rubbish if we find it. Not much, but we clear it. Lots of folk do the same thing. If you love your country and your children, that’s what you do.
What I love about Dan is that he is not over the top with advertising his channel or with sponsors. Rather chill and just nice about it. Instead of SUBSCRIBE NOW AND LIKE he's like I hope to earn it from you.
When there is a stronger current it will run along both sides so its good to always check plus in time some rivers amd creeks change so you never know where to find outthing period right good info man loving the channel
Al Gorithum recommended this video for some strange reason, but I'm not mad. You're so animated and vivacious! I learned so many new things, including that panning isn't just a thing of the past. I might take this up.
Thanks Dan great video...Ont.prospector with card...everything is staked in Northern Ont. but there are spots on the highway shoulders where they used gravel from river beds and contain gold.But MTO frowns on people taking it...LOL
The state I live in isn't exactly panning friendly, so thanks to your videos I can go on prospecting adventures and I thank you for that....be safe out there and have a happy new year 🎉🥳
I just because a subscriber today. Thank you for your videos. I have never gold panned before. But I just ordered everything I will need for a first time prospector. It should be here today so I can start learning. Your videos help alot
I always learn something new from your videos. I like how you show us things that are not so obvious. There are thousands of videos showing the obvious places to find gold but not so many showing the unusual ones. Here in Michigan we need all the advantages we can get, lol
Wow you're amazing with all the experience you have I bet you can make some money off the gold you find thank you so much for taking the time to show people how it's done
The segment where you showed the old river bed up in the formation also showed the Run, the Riffle and the Hole in the old bed. The edge of the old hole should hold lots of gold!
Mr. Hurd and family. Happy new year and may the future months be filled with glorious wonders and treasures. Thank you for your classy and honest productions.
I’m new to panning, your videos are so helpful! I live in Kamloops and have hiked tranquille for years. I’m looking forward to exploring the river panning for gold. I promise to fill in all my craters. Cheers
Can't wait to see more videos I've been telling my wife I'd love to just go move rocks one day to get the experience of what it's like a to see the sceneries
@@codypontzius1184 lots of good geodes out there! Check out my buddies channel on here - Geode Cracker & Collector. That is if you haven’t already it’s good stuff!
Happy 2022 Dan and family. Your vids have kept us happily entertained and informed thrroughout this pandemic. Glad to see you looking healthy and active again.You keep your positive disposition, no matter what, and it is contagious. Wish you'd been one of my teachers. Stay safe and WARM! Mag and Ian, B.C islanders.
I used to belong to the GPAA, here in the U.S. They have a claims guide. It's a listing of claims across the country, that members can use without claim jumping.
Awww I missed it live watch now nothing like a wee Hurd movie on Boxing Day thanks again to you and the family for another lovely year of prospecting and adventures
I think one of the things that appeals to me about panning for gold is that it is almost like playing RuneScape.... And when you found that Garnet I almost died exclaiming "Just like mining in RuneScape!!!!"
Well, good prospecter, You got me subscribed to your channel for the way you carry yourself, as well as the good education, I may have not heard quite yet. I have lived in Calaveras County, Ca (smack dab in the midst of the 1849 Motherlode) for 35 of my 42 years, and JUST found my passion for prospecting. I find plenty of conglomerates and rusted looking quarts everywhere. I have inhereted (from a friend moving out of state) his pans, classifiers, his motorized rock crusher, his makeshift furnace, sluice boxes etc etc. I know where plenty of ore can be found, where a vast majority of the local mines (2-3000 of them) are. Every river, creek, hunny holes all over. My question is why haven't I done this long ago? Prospecting and even just panning the creek by the park near downtown is, is the best form of therapy (even if i come up empty) a man can ask for. And with these cyclones we had in Ca this winter, im bound to hit paydirt. Subscribed and look forward to seeing all of your shows, my good man.
watching this man fill in the hole and he said not to build the stick for them to beat you with.... love this channel and theres no gold panning where i am
In the UK we have absolutely huge beds of quartz gravel left over from previous ice ages. We have locally the Bunter pebble beds that are made of round quartz "pebbles" from 25mm 1" to over 150mm 6" Most are red brown in colour from iron contamination. Somewhere there must be very substantial gold deposits.
Dan, this is your second video I've watched and I've got to say that I really like your content, and your energy. When you picked up the trash and called people out on it I couldn't press the like and subscribe fast enough. Thank you for the PSA on littering and leaving no trace.
I just stumbled onto to some of these prospecting videos and yours popped up as well. I really would like to give this a try and videos like this one certainly will help me in getting started. Thanks for sharing and consider me subscribed.
As an ex-archaeologist, your knowledge of geographic/geologic formation is amazing. This is the kind of skill people study intensely to better identify settlement zones or potential camp sites. I am always so impressed watching people walk around the wilderness and point out these huge features on the landscape that I would say just look like a random section of river.
Right! As a former archaeology student I am always thinking in terms of old habitation sites.
Congratulations on being a thoughtful placer miner even to point of filling others holes. Greatly increases my respect for you. May others follow your example.
As soon as he said he hoped to earn my subscription, I subscribed, but he then went on to clean up other peoples trash and filled in holes... total class act. If it would have made a difference to subscribe twice, I would have. Keep up the great work!
I just love the way you care about the environment, filling those craters back and not being able to stand seeing trash lying around. Thank you, I watch a lot of videos, you are humble and very kind to my eyes. Keep having fun and success! 🍀
I don't live anywhere near public gold claims so I'll probably never use any of this advice, but I still watch all these advice videos because they're so nice!
And he finds great gold! And that’s just fun to watch
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You can find gold anywhere. I found a couple specs here in southern ontario
No our lovely governments steal the land and say we cannot go there. Its criminal and as far as i knew NO government can own any land. But.....
@@StarFinderWebb There is flour gold on some beaches on the north shore of Lake Superior. Not sure about Ontario but for sure in Minnesota.
Excellent advise Dan thank you especially your PSA, Love "don't build the stick they will beat you with". Biggest rule I was raised on is if you carry it in to wilderness you bring it out Do Not Litter.
I love the emphasis you put on reclamation!
Dan,
Thank you for THIS type of video.
It is a video that any prospector can watch prior to going out on any given day.
The examples you show and explanation you give is applicable on MANY levels to us all.
MORE such videos should be made using your format.
Creeks.
Dry creeks.
Gulches.
Gullies.
Walking from a perspective that WE all see it from...
Bravo!!!!
Keep it up!
I hav not ever been interested in gold and minimal interest in prospecting. Then I saw Dan Hurd. In the last year to year and a half, I have become enamored with the AMAZING region where he works and plays. The geology. The water. The hills and trees!!! All of it.
Dan thank you for sharing your passion. It is infectious. It is educational and exciting. That area of the planet has always been a place I wanted to see. After seeing the beauty of western Canada as you share it, I sorta have it on the MUST DO list now, thanks to you. I have binged through all of your videos (and a lot of the kind folks you have connected to and or featured in them) and I cant tell you how much fun its been start to finish. Thanks Dan Hurd and your whole supporting family for bringing your brilliance and energy to our home televisions and computers. Cheers!
Love that you give a public service word about Garbage and leaving it better that you found.
"Don't build the stick that they will use to beat you with" I love that
When Pierre comes in we can frack frack frack. Use the land. It’s deep.
Dan Hurd produces masterpieces every time. I am watching every episode with an open mouse. He lives what he fills and I love it. No matter what he explores I know there is something to learn. . His interaction with nature, People , his sense of belonging talks volume to me. Happy to have the opportunity to be with Dan Hurd on his trips despite the distance and language differences. Thanks Dan Hurd!!!!!!!!
I so love your line, "Don't build the stick they use to beat ya with." Great life advice to be used in differing scenarios
This is not only informative but also peaceful to watch. Great content! Cheers From Sudbury ontario!
Thank you dan for another great instructional video on one of our many famous gold bearing creeks in BC, and making a point to show all the open pits and garbage that seems to be always left behind by the few that dont seem to care.The more we all can do to keep the inspectors happy the more we all can prove that these recreational panning sites are a great idea for people to enjoy our wilderness and not a headache for the inspectors that ends up being shut down to public due to improper panning/wilderness etiquette. Great advice all around, hope you are healthy and happy, keep up the good work sir and look forward to your next video.
Just started to get into this hobby. Haven't even gone out yet but every video I watch makes me closer and closer to going. Beautiful job!
Thanks Dan I learned so much about what to look for how the water runs and how the flow of water looses its flow and how gold moves similarly to the bigger stones you’re a legend I’m hoping to get out for my first time this weekend after studying for months and studying my local area thanks again
Dan this is Bob from Connecticut I always enjoy your videos more than most videos a lot of videos I watch are really really sad but you got to take the good with the bad but you can't trust lame stream mainstream television anymore so you got to pick who's telling the truth and who isn't well I pick you as an honest man that's why I love your channel I try to watch everything you put out thank you for making the videos for the world later from Connecticut in the US later God bless you and yours
He's like... A crack in a rock? GOLD! A curve in the river? GOLD! Haha, thank you dan! It was a sweet tutorial bro! I'm looking at your past videos for sure man
Watching this so i can go to the river with my dad who loves GOLD FINDING! 😅 Thanks for the tips!
Picking up trash was the infancy stages of what I do now. From picking up trash I noticed cool looking rocks, started picking them up, then drift wood started to catch my eye, I'm a reader so after doing research now I'm digging in creeks lol...thanks Dan
Hey Dan jus bought my first pay dirt off you I can’t wait to pan it thank mate..all the best from Australia
Sure hope you get it ok. Australia is known to be harsh on incoming paydirts.
Yes Very Hard to get play Dirt from or to USA... Due to Bio Hazards.
Best to go through Canada....
We do Have Some Good Play Dirt in Australia but Same Rules apply with Organic Materials in the " Mineral Sample" Best of Luck Happy to send in Victoria
@@browndogprospecting3141 I’ll give it a crack see what happens
@@peterkennedy7193 👍s
@@RufotrisRootedRockhound Always been tempted to get some dirt from Dan but the getting it in through customs has always put me off
From BC to NFLD, we fill in OTHER'S test holes, deep in the bush we collect garbage... WE ARE CANADIAN PROSPECTORS !! WAY TO GO DAN !!!
Very beautiful terrain and creek.
I floated a creek that had long straight shots over 50 to 100 feet of scoured bedrock. What interested me in going back was the numerous potholes in the rock and long cross creek cracks.
New gem enthusiast here and I live the way you do your videos! Fantastic job! Very well done! I've watched a lot of gem/gold video's and I like yours the best!!
What a entertainment Dan Hurd is. Always happy, always energized, always half nuts. He has my subscription!
That’s true character, filling in other peoples left behind holes! Thank you Dan for appreciating the beauty of our great land. Even my kids leave no trace
We have a saying in New Zealand “ Be a tidy Kiwi, take only photos, leave only footprints “. In other words, leave a place as you found it, or better. Every time we take the dogs for a walk either park or beach, we take a bag and clear rubbish if we find it. Not much, but we clear it. Lots of folk do the same thing. If you love your country and your children, that’s what you do.
You gave very good information. Of course, this channel deserves subscription and your videos deserve liking. Thanks.
I like how he picks up garnet, opal, and jade in the same area while finding large amounts of gold.
Love your videos Dan! It really gives me the itch to go pan and relax. Thanks for reviving my childhood dreams!
Hope your Christmas was most wonderful Dan. Thanks for sharing.
What I love about Dan is that he is not over the top with advertising his channel or with sponsors. Rather chill and just nice about it.
Instead of SUBSCRIBE NOW AND LIKE he's like I hope to earn it from you.
This guy is everyone’s fun grandpa that we all wish we had.
When there is a stronger current it will run along both sides so its good to always check plus in time some rivers amd creeks change so you never know where to find outthing period right good info man loving the channel
You earned my subscription today. On this video. More clarification on what I thought. Thanks Dan.
Thanks Dan! Your is only one of 3 or 4 youtubers I love to watch.
Al Gorithum recommended this video for some strange reason, but I'm not mad. You're so animated and vivacious! I learned so many new things, including that panning isn't just a thing of the past. I might take this up.
I know the best place to find gold! In Mr Hurd's beard, his smile, and in our hearts after watching one of his videos ❤️.
Dan we enjoy watching your channel. You share your skills to reach others. Beautiful country you live in.
You are a good man Dan Hurd. I don't watch you for any other reason. Keep being you good sir.
Thanks Dan great video...Ont.prospector with card...everything is staked in Northern Ont. but there are spots on the highway shoulders where they used gravel from river beds and contain gold.But MTO frowns on people taking it...LOL
You have inspired me to pan and do my dream
Great video buddy!!
👋😁Hi Jake..
Happy New Year's to you and your family..
The state I live in isn't exactly panning friendly, so thanks to your videos I can go on prospecting adventures and I thank you for that....be safe out there and have a happy new year 🎉🥳
Once again, Dan puts out some good content for us new prospectors to learn from💪
I really wish I lived near somewhere like this especially because garnet is one of my favourite gemstones
I just because a subscriber today. Thank you for your videos. I have never gold panned before. But I just ordered everything I will need for a first time prospector. It should be here today so I can start learning. Your videos help alot
I always learn something new from your videos. I like how you show us things that are not so obvious. There are thousands of videos showing the obvious places to find gold but not so many showing the unusual ones. Here in Michigan we need all the advantages we can get, lol
Dan is the Man! With the Masterplan (pan)... thanks Dan!
Dan, your videos always make me smile. Thank you
Any time, I'm hiking in the woods,I always keep my plastic or. Paper, when I'm eating or drinking, keep America clean, awesome video Dan
Wow you're amazing with all the experience you have I bet you can make some money off the gold you find thank you so much for taking the time to show people how it's done
The segment where you showed the old river bed up in the formation also showed the Run, the Riffle and the Hole in the old bed. The edge of the old hole should hold lots of gold!
Lots of knowledge this man brings !!!! Great personality
The craters never look big when looking down at them but when you did a side view inside it, I was amazed at the size of that thing.
Your videos are amazing and cover so much like a few others on you tube thanks for what your do and the entertainment and education you provide.
Mr. Hurd and family. Happy new year and may the future months be filled with glorious wonders and treasures. Thank you for your classy and honest productions.
I’m new to panning, your videos are so helpful! I live in Kamloops and have hiked tranquille for years. I’m looking forward to exploring the river panning for gold. I promise to fill in all my craters. Cheers
I truly enjoy watching your videos, Dan. I've learned a lot from you. Thank you for your
that. But I bet you're a heck of a person to hang out with
Always appreciate your enthusiasm and your respect for the land. Very informative and fun! Thanks for taking us along. Happy Holidays. Al
*Perfect video my friend! I really enjoyed this one!* 🤠💰🏴☠️👑🙋♂️
Can't wait to see more videos I've been telling my wife I'd love to just go move rocks one day to get the experience of what it's like a to see the sceneries
Where you at?! So much good stuff to find everywhere! Do a little research of what’s around you and get out there, it might be easier than you think!
Do it Cody the reward even with no gold is still worth it nature is nurture
@@RufotrisRootedRockhound I live in Indiana not sure on the prospecting aspect for laws and regulations
@@codypontzius1184 lots of good geodes out there! Check out my buddies channel on here - Geode Cracker & Collector. That is if you haven’t already it’s good stuff!
@@RufotrisRootedRockhound I just subscribed to his channel
This is one of your top videos on my watch list Dan, gretings from Serbia!
Happy 2022 Dan and family. Your vids have kept us happily entertained and informed thrroughout this pandemic. Glad to see you looking healthy and active again.You keep your positive disposition, no matter what, and it is contagious. Wish you'd been one of my teachers. Stay safe and WARM! Mag and Ian, B.C islanders.
Love to watch Dan, doesn't always find lots of gold. But seems to have so much fun looking for it.
I really need to get out and look for gold. I live in Washington state up by the border along the Columbia River. Thank you for the inspiration
I used to belong to the GPAA, here in the U.S. They have a claims guide. It's a listing of claims across the country, that members can use without claim jumping.
Awww I missed it live watch now nothing like a wee Hurd movie on Boxing Day thanks again to you and the family for another lovely year of prospecting and adventures
I really hate i,missed it this morning...but glad,im,getting,to watch now !!
I think one of the things that appeals to me about panning for gold is that it is almost like playing RuneScape.... And when you found that Garnet I almost died exclaiming "Just like mining in RuneScape!!!!"
One thing about Dan. He does not just talk the talk. He picks up garbage and fills in holes. He goes above and beyond to follow the rules.
I've been following you for a while and learned so much and have enjoyed your commentary very much.. love your posts 👌👍
Love this creek been rockhounding here for years!
It's great to see you out and about my dude!
Well, good prospecter, You got me subscribed to your channel for the way you carry yourself, as well as the good education, I may have not heard quite yet. I have lived in Calaveras County, Ca (smack dab in the midst of the 1849 Motherlode) for 35 of my 42 years, and JUST found my passion for prospecting. I find plenty of conglomerates and rusted looking quarts everywhere. I have inhereted (from a friend moving out of state) his pans, classifiers, his motorized rock crusher, his makeshift furnace, sluice boxes etc etc. I know where plenty of ore can be found, where a vast majority of the local mines (2-3000 of them) are. Every river, creek, hunny holes all over. My question is why haven't I done this long ago? Prospecting and even just panning the creek by the park near downtown is, is the best form of therapy (even if i come up empty) a man can ask for. And with these cyclones we had in Ca this winter, im bound to hit paydirt. Subscribed and look forward to seeing all of your shows, my good man.
Thank you for this video!! Im trying to learn more about prospecting and this was very educational 😊
watching this man fill in the hole and he said not to build the stick for them to beat you with.... love this channel and theres no gold panning where i am
I love your channel you are the Bob Ross of stones
Nice picking ,even after Christmas holidays, good something to do.
Dang Dan, you are "the man - with the pan"!
Another great informative video .
Thank you
I live in California so I will definitely put your advice to great use thanks 🙏
It's also a good idea to clean up other messes that you see and make sure to to carry some bags with you got to preserve it
Thanks Dan! This is exactly what I was needing for my forays after breakup this spring!
For some reason I got more happy with the garnet. Go figure. Thank you for the video,
Hi Dan, another good one and some nice clue# for us novices. Keep Safe & Keep Rockin
In the UK we have absolutely huge beds of quartz gravel left over from previous ice ages. We have locally the Bunter pebble beds that are made of round quartz "pebbles" from 25mm 1" to over 150mm 6"
Most are red brown in colour from iron contamination. Somewhere there must be very substantial gold deposits.
Do we have just as much gold here as over in Canada and the U.S.?.
Dan, this is your second video I've watched and I've got to say that I really like your content, and your energy. When you picked up the trash and called people out on it I couldn't press the like and subscribe fast enough. Thank you for the PSA on littering and leaving no trace.
Absolutely love you and your energy man you rock🎉
Very helpful advice for this newbie prospector. Thanks for sharing your expertise and hey. I’m gonna try to get one of them pay dirt bags.
I live near the mother lode of California. It's so fun learning more! Come visit we will set you up for adventure!
Thanks for the awesome video,also thank you for picking up trash on the river also.
I'm not much of a gold miner kind of person Dan but I sure enjoy your videos and advice and I must say For A public area your take looked quite nice
I think you're about find gold in your mail box in the shape of a giant play button! Great videos, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
You love what you do and we love watching thanks for the enjoy you give Happy 2022:)
Thank you I learned from a couple of your tips and reconfirmed some thoughts. always a joy to watch your video's.
Merry Christmas, Dan and family! We probably won't hear from you until next year, so have a happy and prosperous new year!
This is exactly what I need to know!!! Try anywhere where there's water and geology?!!
I just stumbled onto to some of these prospecting videos and yours popped up as well. I really would like to give this a try and videos like this one certainly will help me in getting started. Thanks for sharing and consider me subscribed.
You make this educational AND fun!!